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 Facebook posts stated on August 9, 2020 in in a post on Facebook: “Let me splain how ‘no payroll taxes’ helps you, it doesn’t. It helps employers.” Facebook posts stated on August 10, 2020 in a post on social media: “Killing the payroll tax means killing Social Security.” Bloggers stated on August 6, 2020 in a Facebook post: Video shows missile attack in Beirut explosion. Bloggers stated on August 5, 2020 in a Facebook post: Say “Sam Hyde identified as perpitrator (sic) of Beirut explosion” Brett Giroir stated on August 2, 2020 in an interview on NBC's Meet the Press: “There have been five randomized controlled, placebo controlled trials that do not show any benefit to hydroxychloroquine.” Donald Trump stated on July 25, 2020 in a tweet: Under an executive order, “expensive insulin went from big dollars to virtual pennies … especially (for) our seniors.” Joe Biden stated on July 22, 2020 in a SEIU roundtable discussion: “McDonald’s (makes) you all sign noncompete contracts that you cannot go across town to try to get a job at Burger King.” Donald Trump stated on July 14, 2020 in a press conference in the Rose Garden: “Joe Biden wants to end school choice.” Donald Trump stated on July 4, 2020 in a Fourth of July speech: Says 99% of COVID-19 cases “are totally harmless.” Donald Trump Jr. stated on June 18, 2020 in an episode of Triggered with President Donald Trump: Says Osama bin Laden endorsed Joe Biden Donald Trump stated on June 17, 2020 in an interview with the Wall Street Journal: Says before he planned a rally on June 19 “nobody had ever heard of” Juneteenth. Desiree Rogers stated on June 10, 2020 in an interview on CNN: In COVID-19 crisis, “only 20% of African Americans had jobs where they could work from home.” Viral image stated on June 10, 2020 in a Facebook post: Wearing the Kente cloth “worn by affluent African slave traders” is “like honoring Jews by wearing swastikas.” William Barr stated on June 7, 2020 in an interview on CBS News' Face the Nation: “There were not chemical irritants” used to clear a crowd. Pepper balls are “not a chemical irritant.” Kayleigh McEnany stated on June 3, 2020 in a White House press briefing: “No tear gas was used and no rubber bullets were used.” Donald Trump stated on May 26, 2020 in a tweet: There are “many unanswered and obvious questions” about the 2001 death of a staff member of Joe Scarborough. Bloggers stated on May 16, 2020 in a Facebook post: “The House Democrats snuck a provision into their $3 trillion bailout bill today that would keep the house in recess until July 21.” Joe Biden stated on May 14, 2020 in an interview on MSNBC: The U.S. had 44 CDC staffers “in China to observe what was going on. (President Trump) brought home the vast majority of them, I think left only four in place.” Donald Trump stated on May 19, 2020 in remarks to reporters at the Capitol: “If you look at the one (hydroxychloroquine) survey, the only bad survey, they were giving it to people that were in very bad shape. They were very old. Almost dead.” Stacey Abrams stated on May 7, 2020 in an interview with Mother Jones: “Since the reopening of (Georgia), we’ve seen our COVID rate skyrocket by 40%.” Bloggers stated on April 23, 2020 in a post on TikTok: “It’s not the coronavirus that’s killing people. It is the economy.” X posts stated on May 10, 2020 in a tweet: Barack Obama “is the first ex-president to ever speak against his successor.” Rudy Giuliani stated on April 26, 2020 in a tweet: "Why did the US (NIH) in 2017 give $3.7m to the Wuhan Lab in China? Such grants were prohibited in 2014. Did Pres. Obama grant an exception?" Bloggers stated on April 22, 2020 in a post on Facebook: “President Trump just announced that the ‘biological’ lab in Wuhan where the COVID-19 virus was created was ‘funded’ by President Barak (sp) Hussein Obama in 2015 to the tune of $3,800,000 American dollars!” Bloggers stated on April 22, 2020 in a post on Facebook: “People defying stay-at-home order fill Arizona beaches.” Donald Trump stated on April 20, 2020 in a daily coronavirus press briefing: “Hundreds and hundreds of labs are ready, willing, and able.” Candace Owens stated on April 6, 2020 in a tweet: “Everyone is only dying of coronavirus now.” Donald Trump stated on April 4, 2020 in a Coronavirus Task Force press briefing: Says fired inspector general Michael Atkinson brought a “terrible, inaccurate whistleblower report” to Congress. Joe Biden stated on March 27, 2020 in a virtual town hall on CNN: “There was no effort” to get American experts into China after it announced the coronavirus, and “we had one person in-country (and Trump) pulled him out of the country.” Donald Trump stated on March 30, 2020 in an interview on "Fox and Friends": “We inherited a broken test” for COVID-19.
