Latest Fact-Checks By Jon Greenberg

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Atlanta skyline

Atlanta’s finances: Really the best in 40 years?

January 12, 2018

"Atlanta is on its strongest financial footing in 40 years."  

trump bipartisan immigration meeting

Did Obama say he didn’t have the right to issue DACA?

January 9, 2018

When President Barack Obama "signed the executive order (on DACA, he) actually said he doesn't have the right to do this."  

brooding gorilla

A gorilla channel for Donald Trump? Satire tweet fools 1,000s

January 5, 2018

"White House staff compiled a number of gorilla documentaries into a makeshift gorilla channel" for President Donald Trump.

Marijuana plants

Did Attorney General Jeff Sessions reverse on enforcing marijuana laws? No

January 5, 2018

On rescinding Obama-era marijuana enforcement guidelines.

Trump Ryan tax celebration

Trump wrongly says end of mandate is ‘essentially’ Obamacare repeal

December 21, 2017

"We essentially repealed Obamacare because we got rid of the individual mandate ... and that was a primary source of funding of Obamacare."  

doug jones election night with supporters

Seating Alabama Sen.-elect Doug Jones – does a delay break Senate rules?

December 18, 2017

Says Sen. Mitch McConnell's delay in seating Alabama Sen.-elect Doug Jones "is a flagrant violation of Senate policy, which requires Jones assume office the instant one…

Alex Jones on Alabama recount

Infowars’ Alex Jones wrong about Alabama Senate recount

December 14, 2017

Says there won't be a recount in Alabama because a Democratic judge said "we're going to erase all the computer files ... on Wednesday morning."

Blankenship arrives for sentencing

Convicted mining CEO and GOP candidate says official papers reveal ‘Obama’s deadliest cover-up’

December 11, 2017

Says "Obama’s deadliest cover-up (in an explosion that killed 29 miners) has been uncovered" by internal government documents.  

Moore Dec 5 rally

Fake news: No, a Roy Moore accuser was not arrested for lying

December 11, 2017

"Roy Moore’s accuser arrested and charged with falsification."

Jones attack ad

Doug Jones launches misleading attack ad about Roy Moore’s court record on sex crime cases

December 6, 2017

"In a 2014 case involving a man convicted of abusing two underage girls, Judge Roy Moore disagreed and wrote the dissenting opinion."  

Offshore tax haven

GOP tax bill and overseas profits: Beware the hype

December 5, 2017

Says "$3 trillion in offshore money... is coming back into the economy" because of the GOP tax bills.

Women for Moore rally

Moore’s wife coins new anti-abortion term to attack his Democratic opponent

November 21, 2017

Says Doug Jones "is for full-term abortion."  

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