Latest Fact Checks By Jon Greenberg

Republicans support Donald Trump, but not as much as he said

By Jon Greenberg

June 6, 2019

"I’ve had tremendous Republican support. I have a 90% — 94% approval rating, as of this morning, in the Republican Party. That’s an all-time record."…

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Donald Trump said the UK is America’s largest trading partner. It ranks 5th

By Jon Greenberg

June 5, 2019

The United Kingdom is "our largest (trading) partner."  

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Barack Obama wrong on limits of US gun laws, machine gun sales

By Jon Greenberg

June 4, 2019

"Anybody can buy any weapon, any time without much, if any, regulation. They buy it over the internet. They can buy machine guns."  

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Fact-check: Joe Biden’s defense of his 1994 crime bill and mass incarceration

By Jon Greenberg , John Kruzel

May 30, 2019

The 1994 crime bill "did not generate mass incarceration."

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Skeptic of Elizabeth Warren’s plan says 10 European countries scrapped wealth taxes

By Jon Greenberg

May 10, 2019

"Of the 14 wealthy OECD countries with a wealth tax in 1996, 10 have since then abandoned it."

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Bernie Sanders says 1 out of 5 can’t afford prescription drugs

By Jon Greenberg

May 6, 2019

"One out of five Americans cannot afford the cost of prescription drugs."

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Donald Trump repeats, falsely, that doctors, mothers decide to execute live babies after birth

By Jon Greenberg

April 29, 2019

With a late-term abortion, "the mother meets with the doctor. They take care of the baby, they wrap the baby beautifully. And then the doctor…

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Progressive Democratic group’s attack on Joe Biden’s voting record needs some context

By Jon Greenberg

April 26, 2019

Says Joe Biden "voted for the Iraq War, for mass incarceration, and for the Bankruptcy Reform Act while voting against gay marriage, reproductive rights, and…

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Donald Trump’s ridiculous link between cancer, wind turbines

By Jon Greenberg

April 8, 2019

"The noise (from windmills) causes cancer."  

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Why do farmers get so few of our food dollars? Us.

By Jon Greenberg

April 4, 2019

Mergers and integration in agribusiness "squeeze" family farms, and "the result is that farmers are getting a record-low amount of every dollar Americans spend on…

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Republican pre-existing protections leave some vulnerable

By Jon Greenberg

April 1, 2019

"Every single (health care) plan that this White House has ever put forward since Donald Trump was elected covered pre-existing conditions."

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Yes, more people are uninsured since Donald Trump took office, but be leery of specific numbers

By Jon Greenberg

March 28, 2019

Says Donald Trump’s health care policies have "left millions more Americans uninsured since he took office."

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