President Donald Trump trained his fire on the memos of former FBI Director James Comey, claiming the written impressions of their one-on-one discussions contain classified information and that Comey broke the law by disclosing them.
Sometimes fact-checking is painfully difficult, evaluating nuance and weighing the relative merit of half-truths and accurate but misleading statements. Sometimes, however, fact checking is easy, especially when the source is openly lying or the story is an outright hoax. Two recent PolitiFact columns provide excellent examples.
After a Democratic colleague filed a complaint against Republican State Rep. Daryl Metcalfe, saying a recent encounter left the Democrat fearful for his safety, Metcalfe responded with a scorched-earth Facebook post targeting his accuser and a handful of other Democrats in Pennsylvania's House of Representatives. Here we take a closer look at Metcalfe's incendiary post and fact check his specific claims about some of his colleagues.
President Donald Trump condemned a U.S. Supreme Court decision to invalidate part of a federal law used to deport some immigrants convicted of crimes. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security said the decision undermined its efforts to remove immigrants convicted of certain violent crimes, including sexual assault, kidnapping and burglary.
PolitiFact decided to take a closer look at the Supreme Court decision and its impact on the removal of immigrants convicted of crimes. Immigration law experts said the administration was overhyping the consequences.
James Comey wants to explain himself. A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies and Leadership is Comey’s story of what he did and why
Multiple reports say North Korea is willing to put denuclearization on the table. But is that more than a shift in tone?
President Donald Trump lambasted former FBI Director James Comey as a leaker, liar and slimeball, in a series of tweets that were sometimes at odds with the truth.
Lawsuits remind us of a fact-check.
White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders dumped gasoline on a raging debate about presidential authority when she said President Donald Trump "certainly believes he has the power to" fire Special Counsel Robert Mueller.
We asked a variety of tech watchers to assess Zuckerberg's accuracy. They noted some important omissions.
Reviewing checks on claims made by, and about, the GOP U.S. House speaker as he announces he won't seek re-election.
Donald Trump defended EPA chief Scott Pruitt. He got three key facts wrong.