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Latest Fact-Checks By Louis Jacobson

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Social Media
Social Media
stated on May 29, 2024 social media posts
Judge Juan Merchan told New York jurors the verdict in Donald Trump’s trial does not need to be unanimous.
False
By Amy Sherman, Louis Jacobson • May 29, 2024
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on May 15, 2024 a speech at a police memorial service
“Violent crime is near a record 50-year low.”
True
By Louis Jacobson • May 28, 2024
Jared Polis
Jared Polis
stated on May 15, 2024 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
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on May 14, 2024 an interview with Yahoo Finance
Inflation “was 9% when I came to office.”
False
By Louis Jacobson • May 15, 2024
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on May 12, 2024 a fundraising event in Seattle
"China's in a situation where they have more retired than working."
False
By Louis Jacobson • May 14, 2024
Kamala Harris
Kamala Harris
stated on May 1, 2024 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
Nancy Pelosi
Nancy Pelosi
stated on April 29, 2024 an interview with MSNBC
Former President Donald Trump “has the worst record of job loss of any president.”
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • May 2, 2024
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on April 26, 2024 an interview with Howard Stern
Says he “got arrested” while protesting in favor of desegregation.
False
By Amy Sherman, Louis Jacobson • April 29, 2024
Mike Johnson
Mike Johnson
stated on April 24, 2024 an interview with CNN
Said Columbia University has told students, “Well, if you’re Jewish, maybe you do want to stay home.”
False
By Louis Jacobson • April 29, 2024
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
stated on March 31, 2024 a post on X
"The much-trumpeted job growth in the last year was ENTIRELY part-time jobs."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • April 26, 2024
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
stated on April 21, 2024 a post on X
“Congress prohibits the NIH from researching the cause of mass shootings.”
False
By Louis Jacobson • April 23, 2024
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on April 11, 2024 an interview with Fox News
“It's very misleading when (President Biden) says (inflation) used to be at 9%. This is compounding. It’s not like it went down from 9% to 3%. This is building month after month. The better way to think about it is that it’s 18%, 19% over the last three years."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • April 17, 2024
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on April 8, 2024 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 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 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
Nancy Mace
Nancy Mace
stated on March 30, 2024 a post on X
“Since Joe Biden took office, crime has skyrocketed across our country.”
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • April 3, 2024
Donna Brazile
Donna Brazile
stated on March 24, 2024 remarks on ABC's "This Week"
The current Congress is “the least productive in our lifetime.”
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson, Matthew Crowley • April 3, 2024
X posts
X posts
stated on March 22, 2024 an X post
A March 7 U.S. security alert … means the U.S. was “behind this gruesome terror attack on Russian civilians.”
Pants on Fire!
By Kwasi Gyamfi Asiedu, Louis Jacobson • March 27, 2024
JD Vance
JD Vance
stated on March 14, 2024 an interview with Fox News
Says “100% of net job creation under the Biden administration has gone to the foreign-born.”
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • March 27, 2024
Nicole Shanahan
Nicole Shanahan
stated on March 26, 2024 her vice presidential announcement speech
If elected, “I will be the youngest vice president in American history.”
False
By Louis Jacobson • March 26, 2024
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