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PolitiFact says: The nickname dates back at least as far as 2004, when it was used in the headline of a Los Angeles Times article — 12 years before Trump first used the nickname publicly.
PolitiFact says: Obama’s administration initiated at least 25 investigations into law enforcement agencies. Our review of publicly available information showed that there may have been one under Trump.
PolitiFact says: This assertion has been garbled. The big Trump donor is a regional franchisee of Wendy's, Taco Bell, and Pizza Hut locations, not the CEO of the parent company of those three fast-food brands.
PolitiFact says: The CDC’s running tally of deaths for a given year can count multiple causes for each death.
PolitiFact says: The Kansas City Police Department has said there is reason to believe that protesters there were stashing bricks “for nefarious use.” But officials in other cities said there is no connection between bricks and protests.
PolitiFact says: The law was signed in 1807, but it was last invoked in 1992, and had been invoked numerous times during the 1950s and 1960s to protect civil rights for black Americans in the South.
PolitiFact says: Studies show COVID-19 is caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, not bacteria. The Italian Ministry of Health still identifies the disease as caused by a virus. WHO never “outlawed” autopsies of patients with COVID-19.
PolitiFact says: The image of a “riot manual” was first posted in 2015, to falsely accuse a Democrat super PAC of organizing a violent protest.
PolitiFact says: Soros and Open Society Foundations say they do not support violence. Open Society Foundations has not given grants to organizations to support violent protesting.
PolitiFact says: Washington officials say there was never a blackout. Experts and social media tools suggest #dcblackout was initially spread by fake and hacked Twitter accounts, possibly as part of a coordinated disinformation campaign.
PolitiFact says: Trump never wrote the tweet. It was fabricated.
PolitiFact says: The Lancet had no articles until late January.
PolitiFact says: This video was edited and originally uploaded to a news site as satire.