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Latest Fact-Checks By Amy Sherman

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Jared Moskowitz
Jared Moskowitz
stated on September 19, 2024 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on August 3, 2024 a rally in Atlanta:
Kamala Harris “supports mandatory gun confiscation.”
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • August 7, 2024
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on July 24, 2024 a rally in Charlotte, North Carolina:
Kamala Harris “wants to defund the police.”
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • July 30, 2024
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on July 24, 2024 a rally in Charlotte, North Carolina:
Kamala Harris “supported abolishing ICE.”
False
By Amy Sherman • July 29, 2024
Instagram posts
Instagram posts
stated on July 22, 2024 an Instagram post:
There are nine states “where Biden’s name can’t be removed and no one can be added. That’s over 130 electoral votes in the toilet.”
False
By Amy Sherman, Ranjan Jindal • July 23, 2024
Kamala Harris
Kamala Harris
stated on July 17, 2024 a campaign video:
"Unlike Mike Pence, (JD) Vance said he would have carried out Trump's plan to overturn the 2020 election."
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • July 18, 2024
Kari Lake
Kari Lake
stated on July 16, 2024 in a speech at RNC in Milwaukee:
“Just last week, Ruben Gallego voted to let the millions of people who poured into our country illegally cast a ballot in this upcoming election.”
False
By Amy Sherman • July 17, 2024
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on July 13, 2024 a statement to the media:
“The idea that there’s political violence or violence in America like this is just unheard of.”
False
By Amy Sherman, Louis Jacobson • July 15, 2024
Tom Cotton
Tom Cotton
stated on June 16, 2024 an interview on CNN's State of the Union:
“The weapons that Ukraine used in the early days of this war to fend off the Russian invasion are the weapons that Donald Trump sent, that Barack Obama and Joe Biden had refused to send.”
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • July 2, 2024
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