Fact Check Posts – Page 2

Viral image
stated on July 17, 2020 a Facebook post

Says Donald Trump tweeted, “WHO Thinks ‘Child Lifes Matter’ Should Be PAINTED In The STREETS OF HOLLYWOOD???”

August 13, 2020

Viral image
stated on August 11, 2020 a Facebook post

Photo shows “Kamala Harris’s parents.”

August 12, 2020

Facebook posts
stated on July 15, 2020 a Facebook post

Says Bubba Watson wrote a viral Facebook post about Black Lives Matter.

August 4, 2020

Facebook posts
stated on July 9, 2020 on social media

Say that according to the Los Angeles Times, “95% of warrants for murder in Los Angeles are for illegal aliens,” more than two-thirds of all births in Los Angeles County “are to illegal alien Mexicans” on Medicaid, “nearly 60% of all occupants of HUD properties are illegal,” and Nancy Pelosi “wants to put a windfall tax” on retirement fund profits.

By Louis Jacobson • July 29, 2020

Viral image
stated on July 24, 2020 a Facebook post

Kroger stores are charging a “BLM charge.”

July 24, 2020

Viral image
stated on July 18, 2020 a Facebook post

Says Donald Trump tweeted that the Confederate flag is “a symbol of LOVE!! Plantations kept black people employed and gave them free food and housing!!! Black unemployment was VERY low back then like now with ME as your President!!”

July 20, 2020

Bloggers
stated on July 1, 2020 a story

Says John Elway told NFL players “Kneel on my field and you’re fired on the spot.”

By Samantha Putterman • July 2, 2020

Donald Trump
stated on June 17, 2020 an interview with the Wall Street Journal

Says before he planned a rally on June 19 “nobody had ever heard of” Juneteenth.

By Jon Greenberg • June 18, 2020

Facebook posts
stated on June 14, 2020 an image

“CNN lightened the photo of the man who drove into the protester last night in Seattle.”

By Daniel Funke • June 17, 2020

Donald Trump
stated on May 30, 2020 a tweet

During protests outside the White House, Mayor Muriel Bowser "wouldn't let the D.C. Police get involved."

By Bill McCarthy • June 1, 2020

Committee to Defend the President
stated on November 8, 2019 a Facebook ad

Says Obama said black people have the "worst jobs, the worst housing" and face rampant police brutality, "but when so-called black committeemen came around election time we’d all line up and vote the straight Democratic ticket, sell our souls for a Christmas turkey."

By Amy Sherman, Jon Greenberg • November 12, 2019

Facebook posts
stated on March 5, 2019 posts on the Internet

"Right here (in West Virginia), they are building new houses … so that 321 Syrian Muslims can move down into this neighborhood in two months. … (A funeral home) is to be torn down in two months, and a mosque is going to built there."

By Liz Newton, Mary Alice Truitt, Patrick Orsagos • March 27, 2019

Facebook posts
stated on February 22, 2019 a Facebook post

"In 1963 Bernie Sanders was arrested for throwing eggs at black civil rights protestors."

By Amy Sherman • February 25, 2019

International News Trends
stated on March 23, 2018 headline

Congressional Black Caucus introduces bill to "tax people for being white."

By Amy Sherman • April 11, 2018

Bloggers
stated on February 2, 2018 a headline

"First NFL team declares bankruptcy over kneeling thugs."

By Amy Sherman • February 7, 2018

Donald Trump
stated on August 15, 2017 a question-and-answer session with reporters

White nationalist protesters in Charlottesville "had a permit. The other group didn’t have a permit."

By Louis Jacobson • August 17, 2017

Roy Moore
stated on August 14, 2017 an interview with Vox.com

"There are communities under Sharia law right now in our country. Up in Illinois. ... There’s Sharia law, as I understand it, in Illinois, Indiana -- up there. I don't know."

By Louis Jacobson • August 16, 2017

Alex Jones
stated on August 13, 2017 a video on his website

Emails show Democrats, Hillary Clinton and George Soros instigated and orchestrated racial protests in Charlottesville by trying to "control" and keep people "desperate."

By Aaron Sharockman • August 14, 2017

Uspoln Website
stated on July 7, 2017 a post on the Internet

Says former Rep. Michele Bachmann said that "White People Have Suffered More In The Last 8 Years Than Blacks Did During Couple Years Of Slavery."

By Louis Jacobson • July 14, 2017

True Pundit
stated on February 8, 2017 a web post

Says a video shows "Coretta Scott King thanking Jeff Sessions for Rosa Parks library."

By Louis Jacobson • February 9, 2017

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