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Latest Fact-Checks On Ron DeSantis

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Ron DeSantis
Ron DeSantis
stated on July 30, 2023 a post
"Illinois is now letting illegal aliens become police officers."
Mostly False
By Maria Ramirez Uribe, Nuria Diaz Muñoz • August 11, 2023
Ron DeSantis
Ron DeSantis
stated on July 18, 2023 an interview
“In some liberal states, you actually have post-birth abortions.”
False
By Samantha Putterman • July 21, 2023
Ron DeSantis
Ron DeSantis
stated on July 9, 2023 an interview with Fox News' Maria Bartiromo
Federal “agencies and government have grown 50% since 2019.”
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson, Sevana Wenn • July 13, 2023
Ron DeSantis
Ron DeSantis
stated on June 29, 2023 a tweet
Donald Trump is an “affirmative action advocate.”
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • June 30, 2023
Ron DeSantis
Ron DeSantis
stated on June 17, 2023 a tweet
Protests of (Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence) at a Los Angeles Dodgers game led to a "virtually empty stadium for the game itself.”
False
By Amy Sherman • June 19, 2023
Ron DeSantis
Ron DeSantis
stated on June 7, 2023 a roundtable discussion.
“A place like California, they give (immigrants in the country illegally) benefits. They give unemployment checks.”
Half-True
By Maria Ramirez Uribe • June 9, 2023
Ron DeSantis
Ron DeSantis
stated on May 25, 2023 a radio interview
Donald Trump "wanted to amnesty 2 million illegal aliens in 2018 when he was president."
Mostly True
By Maria Ramirez Uribe • June 5, 2023
Ron DeSantis
Ron DeSantis
stated on May 24, 2023 a Twitter Spaces event
“There's not been a single book banned in the state of Florida.”
False
By Amy Sherman, Matthew Crowley • May 31, 2023
Ron DeSantis
Ron DeSantis
stated on May 5, 2023 an interview with Newsmax
“Donald Trump himself wrote a book where he was talking about the need to increase the age of eligibility for Social Security to 70.”
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • May 12, 2023
Ron DeSantis
Ron DeSantis
stated on April 13, 2023 a speech
Florida has “the second lowest tax burden per capita in the United States.”
Mostly True
By Maria Ramirez Uribe • April 19, 2023
Ron DeSantis
Ron DeSantis
stated on April 6, 2023 a speech
When migrants arrived on Martha’s Vineyard, “They called out the National Guard and deported them within 24 hours.”
False
By Amy Sherman • April 11, 2023
Ron DeSantis
Ron DeSantis
stated on March 20, 2023 a news conference
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg “has downgraded over 50% of the felonies to misdemeanors.”
True
By Jill Terreri Ramos • April 8, 2023
Ron DeSantis
Ron DeSantis
stated on January 17, 2023 a press conference
"Almost every study now has said with these new boosters, you're more likely to get infected with the bivalent booster."
False
By Yacob Reyes • January 20, 2023
Ron DeSantis
Ron DeSantis
stated on October 24, 2022 a gubernatorial debate
It's not true that "the United States was built on stolen land."
Pants on Fire!
By Yacob Reyes • November 3, 2022
Ron DeSantis
Ron DeSantis
stated on October 2, 2022 an interview with CNN
Lee County, Florida, wasn't "even in the cone" of Hurricane Ian 72 hours before landfall.
Mostly False
By Yacob Reyes • October 4, 2022
Ron DeSantis
Ron DeSantis
stated on August 4, 2022 a press conference
"They are literally chopping off the private parts of young kids."
Mostly False
By Yacob Reyes • August 10, 2022
Ron DeSantis
Ron DeSantis
stated on June 30, 2022 a press release
The Civics Secures Democracy Act “would allow the Biden administration to buy off states with $6 billion” if they adopt critical race theory.
False
By Yacob Reyes • July 8, 2022
Ron DeSantis
Ron DeSantis
stated on April 29, 2022 a press conference
“The student debt that is out there, almost 60% of it is graduate school debt.”
Mostly False
By Yacob Reyes • May 5, 2022
Ron DeSantis
Ron DeSantis
stated on April 5, 2022 a press conference
New York City is “wasting taxpayer money on” billboards in Florida.
False
By Yacob Reyes • April 11, 2022
Ron DeSantis
Ron DeSantis
stated on March 2, 2022 a press conference
Wearing masks is “COVID theater” and “not doing anything.”
False
By Yacob Reyes • March 4, 2022
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