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Latest Fact-Checks By Miriam Valverde

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Instagram posts
Instagram posts
stated on June 2, 2020 an Instagram post
“Companies that use prison labor: Whole Foods, McDonald’s, Walmart, Victoria’s Secret, AT&T, Bank of America, Starbucks, Wendy’s.”
Mostly False
By Miriam Valverde • June 22, 2020
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on June 16, 2020 a speech
“President Obama and Vice President Biden never even tried to fix this (police reforms) during their eight-year period.”
False
By Miriam Valverde • June 18, 2020
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on June 10, 2020 a USA Today op-ed
“Today, the gap between African American and white homeownership is larger than it was in the late 1960s.”
True
By Miriam Valverde • June 11, 2020
Kamala Harris
Kamala Harris
stated on June 1, 2020 a CNN interview
Says the Obama administration was doing pattern-or-practice investigations of discrimination by police departments and “Donald Trump came in with Jeff Sessions and undid those.”
Mostly True
By Miriam Valverde • June 4, 2020
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on May 21, 2020 a statement
Says President Donald Trump “took more than a month to allocate Congress’ emergency funding to tribes — and only did so after tribes sued.”
Mostly True
By Miriam Valverde • June 1, 2020
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on May 19, 2020 a speech
“On the Southern border, as you know, the wall is going up, it's going up very rapidly. We're at 182 miles.”
Half-True
By Miriam Valverde • May 20, 2020
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on May 14, 2020 an interview with Fox Business
Speaking about border apprehensions, said “We have some of the best numbers we've ever had. Southern border, the best numbers we've ever had.”
Half-True
By Miriam Valverde • May 20, 2020
Instagram posts
Instagram posts
stated on May 19, 2020 an Instagram post
“A lot of people can get an additional $2,400” from the CARES Act “and they can do it every month!”
Mostly False
By Miriam Valverde • May 20, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on May 12, 2020 a Facebook post
“Pelosi’s new coronavirus bill allows illegals to receive billions in relief funds in past, current, and future payments.”
Mostly True
By Miriam Valverde • May 18, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on April 23, 2020 a Facebook post
“Trump and McConnell are blocking stimulus checks for Americans married to immigrants.”
Mostly False
By Miriam Valverde • April 29, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on April 9, 2020 a Facebook post
“President Trump has banned welfare for illegal immigrants which will save $57.4 billion a year.”
False
By Miriam Valverde • April 24, 2020
Nancy Pelosi
Nancy Pelosi
stated on April 16, 2020 a statement
“Even President Trump’s own EPA has admitted that this rule (on air pollutants) threatens to cause serious health problems including brain damage and death and to inflict billions of dollars of economic damage on our struggling economy.”
Half-True
By Miriam Valverde • April 23, 2020
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on April 16, 2020 a tweet
Says House Speaker Nancy Pelosi deleted a video of her telling people to go to Chinatown.
False
By Miriam Valverde • April 16, 2020
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on April 5, 2020 an ABC "This Week" interview
"45 nations had already moved” to enforce travel restrictions with China “before the president moved.”
Half-True
By Miriam Valverde • April 13, 2020
John Bel Edwards
John Bel Edwards
stated on April 5, 2020 a CNN interview
Says of the coronavirus threat, “there was not a single suggestion by anyone, a doctor, a scientist, a political figure, that we needed to cancel Mardi Gras.”
True
By Miriam Valverde • April 8, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on March 22, 2020 a Facebook post
Says Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte said, “We have lost control, we have killed the epidemic physically and mentally. Can’t understand what more we can do, all solutions are exhausted on ground. Our only hope remains up in the Sky, God rescue your people.”
Pants on Fire!
By Miriam Valverde • April 1, 2020
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on March 26, 2020 a Hannity show interview
Speaking of his restriction on travel from China, “I had (Joe) Biden calling me xenophobic. … He called me a racist, because of the fact that he felt it was a racist thing to stop people from China coming in.”
Mostly False
By Miriam Valverde • March 27, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on March 20, 2020 a Facebook post
“Australia Closing Borders in a few hours for 6-months”
Half-True
By Miriam Valverde • March 25, 2020
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on March 24, 2020 a Fox News town hall
Says N.Y. Gov. Andrew Cuomo “rejected buying recommended 16,000 ventilators in 2015 for the pandemic, for a pandemic, established death panels and lotteries instead. So, he had a chance to buy, in 2015, 16,000 ventilators at a very low price, and he turned it down.”
False
By Miriam Valverde • March 25, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on March 16, 2020 a Facebook post
Says Oprah Winfrey’s house “has been seized and they are excavating the property and digging up the tunnels!”
Pants on Fire!
By Miriam Valverde • March 18, 2020
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