Donald Trump

“[And] we created opportunity zones, along with Tim Scott. And since then, countless jobs and $100 billion dollars of new investment have poured into 9,000 of our most distressed neighborhoods in the country.”

FactCheck.org says: Trump has produced no evidence that $100 billion has been invested in opportunity zones and no support for his claim that it has created "countless jobs."

“As of June 23, the COVID-19 death rate is “way down.”

PolitiFact says: The number of coronavirus deaths has remained substantial, at a bit below 600 per day by mid-to-late June, but that’s more than two-thirds lower than the peak of about 2,000 daily deaths in late April.

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

PolitiFact says: Testing has increased nationally, but epidemiologists say that if this were the only reason that new cases were rising, the percentage of positive tests should be dropping or at least remaining about the same. It's not.

“Joe Biden and the Democrats want to prosecute Americans for going to church, but not for burning a church.”

PolitiFact says: We found no statements from Joe Biden or other leading Democrats suggesting that they want to prosecute churchgoers, but not people who set churches on fire.

“We have antifa, we have anarchists, we have terrorists, we have looters. We have a lot of bad people in those groups. I mean, you watch and you see.”

Washington Post says: There has not yet been a single confirmed case in which someone who self-identifies as antifa led violent acts at any of the protests across the country.

“[W]hen we came here, you had very few ventilators in this country. … [W]e stocked up those shelves. The cupboard was empty, and we filled up the cupboards.”

FactCheck.org says: The Trump administration inherited more ventilators in the Strategic National Stockpile than it ended up distributing amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

“CNN aired a video of a toddler running away from another toddler with the headlines “Terrified toddler runs from racist baby” and “Racist baby probably voted for Trump.”

PolitiFact says: Trump tweeted a doctored video that falsely suggested CNN tried to stoke racial tension with its coverage of a viral video of two toddlers. CNN and other media outlets accurately covered the 2019 story.

“With absentee voting, as opposed to mail-in voting, "they have to go through a very strict process. The equivalent of going to a voting machine, or maybe even sometimes better.”

FactCheck.org says: Voting experts told us the verification process is the same for absentee and mail-in ballots, and many states consider them to be the same thing.

“President Obama and Vice President Biden never even tried to fix this (police reforms) during their eight-year period.”

PolitiFact says: After the fatal shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson and related racial justice protests, Obama established a task force to examine better policing practices.

“Says before he planned a rally on June 19 “nobody had ever heard of” Juneteenth.”

PolitiFact says: Juneteenth, or June 19th, marks the end of slavery in America. It started in 1866 and spread rapidly during the Civil Rights movement. 47 states recognize the day.

“[W]e’ve had some great studies ... some great reports from — coming out of France, coming out of Spain, coming out of other places" about the effectiveness of hydroxychloroquine for COVID-19.”

FactCheck.org says: Trump cites point to unscientific anecdotal evidence, while a growing body of scientific suggests that HCQ is not effective against COVID-19.

“Former President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden "never even tried to fix" policing issues "during their eight-year period.”

FactCheck.org says: In fact, the Obama administration took several steps to address police violence and community trust issues, some of which the Trump administration has dialed back.

“If we stopped testing right now, we'd have very few cases, if any.”

PolitiFact says: Halting testing wouldn’t eliminate COVID-19 cases. It would conceal them and could fuel an even greater crisis.

“President Obama and Vice President Biden never even tried to fix this during their eight-year period. The reason they didn’t try is because they had no idea how to do it.”

Washington Post says: This is one of those needlessly false claims made by President Trump. Obama took lots of actions to try to steam police brutality.

“After years of devastating budget cuts and a military that was totally depleted from these endless wars, we have invested over 2 trillion — trillion, that’s with a T — dollars in the most powerful fighting force, by far, on the planet Earth.”

Washington Post says: The president is exaggerating his “investment” in the military, especially when he suggests that he has spent more than $2 trillion on new equipment. That's the number for the total military budget

“The U.S. testing program “is so much bigger and more advanced than any other country (we have done a great job on this!) that it shows more cases.”

FactCheck.org says: Although the U.S. has completed the highest number of coronavirus tests, it still lags behind other nations in tests per capita, and a higher proportion of tests have also come back positive.

“Defunding' to a lot of people means break up the police forces, and either that or don't give them any money, so essentially they are breaking it up.”

PolitiFact says: Some do mean that, but others speak about reallocating some police funds to other community services.

“So our crime statistics are at a level that they haven’t been at.”

FactCheck.org says: The U.S. murder rate was lower in 2014, and the violent crime rate overall has been lower in several past years, with the lowest levels decades ago, according to FBI data.

“A video implies that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi ripped up a copy of President Donald Trump's State of the Union address immediately after he honored a Tuskegee airman and other guests.”

FactStream says: Testing testing testing testing.

“Buffalo protester shoved by Police could be an ANTIFA provocateur" who was trying to "black out" police equipment.”