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“Clicking on this link in a text message lets sex traffickers track you.”
“Convalescent plasma had been “proven to reduce mortality by 35%" in hospitalized COVID-19 patients.”
FactCheck.org says: Trump misrepresents a Mayo Clinic study, which found a relative mortality decrease of 35% for those given high- versus low-concentration plasma. The study did not prove that convalescent plasma is effective for COVID-19.
“Dems recited our beautiful pledge of allegiance tonight and took out ‘UNDER GOD’ !”
FactCheck.org says: The prime-time programming for the Democratic National Convention every night included a recital of the Pledge of Allegiance, including the phrase “under God.” Two individual Democratic caucuses omitted those words.
“El crimen está aumentando dos, tres y hasta cuatro veces en las grandes ciudades”.”
“Jacob S. Blake is a Child (16 YO Girl) Rapist.”
PolitiFact says: Jacob Blake has been charged with one felony count of third-degree sexual assault related to an alleged incident of domestic abuse. That charge does not include sex with a minor, according to Wisconsin law.
“Michelle Obama said, “Vote Democrat or the riots and violence will continue.”
“Photos show that the person who shot three people during a protest over the police shooting of Jacob Blake is a police officer.”
“Under Joe Biden’s tax plan, “82% of Americans will see their taxes go up significantly.”
FactCheck.org says: Biden’s plan does not call for direct tax hikes for anyone making less than $400,000. Independent tax analysts say raising corporate taxes will indirectly affect employees, but reduced income would be relatively small.
“Says Donald Trump “proposes cutting a half a billion dollars of local police support.”
PolitiFact says: The Trump administration budget proposal would reduce state and local law enforcement spending by about $515 million.
“Says Joe Biden and Kamala Harris would raise the federal income tax rate for a person with a bi-weekly gross salary of $3,000 to 39.6%, costing “nearly half your paycheck.”
“Says Joe Biden “voted for the Iraq War … He supported war in Serbia, Syria, Libya.”
PolitiFact says: Biden as a senator voted for resolutions that supported interventions in Iraq and Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro). As vice president, he followed the intervention policies of the Obama administration.
“The pandemic "was awful. Health and economic impacts were tragic. Hardship and heartbreak were everywhere. But presidential leadership came swiftly and effectively, with an extraordinary rescue for health and safety to successfully fight the coronavirus.”
PolitiFact says: Nationally, the death toll continues to climb. Deaths had passed 170,000 by the time of the convention.
“These photos show Jacob Blake posing with a gun.”
“Afortunadamente, mientras el virus comenzó a extenderse, el presidente actuó rápido para asegurar que los ventiladores fueran a los hospitales que más los necesitaban”
“Biden knows failure. His own defense secretary said, 'Biden has been wrong on every major foreign policy and national security decision for nearly four decades.’”
Washington Post says: The quote is accurate but former Defense Secretary Robert Gates indicated he supported Biden for president
“Democrats and Joe Biden “want to abolish the suburbs altogether by ending single-family home zoning.”
“It used to take 17 years, 18 years, 20 years, 21 years … to get approval to build a highway,” but “[w]e have it down to two years now, we’re going to have it down to one.”
FactCheck.org says: Federal data show it took a median of 3.83 years in fiscal 2019 for projects yo complete environmental impact statements. That’s the same or a bit longer than it took during the last five years of the Obama admin.
“Los demócratas favorecen políticas que “permiten el aborto hasta el momento del nacimiento".”
“Says Joe Biden and Kamala Harris “want massive tax hikes on working families.”
PolitiFact says: Independent tax analysts agree that the Biden plan would not directly raise taxes on any household earning below $400,000 a year. It would pose small hits from the indirect impact of raising the corporate tax rate.