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Facebook posts stated on August 9, 2020 in in a post on Facebook: “Let me splain how ‘no payroll taxes’ helps you, it doesn’t. It helps employers.” Facebook posts stated on August 10, 2020 in a post on social media: “Killing the payroll tax means killing Social Security.” Bloggers stated on August 6, 2020 in a Facebook post: Video shows missile attack in Beirut explosion. Bloggers stated on August 5, 2020 in a Facebook post: Say “Sam Hyde identified as perpitrator (sic) of Beirut explosion” Brett Giroir stated on August 2, 2020 in an interview on NBC's Meet the Press: “There have been five randomized controlled, placebo controlled trials that do not show any benefit to hydroxychloroquine.” Donald Trump stated on July 25, 2020 in a tweet: Under an executive order, “expensive insulin went from big dollars to virtual pennies … especially (for) our seniors.” Joe Biden stated on July 22, 2020 in a SEIU roundtable discussion: “McDonald’s (makes) you all sign noncompete contracts that you cannot go across town to try to get a job at Burger King.” Donald Trump stated on July 14, 2020 in a press conference in the Rose Garden: “Joe Biden wants to end school choice.” Donald Trump stated on July 4, 2020 in a Fourth of July speech: Says 99% of COVID-19 cases “are totally harmless.” Donald Trump Jr. stated on June 18, 2020 in an episode of Triggered with President Donald Trump: Says Osama bin Laden endorsed Joe Biden Donald Trump stated on June 17, 2020 in an interview with the Wall Street Journal: Says before he planned a rally on June 19 “nobody had ever heard of” Juneteenth. Desiree Rogers stated on June 10, 2020 in an interview on CNN: In COVID-19 crisis, “only 20% of African Americans had jobs where they could work from home.” Viral image stated on June 10, 2020 in a Facebook post: Wearing the Kente cloth “worn by affluent African slave traders” is “like honoring Jews by wearing swastikas.” William Barr stated on June 7, 2020 in an interview on CBS News' Face the Nation: “There were not chemical irritants” used to clear a crowd. Pepper balls are “not a chemical irritant.” Kayleigh McEnany stated on June 3, 2020 in a White House press briefing: “No tear gas was used and no rubber bullets were used.” Donald Trump stated on May 26, 2020 in a tweet: There are “many unanswered and obvious questions” about the 2001 death of a staff member of Joe Scarborough. Bloggers stated on May 16, 2020 in a Facebook post: “The House Democrats snuck a provision into their $3 trillion bailout bill today that would keep the house in recess until July 21.” Joe Biden stated on May 14, 2020 in an interview on MSNBC: The U.S. had 44 CDC staffers “in China to observe what was going on. (President Trump) brought home the vast majority of them, I think left only four in place.” Donald Trump stated on May 19, 2020 in remarks to reporters at the Capitol: “If you look at the one (hydroxychloroquine) survey, the only bad survey, they were giving it to people that were in very bad shape. They were very old. Almost dead.” Stacey Abrams stated on May 7, 2020 in an interview with Mother Jones: “Since the reopening of (Georgia), we’ve seen our COVID rate skyrocket by 40%.” Bloggers stated on April 23, 2020 in a post on TikTok: “It’s not the coronavirus that’s killing people. It is the economy.” X posts stated on May 10, 2020 in a tweet: Barack Obama “is the first ex-president to ever speak against his successor.” Rudy Giuliani stated on April 26, 2020 in a tweet: "Why did the US (NIH) in 2017 give $3.7m to the Wuhan Lab in China? Such grants were prohibited in 2014. Did Pres. Obama grant an exception?" Bloggers stated on April 22, 2020 in a post on Facebook: “President Trump just announced that the ‘biological’ lab in Wuhan where the COVID-19 virus was created was ‘funded’ by President Barak (sp) Hussein Obama in 2015 to the tune of $3,800,000 American dollars!” Bloggers stated on April 22, 2020 in a post on Facebook: “People defying stay-at-home order fill Arizona beaches.” Donald Trump stated on April 20, 2020 in a daily coronavirus press briefing: “Hundreds and hundreds of labs are ready, willing, and able.” Candace Owens stated on April 6, 2020 in a tweet: “Everyone is only dying of coronavirus now.” Donald Trump stated on April 4, 2020 in a Coronavirus Task Force press briefing: Says fired inspector general Michael Atkinson brought a “terrible, inaccurate whistleblower report” to Congress. Joe Biden stated on March 27, 2020 in a virtual town hall on CNN: “There was no effort” to get American experts into China after it announced the coronavirus, and “we had one person in-country (and Trump) pulled him out of the country.” Donald Trump stated on March 30, 2020 in an interview on "Fox and Friends": “We inherited a broken test” for COVID-19.
