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Politics & government fact checks
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Maldita.esPolitics & government
Isabel Celaá, la ministra de Educación, confunde a Joe Biden con Bin Laden
Publisher’s rating: Falso
Facebook postsPolitics & government
Quotes Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as saying "I’m speaking with myself, number one, because I have a very good brain and I’ve said lots of things."
Publisher’s rating: Pants on Fire
Washington PostPolitics & government
“Wouldn’t it be nice to have a president who listens to someone other than himself?”
Publisher’s rating: Two Pinocchios
PolitiFactPolitics & government
"Yesterday, President Trump said he was invoking the Defense Production Act, then turned around and said he wasn't planning to use it."
Publisher’s rating: Reality is complex
Washington PostPolitics & government
"The Defense Production Act is in full force, but haven’t had to use it because no one has said NO!"
Publisher’s rating: Not the whole story
PolitiFactPolitics & government
"I don’t know (Gordon Sondland) very well. I have not spoken to him much. This is not a man I know well. He seems like a nice guy though. But I don't know him well."
Publisher’s rating: They're not strangers
PolitiFactPolitics & government
Says President Trump tweeted that he spoke with George Floyd’s family and said they were “honored” to hear from him.
Publisher’s rating: Pants on Fire
PolitiFactPolitics & government
Says he has issued more pardons than “any Wisconsin governor in contemporary history.”
Publisher’s rating: True
PolitiFactPolitics & government
"Everywhere Marie Yovanovitch went turned bad," including Somalia and Ukraine.
Publisher’s rating: Pants on Fire
PolitiFactPolitics & government
Kevin McCarthy said Nancy Pelosi “should be prosecuted and jailed.”
Publisher’s rating: False
PolitiFactPolitics & government
The Las Vegas Sphere displayed a derogatory message directed at President Joe Biden.
Publisher’s rating: False
PolitiFactPolitics & government
U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley made U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland cry at a committee hearing.
Publisher’s rating: False
FactStreamPolitics & government
Says House Intelligence Chair Adam Schiff "made up the conversation. He lied. If he didn't do that in the halls of Congress, he'd be thrown in jail. He did it in the halls of Congress, he's given immunity."
Publisher’s rating: To know is to see the face of God
