Latest Fact-checks by Jon Greenberg Clear Any Rating True Mostly True Half True Mostly False False Pants on Fire Full Flop Half Flip No Flip Any Speaker Any Date Range Last 3 Months Last 6 Months Last 12 Months 2025 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 Any Category Jon Voight stated on October 20, 2015 in an interview with "Cigar Aficianado": "The word progressive ... was created as a substitute for ‘communist’." Donald Trump stated on October 20, 2015 in an interview on CNN's "New Day": Says CIA Director George Tenet told the Bush administration that the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attack "was coming. So they did have advanced notice." Hillary Clinton stated on October 13, 2015 in the first Democratic presidential debate: Says Edward Snowden "could have gotten all of the protections of being a whistleblower." Bernie Sanders stated on October 13, 2015 in the first Democratic debate: "Today in America, we have more people in jail than any other country on Earth." Steve Deace stated on October 8, 2015 in an interview on MSNBC's "News Nation": Pollsters say "don't actually believe our own data" and Gallup stopped primary polling "because they don't trust their methodology." Debbie Wasserman Schultz stated on October 11, 2015 in comments on "State of the Union": "When we had a conservative Republican president we were losing 750,000 jobs a month." Nicholas Kristof stated on October 3, 2015 in a New York Times op-ed: "More preschoolers are shot dead each year than police officers are in the line of duty." Joe Scarborough stated on October 2, 2015 in a broadcast of MSNBC's "Morning Joe": About "3 percent of murders and crimes are committed with guns from people who actually (legally) purchase those guns." Viral image stated on June 20, 2015 in a post shared on Facebook: Says after leaving the White House, Hillary Clinton "was forced to return an estimated $200,000 in White House china, furniture and artwork that she had stolen." Chuck Todd stated on September 27, 2015 in a broadcast of NBC's "Meet the Press": Says "Bernie Sanders was there when it came to (same-sex) marriage 20 years ago. ... He was there when it wasn't popular." Donald Trump stated on September 22, 2015 in a tweet: "The birther movement was started by Hillary Clinton in 2008. She was all in!" Matthew Dowd stated on September 20, 2015 in a panel discussion on ABC News' "This Week with George Stephanopoulos": Says Pope Francis "took the name of a saint who basically reached out to Muslims." Karl Rove stated on September 20, 2015 in comments on "Fox News Sunday": At this point in 2012, "Rick Perry was ahead at 29.9 percent, and we had seven more leads before it finally settled on Mitt Romney." Mike Huckabee stated on September 16, 2015 in the CNN Republican debate: The government "made accommodation to the Fort Hood shooter to let him grow a beard" for religious reasons. Carly Fiorina stated on September 16, 2015 in the CNN Republican debate: "The marijuana that kids are smoking today is not the same as the marijuana that Jeb Bush smoked 40 years ago." Donald Trump stated on September 16, 2015 in the CNN debate: Says Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker turned a $1 billion surplus into a $2.2 billion budget deficit. Hugh Hewitt stated on September 13, 2015 in a panel discussion on CNN's "State of the Union": Says history suggests sports will "quickly subsume a lot of the attention span of the country" in the presidential primary. Viral image stated on September 7, 2015 in a Facebook post: Says the case of a Texas judge who refused to perform heterosexual weddings exposes a double standard in the case against Kentucky clerk Kim Davis. Scott Walker stated on September 13, 2015 in an interview on CNN's "State of the Union": "I'm the only governor in America ... who signed a law that says there needs to be an independent investigation any time there's a death of someone in police custody." Juan Williams stated on September 9, 2015 in a discussion on Fox News' "The Five": When it comes to classified information at the State Department, Hillary Clinton’s "the decider." Matthew Dowd stated on September 6, 2015 in a panel discussion on ABC News' "This Week with George Stephanopoulos": "Any Republican that has led for two months and led every state has won the GOP nomination." Jorge Ramos stated on September 2, 2015 in an interview on "The O'Reilly Factor" on Fox News: "Almost 