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Checked by PolitiFact8 Feb 2023United StatesPolitics and government
Social media posts

“Former President Donald Trump created a Justice Department task force to combat Chinese espionage in the country, and President Joe Biden shut it down.”

PolitiFact rated this: Lacks Context

PolitiFact says: An expert says detection, tracking and operations against the Chinese spy balloon are handled primarily by the North American Aerospace Defense Command and the U.S. Northern Command, not by the Justice Department.

Checked by FactCheck.org18 Jan 2023United StatesPolitics and government
Rep. Kevin McCarthy, House Speaker

“Government officials “could have come and taken” classified documents stored at Donald Trump’s private club and residence in Florida “any time they wanted.”

FactCheck.org rated this: False

FactCheck.org says: FBI agents visited Mar-a-Lago on June 3, 2022, but a Trump lawyer refused to allow them to review — let alone take — dozens of boxes from the Trump White House that were being kept in a storage area.

Checked by PolitiFact9 Jan 2023United StatesPolitics and government
Donald Trump, former president

“As president, Donald Trump “marshaled the full power of government to stop deadly drugs, opioids, and fentanyl from coming into our country. As a result, drug overdose deaths declined nationwide for the first time in nearly 30 years.”

PolitiFact rated this: Mostly False

PolitiFact says: The overdose death rate did drop in 2018. But this is a cherry-picked view of the trends on Trump’s watch. In the other three of his four years in office, the overdose death rate rose, including a record jump in 2020.

Checked by PolitiFact15 Sep 2022United StatesPolitics and government
Social media posts

“King Charles III signed “a proclamation stating that Donald Trump won the 2020 presidential election and is the rightful president by law.”

PolitiFact rated this: Pants on Fire

PolitiFact says: Charles was formally proclaimed king at an accession ceremony Sept. 10. During that ceremony, he signed an oath to uphold the Church of Scotland. There’s no evidence he issued a proclamation about the 2020 U.S. election.

Checked by FactCheck.org7 Sep 2022United StatesPolitics and government
Donald Trump, Former U.S. president

“I ended [Nord Stream 2]," a pipeline that sends gas from Russia to Germany. "Can you imagine? [President Joe] Biden came in and he opened up the pipeline.”

FactCheck.org rated this: False

FactCheck.org says: Construction of the pipeline was suspended in response to sanctions contained in legislation that Trump signed, but it started up again in December 2020, while Trump was still in office.

Checked by FactCheck.org16 Aug 2022United StatesPolitics and government
Social media posts

“Donald Trump Jr. tweeted, "While my Father loves almost all his supporters, please do not come to Mar-a-Lago to support President Trump. We have many important people coming through the club and need to keep it clean.”

FactCheck.org rated this: False

FactCheck.org says: Former President Donald Trump’s supporters gathered outside his home protesting an FBI search, triggering a satirical tweet falsely attributed to Trump’s son telling them to disperse, saying, “We… need to keep it clean.”

Checked by PolitiFact9 Aug 2022United StatesPolitics and government
Donald Trump, former president

“What is the difference between this and Watergate, where operatives broke into the Democrat(ic) National Committee? Here, in reverse, Democrats broke into the home of the 45th President of the United States.”

PolitiFact rated this: One was legal, one wasn't

PolitiFact says: The Watergate was illegal, while the search of Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home would have received formal approval from a federal judge.