“Police in Des Moines and Omaha have "foiled a mass shooting plot by a 32-year old man.”
PolitiFact rated this: No proof this happened
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“Says of El Paso that some years, "in a city of almost 700,000, we had five murders the entire year. Our average over the last 10 years is 18 (murders per year). We exceeded that average just on one day" after a gunman opened fire at a Walmart in the city.”
PolitiFact rated this: True
“The El Paso and Dayton shootings were "false flag" attacks coordinated by the "deep state.”
PolitiFact rated this: Pants on Fire
“Trump just deleted all of these tweets that called immigrants ‘invaders’”
PolitiFact rated this: Tweets not deleted
“Democrats "want virtual immunity for illegal aliens who have created horrible crimes and murder.”
PolitiFact rated this: False
“Elijah Cummings’ house was broken into after Trump publicly attacked him on Twitter.”
PolitiFact rated this: False
“Kamala Harris "kept people in prison beyond their sentences to use them as cheap labor for the state of California.”
PolitiFact rated this: Reflects what reports say
“Says Kamala Harris oversaw a police department that was "abusing people’s rights" and that she did not "disclose to defense attorneys" when there was exculpatory evidence: "She didn't do that. She never did it. And so, what happened? Along came a federal judge and said enough, enough, and he freed 1,000 of these people.”
PolitiFact rated this: Mostly True
“Says that under President Donald Trump, "not only have we not gone after al-Qaida ... our president is supporting al-Qaida.”
PolitiFact rated this: False
“Says the Democratic presidential candidates "support giving illegal immigrants free health care at our expense.”
PolitiFact rated this: Mostly False
“The homicide rate in Baltimore is significantly higher than El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala. ... I believe it’s higher than Afghanistan.”
PolitiFact rated this: Half True
“U.S. farmers are receiving $16 billion “out of the tariffs that we’ve gotten from China.”
PolitiFact rated this: False
“When the Senate was debating middle-class affordability for child care," then-Sen. Joe Biden "voted against it, the only vote, but what he wrote (in) an op-ed was that he believed that women working outside the home would, quote, ‘create the deterioration of family.’ He also said that women who were working outside the home were, quote, ‘avoiding responsibility.’”
PolitiFact rated this: Half True
“Speaking about Joe Biden "when the senator was debating middle class affordability for child care he wrote an op-ed. He voted against it. He wrote an op-ed was that he believed that women working outside the home would, ‘Create the deterioration of family’. He also said that women who were working outside the home were ‘avoiding responsibility’.”
PolitiFact rated this: Not the full story
“What I've done for African Americans in two and a half years, no president has been able to do anything like it.”
PolitiFact rated this: Scholars strongly disagree
“Right now, we have a dysfunctional health-care system. Eighty-seven million uninsured or under-insured, 500,000 Americans every year going bankrupt because of medical bills, 30,000 people dying while the health-care industry makes tens of billions of dollars in profit.”
PolitiFact rated this: Many numbers, fuzzy math
“We are the only advanced industrialized nation that bases our educational funding on property taxes.”
PolitiFact rated this: Half True
“What makes me qualified to say $200 (billion) to $500 billion? I'll tell you what makes you qualified, if you did the math of 40 acres and a mule, given there was 4 to 5 million slaves at the end of the Civil War, and there were probably 40 acres and a mule for every family of four, if you did the math today it would be trillions of dollars.”
PolitiFact rated this: Below other figures
“Reagan took the deficit from $70 billion to $175 billion. Bush 41 took it to $300 billion. Clinton got it to zero. Bush 43 took it from zero to $1.2 trillion. Obama halved it to $600 billion. Trump’s got it back to a trillion.”
PolitiFact rated this: Mostly True
“Says the names of CNN anchors Chris Cuomo, Brian Stelter and Jake Tapper were on the flight logs of Jeffrey Epstein’s private plane.”
PolitiFact rated this: Pants on Fire