Latest Fact Checks By Louis Jacobson

Joe Biden mistook Michigan’s COVID-19 numbers for military toll

By Louis Jacobson

September 10, 2020

“Military COVID infected: 118,984. Military COVID deaths: 6,114.”

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Fact-checking Joe Biden’s claim about his own income

By Louis Jacobson

September 10, 2020

“$400,000 ... is more money than I’ve ever made” in a year.

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Trump oversells crediting White House response for falling COVID-19 fatality statistic

By Louis Jacobson

September 9, 2020

"Under Operation Warp Speed, we’ve pioneered groundbreaking therapies, reducing the fatality rate 85% since April.”

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Yes, Donald Trump did call John McCain a ‘loser’

By Louis Jacobson

September 4, 2020

"I never called John (McCain) a loser."

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Joe Biden wrong about how early he called to invoke the Defense Production Act

By Louis Jacobson

September 4, 2020

Says he was the first person to call for invoking the Defense Production Act.

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Fact-checking John James on Gary Peters’ committee attendance

By Louis Jacobson

August 31, 2020

Says Sen. Gary Peters, D-Mich., is "known for doing nothing. … (Peters) skipped 84% of small business hearings (and) skipped 89% of hearings on China."

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Nikki Haley’s False RNC claim that Biden wants ‘massive’ tax hikes on working families

By Louis Jacobson

August 25, 2020

Says Joe Biden and Kamala Harris “want massive tax hikes on working families.”

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Donald Trump says Joe Biden can only win by a ‘rigged election.’ That’s wrong in several ways

By Amy Sherman , Louis Jacobson

August 24, 2020

“So this is just a way they’re trying to steal the election, and everybody knows that. Because the only way they’re going to win is…

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Bill Clinton mostly accurate on international unemployment comparison

By Louis Jacobson

August 19, 2020

The United States is “the only major industrial economy to have its unemployment rate triple” since the coronavirus pandemic began.

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Michelle Obama right that 2 votes per precinct enabled Trump win in Michigan

By Louis Jacobson

August 18, 2020

“In one of the states that determined the outcome” of the 2016 presidential race, “the winning margin averaged out to just two votes per precinct,…

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Kamala Harris is eligible to be president

By Louis Jacobson

August 11, 2020

If Joe Biden can’t serve his full term, Kamala Harris “cannot by constitutional law become president.”

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No, Donald Trump did not put a hold on evictions through December

By Louis Jacobson

August 10, 2020

President Donald Trump “put a hold on ALL EVICTIONS through December.”

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