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Latest Fact-Checks By Samantha Putterman

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Instagram posts
Instagram posts
stated on October 23, 2024 in a video:
Kamala Harris imprisoned a woman for three years for praying.
False
By Samantha Putterman • October 25, 2024
Kamala Harris
Kamala Harris
stated on September 27, 2024 in un anuncio de campaña:
El expresidente Donald Trump quiere eliminar la Ley del Cuidado de Salud a Bajo Precio.
Half-True
By Samantha Putterman, Marta Campabadal Graus • October 25, 2024
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on October 23, 2024 in a post on X:
Vice President Kamala Harris has been “going so far as to call me Adolf Hitler.”
False
By Amy Sherman, Samantha Putterman • October 24, 2024
Kamala Harris
Kamala Harris
stated on September 27, 2024 in a campaign ad:
Former President Donald Trump wants to take away the Affordable Care Act.
Half-True
By Samantha Putterman, Marta Campabadal Graus • October 24, 2024
X posts
X posts
stated on September 30, 2024 in an X post:
Photo shows President Joe Biden lounging on the beach "while towns all over America were being wiped out” by Hurricane Helene.
False
By Samantha Putterman • September 30, 2024
Vote No on 3
Vote No on 3
stated on September 7, 2024 in a TV ad:
Florida’s Amendment 3 is “the monopoly amendment.”
False
By Samantha Putterman • September 27, 2024
Vote No on 4
Vote No on 4
stated on September 10, 2024 in a TV ad:
“Unlike other amendments, Amendment 4 has no definitions. … Without definitions these words can mean almost anything.”
Mostly False
By Samantha Putterman • September 23, 2024
Social Media
Social Media
stated on September 21, 2024 in a video:
Sen. JD Vance admitted he has a ‘rent-a-dog’ from the Trump campaign to make him “seem like a dog person.”
False
By Samantha Putterman • September 22, 2024
X posts
X posts
stated on September 20, 2024 in an X post:
First lady Jill Biden led a Cabinet meeting for President Joe Biden and her signature appears on presidential stationery.
False
By Samantha Putterman • September 21, 2024
Tim Walz
Tim Walz
stated on September 14, 2024 in a speech:
“In Project 2025, you’re going to have to register with a new federal agency when you get pregnant.”
False
By Samantha Putterman • September 17, 2024
Yes on 4
Yes on 4
stated on September 10, 2024 in a TV ad:
Florida’s six-week abortion law has “no real exceptions. Not for her health. Not even for rape.”
Mostly False
By Samantha Putterman • September 13, 2024
Kamala Harris
Kamala Harris
stated on August 28, 2024 in an ad:
Project 2025 would defund K-12 schools.
Half-True
By Samantha Putterman • September 6, 2024
Elizabeth Warren
Elizabeth Warren
stated on August 25, 2024 in an interview:
“JD Vance actually sent a letter last year to the Department of Justice saying, ‘enforce the Comstock Act.’”
True
By Samantha Putterman • August 30, 2024
Ron DeSantis
Ron DeSantis
stated on August 28, 2024 in a press conference:
The proposal to put golf courses, hotels in Florida state parks “was something that was leaked. … a lot of that stuff was half-baked and was not ready for prime time.”
Mostly False
By Samantha Putterman • August 29, 2024
Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on August 28, 2024 in a post on X:
“This month alone, more than 16,000 non-citizens have been removed from the voter rolls in 3 states.”
Half-True
By Amy Sherman, Samantha Putterman • August 29, 2024
Debbie Mucarsel-Powell
Debbie Mucarsel-Powell
stated on August 7, 2024 in un anuncio de radio de campaña:
El senador Rick Scott no apoya las excepciones al aborto.
False
By Samantha Putterman, Marta Campabadal Graus • August 16, 2024
Debbie Mucarsel-Powell
Debbie Mucarsel-Powell
stated on August 7, 2024 in an ad:
Sen. Rick Scott does not support abortion exceptions.
False
By Samantha Putterman, Marta Campabadal Graus • August 14, 2024
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on August 8, 2024 in a press conference:
Says his Jan. 6, 2021, speech on the White House Ellipse drew the “same number of people,” as the 1963 March on Washington where Martin Luther King Jr. gave his “I Have a Dream” speech.
False
By Amy Sherman, Louis Jacobson, Samantha Putterman • August 9, 2024
Ron DeSantis
Ron DeSantis
stated on August 6, 2024 in an X post:
“In 2021, Minnesotans were roughly five times more likely to move to Florida than vice versa” because they were “fleeing” the state under Democratic Gov. Tim Walz.
Half-True
By Samantha Putterman • August 8, 2024
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on July 31, 2024 in an NABJ conference appearance:
Kamala Harris was “Indian all the way, and then all of a sudden, she made a turn and she went, she became a Black person.”
Pants on Fire!
By Samantha Putterman • July 31, 2024
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