Facebook posts stated on August 9, 2020 in in a post on Facebook: “Let me splain how ‘no payroll taxes’ helps you, it doesn’t. It helps employers.”
Facebook posts stated on August 10, 2020 in a post on social media: “Killing the payroll tax means killing Social Security.”
Bloggers stated on August 6, 2020 in a Facebook post: Video shows missile attack in Beirut explosion.
Bloggers stated on August 5, 2020 in a Facebook post: Say “Sam Hyde identified as perpitrator (sic) of Beirut explosion”
Brett Giroir stated on August 2, 2020 in an interview on NBC's Meet the Press: “There have been five randomized controlled, placebo controlled trials that do not show any benefit to hydroxychloroquine.”
Donald Trump stated on July 25, 2020 in a tweet: Under an executive order, “expensive insulin went from big dollars to virtual pennies … especially (for) our seniors.”
Joe Biden stated on July 22, 2020 in a SEIU roundtable discussion: “McDonald’s (makes) you all sign noncompete contracts that you cannot go across town to try to get a job at Burger King.”
Donald Trump stated on July 14, 2020 in a press conference in the Rose Garden: “Joe Biden wants to end school choice.”
Donald Trump stated on July 4, 2020 in a Fourth of July speech: Says 99% of COVID-19 cases “are totally harmless.”
Donald Trump Jr. stated on June 18, 2020 in an episode of Triggered with President Donald Trump: Says Osama bin Laden endorsed Joe Biden
Donald Trump stated on June 17, 2020 in an interview with the Wall Street Journal: Says before he planned a rally on June 19 “nobody had ever heard of” Juneteenth.
Desiree Rogers stated on June 10, 2020 in an interview on CNN: In COVID-19 crisis, “only 20% of African Americans had jobs where they could work from home.”
Viral image stated on June 10, 2020 in a Facebook post: Wearing the Kente cloth “worn by affluent African slave traders” is “like honoring Jews by wearing swastikas.”
William Barr stated on June 7, 2020 in an interview on CBS News' Face the Nation: “There were not chemical irritants” used to clear a crowd. Pepper balls are “not a chemical irritant.”
Kayleigh McEnany stated on June 3, 2020 in a White House press briefing: “No tear gas was used and no rubber bullets were used.”
Donald Trump stated on May 26, 2020 in a tweet: There are “many unanswered and obvious questions” about the 2001 death of a staff member of Joe Scarborough.
Bloggers stated on May 16, 2020 in a Facebook post: “The House Democrats snuck a provision into their $3 trillion bailout bill today that would keep the house in recess until July 21.”
Joe Biden stated on May 14, 2020 in an interview on MSNBC: The U.S. had 44 CDC staffers “in China to observe what was going on. (President Trump) brought home the vast majority of them, I think left only four in place.”
Donald Trump stated on May 19, 2020 in remarks to reporters at the Capitol: “If you look at the one (hydroxychloroquine) survey, the only bad survey, they were giving it to people that were in very bad shape. They were very old. Almost dead.”
Stacey Abrams stated on May 7, 2020 in an interview with Mother Jones: “Since the reopening of (Georgia), we’ve seen our COVID rate skyrocket by 40%.”
Bloggers stated on April 23, 2020 in a post on TikTok: “It’s not the coronavirus that’s killing people. It is the economy.”
X posts stated on May 10, 2020 in a tweet: Barack Obama “is the first ex-president to ever speak against his successor.”
Rudy Giuliani stated on April 26, 2020 in a tweet: "Why did the US (NIH) in 2017 give $3.7m to the Wuhan Lab in China? Such grants were prohibited in 2014. Did Pres. Obama grant an exception?"
Bloggers stated on April 22, 2020 in a post on Facebook: “President Trump just announced that the ‘biological’ lab in Wuhan where the COVID-19 virus was created was ‘funded’ by President Barak (sp) Hussein Obama in 2015 to the tune of $3,800,000 American dollars!”
Bloggers stated on April 22, 2020 in a post on Facebook: “People defying stay-at-home order fill Arizona beaches.”
Donald Trump stated on April 20, 2020 in a daily coronavirus press briefing: “Hundreds and hundreds of labs are ready, willing, and able.”
Donald Trump stated on April 4, 2020 in a Coronavirus Task Force press briefing: Says fired inspector general Michael Atkinson brought a “terrible, inaccurate whistleblower report” to Congress.
Joe Biden stated on March 27, 2020 in a virtual town hall on CNN: “There was no effort” to get American experts into China after it announced the coronavirus, and “we had one person in-country (and Trump) pulled him out of the country.”
Donald Trump stated on March 30, 2020 in an interview on "Fox and Friends": “We inherited a broken test” for COVID-19.
