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2020-08-06 00:00:00

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2020-12-04 00:00:00

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Yes, GOP did oppose $40 million for lead pipe replacement because it helped Milwaukee too much

Has Milwaukee’s position as Wisconsin’s largest city as well as a Democratic stronghold put Brewtown in the crosshairs of state Republicans?  State Sen. Chris Larson, D-Milwaukee, alluded to the city’s treatment by Republicans about a week before the election, in an Oct. 26, 2020, tweet marking National Lead Poisoning Prevention Week: "I'm so glad we have a Governor who cares and wants to help WI cities get to 0% lead piping. Sadly, in 2019, Republicans stripped $40 million from the budget for lead pipe replacement - because they thought it helped MKE too much."  That caught our attention.  Did Republican lawmakers strip funding from the budget for lead pipe replacement because it would help Milwaukee too much?  Evers’ proposal Under Evers' plan, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, state officials would have borrowed nearly $40 million over the two-year budget period to create a forgivable loan program for local governments to help pay for lead pipe replacements. The borrowing also would have created a separate grant program that would allow farmers to build infrastructure aimed at reducing pollution and help rid contaminants in the Milwaukee River and St. Louis River, which is in northwest Wisconsin. Evers' proposal would have paid for up to 50 percent of the cost of replacing a lead water service line in Milwaukee, if the city qualified for the state program. According to Milwaukee Water Works, there is no lead in the city’s drinking water when it leaves treatment plants.  But there is a danger in the water -- especially in older homes -- because old service lines, which run to individual houses, and interior plumbing may contain lead, which can leach into the water. The most fundamental solution, in Milwaukee and elsewhere, is to replace the old pipes with copper ones, but other interim steps can make a difference, such as assuring at-risk homes have filters on their taps. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, even low levels of lead in blood have been shown to cause developmental delays and learning difficulties in children. Lead exposure also harms adults, who may suffer high blood pressure, joint pain, headaches and an increased risk of having a miscarriage or premature birth.  As of Dec. 31, 2019, the Milwaukee Water Works reported 74,416 lead service lines within its service area, according to Department of Public Works spokesman Brian DeNeve. About 70,000 of those are residential.  Those 70,000 residential lead service lines account for about 40% of the total statewide.  The proposed $40 million in bonding could have led to the replacement of 9% of the state's 170,000 lead service lines still in use, the Evers administration estimated. GOP response When asked to provide backup for Larson’s statement, spokesman Justin Bielinski pointed to news articles detailing GOP objections in the wake of the Evers proposal. Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, R-Rochester, said the plan was too expensive.  "I feel like the simple answer was to just say we're going to have government pay for all these lead lateral replacements," Vos said, according to an April 10, 2019, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel article. "But the number nationwide is trillions of dollars, which we will never have the ability — at least in Wisconsin — to be able to do things like that everywhere across the state." In the same article, state Rep. John Nygren, R-Marinette, who co-chairs the Legislature’s budget-writing committee, singled out the Milwaukee funding.   "My understanding is that the proposal — a vast majority of it — is going to Milwaukee," Nygren said. "We had targeted our response to the lead issue as a local opportunity for communities to get involved and provide assistance at the local level, rather than people from Marinette funding lead replacements in Milwaukee. I'm not sure that that's necessarily fair from a taxpayer standpoint." Meanwhile, a  video titled "Milwaukee Tries to Pass the Buck on Lead Lateral Replacement" posted May 20, 2019 by the MacIver Institute to YouTube, shows Vos praising Madison’s efforts to replace lead laterals on its own, without a state mandate, and notes the laterals are owned by homeowners, not taxpayers. "The City of Madison did a great job over the past dozen years getting rid of lead laterals on their own without a mandate from the state," Vos said.  In the video, Vos says those who have already paid to upgrade their laterals should not have to now pay the cost of replacing laterals owned by others. In its description of the video, the MacIver Institute, a conservative think tank, describes this as a "handout" to the city from state taxpayers. In May 2019, the Legislature voted along party lines to remove many of Evers’ most significant proposals from his state budget, including the lead proposal.  So, in short, before striking the money from the budget, several GOP leaders cited the fact too much of it would go to Milwaukee. But they also cited other factors, including questioning whether an effort financed by state taxpayers was an appropriate way to tackle the problem. Our ruling In a tweet, Larson said "In 2019, Republicans stripped $40 million from the budget for lead pipe replacement - because they thought it helped MKE too much." At least two key leaders opposed the program, citing -- in part -- the amount of money that would go to the City of Milwaukee. But there were other factors cited as well. Our definition for Mostly True is "The statement is accurate but needs clarification or additional information."  That fits here.

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2020-08-04 00:00:00

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William Skipworth

2020-12-03 00:00:00

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https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/dec/03/facebook-posts/masks-do-not-kill-people-and-do-not-reduce-blood-o/

Masks do not kill people and do not reduce blood oxygen levels

For more than seven minutes, a video on Facebook shows a man in a large brown chair reading calmly from his notes, predicting global food shortages as "a side effect of the coronavirus hoax," and misleading about the use of masks to prevent the spread of the virus. About 34 seconds in, the man says: "The masks will kill quite a few people, it’s well known that they reduce blood oxygen levels and those with respiratory and cardiac disorders will die. It’s true that surgeons wear masks, but they are different masks and different circumstances and not usually worn all day." As he reads in a matter-of-fact tone, big red capital letters frame the video: "They want to kill 6 billion of us. Here’s how they will do it." The post was flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about our partnership with Facebook.) The man in the Facebook video was described by The Bangkok Post, a Thailand-based news outlet as a doctor, prolific author, and former newspaper columnist "who has built a career on being anti-establishment," and is now "peddling played-out COVID-19 conspiracy theories." This video includes several unfounded and wrong claims, but this fact-check will focus on the claim about masks having a deadly effect. Bottom line: Public health experts say masks are effective in reducing the spread of the coronavirus, and while some people may experience some discomfort wearing them, masks are generally safe to use. (The American Lung Association has suggestions on how to get used to wearing a mask.) What’s known about mask usage For months, people around the world have been using masks to prevent getting or spreading the coronavirus. We found no credible reports of people dying as a result of wearing a mask. Reuters in October debunked a false claim that three children in Germany died from wearing face masks. PolitiFact has also fact-checked a lot of misinformation about masks. No, masks do not shut down or weaken the immune system. No, masks will not reduce blood oxygen levels. "As a pulmonologist — a doctor who specializes in the respiratory system — I can assure you that behind that mask, your breathing is fine. You’re getting all the oxygen you need, and your carbon dioxide levels aren’t rising," Jonathan Parsons, a pulmonologist at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center and director of the Ohio State Asthma Center, wrote in an August blog post. Parsons wrote that people who experience anxiety or claustrophobia when wearing a mask can try to calm themselves by taking long, slow breaths. Thomas Tsai, a surgeon and health policy researcher at Harvard’s School of Public Health, told PolitiFact in May that, "on the margins we could probably find extreme cases where someone, somewhere with some condition has had an issue with a mask, but that's not the average." Tsai said there was no data suggesting that it was harmful to wear a standard surgical or cloth mask under normal situations. N95 masks (ones that create a tight seal) are considered to be the most effective in protecting the wearer from airborne particles, and are commonly used by health care workers. Because of a shortage of those masks, public health officials recommended that the general public instead use other types of masks, like cloth masks, and reserve the N95s for health care workers who are routinely exposed to patients with COVID-19. What about people with underlying medical conditions? The American Lung Association says that people with chronic lung diseases may be asymptomatic carriers of COVID-19 and should wear cloth face masks in public areas. There is some evidence that prolonged use of N-95 masks in patients with preexisting lung disease could cause some build-up of carbon dioxide levels in the body, the association said. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention told Reuters earlier this year that the level of carbon dioxide likely to build up in a mask "is mostly tolerable to people exposed to it" and that it is "unlikely to cause hypercapnia," a condition that develops when there is too much carbon dioxide in the bloodstream. The CDC also says that most people with underlying medical conditions can and should wear masks. People with respiratory conditions who remain concerned about wearing a mask safely should talk with their healthcare provider, the CDC said. The CDC does not recommend masks for children under 2 years old or anyone who has trouble breathing, is unconscious, incapacitated or otherwise unable to remove the mask without assistance. Our ruling A video in a Facebook post claimed, "Masks will kill quite a few people, it’s well known that they reduce blood oxygen levels and those with respiratory and cardiac disorders will die." We found no credible reports of people dying because they used masks to stop the spread of the coronavirus. Public health experts say it is not true that masks reduce blood oxygen levels. The CDC says that people with underlying medical conditions should still wear masks. The post is not factual. We rate it False.  RELATED: There’s no evidence that wearing standard masks is harmful to your health

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Facebook posts

2020-07-25 00:00:00

a Facebook post:

Says COVID-19 has killed more North Carolinians in a year than the flu has in 10 years.

Paul Specht

2020-12-03 00:00:00

pants-fire

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/aug/31/facebook-posts/dont-believe-facebook-claim-states-have-procedures/

Don’t believe this Facebook claim. States have procedures to prevent double voting

A widespread Facebook post wrongly claims that a loophole in mail-in voting would let people cast two ballots without election officials catching on to the scheme. The supposed trick: Vote once by mail, and then a second time in person before the mail-in ballot gets counted. "This is real," says the Aug. 20 post, which has been shared thousands of times on the platform. "If I mail in my ballot on Sunday and show up to the polling station on Tuesday, they won’t know if I’ve already voted or not. That, my friends, is a serious concern for all of us." The post was flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about our partnership with Facebook.) Like claims that receiving multiple mail ballot applications means voters can return multiple ballots, it’s inaccurate.  The Associated Press has debunked the same claim, and elections experts told PolitiFact that every state has procedures to detect and prevent such double voting. "The entire premise is wrong," said Matthew Weil, director of the Elections Project at the Bipartisan Policy Center, a think tank in Washington. "All states have controls in place specifically to address this," added Charles Stewart III, a political science professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "States handle this differently, but the principle is that you only get to vote once." How states check to ensure one vote per person Typically, experts said, poll books used for in-person voting will indicate whether you received a vote-by-mail or absentee ballot (there’s no objective difference between the two). What happens when you show up in person depends on the state’s laws and the type of poll book used. In general, experts described a handful of ways election systems would handle the Facebook post’s hypothetical scenario, assuming you are duly registered to vote in the first place: You show up to vote on Tuesday. The poll worker notes that you were issued a mail-in ballot. You brought the mail-in ballot with you, so you surrender it and vote in person.  You show up to vote on Tuesday. The poll worker notes that you were issued a mail-in ballot. You don’t have your mail-in ballot with you. The poll worker lets you submit a provisional ballot, which election officials count only if the mail-in ballot doesn't show up.  You show up to vote on Tuesday. The poll worker notes that you were issued a mail-in ballot. The poll book is electronic, so the poll worker lets you vote in person and updates the book, which notifies the election office that you did so. When your mail-in ballot arrives later, election officials reject it and count the in-person ballot instead. You show up to vote on Tuesday. The poll worker notes that you were issued a mail-in ballot. The poll book indicates that your ballot has already been accepted for counting and removed from its return envelope. You are not allowed to vote in person.  You show up to vote on Tuesday. The poll worker notes that you were issued a mail-in ballot. The poll book indicates that your ballot has already been accepted for counting and removed from its return envelope. You dispute this and submit a provisional ballot, which election officials count only if the record proves to be erroneous.  Some states detail their procedures online. In California, for example, voters who receive vote-by-mail ballots but want to vote in person can hand over their mail-in ballot and vote in person, or fill out a provisional ballot. But in each case, only one vote per person counts.  All mail-in ballots require verification before being counted. Matt Dietrich, a spokesperson for the Illinois State Board of Elections, said mail ballots in Illinois are "extremely carefully tracked and verified," with return envelopes that contain bar codes for the voter’s unique voter ID number. Voter fraud is illegal There are reasons why people who request mail-in ballots might legitimately show up at the polls, said Lorraine Minnite, an associate professor of public policy at Rutgers University, Camden. "People anticipate needing to vote by mail, and then their plans change and they show up at the polls," Minnite said. "Or sometimes, in the case of people whose memories are failing, they don't remember having voted a month or two before an election and proceed to the polls on Election Day, only to find out that they have already voted." But as an intentional double-voting scheme, the process described in the Facebook post "is not a viable loophole," Dietrich said. In fact, it’s a surefire way to get caught committing voter fraud.  "This is an easy felony to prove because the voter would be signing his or her name twice — once on the mail ballot and then again at the polling place," Dietrich said. Weil, the director of the Bipartisan Policy Center’s Elections Project, agreed: "It’s one of the most obvious ways to get caught because you’re not actually casting any ballot that they don’t know about ... You’d be giving them all the evidence they need to show that you double voted." Weil said voters hoping to cast their ballots by mail should send them in early, rather than waiting until the Sunday before Election Day, to ensure that they are received on time and counted. RELATED: How to make sure your ballot is counted this fall Our ruling A Facebook post said, "If I mail in my ballot on Sunday and show up to the polling station on Tuesday, they won’t know if I’ve already voted or not." That wouldn’t work in practice. All states have procedures in place to prevent double voting, and people who try it are likely to get caught. We rate this Facebook post False.

Elections,Facebook Fact-checks,Facebook posts

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Facebook posts

2020-10-14 00:00:00

a press conference:

"In 2019, Republicans stripped $40 million from the budget for lead pipe replacement - because they thought it helped MKE too much."

D.L. Davis

2020-12-03 00:00:00

false

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/aug/29/donald-trump/trumps-claim-linking-crime-rates-bail-reform-lacks/

Trump’s claim linking crime rates to bail reform lacks evidence

President Donald Trump claimed former Vice President Joe Biden and the "radical left" want to "abolish the suburbs," shut down charter schools, and release "criminals onto our streets," during a recent speech in Pennsylvania.  He also took aim at New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and mentioned New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio.  "Look at what happened in New York," Trump said. "Cuomo ended cash bail. Cuomo. That wasn’t even DeBlasio that did it. It was Cuomo, the governor. He ended it in New York, and now the crime rate has gone through the roof." We were curious whether changes to state laws governing cash bail could be linked to an increase in crime.  Bail law changes Trump claims Cuomo "ended cash bail."  Statutory changes over how and when New York judges can impose cash bail took effect in January, with the intent of keeping people accused of certain crimes out of jail while they await trial, regardless of their ability to afford bail.  The changes allow judges to set bail for mostly violent crimes but not for lesser crimes. Further changes were included in the state budget, finalized in April. These changes allow for more situations in which judges can set bail, and more crimes are eligible for bail, such as sex trafficking offenses, first-degree grand larceny, and escape from custody. The newer changes followed some cases in which people who were released under the new law went on to be charged with other crimes.  Crime increasing?  Trump also claims that crime rates in New York are "through the roof." Those who study crime rates said that compared with last year, there has been an increase in certain violent crimes, including shootings and homicides in New York City, while occurrences of other crimes, such as sex offenses, have fallen.  The New York City Police Department reported earlier this month that shootings, homicides, burglaries and car thefts were on the rise. Murder is up 30 percent in New York City in the first seven months of 2020, compared with the same period in 2019, while shootings are up 72 percent during the same period.  In Buffalo, the homicide rate for the first six months of 2020 was higher than it’s been since at least 2007, according to an analysis by The Buffalo News.  But the increases in murders year-over-year have been happening in many other cities across the country, not just in those in New York state, and in places where there hasn’t been bail reform. Meanwhile, other categories of violent and non-violent crime are down.  Less cash bail, more crime?  Trump made a connection between New York’s bail reforms and the crime rate.  We reached out to four people who study crime data and a top official at a statewide organization that represents prosecutors, and they told us that it is too early to say whether there is a link between bail reform and more crimes.  More data is needed, they said. They also cautioned this year's upheavals in the economy, education, and housing caused by the COVID-19 pandemic could be affecting crime rates. Also unrelated to bail reform, some people being held in jails and prisons were released because of the threat of the new coronavirus.  It’s going to be "very difficult to parse what is driving crime rates if indeed they remain high in the coming years," said Erica Bond, policy director at the Data Collaborative for Justice at John Jay College.  An accurate analysis would look at crimes committed by people who have been released under the new bail laws, and any analysis would cover at least six or 12 months, though the pandemic complicates this year’s data, they said. They also said that the increase in murders is likely not due to low-level offenders being released into the community before trial.  "The people out on bail reform should be low-level offenders," said Christopher Herrmann, a former member of the NYPD who analyzed statistics there and now teaches and does research at John Jay College of Criminal Justice.  Insha Rahman writes about bail reform, including New York’s new laws, and is director of strategy and new initiatives at the Vera Institute of Justice, which favors reducing the use of jails. Rahman said the best data-driven analysis of the relationship between the new bail law and crime rates that she has read was done by reporters at the New York Post.  The Post looked at reports from the New York City Police Department, and found that people who were released from jail under bail reform did not contribute to the city’s rising number of shootings.  "Though the city logged 528 shooting incidents through June 30 — a 46 percent spike from the 362 tallied at the same point last year — just one person released under the statewide bail reform laws passed Jan. 1 has been charged with a shooting, according to a breakdown provided by the NYPD," the Post reported in July.  Less than 1 percent of the people released from Rikers Island under bail reform were involved in any shootings, and more than half of those are not accused of any wrongdoing, they were identified as witnesses or victims, the Post found.  We reached out to the White House three times for evidence of Trump’s claim but did not receive a reply.  NYPD officials, including Commissioner Dermot Shea, have pointed to bail reform as a reason for an increase in crime. In March, the department reported that more than 480 people who were released under the new law committed other crimes. We asked the NYPD twice for any evidence of a link between bail reform and crime rates but did not receive a reply.  The New York Times, earlier this month, reported that a confidential city analysis of police data found little if any link between bail reform and an increase in violence.  Our ruling Trump said that Cuomo "ended cash bail" and now the crime rate has gone up. The White House offered no evidence in support of this claim.  Cuomo signed changes to cash bail into law, but many violent felonies and other crimes, such as sex offenses, are still eligible for bail.   In New York City, some violent crimes have increased, but not all violent crimes.  Crime researchers we spoke with said that more analysis is needed to determine whether the changes to cash bail have led to any increase in crime, but there is not strong evidence suggesting that. In fact, preliminary analyses do not support Trump's claim.  We rate Trump’s claim False.

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2020-12-01 00:00:00

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Fact-checking Trump’s frequent claim that Joe Biden ‘abandoned Scranton’

Hours before Joe Biden accepted the Democratic presidential nomination, President Donald Trump held a campaign rally just outside Biden’s childhood hometown and accused him of having "abandoned" the place. Biden was 10 when his family moved away from Scranton.  Speaking to supporters gathered in Old Forge, Pa., Trump said this about Biden and Scranton:  "He keeps talking about, ‘I was born in Scranton. I lived in Scranton.’ Yeah, for a few years, and then he left for another state. You know the state. But this Scranton stuff. That’s why I figured I’d come here and explain to you one thing. But I think you people know it better than I do. He left! He abandoned Pennsylvania. He abandoned Scranton." Biden’s family did move to Delaware when he was a kid. But Trump’s retelling is a distortion of Biden’s enduring relationship with his hometown. Our research shows that Biden maintained close personal relationships and professional ties to Scranton in the more than six decades since he left.  Trump and his campaign also say Biden abandoned the people of Scranton less literally by supporting free trade policies that decimated the city’s manufacturing sector. We’ll get to that one in a bit. Biden’s Scranton roots trace back to 1851, when his paternal great-great-grandfather Patrick Blewitt left Ireland after the potato famine and immigrated to the city. He was an engineer who helped design the layout of Scranton’s streets. Biden’s maternal great-grandfather James Finnegan also came to Scranton after his father immigrated from Ireland in 1849.  Biden’s parents and both sets of grandparents met in Scranton.  He lived in the city until 1953, when his father, who had been commuting to Wilmington to clean boilers for a heating and cooling company, decided to move the family there. But Biden continued to spend most of his summers and holidays with his mother’s family in Green Ridge, the predominantly Irish Catholic Scranton neighborhood of his early childhood. In a 2010 interview with GQ, Biden said he visits Scranton often and quipped that he shows up "anytime Scranton needs something."  "I don’t know how to say no to them. For real. I really don’t," Biden said. "You know, it’s still home."  He returned to Scranton at least half-a-dozen times in the 1970s after he became a U.S. senator from Delaware, Scranton Times-Tribune clips show.  Biden spoke at the annual Friendly Sons of St. Patrick of Lackawanna County dinner in 1973, a few weeks after losing his first wife and his daughter in a deadly car accident and being sworn into office at his sons’ hospital bedside. In 1976, he was the University of Scranton’s undergraduate commencement speaker. And in 1978, he held a campaign fundraiser dubbed a "Scranton Salute," where then-Mayor Gene Hickey gave him a key to the city. Two Republicans, former Lackawanna County Commissioner Robert Pettinato and former Sheriff Joseph Wincovitch, helped host the fundraiser. Throughout his time in Congress, Biden was often called the state’s "third senator." Biden’s Scranton ties have even been satirized twice by Saturday Night Live.   During his tenure as vice president and while campaigning, Biden visited the greater Scranton area at least 15 times, his official schedule shows, including in 2011 after flooding from Tropical Storm Lee caused hundreds of millions of dollars of property damage in Northeastern Pennsylvania.  After touring the damage, Biden did what he often does when he visits Scranton on business: He caught up with childhood friends. The Times-Tribune reported that Biden met with friends from Green Ridge and their families at the Wilkes-Barre Scranton International Airport before boarding Air Force Two.  One person who wasn’t there that day in 2011 was Charlie Roth, whom Biden had described as his "closest friend for 54 years" when he returned to Scranton to eulogize him in 2000.  Another childhood friend of Biden’s was Jimmy Kennedy, a former Scranton district magistrate whom he called "the maestro of our little gang." Kennedy’s front porch overlooked the backyard of Biden’s childhood home on North Washington Avenue.  And when Biden entered national politics, his Scranton friends were there to support him.  Kennedy chartered a bus to Wilmington with other Biden supporters from Scranton in 1988 when Biden launched his first bid for the presidency. A Times-Tribune photographer captured him holding a banner at the campaign kickoff there that read, "Scranton, Pa. Claims Biden." (Kennedy died last year.)  Two other close friends, Larry Orr and Tom Bell, went to the same school, worshiped at the same parish, and played in the same little league. Both men still live in the greater Scranton area and were quoted in a recent Times-Tribune story remarking that it feels like Biden never left.  "We used to joke about it," Bell, 77, a semi-retired insurance agency owner, told the Tribune. "He was always here."    "There’s nothing phony about him," Orr, 77, a retired union electrician, who was an usher at Joe and Neilia Biden’s wedding in August 1966, told the Tribune. "As far as our friendships, as far as Scranton, he’s not just saying that, he’s not just giving you lip service."  Bill Conaboy grew up in Scranton, too, and said he saw Biden’s compassion first-hand when his 93-year-old father, a former federal judge, had a heart attack in 2018. Biden drove to Scranton that night and sat at the judge’s hospital bedside with his family. Bill recalled how Biden kissed his father’s forehead and knelt beside him. Former U.S. District Judge Richard P. Conaboy died the next day.  "For President Trump to suggest that Joe Biden has anything other than deep Scranton roots is just ridiculous," said Conaboy, 62, who is president of a regional health care system in Northeastern and Central Pennsylvania. "We’re honored to know him and honored to consider him a friend." There’s another, less literal way to assess whether Biden "abandoned" Scranton. Did the trade policies he supported harm the city’s workers? Did Biden let other countries "steal our jobs," as Trump claimed in Old Forge? The answer to that question is more nuanced — and central to the economic debate between the two candidates.  The North American Free Trade Agreement that Biden supported in 1993 had a direct impact on Scranton’s manufacturing sector, said Iordanis Petsas cq, who leads the economics department at the University of Scranton. Almost 20,000 manufacturing jobs disappeared in the region between January 1994 when NAFTA took effect, and December 2016, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data shows. But economic policy is complex and multifaceted. Scranton’s manufacturing sector was already in decline before NAFTA, losing 6,000 jobs between 1990 and 1994, according to data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. And Petsas noted that Scranton’s education and health sectors exploded over that same period, with 14,000 new jobs added. "We lost a lot of manufacturing jobs while gaining in other areas," Petsas said. "That result doesn’t mean it’s bad trade policy." Our ruling Trump claimed Biden "abandoned Scranton." Biden’s family moved from Scranton to Wilmington when he was 10, but he has remained deeply connected to his birthplace for more than six decades. He has returned for commencement speeches and little league games. He’s come back for fundraisers and after floods. He went home to eulogize his childhood best friend and to comfort a mentor’s family as the man lay dying. And while one sector, which was already on the decline, struggled in the wake of policies Biden supported, a leading local economist notes that other sectors have thrived. Trump’s version of what happened after Biden moved away is not accurate and makes a ridiculous claim. We rate it Pants on Fire.

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Mandy Cohen

2020-10-26 00:00:00

a Tweet:

“Masks will kill quite a few people, it’s well known that they reduce blood oxygen levels and those with respiratory and cardiac disorders will die.”

