“The Jeffrey Epstein plea agreement “was a sweetheart plea deal that was made under the Obama administration.”
PolitiFact rated this: False
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“Since Donald Trump's inauguration, we have seen an 11% decline in the value of the dollar, the steepest decline in more than a half a century.”
PolitiFact rated this: Mostly True
PolitiFact says: Financial research firm Morningstar says the standard metric for measuring the dollar’s strength against other currencies dropped by 11% in the first half of 2025, the biggest decline for a first half of the year since …
“America had a trade surplus in ice cream in 2020 under President Trump's leadership, but that surplus turned into a trade deficit of $40.6 million under President Biden's watch.”
PolitiFact rated this: Mostly True
PolitiFact says: The U.S. ice cream trade surplus largely diminished in 2021 under former President Joe Biden and turned to a deficit in 2022. The change was driven mostly by a jump in imports, primarily from Italy. Exports have remaine…
“Nations who accept the new regulations [WHO International Health Regulations] are signing over their power in health emergencies to an unelected international organization that could order lockdowns, travel restrictions, or any other measures.”
FactCheck.org rated this: False
FactCheck.org says: The WHO doesn't have authority to order countries to take certain measures when responding to a pandemic or other public health emergency. The group can only make recommendations.
“Obama allegedly was arrested by FBI agents in the Oval Office, handcuffed in the presence of Donald Trump, and later put behind bars in an orange jumpsuit.”
Deutsche Welle rated this: Fake, AI-generated
“The Simpsons correctly predicted the Coldplay concert scandal”
The Dispatch Fact Check rated this: False
“There was a shift, a 180-degree shift, from the intelligence community’s assessment leading up to the election to the one that President Obama directed be produced after Donald Trump won the election that completely contradicted those assessments that had come previously.”
FactCheck.org rated this: Misleading
FactCheck.org says: A Jan. 6, 2017, intelligence assessment that Russian President Vladimir Putin had ordered an “influence campaign” in an attempt to help elect Donald Trump and earlier intelligence assessments concluded Russia did not su…
“In 2016, after Donald Trump won the presidency, then-President Barack Obama was “trying to lead a coup” with Trump’s opponent, Hillary Clinton.”
PolitiFact rated this: Pants on Fire
PolitiFact says: A coup would have involved efforts to keep Donald Trump from taking office in 2016. Former President Barack Obama did not do that.
“Tariffs are “going to pay off our deficit.”
PolitiFact rated this: False
PolitiFact says: Two projections show that the Trump administration tariff revenues would not cover the next 10 years of projected deficits.
“J.D. Vance secretly visited Rupert Murdoch right before the Wall Street Journal published an expose on Donald Trump”
The Dispatch Fact Check rated this: Lacks evidence
“The White House just announced that Trump only has four days left” because of his chronic venous insufficiency.”
PolitiFact rated this: Pants on Fire
“Under President Donald Trump’s newly signed tax law, “Those making less than $50,000 receive the largest (tax) cuts.”
PolitiFact rated this: Mostly False
PolitiFact says: The data is cherry-picked and reflects only the law’s new policies. The data ignores some of the law’s policy extensions that benefit the wealthy and omits that many of the benefits for lower- and middle-income families…
“California provides $83.1 billion more than we receive from the federal government. Texas? Receives $71.1 billion more than they provide to the federal government. 71% of the U.S. GDP comes from blue counties.”
PolitiFact rated this: Mostly True
PolitiFact says: California tends to pay more in individual and corporate federal taxes than Texas does, because of its larger population and higher incomes. On the share of national GDP from blue counties, Newsom’s data is out of date.…
“It was announced that the United States Treasury ran a budget surplus ... in June, for the first time in many, many decades.”
FactCheck.org rated this: Exaggerated
FactCheck.org says: The U.S. had not recorded a surplus in June since 2016 – but the country has had several surpluses in other months since that time.
“51,000 Americans will die each year" as a result of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act's changes to health insurance.”
FactCheck.org rated this: Exaggerates
FactCheck.org says: An analysis projected 42,500 deaths a year. The extra 8,800 Sanders is claiming are deaths from provision that is expiring and is not part of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act itself.
“Rep. Thomas Massie voted against President Trump’s tax cuts.”
FactCheck.org rated this: Distorts the facts
“We've got over 600,000 illegal aliens with criminal records walking the streets of this nation.”
FactCheck.org rated this: Misleading
FactCheck.org says: Border Czar Tom Homan has been repeating the misleading claim that there are "over 600,000 illegal aliens with criminal records walking the streets of this nation.” That number includes legal immigrants, not just those …
“A form of weather modification called cloud seeding caused the July 4 flash flooding along the Guadalupe River in Texas.”
FactCheck.org rated this: False
FactCheck.org says: It’s not plausible that available weather modification techniques caused or influenced the July 4 flash flooding along the Guadalupe River in Texas.
“A Congressional Budget Office estimate of people who stand to lose insurance from President Donald Trump’s tax and spending law said “about 5 million … have other insurance,” so “if they lose one (type of coverage), they're still insured.”
PolitiFact rated this: Mostly False
PolitiFact says: The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office projects that 2.9 million people who stand to lose Medicaid from President Donald Trump’s tax and spending law are already covered by Medicare or by Medicaid in another state.…
“ICE will now become the country’s largest federal law enforcement agency, bigger than the FBI, bigger than the DEA.”
PolitiFact rated this: Mostly True