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“Say that according to the Los Angeles Times, “95% of warrants for murder in Los Angeles are for illegal aliens,” more than two-thirds of all births in Los Angeles County “are to illegal alien Mexicans” on Medicaid, “nearly 60% of all occupants of HUD properties are illegal,” and Nancy Pelosi “wants to put a windfall tax” on retirement fund profits.”

PolitiFact rated this: Pants on Fire

PolitiFact says: The assertions in this post not only range from unsupported to incorrect, but they have been circulating consistently for almost a decade and a half despite repeated debunkings by fact-checkers as well as the L.A. Times.

Paul Fletcher, Minister for Communications

“If you look at the numbers in the budget papers, the ABC's funding is rising. It's all laid out in the budget papers.”

RMIT ABC Fact Check rated this: Misleading

RMIT ABC Fact Check says: Mr Fletcher's claim is misleading. The budget papers show that nominal funding for the ABC's operational budget increases marginally within the current triennial funding cycle from 2019-20 to 2021-22. However, when Mr F…

Donald Trump, president

“The power of tariffs being imposed on foreign lands that took advantage of the United States for decades and decades have enabled us to make great trade deals where there were none.”

PolitiFact rated this: Experts see few gains

PolitiFact says: Whether Trump’s trade deals have been "great" is a matter of opinion, but a range of trade specialists told PolitiFact that Trump’s trade policy has, at a minimum, been less than successful.