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Latest Fact-Checks By Louis Jacobson

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Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on February 5, 2024 in an appearance on Dan Bongino's show:
In Oklahoma, "I won 77 out of 77 counties. Ronald Reagan is second with 56."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • February 6, 2024
Donna Brazile
Donna Brazile
stated on February 4, 2024 in a roundtable on ABC's "This Week":
Under President Joe Biden, “Black unemployment is the lowest in American history.”
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • February 5, 2024
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on January 24, 2024 in a speech to the United Auto Workers:
“Tens of thousands of auto jobs were lost nationwide during Trump's presidency,” but during Biden’s presidency, “we've created more than 250,000 auto jobs.”
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • January 29, 2024
Ron DeSantis
Ron DeSantis
stated on January 18, 2024 in a CNN town hall in Henniker, N.H.:
“Florida state government (has the) lowest number of state employees per capita in the country.”
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson, Samantha Putterman • January 23, 2024
Nikki Haley
Nikki Haley
stated on January 17, 2024 in a rally in Rochester, N.H.:
Donald Trump “proposed when he was president” that “he wanted to raise the gas tax up to 25 cents."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson, Samantha Putterman • January 19, 2024
Ron DeSantis
Ron DeSantis
stated on January 17, 2024 in an event in Hampton, N.H.:
“Every booster you take, you’re more likely to get COVID as a result of it.”
False
By Louis Jacobson • January 19, 2024
Ron DeSantis
Ron DeSantis
stated on January 4, 2024 in a CNN town hall:
In Florida, “income growth is top of the chart.”
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • January 8, 2024
Nikki Haley
Nikki Haley
stated on January 2, 2024 in a town hall in Rye, N.H.:
“Right now, over 70% of federal employees are still working from home three years after COVID."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • January 5, 2024
SFA Fund
SFA Fund
stated on December 28, 2023 in a campaign ad:
Gov. Ron DeSantis “called China ‘Florida’s most important trading partner.’”
False
By Louis Jacobson, Samantha Putterman • January 4, 2024
Chris Christie
Chris Christie
stated on December 13, 2023 in a town hall in Londonderry, New Hampshire:
Under the Trump administration's trade deal, “China's only fulfilled one-third of the promises of agricultural products that they were supposed to buy from our farmers.”
Half-True
By Grace Abels, Louis Jacobson • December 19, 2023
Asa Hutchinson
Asa Hutchinson
stated on December 11, 2023 in comments at Stand with Crypto Alliance at St. Anselm College in New Hampshire:
China is allowed to do crypto mining in the U.S.
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson, Rebecca Catalanello • December 15, 2023
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on December 13, 2023 in a rally in Coralville, Iowa:
“Gasoline prices are now $5, $6, $7 and even $8 a gallon.”
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • December 15, 2023
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on December 5, 2023 in a post on X:
“We’ve created close to 800,000 manufacturing jobs since I’ve taken office.”
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • December 13, 2023
Nikki Haley
Nikki Haley
stated on November 28, 2023 in an event in Derry, N.H.:
China “had the largest naval fleet in the world. They had 370 ships. They'll have 400 ships in two years. We won't even have 350 ships in two decades."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • December 4, 2023
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on November 27, 2023 in remarks at the White House:
Republicans’ “plan would cut Social Security benefits. … Average benefit cut would be 13%.”
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • November 29, 2023
Kevin McCarthy
Kevin McCarthy
stated on November 26, 2023 in a speech at the Oxford Union:
“In every single war that America has fought, we have never asked for land afterwards, except for enough to bury the Americans who gave the ultimate sacrifice for that freedom we went in for.”
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • November 28, 2023
Karine Jean-Pierre
Karine Jean-Pierre
stated on November 20, 2023 in a White House press briefing:
“Because wages are rising, this Thanksgiving dinner is the fourth-cheapest ever as a percentage of average earnings.”
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • November 21, 2023
TikTok posts
TikTok posts
stated on November 18, 2023 in a post on TikTok:
The federal government and the Federal Reserve were “raising inflation,” something that “had nothing to do with … getting our economy back in line” but rather to fund a “war against a bunch of civilians.”
False
By Louis Jacobson • November 21, 2023
Dean Phillips
Dean Phillips
stated on November 13, 2023 in a speech at Dartmouth College:
"Half of American high school students are not familiar with the Holocaust."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • November 20, 2023
Markwayne Mullin
Markwayne Mullin
stated on November 15, 2023 in an interview with CNN:
“Abraham Lincoln challenged a guy to a sword fight.”
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • November 16, 2023
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