Fact Check - Page 12

CLAIM: Former Vice President claimed, on immigration: “We didn’t lock people up in cages.”

VERDICT: FALSE. The “cages” were built by the Obama-Biden administration.

CLAIM: President Donald Trump is now deporting kids with cancer. VERDICT: False. All the Trump administration is doing is moving discretion over individual cases from USCIS to ICE.

Joe Biden continues to lie about Charlottesville while claiming that his campaign stands for “unity over division” and “truth over lies.”

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA), the oldest pro-Israel group in the U.S., released a comprehensive takedown of the press conference Monday by Reps. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and Rashida Tlaib (D-MN), who were denied permission to enter Israel last week en route to a tour that was to be led by a radical Palestinian organization.

CLAIM: Democrat presidential hopeful Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) claims there is a “straw man provision” that allows buyers to walk into a gun store, buy multiple guns, and pass them on to criminals.

VERDICT: FALSE. Straw purchases are illegal under federal law.

CLAIM: President Donald Trump “has talked about white supremacists as fine people.”

VERDICT: FALSE — President Trump said non-violent protesters on both right and left were “very fine people,” but neo-Nazis and white supremacists “should be condemned totally.”

CLAIM: Kamala Harris “put over 1,500 people in jail for marijuana violations and then laughed about it when she was asked if she ever smoked marijuana.”

VERDICT: MOSTLY FALSE. It was closer to 2,000.

Sen. Michael Bennet (D-CO) said at the Democrat debate “kids belong in classrooms not cages,” even though the feds provide education services.

Sen. Kamala Harris claimed during the second Democrat debate that 2,700 migrant children are being detained for breaking border laws. 

Harris said Trump’s trade policies are forcing families to pay more for consumer goods. That’s just not true.

Former Vice President Joe Biden falsely claimed that adult border crossers arriving at the United States-Mexico border who claim to be fleeing violence in Central America are “entitled to asylum” in America. 

Joe Biden claimed Wednesday night during the 2020 Democrat presidential debate that “Obamacare is working” even though premiums, deductibles, and co-pays remain historically high.

Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) falsely claimed to have a clear healthcare plan that includes both a public option and a private insurance market at the second Democrat presidential debate on Wednesday.

CLAIM: Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) said at the second Democratic debate that “children” at the border are being “incarcerated as though they’ve committed crimes.”

VERDICT: False — minors are being sheltered until they can be released to the custody of relatives or guardians.

The far-left “fact check” outlet Snopes is using fake news to blacklist the Christian satire site the Babylon Bee.

Some experts say free health care would bring more illegal aliens; Obama’s homeland security secretary predicted decriminalization would also.

From the Reagan years to today, conservatives have been dismissed by the elites as ignorant chumps. Thirty years after Dukakis lost 40 states, nothing’s changed, and it’s precisely this long-standing ideological arrogance – that conservatives are both intellectually challenged and the most resistant to what “objective” journalists define as reality – that informs the “fact checkers.”

Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) claimed U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) did not exist before the September 11th, 2001, terror attacks, seemingly forgetting the federal law enforcement agency duties’ existed under a different, now-defunct agency. 

Trump’s statement about Ilhan Omar was half true. Minimizing or excusing radical Islamic terror is different — morally and factually — from supporting it outright.

The truth is that Joe Biden had a horrendous debate. He cannot walk away from his record, so he is trying to distract by lying about Trump. 

Hollywood left-wing activist Cher took to Twitter Thursday to rant about an already debunked claim that Georgia’s “heartbeat” abortion law will send women who have miscarriages to jail.

Fact check FALSE: Joe Biden said he only opposed “busing ordered by the Department of Education.” The problem: it didn’t exist yet.

Fact check – TRUE: Bernie Sanders’s home state tried a version of his “Medicare for All” policy, and gave it up because it would cost to much in taxes.

Planned Parenthood will host a Democrat 2020 candidate forum on June 22 as the nation’s largest abortion vendor says its business is in a “state of emergency.”

The mainstream media and the political left are celebrating what they are describing as an admission by President Donald Trump that Russia helped him win the 2016 presidential election.

Breitbart News conducted an in-depth fact check of the seven claims President Trump made in a tweet mocking CNN.

Notably, the Post did not even try to debunk Trump’s claim that “Democrats have become an anti-Israel party.” That part seems beyond debate.

Google’s video platform YouTube is set to roll out a “fact-check” feature on video searches that are “prone to misinformation,” warning users that certain topics are “FAKE.”

Conrary to Ilhan Omar, Congress has condemned anti-Muslim bigotry before — notably, in the immediate aftermath of 9/11.

In real time, as President Trump gave his State of the Union speech last month, the Times branded the president a liar over his claim that there is an “urgent national crisis” at our border.

NewsGuard, the establishment-backed “fact checker” that according to one report is approximately twice as likely to rate a conservative news site as “untrustworthy” compared to a non-conservative news site, urged caution to critics of the New York Times’ recent decision to alter a headline about Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring admitting to wearing blackface without notifying readers.

The far-left Washington Post’s Glenn Kessler had to pretend the sexual assault of migrant women isn’t as bad as Trump made it sound.  

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi shuffled a large-type transcript of President Donald Trump’s speech during the State of the Union address on Tuesday evening. Afterwards, she condemned what she called the president’s “misrepresentations,” tweeting that they would “take days to fact-check.”

Fact Check: FALSE. Literally the first line of the Bible — Genesis 1:1 — says: “In the beginning, God created the Heaven and the Earth.”

Democrat Stacey Abrams gave her party’s official response to President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address and claimed that his policies were hurting the American economy.

Snopes announced it is ending a partnership with Facebook to fact-check information shared to the social media giant.