Latest Fact-Checks In Terrorism

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JD Vance
JD Vance
stated on October 15, 2025 an episode of The Charlie Kirk Show
"Political violence, it's just a statistical fact that it's a bigger problem on the left.”
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • October 20, 2025
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on February 4, 2025 a Facebook post
“Elon Musk officially cancelled USAID and fired all the staff. In his words, ‘we just toppled one of the biggest globalist terror organizations in history.’”
Mostly False
February 7, 2025
National Republican Senatorial Committee
National Republican Senatorial Committee
stated on November 8, 2023 an ad
Says U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin “voted to send hundreds of millions to Iran” to bankroll “radicals like Hezbollah and Hamas.”
Mostly False
By Tyler Katzenberger • November 24, 2023
Vivek Ramaswamy
Vivek Ramaswamy
stated on October 28, 2023 an address to the Republican Jewish Coalition
“Gen Z is divided 50-50 on whether they support Hamas or Israel.”
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • November 2, 2023
Tim Scott
Tim Scott
stated on October 7, 2023 a post on X
The Biden administration “wanted Israel to stand down after the attack" by Hamas.
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • October 10, 2023
Alabama's Future
Alabama's Future
stated on March 11, 2022 an ad
Mo Brooks "voted to cut off funding to destroy ISIS terrorists in the middle of the fight."
Mostly False
March 22, 2022
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on March 29, 2021 a Facebook post
“Joe Biden puts pro-life groups on domestic extremist list, calls pro-life people ‘violent.’”
Mostly False
March 31, 2021
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on January 6, 2020 a Facebook post
"Saudi terrorists has killed more Americans on our soil than any other nation. They rent the entire 45th floor of Trump Tower, And pay him in cash."  
Mostly False
January 10, 2020
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on January 3, 2020 a brief interview
Says he did not tell former President Barack Obama "don’t go" after Osama bin Laden
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • January 6, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on September 16, 2019 a Facebook post
The United States paid for a 274-mile wall between Jordan and Syria, "approved by the Dems in the house and senate," in order "to keep ISIS out."  
Mostly False
November 1, 2019
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on October 27, 2019 a press conference
Says in his 2000 book "I was talking about Osama bin Laden. I said, ‘You have to kill him. You have to take him out.’"
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman, Warren Fiske • October 28, 2019
Greg Steube
Greg Steube
stated on July 12, 2019 a tweet
"Terrorists who are currently being held at Guantanamo Bay can be transferred to a neighborhood near you" as a result of House Democrats’ actions on the National Defense Authorization Act.
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • July 19, 2019
Cory Booker
Cory Booker
stated on March 27, 2019 a CNN town hall in South Carolina
Says President Donald Trump "cut funding from the Justice Department to investigate these domestic terrorist groups, these white supremacist groups."
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • April 11, 2019
Kirsten Gillibrand
Kirsten Gillibrand
stated on February 25, 2019 in a news conference
"Almost every day another 9/11 survivor or responder dies from a 9/11-related cancer."
Mostly False
By Jill Terreri Ramos • March 9, 2019
Mike Pence
Mike Pence
stated on January 16, 2019 a speech
"The caliphate has crumbled and ISIS has been defeated."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • January 17, 2019
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on January 8, 2019 in a story
Says new U.S. Democratic Rep. Rashida Tlaib has been linked to an "unindicted terrorist."
Mostly False
By Samantha Putterman • January 14, 2019
Defend Arizona
Defend Arizona
stated on August 11, 2018 an ad
Says Kelli Ward "called for restraint in fighting terrorism."
Mostly False
By Miriam Valverde • August 21, 2018
Dana Loesch
Dana Loesch
stated on February 25, 2018 an interview on ABC's "This Week"
In comparing mass shootings, "France had a higher casualty rate in one year than the entire two administrations of Barack Obama."  
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • February 27, 2018
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on January 30, 2018 the 2018 State of the Union address
"In the past, we have foolishly released hundreds and hundreds of dangerous terrorists, only to meet them again on the battlefield — including the ISIS leader, al-Baghdadi, who we captured, who we had, who we released."
Mostly False
By Allison Graves • January 31, 2018
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on November 1, 2017 a tweet
Says the diversity visa lottery program is "a Chuck Schumer beauty."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson, Miriam Valverde • November 1, 2017
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