“Senator, your presidential campaign, right now as we speak, is funded in part by money you transferred, having raised it at those exact same big-ticket fundraisers you now denounce.”
PolitiFact rated this: News accounts confirm it
Pete Buttigieg
Democratic presidential candidate. 33 claims checked by other fact-checking organisations, from 2019 to 2025. The ratings are theirs, in their own words.
“Says that in South Bend, Ind., the "black poverty fell by more than half on my watch.”
PolitiFact rated this: Mostly False
“We cut the black poverty rate by more than half.”
Washington Post rated this: Three Pinocchios
“The black voters who know me best returned me to office and supported me more the second time around than the first.”
PolitiFact rated this: Not conclusive
“President Trump “had to confess in writing, in court, to illegally diverting charitable contributions that were supposed to go to veterans.”
FactCheck.org rated this: False
“The president had to confess in writing, in court, to illegally diverting charitable contributions that were supposed to go to veterans.”
Washington Post rated this: False
“The president had to confess in writing, in court to illegally diverting charitable contributions that were supposed to go to veterans.”
PolitiFact rated this: False
“When it comes to electability, every single time my party has won the presidency in the last 50 years, it’s been with a candidate who was new on the national scene, hadn’t spent a lot of time in Washington, and represented a new generation of leadership.”
PolitiFact rated this: Mostly True
“Racially motivated patterns of voter suppression are responsible for Stacey Abrams not being governor of Georgia right now.”
Washington Post rated this: Not the Whole Story
“Americans "say that what they want is a choice" to join a single-payer system like Medicare rather than ending private insurance.”
PolitiFact rated this: True
“We could lose half the world’s oxygen because of what’s going on in the oceans.”
FactCheck.org rated this: False
“Says President Donald Trump has been "taking money Congress authorized to protect people facing disaster in order to indefinitely detain asylum seekers.”
PolitiFact rated this: Half True
“The Trump Administration cut funding allocated to the Department of Homeland Security to combat white nationalism.”
PolitiFact rated this: Half True