Latest Fact-Checks By Jessica Calefati

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Joe Biden
stated on July 9, 2020 in a speech in Dunmore, Pa.:

"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 Pennsylvania than any other state in the nation."

Mostly True

By Jessica Calefati • July 10, 2020

Jim Bognet
stated on June 12, 2020 in a press release:

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

False

By Jessica Calefati • July 9, 2020

Brian Fitzpatrick
stated on May 5, 2020 in a radio interview:

“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, is a huge problem.”

Mostly False

By Jessica Calefati • May 30, 2020

Donald Trump
stated on May 25, 2020 in a tweet:

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

Pants on Fire!

By Jessica Calefati • May 27, 2020

Facebook posts
stated on May 11, 2020 in a Facebook post:

“Gov. Wolf is not allowing companies that distribute U.S. flags to ship out orders to be placed at veteran’s graves for Memorial Day.”

Mostly True

By Jessica Calefati • May 19, 2020

Donald Trump
stated on May 14, 2020 in a speech:

“You have areas of Pennsylvania that are barely affected and [the governor wants] to keep them closed.”

Half-True

By Jessica Calefati • May 18, 2020

Mike Turzai
stated on May 9, 2020 in a video:

“Guess what, [children are] not at risk unless they have an underlying medical issue.”

False

By Jessica Calefati • May 14, 2020

Facebook posts
stated on March 18, 2020 in a Facebook post:

“The poor are, ironically, the most likely to be employed in the industries deemed ‘essential’ while their upper-class peers are freed to bunker down for weeks until the first death wave passes.”

True

By Jessica Calefati • April 21, 2020

Pat Toomey
stated on April 15, 2020 in a Politico interview:

“In a matter of days, and in some cases the moment may even have passed, that we’ve reached the peak of the rate of infections.”

Half-True

By Jessica Calefati • April 16, 2020

Rick Santorum
stated on April 13, 2020 in on CNN:

"The president looks like he was ahead of the curve – as you know, he talks about this all the time – on shutting down travel from China."

Mostly False

By Jessica Calefati • April 14, 2020

Facebook posts
stated on March 16, 2020 in a Facebook post:

The government is closing businesses to stop the spread of coronavirus even though "the numbers are nothing compared to H1N1 or Ebola. Everyone needs to realize our government is up to something ...”

Pants on Fire!

By Jessica Calefati • April 6, 2020

Brian Fitzpatrick
stated on March 23, 2020 in comments he made on the radio:

“We’ve got to give the American public a rough estimate of how long we think this is going to take, based mostly on the South Korean model, which seems to be the trajectory that we are on, thankfully, and not the Italian model.”

Half-True

By Jessica Calefati • April 1, 2020

Pat Toomey
stated on March 28, 2020 in a video on Twitter:

“My mask will keep someone else safe and their mask will keep me safe.”

True

By Daniel Funke, Jessica Calefati • April 1, 2020

Bloggers
stated on February 28, 2020 in a news article:

“Swing State Hit With 2020 Voting Lawsuit - Accused Of Registering Over 1,500 Deceased People In Pennsylvania.”

Mostly False

By Jessica Calefati • March 27, 2020

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