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Donald Trump

President of the United States. 1,168 claims checked by other fact-checking organisations, from 2018 to 2026. The ratings are theirs, in their own words.

Checked by PolitiFact30 Jul 2024United States
Donald Trump, former president and 2024 Republican presidential nominee

“Kamala Harris “supported abolishing ICE.”

PolitiFact rated this: False

PolitiFact says: U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris said U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s function should be reexamined but she didn't say that the federal government should get rid of immigration enforcement entirely.

Checked by FactCheck.org18 Jul 2024United StatesHealth
Donald Trump, former President

“A vaccination that is like 38 different vaccines, and it looks like it’s meant for a horse, not a, you know, 10-pound or 20-pound baby. ... And then you see the baby all of a sudden starting to change radically.”

FactCheck.org rated this: False

FactCheck.org says: No childhood vaccine or combination of vaccines targets 38 diseases at once. There’s no evidence that the current vaccination schedule is harmful to children.

Checked by PolitiFact28 Jun 2024United States
Donald Trump, Former president of the United States

“The problem (Democrats) have is they're radical, because they will take the life of a child in the eighth month, the ninth month, and even after birth.”

PolitiFact rated this: False

PolitiFact says: Willfully killing a newborn is illegal. Most Democrats say they support abortion under Roe's standard, which went up to viability, and past this point when a physician deems it necessary, typically involving emergencies.

Donald Trump, Former President of the United States

“Kari Lake lost the Arizona governor’s race in 2022 because Maricopa County “machines just happened to be broken” — “only the Republican machines.”

FactCheck.org rated this: False

FactCheck.org says: Some printers produced ballots that were too light for on-site tabulators, but the ballots could be counted later. There are no "Republican machines." Voters in Maricopa County can go to any vote center.

Donald Trump, Former President of the United States

“On unaccompanied children who crossed the border, "88,000 children are missing under this administration. ... And unfortunately, many of those children are dead.”

FactCheck.org rated this: Distorts the Facts

FactCheck.org says: In 2023, the New York Times reported that the Department of Health and Human Services was not able to get in contact with more than 85,000 children whom department officials had placed with relatives or other sponsors.

Checked by PolitiFact13 Jun 2024United States
Donald Trump, former president of the United States

“Congo, Africa, just released a lot of people, a lot of people from their prisons and jails and brought them into the United States of America.”

PolitiFact rated this: Pants on Fire

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.