PolitiFact’s video rewind for Sept. 16
By Sean Nelson
September 16, 2016
Every Friday we'll highlight some of the fact-checks from the presidential campaign trail.
Donald Trump says he doesn’t invest in the stock market. Here’s his portfolio
Donald Trump told CNBC, "I don’t invest in the stock market." But 14 months earlier, his stock holdings and earnings were likely $24 million or more.
5 big falsehoods of the 2016 election
From time to time, readers ask what are the biggest whoppers we’ve heard from the candidates for president so far this year. So we decided to take a quick look through the archives.
PolitiFact Sheet: Challenges and questions remain for proposed Las Vegas stadium
Las Vegas Sands owner and Republican mega-donor Sheldon Adelson is proposing to build a nearly $2 billion domed stadium for an NFL team along the southern end of the Las Vegas Strip — and he is asking for public funding of $750 million in increased room taxes to help pay for it
Inside fact-checking: A conversation with Lucas Graves, author of ‘Deciding What’s True’
PolitiFact Editor Angie Drobnic Holan interviews Lucas Graves, author of Deciding What's True
Explaining the NCAA’s logic in singling out North Carolina
By Will Doran
September 13, 2016
The NCAA announced Monday night would pull its popular basketball tournament out of North Carolina in 2017, in addition to championship matches in 2016 and 2017 for soccer, golf, tennis, lacrosse and baseball.
The reason? North Carolina's controversial LGBT law, often called HB2 or the "bathroom bill."
Here's a closer look at the four factors the NCAA cited in its decision.
In Context: Hillary Clinton and the ‘basket of deplorables’
We look at Hillary Clinton's comments about Donald Trump supporters.
What Donald Trump said about intelligence briefings
By Joseph Cariz
September 10, 2016
Pundits ridiculed Trump's comments about his intelligence briefings. Experts piled on, too.
Should the U.S. have kept Iraq’s oil, as Donald Trump argues?
Foreign policy experts are flummoxed by an idea Trump has advocated for years.
PolitiFact’s video rewind for Sept. 9
By Sean Nelson
September 9, 2016
Every Friday we'll highlight some of the fact-checks from the presidential campaign trail.
Hillary Clinton says of Libya, ‘We did not lose a single American in that action’
In forum, Clinton narrowly framed U.S. death toll in Libya
‘What is Aleppo?’ We’ll explain it to you, and Gary Johnson
Libertarian presidential candidate asked on a national television program, "What is Aleppo"? We decided to help him with an answer.