Latest Fact-Checks By Louis Jacobson

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Pennsylvania shooting with crime scene tape

Donald Trump wrong that crime stats exclude 30% of cities, including the “biggest and most violent”

June 18, 2024

Crime statistics “no longer include data from 30% of the country including the biggest and most violent cities.”

Eric Swalwell in 2019

Eric Swalwell misquotes Lindsey Graham on Donald Trump’s deportation plans

June 10, 2024

Says Sen. Lindsey Graham said a newly elected Donald Trump “will round up and deport LEGAL immigrants.”

Biden in Sturtevant, Wisconsin, 5-8-2024

Did Donald Trump oversee the biggest-ever one-year rise in murders?

June 10, 2024

"The last administration oversaw the largest increase in murders ever recorded."

Biden immigration executive order

Have wages exceeded inflation under Joe Biden? It depends

June 6, 2024

“Wage increases have exceeded” the cost of inflation.

Donald Trump at Ultimate Fighting Championship; event in Newark, N.J., 6-1-2024

Donald Trump’s False claim that Joe Biden wants to quadruple your taxes

June 4, 2024

Joe Biden wants “to quadruple your taxes.”

Donald Trump raises fist as he reenters Manhattan criminal court, 5-28-2024

Fact-checking the False claim that the Trump’s NY jury verdict doesn’t have to be unanimous

May 29, 2024

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

Biden in Sturtevant, Wisconsin, 5-8-2024

Joe Biden is correct that violent crime is near a 50-year low

May 28, 2024

“Violent crime is near a record 50-year low.”

Colorado Gov. Jared Polis in Denver, 5-16-2024

Will Joe Biden’s new China tariffs “hit every family”?

May 17, 2024

Tariffs are a “direct, regressive tax on Americans” and President Joe Biden’s new tariffs on Chinese goods will “hit every family.”

Biden for 9% inflation story

Joe Biden wrong that he inherited 9% inflation

May 15, 2024

Inflation “was 9% when I came to office.”

Workers in Beijing

Does China have more retirees than workers? Joe Biden’s claim is premature

May 14, 2024

"China's in a situation where they have more retired than working."

Kamala Harris in Jacksonville, Fla, 5-1-2024

Did Trump say states have the right to monitor, punish women over abortion, as Kamala Harris said?

May 2, 2024

In his Time magazine interview, Donald Trump “said states have the right to monitor pregnant women to enforce these bans, and states have the right…

Nancy Pelosi talks sea level rise in San Francisco, 1-26-2024

Nancy Pelosi omits pandemic in singling out job losses under Donald Trump

May 2, 2024

Former President Donald Trump “has the worst record of job loss of any president.”

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