Latest Fact Checks By Bill McCarthy

No, California Gov. Gavin Newsom hasn’t been vacationing in Montana

By Bill McCarthy

May 22, 2020

“While California is dying … Gavin (Newsom) is vacationing in Stevensville, MT!”

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Facebook post comparing Obama allegations to Watergate gets facts, history wrong

By Bill McCarthy

May 21, 2020

Says it was "a crime for Nixon to wiretap the Democrats at Watergate but OK for Obama to wiretap Republicans at Trump Tower.”

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What Bill Gates has to do with livestock, lab-grown meat

By Bill McCarthy

May 18, 2020

"Bill Gates worked to end livestock production, and is pushing lab grown meat."

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Sen. Chris Murphy overstates travel from China after Trump restrictions

By Bill McCarthy

May 13, 2020

Says President Donald Trump implemented “a travel ban that just didn't work, 400,000 people got in from those countries that were subject to the restrictions.”

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NBC’s Chuck Todd, ‘Meet the Press’ leave out key context in shortened Barr clip

By Bill McCarthy

May 11, 2020

Says Attorney General William Barr didn’t cite the "rule of law” in explaining his decision in the Michael Flynn case during a CBS News interview.

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Facebook post cites doctors’ widely disputed calculations on COVID-19 death rate

By Bill McCarthy

May 7, 2020

“So 2 doctors from Bakersfield discover that coronavirus mortality rate is 0.03%. 13x less deadly than what was previously thought! Their analysis has since been…

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Laura Ingraham wrong about ‘no real scientific basis’ for social distancing

By Bill McCarthy

May 6, 2020

"There was no real scientific basis for believing that" social distancing would be necessary, "since it had never been studied."

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Tucker Carlson says coronavirus isn’t as deadly as we thought. Experts disagree

By Bill McCarthy

May 4, 2020

“The (corona)virus just isn’t nearly as deadly as we thought it was.”

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Without evidence, Trump claims Biden sent him apology letter over China travel ban

By Bill McCarthy

May 4, 2020

Says Joe Biden has “written a letter of apology” for calling Trump’s travel restrictions from China “xenophobic.”

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Biden plotted to kidnap John F. Kennedy Jr.? Another unsubstantiated conspiracy

By Bill McCarthy

April 27, 2020

“Joe Biden was involved in a plot to kidnap JFK Jr. according to the just declassified FBI files, and also made several threats."

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Dr. Phil’s faulty point about the coronavirus and swimming pools

By Bill McCarthy

April 17, 2020

There are “360,000 (deaths) a year from swimming pools. But we don’t shut the country down for that.”

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Kellyanne Conway misleads on name for COVID-19, says it’s ‘not COVID-1’

By Bill McCarthy

April 15, 2020

"This is COVID-19, not COVID-1, folks. And so you would think the people charged with the World Health Organization facts and figures would be on…

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