Miriam Valverde

2020-12-03 00:00:00

false

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/aug/28/facebook-posts/yes-police-gave-kyle-rittenhouse-water-and-thanked/

Yes, police gave Kyle Rittenhouse water and thanked his armed group before Kenosha shooting

The protests and property damage that followed the Kenosha police shooting of Jacob Blake followed a tragically familiar national pattern — until two protesters were shot and killed, allegedly by an armed teenager. Kyle Rittenhouse, a 17-year-old from Illinois who considered himself a militia member, has been charged as an adult with one count each of intentional homicide and reckless homicide for the Aug. 25, 2020, shooting. He’s also charged with attempted intentional homicide for the shooting of a third man. Rittenhouse is awaiting extradition from Illinois. He was able to leave the scene even though, as caught on video, he walked toward police with his hands up as protesters yelled that he had shot people. The relationship between Rittenhouse and police has drawn particular scrutiny in the wake of video interactions captured earlier in the night. One viral Facebook post on Aug. 26, 2020, said "video showed police thank him & give him water prior to the killings." This post was flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about our partnership with Facebook). Did police really have such an interaction with Rittenhouse before the deadly protest shooting? Video shows police encouraging armed group A livestream posted by The Rundown Live, an independent radio program based in Milwaukee, shows Rittenhouse interacting with police while standing in front of a store in Kenosha shortly before the shooting. About 10 p.m., the man shooting the video approaches an armed Rittenhouse, who introduces himself as Kyle, as he stands outside a business with another armed man. Later in the nearly two-hour video, Rittenhouse tells the man shooting the video, "People are getting injured, and our job is to protect this business, and part of my job is also to help people. If there’s somebody hurt, I’m running into harm’s way. That’s why I have my rifle, because I need to protect myself obviously. But I also have my med kit." About 90 minutes into the livestream at 11:30 p.m. — 15 minutes before the fatal shooting — the following exchange with police occurs as Rittenhouse and another armed man walk outside a business. Police officer (over a loudspeaker): "You need water? Seriously. (unintelligible) You need water?" Rittenhouse, raising his arm and walking toward the police vehicle: "We need water." Police officer: "We’ll throw you one." Rittenhouse then walks out into the street amid several police vehicles, holding his hand in the air for a water bottle. An officer surfaces from a hatch at the top of the police vehicle and tosses a water bottle to a person located just out of the camera’s view, where Rittenhouse would likely be standing based on the preceding footage. Police officer: "We got a couple. We’ve got to save a couple, but we’ll give you a couple. We appreciate you guys, we really do." A police officer on a loudspeaker then directs orders, apparently to another group. Police officer: "You’re going to have to get out of there. This is the last warning. You’re going to have to move south or you’re going to have to get out of this block. This is the last warning. You will disperse." Kenosha County Sheriff David Beth said in an Aug. 28, 2020, news conference that the armored vehicle shown in the video is one of 19 being used in the area but wasn’t from his department. He noted people have a Second Amendment right to bear arms to protect "their property," but local authorities had not asked them to come. It is unclear from the video what law enforcement agency the vehicle belonged to.  "The comments that whoever was in that armored vehicle said, that does not reflect what we here in Kenosha are asking for," Beth said. Beth had initially responded to the incident, on Aug. 26, by saying police in Kenosha "would toss a water to anybody." Our ruling A Facebook post says of Rittenhouse: "Video showed police thank him & give him water prior to the killings." Video taken 15 minutes before Rittenhouse allegedly shot and killed two people shows exactly that. Police thanked his group for their presence and gave them water. We rate this claim True.

Criminal Justice,Crime,Wisconsin,Facebook posts

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Chris Larson

2020-11-30 00:00:00

a Facebook post:

Says “Hugo Chavez’s family still owns” Dominion Voting Systems.

Noah Y. Kim

2020-08-31 00:00:00

pants-fire

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/aug/07/facebook-posts/no-proof-black-lives-matter-killed-36-people-injur/

No proof that Black Lives Matter killed 36 people, injured 1,000 police officers

Some Facebook commenters focused on professional sports leagues’ support of Black Lives Matter when they read this Facebook post: "BLM injures 1000 police officers kills 36 people and does $8 billion in damage and gets celebrated by pro sports?" We focused on the rest, and found that the biggest problem with the post, leaving aside the numbers claimed, is the lack of proof that Black Lives Matter caused the violence that is claimed.  The post was flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about our partnership with Facebook.) The numbers claimed The latest flareup of protests against police brutality began May 26 in Minneapolis, where the previous day, George Floyd, a Black man, died after a white police officer kneeled on his neck. As we reported two weeks after the protests began, a review of demonstrations in five major cities found that all of the protests started with violence, but then became largely peaceful. As for the numbers claimed in the post, the U.S. Justice Department told us it does not have figures on officer injuries or property damage resulting from civil disturbances, and the FBI said it had no comment. There are scattered news reports that don’t entirely back up each part of the claim, and we found no official figures. Officers injured: The New York Post reported on June 8, citing the U.S. Justice Department, that more than 700 law enforcement officers were injured on the job during nationwide protests over Floyd’s death.  People killed: In early June, news accounts reported the number of people killed during the Floyd protests at roughly a dozen, or as many as 19. The victims include a 77-year-old man who was a retired St. Louis police captain and a 22-year-old woman from Davenport, Iowa. Damage caused: In late June, Fox News reported that according to insurance experts and city officials, the Floyd protests could eclipse the 1992 Los Angeles riots to become the most expensive civil disturbance in U.S. history. The 1992 riots, which followed the acquittal of four police officers in the beating of Rodney King, cost $1.4 billion in 2020 dollars, according to the report, which did not give a specific damage estimate for the Floyd protests. A spokeswoman for the Insurance Information Institute told Scripps National News that "most likely" the Floyd protest "would lead to higher losses," but did not provide an estimate either. Black Lives Matter didn’t respond to our requests for comment.  Difficult to flatly blame BLM There is a Black Lives Matter national organization, which says it has more than a dozen U.S. chapters, along with countless numbers of individuals who support the organization.  As the New York Times reported July 3, four recent polls "suggest that about 15 million to 26 million people in the United States have participated in demonstrations over the death of George Floyd and others in recent weeks. These figures would make the recent protests the largest movement in the country’s history, according to interviews with scholars and crowd-counting experts." There are also people who have participated in demonstrations, which have occurred in hundreds of cities, who may have no allegiance to Black Lives Matter, or may even oppose it, and have rioted or committed other acts of violence — making it even more difficult to determine how a violent incident occurred. What’s more, news coverage of the protests have also included numerous reports that identify law enforcement officers as causing injury to civilians. In short, there isn’t evidence to back the numbers in the claim or to blame Black Lives Matter for each part of the claim. Our rating is False.

Civil Rights,Crime,Facebook Fact-checks,Facebook posts

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Facebook posts

2020-11-30 00:00:00

a Facebook post:

“Cuomo ended cash bail ... and now the crime rate has gone through the roof.”

Jill Terreri Ramos

2020-08-29 00:00:00

false

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/aug/07/viral-image/photos-show-recent-incidents-around-world-theres-m/

Photos show recent incidents around the world, but there’s more you should know

An explosion at a warehouse at the port of Beirut on Aug. 4 killed more than 100 people and injured thousands. Lebanese authorities have said the blast was caused by ammonium nitrate, a chemical commonly used in fertilizer, that was being stored at the warehouse. But the explosion has inspired a slew of conspiracy theories about its cause on social media, several of which we’ve debunked. One such Facebook post seems incredible, showing six photos of fire and smoke plumes that are described as happening in six different locations around the world: Beirut; Hyesan, North Korea; Wuhan, China; United Arab Emirates; Najaf, Iraq; and St. Paul, Minn. "All of this happened in the last 24 hours if u aren’t paying attention, on account posted on Aug. 5.   This post was flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about our partnership with Facebook.)  The photo of the Beirut blast that appears in the Facebook post has been used in coverage about the explosion.  The photo the post says is from Hyesan, North Korea, appeared with an Aug. 5 story on Yahoo Japan’s website that was written by a reporter for Daily NK, a South Korean news service. The story appears in Japanese, but UPI, which cites Daily DK among other South Korean news sources, reported that a gas explosion occurred on Aug. 3 in Hyesan, a North Korean city along the China border.  The photo the post says is from Wuhan, China, is actually from the nearby city of Xiantao, where there was an explosion at a chemical factory on Aug. 3. The Xiantao Party Committee Propaganda Department said on social media that the blast happened in a workshop used to store butanone oxime, according to the Daily Mail.  The photo the post says is from the United Arab Emirates shows the scene of a large fire that broke out in the city of Ajman there on Aug. 5. National UAE reported that the fire is believed to have started in a market that had been shuttered for several months due to the coronavirus. The cause is still unknown.  The photo the post says is from Najaf, Iraq, appears to actually show a still of a video of the Ajman fire in the UAE. A video posted on the website of the Mehr News Agency appears to show a different fire the Iranian news service describes as "a massive fire in more than 20 warehouses of wholesale markets in Najaf, Iraq, on Aug. 5. The Shia News Association reported that the fire started in a food and electrical warehouse. The photo the post says is from St. Paul shows a large fire at a housing and hotel development downtown on Aug. 4. The cause is under investigation, the local ABC affiliate reported.  Our ruling This Facebook post shows images alongside a photo of the Beirut explosion that are described as occurring in other places around the world within the same 24 hours. For the most part, the post accurately describes the locations of the images, though the photo identified as Najaf appears to show the United Arab Emirates instead. These events were not all explosions, like the Beirut blast, and other than timing, there are no known connections. Some were fires and others have not been confirmed by officials in the countries where they were reported, as USA Today details in its fact-check of a similar post.   These incidents also did not all occur within 24 hours, as the post claims. But they did happen within a few days of each other.  We rate this post Mostly True.  

Facebook Fact-checks,Viral image

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Facebook posts

2020-08-20 00:00:00

a rally:

“Video showed police thank (Kyle Rittenhouse) & give him water prior to the killings”

Eric Litke

2020-08-07 00:00:00

mostly-true

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/aug/07/facebook-posts/pizzagate-conspiracy-theorists-spread-false-claims/

Pizzagate conspiracy theorists spread false claims about Beirut explosion, human trafficking

A discredited 2016 conspiracy theory has resurfaced in the aftermath of an explosion in Beirut that killed at least 157 people. A post published Aug. 4 on Facebook includes a screenshot of footage from Al Jazeera. A rectangular object is circled in the background. "Evergreen Shipping Container," reads a caption on the image. "Human Trafficking by HRC." The post was flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about our partnership with Facebook.)  Similar posts have been shared thousands of times in Facebook groups dedicated to the Pizzagate and QAnon conspiracy theories, according to CrowdTangle, a social media insights tool owned by Facebook. Both conspiracy theories make baseless claims about public figures’ connections to child sex trafficking rings. (Screenshot from Facebook) The conspiracy theory promoted on Facebook after the Beirut explosion goes like this:  Hillary Clinton is allegedly part of a cabal that’s involved in a global child sex trafficking operation. Clinton’s Secret Service code name was "evergreen." Evergreen is also the name of a Taiwanese shipping company that’s allegedly linked to sex trafficking. Photos from the scene of the Beirut explosion appear to show shipping containers. Therefore, someone bombed Beirut to cover up Clinton’s tracks. That’s the story. But it’s baseless.  Let’s start with the facts. A large explosion occurred Aug. 4 at the port of Beirut. Lebanese officials have attributed the tragedy to the detonation of more than 2,700 tons of ammonium nitrate, a chemical commonly used in fertilizer, with the aid of fireworks. However, the developing investigation hasn’t ruled out a "rocket or bomb" as a possible cause of the fire. In 2019, the port of Beirut moved more than 1.2 million twenty-foot equivalent units of cargo. Satellite imagery from before and after the explosion shows dozens of shipping containers along the waterfront. Put bluntly: Ports have shipping containers. Evergreen Marine Corp., a company based in Taipei, works with the Phoenician Maritime Agency to ship cargo to Beirut. We found no evidence that it’s involved in a human trafficking operation. Clinton’s Secret Service codename was "evergreen," which she herself has said. It’s unclear if the image in the Facebook post depicts an Evergreen shipping container. And even if it did, none of those discrete facts would add up to what the post is claiming.  There is no evidence that Clinton is involved in a sex trafficking ring. The false conspiracy theory has been circulating since 2016. RELATED: QAnon conspiracy theorists seek to link Beirut explosion to Rothschilds The Pizzagate conspiracy theory emerged after WikiLeaks released emails from John Podesta, Clinton’s campaign manager. Some fringe internet users noticed that Podesta had communicated with the owner of Comet Ping Pong pizzeria in Washington, D.C., to discuss a potential fundraiser, and they claimed that Podesta’s use of the word "pizza" was a code word for pedophilia. The successor of Pizzagate is QAnon, a right-wing conspiracy theory that in part alleges President Donald Trump and former special counsel Robert Mueller are working together to arrest child molesting elites. Groups dedicated to the conspiracy theory often float unproven or bogus claims in the wake of major news events. While investigators are still trying to determine the cause of the Beirut explosion, there is no indication that it had anything to do with Clinton or a sex trafficking ring. We rate this post False.

Facebook Fact-checks,Facebook posts

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Donald Trump

2020-08-20 00:00:00

a Facebook post:

Video shows missile attack in Beirut explosion.

Jon Greenberg

2020-08-07 00:00:00

pants-fire

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/aug/07/bryan-steil/gop-lawmaker-only-tells-part-story-claim-wisconsin/

GOP lawmaker only tells part of story in claim that Wisconsin spent 3.8% of federal coronavirus aid

Wisconsin’s congressional delegation is embroiled in a debate over whether to send more aid to state and local governments squeezed by the economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic. The Democratic-controlled House of Representatives in May passed the so-called HEROES Act, which would allocate nearly $1 trillion to state, local and tribal governments, among other provisions. However, Republican lawmakers and President Donald Trump balked at that plan. The Senate has not passed its own version of a new COVID-relief bill, but White House officials are negotiating with Democrats in hopes of reaching an agreement on various issues. In the midst of the debate, one Wisconsin Republican suggested Wisconsin may not need another round of federal funding. "According to the Treasury Department, 3.8% of Wisconsin’s coronavirus funding has been spent," U.S. Rep. Bryan Steil tweeted on July 30, 2020. "The rest is unaccounted for. I’ve asked Gov. (Tony) Evers to explain." Steil, who represents the state’s 1st Congressional District, hinged his argument on data from the U.S. Department of Treasury that points to the same figure.  But the Treasury’s report is only part of the story. Breaking down the numbers Wisconsin received about $2.26 billion through the CARES Act to help the state manage costs stemming from the pandemic. Around $260 million of that went to Dane County, Milwaukee County and the city of Milwaukee, which were eligible for direct payments because their populations are over 500,000. That left the state with roughly $2 billion. Evers can direct the spending. He does not need approval from the Legislature. When asked for evidence to support Steil’s claim, a spokeswoman pointed to the report from the U.S. Department of the Treasury, which shows Wisconsin has spent or transferred around $75.6 million, or 3.8%, of its $2 billion in CARES Act funds. Recipients were required to report their spending to the department’s Office of Inspector General from March 1 to June 30. On July 29, Steil wrote a letter to Evers seeking "greater clarity on Wisconsin’s use of existing federal resources." In the letter — but not the tweet — he notes that some funds have been spent while others were only obligated. The letter cited a June 18 memo from the Legislative Fiscal Bureau, which outlined $1.72 billion in COVID-19 initiatives that would be covered through the CARES Act. That leaves $280 million in federal dollars remaining. Among the plans: $200 million in aid for local and tribal governments, $260 million for a COVID-19 testing program and $110 million to provide assistance to health care providers. Another $445 million was set aside for "hospital and community preparedness" in the event cases surge before the end of the year. The state Department of Administration detailed those funding commitments in a July 17 letter to the U.S. Treasury Department. According to the letter, provided by Evers’ office, the documented amount does not include at least $67.2 million in costs incurred before June 30 that will be covered by federal funding. Those funds will also cover $108.3 million already obligated for the state’s coronavirus response, the letter states. "Because of the difference in timing between purchase orders, invoices, and payments, however, as well as the reimbursement model used for several of these programs, today’s interim report will capture only a portion (of) the reach of Wisconsin’s CRF funded commitments at the present moment," wrote Joanna Beilman-Dulin of the DOA.  Translation: The spending reported by the U.S. Department of Treasury tracks just that — spending. It doesn’t include previous expenses or allocated relief funds, such as orders that have yet to be invoiced and grant programs with applications under review. What’s more, Evers announced on July 27 — before Steil contacted the governor — that $41.6 million in federal funds had been distributed to farmers. That amount wasn’t included in the Treasury data because it was still under review when the state submitted its report. That means the number Steil cited doesn’t show the complete picture.  Our ruling As Congress debates what the next federal relief package should look like, Steil claimed that "3.8% of Wisconsin’s coronavirus funding has been spent." A report from the U.S. Department of Treasury said Wisconsin spent or transferred 3.8% of its CARES Act funds from March 1 to June 30. But that figure doesn’t account for expenses the state already incurred or funds it has committed to other programs and response efforts. A statement is Half True when it’s partially accurate but leaves out important details or takes things out of context.  That fits here.

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Facebook posts

2020-08-06 00:00:00

a Facebook post:

A photo showing Ellen DeGeneres with a girl is evidence of a child sex-trafficking conspiracy.

Ciara O'Rourke

2020-08-07 00:00:00

half-true

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/aug/28/facebook-posts/did-kyle-rittenhouse-break-law-carrying-assault-st/

Did Kyle Rittenhouse break the law by carrying an assault-style rifle in Kenosha?

The 17-year-old accused of shooting three people during a protest in Kenosha, Wis., faces several charges — including first-degree intentional homicide. But some widely shared Facebook posts say he should be cleared of at least some of them. In an Aug. 27 post, one Facebook user said it was "perfectly legal" for Kyle Rittenhouse — who was arrested in Antioch, Ill., after fleeing Wisconsin — to brandish an assault-style rifle on the streets of Kenosha. "Carrying a rifle across state lines is perfectly legal," the poster said. "Based on the laws I can find of this area at 17 years old Kyle was perfectly legal to be able to possess that rifle without parental supervision." The post was flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about our partnership with Facebook.) On Aug. 25, two protesters were killed and one injured after police say someone opened fire on them. The violence occurred on the third night of protests over the shooting of Jacob Blake, a Black man, by a white police officer in Kenosha. Blake survived, but he is partially paralyzed from a bullet that severed his spinal cord. Rittenhouse stands accused of shooting the protesters. Since his lawyer has said that Rittenhouse obtained the assault-style rifle from a friend in Wisconsin (meaning that he didn’t transport it with him from Illinois), we’re going to focus on the second half of the claim — that it was "perfectly legal" for the teenager to carry a firearm in Kenosha.  Is that true? State laws suggest not. The Wisconsin Department of Justice honors concealed carry permits issued in Illinois. But Rittenhouse did not have a permit to begin with, and he was not legally old enough to carry a firearm in Wisconsin. In Illinois, concealed carry applicants must be at least 21 years old. Since Rittenhouse is 17, he would not qualify for a permit. In Wisconsin, it is legal for adults to carry firearms in public without a license if the gun is visible. However, to open carry, you must be at least 18 years old. Wisconsin law stipulates that "any person under 18 years of age who possesses or goes armed with a dangerous weapon is guilty of a Class A misdemeanor." On Aug. 27, prosecutors charged Rittenhouse with a misdemeanor count of possession of a dangerous weapon under the age of 18, according to court records. John Monroe, an attorney who specializes in gun rights, told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that there’s an exception for rifles and shotguns, which is aimed at letting children ages 16 and 17 hunt, that could apply. But Rittenhouse wasn’t in Kenosha to hunt. The newspaper reported that — based on interviews, videos and social media posts — Rittenhouse considered himself to be a militia member protecting private property. His Facebook page, which has since been taken down, had several posts expressing support for police. RELATED: What we know about Jacob Blake's shooting in Kenosha, Wis. "People are getting injured and our job is to protect this business," Rittenhouse told the Daily Caller in a video interview before the shooting. "And my job also is to protect people. If someone is hurt, I’m running into harm’s way. That’s why I have my rifle; I’ve gotta protect myself, obviously. But I also have my med kit." We reached out to the person who published the Facebook post for a comment, but we haven’t heard back. Whether Rittenhouse violated Wisconsin law by possessing a firearm underage is the subject of ongoing litigation. But the Facebook post claimed that it was "perfectly legal" for the teenager to carry an assault-style rifle in Kenosha. At best, that’s unproven. At worst, it’s inaccurate. Either way, we rate the post False. UPDATE (Sept. 3, 2020): This fact-check has been updated to include mention that Wisconsin law permits people 18 years and older to carry firearms in public without a license if the gun is visible. The ruling is unchanged.

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Facebook posts

2020-08-05 00:00:00

a Facebook post:

The Beirut explosion was linked to “human trafficking by HRC."

Daniel Funke

2020-08-07 00:00:00

false

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/aug/28/howard-marklein/claim-evers-barnes-did-not-call-peace-calm-after-b/

Claim that Evers, Barnes did not call for peace, calm after Blake shooting goes too far

The national protests over police brutality that started in Minnesota after a Minneapolis police officer killed George Floyd by kneeling for nearly nine minutes on his neck have now focused squarely on Wisconsin. On Sunday August 23, 2020, a Kenosha police officer shot Jacob Blake in the back multiple times at close range as Blake tried to get into a small SUV. Protests re-ignited across the country, including in Madison and, of course, Kenosha, where buildings were vandalized and burned, windows smashed out and stores looted.  State Sen. Howard Marklein, R-Spring Green, decried the destruction in an August 25, 2020, news release and Facebook post.   "There is absolutely no justification for the vandalism, destruction, rioting and looting that took place at the State Capitol, in the City of Madison or the City of Kenosha last night," Marklein posted on Facebook. Then he took aim at the state’s Democratic leaders. "We need leadership in this state to take a stand, protect our citizens and call for peace, rather than capitulating to violent mobs. Governor Tony Evers and Lieutenant Governor Mandela Barnes made irresponsible comments about the incident in Kenosha before having all of the facts. They did not call for peace. They did not encourage calm."  The statement came before a night of chaos involving protesters and armed militia members left two men dead and a third man injured. Kyle Rittenhouse, 17, of Antioch, Ill., is charged with shooting the men. Rittenhouse is a self-described militia member. We’ll focus on the last part of Marklein’s claim.  Did Evers and Barnes "not call for peace" and "not encourage calm" in the wake of the Blake shooting? The evidence When asked to provide backup for the statement, Katy Prange, Marklein’s chief of staff, focused on the timing and context of statements made by Evers and Barnes. Let’s look at the sequence.  Here is the complete August 23, 2020 news release from the governor’s office, hours after the incident: MADISON — Gov. Evers tonight released the following statement regarding the officer-involved shooting that critically injured a Black man in Kenosha. "Tonight, Jacob Blake was shot in the back multiple times, in broad daylight, in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Kathy and I join his family, friends, and neighbors in hoping earnestly that he will not succumb to his injuries. While we do not have all of the details yet, what we know for certain is that he is not the first Black man or person to have been shot or injured or mercilessly killed at the hands of individuals in law enforcement in our state or our country. We stand with all those who have and continue to demand justice, equity, and accountability for Black lives in our country—lives like those of George Floyd, of Breonna Taylor, Tony Robinson, Dontre Hamilton, Ernest Lacy, and Sylville Smith. And we stand against excessive use of force and immediate escalation when engaging with Black Wisconsinites. I have said all along that although we must offer our empathy, equally important is our action. In the coming days, we will demand just that of elected officials in our state who have failed to recognize the racism in our state and our country for far too long." There was no call for peace or calm in the statement. The following morning, Evers’s office issued a video message:  In the video address, neither Evers nor Barnes mentioned the violence or damage from the previous night, but they did ask that those protesting "do so peacefully."  Marklein’s statement was posted on Facebook at 11:06 a.m. the next day, August 25. So, that’s our starting point for the accuracy of the claim. We also looked at Barnes’ tweets and Facebook posts, but did not find any reference to calling for peace or calm prior to Marklein’s post. In a news release later that day, Evers said: "Tonight, and in the days ahead, if you are going to protest, please do so peacefully and safely. Please do not allow the actions of a few distract us from the work we must do together to demand justice, equity, and accountability."  So, clearly, that statement from Evers -- his strongest on the question of peace and calm -- came after Marklein’s claim. Britt Cudaback, Evers’ deputy communications director, argued Evers had called for a peaceful protest the day before Marklein’s claim, citing the video message Barnes’ communications director Chet Agni, said Marklein was making "broad claims."  "Our administration has been calling for people to exercise their First Amendment rights peacefully and safely since before Sen. Marklein released his statement, just as our administration did during the unrest following the murder of George Floyd months ago," he said in an email. That said, our research, and the information provided by the offices of Evers and Barnes, shows a single reference to "peacefully" before the Marklein statement was made. Our ruling Marklein claimed that Evers and Barnes,  after the police shooting of Jacob Blake, "did not call for peace. They did not encourage calm." The governor did not call for peace and calm in his statement hours after the incident. But in a video statement posted the next day, Evers urged people planning to protest to "do so peacefully." That said, his most direct comments -- saying the Kenosha protests went too far -- didn’t come until after Marklein’s statement.  We rate Marklein’s claim Mostly False.

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Bloggers

2020-07-21 00:00:00

an image:

“3.8% of Wisconsin’s coronavirus funding has been spent.”

Haley BeMiller

2020-08-07 00:00:00

false

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/aug/28/facebook-posts/two-mail-ballots-sent-one-person-doesnt-mean-they-/

Two mail-in ballots sent to one person doesn’t mean they can vote twice

Some Pennsylvania residents in Pittsburgh’s Allegheny County received duplicate mail-in ballots in May 2020 due to a computer glitch that caused an error during the printing process. Posts circulating on social media, which appear to share an image of two of the county’s ballots addressed to the same person, suggest the error proves that the vote-by-mail system is susceptible to voter fraud. "Two mail in ballots in PA sent to the same person with their names on both a week and a half apart. FB keeps deleting this. Make it go viral," reads text above the image. The posts were flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about our partnership with Facebook.)  RELATED: No, receiving multiple ballot applications doesn’t let you vote more than once The image is blurry, and we were unable to confirm that the papers in it were indeed official mail-in ballots, but several areas of the document point to Allegheny County, which mistakenly sent duplicate mail ballots to some residents in May. The underlying suggestion that two ballots mailed to the same person gives someone the ability to cast more than one vote is wrong. If a person returned multiple ballots, the system would flag it as a duplicate vote and only one would be counted. Allegheny County erroneously sent some residents multiple mail-in ballots ahead of the state’s primary election on June 2, according to news reports. The incident was included in a lawsuit filed by President Donald Trump’s campaign, which claims that election officials in Pennsylvania have implemented a fraudulent mail voting system that will undermine the results of the general election on Nov. 3. In a May 14 news release, the county said duplicate labels for mail-in and absentee ballots were printed because of a glitch in the state’s computerized voter registry system.  As the system processed and printed a large volume of mailing labels for ballots, at some point, it paused and sent an error message, which resulted in a queue of labels that appeared to be blank. But the labels were actually still printing, so when the system rebooted, some printed twice, the release said. The county said it was going to start printing labels in smaller batches to prevent the error from occurring again, and that affected residents should destroy any duplicate ballots. "Even if a person receives multiple ballots, only one return ballot can be counted. This is because the barcode on the label that is being used for tracking is exactly the same," the release noted.  "When voted ballots are returned to the office, they are scanned. If another ballot was returned from that same voter, it would show as a duplicate vote when scanned and would be rejected by the system. Staff would mark the ballot as rejected. Those ballots are kept but are not sent to the warehouse to be counted or opened." Our ruling An image appears to show two mail-in ballots addressed to one Pennsylvania resident, suggesting this means they could vote twice. It’s accurate that a group of residents in Allegheny County, Pa., received duplicate mail ballots due to a computer glitch ahead of the state’s primary election in June, and the photo in the post appears to show an example of the error. But it’s wrong to suggest that this means they can cast multiple votes. The system uses one barcode for each voter. If a duplicate is scanned, election officials would mark the ballot as rejected. We rate this Half True. 

