Fact Check Posts – Page 5

Instagram posts
stated on June 2, 2020 in an Instagram post:

“Companies that use prison labor: Whole Foods, McDonald’s, Walmart, Victoria’s Secret, AT&T, Bank of America, Starbucks, Wendy’s.”

By Miriam Valverde • June 22, 2020

Donald Trump
stated on June 16, 2020 in a speech:

“President Obama and Vice President Biden never even tried to fix this (police reforms) during their eight-year period.”

By Miriam Valverde • June 18, 2020

Joe Biden
stated on June 10, 2020 in a USA Today op-ed:

“Today, the gap between African American and white homeownership is larger than it was in the late 1960s.”

By Miriam Valverde • June 11, 2020

Kamala Harris
stated on June 1, 2020 in a CNN interview:

Says the Obama administration was doing pattern-or-practice investigations of discrimination by police departments and “Donald Trump came in with Jeff Sessions and undid those.”

By Miriam Valverde • June 4, 2020

Joe Biden
stated on May 21, 2020 in a statement:

Says President Donald Trump “took more than a month to allocate Congress’ emergency funding to tribes — and only did so after tribes sued.”

By Miriam Valverde • June 1, 2020

Donald Trump
stated on May 19, 2020 in a speech:

“On the Southern border, as you know, the wall is going up, it's going up very rapidly. We're at 182 miles.”

By Miriam Valverde • May 20, 2020

Donald Trump
stated on May 14, 2020 in an interview with Fox Business:

Speaking about border apprehensions, said “We have some of the best numbers we've ever had. Southern border, the best numbers we've ever had.”

By Miriam Valverde • May 20, 2020

Instagram posts
stated on May 19, 2020 in an Instagram post:

“A lot of people can get an additional $2,400” from the CARES Act “and they can do it every month!”

By Miriam Valverde • May 20, 2020

Facebook posts
stated on May 12, 2020 in a Facebook post:

“Pelosi’s new coronavirus bill allows illegals to receive billions in relief funds in past, current, and future payments.”

By Miriam Valverde • May 18, 2020

Facebook posts
stated on April 23, 2020 in a Facebook post:

“Trump and McConnell are blocking stimulus checks for Americans married to immigrants.”

By Miriam Valverde • April 29, 2020

Facebook posts
stated on April 9, 2020 in a Facebook post:

“President Trump has banned welfare for illegal immigrants which will save $57.4 billion a year.”

By Miriam Valverde • April 24, 2020

Nancy Pelosi
stated on April 16, 2020 in a statement:

“Even President Trump’s own EPA has admitted that this rule (on air pollutants) threatens to cause serious health problems including brain damage and death and to inflict billions of dollars of economic damage on our struggling economy.”

By Miriam Valverde • April 23, 2020

Donald Trump
stated on April 16, 2020 in a tweet:

Says House Speaker Nancy Pelosi deleted a video of her telling people to go to Chinatown.

By Miriam Valverde • April 16, 2020

Joe Biden
stated on April 5, 2020 in an ABC "This Week" interview:

"45 nations had already moved” to enforce travel restrictions with China “before the president moved.”

By Miriam Valverde • April 13, 2020

John Bel Edwards
stated on April 5, 2020 in a CNN interview:

Says of the coronavirus threat, “there was not a single suggestion by anyone, a doctor, a scientist, a political figure, that we needed to cancel Mardi Gras.”

By Miriam Valverde • April 8, 2020

Facebook posts
stated on March 22, 2020 in a Facebook post:

Says Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte said, “We have lost control, we have killed the epidemic physically and mentally. Can’t understand what more we can do, all solutions are exhausted on ground. Our only hope remains up in the Sky, God rescue your people.”

By Miriam Valverde • April 1, 2020

Donald Trump
stated on March 26, 2020 in a Hannity show interview:

Speaking of his restriction on travel from China, “I had (Joe) Biden calling me xenophobic. … He called me a racist, because of the fact that he felt it was a racist thing to stop people from China coming in.”

By Miriam Valverde • March 27, 2020

Facebook posts
stated on March 20, 2020 in a Facebook post:

“Australia Closing Borders in a few hours for 6-months”

By Miriam Valverde • March 25, 2020

Donald Trump
stated on March 24, 2020 in a Fox News town hall:

Says N.Y. Gov. Andrew Cuomo “rejected buying recommended 16,000 ventilators in 2015 for the pandemic, for a pandemic, established death panels and lotteries instead. So, he had a chance to buy, in 2015, 16,000 ventilators at a very low price, and he turned it down.”

By Miriam Valverde • March 25, 2020

Facebook posts
stated on March 16, 2020 in a Facebook post:

Says Oprah Winfrey’s house “has been seized and they are excavating the property and digging up the tunnels!”

By Miriam Valverde • March 18, 2020

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