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Latest Fact-Checks By Amy Sherman

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Instagram posts
Instagram posts
stated on October 7, 2024 in una publicación en Instagram:
La administración de Joe Biden tomó dinero de ayudas de FEMA para usarlo en inmigrantes.
Pants on Fire!
By Amy Sherman, Maria Briceño, Maria Ramirez Uribe • October 16, 2024
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on October 11, 2024 in a Truth Social post:
“It has just come out that Democrats in Washington and the Democrat Governor’s Office of North Carolina (Roy Cooper) were blocking people and money from coming into North Carolina.”
Pants on Fire!
By Amy Sherman, Paul Specht • October 12, 2024
X posts
X posts
stated on October 9, 2024 in social media posts:
North Carolina’s new voting rules in response to Hurricane Helene amount to “cheating” or “stealing.”
Pants on Fire!
By Amy Sherman • October 11, 2024
Robert Reich
Robert Reich
stated on October 8, 2024 in an Instagram post:
“Two weeks ago 100 GOP lawmakers voted against additional FEMA funding.”
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • October 11, 2024
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on October 7, 2024 in an interview with Hugh Hewitt:
Of Gaza, “I’ve been there.”
False
By Amy Sherman • October 8, 2024
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on October 4, 2024 in a conversation with reporters:
The Biden administration stole $1 billion “from FEMA to use it for illegal migrants. … And FEMA is now busted. They don’t have any money.”
Pants on Fire!
By Amy Sherman, Maria Ramirez Uribe • October 8, 2024
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on September 29, 2024 in a rally in Erie, Pennsylvania:
Vice President Kamala Harris “even wants to legalize fentanyl.”
False
By Amy Sherman • October 1, 2024
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on September 30, 2024 in a press conference in Georgia:
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp was calling President Joe Biden after Hurricane Helene but "hasn't been able to get him.”
False
By Amy Sherman, Caleb McCullough • September 30, 2024
Jared Moskowitz
Jared Moskowitz
stated on September 19, 2024 in una audiencia en la Cámara de Representantes:
“El Proyecto 2025 quiere deshacerse de la NOAA” y del Servicio Nacional de Meteorología.
Half-True
By Amy Sherman, Maria Briceño, Marta Campabadal Graus • September 27, 2024
Jared Moskowitz
Jared Moskowitz
stated on September 19, 2024 in a House hearing:
“Project 2025 wants to get rid of NOAA” and the National Weather Service.
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • September 26, 2024
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on September 18, 2024 in a speech in New York:
When Haitians go to school in Springfield, Ohio, they “take the place of our children in school” and “each one will have a private interpreter."
False
By Amy Sherman • September 23, 2024
JD Vance
JD Vance
stated on August 25, 2024 in an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press":
A zero-tolerance policy during the Trump administration "led to less family separation than under Kamala Harris' border policies.”
False
By Amy Sherman • September 4, 2024
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on August 26, 2024 in an interview with a podcaster:
Vice President Kamala Harris “is a communist. … She is really a Marxist.”
Pants on Fire!
By Amy Sherman • September 4, 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
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on August 23, 2024 in a speech in Las Vegas:
“Kamala cast the tiebreaking vote to hire 87,000 new IRS agents to go after your tip income.”
False
By Amy Sherman • August 28, 2024
Tim Walz
Tim Walz
stated on August 14, 2024 in a speech in California:
Former President Donald Trump “cut overtime benefits for millions of workers.”
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • August 20, 2024
Pete Buttigieg
Pete Buttigieg
stated on August 11, 2024 in an interview on CNN State of the Union:
Gov. Tim Walz delivered paid family leave in Minnesota but “Republicans are blocking” a Biden-Harris proposal.
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • August 16, 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
Instagram posts
Instagram posts
stated on August 2, 2024 in a video:
In Pompano Beach, Florida, Somali immigrants illegally in the U.S. were in line to get driver’s licenses and “all you need to vote is a driver's license.”
False
By Amy Sherman, Kwasi Gyamfi Asiedu • August 7, 2024
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on July 27, 2024 in a rally in St. Cloud, Minnesota:
During the 2020 Minnesota riots after George Floyd’s murder, Gov. Tim Walz didn’t call in the National Guard, “so, I sent in the National Guard to save Minneapolis.”
False
By Amy Sherman • August 7, 2024
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