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Bryan Steil

2020-08-03 00:00:00

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Says Gov. Tony Evers and Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes, after police shooting of Jacob Blake, "did not call for peace. They did not encourage calm.

Samantha Putterman

2020-08-28 00:00:00

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https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/oct/15/donald-trump/trumps-false-claim-biden-socialist/

Trump’s false claim that Biden is a socialist

In bus tours across Florida, on social media and on TV airwaves, in English and in Spanish, President Donald Trump and his allies have portrayed Joe Biden and running mate Kamala Harris as socialists who will lead the United States toward a leftist extreme. "Joe Biden is saying he owns the socialism and extremism in his party, that he owns it," Trump said in a Sept. 30 Minnesota rally. "Socialism is the mainstream of the Biden campaign and it's not the mainstream of America. Remember I said, we will never have a socialist country," Trump said at an August rally in Arizona. Biden and Harris reject Trump’s socialism label. "I beat the socialist," Biden said in a TV interview in Wisconsin, a reference to Democratic primary competitor Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., who calls himself a democratic socialist. "That’s how I got elected. That’s how I got the nomination. Do I look like a socialist? Look at my career — my whole career. I am not a socialist." Republicans have used the socialist label to attack Democrats and their policies for decades, including over programs such as Medicare or Social Security that ultimately became popular on both sides of the aisle. We saw a ramping up of such attacks in 2018, especially in Florida. Socialism is a dirty word in the voter-rich battleground of South Florida, where many residents fled oppressive regimes in Cuba and Venezuela and literally argue about the socialism and communism label in the streets of Miami.  We wanted to cut through the noise and examine the facts.  The Trump campaign argues that Biden’s proposals to expand health care, offer free college tuition to some students and promote clean energy are evidence of socialist leanings. Experts say this characterization is wrong. "Strictly speaking, socialism (like communism) refers to complete public ownership of all means of production," said Daniel Shaviro, an expert on taxation at New York University. "Nothing in Biden’s platform is remotely in that territory." Professor Ted Henken, an expert on Cuba at New York’s Baruch College, agreed.   "Joe Biden’s long record in Congress shows him to be exactly what he claims, a moderate Democrat," Henken said. "Harris is a bit more liberal or progressive, but far from being a socialist either." What is socialism? The most narrow definition of socialism refers to complete government ownership of production.  When Sanders uses the term, he is referring to the generous social insurance programs available in some European countries, along with high tax rates, if needed, to pay for education, health care or other programs. That’s not what Biden’s platform calls for. Biden’s economic plan emphasizes job creation in manufacturing, infrastructure and health care, but he has not called for the government to take over those industries. Biden would reverse Trump’s tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations, and he supports a $15-an-hour national minimum wage. That doesn’t amount to socialism, either. While Harris signed on to Senate bills supporting Medicare for All, which would put the government in charge of paying for health care, it’s Biden who is at the top of the ticket. He proposes to improve the Affordable Care Act, rather than revamp the health care system. He supports allowing Americans the choice of a public option for government-backed health insurance, in addition to the private insurance options. Those eligible for Medicaid could enroll in the public option at reduced cost. Socialized medicine generally refers to a system in which the government pays all the bills, owns the health facilities and employs the health professionals who work there. The ACA, by contrast, has a large market component, allowing people to buy insurance on the marketplace from private insurance companies. (Trump supports litigation to undo the ACA.) Biden hasn’t embraced Medicare for All, but experts told us that Medicare for All as proposed doesn’t constitute socialism either. "Medicare for All is a proposal that would make U.S. health care comparable to that in other countries with capitalist economies, with a primary role for government with regard to social welfare," said Martin Gaynor, Carnegie Mellon University professor of economics and public policy. "I wouldn’t call that socialism." After clinching the nomination, Biden shifted to the left on environmental, health care and racial justice issues, but his economic platform is still far from being socialist, Henken said. (Henken recently started volunteering for a Democratic Party hotline that answers voters’ questions about when and where to vote. It’s open to all voters, regardless of affiliation.) "It is much more solidly in line with America’s tradition of Keynesian economics, where the government increases spending and keeps taxes low (for all but the very rich) to jump-start the private sector — which is understood to be the best motor for growth, innovation and job creation," Henken said. Antony Davies, a free-market economist at Duquesne University, said Biden’s proposals such as improving the ACA, reinstating environmental protections and investing tax dollars in infrastructure are not strictly speaking socialist. "Some of the policies are heavily regulatory, in that they would have politicians and bureaucrats weigh in on what products Americans will have, but the policies do not call for the government to take ownership of housing, infrastructure, or to directly employ workers," he said. The real problem, Davies said, lies in thinking in binary terms: socialism vs. capitalism.  "There is no example of a pure socialist or a pure capitalist economy. All economies are located on a continuum somewhere between the two extremes," he said. "Many of Biden’s policies do move the United States further toward the socialist end of the continuum, in that the policies replace voluntary decision-making with coercive decision-making. But some, like some of his proposed environmental protections, actually move the United States further away from the socialist end of the continuum by reinforcing voluntary decision-making." Trump campaign points to endorsements To back its claim that Biden is a socialist, the Trump campaign pointed to support for Biden from the chairman of the Revolutionary Communist Party USA, and the Working Families Party, as well as support from U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, who is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America. (The Biden campaign noted that the Democratic Socialists of America declined to endorse him.) But those endorsements or support don’t necessarily mean they agree with Biden on ideology, or that Biden subscribes to their ideologies. It means they prefer Biden to Trump. Biden has also been endorsed by the Lincoln Project, a group of anti-Trump Republicans, as well as some Republican national security officials. But Biden is no Republican.  "Trump recently received the endorsement of the Taliban," said Philip J. Williams, dean of the College of Liberal Arts at California Polytechnic State University and an expert on Latin American politics. "Does that make him a Taliban?" (The Trump campaign said it rejected that endorsement.) The Biden-Sanders unity platform The Trump campaign also pointed to the Biden-Sanders unity platform document, developed by representatives of the two Democratic candidates in an effort to consolidate support after the primary contest. The document proposes expanding some social programs beyond what the United States currently provides, such as free-tuition at public colleges for students whose families earn less than $125,000 a year and more ambitious goals on renewable energy. But it does not propose a government takeover of private industry. It also omits some liberal wish-list programs such as Medicare for All and the Green New Deal. The Trump campaign also pointed to a New York Times article about Biden’s climate plan, which the campaign said would increase government control over the energy industry.  Biden’s energy plan isn’t socialism, Williams said. "It does not call for a government takeover of the energy industry — instead it proposes various carrots and sticks to move the private energy industry in the direction of renewable energy," Williams said.  Trump links Democrats to foreign socialists Trump sometimes tries to link the Democrats’ platform to socialism in Venezuela or communism in Cuba, seeking to capitalize on opposition to those regimes in Florida’s large emigre communities But Trump’s suggestion that Biden or the Democrats want to turn America into Cuba or Venezuela is ridiculous, Williams said. "There is no evidence based on Biden’s proposed policies or his background that he is a socialist or even sympathetic to socialist policies," Williams said. Biden has called Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro a "tyrant" and has criticized the Cuban regime’s abusive record on human rights. Eduardo A. Gamarra, a political scientist at Florida International University, said that the Democrats’ agenda doesn’t call for creating a one-party state which has existed for decades in Cuba and Venezuela. The Democrats also don’t call for nationalizing key industries or private universities or creating a single media outlet as a government mouthpiece. RELATED: Scott's misleading attack on Biden about Castro, Maduro Our ruling Trump says Biden is a socialist. Socialism refers to a government takeover of industry, and Biden has not called for that. Experts say his positions on health care, energy and other areas are those of a moderate Democrat, not a socialist. There’s no support for the claim that Biden wants the U.S. to be like Cuba or Venezuela. We rate this claim False.

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Viral image

2020-08-27 00:00:00

News release:

“Two mail in ballots in PA (were) sent to the same person with their names on both a week and a half apart.”

Jon Greenberg

2020-08-28 00:00:00

pants-fire

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/oct/15/chris-kapanga/claim-there-was-mask-requirement-wisconsin-may-not/

Claim that there was mask requirement Wisconsin in May not true

Masks have become the center of political debate in Wisconsin, with Republican lawmakers going after Democratic Gov. Tony Evers’ mask order in court.  While some GOP lawmakers acknowledge mask-wearing can help in the fight against the spread of the coronavirus, they have generally opposed any mandate for them. That includes state Sen. Chris Kapenga (R-Delafield), who in an Oct. 11, 2020, appearance on WKOW’s Capital City Sunday show offered this argument: "According to what the governor is saying, logic would tell us, if we are wearing masks, we should see a reduction in cases if we went into, you know, from no masks to a mask. Or, if we went from a mask mandate to no masks, the governor’s logic would mean that we should see a significant decrease in cases.  "Well, we’ve actually had that test take place, because back in May, the Legislature did not implement the mask mandate after it went away. And if you look at the numbers, we went from masks, to no masks, and there’s no significant difference in cases." We’ve looked at the science behind mask wearing, rating False a claim from a GOP Assembly member that wearing masks had been "proven ineffective." But in this case, it’s less a science question than a history lesson. Is Kapenga right that in May "we went from masks, to no masks, and there (was) no significant difference in cases"? In a word: No. Kapenga off with his timeline  When asked for backup for the claim, Kapenga’s office said the senator was referring to the natural experiment that took place when the state was placed under lockdown and what happened once Evers’ stay-at-home order was lifted.  But that stay-at-home order, which began in March and ran until blocked by the Supreme Court in May, did not include a mask mandate. The governor’s mask mandate did not begin until Aug. 1, and remains in effect. Indeed, it’s the very thing Republicans are in court fighting now. On Oct. 12, 2020, St. Croix County Circuit Judge R. Michael Waterman denied a motion to suspend the mask mandate. That measure has been appealed. While we are looking here at the timeline claimed by Kapenga, it’s worth a brief look at his broader argument -- that, if the mandate were successful, it should have resulted in sudden and dramatically lower case counts. "In the roughly ten and a half weeks since the first mask mandate was enacted, the average daily positive test rate and the daily positive case rate have risen faster than when the state had no mandate or lockdowns," Kapenga said in the email to PolitiFact Wisconsin.  But that suggests that the mask mandate is being strictly followed, when in many parts of the state it is being largely ignored -- including at campaign rallies for Trump. And it ignores the fact that case counts have stayed lower in Milwaukee County, where the City of Milwaukee instituted a mask ordinance weeks earlier. And that in other states, a drop in cases did follow the institution of mask orders. Our ruling Kapenga claimed that in May, Wisconsin effectively had a test of mask effectiveness when "we went from masks, to no masks, and there (was) no significant difference in cases." But Kapenga has his orders and lawsuits wrong. What was lifted in May, under a Republican lawsuit that went to the state Supreme Court, was Evers’ stay-at-home order.  The governor’s mask mandate did not begin until Aug. 1, and remains in effect.  We rate this claim False.  

Public Health,Wisconsin,Coronavirus,Chris Kapenga

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Howard Marklein

2020-07-19 00:00:00

a Facebook post:

Says Melania Trump is the “first FLOTUS to visit troops in a combat zone since 1969.”

Amy Sherman

2020-08-28 00:00:00

false

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/jan/20/jordan-rachel/minimum-wage-increases-and-myth-38-burrito/

Minimum wage increases and the myth of the $38 burrito

President Joe Biden’s proposal for an $1.9 trillion economic rescue package calls for more than doubling the federal minimum wage, which was last raised over a decade ago. The plan has stirred up online chatter about the impact of a proposed $15-an-hour federal rate, with one conservative commentator warning that it would send prices soaring. "If you want $15 minimum wage, don’t complain when your Taco Bell order costs $38 for a burrito," said Jordan Rachel, a Turning Point USA contributor, in a Jan. 16 tweet.  Business groups have long opposed sharply higher minimum wages on the grounds that they would hurt employment and raise consumer prices. But $38 for a burrito? That seemed like a hefty price at any restaurant, let alone a fast-food chain like Taco Bell, which still has several $1 items on its value menu. So PolitiFact decided to put Rachel’s claim to the Truth-O-Meter. We reached out to Turning Point USA and a spokesperson for Charlie Kirk, the organization’s founder, about Rachel’s claim, and we got no response. Soon after we sent our inquiries, Rachel’s tweet about Taco Bell disappeared from the platform.  We did, however, hear back from Taco Bell. The company, part of the Yum! Brands family of restaurant chains, told us that it already does business in places where local laws set a higher wage than the $7.25-an-hour federal minimum. In those places, burrito prices haven’t skyrocketed. "Taco Bell and our franchisees have already adapted to many minimum wage increases on a local level, and we are committed to maintaining our leadership in value on a national level," Taco Bell said in a statement to PolitiFact. "For example, at our company-owned restaurants in New York City, where the minimum wage is $15 an hour, our Bean Burrito is $1.89 plus tax and Crunchwrap Supreme is $4.49 plus tax." Several economists we talked to described Rachel’s warning about $38 burritos as far from accurate and easily countered by evidence. "A price of $38 is clearly absurd," said Orley Ashenfelter, a Princeton University economist who has used the price of McDonald’s Big Mac sandwiches to compare wages worldwide. Background on the $15 minimum wage debate The federal minimum wage has been stuck at $7.25 per hour since 2009, but 29 states and Washington, D.C., have minimum wages above the federal level, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.  Some cities and counties have already bumped their rates to $15 or higher. And a recent report from the National Employment Law Project said that by the end of 2021, 40 more cities and counties will have a minimum wage at or above $15 than at the end of 2020. Efforts to increase the federal rate have accelerated in recent years. The House in 1999 voted to raise the hourly minimum to $15 by 2025 — the bill stalled in the Senate — and Biden promised during his campaign to seek a $15 floor. That pledge made its way into Biden’s coronavirus relief proposal released Jan. 14. On Jan. 15, some 1,000 fast-food workers went on strike to protest low wages. They and other proponents of raising the minimum wage say doing so would lift low-income workers out of poverty, while opponents warn of hamstringing businesses and forcing layoffs. Check the menu at other Taco Bells Prices at Taco Bell restaurants and other chains vary by location. And experts said it would be reasonable to expect increased prices with a bump to a $15 federal minimum wage. But Rachel’s warning of a $38 burrito isn’t supported by evidence. "I can think of no economic justification that would lead to a prediction anywhere close to the estimate of a $38 Taco Bell burrito," said Steven Fazzari, a professor of economics at Washington University in St. Louis. A simple way to gauge the potential impact on prices is to look at places where the minimum wage is already $15 or more per hour, experts said. Plenty of cities work as benchmarks, including New York, Washington, D.C., Seattle and San Francisco. In San Francisco, for example, the minimum wage is $16.07 per hour. But the burrito prices there are not much different from cities with lower minimum wages. Sometimes they’re the same. "Some of Taco Bell’s most expensive burritos show no price difference whatsoever between places with very high and very low minimum wages," said Gary Burtless, a senior fellow in economic studies at the Brookings Institution, who called Rachel’s claim "easily disproven." Burtless compared prices for two different types of burritos at San Francisco’s 710 Third St. Taco Bell to prices for the same burritos at a Taco Bell in Alexandria, Va., where the state’s minimum wage is currently $7.25 per hour, equal to the federal minimum.  In Alexandria, a Bean Burrito goes for $1.29, while a Burrito Supreme costs $4.19. At the San Francisco location, a Bean Burrito sells for $1.99, and a Burrito Supreme costs $4.19. Two screenshots from Taco Bell's website show the prices listed for a Bean Burrito and a Burrito Supreme at Taco Bell locations in Alexandria, Va., and San Francisco, on Jan. 20, 2021.​ The most expensive burrito on the menu, the Crunchwrap Supreme, costs $4.19 in Alexandria and $4.49 in San Francisco, a difference of about 7%. "We find absolutely no evidence that a higher minimum wage will boost Taco Bell burrito prices by anything that comes remotely close to 807%, the price increase implicitly predicted by Jordan Rachel," Burtless said. Bryan Stuart, an assistant professor of economics at George Washington University, said burrito prices in major cities like New York City and San Francisco likely represent "an upper bound" on the average burrito price if the federal minimum wage goes to $15. That’s because the price of a Taco Bell burrito depends on more than just worker salaries. "The price of burritos depends on the cost of land, taxes, etc., and many of these costs are higher in cities that have a minimum wage at or above $15," Stuart said. Ashenfelter, the Princeton economist, said labor costs represent between 20% and 30% of the final consumer price. He said new research of his, on McDonald’s wages and Big Mac prices, estimated that a 10% increase in the minimum wage would raise Big Mac prices by 1.4%.  That suggests that Taco Bell burritos could cost more in some places under Biden’s proposal — which would increase the federal minimum by more than 100% — but nowhere near $38. Our ruling Rachel said a $15-an-hour minimum wage would raise the price of a Taco Bell burrito to $38. This claim is countered by available evidence, including the current burrito prices at Taco Bell locations in cities and counties where a $15 minimum wage is in effect. Four economists characterized the claim as a far-off estimate at odds with economic theory. We rate Rachel’s statement False.

Economy,Food,Pundits,Workers,PunditFact,Jordan Rachel

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Says Joe Biden “is even talking about taking the wall down.”

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2020-10-15 00:00:00

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https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/jan/20/rebecca-kleefisch/yes-wisconsin-vaccine-rollout-among-worst-midwest/

Yes, Wisconsin vaccine rollout among slowest in Midwest

Wisconsin’s vaccine distribution — like most everything else in Wisconsin in recent years — has sparked a partisan blame game. Republicans have criticized the rollout as slow and uncoordinated, asserting Democratic Gov. Tony Evers doesn’t have a sufficient plan. Evers has countered that he’s doing the best he can with the available supply, claiming Vice President Mike Pence had promised vaccines from a federal reserve that didn’t actually exist. Republican Rebecca Kleefisch, a potential 2022 gubernatorial candidate, said Evers is leading an effort that ranks among the worst in the region. "Wisconsin is second to last in the Midwest in our vaccination rate and the governor says he’s ‘satisfied,’" Kleefisch, the former lieutenant governor under Gov. Scott Walker, said in a Jan. 14, 2021, tweet. Does Wisconsin really rank that poorly? Let’s dig in. Wisconsin vaccine rollout among the worst We’ll leave for another day the question of who’s to blame for the speed of Wisconsin’s vaccine rollout. But the status is clear — Wisconsin is among the slowest in the nation. In fact, Kleefisch was over-stating the Midwest ranking. State-by-state data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention showed 2.4% of Wisconsin residents received their first dose of the coronavirus vaccine as of Jan. 13, the most recent data available when Kleefisch sent out her tweet. That ranked dead last among the 12 Midwest states. North Dakota and South Dakota led that ranking with more than 5% receiving a first dose, while Ohio and Missouri joined Wisconsin at the bottom, with 2.8% and 2.6%, respectively. In the preceding days, Wisconsin had ranked second-last in the Midwest. Nationwide as of Jan. 13, Wisconsin ranked 41st out of all 50 states in vaccination rate, well off the national average of 3.1%. The ranking only worsened in the ensuing week, with Wisconsin dropping to 44th by Jan. 19 while remaining last in the Midwest, according to the CDC. Pushing back against Kleefisch’s claim, Evers spokeswoman Britt Cudaback pointed to CDC data on the raw number of vaccinations administered. That showed Wisconsin ranked seventh out of the 12 Midwest states as of Jan. 13. But that’s not a reasonable way to compare progress when dealing with states that vary dramatically in population. It would be like arguing Texas is the highest-crime state because it has the most prison inmates. The latter may be true, but only because Texas has one of the highest populations. Comparing it to other states requires examining the number of inmates relative to the population (in which case Texas is not first). That’s where the per capita rate comes in — which is the vaccination metric used by the CDC and referenced by Kleefisch. Cudaback also said Wisconsin’s ability to administer vaccines is limited by its large long-term care population. Vaccines are made available to states based on population, but states are required to store enough doses for everyone in long-term care before any doses can be administered to other groups. State officials say Wisconsin has a higher proportion of long-term care residents than many states and therefore has to build a larger bank before administering vaccines, slowing the process. Yes, Evers called the progress ‘satisfactory’ That brings us to the second part of Kleefisch’s claim, that Evers is comfortable with where the state stands. She’s off a bit there, at least in how she framed it. In a Jan. 13 interview with WISN-TV, Evers was asked, "Is this acceptable to you where we’re at" as a state on vaccinations. "Given what we have, we can’t give any more. That’s the issue," the governor said. "Yes, I'm satisfied where we're at because that's all we had." So Evers isn’t necessarily saying he’s satisfied with being second-last (or last). He’s saying he is satisfied with the progress given what he has had to work with. Whether that’s a valid excuse is a topic for another fact check, as there are of course vaccines on hand in Wisconsin that haven’t yet been administered. But he’s not quite using the word in the same way Kleefisch characterized it. Cudaback also said Wisconsin’s ability to administer vaccines is limited by its large long-term care population. Vaccines are made available to states based on population, but states are required to store enough doses for everyone in long-term care before any doses can be administered to other groups. State officials say Wisconsin has a higher proportion of long-term care residents than many states and therefore has to build a larger bank before administering vaccines, slowing the process. Our ruling Criticizing the rollout under Evers’ administration, Kleefisch said Wisconsin is second to last in the Midwest in vaccination rate. Kleefisch is making the general point that Wisconsin is in worse shape than surrounding states, and that’s correct. But it’s in fact even worse than she asserted. After a stretch as second-worst in the Midwest, Wisconsin moved to last on that list shortly before Kleefisch’s tweet. And Evers did say around the same time he was satisfied with the state’s progress, though he used the term with a caveat about vaccine availability. We rate this claim Mostly True.

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2020-08-26 00:00:00

a speech at the RNC:

Says Joe Biden is a socialist.

Laura Schulte

2020-10-15 00:00:00

false

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/jan/19/l-lin-wood/china-did-not-orchestrate-voter-fraud-2020-electio/

China did not orchestrate voter fraud in the 2020 election

Days before Joe Biden was set to move into the White House, the president-elect’s detractors falsely claimed that China helped put him there. In a Jan. 18 episode of the conservative Patriotically Correct Radio Show, defamation attorney Lin Wood said election fraud affected the outcome of the 2020 presidential election — and a United States adversary is to blame. "China was behind the interference and the effort to overthrow our government and the election, election fraud," said Wood, a Donald Trump supporter who was banned from Twitter for promoting conspiracy theories about the election. A video with the audio clip was posted on Rumble, an alternative to YouTube that’s popular with conservatives. From there it made its way to Facebook, where it was flagged as part of the company’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about our partnership with Facebook.) In the days leading up to Biden’s inauguration at the Capitol, we’ve seen several claims that China interfered in the election. My Pillow CEO Mike Lindell, who recently met with Trump at the White House, told Axios that the country used machines from Dominion Voting Systems to do it. Those claims are not based in fact. All 50 states and the District of Columbia have certified their election results, which Congress finalized on Jan. 7. There is no credible evidence that voter fraud affected Biden’s win.  Here’s how we know that: Election officials in every state have said there was no sign of significant voter fraud during the voting process.  The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and its election partners called the 2020 election "the most secure in American history." Former Attorney General William Barr said the Justice Department uncovered no evidence of widespread fraud. Not one of the 62 lawsuits that Trump and his allies filed in state and federal courts proved that voter fraud affected the election outcome. In Wood’s interview with the Patriotically Correct Radio Show, during which he also falsely claimed that COVID-19 is akin to the flu and a biological weapon, he cited John Ratcliffe, director of national intelligence. In a Jan. 7 memo, Ratcliffe wrote that a classified assessment recently completed by the intelligence community undersold the extent to which China interfered in the 2020 election The memo cited a report from Barry Zulauf, analytic ombudsman for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence — a position tasked with upholding the objectivity of reports from the intelligence community. That report described a "widespread perception in the workforce about politicization" of information about foreign election interference. Ratcliffe wrote that, in his view, intelligence analysts were treating similar actions from Russia and China differently. But he didn’t "confirm" any reports that China orchestrated voter fraud in the U.S., as Wood claimed. In a rumor control page on its website, CISA said that bad actors would not be able to change election results without being caught. Dominion, a voting technology company that was targeted by disinformation after the election, said on its website that it has no ties to the Chinese government. A statewide audit and hand recount in Georgia, which used Dominion technology, upheld the original machine vote tally. We reached out to Wood for a comment, but we haven’t heard back. His claim is inaccurate. We rate it False. RELATED: A note to our readers who think President Trump won

National,Elections,Facebook Fact-checks,L. Lin Wood

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Facebook posts

2020-08-27 00:00:00

TV

In May, Wisconsin had its own test of mask effectiveness, when "we went from masks, to no masks, and there (was) no significant difference in cases."

