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PolitiFact says: Trump said this in 2016 but walked it back the same day. Biden’s ad comes 7 years later and leaves the impression that Trump stood by the remark. We found no evidence he supports penalties for women who have abortions.
PolitiFact says: News accounts from 9/11 put Donald Trump near ground zero on multiple occasions, but there's no record he was directly involved with recovery efforts. Trump has not provided evidence to support these claims.
PolitiFact says: Biden served as a professor of practice at the University of Pennsylvania starting in 2017. His duties went on for about two years instead of four because he went on unpaid leave in 2019 to run for president.
PolitiFact says: La Proposición 47 es una medida aprobada por votantes en California el 5 de noviembre de 2014. Esta hizo algunos crímenes de propiedad no-violentos, donde el valor no excede $950, como delitos menores.
PolitiFact says: PolitiFact encontró la imagen original y esta no muestra una nave extraterrestre ocultándose en las nubes. Hay nubes llamadas nubes lenticulares que pueden tener forma de nave, pero no lo son.
PolitiFact says: Expertos le dijeron a PolitiFact que los incendios en Maui no fueron creados con armas láser. Ellos también dijeron que no es posible comenzar un incendio forestal con el plan de quemar solo colores específicos.
PolitiFact says: A plan to use drones to detect COVID-19 in residents of Westport, Connecticut, was scrapped in 2020 over privacy concerns shortly after it was announced.
PolitiFact says: We were unable to find any instance in which Biden claimed to have flown airplanes. The Trump campaign did not respond to an inquiry asking for evidence that Biden had said this.
PolitiFact says: At its peak under Biden, the price of bacon rose by 30%, not the 400% that it would be if Trump’s "five times" comment was correct. And it has fallen since then to a net increase of 11.5%.
PolitiFact says: Financial records show a little less than $20 million in payments, but $14 million went to associates, while $5 million went to Biden family members. The bank records do not prove Joe Biden engaged in wrongdoing.
PolitiFact says: PolitiFact reviewed more than two dozen DeSantis press releases and news conferences from 2020 and 2021 about the vaccine rollout. We found no instance of DeSantis mandating vaccination.
PolitiFact says: Experts said there is not a significant amount of lithium in Maui or Hawaii, and there are no plans to mine lithium in that state. There’s no evidence that Maui’s wildfires were set intentionally.
PolitiFact says: Trump’s White House website shows it was he who gave Dr. Anthony Fauci a presidential commendation on Trump's last day in office.
PolitiFact says: Planes flying over Riverfest, a daylong event on the Ohio River between Cincinnati and Newport, Kentucky, were part of the event. There is no genetically modified mosquito program in Ohio.
PolitiFact says: This video is from a 1985 documentary about native Hawaiians being arrested and evicted on a beach in Honolulu, which is more than 100 miles from Maui, where the wildfires ignited in August.
PolitiFact says: This story was fabricated and originated on a satirical website. A spokesperson for "The View" said the claim is not true.
PolitiFact says: The claim originated from Alex Jones, a known peddler of conspiracy theories. He used clips of an Army-sponsored conference in 2017, which discussed the future of conflict.