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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 FactCheck.org20 Jun 2023United States
Donald Trump, Former U.S. president

“I didn't show" a classified plan of a U.S. attack on Iran to people who lacked security clearances. "I didn’t have a document, per se. ... These were newspaper stories, magazine stories, and articles.”

FactCheck.org rated this: We Review The Facts

FactCheck.org says: The indictment contains the transcript of an audiotape of Trump's meeting w/ 4 people who lack security clearance. Trump's heard discussing what he calls a “highly confidential” “plan of attack” that is “still a secret.

Donald Trump, former president and 2024 presidential candidate

“It is also no coincidence that these charges against me came down the very same day evidence revealed Joe Biden took a $5 million bribe from Ukraine.”

PolitiFact rated this: Lacks evidence

PolitiFact says: There is no proof that the Trump indictment had anything to do with the timing of unproven allegations about a bribery scheme and Biden. The Biden allegations are three years old and come from an unverified tip.

Checked by PolitiFact14 Jun 2023United StatesEducation
Donald Trump, former president and 2024 presidential candidate

“Biden sent 1,850 boxes to the University of Delaware making the search very, very difficult for anybody, and he refuses to give them up, and he refuses to let people even look at them.”

PolitiFact rated this: This is misleading.

PolitiFact says: The FBI has conducted two searches of these papers, which CNN reported were carried out with the consent and cooperation of the president's legal team.

Donald Trump, Former U.S. president

“President Biden is "fighting them on the boxes. He doesn’t want to give the boxes. And then they say, ‘Trump is obstructioning.’ He’s obstructing.”

FactCheck.org rated this: False

FactCheck.org says: The FBI searched the Senate records that Biden had donated to the University of Delaware, and Biden’s attorneys gave federal officials the classified documents that were found at Biden’s home and former office.

Donald Trump, Former President of the United States

“Under Biden’s current policies, even though these millions of illegal border crossers have entered the country unlawfully, all of their future children will become automatic U.S. citizens.”

FactCheck.org rated this: Misleading

FactCheck.org says: That's not a Biden policy, but rather it has been the standing interpretation of the 14th Amendment going back more than 100 years, including under Trump.

Donald Trump, Former U.S. president

“Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg “campaigned on the fact that he would get President Trump. ‘I gotta get him. I’m going to get him.’”

FactCheck.org rated this: Misleading

FactCheck.org says: Trump re-posted a video of Bragg in a 2021 interview talking about Trump. But it was heavily edited. Left out were comments Bragg made, repeatedly, about not prejudging the case before seeing and weighing the facts.

Donald Trump, former president and 2024 presidential candidate

“Regarding Trump’s January 2021 telephone call with Georgia election officials, “nobody found anything wrong with that perfect call until a book promotion tour many months later.”

PolitiFact rated this: Pants on Fire

PolitiFact says: Multiple politicians promptly criticized Trump’s phone call and the Fulton County District Attorney launched an investigation weeks later.

Donald Trump, former President

“The 2020 election could not have been fair because “Los Angeles County agreed, during litigation, that there were 1.2 million ineligible voters after the election.”

PolitiFact rated this: False

PolitiFact says: Having inactive voters on the voter rolls is common nationwide and does not signal that an election was not fair. Election officials must take steps to remove inactive voters as outlined in federal law.