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Latest Fact-Checks By Amy Sherman

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JB Pritzker
JB Pritzker
stated on October 30, 2025 a press conference:
The federal government “decided to shut down the SNAP machines, so that they can’t be used.”
False
By Amy Sherman • November 3, 2025
The Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute
The Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute
stated on October 23, 2025 a statement on X:
An ad from the government of Ontario, Canada, “misrepresents” President Ronald Reagan’s April 25, 1987, address about tariffs.
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman, Louis Jacobson • October 24, 2025
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
James Clyburn
James Clyburn
stated on October 8, 2025 an X post:
“Trump’s budget called for a $300 (million) cut” to the Women, Infants and Children program.
True
By Amy Sherman • October 16, 2025
Josh Hawley
Josh Hawley
stated on October 7, 2025 a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing:
“The FBI tapped my phone” and those of other senators.
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman, Louis Jacobson • October 9, 2025
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on October 5, 2025 a statement to the media:
“Portland is burning to the ground.”
False
By Amy Sherman, Maria Briceño • October 7, 2025
Dan Koh
Dan Koh
stated on September 29, 2025 The People's Cabinet podcast:
“If the government shuts down, members of Congress still get paid. The janitors never get paid.”
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • September 30, 2025
Sean Hannity
Sean Hannity
stated on September 17, 2025 an episode of "Hannity":
There was not “a single, prominent conservative voice in the country that even remotely wanted or hoped or was pushing to get Jimmy Kimmel taken off the air.”
False
By Amy Sherman, Madison Czopek • September 18, 2025
Chris Murphy
Chris Murphy
stated on August 27, 2025 an X post:
Following the passage of a 2022 gun safety law, mass shootings “began to drop.”
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • August 28, 2025
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on August 25, 2025 remarks to the media:
In Washington, D.C., “We always have a murder a week.”
False
By Amy Sherman • August 27, 2025
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on August 18, 2025 remarks at the White House:
With voting machines, "They say we're going to have the results in two weeks. With paper ballots, you have the results that night."
False
By Amy Sherman, Louis Jacobson • August 19, 2025
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on August 18, 2025 a Truth Social post:
“We are now the only country in the world that uses mail-in voting.”
False
By Amy Sherman • August 18, 2025
Ken Martin
Ken Martin
stated on August 5, 2025 a press conference:
Texas Republicans held one hearing on flood response but eight hearings on redistricting
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • August 6, 2025
Markwayne Mullin
Markwayne Mullin
stated on July 27, 2025 an interview on CNN's "State of the Union":
The Jeffrey Epstein plea agreement “was a sweetheart plea deal that was made under the Obama administration.”
False
By Amy Sherman • July 28, 2025
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on July 22, 2025 a press conference:
In 2016, after Donald Trump won the presidency, then-President Barack Obama was “trying to lead a coup” with Trump’s opponent, Hillary Clinton.
Pants on Fire!
By Amy Sherman, Louis Jacobson • July 22, 2025
Jon Favreau
Jon Favreau
stated on July 8, 2025 Pod Save America:
“ICE will now become the country’s largest federal law enforcement agency, bigger than the FBI, bigger than the DEA.”
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • July 11, 2025
Social Media
Social Media
stated on July 6, 2025 a TikTok video:
The Trump administration “has defunded not only the National Weather Service but also what’s known as NOAA.”
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman, Ella Moore, Louis Jacobson • July 8, 2025
Elizabeth Warren
Elizabeth Warren
stated on June 24, 2025 an X post:
“If every one of the 340 million people in America paid a new $35 copay to visit the doctor, that still wouldn’t be enough to cover how much Meta would get from just one tax break in Donald Trump's ‘Big Beautiful Bill.’"
Half-True
By Amy Sherman, Louis Jacobson • June 27, 2025
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on June 25, 2025 a Truth Social post:
New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani is a communist.
False
By Amy Sherman, Ella Moore • June 26, 2025
Social Media
Social Media
stated on May 25, 2025 social media posts:
The Republican tax and spending bill will let President Donald Trump “delay or cancel elections — legally.”
False
By Amy Sherman • May 28, 2025
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