President Donald Trump claims that antifa supporters are leading riots across the country as thousands of people march on the streets to protest the death of George Floyd. Floyd, a 46-year-old black man, died after a white Minneapolis police officer pinned Floyd’s neck under his knee. Floyd pleaded that he couldn’t breathe. Protesters across the […]
Democrats in Congress claim that new Trump administration rules on investigating sexual misconduct allegations in schools and colleges leave students more vulnerable to harassment. House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer, D-Md., said in a May 6 statement that changes under Title IX “roll back protections” and “make it harder to protect students from sexual harassment […]
More than other towns along North Carolina’s shore, Carolina Beach relies on the hotel and bed and breakfast trade. In summer, its population swells from about 7,000 to nearly 30,000. So it was no small matter in late March when town leaders closed the beach and shut down short-term rentals to stop the spread of […]
In their Oval Office meeting, President Donald Trump told Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to let him know if banning travel from foreign countries was necessary to contain the coronavirus outbreak in Florida. DeSantis said so far that wasn’t necessary, because the state’s COVID-19 outbreak was mostly due to domestic travel, particularly from New York. “If […]
A campaign ad for President Donald Trump tells Americans that Joe Biden sided with China at their expense during the coronavirus pandemic, portraying the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee as both aloof and self-interested during a crisis. The ad weaves a misleading narrative by splicing video and audio and cutting out significant context. Missing from the […]
Millions of Americans are staying home under the orders of state and local officials due to the coronavirus pandemic. Well, they’re supposed to be. Without a federal lockdown policy, people who break state and local restrictions face a patchwork of penalties for their non-essential pursuits. The goal of stay-at-home policies is to slow the spread […]
In the absence of a vaccine or a known antiviral treatment for the disease caused by the coronavirus, unsubstantiated information is popping up on Facebook on what to take or avoid in case of exposure to the virus. PolitiFact decided to look into a March 17 Facebook post flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to […]
The way President Donald Trump sees it, there’s nothing wrong with calling the new coronavirus the “Chinese virus.” But the World Health Organization, the director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and other health experts say that phrasing is wrong. Reporters during White House briefings on the coronavirus have asked Trump why […]
President Donald Trump announced a sweeping ban on travel from Europe as a way to keep new cases of the coronavirus disease “from entering our shores.” But details from the White House and a proclamation he signed showed that his March 11 primetime address included inaccuracies and significant omissions. RELATED: Trump wrongly said insurance companies will […]
President Donald Trump made a series of misleading statements about the coronavirus and his Democratic rivals at his first town hall event of 2020.
U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren stood next to Bloomberg on the debate stage in Las Vegas. It made her pointed questioning of him on whether his workplace was hostile for women all the more intense.
Nondisclosure agreements, commonly called NDAs, are legally binding contracts that prevent parties from disclosing information. PolitiFact is not privy to those agreements, so we don’t know exactly what they detail. Still, we wanted to give readers an overview of the allegations made against Bloomberg and his company, Bloomberg, L.P. based on available news reports.
Mike Bloomberg’s rise as a presidential contender has pushed one controversial New York policy to the forefront of attacks in the Democratic primary: stop and frisk.
We put together this guide for understanding Bloomberg’s defenses on the policy, as well as the attacks.