“Corona virus: Florida man arrested for robbery using cough as a weapon.”
PolitiFact rated this: Pants on Fire
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“Fact: Mike Bloomberg spent $12 million to re-elect a Senate Republican (Toomey) in 2016. Toomey beat the Dem (McGinty) by 1.5 points. If McGinty had won, Ds would have controlled the Senate after Doug Jones won and could have blocked Kavanaugh from the Supreme Court.”
PolitiFact rated this: Half True
“Says Democrats are embracing “abortion up until the moment of birth and even, horrifically, after that.”
PolitiFact rated this: False
“Says of President Donald Trump’s actions on the coronavirus: “No. 1, he fired the pandemic team two years ago. No. 2, he's been defunding the Centers for Disease Control.”
PolitiFact rated this: Half True
“Sen. Bernie Sanders, after losing his initial bid for a House seat in 1998, “didn’t talk about the assault weapons ban” when he ran again and won two years later.”
FactCheck.org rated this: False
“Speaking about new water conservation laws in California: "Now that they’re rationing water for people, they’re saying you’re going to get, very shortly — I heard the governor saying you get 50 gallons”
FactCheck.org rated this: Distorts the Facts
“The number of COVID-19 cases in the United States "are going very substantially down, not up.”
FactCheck.org rated this: Spins the Facts
“The Social Security check is now (or soon will be) referred to as a ‘Federal Benefit Payment.’”
PolitiFact rated this: False
“There’s an Amazon distribution center that was advertising, last time I was there, up to $12.75 an hour. Your parents made that three decades ago.”
PolitiFact rated this: Mostly True
“With Ebola, we were talking about it before, you disintegrated. If you got Ebola, that was it. [Coronavirus] is like a flu, and this is a much different situation than Ebola.”
Washington Post rated this: False
“A photo of Pete Buttigieg in a military uniform was staged.”
PolitiFact rated this: Pants on Fire
“Coronavirus patients are being "cremated alive" in China.”
PolitiFact rated this: False
“First of all, what we’re doing is immoral. I know that’s not a phrase they often use in politics, but it’s immoral. Look what he’s doing right — look what this president’s doing right now. Look what people have done before. They’re going to fingerprint food stamp recipients.”
Washington Post rated this: False
“High levels of sulfur dioxide in Wuhan “may be a sign of mass cremations of victims of the coronavirus.”
PolitiFact rated this: Pants on Fire
“If you have the Flu… get these two items… Sambucol (and) Oscillococcinum… in 48 hours you will feel better. In 72 hours you will be almost symptom-free.”
PolitiFact rated this: Mostly False
“It’s “OK to kill babies once born” in Virginia.”
PolitiFact rated this: False
“I've been well on the record against redlining since I worked on Wall Street.”
PolitiFact rated this: Needs more context
“Not once in his entire career in Washington, D.C., which started way back in 1991, has Democratic Socialist Bernie Sanders ever voted yes on sanctions against Russia.”
PolitiFact rated this: Half True
“Say Bernie Sanders “collaborated with Marxist regimes in the Soviet Union, Nicaragua and Cuba.”
PolitiFact rated this: False
“Says Bernie Sanders “opposed Obamacare, didn't like the fact we didn't push a single-payer option.”
PolitiFact rated this: Mostly False