Ciara O'Rourke

2021-01-20 00:00:00

true

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/jan/19/facebook-posts/norway-deaths-after-covid-19-shot-were-among-very-/

Norway deaths after COVID-19 shot were among very frail elderly, not proved to be caused by vaccine

As countries around the world begin COVID-19 inoculations, vaccine critics are promoting the notion that the shots can easily cause injury or death — even though the evidence does not support their claims. That’s what happened after Norway reported the deaths of elderly people who had received the COVID-19 vaccine.  Social media posts, like this one from Fox News commentator Jan Morgan, point to the Norway deaths as evidence that the vaccine causes harm: "23 die within hours of taking COVID vaccine. ... I’ve never taken a flu shot and I’m certainly NOT letting anyone inject this garbage in to my body." Morgan’s Facebook post was flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about our partnership with Facebook.) Initial Norwegian reports on Jan. 15 indicated that 23 people had died after receiving COVID-19 vaccines. By Jan. 18, the number of deaths had increased to 33, out of about 48,000 vaccinated. Though the Facebook post says people died "within hours" of receiving the vaccine, Norwegian authorities said only that 23 deaths occurred within six days of vaccination, and published reports do not indicate the time frame for the remaining 10 deaths.  The Norwegian government said the country’s vaccination program is initially targeting the most vulnerable — the elderly and those in nursing homes — and "a high proportion" of the latter were very frail or terminally ill and already very near the end of their lives. As a result, health authorities said, "It is expected that deaths close to the time of vaccination may occur." Norway’s ‘reporting culture’ There’s no proof that the COVID-19 vaccines caused the deaths, the Norwegian Medicines Agency said. Norway’s strong "reporting culture" for vaccine adverse reactions means that "health care professionals have a low threshold for reporting possible adverse reactions, even when the causal relationships appear very unclear," a government report said.  An average of 45 people die each day in Norwegian nursing homes and similar institutions, according to the Norwegian Medicines Agency. Therefore, "it is not a given that this represents any excess mortality or that there is a causal connection," Camilla Stoltenberg, head of the Norwegian Institute of Public Health, said at a press conference on Jan. 18. The COVID-19 vaccines were developed quickly but rely on scientific research that is decades old, and they underwent a rigorous review process, PolitiFact has reported. That hasn’t prevented a barrage of misinformation about them, including claims that they can cause death and infertility and that they are part of a plan to implant people with microchips — claims that have all been debunked by PolitiFact. U.S. health experts were aware of the possibility that deaths following vaccination would be perceived as being caused by the vaccine. Dr. Helen Keipp Talbot, a member of the U.S. federal Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, said in December that the likelihood of nursing home patients dying from other causes shortly after vaccination could erode public confidence in the safety of the vaccines. She said that’s why she voted against prioritizing residents of long-term care facilities for vaccines.  However, residents and staff of long-term care facilities in the U.S. are among the most vulnerable when it comes to COVID-19. They represent 40% of COVID-19 deaths nationwide, though they make up less than 1% of the U.S. population. Other members of the advisory committee voted to include nursing home residents in the earliest phase. Side effects may have contributed to deaths Of the 33 Norwegians who died after receiving the vaccine, 13 of their cases have been completely assessed by health authorities. The 13 people were all older than 80, with some older than 90, and were considered severely frail, which was defined as having serious heart failure, dementia, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and similar conditions.  As of Jan. 18, Norway had vaccinated more than 48,000 people, the majority of whom were nursing home residents. The 33 fatalities represent fewer than 1 out of 1,000 of those who were vaccinated, Steinar Madsen, the medical director of Norwegian Medicines Agency, told Bloomberg.  For some of the frailest patients, though, "the possibility that relatively mild side effects of the vaccine could have serious consequences cannot be ruled out," health officials said. Common vaccine reactions — including fever, nausea and diarrhea — could have contributed to some of the deaths in the 13 cases for which investigations have been completed.  "There is a possibility that these common adverse reactions, that are not dangerous in fitter, younger patients and are not unusual with vaccines, may aggravate underlying disease in the elderly," Madsen told the medical journal BMJ. "We are not alarmed or worried about this, because these are very rare occurrences and they occurred in very frail patients with very serious disease." The risks of the COVID-19 vaccine for much older people are not as well understood, because a limited number of people 85 and older participated in the large clinical trials. Madsen said Norwegian officials are now recommending careful medical evaluation of the very frail before deciding whether vaccination is appropriate. Our ruling A Facebook post says, "23 people die within hours of taking the COVID vaccine. ... I’ve never taken a flu shot and I’m certainly NOT letting anyone inject this garbage in to my body." The claim implies the deaths were caused by the vaccine. Norway health officials said 33 elderly people died after receiving the COVID-19 vaccine. (The initial figure of 23 was later updated.) But the vaccine has not been proved to be the cause of death, and those who died were very frail nursing home residents with serious underlying illnesses. The Facebook post says people died "within hours" of getting the vaccine, but authorities said only that 23 deaths occurred within six days of vaccination, and published reports do not indicate when the other 10 deaths occurred. An average of 45 people die each day in Norwegian nursing homes and similar institutions, so it is not clear that the deaths represent any excess mortality or a connection to the vaccine. Because it lacks important context and misrepresents when the deaths occured, we rate this post Mostly False.

Public Health,Coronavirus,Facebook posts

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Chris Kapenga

2021-01-20 00:00:00

a tweet:

A $15-per-hour minimum wage would raise the price of a Taco Bell burrito to $38.

Warren Fiske

2021-01-20 00:00:00

false

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/mar/30/facebook-posts/georgia-voting-law-does-not-make-it-crime-drop-gra/

Georgia voting law does not make it a crime to drop off grandma’s ballot

Georgia’s newest election law has drawn a series of attacks on social media. "#Georgia’s new anti-voting law makes it a JAIL-TIME CRIME to drop off grandma’s absentee ballot in a dropbox. #SB202," said a Facebook post written by Greg Palast, an investigative freelance reporter who has been published in Rolling Stone and Al Jazeera.  Palast called SB 202 a "horror show" and made the same claim on Twitter about criminalizing the return of grandma’s ballot. The Facebook post was flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about our partnership with Facebook.) So are grandchildren going to be hauled off in handcuffs to jail if they turn in grandma’s absentee ballot? In a word, no.  What the Georgia law says about who can return absentee ballots Palast posted a screenshot of section 47 of SB 202, a sweeping elections bill signed into law by Gov. Brian Kemp on March 25. The relevant portion of the law says that anyone who "accepts an absentee ballot from an elector for delivery or return to the board of registrars except as authorized by subsection (a) of Code Section 21-2-385 shall be guilty of a felony." Some commenters on Palast’s social media posts noted that those exceptions in that pre-existing Georgia code do allow relatives to return ballots on behalf of a family member. Code Section 21-2-385 says that an elector with an absentee ballot: "shall then personally mail or personally deliver same to the board of registrars or absentee ballot clerk, provided that mailing or delivery may be made by the elector's mother, father, grandparent, aunt, uncle, brother, sister, spouse, son, daughter, niece, nephew, grandchild, son-in-law, daughter-in-law, mother-in-law, father-in-law, brother-in-law, sister-in-law, or an individual residing in the household of such elector."  So that means a long list of relatives can legally return a completed ballot on behalf of an elector — including a grandchild for their grandparent. (The section also states that caregivers of disabled electors can mail or deliver completed ballots as can jail employees on behalf of inmates.) Keith Williams, general counsel to House Speaker David Ralston, confirmed that under SB 202 someone can still drop off their own grandma’s absentee ballot in a drop box, mailbox or post office. The law does extend the ban on people who are not relatives or roommates from dropping off someone’s absentee ballot to include drop boxes (unless they fall under other exceptions). In that pre-existing Georgia code, there was no mention of drop boxes. In 2020 drop boxes were allowed under an emergency rule due to the pandemic. Another Georgia law already made unlawful possession of ballots a felony, but SB 202 also makes it clear that unlawful delivery of completed ballots is a felony. The Georgia Secretary of State’s Office also confirmed that someone’s grandchild can still put their absentee ballot in the mail or a drop box under the new law. We emailed Palast and told him that SB 202 and the pre-existing code allows someone to still drop off their own grandma’s absentee ballot or the ballot of another relative. We asked Palast if he saw something else in SB 202 that indicates you can’t submit your own grandmother’s ballot, and did not hear back. Our ruling  A Facebook post stated that Georgia’s new voting law SB 202 "makes it a JAIL-TIME CRIME to drop off grandma’s absentee ballot in a dropbox." That’s not the case. Under the new law, a long list of relatives can still legally return a completed ballot on behalf of an elector — including a grandchild for their grandparent.  We rate this claim False. RELATED: The facts about Georgia’s ban on food, water giveaways to voters RELATED: James Clyburn misspeaks in saying 43 states have passed voting restrictions  

Georgia,National,Elections,Facebook posts

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Jordan Rachel

2021-01-16 00:00:00

a speech.:

Virginia ranks “in the bottom third of states” in administering the COVID-19 vaccine.

Eric Litke

2021-01-20 00:00:00

barely-true

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/mar/30/donald-trump/donald-trump-embellishes-details-dr-deborah-birxs-/

Donald Trump embellishes details of Dr. Deborah Birx’s Thanksgiving weekend trip

Former President Donald Trump didn’t appreciate the comments Dr. Deborah Birx made in a CNN report criticizing his administration’s handling of the coronavirus.  Birx, who was coordinator of the White House coronavirus task force, said the Trump administration failed to give the public clear, consistent guidance. She laid many deaths at the administration’s feet. "There were about 100,000 deaths that came from that original surge," Birx said in the March 28 broadcast featuring several doctors who advised Trump. "All of the rest of them, in my mind, could have been mitigated or decreased substantially." To date, the U.S. death toll is just shy of 550,000. Trump fired back. In a statement, he cast Birx and infectious-disease chief Anthony Fauci, who also appeared on the program, as "two self-promoters trying to reinvent history to cover for their bad instincts." He accused Birx of hypocrisy.  "Who can forget when Dr. Birx gave a huge mandate to the people of our nation to not travel, and then traveled a great distance to see her family for Thanksgiving — only to have them call the police and turn her in," Trump wrote March 29. "She then, embarrassingly for her, resigned." Birx did travel for Thanksgiving. Her family did not call the police.  Here are the details. Home for the holidays On Dec. 20, 2020, the Associated Press reported that the day after Thanksgiving, Birx traveled from Washington to a vacation property on Fenwick Island in Delaware, just off Maryland’s Eastern Shore. The group included her husband; a daughter and her husband; and two grandchildren. The 130-mile drive takes about two hours. The CDC Thanksgiving guidance recommended celebrating with "people in your household," and said that "staying home is the best way to protect yourself and others." If you do travel, it said, "always wear a mask in public settings and on public transportation."  Birx’s trip lasted about two days. During that time, she appeared on CBS News’ "Face the Nation," where she told young people who traveled for Thanksgiving, "you need to assume that you're infected and not go near your grandparents and aunts and others without a mask. We're really asking families to even mask indoors if they chose to gather during Thanksgiving." When the AP asked Birx about the trip, she said through a statement from her office that she "did not go to Delaware for the purpose of celebrating Thanksgiving." It was more for winterizing her vacation home, the statement said, although the group did share a meal during their stay. At a time when the public message was to stay home, the trip reflected badly on Birx as a public-health official. The AP article quoted two public health researchers who criticized Birx. Angela Rasmussen, a Georgetown virologist, said "this disqualifies her from any future government health position." Two days after the AP article, Birx said in an interview that she planned to retire, saying her position "has been very hard on my family," and that they had been dragged "into this." In that interview, Birx said she welcomed the chance to help the incoming Biden administration take the reins in fighting the pandemic. Formally, Birx held the position of ambassador-at-large at the State Department, where she had served as global AIDS coordinator. She stepped down on Jan. 20, 2021, the last day of Trump’s term. No police call There is no report that anyone in Birx’s family called the police. We reached out to Trump’s office for their source and did not hear back. The AP said the sister of Birx’s son-in-law brought the matter forward. Slate reported that the sister tipped off the AP and is estranged from the family. The AP said the woman acknowledged there was "family friction." Our ruling Trump said Birx "traveled a great distance to see her family for Thanksgiving  — only to have them call the police and turn her in. She then … resigned." Birx took a two-hour drive with her daughter’s family to a vacation home the day after Thanksgiving. The sister of Birx’s son-in-law told the AP, not the police, about the trip. Birx soon announced she would retire, and she stepped down at the end of Trump’s term a month later. Trump invented and embellished the details, but broadly, the claim rates Half True.  

National,Coronavirus,Donald Trump

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Kirk Cox

2021-01-13 00:00:00

a tweet:

“Wisconsin is second to last in the Midwest in our vaccination rate and the governor says he’s ‘satisfied.’”

Daniel Funke

2021-01-19 00:00:00

barely-true

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/mar/30/facebook-posts/covid-19-relief-minority-farmers-not-bonus-its-pas/

COVID-19 relief for minority farmers not a ‘bonus,’ it’s for past discrimination

A widely shared Facebook post claims Democrats unfairly favored minority farmers over white farmers. It reads: "Minority farmers get big bonus. White ones get none. Demonrats are the party of racism & division." The post was flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about our partnership with Facebook.) The COVID-19 relief law passed by Democratic majorities in Congress and signed by President Joe Biden in March gives an estimated $5 billion to farmers in "socially disadvantaged groups" — that is, racial and ethnic minority groups whose members have been subjected to prejudice. It’s not strictly speaking a "bonus," as the post states. COVID relief includes minority farmer aid The $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan was approved 219-212 in the House and 50-49 in the Senate. Democrats hold the majority in both chambers. Two Democrats voted no in the House; none voted no in the Senate.  The American Farm Bureau Federation says the law appropriates an estimated $10.4 billion for programs designed to strengthen the agricultural and food supply chain through, for example, COVID-19 mitigation efforts for agricultural workers and more resources to buy and distribute agricultural commodities to nonprofits. Also in that total is an estimated $5 billion for "socially disadvantaged" farmers and ranchers. Federal law defines a "socially disadvantaged group" regarding farmers and ranchers as a group whose members "have been subjected to racial or ethnic prejudice because of their identity as members of a group without regard to their individual qualities." The American Farm Bureau Federation estimates that of the $5 billion, $4 billion will be used to provide direct payments of up to 120% of a socially disadvantaged farmer’s or rancher’s outstanding debt — including Black, Hispanic, Native American and Asian Americans — as of Jan. 1, 2021. The additional 20% on top of paying off the debt is intended to pay off the taxes associated with the amount of the direct payment. The other $1 billion will provide outreach, training, education, technical assistance, grants and loans, and funding to educational institutions to help improve land access for socially disadvantaged farmers and ranchers, according to the farm bureau. Proposed Black farmers aid Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., and five other Democratic senators introduced in February the Justice For Black Farmers Act, a bill that would provide Black farmers debt relief and access to a land grant program. Booker first introduced the bill on Nov. 30, 2020, but no action was taken.  Under the bill, the Agriculture Department would buy agricultural land from willing sellers at fair market value and convey grants of that land of up to 160 acres to eligible Black individuals at no cost. At least 20,000 land grants would be made each year from 2021 through 2030. We rated as True Booker’s claim that "there is a direct connection between discriminatory policies within the" Agriculture Department "and the enormous land loss we have seen among Black farmers over the past century."  In 1920, there were about 925,700 Black farmers. In 2017, that number was down to 45,500, a decline dramatically larger than that among white farmers. Bias in the implementation of New Deal policies and other farm assistance programs has been widely documented in Agriculture Department reports and legal settlements between the department and Black farmers. Discriminatory practices meant that Black farmers were continually denied opportunities to expand and modernize their farms, experts say. Our ruling A Facebook post claims: "Minority farmers get big bonus, white ones get none," because of Democrats. The COVID-19 relief law signed by Biden and approved by Democratic majorities in Congress provides an estimated $5 billion for farmers from socially disadvantaged groups, such as racial minorities, that have been subjected to prejudice. It’s not simply a bonus.  The post is partially accurate but leaves out important details. We rate it Half True.

Agriculture,Federal Budget,Race and Ethnicity,Coronavirus,Facebook posts

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L. Lin Wood

2021-01-18 00:00:00

a Facebook post:

The COVID-19 vaccine is dangerous because 23 people died in Norway "within hours” of receiving it.

Tom Kertscher

2021-03-31 00:00:00

half-true

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/sep/24/congressional-leadership-fund/attack-ad-exaggerates-christy-smith-votes-lay-teac/

Attack ad exaggerates Christy Smith votes to lay off teachers, raise her own pay

A TV ad attacking California congressional candidate Christy Smith portrays the former school board member as being anti-teacher. "When California faced a budget crisis," it says over menacing music, "Smith voted to lay off teachers and then voted to increase her pay." The ad is referring to votes that Smith cast more than six years ago during her nine-year tenure as a local school board member. However, the ad lacks context and tells only part of the story. Her votes ultimately led to the layoff of only one permanent teacher. Smith did vote once to raise the $250 monthly stipend of school board members by 5%. A tossup race The ad is from the Congressional Leadership Fund, a super PAC that works to elect Republicans to the House. Smith, a California assemblywoman elected in 2018, is running against Republican Rep. Mike Garcia on Nov. 3 for the 25th District congressional seat, north of Los Angeles.  Garcia, a former military pilot, defeated Smith in a special election for the seat in May. That election was held to replace Democrat Katie Hill after she resigned. The race is one of 18 pivotal House and Senate contests up for election on Nov. 3 that PolitiFact is tracking. It is rated a tossup by the nonpartisan Cook Political Report. Smith’s votes on layoffs The ad alludes to May 2012, when California’s governor announced that the state budget deficit was $16 billion, much wider than the $9 billion that had been estimated four months earlier. State officials were preparing to make further budget cuts to schools and other programs. The ad cites three votes Smith took on the Newhall School Board, on which she served from 2009 until her election to the Assembly in 2018. Asked for evidence of the ad’s claims, the Congressional Leadership Fund provided PolitiFact with what appear to be screenshots of portions of the minutes from three Newhall School Board meetings. PolitiFact obtained the full minutes for those votes and related votes. May 2012: The board voted 5-0 to lay off 17 temporary elementary school teachers and two permanent physical education teachers. Within two months, the board took two more votes — both 5-0 with Smith in favor — resulting in all of the temporary teachers being rehired and one of the physical education teachers being brought back full time and the other part time. So, the total loss was one-half of a physical education teacher position. March 2013: The board voted 5-0 to notify 26 temporary teachers of possible layoffs; and voted 3-1-1, with Smith abstaining, to lay off one permanent music teacher. The minutes don't state why Smith abstained, but they say current and former students and parents expressed concern about the effect on the music program of losing the position. Sixteen temps were rehired three months later, with Smith joining in a 5-0 vote for the rehiring. Marc Winger, who was the Newhall superintendent at the time and is now Smith’s campaign treasurer, said California law requires school districts to issue notifications of possible layoffs and that such notifications, which can be rescinded without layoffs being done, are common when districts’ finances are uncertain early in the year. The Newhall district sent possible layoff notices to temps even though their contracts were only for one school year, ending June 30, he said. Smith’s vote on stipend When Smith served, the only compensation Newhall school board members received was a monthly stipend, though they could also opt to purchase health insurance through the school district, Winger said. On Dec. 9, 2014, the board voted 5-0 to approve "an allowable 5% increase to their current monthly stipend," the minutes said. No other details were given. Winger said the stipend before the vote was $250. The vote raised the stipend by $12.50 per month.  In response to a similar attack from the National Republican Congressional Committee, Smith’s campaign put out a statement in April from the president of the California Federation of Teachers that says the union is supporting her campaign. The campaign also cited awards Smith received from the California Teachers Association union in January. Our ruling The Congressional Leadership Fund said: "When California faced a budget crisis," Smith "voted to lay off teachers and then voted to increase her pay." Smith voted in 2012 to lay off 17 temporary elementary school teachers and two permanent physical education teachers. Within two months, however, she also voted in favor of rehiring all of the temporary teachers, and one of the physical education teachers. The second physical education teacher was brought back part time. A vote she took in 2013 was to notify temporary teachers of possible layoffs. Smith did vote in 2014 for a $12.50 increase in a monthly stipend for board members, their only compensation. The statement about Smith’s votes on teacher layoffs ignores the fact that Smith also voted to rehire all the teachers, ultimately only losing a half of a position. And the claim about Smith’s vote on pay leaves out the fact that the increase amounted to $12.50 per month, important clarifying information. Overall, the claim this ad makes is partially accurate but leaves out important details. We rate it Mostly False. This fact check is available at IFCN’s 2020 US Elections FactChat #Chatbot on WhatsApp. Click here for more.

Education,California,Congressional Leadership Fund

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Facebook posts

2021-01-17 00:00:00

a Facebook post:

“Joe Biden puts pro-life groups on domestic extremist list, calls pro-life people ‘violent.’”

Amy Sherman

2021-03-30 00:00:00

half-true

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/sep/24/kamala-harris/harris-highlights-racial-disparities-distribution-/

Harris highlights racial disparity in distribution of PPP loans but misstates Michigan stats

While campaigning in Flint, Mich., and Detroit, Sen. Kamala Harris emphasized the importance of ensuring a high turnout among Black voters to help elect Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden. During a Sept. 22 interview with the TV station WDIV, Harris, Biden's running mate, discussed the racial disparities revealed by the coronavirus pandemic and the ensuing economic recession, which has hit Black-owned businesses particularly hard. "I looked at the numbers in terms of the restaurants that received the benefit of the PPP in Michigan, and only one Black restaurant received it of the hundreds of others that received it," Harris claimed. "You cannot deny fact, and where there are disparities, they need to be addressed," she said. Researchers say Black-owned businesses have been hit hard during the current recession and have confronted barriers to accessing aid under the Paycheck Protection Program, a federal coronavirus relief program that offers low-interest loans to businesses to help cover payroll and expenses like rent or mortgage payments. But Harris’ claim on the numbers is incorrect. It’s based on outdated and incomplete data. More current data shows at least 29 Black-owned restaurants in Michigan have received PPP loans. What PPP loan data show The campaign shared a Jul. 16 article published by the Detroit Free Press to back Sen. Harris’ claim. It reported that of the 785 Michigan restaurants that had received a PPP loan greater than $150,000, only one was listed as Black-owned. That was according to an analysis of PPP loan data from the Small Business Administration.  The article did not include the number of Black-owned restaurants in Michigan that received a loan under $150,000, and it noted that many PPP recipients did not report racial demographic information. The latest data show that the number of Black-owned restaurants receiving PPP loans of any size has increased since this analysis was conducted, though it still lags behind the number for white-owned restaurants. Updated data show that of the 6,778 Michigan restaurants that received a PPP loan as of Aug. 8, only 1,265, or about 19% reported racial demographic information. Of those, there were three Black-owned restaurants that received loans greater than $150,000, compared with 223 white-owned restaurants; and 26 Black-owned restaurants got loans under $150,000, compared with 804 white-owned restaurants. So among Michigan restaurants that received a PPP loan and reported racial information, about 2% were Black-owned and about 81% were white-owned. The vast majority of recipients did not report racial demographic information. That alone makes it impossible to say definitively, as Harris did, how many Black-owned restaurants have benefited from the program. Black-owned businesses hit hard Black-owned businesses have been hit hard by the coronavirus-induced economic recession, and they have faced barriers in accessing PPP loans. Among all types of businesses, those with Black owners have been twice as likely to close during the pandemic, according to a recent report from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. "These firms had weaker financial cushions, weaker bank relationships, and preexisting funding gaps prior to the pandemic," said Claire Kramer Mills, assistant vice president at the New York Fed. "COVID-19 has exacerbated these issues, and businesses in the hardest-hit communities have witnessed huge disparities in access to federal relief funds and a higher rate of business closures." While the study found businesses located in counties most impacted by Black business closures received PPP loans at a similar rate as businesses nationally, there was significant variation among the counties. In Wayne County, Mich., for instance, only 11.6% of firms received PPP loans, compared with 17.7% of businesses nationally. Researchers have identified other racial disparities in access to PPP loans. Research from the National Community Reinvestment Coalition, an association of community-based organizations championing fairness in banking, found evidence of lending discrimination based on the race of the applicant for a PPP loan. Small businesses in majority-white neighborhoods received PPP loans more quickly than in majority-Black neighborhoods, according to a report from the nonpartisan think tank Brookings that looks at the most recent loan data. Black-owned firms tend to lack strong relationships with banks, especially traditional banks that were initially relied upon to deliver PPP loans, and entered the current recession in a weaker financial position, which helps explain the high rate of closures among Black-owned businesses and barriers to support. "Senator Harris is making the important point that during COVID-19, Black communities and small businesses have been disproportionately impacted," Ben Halle, Michigan communications director for the Biden-Harris campaign, wrote in an email to PolitiFact Michigan.  Our ruling Harris claimed that only one Black-owned restaurant in Michigan received a PPP loan. Her claim was based on old data and referred only to restaurant owners who reported racial demographic information and received loans greater than $150,000. According to the most recent SBA data, at least 29 self-identified Black-owned restaurants in Michigan have received a PPP loan, far fewer than the number of white-owned restaurants. And there’s other evidence of racial disparities in access to PPP loans nationwide. But the vast majority of loan applicants in Michigan did not provide racial data, making it impossible to determine how many Black-owned restaurants in the state benefited from the program. Harris’ claim contains an element of truth, but ignores critical facts that give a different impression. We rate this claim Mostly False. This fact check is available at IFCN’s 2020 US Elections FactChat #Chatbot on WhatsApp. Click here for more.

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https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/sep/24/senate-majority-pac/james-supports-school-choice-and-devos-does-he-wan/

James backs DeVos and school choice, but does he want to divert funding from public schools?

