“It’s estimated that corruption saps between 2 to 5 percent of global GDP [gross domestic product].”
Washington Post rated this: Two Pinocchios
Washington Post says: The statistics cited by Biden have a dubious origin.
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“I get accused of talking about something I’d never even heard of. Okay. I don’t think I’ve ever even said the word. And I’m not going to say it now. … About this theory, all I’ve ever done is parroted exactly what Democrats have said about this.”
Washington Post rated this: Three Pinocchios
Washington Post says: His evodence does not say what he claims
“I indicated my opposition to what had happened, with [what] the legislature did in Maryland. I agreed with the judge in [what] he did there. In New York, what I’ve said is that those are not the maps I would have drawn in New York.”
Washington Post rated this: Two Pinocchios
Washington Post says: He has a strange way of showing opposition.
“While mothers and fathers stare at empty grocery store shelves in a panic, the Biden administration is happy to provide baby formula to illegal immigrants coming across our southern border. This is yet another one in a long line of reckless, out-of-touch priorities from the Biden administration when it comes to securing our border and protecting Americans.”
Washington Post rated this: Four Pinocchios
Washington Post says: Biden is following the law
“If you wanted to kill a bunch of MAGA voters in the middle of the heartland, how better than to target them and their kids with this deadly fentanyl? … It does look intentional.”
Washington Post rated this: Four Pinocchios
Washington Post says: There's no evidence to support this
“Joe Biden and the Democrats have and will continue to spread lies about where Republicans stand on abortion and women’s health care …. Republicans DO NOT want to throw doctors and women in jail.”
Washington Post rated this: Four Pinocchios
Washington Post says: Republicans have promoted many laws that would jail doctors who perform abortions
“You know what happens to these individuals? They are either expelled under the Title 42 of the CDC, or they are placed into immigration enforcement proceedings. They make their claims under the law. If those claims don’t prevail, they are promptly removed from the United States.”
Washington Post rated this: Three Pinocchios
Washington Post says: The numbers disprove his claim
“I believe that Hitler also had Jewish blood.”
Washington Post rated this: No evidence
Washington Post says: This has been debunked often.
“We are watching what’s happening in the country … parents that are being attacked by the attorney general saying that somehow they are terrorists because they want to go to school board meetings.”
Washington Post rated this: Four Pinocchios
Washington Post says: Garland never said this.
“I have never asked the president to resign. So what the book said was not true.”
Washington Post rated this: False
Washington Post says: The book did not say that. It said he told Republicans he would ask Trump to resign.
“After their massive tax giveaway to the superwealthy and giant corporations in 2017, congressional Republicans now want to raise taxes on middle class families”
Washington Post rated this: Three Pinocchios
Washington Post says: The idea was proposed by Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.), and no other congressional Republicans support it.
“In 2021 Russian imports [of uranium] cost almost $1 billion, money that helped underwrite Mr. Putin’s war machine.”
Washington Post rated this: Possibly correct
Washington Post says: The number is difficult to dtermine
“What people don’t know is that 70 percent of the increase in inflation was the consequence of Putin’s price hike because of the impact on oil prices. Seventy percent.”
Washington Post rated this: Needs context
Washington Post says: Biden is referring to the impact of energy on monthly inflation
“So, pay very close attention, folks: If Republicans have their way, it means 100 million Americans with preexisting conditions can once again be denied health-care coverage by their insurance companies. That’s what the law was before Obamacare.”
Washington Post rated this: Two Pinocchios
Washington Post says: This is an inflated number
“She [Russian billionaire Elena Baturina] gave him [Hunter Biden] $3.5 million so now I would think [Russian president Vladimir] Putin would know the answer to that. I think he should release it. I think we should know that answer.”
Washington Post rated this: Four Pinocchios
Washington Post says: Biden's business partner Devon Archer transferred the funds.
“The facts are clear here. This is unbelievable. You have the wife of a sitting Supreme Court justice advocating for an insurrection, advocating for overturning a legal election to the sitting president’s chief of staff.”
Washington Post rated this: Two Pinocchios
Washington Post says: Thomas criticized the violence attack on the Capitol even as she sought to overturn the election results.
“The reports of ongoing negotiations with Iran raise serious concerns about why the Administration is willing to engage and provide U.S. taxpayer dollars to a country adverse to America’s interest.”
Washington Post rated this: Four Pinocchios
Washington Post says: No US taxpayer dollars will be used
“Hunter Biden’s Rosemont Seneca investment fund financed the Pentagon’s military biological program in Ukraine.”
Washington Post rated this: Four Pinocchios
Washington Post says: Hunter Biden had no role in the labs, which are not for bioweapons
“As I’ve said over and over, part of my concern with Judge Jackson is that she has not followed the prosecutors’ sentences.”
Washington Post rated this: Lacks context
Washington Post says: Trump nominated judges also did not follow prosecutor recommendations.
“This Arabella group is funded by Soros and some other liberal billionaire … but they basically said, ‘If you pick Childs you may have a primary opponent.’”
Washington Post rated this: Four Pinocchios
Washington Post says: There is no evidence to support this claim