“President Biden says he wants to ban handguns.”
PolitiFact rated this: False
PolitiFact says: Biden wants to ban assault weapons and high-capacity magazines. Neither would affect the most popular handguns.
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“Two members of the Senate," Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema, "voted more with my Republican friends" than with the president from their own party.”
PolitiFact rated this: Mostly False
PolitiFact says: Sens. Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema support the continued use of the Senate’s filibuster rule, which imperils key elements of Biden’s agenda. But on actual votes, both Manchin and Sinema backed Biden 100% of the time.
“The April jobs report shows that Joe Biden is squandering the economic recovery he inherited from President Trump and Republicans in Congress.”
FactCheck.org rated this: Misleading
FactCheck.org says: The average pace of job gains has been far greater in the first three months under Biden than it was in the three months before he took office.
“You didn't see Republicans when we had control of the Senate try to rig the game” for Supreme Court nominations.”
PolitiFact rated this: False
PolitiFact says: Cruz’s comment ignores that Republicans gave diametrically opposite treatment to President Barack Obama’s nomination of Merrick Garland and President Donald Trump’s nomination of Amy Coney Barrett.
“The Republican tax bill passed in 2017 "gave 83% of the benefits to the top 1%.”
PolitiFact rated this: Half True
PolitiFact says: The imbalance toward the top 1% will only reach 83% by 2027, due to the expiration of several important middle-income tax cuts and a change in how inflation is calculated.
“Sure, it would be nice if the Republicans would join us, but they didn’t. I thought it was a little bit hypocritical of Mitch McConnell to say, ‘Oh, we did it bipartisan.’ Yeah, when Trump was president, Democrats in the minority didn’t block things. We worked to get something done.”
Washington Post rated this: Lacks context
Washington Post says: There are two narratives about what happened.
“Suriname’s President Chadrikapersad Santokhi will be the chief guest for this year’s (2021) Republic day”
FACTLY rated this: FALSE
FACTLY says: This year, India will not have a chief guest for Republic Day. In view of the changed COVID-19 situation in the UK, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson had canceled his India visit and expressed his regret for not bein…
“There is a double standard in how Senate Republicans handled the confirmations for Obama's and Trump's high court picks”
USA TODAY rated this: Partly false
“During the debate, Kamala Harris said President Donald Trump “did not appoint minorities to the courts.”
PolitiFact rated this: False
PolitiFact says: Harris said during the vice presidential debate that none of Trump’s appointments to the federal courts of appeals are Black.
“Wisconsin Republicans have not passed a single bill in 6 months.”
PolitiFact rated this: True
PolitiFact says: The Wisconsin Legislature has been one of the least active in the U.S. amid the pandemic.
“Senator Gina Linetti of the Republic of Italy said President Rodrigo Duterte is one of the best politicians she has met and that Filipinos are lucky to have him”
Vera Files rated this: Fake
“Malinowski tried to make it easier for predators to hide in the shadows. Malinowski worked as the top lobbyist for a radical group that strongly opposed the national sex offender registry. Law enforcement praised the national sex offender registry that Tom Malinowski led an effort to stop.”
Washington Post rated this: Four Pinocchios
Washington Post says: The bulk of the evidence shows Malinowski played no role in this debate.
“President Rodrigo Duterte signed on July 15, 2020 Republic Act 10929 or the Free Internet in Public Spaces Act.”
Vera Files rated this: False
“Florida state Rep. Heather Fitzenhagen “turned her back on President Trump, refusing to ban sanctuary cities.”
PolitiFact rated this: False
PolitiFact says: Florida state Rep. Heather Fitzenhagen, R-Fort Myers, actually supports banning sanctuary cities. She was absent for a 2018 vote banning sanctuary cities but voted for a sanctuary cities ban in 2019.
“Columnist Charles Krauthammer wrote that former President Barack Obama was running a "shadow government organization aimed at resisting and tearing down the Constitutional Republic we know as AMERICA.”
FactCheck.org rated this: False
FactCheck.org says: The claim was written by a Christian blogger for The Daily Jot in 2017, not by Charles Krauthammer.
“A tweet by Xi Jinping, the President of the People’s Republic of China, on Ladakh and Article 370”
FACTLY rated this: FALSE
FACTLY says: The tweet in the posted photo is fake. Factly has found that Xi Jinping has no verified personal account on Twitter. Also, there is no account on Twitter with the mentioned username – ‘@realXiJinping20’. The alignment o…
“Says the Republican Party started in Ripon, Wis., “to counter the Democrats’ plans to expand slavery.”
PolitiFact rated this: Half True
PolitiFact says: Historians say it’s over-simplifying to refer to a slavery expansion as the “Democrats’ plan,” since many Democrats opposed slavery, particularly in the north.
“The Postal Service is not losing money because of Amazon. It’s losing money because in 2006, the Republican-led Congress passed a law forcing it to prepay its pensions for 75 years, which no other corporation does ... Without this law, the Postal Service would be turning a profit.”
PolitiFact rated this: Half True
“Fact: Mike Bloomberg spent $12 million to re-elect a Senate Republican (Toomey) in 2016. Toomey beat the Dem (McGinty) by 1.5 points. If McGinty had won, Ds would have controlled the Senate after Doug Jones won and could have blocked Kavanaugh from the Supreme Court.”
PolitiFact rated this: Half True
“Mitt Romney’s father “U.S. Senator George Romney, was a liberal Republican who had ties to Saul Alinsky, yes, the same dude who wrote the book, Rules For Radicals and dedicated to Satan.”
PolitiFact rated this: Mostly False