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PolitiFact says: El video completo y desde otros ángulos del evento muestran a varios paracaidistas en el suelo detrás de Biden y a su izquierda. Fue entonces cuando el presidente se volteó para hablar con ellos y les mostró sus pul
PolitiFact says: This was never quite accurate, but it’s been wrong since 2022 and going forward.
PolitiFact says: A U.S. appeals court overturned a lower court’s decision to dismiss a lawsuit challenging a school district’s COVID-19 vaccination mandate for staff. But it did not rule on whether vaccine mandates were constitutional.
PolitiFact says: Satellite imagery shows that this video was taken in Moscow, not Canada. Media reports of the explosion said it was caused by a truck containing gas cylinders colliding with a bus.
PolitiFact says: The U.S. Constitution, not any state’s constitution, sets the qualifications to run for president. They are limited to natural-born citizenship, age (35 by Inauguration Day) and residency in the United States (14 years).
PolitiFact says: U.S. border officials have encountered migrants from the Democratic Republic of Congo more than 2,000 times under Biden. But experts on prisons or Congo said that they had no evidence to back up Trump’s statement.
PolitiFact says: Different immigration groups, using different methodologies, estimate that the population here illegally ranges from 10.9 million to 16.8 million.
PolitiFact says: The Black uninsured rate fell to 10% in 2022, the last full year with available data. That’s a record low.
PolitiFact says: The Chiefs have made no statement about skipping Pride Month. The website with the article making the claim contains numerous fake headlines. The story originated on a self-described satire site.
PolitiFact says: Una vocera de la FDA le dijo a PolitiFact que la ivermectina actualmente no está aprobada para el tratamiento del cáncer en humanos. Expertos médicos nos dijeron que no hay evidencia científica de que cura el cáncer.
PolitiFact says: Swalwell didn’t quote Sen. Lindsey Graham accurately. Swalwell posted that Graham said Trump plans to deport legal immigrants, but Graham said Trump plans to deport immigrants in the U.S. "illegally," not "legally.
PolitiFact says: Biden is right on the numbers, but he leaves out that a complex constellation of events outside Donald Trump's control drove the spike, including disruptions from the pandemic and George Floyd-related racial reckoning.
PolitiFact says: A DOJ spokesperson said the agency is confident a TikTok video that purportedly shows a leaked audio clip of the interview is fake. Three deepfake experts examined the video and told PolitiFact it is a deepfake.
PolitiFact says: President Joe Biden said southwest border crossings are down because of US-Mexico cooperation. Border Patrol data shows encounters at the border dropped, but experts said it’s hard to pinpoint a single reason.
PolitiFact says: Are there some immigrants with criminal records who try getting into the U.S.? Yes. But Trump’s statement about "millions" is a gross exaggeration.
PolitiFact says: For his entire term, inflation has outpaced wages. But wages have outpaced inflation compared to right before the pandemic, and for the past year and the past two years.
PolitiFact says: Trump spoke in favor of locking up or jailing Hillary Clinton several times.
PolitiFact says: After years of Trump’s anti-ACA rhetoric and action, the former president’s stated change of position represents an important detail that Biden’s statement fails to acknowledge.
PolitiFact says: Biden is proposing a tax increase of roughly 7% over the next decade, which is far lower than the 300% increase that Trump claimed. And the vast majority of that increase will hit the top 1% of income earners.