Latest Fact Checks By Louis Jacobson

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Immigration protest in LA

Debunking (again) a 14-year-old post on immigrants in Los Angeles

By Louis Jacobson
July 29, 2020
Say that according to the Los Angeles Times, “95% of warrants for murder in Los Angeles are for illegal aliens,” more than two-thirds of all…
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Trump coronavirus briefing

Unpacking Donald Trump’s statement on ‘record job numbers’

By Louis Jacobson
July 24, 2020
“We're setting record job numbers.”
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Joe Biden on Joy Reid show

What Joe Biden said about the coronavirus in January

By Louis Jacobson
July 22, 2020
“I, all the way back in January, warned (President Trump that) this pandemic was coming. I talked about what we needed to do.”
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Trump with Chris Wallace

Donald Trump wrong to say U.S. has “one of the lowest mortality rates in the world” from COVID-19

By Louis Jacobson
July 20, 2020
“We have one of the lowest mortality rates in the world” from COVID-19.
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Trump Rose Garden presser

No, Joe Biden will not ‘abolish’ police or prisons, as Donald Trump said

By Louis Jacobson
July 17, 2020
A Joe Biden-Bernie Sanders “unity” policy document shows “they want to abolish our police departments. They want to abolish our prisons, I guess.”
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Pic for covid POF

Don’t trust this comparison of daily coronavirus deaths with other diseases

By Louis Jacobson
July 15, 2020
Only 56 coronavirus deaths a day was enough to collapse the world economy, even though thousands of people die daily from tuberculosis, hepatitis B, and…
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Defund Police DC street mural

Pence takes Biden’s comments on police funding, ‘enemy’ out of context

By Louis Jacobson
July 10, 2020
“And I heard that just yesterday, Joe Biden said that well-armed police in his words ‘become the enemy’ and he said that he would ‘absolutely…
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Biden China ad still

Did Donald Trump lose a trade war he started, as Joe Biden says?

By Louis Jacobson
June 30, 2020
“Trump lost a trade war that he started.”
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Molly Pitcher cannon

Joe Biden’s dubious claim about Revolutionary War cannon ownership

By Louis Jacobson
June 29, 2020
"You weren't allowed to own a cannon during the Revolutionary War as an individual."
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Trump speaking in Tulsa 2

Donald Trump accurate that deaths from coronavirus are falling

By Louis Jacobson
June 24, 2020
As of June 23, the COVID-19 death rate is “way down.”
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