“Says Bernie Sanders “opposed Obamacare, didn't like the fact we didn't push a single-payer option.”
PolitiFact rated this: Mostly False
Joe Biden
president. 509 claims checked by other fact-checking organisations, from 2019 to 2024. The ratings are theirs, in their own words.
“Bernie Sanders was seriously thinking about challenging our first African American president in a primary.”
PolitiFact rated this: Said someone should try
“Said that Bernie Sanders "said we should primary Barack Obama (in 2012) — someone should.”
PolitiFact rated this: Floated having someone run
“After he [Mandela] got free and became president, he came to Washington and came to my office. He threw his arms around me and said, ‘I want to say thank you.’ I said, ‘What are you thanking me for, Mr. President?’ He said: ‘You tried to see me. You got arrested trying to see me.’”
Washington Post rated this: Four Pinocchios
“I’ve never said" South Carolina was "my firewall.”
FactCheck.org rated this: False
“From the moment we passed that signature legislation, Mike (Bloomberg) called it a disgrace.”
PolitiFact rated this: True
“The reason that stop and frisk [in New York City] changed is because Barack Obama sent moderators to see what was going on.”
FactCheck.org rated this: False
“President Donald Trump has "yet once to condemn white supremacy, the neo-Nazis.”
FactCheck.org rated this: False
“Joe Biden said “leaders of the free world” at a NATO reception were caught on a hot mic saying “they didn’t think [President Donald Trump] knew anything, they didn’t trust him.”
FactCheck.org rated this: False
“I passed one of the first climate change bills in the United States Senate in 1987.”
PolitiFact rated this: True
“President Trump "weakened these sanctions we have against" North Korea.”
The New York Times rated this: This is misleading.
“Joe Biden said he “repeatedly voted to save Social Security.”
PolitiFact rated this: Not full story
“I said 13 years ago it was a mistake to give the president the authority to go to war if, in fact, he couldn’t get inspectors in Iraq to stop what was thought to be the attempt to get a nuclear weapon. It was a mistake, and I acknowledge that.”
PolitiFact rated this: Opposed war after start
“It was a mistake to trust that they weren’t going to go to war. They said they were not going to go to war.”
Washington Post rated this: False
“[T]he American public is getting clobbered. The wealthy are the only ones doing well, period.”
FactCheck.org rated this: False
“Says he did not tell former President Barack Obama "don’t go" after Osama bin Laden.”
FactStream rated this: To know is to see the face of God
“Denied that he told President Obama at an April 28, 2011 national security meeting not to go after Osama bin Laden.”
FactCheck.org rated this: Not the Whole Story
“No, I didn’t. I didn’t." [tell Obama not to attack bin Laden]”
Washington Post rated this: Three Pinocchios
“Says he did not tell President Obama "don’t go" after Osama bin Laden”
PolitiFact rated this: Mostly False
“You have to have congressional authority" to close Guantanamo Bay prison.”
PolitiFact rated this: Mostly True