40 percent of all (undocumented) immigrants come by plane and they overstay their visas." Dick Cheney stated on September 2, 2015 in an interview on MSNBC's "Morning Joe": Under the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty "enrichment has been limited to basically the weapons states." Eric Bolling stated on August 27, 2015 in a broadcast of "The Five" on Fox News: "In countries where there are higher, more strict gun laws, there is more gun violence." Curt Schilling stated on August 25, 2015 in a tweet: "In 1940, only 7 percent of Germans were Nazis." Occupy Democrats stated on April 25, 2015 in a meme first posted on Facebook: Says "Bush Jr. handed Obama a $1.4 trillion deficit" and Obama "reduced Bush Jr.’s deficit to just $492 billion." Occupy Democrats stated on August 23, 2015 in a Facebook post: Says Bobby Jindal’s parents "used his birthright citizenship to become Americans, making him an anchor baby." Matt Wuerker stated on August 4, 2015 in a political cartoon on Politico: "The U.S. has now spent more on reconstructing Afghanistan than was spent on the Marshall Plan and the reconstruction of Europe." Tom Tancredo stated on August 8, 2015 in a Breitbart article: Between 2008 and 2014, "criminal aliens accounted for 38 percent of all murder convictions in the five states of California, Texas, Arizona, Florida and New York." Carly Fiorina stated on August 6, 2015 in the first Republican presidential debate: Says Donald Trump has "changed his mind" on abortion.
Clear Any Rating True Mostly True Half True Mostly False False Pants on Fire Full Flop Half Flip No Flip Any Speaker Any Date Range Last 3 Months Last 6 Months Last 12 Months 2025 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 Any Category
Jon Voight stated on October 20, 2015 in an interview with "Cigar Aficianado": "The word progressive ... was created as a substitute for ‘communist’." Donald Trump stated on October 20, 2015 in an interview on CNN's "New Day": Says CIA Director George Tenet told the Bush administration that the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attack "was coming. So they did have advanced notice." Hillary Clinton stated on October 13, 2015 in the first Democratic presidential debate: Says Edward Snowden "could have gotten all of the protections of being a whistleblower." Bernie Sanders stated on October 13, 2015 in the first Democratic debate: "Today in America, we have more people in jail than any other country on Earth." Steve Deace stated on October 8, 2015 in an interview on MSNBC's "News Nation": Pollsters say "don't actually believe our own data" and Gallup stopped primary polling "because they don't trust their methodology." Debbie Wasserman Schultz stated on October 11, 2015 in comments on "State of the Union": "When we had a conservative Republican president we were losing 750,000 jobs a month." Nicholas Kristof stated on October 3, 2015 in a New York Times op-ed: "More preschoolers are shot dead each year than police officers are in the line of duty." Joe Scarborough stated on October 2, 2015 in a broadcast of MSNBC's "Morning Joe": About "3 percent of murders and crimes are committed with guns from people who actually (legally) purchase those guns." Viral image stated on June 20, 2015 in a post shared on Facebook: Says after leaving the White House, Hillary Clinton "was forced to return an estimated $200,000 in White House china, furniture and artwork that she had stolen." Chuck Todd stated on September 27, 2015 in a broadcast of NBC's "Meet the Press": Says "Bernie Sanders was there when it came to (same-sex) marriage 20 years ago. ... He was there when it wasn't popular." Donald Trump stated on September 22, 2015 in a tweet: "The birther movement was started by Hillary Clinton in 2008. She was all in!" Matthew Dowd stated on September 20, 2015 in a panel discussion on ABC News' "This Week with George Stephanopoulos": Says Pope Francis "took the name of a saint who basically reached out to Muslims." Karl Rove stated on September 20, 2015 in comments on "Fox News Sunday": At this point in 2012, "Rick Perry was ahead at 29.9 percent, and we had seven more leads before it finally settled on Mitt Romney." Mike Huckabee stated on September 16, 2015 in the CNN Republican debate: The government "made accommodation to the Fort Hood shooter to let him grow a beard" for religious reasons. Carly Fiorina stated on September 16, 2015 in the CNN Republican debate: "The marijuana that kids are smoking today is not the same as the marijuana that Jeb Bush smoked 40 years ago." Donald Trump stated on September 16, 2015 in the CNN debate: Says Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker turned a $1 billion surplus into a $2.2 billion budget deficit. Hugh Hewitt stated on September 13, 2015 in a panel discussion on CNN's "State of the Union": Says history suggests sports will "quickly subsume a lot of the attention span of the country" in the presidential primary. Viral image stated on September 7, 2015 in a Facebook post: Says the case of a Texas judge who refused to perform heterosexual weddings exposes a double standard in the case against Kentucky clerk Kim Davis. Scott Walker stated on September 13, 2015 in an interview on CNN's "State of the Union": "I'm the only governor in America ... who signed a law that says there needs to be an independent investigation any time there's a death of someone in police custody." Juan Williams stated on September 9, 2015 in a discussion on Fox News' "The Five": When it comes to classified information at the State Department, Hillary Clinton’s "the decider." Matthew Dowd stated on September 6, 2015 in a panel discussion on ABC News' "This Week with George Stephanopoulos": "Any Republican that has led for two months and led every state has won the GOP nomination." Jorge Ramos stated on September 2, 2015 in an interview on "The O'Reilly Factor" on Fox News: "Almost 40 percent of all (undocumented) immigrants come by plane and they overstay their visas." Dick Cheney stated on September 2, 2015 in an interview on MSNBC's "Morning Joe": Under the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty "enrichment has been limited to basically the weapons states." Eric Bolling stated on August 27, 2015 in a broadcast of "The Five" on Fox News: "In countries where there are higher, more strict gun laws, there is more gun violence." Curt Schilling stated on August 25, 2015 in a tweet: "In 1940, only 7 percent of Germans were Nazis." Occupy Democrats stated on April 25, 2015 in a meme first posted on Facebook: Says "Bush Jr. handed Obama a $1.4 trillion deficit" and Obama "reduced Bush Jr.’s deficit to just $492 billion." Occupy Democrats stated on August 23, 2015 in a Facebook post: Says Bobby Jindal’s parents "used his birthright citizenship to become Americans, making him an anchor baby." Matt Wuerker stated on August 4, 2015 in a political cartoon on Politico: "The U.S. has now spent more on reconstructing Afghanistan than was spent on the Marshall Plan and the reconstruction of Europe." Tom Tancredo stated on August 8, 2015 in a Breitbart article: Between 2008 and 2014, "criminal aliens accounted for 38 percent of all murder convictions in the five states of California, Texas, Arizona, Florida and New York." Carly Fiorina stated on August 6, 2015 in the first Republican presidential debate: Says Donald Trump has "changed his mind" on abortion.
Jon Voight stated on October 20, 2015 in an interview with "Cigar Aficianado": "The word progressive ... was created as a substitute for ‘communist’."
Donald Trump stated on October 20, 2015 in an interview on CNN's "New Day": Says CIA Director George Tenet told the Bush administration that the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attack "was coming. So they did have advanced notice."
Hillary Clinton stated on October 13, 2015 in the first Democratic presidential debate: Says Edward Snowden "could have gotten all of the protections of being a whistleblower."
Bernie Sanders stated on October 13, 2015 in the first Democratic debate: "Today in America, we have more people in jail than any other country on Earth."
Steve Deace stated on October 8, 2015 in an interview on MSNBC's "News Nation": Pollsters say "don't actually believe our own data" and Gallup stopped primary polling "because they don't trust their methodology."
Debbie Wasserman Schultz stated on October 11, 2015 in comments on "State of the Union": "When we had a conservative Republican president we were losing 750,000 jobs a month."
Nicholas Kristof stated on October 3, 2015 in a New York Times op-ed: "More preschoolers are shot dead each year than police officers are in the line of duty."
Joe Scarborough stated on October 2, 2015 in a broadcast of MSNBC's "Morning Joe": About "3 percent of murders and crimes are committed with guns from people who actually (legally) purchase those guns."
