“Joe Biden's great-grandfather was the first Irish Catholic State Senator in Pennsylvania”
The Dispatch Fact Check rated this: False
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“The military came into the Oval Office, presented a plan. They said they knew where Kayla [Mueller] was. Baghdadi had held her for 18 months, abused her mercilessly before they killed her. But when Joe Biden was vice president, they hesitated for a month.”
Washington Post rated this: Three Pinocchios
Washington Post says: The most comprehensive report of the rescue effort says Obama approved the plan on spot in tje Situation Room
“President Obama issued 18,000 pardons or commutations during his time in office.”
The Dispatch Fact Check rated this: False
“Under the Obama/Biden administration, "we let — 18,000 people were — got clemency. He [President Donald Trump] got two or three.”
FactCheck.org rated this: False
FactCheck.org says: Obama pardoned or commuted the prison sentences of about 1,900 individuals. Trump issued 27 pardons and 11 commutations.
“The president's own FBI director said that the greatest domestic terrorist threat is white supremacists.”
PolitiFact rated this: True
PolitiFact says: FBI director Wray testified in September that racially motivated violent extremism is the biggest category within domestic terrorism, and of that group, those who are white supremacists are the biggest category.
“Last week Joe Biden flashed the ‘white power’ sign. President Trump condemned white supremacists yesterday. Why hasn't Joe Biden?”
PolitiFact rated this: Pants on Fire
“President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden “left me 128 judges to fill. You just don’t do that.”
PolitiFact rated this: Mostly False
PolitiFact says: Obama nominated many judges, but Republicans blocked their confirmations.
“The fact is that he has in fact, worked on this in a way that he’s going to be the first president of the United States to leave office, having fewer jobs in his administration than when he became president. Fewer jobs than when he became president. First one in American history.”
Washington Post rated this: Needs context
Washington Post says: Biden’s statistic holds up, as Trump ranks in last place either in terms of raw numbers or percentage change. But measuring job growth by presidential term is simply not a useful measure.
“Joe Biden is ancient, showing pretty severe signs of dementia, doesn’t believe in legalizing weed, wrote a bill that is a huge contributor to our mass incarceration problem, oh yeah, and he’s a creepy rapist.”
USA TODAY rated this: Partly False
“Says Joe Biden “passed a tax bill that gave us all these privileges for depreciation and for tax credits. We built a building, and we get tax credits like the hotel on Pennsylvania Ave.”
PolitiFact rated this: Half True
“Barack Obama and Joe Biden "passed a tax bill that gave us all of these privileges for depreciation, tax credits. We build a building, and we get tax credits, like the hotel on Pennsylvania Ave.”
PolitiFact rated this: Needs context
PolitiFact says: The Trump campaign cited a tax change under Obama, but it's not clear how that relates to his Pennsylvania Avenue hotel. That hotel earned a $40 million tax break under a law on the books since 1976.
“Former Vice President Joe Biden called troops 'stupid bastards.”
USA TODAY rated this: MISSING CONTEXT
“Former Vice President Joe Biden will wear a "hidden earpiece" during the first debate.”
FactCheck.org rated this: No Evidence
FactCheck.org says: Unsubstantiated posts on Facebook and Twitter claim former Vice President Joe Biden "got tonight's debate questions in advance" and that he will be wearing an earpiece. There is no evidence for either assertion.
“Jill Biden said that former Vice President Joe Biden has had three strokes.”
USA TODAY rated this: False
“Says Amy Coney Barrett “has a written track record, disagreeing adamantly with the Supreme Court’s decision to uphold the ACA. In fact, she publicly criticized Chief Justice Roberts’ opinion upholding the law eight years ago.”
PolitiFact rated this: Mostly True
PolitiFact says: Barrett hasn’t written a lot about the Affordable Care Act, but what she has written has been decidedly negative about the Supreme Court’s 2012 ruling upholding its constitutionality.
“Says Donald Trump is “the worst jobs president in recorded history.”
PolitiFact rated this: Half True
PolitiFact says: Trump, as of now, is the only president since at least Truman to preside over an overall decline in jobs. But any president who served during the 2020 pandemic would almost certainly have experienced a major hit to emplo
“If the president had done his job, had done his job from the beginning, all the people would still be alive. All the people. I'm not making this up. Just look at the data.”
PolitiFact rated this: False
“If Joe Biden steps down, Nancy Pelosi will become vice president.”
PolitiFact rated this: False
“If Joe Biden becomes president and later "steps down, Harris becomes president ! Makes Pelosi vice president.”
FactCheck.org rated this: Distorts the Facts
FactCheck.org says: The Constitution says the vice president would become president and nominate a replacement; Congress must confirm or deny that selection.
“Jill Biden says all Americans will be required to learn Spanish if Joe Biden is elected president.”
USA TODAY rated this: False
USA TODAY says: Jill Biden never said she would require Americans to learn Spanish.