“Says former President Donald Trump posted on Truth Social, “I hope that America obliterates Israel.”
PolitiFact rated this: False
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“Says former President Donald Trump posted on Truth Social that former President Barack Obama “was ashamed at how much better of a golfer that I am.”
PolitiFact rated this: Pants on Fire!
“It has just come out that Democrats in Washington and the Democrat Governor’s Office of North Carolina (Roy Cooper) were blocking people and money from coming into North Carolina.”
PolitiFact rated this: Pants on Fire
PolitiFact says: Gov. Cooper said Sept. 29 that 550 members of the state National Guard deployed, 24 shelters opened and more than 1,600 state transportation employees and contract crews were working to clear roads. FEMA also sent aid.
“When former President Donald Trump “left office, we had more people unemployed percentage-wise than the Great Depression.”
FactCheck.org rated this: False
FactCheck.org says: When Trump left office in January 2021, the unemployment rate was 6.4%. BLS has estimated that the unemployment rate during the Great Depression peaked in 1933 at 24.9%.
“Vice President Kamala Harris' "plan will raise families’ taxes by nearly $2,600 a year.”
FactCheck.org rated this: False
FactCheck.org says: The ad cites an analysis of the expiration of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. That's not Harris' plan.
“Photo of former President Donald Trump after an assassination attempt was generated by artificial intelligence.”
PolitiFact rated this: False
“Video shows former President Donald Trump thought he was in North Carolina while he spoke in Pennsylvania.”
PolitiFact rated this: False
“Vice President Kamala Harris “even wants to legalize fentanyl.”
PolitiFact rated this: False
PolitiFact says: In 2019, Harris marked the yes box on a questionnaire about decriminalizing all drug possession for personal use. But her response was about marijuana. In her 2024 campaign, she has called fentanyl a scourge.
“During her term, it’s not even believable, she let in 13,099 convicted murderers," referring to Vice President Kamala Harris and people entering the country illegally.”
FactCheck.org rated this: False
FactCheck.org says: The “vast majority” of the 13,099 entered the U.S. and had their custody status determined before the Biden administration, according to the Department of Homeland Security. They also gained entry legally and illegally.
“Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp was calling President Joe Biden after Hurricane Helene but "hasn't been able to get him.”
PolitiFact rated this: False
PolitiFact says: Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp said Biden asked what Kemp needed and offered for Kemp to contact him directly.
“It [the 2019 impeachment] was over a phone call with the president, and … he could have grandstanded and played cute. But he didn’t do that. He said President Trump did absolutely nothing wrong. He said it loud and clear.”
Washington Post rated this: Four Pinocchios
Washington Post says: Zelensky never said this.
“Donald Trump added more to the national debt than any other president, ever.”
PolitiFact rated this: Half True
PolitiFact says: There are two different ways of looking at it; in one, Trump is responsible for more debt, and in the other, he's not.
“Former President Donald Trump “started out with $400 million on a silver platter and then filed for bankruptcy six times.”
PolitiFact rated this: Half True
PolitiFact says: Donald Trump received the present-day equivalent of $413 million from his father or his father’s estate over the course of his lifetime, but only a fraction was available to him when he "started out."
“The apparent assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump on Sept. 15, 2024, was “staged.”
PolitiFact rated this: Pants on Fire
PolitiFact says: There is no evidence to support this. The FBI is investigating the incident as a potential assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump. The suspect has been arrested and charged with federal gun crimes.
“Vice President Kamala Harris is “talking about bringing back the draft.”
PolitiFact rated this: Pants on Fire
PolitiFact says: Trump's campaign said he was referring to a proposal in the Senate to register women for the draft. That idea, which hasn't passed yet, wouldn't reinstitute an actual draft. And Harris hasn't commented on the proposal.
“Former President Donald Trump admitted during the Sept. 10 presidential debate that he “blew up the Nord Stream pipeline.”
PolitiFact rated this: Pants on Fire
PolitiFact says: When former President Donald Trump said, "I ended the Nord Stream 2 pipeline," he referred to sanctions he signed while in office that affected the project’s completion, not a 2022 attack that damaged the pipeline.
“Under [Vice President] Kamala [Harris], we have fallen into manufacturing recession with 13,000 manufacturing jobs lost in the United States since just the start of this year.”
FactCheck.org rated this: Spins the Facts
FactCheck.org says: In Biden’s first two years in office, there was a gain of 754,000 manufacturing jobs. But as was the case under Trump, manufacturing job growth stalled in Biden’s third year in office.
“Vice President Kamala Harris “is a communist. … She is really a Marxist.”
PolitiFact rated this: Pants on Fire
PolitiFact says: Communism and Marxism experts said Vice President Kamala Harris’ positions do not align with those philosophies. Harris is not against private home or business ownership, for example.
“Former President Donald Trump “cut overtime benefits for millions of workers.”
PolitiFact rated this: Mostly False
PolitiFact says: The Trump administration set a rule to raise the salary threshold for overtime pay, but by less than Obama’s rule. However, Obama's rule never took effect because a judge blocked it.
“Former President Donald Trump said he wants to be a dictator on “Day 1.”
FactCheck.org rated this: Lacks Context
FactCheck.org says: Trump said he wouldn’t be a dictator — “except for Day 1,” when he would close the southern border and drill for oil. Trump later said he was joking.