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“U.S. public schools don't teach the Declaration of Independence.”
PolitiFact says: State educational standards that dictate what students learn in schools across the country require that kids be taught the Declaration of Independence.
“Video muestra explosión que ocurrió en la localidad ucraniana de Jersón el 31 de marzo de 2023.”
“Biden all but confirmed that his team is coordinating these Trump indictments to 'stop Trump from taking power again.”
FactCheck.org says: An edited 2022 video of Pres. Joe Biden makes the unfounded claim that he "is coordinating these Trump indictments." Biden's comments addressed international concerns about American democracy, not Trump's legal battles.
“Donald Trump fue arrestado luego de entregarse en la corte de Manhattan. Fue esposado".”
“In the next two years, we'll spend more on interest on our national debt than we do on the national defense.”
PolitiFact says: The most recent Congressional Budget Office projection, from February 2023, shows that net interest on the national debt is projected to exceed defense spending starting in fiscal year 2029, but not in the next two years
“President Trump is officially a political prisoner.”
PolitiFact says: There’s no universally accepted definition of "political prisoner," but human rights and international law experts told PolitiFact that they would not classify Trump, who was not detained, a political prisoner.
“As president, I have the right to declassify documents, and the process is automatic. If I take them with me, it’s automatic. Declassified.”
PolitiFact says: Presidents do have an unusual degree of authority to declassify documents, but formal follow-through is required.
“El FBI y el Departamento de Justicia en colusión con Twitter y Facebook para no decir nada malo sobre la laptop del infierno de Hunter Biden, que expone a la familia Biden como criminales”.”
“Jacob Chansley's release from prison was due to videos shown by Fox News' Tucker Carlson.”
FactCheck.org says: Chansley was released early to a halfway house on March 28 because of his plea agreement and prison protocols.
“Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg “campaigned on the fact that he would get President Trump. ‘I gotta get him. I’m going to get him.’”
FactCheck.org says: Trump re-posted a video of Bragg in a 2021 interview talking about Trump. But it was heavily edited. Left out were comments Bragg made, repeatedly, about not prejudging the case before seeing and weighing the facts.
“Regarding Trump’s January 2021 telephone call with Georgia election officials, “nobody found anything wrong with that perfect call until a book promotion tour many months later.”
PolitiFact says: Multiple politicians promptly criticized Trump’s phone call and the Fulton County District Attorney launched an investigation weeks later.
“The Biden administration said it would impose sanctions on Uganda for passing an anti-gay law”
“White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre was involved in a covered-up DUI accident.”
PolitiFact says: The White House told PolitiFact that the claims are fabricated. Washington, D.C.’s Metropolitan Police Department said it has no record of the alleged incident.
“Joe Biden received a military funeral service Jan. 20, 2021”
PolitiFact says: President Joe Biden is alive. There is no evidence that he received a military funeral service the day he was inaugurated in 2021.
“Solar companies “have to give solar panels away for completely no net cost.”
PolitiFact says: The federal government does not require solar companies to give away solar panels.
“Sullivan County “has the highest opioid death rate in all of New York state” yet “it’s the only county in the Hudson Valley not included in the federal High-Intensity Drug Trafficking Area” program.”
PolitiFact says: Sullivan County, N.Y., leads the state in opioid death rate, but the federal government does not consider it to be part of its High-Intensity Drug Trafficking Area.
“Video clip shows that protesters in Tennessee “made their way onto the state capitol floor.”
PolitiFact says: The video doesn’t show unauthorized protesters on the House floor. It shows three Democratic legislators who took over the lectern and led chants echoed by protesters who had gathered in the public viewing galleries.