A Facebook ad from the Senate Majority PAC — which helps elect Democratic candidates to the Senate — attacks Michigan Republican Senate candidate John James, claiming that he "backed Betsy DeVos' agenda to take money away from public schools and give it to wealthy private schools instead." DeVos has long been a proponent in Michigan of reducing federal involvement in education and promoting school choice. And as education secretary in the Trump administration, she has championed lower Education Department budgets and proposed increasing federal funding to support private school enrollment. Members of the DeVos family have contributed $800,000 to a Super PAC trying to unseat incumbent Democratic Sen. Gary Peters. James, a Detroit-area businessman, has noted his support for DeVos and for school choice. But he hasn’t outlined a particular approach. Those who advocate for helping parents access alternatives to traditional public schools offer an array of proposals, from supporting charter schools, to government-funded vouchers to cover private school tuition costs, to tax credits that fund scholarships to help students attend private schools. While the ad suggests James backs the DeVos agenda, James has not specifically said whether he approves of her efforts to significantly cut funding for public education and increase federal support for private schools. He has not held elective office, or taken any public votes that would clarify his position. His campaign speeches and website lay out few specific policy positions, a fact that his critics have pointed out. And his campaign declined PolitiFact Michigan’s request for any details about his education policies that would rebut the PAC’s claim. That said, the Senate Majority PAC did not provide any clear evidence to back its claim that James supported DeVos’s "agenda to cut public school funding and put it into wealthy private schools instead." The PAC said it’s reasonable to conclude that based on his comments, James is fully behind DeVos’ policies. "James is very on the record about supporting her, and she’s very on the record about her positions," Matt Corridoni from Senate Majority PAC wrote in an email to PolitiFact Michigan. "Not being in office doesn’t excuse him from not taking a specific position on the policy itself — he’s a candidate who has embraced a platform," Corridoni added. During his unsuccessful 2018 campaign to unseat Michigan’s Democratic Sen. Debbie Stabenow, James highlighted the need for education reform to address underperforming schools in Michigan. Education is listed among the policy priorities featured on James’ current campaign website, on which he calls for supporting "all education options—public, charter, and private." While James supports school choice, he has not made clear whether his vision for education reform includes cutting funding for public schools and providing increased federal support for private schools. DeVos’ record on directing funding to private schools Analyses by the nonpartisan Committee for Education Funding finds that during DeVos’ tenure as Education Secretary, she has consistently proposed slashing funding for public education and deploying federal dollars to expand school choice, including increasing federal support for private schools. Private schools do not receive federal funding directly. Instead the Education Department provides funding for school districts that fund services to students at private schools. The Trump administration’s budget requests have proposed reducing the Education Department’s spending, but increasing federal support for private schools through appropriations, a tax credit to fund scholarships to attend private schools and voucher programs that could be used for private schools. During a 2018 House Appropriations subcommittee hearing, DeVos defended the cuts proposed in the administration’s budget that year. "President Trump is committed to reducing the federal footprint in education, and that is reflected in this budget," she said. But the administration’s proposals have faced stiff pushback from Democratic and Republican lawmakers. Congress has consistently rejected cuts to the Education Department budget, and none of the Trump administration’s requests for  more federal support for private schools have been enacted. Trump has signed the spending bills into law anyway. This past spring, DeVos directed school districts to share federal funding from the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act with private schools. Analysis from the nonpartisan Learning Policy Institute found that the school districts would direct an additional $1.3 billion to private schools under the department’s guidance. A federal judge ruled Sept. 4 that the department did not have the authority to do this, and the rule is no longer in effect. James’ statements of support for DeVos "She’s headed in the right direction," James said of DeVos during his 2018 campaign, according to audio from a May 2018 campaign fundraiser shared with PolitiFact Michigan by Senate Majority PAC. "By doing things to get more power back to the states and to parents, I truly believe that if we give parents the resources and the opportunity to decide what’s best for their children, they will make the best decision 100% of the time," James said. A few months later, James reiterated his support for DeVos and alternatives to traditional public schools. "I think that the job Betsy DeVos is doing in the Department of Education I think is very, very good," according to audio from a fundraiser shared by the Democratic PAC. James also said, "I totally support charter schools," according to a transcript of the recording provided by the Senate Majority PAC. James’ 2018 comments followed DeVos’ effort to cut funding for the Education Department that year and increase federal support for private schools, including a proposal for a $1 billion grant to fund school choice initiatives, in part through  scholarships to private schools. And in 2017, the Trump administration proposed spending $250 million to provide families with vouchers to use at private schools. While James has noted his support for DeVos and school choice, the Democratic PAC did not provide evidence that James specifically supports cutting funding for public schools and diverting that money to help parents send their children to private schools instead. Our ruling The Senate Majority PAC claimed in a Facebook ad that James "supported Betsy DeVos’ agenda to cut public school funding and put it into wealthy private schools instead." During her tenure as education secretary, DeVos has sought funding cuts to public schools while increasing federal funding to help more children enroll in private schools. James has made comments supportive of DeVos’ school choice efforts broadly, but his campaign declined to offer details on his education policy proposals, and he has no legislative voting record to indicate where he stands. It may seem like James is benefiting from the lack of information he and his campaign have provided on his education platform. Nonetheless, the PAC did not provide conclusive evidence for its claim that he favors directing federal funding away from public schools to supporting private schools. The statement contains an element of truth but ignores critical facts that would give a different impression. We rate this claim Mostly False.  This fact check is available at IFCN’s 2020 US Elections FactChat #Chatbot on WhatsApp. Click here for more.

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Facebook posts

2021-03-29 00:00:00

a statement given to the press:

Says Deborah Birx “traveled a great distance to see her family for Thanksgiving, only to have them call the police and turn her in. She then ... resigned.”

Tom Kertscher

2021-03-30 00:00:00

barely-true

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/sep/24/joe-biden/donald-trump-worst-jobs-president-recorded-history/

Joe Biden jobs ad uses pandemic to tar Donald Trump

In a short video shared on social media, the campaign of Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden criticized President Donald Trump’s handling of the economy. The video tracks across a graph of how many jobs were created under each president since Harry Truman. Only Trump is shown with a negative number.  In tweeting the video, Biden said, "Donald Trump claimed he would be 'the greatest jobs president God ever created.' But the fact is he's the worst jobs president in recorded history." Donald Trump claimed he would be "the greatest jobs president God ever created."But the fact is he's the worst jobs president in recorded history.We can't afford another four years of his failed leadership. pic.twitter.com/uW10KJhMsV— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) September 18, 2020   We found that the historical comparison is missing a lot of context. The employment numbers for each president in the ad closely track with data produced by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. (The chart below is color-coded by the president’s political party.) We’ve begun with Truman because Biden’s ad starts there, and also because statistics for his Depression-era predecessor, Franklin Roosevelt, are only annual averages and aren’t as precise.   This measure — and the decline in jobs under Trump — leaves out critical context about how long the president served and what was happening in the economic background. Biden’s ad lumps together two-term presidents with those who served for a shorter period. One of the presidents who hasn’t served two terms at this point is Trump. In addition, the endpoint for Trump’s number is fixed during a once-a-century pandemic that has devastated employment. The pandemic has also led to a lot of volatility in the employment picture, as workers are called back or kept away from work depending on variations in the virus’ impact in particular geographic areas. It’s impossible to know what the jobs picture will look like when the election is held, or when a president is sworn in on Jan. 20. For this type of comparison, small changes in the parameters can produce big differences in outcomes. For example, if you looked at the first three years of each president’s tenure, Trump fares a lot better.    This comparison is closer to being apples to apples than what Biden offered, but it still isn’t comprehensive. Another way to look at the numbers is to compare the presidents at the worst economic point in their presidency. This is the month that the National Bureau of Economic Research determines is the "trough" of a recession. (As noted in the chart, some presidents didn’t face recessions, or saw the trough hit during their successor’s tenure.)   In the comparison above, Trump fared the worst of any president, but he has plenty of company in negative territory, with Dwight Eisenhower, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, and Barack Obama all experiencing job losses. Richard Nixon, George H.W. Bush, and George W. Bush barely came out in positive territory. Impact of coronavirus The biggest reason for the unusually large losses on Trump’s watch, of course, is the historically swift and severe nature of the recession caused by the coronavirus. The Biden campaign argues that Trump bears some responsibility for the pandemic’s severity, and as a result, for the depth of the recession.  Due in part to Trump’s policies, the campaign said, the United States became the global leader in coronavirus cases in late March and continues to lead the world today, with a daily death count more than three times as high as the European continent. They cited a June analysis by Moody’s that half of those who were laid off due to the virus would not have lost their jobs if the administration’s response had been more effective. Still, if Biden had been president when the virus hit instead, it’s doubtful he could have avoided a major employment shock. Asked in an August interview with ABC News whether he would shutter economic activity if scientists said it was necessary, Biden said, "I would shut it down." Ultimately, linking the state of the economy to a president’s policies is often exaggerated. While a president’s enactment of tax cuts or budgetary investments can certainly have an effect on the economy, other factors — such as oil shocks, new technologies or international events — have a big impact as well. "These outcomes are more driven by lucky or unlucky timing than actual policy," said Steve Fazzari, an economist at Washington University in St. Louis. "This is the sort of cheap politics that is absolutely standard for campaigns," said Dean Baker, co-founder of the liberal Center for Economic and Policy Research. "The reality is that policy is far less responsible for the good or bad things that happen on a president's watch than is generally believed. Jimmy Carter didn't cause the Iranian revolution and the huge surge in oil prices that followed, but he sure took the blame for it." Our ruling Biden said that Trump is "the worst jobs president in recorded history." The raw numbers show that Trump, as of now, is the only president since at least Truman to see an overall decline in jobs on their watch.  However, this comparison is less than meets the eye. The economy’s performance under Trump has been hampered by a pandemic that caused an unusually swift and severe recession, and the virus is still spreading. No president in Biden’s comparison experienced an equivalent blow. Any president who served during the 2020 pandemic almost certainly would have experienced a major hit to employment just like Trump did. We rate the statement Half True. This fact check is available at IFCN’s 2020 US Elections FactChat #Chatbot on WhatsApp. Click here, for more.

Economy,Jobs,Joe Biden

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Donald Trump

2021-03-29 00:00:00

a Facebook post:

“Minority farmers get big bonus, white ones get none,” because of Democrats.

Samantha Putterman

2021-03-30 00:00:00

barely-true

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/sep/24/cal-cunningham/cunningham-half-right-about-tillis-role-prescripti/

Cunningham half right about Tillis role in prescription drug efforts

If a coronavirus vaccine is approved by the end of the year, Cal Cunningham says he would have valid reasons for questioning its safety. For one, government officials have offered mixed messaging on when a vaccine might be ready. (President Trump has suggested November, while others have said that’s unlikely.) Then, there’s the influence of big healthcare companies on Washington politicians.  In Monday’s U.S. Senate debate on WRAL, Cunningham accused incumbent Republican Thom Tillis of being a friend of "big pharma." And he pointed to Tillis’ record on pharmaceuticals as an example of "corruption in Washington." "We can almost look no further than Senator Tillis taking over $400,000 from big pharma, and then even blocking his own party’s efforts to reduce the cost of prescription drugs," Cunningham said. (It’s at 23:45 of this video) It’s true that Tillis has received more than $400,000 from individuals and political committees tied to the pharmaceutical and health product industries, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. Is it true that Tillis has blocked "his own party’s efforts to reduce the cost of prescription drugs?" Tillis has opposed some bills that aimed to reduce prescription drug prices. (In some cases, he has offered alternatives) However, it’s a stretch to suggest Tillis is responsible for stopping those bills from succeeding.  The ‘most viable’ bill The Cunningham campaign pointed to a pair of bills sponsored by Republicans, the most significant of which is the Prescription Drug Pricing Reduction Act of 2019. The bill was introduced by U.S. Sens. Chuck Grassley, an Iowa Republican, and Ron Wyden, a Democrat from Oregon. The Washington Post referred to the legislation as "the most viable drug pricing bill in Congress." It’s probably the "most comprehensive (drug pricing) package" of the last few years, said Juliette Cubanski, deputy director of the Kaiser Family Foundation’s Program on Medicare Policy. The bill aimed to put an inflation-based cap on some drug prices or require rebates from drug makers. "It was interesting to see (price caps) included in Grassley’s legislation, considering the Republican belief" in the free market, she told PolitiFact in a phone interview. Bill stalled Grassley told CNBC in January that there’s "no other bill that can get the 60 votes required" to pass the Senate. Grassley said he had support from President Trump and some Democrats in the Senate. The problem, he said, were the Senate Republicans. Tillis told The Hill last October that he had "concerns" about it, adding he had not made a final decision on how he would vote if the bill came to the floor. In December, Politico reported that Senate leader Mitch McConnell warned colleagues that a vote could expose Republicans to attacks on the campaign trail. At the time, Politico reported that Tillis opposed the bill, saying the need to put caps on drug prices is being "driven by a lot of populist pressure." In December, Tillis and five other Republican senators introduced a competing bill known as the Lower Costs, More Cures Act. Of Tillis, Cubanski said "I think it’s notable that he’s one of the co-sponsors of the alternative legislation, which does not include this inflation cap provision." WBTV reported that, around the same time Tillis introduced his bill, he received more than $20,000 in campaign contributions from political action committees tied to pharmaceutical companies.  In February, the Washington Post reported that McConnell had not scheduled a vote on the bill because it would divide his Republican caucus. As of the Tillis-Cunningham debate, the bill had still not come up for a vote. Asked about Grassley’s bill this week, campaign spokesman Andrew Romeo said Tillis supports his alternative bill, but "has had several conversations with Senator Grassley about how to find common ground while striking the balance of lowering drug prices and protecting innovation."  Other bills Tillis is a top recipient of campaign contributions from people and PACs affiliated with the pharmaceutical industry. A Kaiser Health News analysis found that Tillis received more than $156,000 from political action committees tied to drug manufacturers in 2019, more than any other member of Congress. The Cunningham campaign also cited the Creating and Restoring Equal Access to Equivalent Samples Act of 2018, known as the CREATES Act. Initial Republican co-sponsors included Grassley, as well as Tom Cotton of Arkansas, Mike Lee of Utah and Susan Collins of Maine. The legislation aimed to end "shenanigans" that delay competition from generic and biosimilar drugs, according to the American Journal of Managed Care. Tillis initially opposed the CREATES Act, but his office says he supported it after it was amended and included in an appropriations bill. In 2019, Bloomberg reported that Tillis and Sen. Chris Coons, a Democrat from Delaware, worked together against efforts to crack down on patent abuses.  RealClearHealth, a right-leaning news site, reported that Tillis and Coons have sought to change patent law in ways that would "lead to increased prescription drug prices, reduced access to life saving treatments and medications and de-incentivize research and development." Our ruling Cunningham says Tillis has a record of "blocking his own party’s efforts to reduce the cost of prescription drugs." It’s fair to say that, in a few instances, Tillis has opposed his own party’s efforts to reduce the cost of prescription drugs. That includes Grassley’s bill, which experts see as a significant effort. But Tillis has also offered alternatives. And there’s not a lot of definitive proof that Tillis, alone, has halted legislation that would have otherwise passed. Cunningham’s statement is partially accurate but leaves out important details or takes things out of context. We rate it Half True.

Health Care,North Carolina,Cal Cunningham

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Instagram posts

2021-03-29 00:00:00

a Facebook post:

Says Rachel Levine was Time magazine's "Woman of the Year."

Clara Hendrickson

2020-09-24 00:00:00

half-true

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/sep/23/instagram-posts/romney-quote-about-merrick-garland-supreme-court-v/

Romney quote about Merrick Garland, Supreme Court vote is paraphrased

As Senate Republicans prepare to vote on a Supreme Court nominee to fill the vacancy left by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, social media posts are putting words in the mouth of one of the chamber’s more moderate members. In 2016, Republican senators blocked the appointment of Judge Merrick Garland, whom former President Barack Obama nominated that March, to the Supreme Court because it was too close to the election. Now flash forward to 2020. After Ginsburg died Sept. 18, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said President Donald Trump’s nominee — which he is expected to announce Sept. 26 — "will receive a vote on the floor of the United States Senate." A Sept. 22 Instagram post says Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, has weighed in on that decision. (Screenshot from Instagram) "The Merrick Garland decision wasn’t unfair & the notion that someone has to pay the price to make up for it is wrong," says a quote attributed to Romney in the post. "This further proves my point that a post-RBG race has NOTHING to do with whether or not voters LIKE @realdonaldtrump anymore," wrote Lynne Patton, a longtime Donald Trump associate who works in the Department of Housing and Urban Development, in a caption. The post was flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about our partnership with Facebook, which owns Instagram.) Romney was the only Republican who voted in favor of convicting Trump of abuse of power in a February impeachment vote and has been reported as a potential swing vote in the Senate. So we wanted to check whether he actually said the quote cited in the Instagram post. The post is a paraphrase of comments that Romney made Sept. 22 after releasing a statement saying he’s in favor of voting on a nominee to fill the Supreme Court vacancy before Election Day. Here’s what Romney said in an interview with reporters when asked about the decision to block Garland’s nomination in 2016: "I wasn't there. I think there's some perception on the part of some writers and others that gee, what happened with Merrick Garland was unfair. I don't agree with that. I don't know whether you think it was a good decision or not but it wasn't unfair because it was consistent with history, it was consistent with precedent. It was consistent with the Constitution. So the idea that the Merrick Garland decision was unfair and therefore it has to be made up by doing something, which also wouldn't make a lot of sense — which is saying to President Trump, ‘You can't get your nominee either’ — that just doesn't follow for me.  "The Garland decision was consistent with history. The decision to proceed with the new nominee is also consistent with history and precedent. And that's where I come out." Romney did say the decision to block Garland’s appointment to the Supreme Court "wasn’t unfair" and that he doesn’t agree with the notion that Republicans should abstain from confirming a new justice before Nov. 3. But he did not say the quote attributed to him in the Instagram post. The post is partially accurate but leaves out important details or takes things out of context. We rate it Half True.

Supreme Court,Facebook Fact-checks,Instagram posts

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Facebook posts

2021-03-29 00:00:00

a TV

“Only one” Black-owned restaurant in Michigan received a loan through the Paycheck Protection Program

Clara Hendrickson

2020-09-24 00:00:00

false

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/nov/20/donald-trump/trump-again-flat-wrong-claims-about-wisconsin-vote/

Trump again flat wrong with claims about Wisconsin voter fraud

Continuing his post-election barrage of misinformation, President Donald Trump revived a previously debunked voter fraud claim about Wisconsin on Twitter. He shared a chart Nov. 18, 2020, showing a jump in the number of votes for Democrat Joe Biden about 3:30 a.m. Nov. 4, the morning after the election. He added this commentary: "Look at this in Wisconsin! A day AFTER the election, Biden receives a dump of 143,379 votes at 3:42AM, when they learned he was losing badly. This is unbelievable!" Sigh. This jump is actually very believable — and was entirely expected. An array of similar claims surfaced in the days after the election, most based on errant assumptions around a chart from FiveThirtyEight.com that showed a sharp uptick in Biden votes in the wee hours of Nov. 4.  A conservative website trumpeted this as "Voter Fraud in Wisconsin." One widely shared Facebook post called it a "ballot dump," while another referred to the votes as being "found." Trump also asserted Nov. 4 that his lead in key states "started to magically disappear as surprise ballot dumps were counted." Those claims led to unanimous debunking from an array of fact-checking organizations, including USA TODAY, PolitiFact, AFP and Reuters. But since Trump has raised the issue yet again, with a slightly different chart, let’s review why this claim is absurd. Jump caused by pool of Milwaukee absentee ballots That 3:30 a.m. change simply shows the time when the City of Milwaukee reported its absentee ballot results. This wasn’t surprising because: Milwaukee is a longtime Democratic stronghold. In 2016, Hillary Clinton won the city of Milwaukee 77%-18%. We knew well before the election that Democrats were much more likely than Republicans to vote absentee. Polling showed 81% of the people planning to vote absentee in Wisconsin supported Biden. We knew it was going to take a long time to count the absentee ballots, leading them to be reported later. Those absentee votes — a total of 170,000 in Milwaukee — were reported together because Milwaukee and 38 other Wisconsin communities used a central count location. Other communities counted absentee ballots at the polling places and reported them earlier along with their in-person vote totals. The ballots took that long to process at central count because Wisconsin law bans clerks from tallying absentee ballots before Election Day. Clerks from both parties have pushed for years for a change in state law, but Republicans who run the Legislature refused to address the matter. As a result, Claire Woodall-Vogg, the executive director of the Milwaukee Election Commission, said months before the election she didn’t expect to finish that count until the early morning hours of Nov. 4. And that’s exactly what happened. From 3:26 to 3:44 a.m. in The Associated Press election reporting stream, the vote for Biden jumped by 149,520 (9.2% of Biden's total votes) and Trump's vote jumped by 31,803 votes (2% of his total votes). Milwaukee County accounted for nearly all of that jump. The fact that Trump was "ahead" before that batch was reported —  as highlighted in Trump’s tweet —  is immaterial. At that point all the votes hadn’t been counted yet. It would be like trying to end a football game when your favorite team is ahead after the third quarter. So Trump’s number may be roughly right. But his explanation of what it means is completely wrong. Our ruling Trump said Nov. 18 that Wisconsin received a "dump" of Biden votes, asserting this is "unbelievable" and evidence of fraud. But it’s just evidence of someone who doesn’t understand the vote counting process in Wisconsin. That jump in Biden votes is when Milwaukee reported its 170,000 absentee ballots all at once. We knew long before the election this group would be reported late together and would weigh heavily in Biden’s favor.  We rate this claim Pants on Fire!

Elections,States,Wisconsin,Donald Trump

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Kamala Harris

2020-09-22 00:00:00

a Facebook ad:

Says “John James supported Betsy DeVos’ agenda to cut public school funding and put it into wealthy private schools instead.”

Louis Jacobson

2020-09-24 00:00:00

half-true

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/nov/20/lyle-larson/studies-show-cannabis-can-lower-opioid-dosage-stud/

Research shows cannabis can lower opioid dosage, but studies are preliminary

State lawmakers so far have filed more than a dozen bills related to marijuana and medical cannabis for consideration during the 2021 legislative session, coming on the heels of a record-breaking 65 marijuana bills filed last legislative session. Proponents of loosening the state’s marijuana prohibitions hope that momentum generated by legalization efforts around the country could carry into Texas, riding on arguments that legalization would be a boon for the economy and an important pillar of criminal justice reform. Rep. Lyle Larson, R-San Antonio, made a different case for medical marijuana when he filed House Joint Resolution 28. In an announcement on Twitter, Larson said the bill would allow voters to decide "whether Texas physicians should be allowed to prescribe medical cannabis for a variety of illnesses plaguing Texans." If approved by more than two-thirds of both legislative chambers, a proposal would be added to the November 2021 ballot that would amend the state constitution to legalize the possession, cultivation and sale of cannabis strictly for medical use. Larson cited one statistic to justify his bill: "Studies have shown up to 75% reduction in opioid dosage for medical cannabis users" The intersection of medical cannabis and opioid use as treatments for chronic pain is an emerging field of research as more states loosen regulations on medical and recreational use of marijuana. But does science show that cannabis has as great an impact on opioid dosage as Larson claims? Medical cannabis in lieu of opioids Larson’s aides pointed to a report published over the summer by researchers at the University of Arizona that assessed the effectiveness of medical cannabis in reducing opioid dosage for the treatment of chronic pain in non-cancer patients. The analysis looked at nine separate studies involving a total of 7,222 participants across the U.S., Canada and Australia that "found a much higher reduction in opioid dosage, reduced emergency room visits, and hospital admissions for chronic non-cancer pain by (medical cannabis) users, compared to people with no additional use of" medical cannabis. Those studies confirm Larson’s assertion: There was a 64% to 75% reduction in opioid dosage when patients supplemented their chronic pain treatments with medical cannabis, and 32% to 59% of cannabis users reported a complete end to opioid use. But University of Arizona researchers note several caveats to these findings. There has generally been "a dearth of empirical studies" about the use of cannabis versus opioids in chronic pain treatments. In order to include a large sample size, the researchers "relaxed inclusion criteria" in their analysis to allow for the inclusion of observational studies, which are not systematic enough to be considered empirical evidence. For instance, in each of the nine studies, patients were self-reporting their reduction of opioid dosage, implying a degree of uncertainty in the findings. And in several of the studies, patients didn’t report the amount of cannabis used to achieve a reduction of opioid dosage. Furthermore, researchers noted how cannabis can slow a person’s metabolism, thereby causing an opioid medication to absorb into their bloodstream more slowly. This effect can give a patient the impression that their opioid dosage may need to be increased. While studies suggest that cannabis could be used to reduce opioid dosages when treating chronic pain, researchers suggest the findings be interpreted with caution due to limitations in the evidence. The intent of the study is to suggest to the wider medical field that more systematic tests should be conducted, said Dr. Babasola Okusanya of the University of Arizona, who was involved in the study, and the severity of the opioid epidemic should heighten the urgency of these tests. "Given the current opioid epidemic in the USA and medical cannabis’s recognized analgesic properties, (medical cannabis) could serve as a viable option to achieve opioid dosage reduction in managing non-cancer chronic pain," researchers wrote. "Unfortunately, the evidence from this review cannot be relied upon to promote (medical cannabis) as an adjunct to opioids in treating non-cancer chronic pain." It would be premature to base legislation on this study’s findings, Okusanya said. "Although some evidence points to the potential use of medical cannabis for opioid dose reduction in people with non-cancer chronic pain, it is not sufficient to support a legislative bill to make medical cannabis available to people with non-cancer chronic pain," he said. While the effects of cannabis on decreasing opioid usage may be inconclusive, other studies have shown that increasing access to marijuana can lead to a reduction in opioid-related deaths. Last year, researchers found that the legalization of recreational marijuana reduced annual opioid mortality between 20% and 35%. "Recreational marijuana laws affect a much larger population than medical marijuana laws, yet we know relatively little about their effects," said Nathan Chan of University of Massachusetts Amherst, who co-authored the study. "Focusing on the recent wave of recreational marijuana laws in the U.S., we find that opioid mortality rates drop when recreational marijuana becomes widely available via dispensaries." Compassionate Use Program The Legislature first cracked open the door to medical cannabis in 2015 by creating the Texas Compassionate Use Program. The program limited medical cannabis to low levels of tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC, and could only be used in the treatment of intractable epilepsy. In 2019, the Legislature expanded the program to allow physicians to prescribe medical cannabis to treat several other conditions, including all types of epilepsy, terminal cancer, autism, multiple sclerosis and other neuro-degenerative disorders. Other conditions that medical cannabis advocates pushed for that did not get included in the 2019 expansion include chronic pain and post traumatic stress disorder. During the 2021 session, advocates say they will push to include these conditions under the program and will seek to eliminate restrictions on THC levels in medical cannabis. Currently, state law caps THC in medical cannabis at 0.5% — a level that advocates say is arbitrary. "Many patients benefit from THC, and it's our position that doctors should be the ones who are making the decision about dosing rather than lawmakers," said Heather Fazio, director of the Marijuana Policy Project. "We trust doctors with far more dangerous drugs." Larson’s legislative director Caroline Cone echoed that argument. "Currently, (medical professionals) can't prescribe it, but they can prescribe opioids which have proven to be much more addictive and damaging long term," Cone said. "Anxiety and pain management for veterans and elderly folks in lieu of opioids was Rep. Larson's motivation to file the legislation." Our ruling Larson filed legislation earlier this month aimed at expanding the use of medical cannabis by giving physicians the authority to prescribe cannabis based on their own expertise. In a tweet, Larson justified his bill by saying that medical cannabis can help chronic pain patients reduce opioid dosage by up to 75%. Preliminary studies suggest a correlation between medical cannabis usage and a reduction in opioid dosage, but researchers note the results are inconclusive and more rigorous testing should be done to know the full effects of medical cannabis on opioid dosage. We rate this claim Mostly True.

Public Health,Texas,Marijuana,Lyle Larson

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Senate Majority PAC

2020-09-04 00:00:00

a video

Says Donald Trump is “the worst jobs president in recorded history."

