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Latest Fact-Checks By Miriam Valverde

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Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on July 6, 2017 a blog post
"Kim Jong Un dead: North Koreans calling Trump an assassin"
Pants on Fire!
By Miriam Valverde • July 20, 2017
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on July 12, 2017 a CBN interview
"I've gotten rid of the Johnson Amendment … I signed an executive order so that now ... ministers and and preachers and rabbis and whoever it may be, they can speak. You know, you couldn’t speak politically before, now you can."  
Mostly False
By Miriam Valverde • July 18, 2017
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on July 8, 2017 a blog post
"Obama goes to G20 summit ...  Everywhere President Donald Trump goes, Obama shows up, too."
Pants on Fire!
By Miriam Valverde • July 11, 2017
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on June 28, 2017 an immigration roundtable discussion
"We're pretty much at the 50 percent mark" on deportations of MS-13 gang members.
False
By Miriam Valverde • June 30, 2017
Ann Coulter
Ann Coulter
stated on June 8, 2017 in a tweet
The Trump administration has granted amnesty to "nearly 100,000 'Dreamers' "
Mostly True
By Miriam Valverde • June 21, 2017
Uspoln Website
Uspoln Website
stated on May 20, 2017 a post
"Trump’s Top Scientist Pick: ‘Scientists Are Just Dumb Regular People That Think Dinosaurs Existed And The Earth Is Getting Warmer’"
Pants on Fire!
By Miriam Valverde • June 6, 2017
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
stated on June 1, 2017 a tweet
"Syria and Nicaragua are the only nations that didn't sign the Paris Agreement. Nicaragua said it wasn't tough enough."
True
By Miriam Valverde • June 1, 2017
John Kelly
John Kelly
stated on May 28, 2017 a Fox News interview
"Many of the countries in question (in Trump’s travel ban) don't even have a U.S. embassy there to help us vet."
True
By Miriam Valverde • May 31, 2017
Jorge Ramos
Jorge Ramos
stated on May 12, 2017 a Fox News interview
"Some of the safest communities in the United States are along the border."
Mostly True
By Miriam Valverde • May 17, 2017
Jeff Sessions
Jeff Sessions
stated on April 28, 2017 remarks to law enforcement officers in New York
District attorneys "have advertised that they will charge a criminal alien with a lesser offense than presumably they would charge a United States citizen, so they won’t be deported."
Half-True
By Miriam Valverde • May 10, 2017
Jeff Flake
Jeff Flake
stated on April 27, 2017 a tweet
"Before NAFTA, trade between the US and Mexico was around $50 billion. Now it stands at more than $500 billion."
Mostly True
By Miriam Valverde • April 28, 2017
Jeff Sessions
Jeff Sessions
stated on April 23, 2017 an interview on ABC's This Week
Treasury Department's inspector general found "there's $4 billion a year in excess payments" going to people that shouldn’t get them. "These are mostly Mexicans."  
Half-True
By Miriam Valverde • April 27, 2017
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on April 26, 2017 a tweet
The Ninth Circuit has an overturned record "close to 80%."
Half-True
By Lauren Carroll, Miriam Valverde • April 26, 2017
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on April 21, 2017 an interview with the Associated Press
Illegal immigration on the U.S.-Mexico border is "the lowest in 17 years."
True
By Miriam Valverde • April 25, 2017
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on April 18, 2017 a tweet
"The weak illegal immigration policies of the Obama Admin. allowed bad MS 13 gangs to form in cities across U.S. We are removing them fast!"
False
By Amy Sherman, Miriam Valverde • April 18, 2017
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on April 17, 2017 a tweet
Says Jon Ossoff wants to "allow illegal immigration."
Mostly False
By Miriam Valverde • April 17, 2017
Mike Rogers
Mike Rogers
stated on March 30, 2017 a press release
"In 2014, Mexico alone received over $24 billion in remittances sent from the U.S., while other South and Central American countries received over 15 percent of their (gross domestic product) in the form of remittances."
Half-True
By Miriam Valverde • April 11, 2017
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on April 7, 2017 weekly address
"Last month, we saw a 64 percent reduction in illegal immigration on our southern border."
Half-True
By Miriam Valverde • April 10, 2017
John Conyers, Jr.
John Conyers, Jr.
stated on March 28, 2017 a subcommittee hearing
"Apprehension rates at the southern border have plummeted since the 1980s, and apprehensions of Mexicans specifically have reached their lowest point in nearly half a century."  
Mostly True
By Miriam Valverde • April 3, 2017
Jeff Sessions
Jeff Sessions
stated on March 27, 2017 a press briefing
"Just last May, the Department of Justice inspector general found that these (‘sanctuary city’) policies also violate federal law."  
Mostly False
By Miriam Valverde • March 30, 2017
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