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Latest Fact-Checks By Louis Jacobson

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Michelle Obama
Michelle Obama
stated on August 17, 2020 in a Democratic convention speech:
“In one of the states that determined the outcome” of the 2016 presidential race, “the winning margin averaged out to just two votes per precinct, two votes.”
True
By Louis Jacobson • August 18, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on August 2, 2020 in a Facebook post:
If Joe Biden can’t serve his full term, Kamala Harris “cannot by constitutional law become president.”
False
By Louis Jacobson, Ciara O'Rourke • August 11, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on August 8, 2020 in a Facebook post:
President Donald Trump “put a hold on ALL EVICTIONS through December.”
False
By Louis Jacobson • August 10, 2020
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on July 30, 2020 in a press conference:
Absentee voting is different from mail-in voting and has more protections against fraud.
False
By Amy Sherman, Chris Nichols, Louis Jacobson • July 31, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on July 9, 2020 in 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.
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • July 29, 2020
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on July 22, 2020 in a town hall:
No U.S. presidents elected before Donald Trump were racist.
False
By Louis Jacobson, Sophie Austin • July 27, 2020
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on July 21, 2020 in a White House briefing:
“We're setting record job numbers.”
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • July 24, 2020
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on July 20, 2020 in an interview with Joy Reid on MSNBC:
“I, all the way back in January, warned (President Trump that) this pandemic was coming. I talked about what we needed to do.”
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • July 22, 2020
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on July 19, 2020 in an interview with Fox News' Chris Wallace:
“We have one of the lowest mortality rates in the world” from COVID-19.
False
By Louis Jacobson • July 20, 2020
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on July 14, 2020 in remarks in the White House Rose Garden:
A Joe Biden-Bernie Sanders “unity” policy document shows “they want to abolish our police departments. They want to abolish our prisons, I guess.”
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • July 17, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on July 8, 2020 in on social media:
Only 56 coronavirus deaths a day was enough to collapse the world economy, even though thousands of people die daily from tuberculosis, hepatitis B, and other diseases.
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • July 15, 2020
Mike Pence
Mike Pence
stated on July 9, 2020 in a speech:
“And I heard that just yesterday, Joe Biden said that well-armed police in his words ‘become the enemy’ and he said that he would ‘absolutely cut funding for law enforcement.’”
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson, Tom Kertscher • July 10, 2020
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on June 24, 2020 in an ad:
“Trump lost a trade war that he started.”
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • June 30, 2020
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on May 21, 2020 in a video:
"You weren't allowed to own a cannon during the Revolutionary War as an individual."
False
By Louis Jacobson • June 29, 2020
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on June 23, 2020 in a tweet:
As of June 23, the COVID-19 death rate is “way down.”
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • June 24, 2020
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on June 23, 2020 in a tweet:
COVID-19 cases are “up only because of our big number testing.”
False
By Louis Jacobson • June 24, 2020
Mike Pence
Mike Pence
stated on June 15, 2020 in remarks at the White House:
"In a very real sense, (Oklahoma has) flattened the curve. ... The number of cases in Oklahoma — it's declined precipitously."
False
By Louis Jacobson • June 16, 2020
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on June 3, 2020 in a tweet:
Says he’s the one who gave the nickname “Mad Dog” to former Defense Secretary James Mattis.
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • June 4, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on June 1, 2020 in post on Facebook:
“The CEO of the company that owns Wendy’s, Taco Bell, and Pizza Hut donated $400,000 towards Trump’s re-election campaign.”
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • June 4, 2020
Erin Burnett
Erin Burnett
stated on June 1, 2020 in remarks on her CNN show:
If President Trump decides to deploy the U.S. military domestically, he would be “mobilizing U.S. military troops on American soil for the first time since 1807.”
False
By Louis Jacobson • June 2, 2020
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