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Latest Fact-Checks By Samantha Putterman

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JD Vance
JD Vance
stated on July 28, 2024 in an interview:
Vice President Kamala Harris is “calling for an end to the child tax credit.”
Pants on Fire!
By Samantha Putterman • July 30, 2024
Kamala Harris
Kamala Harris
stated on July 18, 2024 in a campaign event:
Project 2025 calls for restricting “access to IVF and contraception.”
Mostly False
By Samantha Putterman • July 24, 2024
X posts
X posts
stated on July 13, 2024 in una publicación en X:
Donald Trump escenificó el tiroteo en su mitin en Butler, Pensilvania.
Pants on Fire!
By Samantha Putterman, Marta Campabadal Graus • July 15, 2024
Social Media
Social Media
stated on July 13, 2024 in social media posts:
Donald Trump staged the shooting at his rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.
Pants on Fire!
By Samantha Putterman • July 14, 2024
Kamala Harris
Kamala Harris
stated on July 6, 2024 in a moderated conversation:
Black women in the U.S. are “three to four times more likely to die in connection with childbirth than other women."
True
By Samantha Putterman • July 11, 2024
Threads posts
Threads posts
stated on July 27, 2024 in a Threads post:
C-sections are coded as abortions in hospitals.
False
By Samantha Putterman • July 5, 2024
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on June 4, 2024 in a speech:
“Due to the arrangements that I've reached with (Mexico) President Obrador, the number of migrants coming … to our shared border unlawfully in recent months has dropped dramatically.”
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman, Samantha Putterman • June 5, 2024
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on May 19, 2024 in a speech:
Donald Trump wants to terminate the Affordable Care Act.
Half-True
By Samantha Putterman • June 3, 2024
Jared Polis
Jared Polis
stated on May 15, 2024 in an X post:
Tariffs are a “direct, regressive tax on Americans” and President Joe Biden’s new tariffs on Chinese goods will “hit every family.”
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson, Samantha Putterman • May 17, 2024
Paul Renner
Paul Renner
stated on April 4, 2024 in an interview:
For health risk exceptions in Florida’s abortion amendment, “You're not even talking to a doctor to make that determination.”
False
By Maria Briceño, Samantha Putterman • May 10, 2024
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on May 1, 2024 in a campaign event:
Former President Donald Trump told Time magazine that “states should monitor women’s pregnancies and prosecute those who violate abortion bans.”
Mostly False
By Samantha Putterman • May 3, 2024
Kamala Harris
Kamala Harris
stated on May 1, 2024 in a speech:
In his Time magazine interview, Donald Trump “said states have the right to monitor pregnant women to enforce these bans, and states have the right to punish pregnant women for seeking out abortion care.”
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson, Samantha Putterman • May 2, 2024
Ron DeSantis
Ron DeSantis
stated on April 23, 2024 in a news conference:
Florida’s Amendment 4 "will mandate abortion until the moment of birth.”
False
By Samantha Putterman • April 30, 2024
Kamala Harris
Kamala Harris
stated on April 15, 2024 in a moderated conversation:
“As many as 75% of school shootings resulted from a gun that was not secured.”
Mostly False
By Samantha Putterman • April 22, 2024
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on April 8, 2024 in a video posted on Truth Social:
"All legal scholars, both sides, wanted, and in fact demanded” that Roe v. Wade be overturned.
False
By Louis Jacobson, Samantha Putterman • April 10, 2024
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on April 8, 2024 in a Facebook post:
“Support for Roe is higher today in America than it has ever been."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson, Samantha Putterman • April 10, 2024
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on April 8, 2024 in a video posted on Truth Social:
Democrats support abortion measures that result in the “execution” of babies “after birth.”
False
By Louis Jacobson, Samantha Putterman • April 8, 2024
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on March 19, 2024 in a speech:
Insulin for Medicare beneficiaries "was costing 400 bucks a month on average. It now costs $35 a month."
Half-True
By Samantha Putterman • April 2, 2024
Kristi Noem
Kristi Noem
stated on March 30, 2024 in an X post:
“Joe Biden banned ‘religious themed’ eggs at the White House’s Easter Egg design contest for kids.”
False
By Samantha Putterman • April 1, 2024
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on March 18, 2024 in a Truth Social post:
The $454 million bond is “unprecedented, and practically impossible for ANY Company.”
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson, Samantha Putterman • March 22, 2024
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