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C. Eugene Emery Jr. joined PolitiFact national to help cover the 2016 presidential election after 40 years as reporter for the Providence Journal. He was a founding staff member of PolitiFact Rhode Island. While at the Journal, he was a science and medical writer, covered municipal governments throughout Rhode Island and southeastern Massachusetts, and managed the Journal’s Massachusetts bureau. He was part of the Journal’s Commerce & Consumer team, then its Breaking News team, before joining PolitiFact Rhode Island in 2010. He has done freelance medical writing for Reuters since 1982. Emery has a bachelor of science degree in biology and a bachelor of arts degree in political science, both from Brown University in Providence.

Featured Statements

Bloggers
stated on November 5, 2018 in a post on Facebook:

"(George) Soros Provides Migrants With Prepaid Debit Cards To Fund Illegal Journeys"

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • November 13, 2018
Bloggers
stated on October 31, 2018 in a post on Facebook:

"Caravan Violence: Invaders Shoot At Police, Set Fire To Immigration Checkpoint"

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • November 13, 2018
Infowars
stated on November 5, 2018 in a post on Facebook:

"Election fraud: Democrats are voting twice in Maryland"

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • November 8, 2018
Bloggers
stated on November 2, 2018:

Says border patrol agent recently killed in ambush.

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • November 4, 2018
Bloggers
stated on October 4, 2018 in a post on Facebook:

Veterans should vote Republican "because the damn Democrats blocked the VA Healthcare bill again."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • November 3, 2018
Bloggers
stated on October 12, 2018 in post on Facebook:

Say Socialist candidate Norman Thomas said in 1944 that the Democratic Party had adopted the Socialist platform.

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • November 2, 2018
Bloggers
stated on October 21, 2018 in a post on Facebook:

The migration of Hondurans toward the United States "was funded by Democrat activists."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • October 26, 2018
Bloggers
stated on October 22, 2018 in a post on Facebook:

"'Caravan' Migrant Army Paint Swastika on American Flag, Burn It in the Street."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • October 25, 2018
Bloggers
stated on October 11, 2018:

If you get a flu shot, you're "poisoning yourself."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • October 25, 2018
Bloggers
stated on October 2, 2018:

Says Patrick Henry said, "The Constitution is not a document for the government to restrain the people: it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • October 19, 2018