“We won. We won in a landslide. This was a landslide.”
PolitiFact rated this: Pants on Fire
PolitiFact says: Biden won the presidential election with 306 electoral votes, to Trump’s 232.
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.
“They just happened to find 50,000 ballots (in the Georgia U.S. Senate runoff elections) late last night.”
PolitiFact rated this: Pants on Fire
“Vice President Mike Pence has the power to decertify the electoral votes in a joint session of Congress.”
The Dispatch Fact Check rated this: false
“The Vice President has the power to reject fraudulently chosen electors.”
PolitiFact rated this: False
PolitiFact says: Neither the Constitution nor any law gives the vice president the power to reject electoral college results from particular states.
“After a “major water main break,” Georgia election workers counted “18,000 ballots, all for Biden” that they pulled from suitcases and with no election observers present.”
PolitiFact rated this: Pants on Fire
“Suitcases full of 18,000 votes, all for Biden, were brought into a Georgia vote processing facility while workers were not present”
The Dispatch Fact Check rated this: False
“They're shredding ballots. And you should look at that very carefully. Because that's so illegal.”
BBC Reality Check rated this: There is no evidence of malpractice.
“She got you to sign a totally unconstitutional agreement, which is a disastrous agreement. You can’t check signatures. I can’t imagine you’re allowed to do harvesting, I guess, in that agreement.”
The New York Times rated this: False.
“¿Ganó Donald Trump el premio Nobel?”
Noticias Telemundo rated this: Falso
“[W]e're completing the wall, like I said I would.”
FactCheck.org rated this: Far Short of Promise
FactCheck.org says: By the end of Trump's term, the length of fencing will be well short of what Trump promised repeatedly during the campaign or what his administration initially proposed when he took office.
“Ningún candidato presidencial ganó Florida y Ohio y perdió la presidencia de EEUU”
El Detector / Univision Noticias rated this: Falso
“There was a 68% error rate in vote counting in Antrim County in Michigan”
The New York Times rated this: False.
“Actually, I won Wisconsin.”
PolitiFact rated this: Pants on Fire
“In Wisconsin, there are approximately 70,000 absentee ballots that do not have matching ballot applications as required by law.”
PolitiFact rated this: Pants on Fire
PolitiFact says: Voters seeking an absentee ballot filled out an application attached to the ballot envelope. State law has no requirements for the application's form.
“No candidate has ever won both Florida and Ohio and lost.”
PolitiFact rated this: Pants on Fire
PolitiFact says: Richard Nixon won Florida and Ohio in 1960 even as he lost the presidential election to John F. Kennedy.
“No candidate has ever won both Florida and Ohio and lost. I won them both, by a lot! #SupremeCourt”
Washington Post rated this: Four Pinocchios
Washington Post says: Nixon in 1960 won Florida and Ohio -- and lost
“President-elect Joe Biden "beat crooked Hillary [Clinton] in the swing states, but she beat him everywhere else.”
FactCheck.org rated this: False
FactCheck.org says: Using Dave Leip’s Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections, we looked at the 2016 results and found that Biden outperformed Clinton in every state -- not just swing states – both by the number and the percentage of votes.
“I don’t run to see if people are walking in with suitcases and putting them under a table with a black robe around it. I don’t do that. That’s up to your government here.”
Washington Post rated this: Four Pinocchios
Washington Post says: The video evidence was bogus
“No state in the country verifies United States citizenship as a condition for voting in federal elections.”
PolitiFact rated this: Mostly False
PolitiFact says: When people register to vote, they sign a form attesting under penalty of perjury that they are a citizen and eligible to vote.
“Out of 42 European nations, all but two prohibit absentee ballots entirely for people who reside inside the country, or else they require those who need absentee ballots to show a very, very powerful ID.”
Washington Post rated this: Three Pinocchios
Washington Post says: Eight European countries, including some of the largest, allow absentee voting.