Donald Trump

“We eliminated Obamacare's horrible and very unfair individual mandate, which basically knocked out Obamacare. We knocked out Obamacare.”

PolitiFact says: Trump did sign legislation to eliminate the requirement that Americans have health insurance or pay a tax penalty, but eliminating this requirement did not get rid of Obamacare.

“Excess mortality in Europe this year is 33% higher than the United States — evidence that the tragic cost of this virus is higher in other Western nations.”

FactCheck.org says: That’s only possible when cherry-picking numbers or ignoring Europe’s larger population.

“So this is just a way they’re trying to steal the election, and everybody knows that. Because the only way they’re going to win is by a rigged election.”

PolitiFact says: He is an incumbent facing significant political challenges, most notably the coronavirus pandemic.

“The Democrats took the word GOD out of the Pledge of Allegiance”

“Says President Barack Obama “spied on my campaign, and got caught!”

PolitiFact says: A Justice Department review found the FBI had sufficient evidence to investigate Russian contacts with four Trump campaign associates. Multiple reports confirm that Obama did not initiate or attempt to influence the FBI.

“They [China] are more than living up to it [commitments under Trump's phase one trade deal]. Last week — because they know I'm very angry at them, because this should have never happened — they made the largest order of corn, the largest order of soybeans in history. They made the largest beef order that they've done in a long time.”

“Goodyear Tires “announced a BAN ON MAGA HATS…This is what the Radical Left Democrats do.”

PolitiFact says: Goodyear has a policy that requires employees to refrain from political expression that falls "outside the scope of racial justice and equity issues." It includes both Republican and Democratic campaign messaging.

“Our (COVID-19) numbers are better than almost all countries.”

PolitiFact says: The United States is doing worse than many other countries in terms of the death rate and the fraction of tests that come back positive.

“The coronavirus has seen a “big surge in New Zealand. It's terrible. We don't want that.”

“I heard it today that [Kamala Harris] doesn’t meet the requirements [to be vice president]. And, by the way, the lawyer that wrote that piece is a very highly qualified, very talented lawyer. I have no idea if that’s right.”

“New York Mail-In voting is in a disastrous state of condition. Votes from many weeks ago are missing - a total mess. They have no idea what is going on. Rigged Election.”

PolitiFact says: Election experts told us that the problems in New York were real, but that they were not the result of fraud.

“That’s an issue [intelligence reports of Russian bounties on U.S. troops] that many people said was fake news.”

“Why would they [Democrats] want to ban requirements for signature verification in federal elections? Who would want a bill banning signature verification?”

“The Democrats don’t want to do anything having to do with protecting people from eviction.”

PolitiFact says: Congressional Democrats have proposed and supported legislation to provide people with rental assistance and extend and expand the CARES Act’s moratorium on evictions.

“We have fewer [COVID-19] deaths per capita than ... most other nations in Western Europe.”

FactCheck.org says: Twice as many Western Europe countries outperform the U.S. on this particular death metric than those that underperform.

“I’ll be pursuing a major executive order requiring health insurance companies to cover all pre-existing conditions for all customers. ... This has never been done before.”

FactCheck.org says: The Affordable Care Act, enacted in 2010, prohibits insurance companies from denying coverage to those with preexisting conditions or charging them higher premiums.

“On distributing COVID-19 vaccines: "[O]ur great military ... they’ll be able to take care of this locationally and bringing it where it has to go very, very quickly. They’re all mobilized. It’s been fully set up.”

FactCheck.org says: The administration still has a lot of planning to do, and the military will have just a “complementary role to the traditional vaccine distribution networks,” as the HHS official told us.

“Children are “almost immune from this disease.”

PolitiFact says: While children represent far fewer cases than adults in the U.S., they can catch COVID-19.

“[W]e ended ... a rule that, basically, you build low-income housing and you build other forms of housing — also having to do with zoning — and destroy people that have lived in communities in suburbia.”

FactCheck.org says: The Department of Housing and Urban Development’s 2015 final rule on “Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing,” implemented under then-President Barack Obama, did not mandate either low-income housing or rezoning.

“I think we’re doing very well, and I think that we have done as well as any nation. If you really look, if you take a look at what’s going on, especially now with all these flareups and nations that they were talking about.”

FactCheck.org says: The U.S., by a variety of metrics, has not “done as well as any nation.” The outbreaks in numerous countries have been smaller and led to fewer deaths, even when including more recent upticks.