Paul Specht

2020-09-24 00:00:00

mostly-true

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/nov/20/ron-johnson/ron-johnson-silent-presidential-transition-reversa/

Ron Johnson silent on presidential transition, a reversal of past comments

In a typical election year, the president-elect already would be meeting with White House officials to ensure a seamless transfer of power in January. This year is far from normal.  President Donald Trump has refused to concede the election to President-elect Joe Biden and has cried fraud despite assurances by election officials that the vote was secure. In Wisconsin, Trump’s campaign requested a recount after the official tally showed him down statewide by nearly 21,000 votes — but only requested ballots in heavily Democratic Milwaukee and Dane counties be examined.  Against that backdrop, most Republican elected officials have been noticeably quiet and haven’t acknowledged Biden’s victory. U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson went a step further on Nov. 10, 2020 when asked if he had congratulated Biden. "Nothing to congratulate him about," Johnson told a reporter from The Hill. Johnson’s comment caught our attention because of his previous work on presidential transitions, specifically the need to have a structured process and a smooth transition once an election result is clear.  So we decided to break out our Flip-O-Meter.  Reminder: We’re not measuring whether any change in position is good policy or good politics. We’re just examining whether a public official has been consistent in his or her stated views. Has Johnson shifted his views on the need to assure a smooth transition? Johnson’s previous work In the past, Johnson has backed multiple efforts to codify standards for the presidential transition process. We’ll start there. In 2015, Johnson introduced legislation — later signed by President Barack Obama — that requires the president to create a White House transition council at least six months before the election. It also outlines duties for a federal transition coordinator, which include negotiating a memorandum of understanding on the transition staff’s access to employees, facilities and agency documents.  "The peaceful transition of power from one administration to the next is one of the hallmarks of our democracy," Johnson said after the bill passed the Senate. "It is also an enormous undertaking, with complexities that require months of planning in order to be successful." Fast forward to the 2016 election, when Trump won thanks to narrow victories in Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania. Johnson was quick to acknowledge Trump’s victory after Hillary Clinton conceded — even though results had not been certified by then. "I can’t wait to work with President Trump," he said one day after the election, according to the Wisconsin State Journal. A few years later, Johnson introduced another measure, which requires transition teams to enter into a contract with the General Services Administration, among other provisions. The 2018 bill came after Johnson raised concerns about allegations that the GSA improperly provided transition documents to former special counsel Robert Mueller’s office in the probe of Russian interference in the 2016 election. "Regardless of what party wins an election, we need to make sure that handing over the keys to the entire $4.45 trillion federal government is a smooth and secure process," Johnson tweeted on March 4, 2020, after Trump signed the bill into law. So Johnson acknowledged Trump as the victor in 2016 before results had been finalized, but seemingly won’t accept unofficial results that point to a Biden win. He also has stressed repeatedly the need for transition planning to begin early and both sides to cooperate — and even sponsored legislation to help guarantee that. The Trump-Biden transition The Trump-Biden transition looks remarkably different than past transfers of power. According to Politico, the Trump administration began transition activities in May per federal law, and the White House says it’s doing everything by the book. But more than two weeks after the election, there has been no communication between the Trump White House and the Biden campaign, and Biden’s team has yet to be briefed. Meanwhile, the head of the GSA refuses to sign paperwork that would turn over federal resources for the transition, The Washington Post reported.  Johnson has been quiet since Election Day, but did say this of Trump in a Nov. 7 tweet: "His unbelievably energetic reelection campaign efforts earned him 200,000 more votes in Wisconsin than in 2016 and once again made pollsters look ridiculous. Regardless of the outcome, in my book he will always be a winner and patriot that truly loves America." Johnson said he has no problem with Biden’s team receiving high-level intelligence briefings but didn’t call on the GSA to certify Biden as president-elect, Politico reported on Nov. 12. Less than a week later, on Nov. 17, he told the political news website The Recount that Biden is "starting his transition" — despite evidence to the contrary. In addition to the recount in Wisconsin, of course, Trump’s campaign has been filing — and generally losing — lawsuits in critical states across the country. The campaign argues many states have not finalized vote totals and, due to various challenges, the outcome of the election is still in doubt. But there was also uncertainty at this stage last time. Green Party candidate Jill Stein soon pursued recounts in three swing states including Wisconsin. Yet the Obama-to-Trump transition had begun and the back-end process was working the way Johnson’s bills intended. A spokesman for Johnson said the senator is confident there will be an orderly transfer of power, but added it’s not his job to certify election results. Of course, no one expects Johnson to certify election results.  The issue in question is whether his approach now — when the results are clear, though not-yet-certified — is the same as it was in 2016, when it was clear Trump had won before results were final. And whether the position taken now is contrary to his past views — and legislation — aimed at ensuring there is a smooth transition. Our ruling Johnson pushed legislation in recent years to streamline the presidential transition and called the process "one of the hallmarks of our democracy." But now, he’s silent as the Trump administration holds up the process and won’t acknowledge Biden as the president-elect. That hardly amounts to the smooth, peaceful transfer of power he worked to embed through bills he sponsored. When it comes to his views on handling the transition, we give Johnson a Full Flop.

Elections,Wisconsin,Ron Johnson

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Joe Biden

2020-09-18 00:00:00

a debate:

Says Thom Tillis has been “blocking his own party’s efforts to reduce the cost of prescription drugs.”

Ciara O'Rourke

2020-09-23 00:00:00

full-flop

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/nov/20/raphael-warnock/claim-ga-sen-kelly-loeffler-backs-getting-rid-heal/

Claim that Ga. Sen. Kelly Loeffler backs ‘getting rid of health care’ partly correct

Attacks are going extreme in the two Jan. 5 runoff elections in Georgia that will determine which party controls the U.S. Senate. The Rev. Raphael Warnock, a Democrat who is challenging Republican Sen. Kelly Loeffler, was accused by a conservative pundit of running over his wife and having been arrested for obstructing a child abuse investigation. We rated the claim, misleading on both counts, Mostly False. In a lighter response, Warnock used a TV ad to poke fun at attacks on him. "Raphael Warnock eats pizza with a fork and knife, Raphael Warnock once stepped on a crack in the sidewalk, Raphael Warnock even hates puppies," the narrator says, before Warnock makes an attack of his own.  "Get ready, Georgia, the negative ads are coming," a smiling Warnock says. "Kelly Loeffler doesn’t want to talk about why she’s for getting rid of health care in the middle of a pandemic, so she’s going to try and scare you with lies about me."   He’s made the health care attack repeatedly. This claim exaggerates, but has some truth to it. Loeffler supports repealing Obamacare To back Warnock’s attack, his campaign cited Loeffler’s Oct. 1 vote to allow the Trump administration to proceed with its support of a lawsuit that aims to overturn the Affordable Care Act. (The specific measure would have blocked the Justice Department from pursuing the lawsuit; Loeffler voted against it.) Overturning Obamacare would eliminate the law’s protections for millions of people with pre-existing conditions. The protections include preventing insurance companies from excluding those people from coverage and limiting the premiums that can be charged to older people. RELATED: PolitiFact fact-checks and articles about the Georgia runoffs While it’s possible the U.S. Supreme Court, which heard oral arguments in the lawsuit Nov. 10, could strike down the entire law, law experts say that’s not the most likely outcome. Still, the lawsuit’s aim is to repeal the law entirely. Warnock’s campaign also argues that the lawsuit would eliminate health care coverage for millions of people who are insured through marketplaces set up by Obamacare or through the law’s expansion of Medicaid.  The New York Times reported that if Obamacare is struck down, 21 million people are at serious risk of becoming uninsured. Obamacare alternatives not as strong In addition, Warnock’s campaign cites Loeffler’s support for two measures that would provide health coverage options that it criticizes, arguing that they would result in a loss of health care.  Loeffler supports allowing for more short-term, limited-duration health insurance plans, which she says gives consumers more options. Those plans are exempt from Obamacare’s protections for pre-existing conditions, however. Loeffler also backed a controversial Medicaid waiver, sought by Republican Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp and approved by the federal government. Kemp contends the waiver will help residents who make too much to qualify for Medicaid but too little to qualify for subsidies on the federal marketplace.  But some 400,000 Georgians who bought individual health insurance plans on the federal healthcare.gov Affordable Care Act shopping website will instead have to work through private brokers or insurance companies., Critics say 60,000 Georgians could be left without health insurance. Railing against what she calls the left’s efforts to turn health care into a government-run system, Loeffler on Nov. 13 released a health care plan that she says will protect people with pre-existing conditions while offering them more options. It includes the short-term plans and the Medicaid waiver. It does not include the same robust protections that the federal Affordable Care Act has.  Our ruling Warnock said Loeffler is "for getting rid of health care in the middle of a pandemic." That’s an overly broad statement that could be interpreted any number of ways.  The facts are that Loeffler voted to let the Trump administration continue supporting a lawsuit that seeks to overturn the Affordable Care Act. Millions of people could lose health care if the Supreme Court throws out the law. Loeffler supports offering health care alternatives, but critics say they are not as good as Obamacare’s provisions. Warnock’s statement is partially accurate but leaves out important details. Our rating is Half True. This fact check is available at IFCN’s 2020 US Elections FactChat #Chatbot on WhatsApp. Click here, for more.

Georgia,Public Health,Coronavirus,Raphael Warnock

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Cal Cunningham

2020-09-14 00:00:00

a blog post:

Photo shows Dianne Feinstein “bullying” Lisa Murkowski over “the now empty seat of the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.”

Daniel Funke

2020-09-23 00:00:00

half-true

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/nov/20/jon-ossoff/david-perdue-opposes-biden-didnt-say-hed-do-everyt/

David Perdue opposes Biden but didn’t say he’d do everything to ensure he fails

Jon Ossoff, the Democrat challenging Sen. David Perdue, R-Ga., went extreme in describing Perdue’s opposition to President-elect Joe Biden. The documentary filmmaker faces the first-term senator in one of the two Jan. 5 runoff elections in Georgia that will decide which party controls the Senate. Ossoff made his attack in a TV ad released Nov. 17 that raises the COVID-19 pandemic. "Look, the only way to beat this virus is to give our new president the chance to succeed. I'll work with Joe Biden to empower the medical experts to rush economic relief for families and small businesses and invest in infrastructure to jump start our economy," he said, looking into the camera. "But David Perdue says he'll do everything in his power to make sure Joe Biden fails, just like he tried to do with President Obama." Perdue and Georgia’s other senator, Republican Kelly Loeffler, who faces Democratic pastor Raphael Warnock, are portraying themselves as a "last line of defense" against Democrats. We did not find evidence that Perdue has gone as far in his public statements as Ossoff claims, although Perdue clearly is campaigning as a candidate who can block the Democratic agenda. RELATED: PolitiFact fact-checks and articles about the Georgia runoffs An Ossoff news release announcing the ad, referring to the attack on Perdue, links to an Atlanta Journal Constitution news story. The story is about a Nov. 13 campaign appearance by Perdue and Loeffler, which the newspaper said was Perdue’s first of the runoff campaign.  The story’s headline, quoting Loeffler, said: "‘We are the firewall.’ Senate Republicans prepare to make a stand in Georgia." But the story does not quote Perdue making any comment about Biden.  When we contacted Ossoff’s campaign, spokeswoman Miryam Lipper said, "Perdue says and implies on a regular basis that he needs to be a block on the Democratic agenda."  She cited three recent statements by Perdue: The Georgia Senate seats serve as "the last line of defense against this liberal socialist agenda the Democrats will perpetrate." Ossoff and two other Democrats, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, "want to radically change our country. Sign up now to help (Loeffler) and I stop their dangerous agenda!" "The Democrats want total control so they can force their dangerous agenda through Congress with no negotiation. I need your help to stop them."  None of the statements mentions Biden. "To our knowledge, Senator Perdue has not made any comments about a potential Biden presidency, or how he would react to it in any context," Perdue campaign spokesman John Burke told us. Perdue has focused his criticism on other Democratic leaders, including Sen. Chuck Schumer and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, both of New York. "Their plan?" a Perdue video says. "Increase taxes. Defund the police. Pass the Green New Deal. Open the borders. .... Eliminate private health insurance….. And pack the Supreme Court." Biden does not support defunding the police, open borders, or eliminating private insurance. He’s also expressed reservations about the Green New Deal and packing the Supreme Court,. He’s said he would increase taxes only on the wealthy.  At the same time, it’s clear Perdue would be part of Republican efforts to thwart Biden’s agenda. If Ossoff or Warnock loses, Kentucky Republican Mitch McConnell would continue as Senate majority leader and "likely would prevent many of Biden's legislative priorities from enactment and block his judicial nominees from confirmation," said Zachary Peskowitz, a political scientist at Emory University in Atlanta.  But if Ossoff and Warnock win, creating a 50-50 split, he said, the prospects for Biden's priorities "would improve dramatically" because Kamala Harris, as vice president, could break tie votes in the Senate. Our ruling Ossoff claimed that Perdue "says he'll do everything in his power to make sure Joe Biden fails." We found no record of Perdue making such remarks about Biden. Perdue is campaigning as a final block against the Democrats’ agenda, but Perdue has focused on others in the Democratic Party such as Schumer and Ocasio-Cortez. We rate Ossoff’s claim Mostly False. This fact check is available at IFCN’s 2020 US Elections FactChat #Chatbot on WhatsApp. Click here, for more.

Georgia,Negative Campaigning,Jon Ossoff

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Bloggers

2020-09-21 00:00:00

an image:

Quotes Sen. Mitt Romney as saying: “The Merrick Garland decision wasn’t unfair & the notion that someone has to pay the price to make up for it is wrong.”

Madison Czopek

2020-09-23 00:00:00

barely-true

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/nov/19/facebook-posts/no-aarp-didnt-endorse-biden-or-say-anyone-older-75/

No, AARP didn’t endorse Biden or say anyone older than 75 should die

AARP is an organization that lobbies on behalf of Americans who are 50 and older, so it would be surprising if, actually, they think some of their members should just die.  But that’s exactly what recent Facebook posts like this one claim.    "AARP endorsed Biden. Biden’s virus committee doesn’t think living past 75 is worth living," it says. "Will you renew your AARP membership since AARP says if you are past 75 you should just die and go away?" This post was flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about our partnership with Facebook.)  We previously fact-checked another post that said AARP endorsed Biden — that’s False. AARP is a nonpartisan organization that doesn’t endorse political candidates.  Jason Young, an AARP spokesperson, told us that the other allegation in this Facebook post is wrong, too. "Since the early days of the pandemic, AARP has warned policymakers on all sides that rationing care based on age or disability is discriminatory," Young said in an email. "Older people are not political pawns or less worthy to receive care or a vaccine than anyone else." Press releases and news coverage in recent months support this.  A March 31 press release from AARP titled "AARP statement against rationing in the distribution of and access to health care" quotes Nancy LeaMond, the organization's executive vice president.  "Using age or disability to categorically exclude people from accessing treatment would be discriminatory and AARP opposes it," she said.   An April 9 Wall Street Journal article about state plans to possibly ration ventilators as health care facilities were overwhelmed with COVID-19 patients reported that AARP called for federal policies to protect the elderly and other vulnerable groups from rationing.  The Washington Post reported that AARP "decried age cutoffs for ventilator access in some plans." On April 24, AARP sent a letter to the director of the civil rights office at the Department of Health and Human Services.  "It is imperative that those entrusted with deciding who gets access to healthcare do not discriminate," the letter said. "Using age or disability status to categorically exclude people from accessing treatment violates existing federal law and we join you in strongly opposing such discrimination." Biden, who was elected president at age 77, did form a coronavirus advisory board that includes Dr. Atul Gawande, a senior adviser in Health and Human Services during the Clinton administration, Michael Osterholm, an epidemiologist who was an adviser to the agency’s secretary and Ezekiel Emanuel, an Obama administration health policy advisor who in 2014 wrote an essay about reducing medical interventions by choice in old age. But the purpose of the board is to prevent COVID-19 spread, particularly among those most at risk, including the eldery. There is no evidence it advocates the notion that life after 75 isn’t worth living. Our ruling A post on Facebook claims that "AARP endorsed Biden" and "says if you are past 75 you should just die and go away." AARP didn’t endorse Biden, or anyone. And the organization, which represents millions of Americans age 50 and older, has aggressively lobbied against any health care policies that would discriminate against aging populations. We rate these claims about AARP Pants on Fire!  

Facebook Fact-checks,Coronavirus,Facebook posts

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Instagram posts

2020-09-22 00:00:00

a Facebook post:

Quotes Ronald Reagan as saying, “Keep voting Democrat ... One day they will restrict your freedoms, restrict your history and restrict your safety. All in the name of professional victims that don't understand the consequences of their ignorance.”

Brandon Mulder

2020-11-20 00:00:00

pants-fire

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/nov/19/sidney-powell/trump-lawyer-falsely-claims-voting-technology-comp/

Trump lawyer falsely claims voting technology companies were created for changing election results

A member of President Donald Trump’s legal team is falsely claiming that voting machines rigged the presidential race in favor of Joe Biden. In a Nov. 16 interview with Mark Levin, a conservative radio personality, Sidney Powell, a lawyer for former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, said the machines that many Americans used to cast their ballots were originally created to falsify election results in Venezuela. "I’ve got a firsthand witness. In fact I’ve just emailed you an affidavit from a witness who can now be used publicly," Powell said during the show. "It’s redacted in some places but he was present for the creation of the system for this specific purpose of falsifying election results for Hugo Chavez and then (Nicolás) Maduro. They exported this all over Latin America." "It’s the Smartmatic and Dominion systems that were built to do this very thing, for changing the results of elections." Posts with snippets of Powell’s interview have been widely shared on Facebook. They were flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about our partnership with Facebook.) The lawyer’s claims have also surfaced on TikTok and been covered by conservative outlets like the Gateway Pundit. Powell joined Trump’s legal team after Election Day to pursue lawsuits in battleground states that the president lost to Biden. She has falsely claimed Trump won the election "in a landslide," shared content related to QAnon, a baseless right-wing conspiracy theory, and said former special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation of Russian election interference was a plot to force Trump out of office. RELATED: No evidence Dominion Voting Systems caused widespread tabulation errors that flipped votes for Biden We reached out to Powell for a copy of the affidavit she mentioned on Levin’s show or any other evidence to support her claim about Dominion Voting Systems and Smartmatic. We haven’t heard back.  Powell told Levin that she emailed him a full copy of the affidavit, but we couldn’t find the document published in full by the radio host or any other media outlet. Powell posted screenshots of a few pages of the purported affidavit on her Twitter account. They cite an anonymous whistleblower who says voting machines run by Dominion, Smartmatic and other companies could be susceptible to fraud. The individual claims to have witnessed fraud conducted using Smartmatic voting machines in Venezuela in 2013. What’s visible in the screenshots does not substantiate Powell’s assertion about Dominion and Smartmatic. Other fact-checkers have debunked similar claims. Dominion and Smartmatic are two separate companies that create electronic voting systems. Neither was created for "changing the results of elections." Dominion, a company that makes voting machines, was founded in 2003 and has headquarters in Denver and Toronto. Its technology is used to administer elections in 28 states. On its website, Dominion says it has no ties to Smartmatic, another firm that builds electronic voting systems. "Dominion is an entirely separate company and a fierce competitor to Smartmatic," Dominion says on a rumor control page. Since Election Day, Dominion has been the subject of disinformation that seeks to undermine confidence in the integrity of the vote. We previously rated Pants on Fire a claim that the company flipped votes from Trump to Biden in states where the president has brought legal challenges. Smartmatic, which was founded in Boca Raton, Fla., in 2000 and is now based in London, has a similar statement on its website. "Smartmatic’s software is not licensed or otherwise used by other companies," the statement says. Smartmatic voting systems have been used in elections around the world. In Venezuela, the company said its technology was manipulated to report a skewed tally in 2017, but Smartmatic said the incident was an anomaly and likely due to the lack of election monitors. The company stopped its work there in 2018. There is no evidence that technology linked to Smartmatic or Dominion is responsible for changing the outcome of the American presidential election. Smartmatic technology was not used in any of the battleground states won by Biden where Trump allies are disputing the results. RELATED: Trump’s tweet about 2.7 million deleted votes is baseless On its website, the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency says bad actors would not be able to change vote counts without being detected even if they tried. "The systems and processes used by election officials to tabulate votes and certify official results are protected by various safeguards that help ensure the accuracy of election results," the agency says. "These safeguards include measures that help ensure tabulation systems function as intended, protect against malicious software, and enable the identification and correction of any irregularities." In a statement published Nov. 12 in partnership with election officials across the country, CISA said the 2020 election was "the most secure in American history." An independent audit of Dominion voting machines in Georgia affirmed that finding. "There is no evidence that any voting system deleted or lost votes, changed votes, or was in any way compromised," the statement says. "While we know there are many unfounded claims and opportunities for misinformation about the process of our elections, we can assure you we have the utmost confidence in the security and integrity of our elections, and you should too." Powell’s claim is inaccurate and ridiculous. We rate it Pants on Fire!

National,Elections,Sidney Powell

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Raphael Warnock

2020-11-05 00:00:00

an ad:

“David Perdue says he'll do everything in his power to make sure Joe Biden fails.”

Ciara O'Rourke

2020-11-19 00:00:00

false

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/sep/23/facebook-posts/no-biden-doesnt-want-dissolve-stock-market/

No, Biden doesn’t want to dissolve the stock market

At a July 9 speech in Dunmore, Pa., Joe Biden called for the end of the era of "shareholder capitalism — the idea [that] the only responsibility a corporation has is to its shareholders." Some Facebook users took these remarks to mean that Biden was calling to dissolve the stock market altogether. "Biden wants to end Shareholder Capitalism.. that's your 401k..your pensions.. your retirement.. are you voting for that???" wrote one user.  This Facebook post was flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about our partnership with Facebook.)  Posts like this misinterpret the way economists define shareholder capitalism, and they take Biden’s comments out of context to give a misleading impression.  In urging an end to the "era of shareholder capitalism," the Democratic nominee was talking about a change in the prevailing view that corporations should primarily seek to benefit their shareholders. He was saying that corporations should stop prioritizing shareholder value without regard for the well-being of their employees and communities.  Here’s what Biden said in context:  "It’s way past time to put an end to the era of shareholder capitalism — the idea [that] the only responsibility a corporation has is to its shareholders. That’s simply not true. It’s an absolute farce. They have responsibility to their workers, their community, to their country. That isn’t [a] new or radical notion. These are basic values and principles that helped build this nation in the first instance. Now the challenge is to take these fundamental values, and apply them to the new economy we have to build in the years ahead… ." As the context makes clear, Biden was taking a position in a long-running ethical debate about the way corporations should behave. He wasn’t calling for the end of shareholding altogether, as the Facebook post suggests.  The economic theory that Biden was critiquing — shareholder capitalism — holds that corporations are accountable primarily to their shareholders. Economist Milton Friedman, a noted proponent of shareholder capitalism, summed up the theory this way: "There is one and only one social responsibility of business — to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits." Defenders of Friedman’s theory argue that it ultimately benefits employees and the community, because corporations focused principally on shareholder value have a vested interest in maintaining a loyal workforce and avoiding negative publicity. Critics believe it has led to widespread economic inequality by disproportionately benefiting shareholders at the expense of others involved in the company. They also contend that it has produced a self-serving corporate mindset, providing ethical justification for tax evasion, low wages for workers and practices that degrade the environment.  Like many other critics of shareholder capitalism, Biden believes in "stakeholder" capitalism, a  view of business ethics that is emerging as the norm in Europe and was popular in the U.S. in the 1950s and 60s. The stakeholder theory of capitalism holds that corporations should operate in ways that benefit all people who hold a "stake" in the company: customers, suppliers, employees, shareholders and local communities. Rather than maximizing short-term profits for the sake of shareholders, the theory holds, companies should strive to give back to their stakeholders to guarantee their long-term health. Biden’s claim that corporations "have a responsibility to their workers, their community, to their country" is a clear elaboration of classic stakeholder theory. The same view has been embraced by some segments of the U.S. business community. It’s inaccurate to say that ending the predominance of shareholder capitalism would get rid of people’s 401(k)s, pensions and retirement savings.  Our ruling A Facebook post claimed that Biden "wants to end Shareholder Capitalism.. that's your 401k..your pensions.. your retirement.. are you voting for that???" Biden said the era of shareholder capitalism should end. But the full context of his remarks shows he was calling for corporations to stop maximizing short-term profits for shareholders over the well-being of their communities. He was not calling for the abolition of stock market investments. The post misinterpreted the definition of shareholder capitalism to give a misleading impression. We rate this post Mostly False. ​

National,Economy,Facebook Fact-checks,Facebook posts

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Jon Ossoff

2020-11-17 00:00:00

a Facebook post:

“AARP endorsed Biden” and “says if you are past 75 you should just die and go away.”

Daniel Funke

2020-11-19 00:00:00

barely-true

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/sep/23/instagram-posts/no-biden-wasnt-reading-pre-written-response-questi/

No, Biden wasn’t reading pre-written response to question in Telemundo interview

Presidential candidate Joe Biden sat down for an interview with Telemundo’s José Díaz-Balart and vowed that, if elected, he would halt deportations of immigrants during the first 100 days of his presidency. But a clip of the interview is being shared on Twitter, YouTube and Instagram with the false suggestion that Biden was reading a pre-written response to an interview question, possibly from a teleprompter, when he says what the posts say sounds like "I lost that line." That’s not what happened. The posts were flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about our partnership with Facebook.)  The full video of the Sept. 15 interview shows that Biden is not looking at a teleprompter, but is responding to a question from a Telemundo viewer who appears on a monitor. Around the video’s 8:50-minute mark, the video shows the woman on the screen asking the question before the camera pans back to Biden for his answer. Her question, translated into English: "Mr. Biden, you and Obama are responsible for a record-breaking number of immigrants being deported. How can you guarantee us that this will not continue happening in our communities?" Biden gives a response while appearing to look at the woman on the monitor: "It took much too long to get it right. That's the fact. Period. Number one. Number two, but... compared to where we are today, and look who you are. How are you feeling today in terms of this president? Everything he's done, separating thousands … there are still thousands of people who are being separated from their families. They’re deporting people that are standing outside of church, waiting to come out after mass. There are going to be no deportation in the first 100 days of my campaign." Díaz-Balart then interjects to confirm that Biden would freeze deportations. When he does, Biden turns his head toward Díaz-Balart and the camera cuts back on Díaz-Balart while Biden starts to respond: "Freeze deportations for the first hundred days," Biden says. Then the camera cuts back to Biden who appears to have his head tilted again in the direction of the woman on the monitor while Biden continues: "And the only people who will be deported are people who committed a felony while here. That's number one. Ok. I lost that (lady)..." Recent social media posts claiming @JoeBiden used a teleprompter during an interview with Noticias Telemundo and anchor @jdbalart are absolutely FALSE.👇 WATCH what really happened. pic.twitter.com/RoPbdJnhZu— Noticias Telemundo (@TelemundoNews) September 23, 2020 Telemundo communications director Kevin Gray told PolitiFact that in the place where some are quoting Biden as saying, "I lost that line," Biden actually said "I lost that lady." The monitor on which the woman was seen asking a pre-taped question went blank as Biden was responding, which prompted him to say he "lost" her. "Mr. Diaz-Balart responded by saying ‘You and I can talk about that’ so Vice President Biden would direct his answer to him since the screen had gone black," Gray said.  The monitor was only there for the purpose of allowing Telemundo viewers to ask Biden questions, he said: "At no point during the interview did Vice President Biden use a Teleprompter, or read any of his responses, and he was not provided any questions ahead of time." This claim is Pants on Fire!

