“A CNN chyron said the Boulder “shooter was factually Arabic, but morally white.”
PolitiFact rated this: Pants on Fire
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“Back in the ‘60s, we used to invest a little over 2% of our entire (gross domestic product) in pure research and investment in science. Today it’s 0.7%.”
PolitiFact rated this: This is accurate
PolitiFact says: Data from the National Science Foundation shows that federal spending as a percentage of gross domestic product hit a high of almost 1.9% in 1964 and has generally fallen since then, to 0.6% in 2017.
“Bull sharks were released in an Arkansas river.”
PolitiFact rated this: False
“In 2004, George W. Bush lifted the ban on those (AR-15 type) rifles, and since then, the number of massacres has increased 183%. During the ban, there were 12 incidents. Since he lifted the ban, there were 34 incidents.”
PolitiFact rated this: Half True
“Passports aren’t required to enter the United States from Mexico and Canada.”
PolitiFact rated this: Mostly False
“Right now, two-thirds of the U.S. Senate is composed of millionaires.”
PolitiFact rated this: True
“Suez Canal blocked by huge container ship named Evergreen. Evergreen shipping is most likely a cover for human and sex trafficking" by Hillary Clinton.”
PolitiFact rated this: Pants on Fire
PolitiFact says: There is no evidence that an Evergreen ship stuck in the Suez Canal is linked to a human trafficking operation run by Hillary Clinton. That claim has been pushed by supporters of the baseless QAnon conspiracy theory.
“We had the highest number of (military) sexual assaults ever reported in the last year” and “we had the lowest conviction rate and the lowest prosecution rate.”
PolitiFact rated this: Mostly True
PolitiFact says: The number of reported military sexual assaults increased in all but one year between 2010 and 2019. Conviction and prosecution rates have generally dropped year-to-year since 2013.
“We’re sending back the vast majority of the families that are coming.”
PolitiFact rated this: False
PolitiFact says: Border Patrol data shows that in February the majority of families were not expelled; they were let in and placed in immigration proceedings.
“West Virginia “is the only state to decline in population over the last 70 years”
PolitiFact rated this: True
PolitiFact says: According to official Census data, West Virginia is the only state to see its population decline between 1950 and 2019.
“11 past mass shootings involved an AR-15-style weapon.”
PolitiFact rated this: Mostly True
PolitiFact says: AR-15 style weapons were used in 10 out of the 11 shootings.
“Finally, a judge has ruled Dominion voting machines were designed to create fraud.”
PolitiFact rated this: False
PolitiFact says: A judge ruled in December that an “audit report” on voting in the 2020 presidential election in Antrim County, Mich., be released to the public. The judge did not issue any ruling about the contents of the report.
“New information coming in that Boulder shooter was a Syrian refugee who arrived via Obama-era asylum programs.”
PolitiFact rated this: Mostly False
PolitiFact says: Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa’s brother told CNN that their family emigrated from Syria to the U.S. in 2002, before Barack Obama was president.
“The border surge is “challenging” because the immigration system that had been in place for decades “was dismantled in its entirety by the Trump administration.”
PolitiFact rated this: Half True
PolitiFact says: Trump’s administration did make significant changes to the U.S. immigration system, but those changes are not wholly responsible for a surge in migration or the Biden administration's ability to deal with it.
“We proudly handed the Biden administration the most secure border in history. All they had to do was keep this smooth-running system on autopilot.”
PolitiFact rated this: Mostly False
PolitiFact says: Trump ignores that the surge started in the spring of 2020 when he was still in office. He also ignores the various factors that drive migrants to leave their home countries.
“Gas costs $7.89 at a station in Albuquerque, New Mexico.”
PolitiFact rated this: False
“Last week, the Colorado Supreme Court declared that Boulder’s AR-15 ban was unconstitutional. Today, there was a mass shooting in Boulder.”
PolitiFact rated this: Half True
“Texas has launched ‘Operation Lone Star’ to finish the border wall themselves.”
PolitiFact rated this: False
“The shooting in Boulder, Colo., was a "false flag like most of the others.”
PolitiFact rated this: Pants on Fire
PolitiFact says: The Boulder, Colo., shooting wasn’t staged. A gunman killed 10 people at a grocery store.
“The southern U.S. border “is now open to anyone from anywhere in the world who wishes to enter our country.”
PolitiFact rated this: False