Latest Fact Checks By Amy Sherman

Does California give more than it gets on federal disaster aid? Fact-checking Sen. Adam Schiff

By Amy Sherman , Louis Jacobson

January 31, 2025

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

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Fact-check: Trump misleads about North Carolina storm victims and FEMA housing

By Amy Sherman , Paul Specht

January 29, 2025

"The Biden administration kicked 2,000 displaced North Carolinians out of their temporary housing into freezing 20-degree weather," earlier in January.

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Donald Trump’s False claim that Jan. 6 committee deleted ‘all’ evidence

By Amy Sherman , Samantha Putterman

January 24, 2025

The U.S. House Select Committee that investigated the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol “deleted and destroyed all of the information that they…

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Tracking Donald Trump’s complete position change on banning TikTok in the US

By Amy Sherman , Kwasi Gyamfi Asiedu , Samantha Putterman

January 16, 2025

On banning TikTok

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Are H-1B visa holders hired as dog trainers, massage therapists? Here’s what Bernie Sanders misses

By Amy Sherman

January 9, 2025

H-1B guest workers are “being employed as dog trainers, massage therapists, cooks, and English teachers.”

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Congress certified Trump’s 2024 win. The next day, he falsely said votes were still being counted.

By Amy Sherman

January 7, 2025

“They’re still counting the (2024 election) vote in some areas.”

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Fact-check: Past government shutdowns cost the U.S. economy billions

By Amy Sherman , Louis Jacobson

December 19, 2024

Government shutdowns in 2013 and 2018 “cost our economy billions of dollars each.”

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A Georgia sheriff did not say KKK is plotting against Black people

By Amy Sherman

November 5, 2024

Gwinnett County, Georgia, sheriff's office said white supremacists “are planning to attack” Black people “from now until the Inauguration.”

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The FBI apprehended groups for ballot fraud? A video making that claim is fake, FBI says

By Amy Sherman

November 3, 2024

Video shows the FBI reported that “three linked groups have been apprehended for rigging early voting by mail-in ballot.”

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In another sign of Russian influence, posts falsely try to tie Kamala Harris to Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs

By Amy Sherman

November 2, 2024

Vice President Kamala Harris and husband Doug Emhoff received $500,000 for tipping off Sean “Diddy” Combs about police raids.

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Trump’s claim that 2,600 ‘votes’ were ‘caught’ in Lancaster, Pa., distorts registration probe

By Amy Sherman

October 30, 2024

In Lancaster, Pa., “We caught them with 2,600 votes. We caught them cold, 2,600 votes. ... And every vote was written by the same person."

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Kamala Harris cited news reports that said Trump praised Hitler. She did not call him Hitler.

By Amy Sherman , Samantha Putterman

October 24, 2024

Vice President Kamala Harris has been “going so far as to call me Adolf Hitler.”

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