Fact Check Posts – Page 5

Donald Trump
stated on August 8, 2024 in a press conference:

Says his Jan. 6, 2021, speech on the White House Ellipse drew the “same number of people,” as the 1963 March on Washington where Martin Luther King Jr. gave his “I Have a Dream” speech.

By Amy Sherman, Louis Jacobson, Samantha Putterman • August 9, 2024

Instagram posts
stated on August 2, 2024 in a video:

In Pompano Beach, Florida, Somali immigrants illegally in the U.S. were in line to get driver’s licenses and “all you need to vote is a driver's license.”

By Amy Sherman, Kwasi Gyamfi Asiedu • August 7, 2024

Donald Trump
stated on July 27, 2024 in a rally in St. Cloud, Minnesota:

During the 2020 Minnesota riots after George Floyd’s murder, Gov. Tim Walz didn’t call in the National Guard, “so, I sent in the National Guard to save Minneapolis.”

By Amy Sherman • August 7, 2024

Donald Trump
stated on August 3, 2024 in a rally in Atlanta:

Kamala Harris “supports mandatory gun confiscation.”

By Amy Sherman • August 7, 2024

Donald Trump
stated on July 24, 2024 in a rally in Charlotte, North Carolina:

Kamala Harris “wants to defund the police.”

By Amy Sherman • July 30, 2024

Donald Trump
stated on July 24, 2024 in a rally in Charlotte, North Carolina:

Kamala Harris “supported abolishing ICE.”

By Amy Sherman • July 29, 2024

Instagram posts
stated on July 22, 2024 in an Instagram post:

There are nine states “where Biden’s name can’t be removed and no one can be added. That’s over 130 electoral votes in the toilet.”

By Amy Sherman, Ranjan Jindal • July 23, 2024

Kamala Harris
stated on July 17, 2024 in a campaign video:

"Unlike Mike Pence, (JD) Vance said he would have carried out Trump's plan to overturn the 2020 election."

By Amy Sherman • July 18, 2024

Kari Lake
stated on July 16, 2024 in in a speech at RNC in Milwaukee:

“Just last week, Ruben Gallego voted to let the millions of people who poured into our country illegally cast a ballot in this upcoming election.”

By Amy Sherman • July 17, 2024

Joe Biden
stated on July 13, 2024 in a statement to the media:

“The idea that there’s political violence or violence in America like this is just unheard of.”

By Amy Sherman, Louis Jacobson • July 15, 2024

Tom Cotton
stated on June 16, 2024 in an interview on CNN's State of the Union:

“The weapons that Ukraine used in the early days of this war to fend off the Russian invasion are the weapons that Donald Trump sent, that Barack Obama and Joe Biden had refused to send.”

By Amy Sherman • July 2, 2024

Pennsylvania Values PAC
stated on June 21, 2024 in an ad:

Former President Donald Trump is “against mail in voting.”

By Amy Sherman, Mia Penner • June 26, 2024

Threads posts
stated on June 8, 2024 in a Threads post:

“Trump can’t be on the Texas ballot because of our state constitution.”

By Amy Sherman • June 14, 2024

Donald Trump
stated on May 31, 2024 in remarks to reporters:

“Congo, Africa, just released a lot of people, a lot of people from their prisons and jails and brought them into the United States of America.”

By Amy Sherman, Maria Ramirez Uribe • June 12, 2024

Donald Trump
stated on May 29, 2024 in comments to reporters:

Joe Biden “is letting millions of people from jails, from prisons, from insane asylums, from mental institutions, drug dealers pour in.”

By Amy Sherman, Maria Ramirez Uribe • June 6, 2024

Joe Biden
stated on June 4, 2024 in a speech:

“Due to the arrangements that I've reached with (Mexico) President Obrador, the number of migrants coming … to our shared border unlawfully in recent months has dropped dramatically.”

By Amy Sherman, Samantha Putterman • June 5, 2024

Donald Trump
stated on June 2, 2024 in an interview with Fox:

Speaking about Hillary Clinton: “I didn’t say, ‘Lock her up.’ ”

By Amy Sherman • June 3, 2024

Jason Pizzo
stated on May 30, 2024 in a post on X:

“Trump can’t vote for himself in the November election.”

By Amy Sherman, Maria Ramirez Uribe • May 31, 2024

Social Media
stated on May 29, 2024 in social media posts:

Judge Juan Merchan told New York jurors the verdict in Donald Trump’s trial does not need to be unanimous.

By Amy Sherman, Louis Jacobson • May 29, 2024

X posts
stated on May 6, 2024 in an X post:

Fired Milwaukee election leader “printed 64,000 ballots in a back room at City Hall in Milwaukee and had random employees fill them out,” giving Joe Biden the lead.

By Amy Sherman • May 21, 2024

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