“Donald Trump says he will be arrested by the Manhattan district attorney”
The Dispatch Fact Check rated this: True
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“The Supreme Court will put Donald Trump back in office in October”
PolitiFact rated this: Pants on Fire
PolitiFact says: Donald Trump can run for president again in 2024. But social media posts suggesting he has been or is about to be reinstated are wrong.
“Says Donald Trump said, “Alec Baldwin, a total loser, has taken his impression of me to a new low by testing out this theory” by shooting someone.”
PolitiFact rated this: False
“Thank you and congratulations to Laura Baigert of the Georgia Star News on the incredible reporting you have done. Keep going! The scam [in Fulton County, Georgia] is all unraveling fast.”
Washington Post rated this: Four Pinocchios
“Says Deborah Birx “traveled a great distance to see her family for Thanksgiving — only to have them call the police and turn her in. She then ... resigned.”
PolitiFact rated this: Half True
PolitiFact says: Birx spent part of the Thanksgiving weekend with her daughter's immediate family. No family member called the police.
“Donald Trump is facing a court case for allegedly raping a 13-year-old”
The Dispatch Fact Check rated this: False
“Donald Trump said he nominated Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court because she “is much, much better looking than the women we have had.”
PolitiFact rated this: Pants on Fire
“Donald Trump only asked Joe Biden for his list of Supreme Court picks after Ruth Bader Ginsberg died.”
The Dispatch Fact Check rated this: false
“Says Joe Biden played N.W.A.’s “F--- Tha Police” during an event in Florida.”
PolitiFact rated this: Pants on Fire
“Unfortunately, this [in Minneapolis] went on for a week or a week and a half before he allowed us to bring in the National Guard. When we brought in the National Guard, everything stopped, the crime was gone meaning the whole thing. But by that time a big portion of the city was burned down.”
Washington Post rated this: False
Washington Post says: Trump falsely suggests he had something to do with the decision to send the National Guard into Minneapolis amid violence and protests of the killing of George Floyd in police custody.
“When I was vice president, violent crime fell 15% in this country. ... The murder rate now is up 26% across the nation this year under Donald Trump.”
PolitiFact rated this: Half True
PolitiFact says: His claim is partly accurate and needs context.
“When I was vice president, violent crime fell 15 percent in this country. We did it without chaos and disorder. And yes, we did it with Democratic mayors. And most of the major cities in this country, the murder right now is up 26 percent across the nation this year under Donald Trump.”
Washington Post rated this: Two Pinocchios
Washington Post says: Biden was clear in his presentation and he cited accurate numbers. But it’s still a matter of apples and oranges — both in terms of comparing inconsistent timelines and also murders versus violent crime.
“Cuomo ended cash bail ... and now the crime rate has gone through the roof.”
PolitiFact rated this: False
PolitiFact says: There is no evidence linking higher rates of violent crime to reforms to cash bail that took effect in New York this year.
“Says Donald Trump “proposes cutting a half a billion dollars of local police support.”
PolitiFact rated this: Mostly True
PolitiFact says: The Trump administration budget proposal would reduce state and local law enforcement spending by about $515 million.
“Police have killed white people. In a larger number, police have killed white people.”
PolitiFact rated this: Needs context
“Biden wants to defund the police.”
FactCheck.org rated this: False
FactCheck.org says: Biden has said, "I do not support defunding police." He said police could lose some federal aid if they refuse to implement “meaningful reforms,” or receive more money to implement changes.
“Joe Biden's supporters are fighting to defund police departments,”
PolitiFact rated this: Some are, but Biden isn't
PolitiFact says: "While I do not believe federal dollars should go to police departments violating people’s rights or turning to violence as the first resort, I do not support defunding police," Biden has written.
“Defunding' to a lot of people means break up the police forces, and either that or don't give them any money, so essentially they are breaking it up.”
PolitiFact rated this: Also means reallocation of funds
PolitiFact says: Some do mean that, but others speak about reallocating some police funds to other community services.
“[Joe] Biden fails to stand up to the radical leftists fighting to defund and abolish the police.”
FactCheck.org rated this: Misleading
FactCheck.org says: Biden has said categorically and repeatedly that he opposes defunding the police, a cause espoused by some of those protesting the death of George Floyd in police custody.
“So our crime statistics are at a level that they haven’t been at.”
FactCheck.org rated this: False
FactCheck.org says: The U.S. murder rate was lower in 2014, and the violent crime rate overall has been lower in several past years, with the lowest levels decades ago, according to FBI data.