Donald Trump

“Under Joe Biden’s policy, immigrants in the country illegally “get welfare benefits. United States citizens don't get what they're looking to give illegal immigrants.”

PolitiFact says: A task force recommended undoing many of Trump’s policies, but not an immediate enrollment for welfare. Plan also did not say immigrants illegally in the country should have more benefits than U.S. citizens.

“Invest $550 billion in infrastructure and create an infrastructure fund.”

PolitiFact says: No action evident on creating infrastructure fund.

“The "Biden-Sanders agenda" would "abolish immigration detention. No more detention. You come in here illegally, no more detention.”

FactCheck.org says: The Biden-Sanders Unity Task Force recommends closing for-profit detention centers, and Biden has called for ending “prolonged detention” -- but not abolish all detentions.

“The Obama administration "stopped testing ... right in the middle" of the 2009 H1N1 pandemic.”

FactCheck.org says: Individual reporting of H1N1 cases was halted after a few months, but some testing did continue. Unlike with COVID-19, testing for H1N1, which is far less deadly, did not play much of a role in controlling viral spread.

“[W]hen I turn on the news, I see, 'cases, cases, cases.' They don’t talk about deaths being cut down to a level that — actually, 'tenfold,' they use.”

FactCheck.org says: Data from three sources show that, as of July 14, the total number, and seven-day average, of daily deaths from COVID-19 had declined between threefold and fourfold from its peak more than two months ago.

“I was a crowd of one, because even experts didn’t want to" impose travel restrictions from China to the U.S. in late January.”

FactCheck.org says: HHS Secretary Azar told reporters on Feb. 7 that the travel restrictions "were the uniform recommendations of the career public health officials here at HHS.”

“Biden and Democrats are "going to rip down the wall. It was hard to get that built. And now it’s almost completed, it will be completed by a little after the end of the year.”

“Joe Biden's supporters are fighting to defund police departments,”

PolitiFact says: "While I do not believe federal dollars should go to police departments violating people’s rights or turning to violence as the first resort, I do not support defunding police," Biden has written.

“We have tested over 40 million people. By so doing, we show cases, 99 percent of which are totally harmless.”

Washington Post says: There is no evidence to support this claim.

“99%" of coronavirus cases "are totally harmless.”

FactCheck.org says: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that through May 30, 14% of confirmed coronavirus cases led to hospitalizations -- including 2% in intensive care units.

“Has @BubbaWallace apologized to all of those great NASCAR drivers & officials who came to his aid ... only to find out that the whole thing was just another HOAX?”

FactCheck.org says: NASCAR discovered a noose in Wallace's garage stall at Talladega Superspeedway and initiated a federal investigation. Wallace did not discover the noose and was not wasn't responsible for the investigation.

“Says 99% of COVID-19 cases “are totally harmless.”

PolitiFact says: From deaths, to hospitalizations, to maladies that afflict people who recover from mild cases, the numbers show that the virus harms far more than 1%.

“The power of tariffs being imposed on foreign lands that took advantage of the United States for decades and decades have enabled us to make great trade deals where there were none.”

PolitiFact says: Whether Trump’s trade deals have been "great" is a matter of opinion, but a range of trade specialists told PolitiFact that Trump’s trade policy has, at a minimum, been less than successful.

“The New York Times and Washington Post reporting on the Russia investigation in 2017 "was fake news. ... Those Pulitzer Prizes should be given back immediately.”

FactCheck.org says: A rereading of the articles shows that the work is quite solid. The reporting is heavily supported by special counsel Robert Mueller’s report on Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. election.

“We’ve totally rebuilt the military — $2.5 trillion. ... We’ve invested the $2.5 trillion in all of the greatest equipment in the world.”

FactCheck.org says: That’s approximately the total for defense budgets from 2017 to 2020, but the cost of purchasing new military equipment was 20% of that.

“I will ALWAYS PROTECT PEOPLE WITH PRE-EXISTING CONDITIONS, ALWAYS, ALWAYS,ALWAYS!!!”

“Pres. Obama destroyed the lobster and fishing industry in Maine.”

FactCheck.org says: The lobster industry hadn't yet been banned from a 2016-designated marine monument. A review conducted by the Trump administration found fishing vessels overall garnered a small percentage of their catch from that area.

“COVID-19 “Cases up only because of our big number testing.”

FactCheck.org says: While testing can explain some of the additional cases, it fails to account for all of them, as the proportion of positive tests is increasing in many states.

“MILLIONS OF MAIL-IN BALLOTS WILL BE PRINTED BY FOREIGN COUNTRIES," resulting in a "RIGGED" election.”

FactCheck.org says: Voting experts say there are numerous logistical hurdles and security safeguards that would prevent a foreign government from slipping large numbers of fraudulent ballots past election officials.

“We had a ventilator problem that was caused by the fact that we weren’t left ventilators by a previous administration. The cupboards were bare, as I say often.”

Washington Post says: There were 16,660 ventilators in the Strategic National Stockpile (SNS.