Viral image stated on June 20, 2015 in a post shared on Facebook: Says after leaving the White House, Hillary Clinton "was forced to return an estimated $200,000 in White House china, furniture and artwork that she had stolen."
Chuck Todd stated on September 27, 2015 in a broadcast of NBC's "Meet the Press": Says "Bernie Sanders was there when it came to (same-sex) marriage 20 years ago. ... He was there when it wasn't popular."
Donald Trump stated on September 22, 2015 in a tweet: "The birther movement was started by Hillary Clinton in 2008. She was all in!"
Matthew Dowd stated on September 20, 2015 in a panel discussion on ABC News' "This Week with George Stephanopoulos": Says Pope Francis "took the name of a saint who basically reached out to Muslims."
Karl Rove stated on September 20, 2015 in comments on "Fox News Sunday": At this point in 2012, "Rick Perry was ahead at 29.9 percent, and we had seven more leads before it finally settled on Mitt Romney."
Mike Huckabee stated on September 16, 2015 in the CNN Republican debate: The government "made accommodation to the Fort Hood shooter to let him grow a beard" for religious reasons.
Carly Fiorina stated on September 16, 2015 in the CNN Republican debate: "The marijuana that kids are smoking today is not the same as the marijuana that Jeb Bush smoked 40 years ago."
Donald Trump stated on September 16, 2015 in the CNN debate: Says Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker turned a $1 billion surplus into a $2.2 billion budget deficit.
Hugh Hewitt stated on September 13, 2015 in a panel discussion on CNN's "State of the Union": Says history suggests sports will "quickly subsume a lot of the attention span of the country" in the presidential primary.
Viral image stated on September 7, 2015 in a Facebook post: Says the case of a Texas judge who refused to perform heterosexual weddings exposes a double standard in the case against Kentucky clerk Kim Davis.
Scott Walker stated on September 13, 2015 in an interview on CNN's "State of the Union": "I'm the only governor in America ... who signed a law that says there needs to be an independent investigation any time there's a death of someone in police custody."
Juan Williams stated on September 9, 2015 in a discussion on Fox News' "The Five": When it comes to classified information at the State Department, Hillary Clinton’s "the decider."
Matthew Dowd stated on September 6, 2015 in a panel discussion on ABC News' "This Week with George Stephanopoulos": "Any Republican that has led for two months and led every state has won the GOP nomination."
Jorge Ramos stated on September 2, 2015 in an interview on "The O'Reilly Factor" on Fox News: "Almost 40 percent of all (undocumented) immigrants come by plane and they overstay their visas."
Dick Cheney stated on September 2, 2015 in an interview on MSNBC's "Morning Joe": Under the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty "enrichment has been limited to basically the weapons states."
Eric Bolling stated on August 27, 2015 in a broadcast of "The Five" on Fox News: "In countries where there are higher, more strict gun laws, there is more gun violence."
Curt Schilling stated on August 25, 2015 in a tweet: "In 1940, only 7 percent of Germans were Nazis."
Occupy Democrats stated on April 25, 2015 in a meme first posted on Facebook: Says "Bush Jr. handed Obama a $1.4 trillion deficit" and Obama "reduced Bush Jr.’s deficit to just $492 billion."
Occupy Democrats stated on August 23, 2015 in a Facebook post: Says Bobby Jindal’s parents "used his birthright citizenship to become Americans, making him an anchor baby."
Matt Wuerker stated on August 4, 2015 in a political cartoon on Politico: "The U.S. has now spent more on reconstructing Afghanistan than was spent on the Marshall Plan and the reconstruction of Europe."
Tom Tancredo stated on August 8, 2015 in a Breitbart article: Between 2008 and 2014, "criminal aliens accounted for 38 percent of all murder convictions in the five states of California, Texas, Arizona, Florida and New York."
Carly Fiorina stated on August 6, 2015 in the first Republican presidential debate: Says Donald Trump has "changed his mind" on abortion.
