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Latest Fact-Checks By Amy Sherman

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Ron DeSantis
Ron DeSantis
stated on May 24, 2023 in a Twitter Spaces event:
“There's not been a single book banned in the state of Florida.”
False
By Amy Sherman, Matthew Crowley • May 31, 2023
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on May 10, 2023 in a speech in New York:
"The Republican plan would cut federal law enforcement officers — 30,000 — including 11,000 FBI agents, 2,000 border agents, DEA agents, and so on."
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman, Maria Ramirez Uribe • May 18, 2023
MAGA Inc
MAGA Inc
stated on May 12, 2023 in a TV ad:
“In Congress Ron DeSantis pushed a 23% national sales tax.”
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • May 16, 2023
Ron DeSantis
Ron DeSantis
stated on May 5, 2023 in an interview with Newsmax:
“Donald Trump himself wrote a book where he was talking about the need to increase the age of eligibility for Social Security to 70.”
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • May 12, 2023
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on May 10, 2023 in a CNN town hall:
“Many of these teachers are soldiers, ex-soldiers, ex-policeman.”
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • May 11, 2023
Gavin Newsom
Gavin Newsom
stated on May 7, 2023 in a tweet:
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott “cut $211 million in mental health funding.”
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman, Sarah Bahari • May 9, 2023
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on May 2, 2023 in a Facebook post:
“Texas Republicans just voted to give a Republican appointee the power to single-handedly CANCEL election results in the state’s largest Democratic county.”
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • May 4, 2023
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on April 30, 2023 in a Truth Social post:
A Florida elections bill “guts everything” “instead of getting tough, and doing what the people want (same day voting, Voter ID, proof of Citizenship, paper ballots, hand count, etc.).”
False
By Amy Sherman • May 3, 2023
Cameron Sexton
Cameron Sexton
stated on March 30, 2023 in an interview:
Actions of the Tennessee state legislators who protested against gun violence were “at least equivalent” to the actions of the Jan. 6 insurrectionists.
False
By Amy Sherman, Louis Jacobson • April 13, 2023
Ron DeSantis
Ron DeSantis
stated on April 6, 2023 in a speech:
When migrants arrived on Martha’s Vineyard, “They called out the National Guard and deported them within 24 hours.”
False
By Amy Sherman • April 11, 2023
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on April 4, 2023 in remarks at Mar-a-Lago:
Regarding Trump’s January 2021 telephone call with Georgia election officials, “nobody found anything wrong with that perfect call until a book promotion tour many months later.”
Pants on Fire!
By Amy Sherman • April 5, 2023
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on March 28, 2023 in a speech:
In the U.S., “you’re not allowed to own a machine gun.”
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • April 3, 2023
Jared Moskowitz
Jared Moskowitz
stated on March 26, 2023 in an interview on CNN:
Former President Donald Trump “instructed all the governors to shut down” because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • April 3, 2023
Ashbey Beasley
Ashbey Beasley
stated on March 27, 2023 in a statement to the media:
“Gun violence is the number one killer of children and teens — it has overtaken cars.”
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • March 29, 2023
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on February 21, 2023 in a Facebook post:
A $2 million grant for Georgia’s DeKalb County amounts to a “private takeover of election offices.”
False
By Amy Sherman • March 15, 2023
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on March 9, 2023 in a speech about his budget proposal:
“More cops are killed responding to domestic violence calls than anything else.”
False
By Amy Sherman • March 15, 2023
Nikki Haley
Nikki Haley
stated on March 3, 2023 in a speech at CPAC:
Democrats "want to ban gas powered cars and gas stoves.”
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • March 13, 2023
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on February 28, 2023 in a Truth Social post:
The 2020 election could not have been fair because “Los Angeles County agreed, during litigation, that there were 1.2 million ineligible voters after the election.”
False
By Amy Sherman • March 9, 2023
Kat Cammack
Kat Cammack
stated on March 2, 2023 in a speech at CPAC:
The Justice Department has been “calling parents that are concerned about what their kids are being taught, they are labeling them terrorists.”
False
By Amy Sherman, Madison Czopek • March 2, 2023
Tina Lambert
Tina Lambert
stated on February 20, 2023 in a statement of purpose about a bill:
Student ID cards are a “source of fraud” at the polls.
False
By Amy Sherman • February 23, 2023
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