Latest Fact-Checks By Bill McCarthy

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Joy Behar
Joy Behar
stated on March 9, 2020 in an episode of ABC's "The View":
“(Barack Obama) set up anti-pandemic programs in 47 vulnerable countries as a way to protect against something like the coronavirus, exactly. Do you know that Trump closed 37 of them?”
False
By Bill McCarthy • March 12, 2020
MSNBC
MSNBC
stated on March 5, 2020 in an MSNBC segment:
“Bloomberg spent $500 million on ads. The U.S. population is 327 million. He could have given each American $1 million and still have money left over.”
Pants on Fire!
By Bill McCarthy • March 6, 2020
Lou Dobbs
Lou Dobbs
stated on March 2, 2020 in a TV interview:
The United States is “actually screening fewer people (for the coronavirus than other countries) because we don't have appropriate testing."
Mostly True
By Bill McCarthy • March 4, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on January 27, 2020 in a Facebook post:
“In ‘Resident Evil’ the Umbrella Corporation releases a virus that infects the people of Raccoon City. A biological research lab with the exact same logo as the Umbrella Corporation can be found in the city where the coronavirus outbreak originated.”
False
By Bill McCarthy • March 3, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on November 22, 2019 in a Facebook post:
Says white vans with external locks are “utilized for sex trafficking.”
False
By Bill McCarthy • February 29, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on February 16, 2019 in a YouTube video:
“Nancy Pelosi’s Brother’s Company Received $737 Million from Obama’s Energy Dept!”
False
By Bill McCarthy • February 29, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on January 15, 2020 in a Facebook post:
Sex traffickers are using a zip-tie contraption on the door handles of vehicles “to trick females into looking down and digging for something in their purse to cut with ... Once they’re distracted, boom! They are quickly forced into another vehicle, never to be seen again by their people.”
False
By Bill McCarthy • February 29, 2020
Rush Limbaugh
Rush Limbaugh
stated on February 24, 2020 in an episode of his radio show:
“The coronavirus is the common cold, folks.”
False
By Bill McCarthy • February 27, 2020
Tim O'Brien
Tim O'Brien
stated on February 25, 2020 in a CNN interview:
Says Bernie Sanders has said “things like women get cancer from having too many orgasms, or toddlers should run around naked and touch each others' genitals to insulate themselves from porn … He's written about women's rape fantasies."
Half-True
By Bill McCarthy • February 26, 2020
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on February 9, 2020 in a blog post:
Quotes actor Will Smith as saying: “I’m not afraid to say that Trump and his supporters are ba…”
False
By Bill McCarthy • February 25, 2020
Amy Klobuchar
Amy Klobuchar
stated on February 20, 2020 in an MSNBC interview:
“The majority of hunters now want universal background checks, the majority of Trump voters.”
True
By Bill McCarthy • February 20, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on January 24, 2020 in a Facebook post:
Says photos show Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and Condoleezza Rice posing with Osama bin Laden.
Pants on Fire!
By Bill McCarthy • February 19, 2020
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on February 9, 2020 in a blog post:
Quotes Kamala Harris as saying: "After we impeach, we round up the Trump supporters."
Pants on Fire!
By Bill McCarthy • February 14, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on December 8, 2019 in a Facebook post:
“Trump’s daughter works at the White House. Her husband works at the White House. Rudy’s son works at the White House. Barr’s son-in-law works at the White House. Barr’s daughter works at Treasury. Trump’s sons do foreign business. Trump’s daughter is getting Chinese patents and Saudi grants.”
Mostly True
By Bill McCarthy • February 11, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on November 26, 2016 in a Facebook post:
Says George Soros was an “SS in the National Socialist German Workers Party. Nazi Party.”
Pants on Fire!
By Bill McCarthy • February 10, 2020
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on February 7, 2020 in a comment to reporters:
"I thought it was a terrible thing when (Nancy Pelosi) ripped up the speech. First of all, it's an official document. You're not allowed. It's illegal what she did. She broke the law."
Pants on Fire!
By Bill McCarthy • February 7, 2020
Charlie Kirk
Charlie Kirk
stated on February 4, 2020 in a tweet:
"Nancy Pelosi may have just committed a violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2071, Section 2071 (a) when she ripped up President Trump’s State of the Union address. This violation is punishable by up to three years in prison.”
Pants on Fire!
By Bill McCarthy • February 5, 2020
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on February 4, 2020 in his 2020 State of the Union address:
“In sanctuary cities, local officials order police to release dangerous criminal aliens to prey upon the public instead of handing them over to ICE to be safely removed.”
Mostly False
By Bill McCarthy • February 5, 2020
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on February 2, 2020 in an interview on Fox News:
“Cory Booker and all these people couldn't get any of the things that (Michael) Bloomberg's getting now" with respect to DNC debate rules.
Half-True
By Bill McCarthy • February 3, 2020
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on January 27, 2020 in a tweet:
"The Democrat controlled House never even asked John Bolton to testify."
False
By Bill McCarthy • January 27, 2020
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