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.
“We will start distributing [a coronavirus vaccine] immediately. …To the general public, very shortly there — I mean, really, to the general public: immediately.”
FactCheck.org says: Officials expect only a limited number of vaccine doses will be available in 2020 — and those will be given to prioritized groups. Members of the general public may not be able to receive a shot until well into 2021.
“El plan de Biden elimina las fronteras de Estados Unidos en medio de una pandemia, e incluso está hablando de derribar el muro. ¡¿Qué tal?!”
“Trump tuitea un video manipulado de Biden: cambian 'Despacito' por una canción contra la policía”
“Demócratas enviarán por correo 80 millones de boletas no solicitadas para hacer fraude electoral”
“Biden "wants to raise everybody’s taxes.”
PolitiFact says: Biden would raise taxes on corporations and people making over $400,000 a year.
“Says Joe Biden played N.W.A.’s “F--- Tha Police” during an event in Florida.”
“Tenemos 30,000 personas, en una sola vacuna en este momento, bajo ensayo en áreas muy, muy altamente infectadas" y "las cifras lucen increíblemente sólidas”
“The excess mortality rate is among the best in the whole world.”
FactCheck.org says: The U.S.'s excess mortality rate is higher, not lower, than the rate in most European countries.
“Trump compara al coronavirus con la gripe”
“Unfortunately, this [in Minneapolis] went on for a week or a week and a half before he allowed us to bring in the National Guard. When we brought in the National Guard, everything stopped, the crime was gone meaning the whole thing. But by that time a big portion of the city was burned down.”
Washington Post says: Trump falsely suggests he had something to do with the decision to send the National Guard into Minneapolis amid violence and protests of the killing of George Floyd in police custody.
“(Biden) destruirá la protección para las enfermedades preexistentes, mientras que nosotros salvaremos el Seguro Social”
“It’ll start getting cooler,” adding that he didn’t think “science knows” whether or not temperatures would increase in the future.”
FactCheck.org says: Scientists are very confident that global average temperatures will continue to rise as the world continues to emit heat-trapping greenhouse gases.
“We had 25 people that were witnesses that are on the record already that have said that never took place.”
Washington Post says: The president is inflating the number of people who have disputed the report that he called soldiers "losers." There have been a lot of denials, but you have to parse them carefully.
“Andy McCabe was head of the FBI during Hillary Clinton's email investigation”
“Biden called law enforcement the enemy.”
FactCheck.org says: Joe Biden's full comments show he was talking about the perception of law enforcement in a community if police show up in military armored vehicles.
“They don’t even have to have an authorized signature in Nevada. Do you know that? They don’t have to have …You don’t have to have an authorized signature on a ballot? No. They’re trying to rig an election, and we can’t let that happen.”
PolitiFact says: Signature verification is performed on every ballot received, according to the Secretary of State.
“Claims Joe Biden and running mate Kamala Harris are spreading “anti-vaccine conspiracy theories" about a COVID-19 vaccine.”
FactCheck.org says: The candidates support properly approved vaccines, but have expressed concerns — shared by some in the scientific community — that Trump may not follow the standard protocols.
“I saved the U.S. auto industry, brought many plants to Michigan and got Japan to announce five new car companies will come to Michigan.”
PolitiFact says: Bush and Obama rescued the auto industry and it was growing steadily when Trump took office. Only one new plant is slated for Michigan.