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"Richard Nixon was the last president to be impeached."
Publisher’s rating: False
Research from related reporting directly contradicts the claim’s premise: Nixon was not impeached. One account says that he resigned over Watergate and explicitly states, “He was not impeached.” Separately, reporting quotes Trump saying, “They impeached me twice,” confirming that a later president was impeached. Together, these excerpts show that Nixon could not have been the last president to be impeached: according to the evidence, he was never impeached, and Trump was impeached twice.
Joe Biden resigned and “Trump is the new president.”
Publisher’s rating: Pants on Fire
Says Susan Collins “pushed for policies that benefited her husband’s lobbying business.”
Publisher’s rating: Mostly False
Says fired inspector general Michael Atkinson brought a “terrible, inaccurate whistleblower report” to Congress.
Publisher’s rating: Pants on Fire
“They’re accusing President Trump of the same thing Joe Biden did, threatening the aid.”
Publisher’s rating: False
"I never called John (McCain) a loser."
Publisher’s rating: Pants on Fire
Says President Donald Trump is one of "only three people that won the Ellis Island Award for their work within the black community."
Publisher’s rating: False
Video clips show Gov. Ron DeSantis supported COVID-19 lockdowns
Publisher’s rating: Misleading
"Joe Biden gave 16 billion to Iran."
Publisher’s rating: Distorts the Facts
Video shows former President Donald Trump addressing the nation on June 16.
Publisher’s rating: False
“From the moment we passed that signature legislation, Mike (Bloomberg) called it a disgrace.”
Publisher’s rating: True
Former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper accepted donations from an oil and gas company and "let them get away" without fines or prosecution after a fatal home explosion in 2017.
Publisher’s rating: Distorts the Facts
Quotes Gene Hackman as saying that Trump could "easily turn out to be one of the best presidents that America has ever seen."
Publisher’s rating: False
Video shows a President Joe Biden impostor.
Publisher’s rating: Pants on Fire
“Clearly, the Obama administration did not leave any kind of game plan for something like this.”
Publisher’s rating: Pants on Fire
Jeb Bush tweeted "Ok boomer" at Donald Trump.
Publisher’s rating: False
An executive order proves President Joe Biden “isn’t real and isn’t president.”
Publisher’s rating: Pants on Fire
Says Joe Biden said “Why am I doing this? Why? What is my real aim?”
Publisher’s rating: False
"America has more governors who’ve worn blackface than black governors."
Publisher’s rating: True