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Politics & government fact checks

Explore claims publishers have checked about politics & government. Read their original ratings and follow the evidence.

12,754 published reviews in this topic

PolitiFactPolitics & government

Nancy Pelosi’s “daughter is on the board of the Kennedy Center so that’s why it was so important to send them all that money.”

Publisher’s rating: False

Maldita.esPolitics & government

https://dondiario.com/terrible-sanchez-subvenciono-con-dinero-publico-a-la-consultora-de-su-fiel-escudero-ivan-redondo

Publisher’s rating: Falso

PolitiFactPolitics & government

In 2013, under a Democratic Senate, "a majority of the Senate voted in favor of" gun-related legislation sponsored by Republican Sens. Chuck Grassley and Ted Cruz, “but the Democrats filibustered it.”

Publisher’s rating: Half True

BreitbartPolitics & government

The "establishment media ignored" President Donald Trump’s Fourth of July event.

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactPolitics & government

"Senator Mitt Romney threatens to leave the Republican party and join Democrats.”

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactPolitics & government

Says Rep. Rashida Tlaib "wears the symbolic scarf patterned after the Islamic terrorist state."

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactPolitics & government

“Naomi Biden says Joe Biden died four years ago.”

Publisher’s rating: Pants on Fire

PolitiFactPolitics & government

"What is happening here is not so different from what we're seeing happening in Russia, where you have got state TV and controlled messaging across the board."

Publisher’s rating: Pants on Fire

Donald TrumpPolitics & government

Says Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., was "speaking about how wonderful al-Qaida is."

Publisher’s rating: False

FactCheck.orgPolitics & government

Democrats “introduced legislation that allowed abortion on demand ... up to the moment of birth."

Publisher’s rating: Spins the Facts

PolitiFactPolitics & government

Writer Bari Weiss wrote that what the Trump administration did “was pretty incredible in hindsight.”

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactPolitics & government

Video shows “drunk Nancy Pelosi.”

Publisher’s rating: Pants on Fire

PolitiFactPolitics & government

Says President Barack Obama made it "legal" for the media to "purposely lie" to the public when he "quietly signed into law HR 4310 in 2012."

Publisher’s rating: False

Washington PostPolitics & government

"For most of the time, it was the G8, it included Russia, and President Obama didn’t want Russia in because he got outsmarted.”

Publisher’s rating: False

Maldita.esPolitics & government

Según CNN, Dick Cheney será asesor en política exterior de Joe Biden

Publisher’s rating: Falso

PolitiFactPolitics & government

Says a video proves Pelosi “was planning” to rip up President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address “from the start.”

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactPolitics & government

Says Joe Biden said: “If Haiti just quietly sunk into the Caribbean, or rose up 300 feet, it wouldn’t matter a whole lot in terms of our interests.”

Publisher’s rating: Half True

FactCheck.orgPolitics & government

President Trump has invoked the Insurrection Act and will remain in office "indefinitely" until "all domestic enemies are arrested."

Publisher’s rating: False

FactCheck.orgPolitics & government

Kamala Harris will “ban law-abiding Americans from owning” guns and “seize your legally owned guns.”

Publisher’s rating: Distorts the Facts

Maldita.esPolitics & government

Foto de Pedro Sánchez sonriendo durante sus vacaciones en Lanzarote

Publisher’s rating: Falso