Fact Check - Page 9

The New Republic’s headline is false on both counts: Amy Coney Barrett did not say she wanted felons to have guns, or to lose their votes.

Former Vice President Joe Biden falsely claimed that the widely debunked Atlantic story has been “confirmed by every outlet.”

Joe Biden promised in June that he was working on a list of black women whom he would appoint to SCOTUS. Now he pretends he never made that commitment.

Joe Biden repeated the lie that Trump had never condemned white supremacists, and several other lies that have been fact-checked before.

Joe Biden claimed there were 6,114 U.S. military deaths from coronavirus. However, the actual number is seven, according to the Pentagon.

Dr. Anthony Fauci defended President Donald Trump from claims Wednesday that he lied about the coronavirus, telling Fox News: “I don’t recall anything that was any gross distortion in things that I spoke to him about.”

The Washington Post accused President Donald Trump on Tuesday of using violence, or “depictions” of violence, as “political fuel” for his re-election campaign.”

The U.S. economy outperformed most of Europe and Japan in the most recent quarter.

Joe Biden said Trump only cares about the stock market. Trump said the stock market is “not important compared to life and death.”

While Joe Biden condemned violence on several occasions, he did so infrequently, and often did so while falsely blaming police, or his political opponent, and overlooking the fact that many “peaceful protesters” were not, in fact, peaceful.

Reuters published video that falsely cast Trump as a racist and falsely claimed Joe Biden does not want to defund police.

Joe Biden claimed that Trump “declined to rebuke violence.” In fact, the president specifically said “violence has no place in American political discourse.”

It’s not Donald Trump that told voters that Joe Biden was against fracking. Biden told voters himself — repeatedly — in the Democratic debates.

Joe Biden’s campaign tried to blame President Donald Trump for nationwide riots by twisting a statement by Kellyanne Conway.

CNN’s Anderson Cooper failed to correct Joe Biden for the easily disprovable lie that President Trump has never said “one negative thing” about white supremacists.

Mike Pence was probably correct to say that Trump imposed the China travel ban before the coronavirus spread within th U.S., though not before the first case arrived.

Progressive groups are asking television networks to delay airing parts of the Republican National Convention (RNC) until they can fact-check speakers’ claims.

VERDICT: False. The delegate clearly says the words “spygate” and follows up by saying what sounds like “Creepy Joe.” Trump responds by saying, “Let’s be nice. Biden. This can only happen in North Carolina.”

Obama claimed “we’ve seen things get worse” in the U.S. regarding the coronavirus, but CDC data show new cases are declining.

President Trump said the neo-Nazis in Charlottesville should be “condemned totally,” yet Joe Biden persists with the lie that he called them “very fine people.”

CLAIM: Joe Biden told rapper Cardi B in their much-discussed Elle magazine interview this week that he has “never” broken his word in all of his life. “Just check me out; I’ve never broken my word. Never in my life,” he said.

Former Labor Secretary Hilda Solis suggested that because Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) “took on” the big banks as attorney general of California, she will stand up to them as vice president.

Barack Obama claimed in his DNC speech that President Trump had “no interest in common ground.” But Trump literally won an award for bipartisanship from a nonpartisan black organization.

During the Democrat National Convention, a video montage suggested that President Trump called immigrants “animals.” 

John Kerry falsely claimed that the Obama-Biden administration eliminated the threat of a nuclear Iran, and mischaracterized its record on ISIS.

During his DNC speech, Gov. Cuomo falsely labeled the coronavirus “the European virus,” suggesting it arrived from Europe, not China.

Fact check – CLAIM: “Joe knows about pandemics” and New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo provided “clear direction” on coronavirus. VERDICT: FALSE. Biden has mismanaged past pandemics, and Cuomo’s coronavirus policies were largely a disaster.

Fact check – CLAIM: Trump is trying to rig the 2020 election by removing mailboxes. VERDICT: FALSE. Obama-Biden removed at least 14,000.

CNN claimed on Sunday that President Donald Trump had “promote[d]” the “birther lie” that Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) might be ineligible for the vice presidency because her parents may not have been citizens when she was born in Oakland, California, in 1964.

Fact check – CLAIM: “Donald Trump said that if he’s re-elected, he’ll defund Social Security.” VERDICT: FALSE. Trump has never made any such statement.

Fact check – CLAIM: Michael Flynn tried to “neuter” the Obama administration’s sanctions on Russia over election interference. VERDICT: FALSE.

CLAIM: Joe Biden claimed President Trump held a Bible upside-down when he walked to St. John’s Episcopal Church in June. VERDICT: FALSE.

Fact check.- CLAIM: The Obama-Biden administration provided “shovel-ready” jobs in the 2009 “stimulus” that Joe Biden managed. VERDICT: FALSE.

Fact check – CLAIM: President Donald Trump ordered a “Muslim ban” — one that Joe Biden will repeal. VERDICT: FALSE. There is no “Muslim ban,” and never was.

Fact check – CLAIM: Joe Biden doesn’t want to defund the police, just redirect police funding to other uses. VERDICT: Mostly false. They mean the same thing.

A “fact check” by USA Today found scarves worn by several congressional Democrats last week, including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Check Schumer, are linked to an empire that sold and traded enslaved Africans.