Fact Check Posts – Page 5

Donald Trump
stated on April 29, 2025 an interview with ABC News:

Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia “had ‘MS-13’ on his knuckles tattooed. … He had ‘MS’ as clear as you can be. Not 'interpreted.’”

By Louis Jacobson • April 30, 2025

Donald Trump
stated on April 22, 2025 remarks at the White House:

“We had a couple of states where gasoline was at $1.98 a gallon.”

By Louis Jacobson • April 24, 2025

Donald Trump
stated on April 9, 2025 remarks at a White House event:

In 2024, “China made $1 trillion off trade with the United States.”

By Louis Jacobson • April 11, 2025

Donald Trump
stated on April 2, 2025 a speech announcing tariffs:

“Egg prices came down 50%”

By Amy Sherman, Louis Jacobson • April 4, 2025

Cory Booker
stated on April 1, 2025 a Senate floor speech:

"The consumer confidence in this country has gone way down."

By Louis Jacobson • April 3, 2025

JD Vance
stated on April 1, 2025 a post on X:

Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia “was a convicted MS-13 gang member.”

By Louis Jacobson • April 2, 2025

Donald Trump
stated on March 26, 2025 an interview with Newsmax:

“We have automobile plants being built at levels we've never seen … and they're going up fast.”

By Louis Jacobson • March 28, 2025

Harriet Hageman
stated on March 16, 2025 a podcast interview:

The federal Education Department has a “budget of about $280 billion a year. Less than 25% goes to educating our students.”

By Louis Jacobson • March 20, 2025

Elon Musk
stated on February 28, 2025 an interview with podcaster Joe Rogan:

“Social Security is the biggest Ponzi scheme of all time.”

By Louis Jacobson • March 19, 2025

Donald Trump
stated on March 17, 2025 a Truth Social post:

Former President Joe Biden’s pardons of lawmakers on the committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol attack “are hereby declared void, vacant, and of no further force or effect,” because “they were done by autopen.”

By Amy Sherman, Louis Jacobson • March 17, 2025

Karoline Leavitt
stated on March 11, 2025 a White House press briefing:

“Tariffs are a tax cut for the American people.”

By Louis Jacobson • March 13, 2025

JD Vance
stated on March 10, 2025 a speech:

“Under the previous administration … the cost of a median-price home in America more than doubled, and that was just in four years.”

By Louis Jacobson • March 12, 2025

Rick Scott
stated on March 9, 2025 an interview on CNN's "State of the Union":

“The number of full-time jobs (was) dropping almost the entire Biden administration.”

By Louis Jacobson • March 11, 2025

X posts
stated on March 7, 2025 on social media:

During President Joe Biden’s four years in office, “31% of U.S. job growth” came from public-sector jobs.

By Louis Jacobson • March 11, 2025

Larry Kudlow
stated on March 4, 2025 on-air remarks:

Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency is “polling very well. It’s very popular.”

By Louis Jacobson • March 6, 2025

Kevin O'Leary
stated on February 24, 2025 an interview on CNN:

“We've never audited government for 100 years.”

By Amy Sherman, Louis Jacobson • February 26, 2025

Patty Murray
stated on February 20, 2025 a Senate floor speech:

“The single biggest driver of our national debt since 2001 has been Republican tax cuts.”

By Louis Jacobson • February 25, 2025

Donald Trump
stated on February 18, 2025 remarks to reporters at Mar-a-Lago:

Volodymyr Zelenskyy “started” the war in Ukraine with Russia.

By Claire Cranford, Louis Jacobson • February 19, 2025

Marco Rubio
stated on February 3, 2025 in a letter to Congress:

On support for U.S. Agency for International Development

By Amy Sherman, Claire Cranford, Louis Jacobson • February 7, 2025

Adam Schiff
stated on January 26, 2025 an interview on NBC's Meet the Press:

“As a Californian, we have given more to the recovery of other states than any other state in the union.”

By Amy Sherman, Louis Jacobson • January 31, 2025

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