Latest Fact Checks By Amy Sherman

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California fire damage in Pacific Palisades, 1-13-25

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

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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Hurricane Helene damage near Asheville, N.C., 10-2-2024

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

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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Jan 6 select committee meets in June 2022

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

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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Bernie Sanders Oct. 2024

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

January 9, 2025
H-1B guest workers are “being employed as dog trainers, massage therapists, cooks, and English teachers.”
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Donald Trump press conference at Mar-a-Lago, 1-7-2025

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

January 7, 2025
“They’re still counting the (2024 election) vote in some areas.”
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House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., at the Capitol, 12-17-2024

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

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

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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Pennsylvania voter turns in mail ballot 11-3-24

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

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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Farther away image Kamala Harris at CNN town hall, 10-23-2024

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

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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Donald Trump in Allentown, Pa., 10-29-2024

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

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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John Kelly and Donald Trump at the White House, 7-31-2017

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

October 24, 2024
Vice President Kamala Harris has been “going so far as to call me Adolf Hitler.”
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