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Checked by FactCheck.org8 Feb 2025United States
Karoline Leavitt, White House Press Secretary

“In citing "waste and abuse that has run through USAID over the past several years”: “$1.5 million to advance DEI in Serbia’s workplaces, $70,000 for production of a DEI musical in Ireland, $47,000 for a transgender opera in Colombia, $32,000 for a transgender comic book in Peru.”

FactCheck.org rated this: Distorts the Facts

FactCheck.org says: Some of those projects weren’t described accurately. And only the first was funded by USAID; the rest were funded by the State Department.

Donald Trump, President of the United States

“We spend more money per pupil than any other nation in the world, and yet we’re rated No. 40. ... We have to tell the teachers union, we’re rated last in the world in education, of the Top 40.”

FactCheck.org rated this: False

FactCheck.org says: U.S. high school students performed above average in science and reading, and a bit below average in math, according to the latest data compiled by OECD. In other international assessments, elementary students in the U.…

Checked by FactCheck.org24 Jan 2025United States
Donald Trump, President of the United States

“On Jan. 6: "And obviously the FBI was involved, because [FBI Director Christopher] Wray admitted the FBI was. Didn’t he say 23 people, indirectly or directly were involved? And it was then 26?”

FactCheck.org rated this: Distorts the Facts

FactCheck.org says: A Department of Justice inspector general report found the FBI had no undercover agents embedded in the protest crowds that day, and while there were some FBI informants there, none of them were “directed by the FBI to …

Checked by FactCheck.org10 Jan 2025United States
Donald Trump, President-elect

“California Gov. Gavin Newsom “refused to sign” a declaration that would have allowed water to flow from Northern California to "the areas that are currently burning in a virtually apocalyptic way" to “protect an essentially worthless fish.”

FactCheck.org rated this: False

FactCheck.org says: But water policy experts told us there’s no connection between state water regulations or water flowing from the north and the ability to fight the fire.