Fact Check Posts – Page 3

Joe Biden
stated on July 22, 2020 a town hall

No U.S. presidents elected before Donald Trump were racist.

By Louis Jacobson, Sophie Austin • July 27, 2020

Joe Biden
stated on May 21, 2020 a video

"You weren't allowed to own a cannon during the Revolutionary War as an individual."

By Louis Jacobson • June 29, 2020

Viral image
stated on June 22, 2020 a viral image

“Joe Biden’s great-grandfather Joseph J. Biden was a slave-owner and fought” for the Confederacy.

June 26, 2020

Viral image
stated on June 20, 2020 a Facebook post

Photo shows Klansmen and a burning cross at “the Democratic National Convention of 1924.”

June 24, 2020

Viral image
stated on June 22, 2020 a viral image

Aunt Jemima was photographed chained to a table.

June 23, 2020

Facebook posts
stated on June 17, 2020 a Facebook post

Former slave Nancy Green, the first Aunt Jemima model, died “as one of America’s first black millionaires.”

June 22, 2020

Facebook posts
stated on May 28, 2019 a Facebook post

Says it was "a crime for Nixon to wiretap the Democrats at Watergate but OK for Obama to wiretap Republicans at Trump Tower.”

By Bill McCarthy • May 21, 2020

Facebook posts
stated on September 21, 2019 a Facebook post

Says after Australia passed a "new law" that forced gun owners to give up over 640,000 firearms, the country saw a dramatic increase in homicides, assaults and robberies.

By Samantha Putterman • January 13, 2020

Facebook posts
stated on March 31, 2019 a Facebook post

Says Trump volunteered his airline to bring troops home during Operation Desert Storm.

By Samantha Putterman • January 7, 2020

Facebook posts
stated on December 10, 2019 a Facebook post

Says a photo shows a white man smiling while holding a black man with a bloody face.

By Miriam Valverde • December 20, 2019

Viral image
stated on December 15, 2019 a Facebook post

An old image shows a drug store with a marijuana leaf sign.

By Samantha Putterman • December 18, 2019

Facebook posts
stated on December 9, 2019 a Facebook post

Says a photo shows an old Christmas tradition of women apologizing "to their husbands for all the mistakes they made during the year and beg for forgiveness."

By Samantha Putterman • December 11, 2019

Facebook posts
stated on November 29, 2019 a Facebook post

Says photo shows "the Golden Gate Bridge opening to the public for the first time back in 1937, and yes, it almost collapsed."

By Miriam Valverde • December 4, 2019

Facebook posts
stated on November 6, 2019 a Facebook post

Says Thomas Jefferson said "the government will one day be corrupt and filled with liars and the people will flock to the one who tells the truth."

By Samantha Putterman • November 8, 2019

Viral image
stated on October 22, 2019 a Facebook post

A photo shows a man grabbing a woman’s rear while watching the Apollo 8 launch in 1968.

October 24, 2019

Facebook posts
stated on October 7, 2019 a Facebook post

Quotes President John F. Kennedy as saying "If the United States ever experienced [a coup to overthrow the government] it will come from the CIA and not the Pentagon."

By Samantha Putterman • October 16, 2019

Facebook posts
stated on September 3, 2019 a Facebook post

Quotes Thomas Jefferson as saying that "freedom is lost gradually from uninterested, uninformed and uninvolved people."

By Samantha Putterman • October 4, 2019

Viral image
stated on September 23, 2019 a Facebook post

Says Marcus Aurelius said, "Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth."

September 26, 2019

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stated on February 14, 2019 a Facebook post

Says Saddam Hussein said, "We cannot defeat America by the sword. America must be defeated within their politics."

September 26, 2019

Bloggers
stated on August 11, 2018 a website post

Quotes Winston Churchill as saying "Diplomacy is the art of telling people to go to hell in such a way that they ask for directions."

By Samantha Putterman • September 20, 2019

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