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Latest Fact-Checks By Amy Sherman

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Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on April 2, 2025 a speech announcing tariffs
“Egg prices came down 50%”
Half-True
By Amy Sherman, Louis Jacobson • April 4, 2025
X posts
X posts
stated on April 1, 2025 an X post
“Seven counties in Wisconsin (ran) out of ballots” and it was “intentional” to diminish Republican voter turnout.
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • April 2, 2025
Pete Hegseth
Pete Hegseth
stated on March 24, 2025 an interview
"Nobody was texting war plans" in the Trump administration Signal group text about bombing Yemen.
False
By Amy Sherman, Grace Abels • March 26, 2025
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on March 1, 2025 a post
Says Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy “engaged in election interference by campaigning” in Pennsylvania for former Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris.
False
By Amy Sherman • March 20, 2025
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on March 17, 2025 a Truth Social post
Former President Joe Biden’s pardons of lawmakers on the committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol attack “are hereby declared void, vacant, and of no further force or effect,” because “they were done by autopen.”
False
By Amy Sherman, Louis Jacobson • March 17, 2025
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on March 4, 2025 a speech to Congress
"All armed services are having among the best recruiting results ever” because of Trump policies, and “it was just a few months ago where the results were exactly the opposite.”
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • March 11, 2025
Kevin O'Leary
Kevin O'Leary
stated on February 24, 2025 an interview on CNN
“We've never audited government for 100 years.”
Pants on Fire!
By Amy Sherman, Louis Jacobson • February 26, 2025
Elon Musk
Elon Musk
stated on February 20, 2025 a speech at CPAC
President Joe Biden’s immigration policy was “a giant voter importation scam.”
Pants on Fire!
By Amy Sherman, Maria Ramirez Uribe • February 21, 2025
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on February 3, 2025 in a letter to Congress
On support for U.S. Agency for International Development
Full Flop
By Amy Sherman, Claire Cranford, Louis Jacobson • February 7, 2025
Brian Mast
Brian Mast
stated on February 2, 2025 an interview on CBS' "Face the Nation"
From the U.S. Agency for International Development funding, “10 to 30 cents on the dollar is what actually goes to aid.”
False
By Amy Sherman • February 5, 2025
Adam Schiff
Adam Schiff
stated on January 26, 2025 an interview on NBC's Meet the Press
“As a Californian, we have given more to the recovery of other states than any other state in the union.”
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman, Louis Jacobson • January 31, 2025
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on January 24, 2025 remarks in North Carolina
"The Biden administration kicked 2,000 displaced North Carolinians out of their temporary housing into freezing 20-degree weather," earlier in January.
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman, Paul Specht • January 29, 2025
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on January 22, 2025 an interview
The U.S. House Select Committee that investigated the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol “deleted and destroyed all of the information that they collected over two years.”
False
By Amy Sherman, Samantha Putterman • January 24, 2025
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on December 27, 2024 a U.S. Supreme Court brief
On banning TikTok
Full Flop
By Amy Sherman, Kwasi Gyamfi Asiedu, Samantha Putterman • January 16, 2025
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on January 2, 2025 a statement to the media
H-1B guest workers are “being employed as dog trainers, massage therapists, cooks, and English teachers.”
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • January 9, 2025
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on January 7, 2025 a press conference
“They’re still counting the (2024 election) vote in some areas.”
False
By Amy Sherman • January 7, 2025
Sara Jacobs
Sara Jacobs
stated on December 18, 2024 an X post
Government shutdowns in 2013 and 2018 “cost our economy billions of dollars each.”
True
By Amy Sherman, Louis Jacobson • December 19, 2024
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on November 1, 2024 a post
Gwinnett County, Georgia, sheriff's office said white supremacists “are planning to attack” Black people “from now until the Inauguration.”
Pants on Fire!
By Amy Sherman • November 5, 2024
X posts
X posts
stated on November 1, 2024 a post
Video shows the FBI reported that “three linked groups have been apprehended for rigging early voting by mail-in ballot.”
Pants on Fire!
By Amy Sherman • November 3, 2024
Patriot Voice
Patriot Voice
stated on October 30, 2024 an article on a website
Vice President Kamala Harris and husband Doug Emhoff received $500,000 for tipping off Sean “Diddy” Combs about police raids.
Pants on Fire!
By Amy Sherman • November 2, 2024
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