Elections,Facebook Fact-checks,Instagram posts

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Facebook posts

2020-07-17 00:00:00

an Instagram post:

A clip of Joe Biden shows him reading a response to an interview question from a teleprompter, saying “I lost that line.”

Amy Sherman

2020-09-23 00:00:00

pants-fire

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/mar/30/viral-image/yes-sen-cory-booker-proposed-federal-gun-licenses-/

Yes, Sen. Cory Booker proposed federal gun licenses and criticized voter ID laws

Critics and proponents of stricter gun legislation have sought to bolster their arguments with comparisons to restrictions on voting rights.  In one recent example, Sen. Cory Booker, a New Jersey Democrat who ran for president in 2020, was painted as a hypocrite for advocating an ID requirement for buying a gun, but opposing such a requirement for voting. "We must have a federal license and I.D. for gun owners!" reads the text of a viral image on Facebook, over an image of Booker giving a speech. The text over a second image of Booker reads: "Voter I.D. laws are racist and discriminatory!"    The post was flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about our partnership with Facebook.) There is no evidence that Booker said the exact quotes from the post. But PolitiFact examined the underlying claim about Booker’s policies on IDs for gun owners and voters, looking at news stories and social media posts about policies he has proposed or endorsed. We found that he has both endorsed licensing for gun buyers and opposed restrictive voter ID laws as discriminatory. A spokesperson for Booker’s office said the post makes an inappropriate comparison. "This meme wrongly conflates ballots with bullets," the spokesperson said. "The fact is that we urgently need common-sense measures to stem the scourge of gun violence, and we also need to protect every eligible American’s sacrosanct right to vote against unwarranted efforts to impose new barriers based on widely discredited claims about voter fraud." Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, June 16, 2020. (AP)   Gun ownership laws Booker made national headlines when his short-lived presidential campaign released a plan for a federal gun licensing program as part of a proposal to reduce gun violence. The proposal also included banning assault weapons and high-capacity magazines, limiting purchases of firearms to one per month and requiring universal background checks.  Booker summarized his federal license policy proposal this way: "If you need a license to drive a car, you should need a license to own and operate a gun." Under Booker’s plan, the FBI would administer the licenses, and people would apply for one at designated locations like the ones used for passports, according to a Vox explainer. Applicants would be required to pay a fee, sit through an interview, pass a background check, attend gun safety training and submit paperwork that included a photo and fingerprints.   After announcing the license plan in May 2019, Booker introduced legislation a few months later — titled the Federal Firearm Licensing Act — to make the proposal a reality. The bill was referred to the Senate Judiciary Committee but did not advance further. Voter ID laws  For years, Booker has publicly criticized restrictive voter ID laws, saying they are not justified by the small risk of fraud. While PolitiFact didn’t find evidence that Booker called voter ID laws "racist" as the Facebook post claims, he has publicly criticized voter ID laws as discriminatory and said they unfairly target minorities. During the 2020 campaign, Booker tweeted:  "Voting rights are still under assault. We’ve watched as: —Voters were purged from rolls —Voter ID laws targeted people of color —Elections were stolen We need policy to preserve our right to vote. And it’s a shame we’re still fighting the same struggle of past generations." Voting rights are still under assault. We’ve watched as:—Voters were purged from rolls—Voter ID laws targeted people of color—Elections were stolenWe need policy to preserve our right to vote. And it’s a shame we’re still fighting the same struggle of past generations. https://t.co/mACJOJYsDA— Cory Booker (@CoryBooker) April 17, 2019 Booker spoke out against a 2018 voter ID law enacted in North Dakota, which allowed election officials to require proof of a residential street address, which many Native American reservations do not use.  In a 2015 interview with ABC, after a Texas court struck down a voter ID law, he said, "These voter ID laws which are being passed in many states have a disproportionate impact on poor folks, minorities."  Our ruling A viral image on Facebook says Sen. Cory Booker has called for a federal license and ID for gun owners, but opposed voter ID laws.  There’s no evidence Booker used the exact words in the claim, but in broad strokes, the claim accurately represents his positions. Booker has introduced legislation that would create a federal license requirement to own a gun. He has also criticized restrictive voter ID laws, saying they "targeted people of color" and are responsible for denying people their right to vote. We rate this claim Mostly True.

Voter ID Laws,Facebook Fact-checks,Guns,Viral image

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Instagram posts

2020-09-22 00:00:00

a speech at a Florida event:

“24 of every 100 kids in school today speak Spanish.”

Ciara O'Rourke

2020-09-22 00:00:00

mostly-true

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/mar/30/shelley-grogan/attack-ad-overreaches-state-appeals-court-race/

Attack ad overreaches in state appeals court race

A typically low-profile race for state appeals court has taken a contentious and partisan turn due to a series of attack ads against the incumbent. Judge Jeff Davis was appointed to the District II Court of Appeals by Gov. Tony Evers in 2019. One of the people who unsuccessfully applied for that position, Muskego Municipal Judge Shelley Grogan, is now running against Davis in the April 6 election. Though the position is nonpartisan, the race has taken a distinctly partisan flavor as ads from Grogan and a third-party group link Davis and Evers in the obligatory ominous voiceover. An ad running on WTMJ and WISN radio the weeks leading up to the election touted Grogan’s law enforcement endorsements, then said this: "Jeff Davis just can’t be trusted to keep our communities safe. In fact, Jeff Davis spent years defending a convicted cop killer, who murdered a correctional officer in cold blood. The killer was sentenced to death row, and Jeff Davis tried to get him off the hook." It’s a classic attack ad narrative — and one that screams for additional context. Let’s check out the situation referenced here and whether the ad gets it right. The case In 1987, William Van Poyck and Frank Valdes attacked a prison transport in West Palm Beach, Florida, attempting to free a convicted killer being taken for skin cancer treatment. Van Poyck told a jury that he masterminded the ambush, according to the Palm Beach Post. And one of the prison guards said Van Poyck held a gun to his head and pulled the trigger, but the gun misfired. The other guard, Fred Griffis — a decorated U.S. Army Ranger who served in Vietnam — was shot and killed. Van Poyck and Valdes both claimed at trial that the other had killed Griffis, but both were convicted and sentenced to death since being part of a deadly crime is sufficient under Florida law. Van Poyck spent decades on death row before he was executed by lethal injection in June 2013. Davis’s role Throughout most of the post-conviction appeals process, Van Poyck was represented by Davis, who was a civil litigator with Quarles & Brady at the time. Davis was urged to take the case as a young associate by the American Bar Association, which has a program to recruit pro bono counsel from large law firms for complex cases, his campaign website says. Davis said in an email he "thought it would be a good experience for me in developing trial and appellate skills." Davis ended up representing Van Poyck — largely on his own — from 1992 until the execution. He asked to be removed from the case in the late 1990s when expected support from a federal resource center disappeared, but a judge denied the request and Davis didn’t ask again. "As time went on and my institutional knowledge of the case accumulated, I felt it would be entirely inappropriate and possibly constitute client abandonment if I were to do so," Davis said in an email to PolitiFact Wisconsin. Davis said he pursued the case in hopes of having the death sentence reduced to life in prison. Despite the tone of the ad, it’s hardly an activity Davis sought to hide. He detailed it in the letter he wrote to Evers seeking the judicial appointment he eventually received. In a letter to the Florida governor seeking a last-minute stay of execution in 2013, Davis said Valdes’ widow had recently provided a sworn statement that Valdes — who was beaten to death by prison guards in 1999 —  confessed to her that he killed the guard, not Van Poyck. Davis said jurors had indicated in affidavits their verdict "would have been different had they known the truth." The governor declined to intervene, however. Reviewing the ad With that context, let’s circle back to the ad. Grogan says Davis "spent years defending a cop killer." The ad goes on to reference the death of a correctional officer, but it exaggerates a bit on the "cop killer" line. That’s a term traditionally applied only to police officers. The ad also says Davis "tried to get (Van Poyck) off the hook." Again, this overreaches. Davis was certainly seeking to change the sentence from death row to life behind bars, but he wasn’t seeking to overturn the conviction — the impression listeners could be left with from the ad’s choice of words. In short, Davis was filling a role required by the American criminal justice system. Michael O’Hear, a professor at Marquette University Law School, said it’s important to recognize the need for good legal representation even for people accused of the most serious crimes. He noted hundreds of people have ultimately been exonerated in serious cases like murder and rape through evidence solicited and presented by their attorneys. "People who are accused of serious crimes have a constitutional right to competent legal representation," O’Hear said in an email. "The right to legal representation may be most important for those individuals who have been accused of committing the most heinous offenses." The District II Court of Appeals, based in Waukesha, is a four-judge panel that hears cases passed up from circuit courts in Calumet, Fond du Lac, Green Lake, Kenosha, Manitowoc, Ozaukee, Racine, Sheboygan, Walworth, Washington, Waukesha and Winnebago counties. It’s a noteworthy position since it can be a stepping stone to the Wisconsin Supreme Court, as it was for Justice Brian Hagedorn, whose former post Davis and Grogan are seeking. Our ruling In an attack ad, Grogan said Davis "spent years defending a convicted cop killer" and "tried to get him off the hook." Davis did indeed spend 21 years working on the Van Poyck case, seeking to have his sentence reduced from the death penalty to life in prison. But the ad exaggerates on key points. "Cop killer" isn’t quite an accurate description of a man convicted of killing a prison guard. And the "off the hook" phrasing overstates the situation since the appeals weren’t seeking to overturn the conviction, just the death penalty. Most notably, the overall tone of the ad implies something nefarious about the representation when Davis was filling a role mandated by the judicial system — and doing it for free. We define Half True as a statement that "is partially accurate but leaves out important details or takes things out of context." That fits here.

Criminal Justice,Elections,Wisconsin,Shelley Grogan

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Joe Biden

2020-09-15 00:00:00

a Facebook post:

Photos show children in cages.

Paul Specht

2021-03-30 00:00:00

half-true

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/mar/30/pete-snyder/covid-has-struck-florida-harder-virginia-contrary-/

COVID has struck Florida harder than Virginia, contrary to Pete Snyder's claim

Virginia could learn a lot from Florida about battling COVID-19, says Pete Snyder, a Republican gubernatorial candidate in the Old Dominion. Snyder has been accusing Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam, a Democrat, of hurting businesses by keeping the state under COVID restrictions. He says Northam should have followed Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican who refused to order mask wearing and, in September 2020, generally lifted all restrictions. Snyder, during a March 12 radio interview on WRVA in Richmond, recalled how DeSantis was criticized in spring 2020 for taking a reckless approach to COVID. "Nearly a year later, there is no discernible difference between the spread and deaths of COVID in Virginia than there is in Florida," Snyder said, adding that Virginia’s economy "is in the tank" because of Northam’s "horrendous" policies. We fact-checked Snyder’s statement that there’s "no discernible difference" between the two states in COVID spread and deaths - a claim he also made during a Feb. 25 radio interview on WCHV in Charlottesville.  Snyder’s campaign said his information came from the "COVID Data Tracker" kept by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Our review of the data, however, found Florida has had significantly higher COVID case and death rates than Virginia since spring 2020. Because Snyder used the time frame of "nearly a year," we compared the states from the starting point of the CDC’s data on April 1, 2020 to the date of Snyder’s WRVA claim on March 12, 2021. During that span, Florida had 8,994 COVID cases per 100,000 people, and Virginia had 6,954 cases per 100,000. Florida’s per capita caseload was 29% higher than Virginia’s.  During the same span, Florida saw 150 deaths per 100,000 people, compared 117 per 100,000 in Virginia. Florida’s death rate was 28% higher than Virginia’s.  Put another way, Virginia had 593,562 COVID cases during the time span. Florida’s per capita rate would have meant an additional 173,900 cases in Virginia. Virginia had totaled 9,985 COVID deaths when Snyder made his WRVA statement. Florida’s per capita rate would have meant an additional 2,820 deaths in Virginia.  So, contrary to Snyder’s claim, Florida has seen discernibly higher COVID case and death rates than Virginia during the last 12 months.  On the day of Snyder’s statement, Virginia had the 9th lowest cumulative per capita case rate; Florida ranked 22nd among states. Virginia had the 13th lowest COVID death rate; Florida ranked 24th. The only change to the rankings if we carry them out to this writing on March 29 is that Virginia has moved up one spot, to 8th, in per capita deaths.  More perspective Most of the 12-month gap between the two states came in July and August 2020 when the virus raged in Florida and eased in Virginia. During the two months, Florida’s case rate was three times higher than Virginia and its death rate was nearly four times higher. Over  the other 10 months, Florida’s case and death rates were 6% higher than Virginia’s.  DeSantis lifted almost all restrictions on Sept. 25, 2020, winning praise from many conservatives, including former President Donald Trump. Since then, DeSantis has boasted that Florida has much lower COVID case rates than "locked down" states, a claim PolitiFact National rated Half True in November 2020. Social media has been rife with comparisons of Florida’s record to other states - particularly New York, the first state to be slammed by COVID. Virginia has continued to restrict the number of people in restaurants and at public events. Although Northam is slowly easing the limits, he plans to carry them into April.  From Sept. 25 to March 12 (the day of Snyder’s statement), Florida’s COVID case rate was 10% higher than Virginia’s; it’s COVID death rate was 6% higher.   Perils of Comparisons Although it has become politically popular to compare state COVID statistics, disease experts have told PolitiFact it offers poor guidance on whether a state should end or keep restrictions. Each state has its own demographics, climate and economy which may, at times, put it more or less at risk. For example, Florida’s warm weather made it easier for people to eat and gather outdoors during the fall and winter. The same lifting of restrictions would not have been as safe in colder states, including Virginia, where people tend to gather inside and face more risk of COVID exposure. It’s also important to remember that states aren’t walled-off jurisdictions. During much of the pandemic, Florida has been open to tourists, which means we don’t know whether coronavirus transmission within Florida is increasing infections in other states after those tourists return home, according to Marissa Levine, a public health professor at the University of South Florida. Our ruling Snyder recounted criticism of DeSantis in April 2020 when the Florida governor resisted some COVID restrictions, including mandatory mask wearing. "Nearly a year later, there is no discernible difference between the spread and deaths of COVID in Virginia that there is in Florida," Snyder said. In fact, there are easily discernible differences between that April and March 12,2021, when Snyder made his statement. Florida’s cumulative COVID case rate was 29% higher than Virginia’s; its cumulative death rate from the virus was 28% higher. So, we rate Snyder’s statement False.  

Public Health,Florida,Coronavirus,Virginia,Pete Snyder

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Viral image

2020-06-25 00:00:00

a tweet:

Says “some people in the Great State of North Carolina have been sent TWO BALLOTS. RIGGED ELECTION in waiting!”

Noah Y. Kim

2021-03-30 00:00:00

false

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/mar/30/facebook-posts/fact-checking-number-people-killed-rifles-and-peop/

Fact-checking number of people killed by rifles and by people in US illegally

The day after the Boulder, Colo., shooting that killed 10 people, President Joe Biden called on Congress to enact legislation to revive a ban on assault rifles and high-capacity ammunition magazines.  A Facebook post suggests the administration is overreacting to gun killings, while being too lax with its border control policies. "Less than 500 people a year killed by all rifles combined. Let’s ban them," the post said, above a picture of an assault-style gun. "4000 a year killed by illegals. Let’s give them assistance and register them to vote and keep the border WIDE OPEN."  The claim, originally posted in March 2019 but widely reshared after the mass shootings in Boulder and a few days earlier in Atlanta, was flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about our partnership with Facebook.) The post wildly exaggerates Biden administration policy on both guns and immigration. Biden’s proposal would ban certain semi-automatic rifles classified as assault weapons — not all rifles. And neither he nor his allies in Congress have proposed keeping the border wide open or allowing immigrants who are in the country illegally to register to vote. But for this fact-check, we’re looking at the accuracy of the numbers the Facebook post cites in arguing for stricter border enforcement over stricter gun control.  Fewer than 500 people were murdered with a rifle in each of the past three years, according to the latest annual FBI statistics available. No national statistics are kept on the number of people killed by people who are in the country illegally. But the available figures indicate the number is far below the 4,000 per year claimed. One estimate puts it at about 300. It’s important to note that this claim compares two different things: killings with a type of weapon vs. killings by a category of people. The FBI’s latest annual figures show there were 10,258 murders committed with guns in 2019, including 364 with rifles. The number for rifles was 297 in 2018 and 403 in 2017. That includes various kinds of long guns, including AR-15-style semi-automatic rifles involved in many deadly mass shootings over the past decade.  We found no evidence to support the claim about 4,000 killings a year by people in the country illegally. There are no national crime statistics that are broken down by immigration status. For a rough estimate of the numbers, we looked at administrative arrests by the Immigrations and Customs Enforcement. These are arrests of people who were either present in the U.S. illegally or had somehow violated the terms of their entry or status in the country. Many such arrests occur after local law enforcement officials do background checks on people they have arrested for crimes, said ICE spokesman Shawn Neudauer. In the fiscal year ended Sept. 30, 2020, ICE made a total of 103,603 administrative arrests. It said 90% of those arrests were for immigrants with a history of criminal convictions or pending criminal charges. The criminal histories included 1,837 offenses involving homicide — 1,468 convictions and pending 369 charges. In the previous year, the total was 1,923 — 1,549 convictions and 374 pending charges. But the combined offenses noted in those two years didn’t necessarily involve homicide cases from those years. They were people who had been charged with or convicted of homicide in the United States at some time in the past — ICE data doesn’t indicate when. So the claim of 4,000 homicides a year is not supported by ICE data. Alex Nowrasteh, director of immigration studies at the libertarian Cato Institute, said that in Texas, which does track immigration status in crimes, 42 immigrants in the country illegally were convicted of committing a total of 50 homicides in 2019. If those numbers were representative of the country overall, he estimated, about 294 homicides would have been committed by immigrants in the country illegally in 2019. Our ruling A widely recirculated Facebook post claimed: "Less than 500 people a year killed by all rifles combined" and "4,000 a year killed by illegals."  The latest FBI figures show there were 364 murders committed with rifles in 2019.  No national crime statistics are kept on the number of people killed by people who are in the country illegally. One estimate based on Texas data puts the national number at under 300. In fiscal 2020, ICE arrested people on immigration violations whose criminal histories included 1,837 homicide convictions or charges sometime in the past, but its data doesn’t say when the killings or convictions occurred. The post contains only an element of truth. We rate it Mostly False.

Immigration,Facebook Fact-checks,Guns,Facebook posts

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Donald Trump

2020-09-17 00:00:00

Facebook posts:

Nostradamus predicted that a “feeble man” would rule the “Western World” after a time of “plague.”

Madison Czopek

2021-03-30 00:00:00

barely-true

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/mar/30/facebook-posts/no-evidence-suspected-mass-shooter-bought-gun-ille/

No evidence suspected mass shooter bought gun illegally or entered US illegally

A Facebook user made several claims about Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa, the man charged with the Boulder, Colo. mass shooting. The claims said he is a Muslim who entered the U.S. illegally from Mexico and "purchased the firearm" from a man who sells stolen guns. "Just found this about the Colorado shooting share it before it disappears" reads text above a photo of bloodied and nearly naked Alissa being taken into custody by two officers. "Shooting suspect Ahmad Al Aliwi is Muslim entered illegally from Mexico and purchased the firearm from a guy that sells stolen guns. You cant make this (expletive) up why we need a freaking wall." The post was flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about our partnership with Facebook.) Alissa appears to be Muslim. However, there is no evidence that he entered the U.S. illegally from Mexico or that he bought a gun illegally. Alissa’s religious background On March 22, a gunman walked into a King Soopers grocery store in Boulder, a college town northwest of Denver, and opened fire. Ten people were killed in the shooting, including one police officer. Police arrested Alissa, 21, in connection with the attack, during which he was shot through his right leg. Alissa’s brother, Ali Aliwi Alissa, told CNN that their family emigrated from Syria to the U.S. in 2002, and court records and Alissa’s Facebook page said that he was born in 1999 in Syria, a majority-Muslim country. Ali Aliwi Alissa, told CNN that in high school bullies made fun of Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa’s name and for being Muslim. The Washington Post reported that Alissa complained about hostility toward refugees and Muslims, writing in sharing a link about the impact of immigration on the U.S. economy: "Why refugees and immigrants are good for America." A classmate of Alissa’s in high school in Arvada, about 20 miles southeast of Boulder, told the Denver Post that in high school, Alissa was often concerned about being targeted because of his Muslim faith. Alissa often spoke about his Muslim faith on social media and said he believed he was targeted over Islamophobia and racism, Heavy.com reported. No evidence of immigration from Mexico We don’t yet know the full details of how Alissa’s family immigrated to the U.S. But there is no evidence they entered illegally through Mexico. We rated Mostly False a claim by conservative activist Jack Posobiec that Alissa "was a Syrian refugee who arrived via Obama-era asylum programs." The best available information shows he arrived about seven years before Obama took office. At least one of two guns purchased legally In their arrest warrant for Alissa, police said Alissa had removed all of his clothing and was dressed only in shorts when he was taken into custody in the store. A rifle, described as a "possible AR-15," and a semiautomatic handgun were found with Alissa’s clothes and a tactical vest in the store, the warrant said.  "Using law enforcement databases, investigators determined that Alissa had purchased a Ruger AR-556 pistol on March 16, 2021," the warrant said.  The owner of the Arvada gun store that sold him the Ruger, a pistol that looks like a rifle, has said Alissa passed a background check in purchasing the gun. The charges filed against Alissa do not include any gun charges. Our ruling A Facebook post claimed the suspected Boulder mass shooter is a Muslim "who entered illegally from Mexico and purchased the firearm from a guy that sells stolen guns." Alissa apparently is Muslim, but there is no evidence that he entered the U.S. illegally from Mexico or that he had illegally purchased a gun he allegedly used in the shooting. We rate the statement Mostly False.

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https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/nov/19/joe-biden/joe-biden-right-transition-starts-apparent-winner/

Is Joe Biden right that transition starts with an ‘apparent' winner?

Eager to embark on the nitty-gritty processes of an administrative transition, President-elect Joe Biden complained about how one federal agency was dragging its feet. In a Nov. 17 discussion with health care workers in Wilmington, Del., Biden criticized the General Services Administration, the low-profile federal agency tasked by law to formally initiate the transition process. "The law says that the General Services Administration has a person who recognizes who the winner is," Biden said during the roundtable. "And then they have to have access to all the data and information that the government possesses to be prepared. And it doesn’t require there to be an absolute winner. It says the ‘apparent winner.’ The apparent winner. And we’ve been unable to get access to the kinds of things we need to know about." Biden said the agency’s inaction means that his transition team has been prevented from obtaining key information from the Trump administration — specifically related to any plans for distributing coronavirus vaccines to more than 300 million Americans. Is Biden correct about the legal standard for the General Services Administration to initiate the transition process? Biden is correctly describing the language used in the law: To kick off the formal transition process, the agency administrator needs to determine whether there’s an "apparent" winner, rather than an "absolute" winner. Biden’s is "a reasonable statement" describing the current situation, said Terry Sullivan, a professor at the University of North Carolina who specializes in the presidency.  That said, experts acknowledge that the law is vague enough that the administrator has some leeway in making the "ascertainment" decision. What the law says about transitions The primary law governing transitions, the Presidential Transition Act, took effect in 1964. It has been updated on several occasions, including laws enacted in 2010, 2016, and 2020. The law says, "The terms ‘President-elect’ and ‘Vice-President-elect’ as used in this Act shall mean such persons as are the apparent successful candidates for the office of President and Vice President, respectively, as ascertained by the Administrator following the general elections held to determine the electors of President and Vice President." This language triggers the "expectation that the administrator of the General Services Administration will make a common-sense decision about the election outcome," said Paul C. Light, a professor at New York University’s Robert Wagner School of Public Service. Once that decision is made, the legal basis for "the infrastructure of support" for a presidential transition is in place, Light said. The president-elect and his team have approximately 11 weeks between Election Day and Inauguration Day to organize the new administration, and prepare to assume national security and homeland security responsibilities from the incumbent, among other tasks, according to a Nov. 13 Congressional Research Service report. In general, presidential transition activities are coordinated by the General Services Administration and the Office of Management and Budget. Once the president-elect and vice president-elect have been "ascertained" by the GSA, federal officials are allowed to provide the transition team with facilities, funds, and services to prepare for the new administration. The money can be spent on salaries, consultants, office supplies, travel expenses and government aircraft. The agency’s current administrator, Emily Murphy, has not signed the required ascertainment document yet. "The administrator is striving to adhere to the language and intent of the law, as well as precedent," GSA spokeswoman Pamela Pennington told PolitiFact. "Please note that the law provides no process or standard by which ascertainment is made." Prior to Trump, departing presidents have generally adhered to the tradition of a smooth and straightforward transition. The laws governing the transition have enshrined the idea that the outgoing administration "had a responsibility to hand off matters in a considered and organized fashion," said Max Stier, president and CEO of the Partnership for Public Service, a nonprofit that runs a Center for Presidential Transition that advises on best practices.  RELATED: How we know Joe Biden won the 2020 presidential race Some nuances Light pointed to a statement by then-GSA Administrator David J. Barram in testimony before Congress in December 2000, at a time when the presidential race between George W. Bush and Al Gore was so close that it had to effectively be decided by the Supreme Court. "While the Act gives no explicit criteria or deadlines for making this ascertainment, as the legislative history demonstrates, Congress made it perfectly clear that if there is ‘any question’ of who the winner is ‘in a close contest,’ this determination should not be made," Barram testified at the time. In an interview this week on CNN, Barram said the situation now is "dramatically different" than what he faced in 2000. "To me, it's clear that we should be recognizing Joe Biden as the president-elect," he said on Nov. 19. The fuzziness in the law has meant that the ascertainment has traditionally been viewed "as pro forma," Stier said. "The expectation was that it was important and should be done without having to demonstrate an extraordinary level of proof." The absence of a clear concession and Trump’s continuing efforts to fight the election results are the primary reason why the Trump-to-Biden transition has been so rocky, experts said. "For 220 years, our country has had a peaceful transition of power," said Kathryn Dunn Tenpas, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution who has studied transition issues. Trump has not only refused to concede, but he has "perpetuated the myth that the election was somehow fraudulent," she said. Stier argues that, even in the absence of a formal ascertainment, the Trump administration could voluntarily start doing some things to help the incoming administration get ready, such as sharing intelligence, encouraging meetings with public health officials, and allowing security-clearance investigations to begin. "This is not about some abstract decision that GSA has to make — it’s about choices being made to pursue a policy of noncooperation," Stier said. Light lays the blame on Trump, not on Murphy, who he says is required to answer to a vague law. "Everything here hinges on good faith," Light said. "The GSA administrator may have been well within the boundaries of the statute to deny a formal launch decision, but Trump's interference and threats have poisoned the cooperative relationship that has long marked the process, even after bitter campaigns such as 1980, when Reagan bested Carter for the presidency."  RELATED: How narrow was Joe Biden’s victory over Donald Trump? Our ruling Biden said the law governing the transition of presidential power "doesn’t require there to be an absolute winner. It says the ‘apparent winner.’" Biden has accurately phrased the language of the law, but the law is vague enough that it allows some leeway in making an "ascertainment" decision. It’s worth noting that the Trump administration has impeded a smooth transition in spite of the letter of the law, by challenging election results in courts. We rate the statement Mostly True. This fact check is available at IFCN’s 2020 US Elections FactChat #Chatbot on WhatsApp. Click here, for more.

