Joe Biden, Democratic presidential nominee
Washington Post rated this: False
Washington Post says: The letter did not say this
Social media posts
FactCheck.org rated this: False
FactCheck.org says: Biden said sending weapons “with American pilots and American crews” would cause a world war.
Social media posts
PolitiFact rated this: False
PolitiFact says: A widely shared meme shortened President Joe Biden’s March 2022 quote to make it appear as if he said sending tanks alone to Ukraine would cause World War III.
Richard Hudson, U.S. Rep.
PolitiFact rated this: Mostly False
PolitiFact says: The Biden administration did, indeed, lower the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve to its lowest level since 1983. But that's not the only thing Biden did to combat high oil prices. And it's inaccurate to say Biden "caused
Tom Tiffany, U.S. Rep.
PolitiFact rated this: Mostly False
Joe Biden, President of the U.S.
PolitiFact rated this: False
PolitiFact says: The event could not have happened as Biden described. Obituaries for the president’s uncle show he died in 1999, almost a decade before Biden became vice president.
Joe Biden, president
PolitiFact rated this: Nuclear tensions are surely high
PolitiFact says: U.S.-Russian nuclear tensions are unusually high, though maybe not unprecedentedly so. Tactical nuclear detonations by Russia are more plausible now than in recent history, though a literal "Armageddon" is hardly assured
Social media posts
PolitiFact rated this: Pants on Fire
Joe Biden, President
Washington Post rated this: Depends on how you do the math
Washington Post says: Biden's numbers add up but could be apples and oranges
Scott Bedke, Idaho candidate for lieutenant governor
FactCheck.org rated this: False
FactCheck.org says: U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland said that he couldn't even "imagine a circumstance" where "parents complaining" at a school board meeting would be "labeled as domestic terrorism."
Vyacheslav Volodin, Chairman of Russian State Duma
PolitiFact rated this: Misleading
Joe Biden, President of the United States
FactCheck.org rated this: Experts Agree
FactCheck.org says: A statement signed by more than 300 historians who study genocide, Nazism and World War II said Putin’s rhetoric about de-Nazifying fascists among Ukraine’s elected leadership is “propaganda.”
Mike Pence, Former vice president
PolitiFact rated this: False
PolitiFact says: The Keystone XL pipeline was never built, so Biden’s canceling it didn’t make the U.S. more reliant on Russian oil. After the U.S. placed economic sanctions on Venezuela in 2019, the U.S. began to buy more Russian oil.
Social media posts
PolitiFact rated this: False
PolitiFact says: The current, higher oil prices are largely attributable to Russia’s war in Ukraine and to a sluggish response to energy demands after the pandemic slowdown, not U.S. drilling.
Voiceover, Mike Pence’s political organization, Advancing American Freedom
Washington Post rated this: Four Pinocchios
Washington Post says: U.S. purchases of Russian oil rose because of factors that predated Biden.
Mike Gibbons, 2022 Republican Ohio U.S. Senate candidate
PolitiFact rated this: Half True
PolitiFact says: Some of the U.S. sanctions against Russia took immediate effect, while some were phased in over 30 days. The energy sector was largely spared, but banks were targeted directly.
JD Vance, Republican candidate for Senate in Ohio
PolitiFact rated this: Pants on Fire
PolitiFact says: Russia has moved as many as 150,000 troops to Ukraine's borders in a move to block it from ever becoming a NATO member. Transgender matters have nothing to do with this.
Derrick Van Orden, Wisconsin GOP congressional candidate
PolitiFact rated this: Mostly False
Joe Biden, president
PolitiFact rated this: False
PolitiFact says: Biden opposed aspects of the Afghanistan war as vice president, including a 2009 troop surge ordered by Obama. However, Biden voted to launch the war in the first place, three days after the 9/11 attacks.
Joe Biden, President
Washington Post rated this: Three Pinocchios
Washington Post says: Biden is including police forces, and even the military is not that functional.