Joe Biden, President of the United States
PolitiFact rated this: Mostly True
PolitiFact says: Give this a haircut for batteries, which could be charged with electricity from fossil fuels. And remember, renewables only account for about 10% of the total US electricity capacity.
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PolitiFact rated this: False
PolitiFact says: Based on ill-defined reporting from self-selected respondents.
Marco Rubio, U.S. Senator
PolitiFact rated this: False
PolitiFact says: Prosecutions of former leaders have not been confined to developing countries. The former heads of state who have been charged or convicted have generally been accused of corruption.
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PolitiFact rated this: False
PolitiFact says: Biden said he issued an executive order canceling the pipeline’s construction permit for economic and environmental reasons. Buffett didn’t make any contributions to Biden’s 2020 presidential campaign.
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PolitiFact rated this: False
PolitiFact says: Experts who enhanced the audio from the video told PolitiFact it is not clear what Biden said.
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PolitiFact rated this: Pants on Fire
PolitiFact says: Claims that the inauguration was fake or that Joe Biden is not the real president are not accurate. There’s no evidence.
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PolitiFact rated this: Pants on Fire
PolitiFact says: The claim is a headline on an article that cites no evidence that members of the military arrested any members of Congress this week.
Jim Steineke, Assembly Majority Leader, R-Kaukauna
PolitiFact rated this: False
PolitiFact says: The Republican-run state Senate reached a deal with the Democratic governor, but the Assembly set that aside and passed its own bill. The Assembly bill did not involve the governor, and Senate leader did not agree to it.
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PolitiFact rated this: False
PolitiFact says: There is no evidence that Joe Biden invested any family money in Ukrainian gas or oil.
Charlie Kirk, Founder of Turning Point USA
PolitiFact rated this: False
PolitiFact says: In October, Joe Biden said during an ABC News town hall that there are “things you can't do by executive order, unless you're a dictator.” He did not say all executive orders were emblematic of a dictatorship.
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PolitiFact rated this: False
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PolitiFact rated this: Mostly False
PolitiFact says: President Joe Biden has not “followed through” on a fracking ban. Biden’s climate change plan never called for banning fracking. Instead, it proposed banning new fracking on federal lands.
Scott Walker, Former Wisconsin governor, Republican
PolitiFact rated this: Mostly False
PolitiFact says: This is a point of constitutional debate, but the majority of scholars believe impeachment authority extends to a president who has left office.
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PolitiFact rated this: False
PolitiFact says: The watch didn’t belong to Beau Biden. It was gifted to the president by first lady Jill Biden, the White House said in a statement.
Marco Rubio, U.S. Senator
PolitiFact rated this: True
PolitiFact says: Setting aside the political implications of the word "fiat," we found that available evidence supports Rubio’s assessment: Biden’s use of the executive power in his first two days far outpaced that of his predecessors.
Ron Klain, chief of staff to President Joe Biden
PolitiFact rated this: Mostly False
PolitiFact says: The Trump administration planned to get the vaccines developed and then send them to locations chosen by states. States wrote their own plans, and they were responsible for setting up places to get vaccines into arms.
Tony Evers, Wisconsin Gov.
PolitiFact rated this: True
Glenn Grothman, U.S. Rep.
PolitiFact rated this: False
L. Lin Wood, Defamation attorney
PolitiFact rated this: Pants on Fire
PolitiFact says: Joe Biden is not an “illegal president.” There is no evidence that the military is running the country.
James Tedisco, New York state senator
PolitiFact rated this: Half True
PolitiFact says: New York has seen significant population losses for a decade, but Tedisco described the one-year loss of 126,000 incorrectly; it refers to overall population loss, not only migration to other states.