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Latest Fact-Checks By Amy Sherman

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Social Media
Social Media
stated on January 11, 2026 in social media posts:
A letter sent to postal service employees about working during emergencies such as civil unrest is a sign that President Donald Trump will impose martial law.
False
By Amy Sherman • January 15, 2026
Mehmet Oz
Mehmet Oz
stated on January 6, 2026 in an interview on Fox News:
“By federal law, if you sign someone up for Medicaid, you also give them the right to vote. … This is political patronage at the expense of Medicaid.”
False
By Amy Sherman • January 14, 2026
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on January 13, 2026 in a speech in Detroit:
"If we stop this fraud, this massive fraud, we're going to have a balanced budget."
False
By Amy Sherman, Louis Jacobson • January 13, 2026
Pam Bondi
Pam Bondi
stated on December 29, 2025 in an X post:
The Justice Department has been investigating fraud in Minnesota “for months. So far, we have charged 98 individuals.”
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • January 8, 2026
Tim Walz
Tim Walz
stated on November 30, 2025 in an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press":
“I take responsibility for putting people in jail” in Minnesota fraud scandal.
False
By Amy Sherman • December 5, 2025
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on November 4, 2025 in a Truth Social post:
Voting in California is “rigged.”
Pants on Fire!
By Amy Sherman, Grace Abels • November 5, 2025
JB Pritzker
JB Pritzker
stated on October 30, 2025 in 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
Casey Askar
Casey Askar
stated on July 21, 2020 in in an ad:
“When Byron Donalds wanted a state job, he lied, claiming he wasn’t a felon despite convictions for drugs and felony theft.”
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • October 27, 2025
Casey Askar
Casey Askar
stated on July 21, 2020 in in an ad:
“When Byron Donalds wanted a state job, he lied, claiming he wasn’t a felon despite convictions for drugs and felony theft.”
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • October 25, 2025
The Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute
The Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute
stated on October 23, 2025 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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
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