Latest Fact Checks By Jessica Calefati

Fact-checking Joe Biden in Pa. on his fracking policy

By Jessica Calefati

September 1, 2020

“I am not banning fracking.”

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Fact-checking Trump’s frequent claim that Joe Biden ‘abandoned Scranton’

By Jessica Calefati

August 29, 2020

Says Joe Biden “abandoned Scranton.”

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Has Pennsylvania added thousands of manufacturing jobs since Trump took office?

By Jessica Calefati

August 14, 2020

The Trump administration “added over 209,000 jobs, including 16,000 new manufacturing jobs, to Pennsylvania over the last three years.

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Cory Booker said the U.S. Senate is “dominated by millionaires.” Is that true?

By Jessica Calefati

August 13, 2020

Says the U.S. Senate is “dominated by millionaires” and that he is “not one of them.”

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Sen. Bob Casey said federal agents ‘kidnapped’ protesters in Portland. Is that true?

By Jessica Calefati

August 4, 2020

Federal agents in Portland have been “kidnapping and holding citizens without charges.”

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Fact-checking Trump on rising murders in Philly

By Jessica Calefati

July 24, 2020

“Murders this year have spiked 27% in Philadelphia.”

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No, Joe Biden doesn’t want to ban fracking or kill the Pennsylvania jobs it supports

By Jessica Calefati

July 21, 2020

Says Joe Biden proposed “killing over 600,000 jobs supported by fracking.”

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No, Trump didn’t tell Americans infected with the coronavirus to drink bleach

By Jessica Calefati

July 11, 2020

On COVID-19, Donald Trump said that “maybe if you drank bleach you may be okay.”

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Did Pa. send more Black troops to fight for the Union during the Civil War than any other state?

By Jessica Calefati

July 10, 2020

"Three hundred sixty thousand Pennsylvanians fought on the side of the Union to defeat the flag, that Confederate flag, including more Black soldiers coming from…

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No, Pa. Congressman Matt Cartwright did not call for defunding the police

By Jessica Calefati

July 9, 2020

U.S. Rep. Matt “Cartwright proposes to defund the Wilkes-Barre police.”

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No, the World Health Organization didn’t ‘miss’ the coronavirus pandemic

By Jessica Calefati

May 30, 2020

“For the World Health Organization, the international entity whose sole responsibility it is to alert the world of global pandemics like this, to miss this,…

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Trump said Pa. Rep. Conor Lamb backed Nancy Pelosi for House speaker. That’s not true.

By Jessica Calefati

May 27, 2020

“[U.S. Rep. Conor Lamb] said he would NOT vote for [Nancy Pelosi] for Speaker, and did.”

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