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2019-08-02 00:00:00

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Judge Jeff Davis "spent years defending a convicted cop killer" and "tried to get him off the hook."

Warren Fiske

2021-03-30 00:00:00

mostly-true

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/nov/19/donald-trump/trump-says-philly-democrats-stole-election-90s-tru/

Trump says Philly Democrats stole an election in the '90s. Is that true?

As part of his relentless campaign against the results of the 2020 presidential election, President Donald Trump on Nov. 13 invoked an old case of voter fraud perpetrated by Philadelphia Democrats that altered the result of a state Senate election.  "Wow. This is exactly what happened to us. Great courage by judge!" Trump tweeted, referring to a federal judge’s determination that Democrats had orchestrated a "massive scheme" involving absentee ballots to win a pivotal 1993 race. The judge later removed the Democratic candidate from office and installed his Republican challenger.  But nothing like what happened nearly three decades ago occurred during the 2020 election in Philadelphia or anywhere else. In fact, none of the lawsuits the Trump campaign filed in Pennsylvania after the Nov. 3 election contains even one allegation — let alone evidence — of a single vote being cast illegally because of absentee-ballot fraud.  So what happened in 1993?  Pennsylvania held a special election to replace a Democratic state senator from North Philadelphia who died in office. Most of the voters in the area he represented were registered Democrats, but turnout in previous elections had been low, and the balance of power in the state Senate was on the line.  Whichever party won the special election was poised to capture a majority in the upper house.  To ensure that Democrat William Stinson would win, three Philadelphia election officials illegally delivered hundreds of absentee ballot packets to Stinson’s campaign. Staffers then distributed the packets to voters who didn’t qualify at the time to vote absentee, instructed them in some cases to vote for Stinson, and delivered the ballots to the Board of Elections. The case wound up in federal court after state election officials and state courts rejected Republicans’ claims about impropriety.   "Stinson knew of and ratified the procedures, and the board participated in and later tried to conceal its involvement in the scheme," U.S. District Judge Clarence C. Newcomer said at the time. In February 1994, Newcomer took the unprecedented step of invalidating all 1,757 absentee ballots cast in the election.  Back then, voters were allowed to request absentee ballots only if they were too sick to vote in person or planned to be out of the city on election day. Newcomer heard testimony from dozens of voters who said the Stinson campaign led them to believe the law had changed and they were now allowed to vote from home just for convenience. In dozens of other cases, the campaign simply forged the signature of voters.  In the end, Newcomer ordered that Stinson, a then 49-year-old former assistant deputy mayor of Philadelphia, be removed from office and that Republican Bruce Marks, a then 36-year-old lawyer and former aide to U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter, replace him.  "This is extraordinary relief," Newcomer wrote in February 1994. "However, it is appropriate because extraordinary conduct by the Stinson campaign and the board tainted the entirety of the absentee ballots." The following month, The Philadelphia Inquirer published an exhaustive examination of the absentee ballots cast in the Stinson-Marks contest and revealed that 540 absentee ballots, nearly a third of the total, were tainted by some form of improper conduct, including voters’ signatures being forged, ballots cast in the names of dead or out-of-district voters, and campaign workers marking ballots themselves. The race was close enough to turn the loss into a win for the Democrats. The 2020 presidential election and this 1993 state Senate special election differ in several key ways.  Campaigns are still barred from distributing absentee ballots to voters, but Pennsylvania now allows residents to vote by mail without giving a reason — the very conduct that was barred during the 1993 special election.  And critically, unlike the Marks campaign, which sought relief for specific allegations of voter fraud, the Trump campaign has not alleged in court that any mail ballots were intentionally cast illegally. Rather, the campaign has been seeking to disqualify ballots submitted by lawful voters based on claims about counting procedures and other rules.  Our ruling  Trump tweeted that a 1993 example of voter fraud in Philadelphia is "exactly what happened to us" in the 2020 election.  It is not, and there is no evidence the Trump campaign is making that argument in court. The 1993 case at the heart of Trump’s tweet involved a rare, verified case of voter fraud. The Trump campaign has not alleged a specific case of voter fraud in Pennsylvania, and there is no evidence of any. Trump’s statement is not accurate and makes a ridiculous claim.  We rate it Pants on Fire. 

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2021-03-29 00:00:00

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“There is no discernible difference between the spread and deaths of COVID in Virginia than there is in Florida.”

Tom Kertscher

2021-03-30 00:00:00

pants-fire

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/nov/18/donald-trump/trump-wrongly-claims-big-victory-after-close-down-/

Trump wrongly claims ‘big victory’ after close down-ballot Nevada race moves toward revote

President Donald Trump declared a "big victory" in his flailing efforts to overturn the election results in Nevada, falsely claiming that one county’s move to redo a close down-ballot contest would have a "major impact" on the race he lost to President-elect Joe Biden. "Big victory moments ago in the State of Nevada," Trump wrote Nov. 16 in a retweet of a post by Adam Laxalt, a campaign co-chair in Nevada. "The all Democrat County Commissioner race, on same ballot as President, just thrown out because of large scale voter discrepancy.  Big victory moments ago in the State of Nevada. The all Democrat County Commissioner race, on same ballot as President, just thrown out because of large scale voter discrepancy. Clark County officials do not have confidence in their own election security. Major impact! https://t.co/TLHnFKNN6g— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 16, 2020 "Clark County officials do not have confidence in their own election security," he added. Trump’s claim was debunked by local and national news outlets, reporters and fact-checkers, including the Nevada Independent reporter whose coverage of the County Commission’s meeting to certify the results prompted Laxalt’s original tweet. In reality, the news out of Nevada’s most populous county was not a "big victory" for Trump — nor did it reveal any evidence of widespread voter fraud, as other allies of the president claimed. On the contrary, Trump’s tweet was wrong or misleading in at least three ways: There was no "large scale voter discrepancy" in Clark County, which includes Las Vegas and nearly 75% of Nevada’s population. Officials found a tiny number of discrepancies, which could have only affected one down-ballot race that was separated by 10 votes. There was no "big victory" for Trump. The county commissioners certified the county’s results for the presidential election. Biden won the county by more than 90,000 votes. The race for the County Commission seat that may be headed for a special election is not "all Democrat." The candidate who finished down 10 votes is a Republican. "This isn't accurate," wrote Erik Pappa, a spokesperson for the county, in a reply to Trump’s tweet. "The @ClarkCountyNV Commission today certified the results in each race except for 1 local race where there was a 10-vote difference & more than 10 discrepancies." The Trump campaign did not respond to a request for comment. The Clark County special election won’t affect Trump The episode in Nevada is Trump’s latest attempt to highlight a small irregularity as proof of his false claims that the election was stolen by voter fraud.  But the reality is not nearly the firestorm that Trump made it out to be. On Nov. 16, the Clark County commissioners voted to certify the results of all the county’s elections except for one. The lone exception was the tightly contested race for the County Commission seat representing District C, an area that includes parts of Las Vegas.  The commission moved to send that race to a special election because the margin of victory was too small to rule out the possibility that it was affected by discrepancies among ballots, which were also limited in number. There were 153,162 ballots cast in District C, and Democrat Ross Miller received just 10 more votes than Republican Stavros Anthony.  Joe Gloria, the Clark County registrar of voters, told the county commission that among those 153,162 ballots, his office identified discrepancies involving 139 of them, or roughly 0.091%. "That’s the only race in the entire election where we have any concern related to the outcome, and it’s because of the close margin," Gloria, the elections chief, told the county commissioners. Discrepancies are common, Gloria said. They are not necessarily indicative of fraud. For example, they can occur when people vote more than once, when ballots are inadvertently canceled, when signatures on mail ballots cannot be verified, or when there is a different number of voter check-ins recorded at a voting site than actual ballots cast.  "There is no election that goes without discrepancies that are identified," Gloria said, adding that although the number of discrepancies was relatively low, it could still affect a 10-vote margin. Clark County Registrar of Voters Joe Gloria speaks at the Clark County Election Department in North Las Vegas, Nev., on Nov. 7, 2020. (AP) The Nevada Independent reported that the discrepancies cannot be reconciled through a recount because the privacy of ballots prevents canvassers from recording personal information that could help them track down the people who turned in faulty ballots. Nevada has a history of holding special elections in down-ballot races when the results are too close to certify. They did so in 2018, when Republican primary candidates in the race for public administrator were separated by just four votes, according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal.  "It is important to be transparent with the public," Clark County spokesperson Dan Kulin said in a statement to PolitiFact. "When we find discrepancies, we report them, and when the number of discrepancies is larger than the margin of victory, we hold a runoff election." In Clark County more broadly, Gloria reported that there were 936 discrepancies identified out of 974,185 ballots cast, meaning there were problems with 0.096% of all ballots in the county.  That’s a far cry from the "large scale discrepancy" Trump tweeted about.  It’s not a "big victory," either, since it didn’t reveal massive fraud or change the fact that Trump lost Nevada. Gloria said six people voted twice, but the county doesn’t know if those incidents were fraud. The results of every other election in Clark County were certified, including the results of the presidential election. Biden received more than 90,000 more votes than Trump in the county, and he leads Trump by more than 33,000 votes in Nevada.  If the District C race goes to a special election, the race for president will not be on the ballot. "As the voters can see, this issue did not affect any other outcomes, and to claim otherwise is simply untrue," Kulin told PolitiFact. Lisa Mayo-DeRiso, the campaign manager for the Republican candidate in the race for the District C County Commission seat, distanced the campaign from Trump’s claims.  Mayo-DeRiso told the Nevada Independent that the campaign "has never subscribed to the conspiracy side of that" with regard to the discrepancies.  Miller, the Democratic candidate, has sued to prevent the race from going to a special election. The Trump campaign has filed a lawsuit asking the court to overturn the results of Nevada’s election in favor of Trump or annul the results entirely, the Nevada Independent reported. Our ruling Trump claimed, "Big victory moments ago in the State of Nevada. The all Democrat County Commissioner race, on same ballot as President, just thrown out because of large scale voter discrepancy." The Clark County Commission declined to certify the results of one local race where there was a 10-vote difference and more than 10 discrepancies with ballots.  The discrepancies were not "large scale." They were limited to less than one-tenth of a percent of ballots. And the news is not a "big victory" for Trump, since it does not change the results of the presidential election in Clark County, which the commission certified. The race that may go to a special election was not "all Democrat," either. We rate this statement False. This fact check is available at IFCN’s 2020 US Elections FactChat #Chatbot on WhatsApp. Click here for more.

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Shelley Grogan

2021-03-12 00:00:00

a Facebook post:

“Less than 500 people a year killed by all rifles combined” and “4,000 a year killed by illegals.”

Tom Kertscher

2020-11-19 00:00:00

false

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/nov/18/donald-trump/fact-checking-donald-trumps-tweet-firing-christoph/

Fact-checking Donald Trump’s tweet firing Christopher Krebs

In a Nov. 17 tweet, Donald Trump fired his most senior cybersecurity official for affirming the security of the 2020 presidential election.  Christopher Krebs, a Trump appointee, headed the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) at the Department of Homeland Security and directed efforts to shore up election security. He has repeatedly contradicted Trump’s baseless claims that voter fraud swung the 2020 presidential election to Joe Biden.  "The recent statement by Chris Krebs on the security of the 2020 Election was highly inaccurate, in that there were massive improprieties and fraud," Trump tweeted. "Therefore, effective immediately, Chris Krebs has been terminated." The recent statement by Chris Krebs on the security of the 2020 Election was highly inaccurate, in that there were massive improprieties and fraud - including dead people voting, Poll Watchers not allowed into polling locations, “glitches” in the voting machines which changed...— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 18, 2020 The statement Trump was referring to was released by officials from two Department of Homeland Security committees — the Election Infrastructure Sector Coordinating Council and the Election Infrastructure Government Coordinating Council overseeing cybersecurity. Krebs’ agency released the statement, but his name is not attached. Although the statement did not mention Trump directly, the officials contradicted his claims that the Nov. 3 election was rigged against him. They called it the most secure election in U.S. history. "There is no evidence that any voting system deleted or lost votes, changed votes, or was in any way compromised," the statement reads.  Even though Krebs lost his job, his assessment of the election wasn’t wrong. Evidence shows it's Trump’s claim that is lacking in accuracy. Substantial evidence supports CISA statement The CISA statement that led to Krebs’ ouster is supported by a multitude of evidence. Fifty-nine election and cybersecurity experts agreed in a public statement that claims of a "rigged" election "either have been unsubstantiated or are technically incoherent." David Evans, a professor of computer science at the University of Virginia, told PolitiFact that he signed the joint statement because "there is no substance ... no credible specifics, and no evidence to support any of the claims" of a rigged election.  "It is always difficult to prove something did not occur, which is why people who work in security are so careful to avoid strong statements," Evans said. "But in this case, because of the size of the margin, all of the security measures that were in place and worked as intended, and the lack of any evidence of anything fraudulent happening, one can be highly confident that there is no credible possibility that the results of the election are invalid." Dan Wallach, a professor of computer science at Rice University who studies the security of election voting systems, also co-signed the statement. "It’s one thing to say we’re aware of vulnerabilities" in our election system, he told PolitiFact. "It’s a whole other game to claim that vulnerabilities have been actively exploited. Making that claim requires evidence." Trump’s litany of debunked "evidence" As evidence for his claim that the statement was "highly inaccurate," Trump said in his tweet that "dead people" voted in the election, Republican poll watchers were barred from polling locations, "glitches" in voting machines changed votes from Trump to Biden, voters were allowed to vote late, "and many more."  We have fact-checked all of these claims and found them lacking evidence. Trump and his campaign have so far failed to prove that fraudulent votes cast in the name of dead people altered the outcome of the election. (See examples from Detroit, Michigan, Virginia, Nevada and Wisconsin.) We have found that many people whose names appear on viral lists of dead voters are still living, did not vote in the election, or were mistakenly recorded as having voted because they shared a name with a living person.  The claim that Republican poll watchers were barred from polling locations is False. In both Pennsylvania and Michigan, the two states where Trump has claimed that Republican poll watchers were shut out, hundreds of Republican challengers were allowed into polling stations to observe the count. Trump’s lawyers have acknowledged this fact in lawsuits and court hearings.  The claim that glitches in voting machines swapped votes from Trump to Biden is also baseless. Many of these claims center on Dominion Voting Systems, which makes software and hardware for election officials to use around the country. Minor issues reported after the election were either the result of human error or temporary malfunctions, and they were quickly resolved. Experts told us that many of the claims about Dominion show a misunderstanding of how voting administration actually works.  Finally, Trump’s claim that voters were allowed to vote late is misleading. Some states allow mailed ballots that are postmarked on or before Election Day a grace period if they arrive shortly after Election Day. All such votes would be legally cast under state law. Our ruling Trump tweeted that "the recent statement by Chris Krebs on the security of the 2020 Election was highly inaccurate, in that there were massive improprieties and fraud." A multitude of evidence supports the statement released by Krebs’ former agency that the election was not rigged. Trump’s claim is not grounded in evidence. We rate it Pants on Fire!  This fact check is available at IFCN’s 2020 US Elections FactChat #Chatbot on WhatsApp. Click here for more.

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Pete Snyder

2021-03-21 00:00:00

a Facebook post:

Says the suspected Boulder mass shooter is a Muslim "who entered illegally from Mexico and purchased the firearm from a guy that sells stolen guns."

Bill McCarthy

2020-11-19 00:00:00

pants-fire

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/nov/18/kim-reynolds/fact-checking-how-accessible-covid-19-tests-are-io/

Fact-checking how accessible COVID-19 tests are in Iowa

Before announcing more stringent regulations Nov. 16, Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds made a statement in a Nov. 10 press conference about concerns that Test Iowa — the state’s COVID-19 testing program — was not conducting enough tests. This was the press conference where Reynolds announced a limited mandate requiring people to wear masks and social distance at certain gatherings. Reynolds said then Iowa can test up to 6,000 people per day with Test Iowa through the State Hygienics Lab, based in Iowa City, and listed other ways Iowans can receive a COVID-19 test: "So, just remember though that if you can’t get a test through Test Iowa, there are multiple other sites — your doctor, your clinics, your pharmacies, the stroke detection clinic centers. I mean, there are the antigen tests, you can buy a test at Costco. I mean, there are a lot of options out there and we’ll continue to build that out." Options exist, but how accessible are they? Here are some things to know. Unlike Test Iowa, which offers free COVID-19 tests to Iowans regardless if they have infection symptoms, other options Reynolds mentioned either require people wanting a test to be deemed eligible for one or cost money, sometimes both. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration recommends reaching out to local health-care providers to get a test, according to its website.  The stroke detection clinic Reynolds referred to in her statement is Health Gauge, formerly called Stroke Detection Plus, Reynolds’ Communications Director Pat Garrett wrote in an email. The health and wellness business offers free COVID-19 testing to people at its Ames, Clive, and Urbandale locations in Iowa. People going to Health Gauge don’t have to meet conditions such as having symptoms or having been in contact with someone who tested positive for COVID-19 to receive a test but have to pay $100, according to Health Gauge’s website.  Costco shows a COVID-19 saliva testing kit for purchase on its website, available with or without video observation with a member of the Azova Patient Services Team, who manufactures the tests. Without the video option, the testing kit costs $129.99; the kit costs $139.99 with video observation.  In Iowa City, tests are available at University of Iowa Health Care and Mercy Iowa City once patients have been evaluated by a health-care provider. Care providers at UI Health Care determine someone is eligible to receive a test if the person displays COVID-19 symptoms or has been in close contact with someone who has tested positive for COVID-19. UI Health Care Public Relations Manager Laura Shoemaker wrote in an email to The Daily Iowan that the test may cost money but is covered by most insurance providers.  Beyond health care clinics, pharmacies at stores such as Hy-Vee and Walgreens offer free COVID-19 tests by appointment. Both pharmacies require people to fill out an online survey to determine if they are eligible for tests, then have them pick a date and time. Both pharmacies state on their websites that they follow Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines as well as state and local guidelines to determine if someone should receive a test. There are 63 Hy-Vee pharmacy locations in Iowa offering tests, but also sites in neighboring Illinois, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, South Dakota, and Wisconsin. Walgreens lists five Iowa locations offering tests, in Cedar Rapids, Davenport, Des Moines, and Sioux City, and notes on its website that the plan is to expand testing capabilities to more locations in the coming weeks.  The state operates 26 Test Iowa sites and clinics, in Black Hawk, Buena Vista, Carroll, Cass, Crawford, Des Moines, Dickinson, Dubuque, Kossuth, Mitchell, Page, Linn, Polk, Plymouth, Pottawattamie, Scott, Sioux, Story, Union, Wapello, Winneshiek, and Wright counties. A Daily Iowanreview of each location on Tuesday, Nov. 17, showed time slots available Thursday, Nov. 19, at the earliest at every location, except those in Polk and Sioux counties.  On Nov. 12, two days after Reynolds made the statement, Test Iowa sites in Linn, Scott, Black Hawk, and Polk counties had no time slots available.  Test Iowa states on the program’s questionnaire to determine whether a person qualifies for a Test Iowa test that "over the next few days and weeks, additional testing sites in the state of Iowa will be set up."  The CDC states that people who should be tested include those with COVID-19 symptoms, who have been within 6 feet of someone who has tested positive for COVID-19 for more than 15 minutes, and for whom a health-care provider, state or local health department has recommended a test. Our ruling A quick check of the facts shows all of the areas Reynolds mentioned offer COVID-19 tests, though some are more accessible than others. Testing avenues such as Health Gauge and buying a test from places like Costco cost money, and organizations offering free testing might have qualifications to receive a test, and are not always in the most accessible locations for patients. We rate this statement as Mostly True. 

Health Care,Iowa,Coronavirus,Kim Reynolds

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Facebook posts

2021-03-24 00:00:00

a tweet:

A 1993 example of voter fraud in Philadelphia is “exactly what happened to us” in the 2020 election.

Bill McCarthy

2020-11-18 00:00:00

pants-fire

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/aug/06/viral-image/no-george-soros-not-nazi-who-funds-antifa/

No, George Soros is not a Nazi who funds antifa

A subset of misinformation about demonstrations that erupted across the United States in the wake of George Floyd’s death involve billionaire Democratic donor George Soros. We’ve debunked claims that Soros is leaving rocks for activists to cause damage in Los Angeles, among other cities. He isn’t providing "Soros Riot Dance Squad" buses to ferry people to protests. He’s not using Open Society Foundations, the philanthropic organization he founded, to fund "the chaos" in Minneapolis, where a police officer pressed his knee against Floyd’s neck.  An image being shared on Facebook now makes another claim about Soros in connection with the protests. It appears to show a tweet from actor James Woods, who uses the social media platform to comment on current events.  "This man funds #ANTIFA," the text says above two photos — one of Soros and one of a younger man in an SS uniform. "He is a real #NAZI. His name is George Soros." This post was flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about our partnership with Facebook.)  As we’ve reported antifa — which stands for "anti-fascist" — is a broad, loosely affiliated coalition of left-wing activists. The Trump administration has blamed antifa for recent protests but government intelligence reports, media reports and experts haven’t produced any evidence that supports that claim.  We couldn’t find the tweet searching Woods’ account, but we’re fact-checking the claims that appear in the Facebook post. First, as we’ve previously reported, Soros was not a Nazi.  The person in the photo in the Facebook post is Oskar Groning, one of 300 Auschwitz staff members. Groning was a corporal in Adolf Hitler’s Waffen SS and he became known as the bookkeeper of Auschwitz. He was one of the last Germans to face war-crime charges connected to the Holocaust. Soros fled fascism. When the Nazis invaded Hungary, his father obtained false identities for Soros and his brother and Soros was sent to live with an agricultural official who passed him off as his Christian godson.  "This is how Mr. Soros was able to survive the Nazi occupation," Open Society said in the statement. "Mr. Soros was hiding from the Nazis in order to survive. To construe this in any other way is malicious, completely misleading, and, in fact, anti-Semitic." Next, there is no evidence Soros "funds antifa." Open Society Foundations refuted the claim and said that neither Soros or Open Society fund antifa. In a statement, a spokesperson for the organization said the false claims "touch on longstanding, often anti-Semtiic conspiracy theories."   When Fox Business published a story in June about antifa and "who funds it," the story noted that it’s a difficult question to answer. "Little is known about who funds antifa activists, or how the groups get their resources," the story said. "Antifa is not a single organization, and therefore, financial details, if any exist, are murky." Mark Bray, a historian at Rutgers University who wrote "Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook," told PolitiFact that the Facebook post reflects "an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory that the right has launched at all kinds of radical organizing over the years." "Antifa groups do not have much in the way of funds," he said. "The International Anti-Fascist Defence Fund exists to provide funds for medical or legal expenses of antifascists and those funds come from donations from allies but beyond that I’d imagine that whatever little money these groups have come from members themselves." We couldn’t find any evidence that Soros has contributed to this fund. We rate this Facebook post Pants on Fire.  

Facebook Fact-checks,Viral image

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Facebook posts

2020-11-13 00:00:00

a tweet:

"Big victory moments ago in the State of Nevada. The all Democrat County Commissioner race, on same ballot as President, just thrown out because of large scale voter discrepancy."

Noah Y. Kim

2020-11-18 00:00:00

half-true

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/aug/06/facebook-posts/no-list-sex-cases-facebook-not-unsealed-ghislaine-/

No, a list of sex cases on Facebook is not from unsealed Ghislaine Maxwell records

A post viewed at least 1 million times on Facebook claims that the names of some 90 politicians and other people — all implicated in sex crimes or accused of other sexual acts — were revealed in newly unsealed court documents involving Ghislaine Maxwell. Maxwell, the longtime companion of Jeffrey Epstein, the late disgraced financier, was recently arrested in New Hampshire on charges that she lured girls to be sexually abused by Epstein. The post, which misspells Maxwell’s first name, introduces the names with this statement: "#GiselleMaxwellslist became unsealed some time yesterday and here's what happened while y'all were distracted by bullshit." The post ends with: "#thisisjustthebeginning." The post was flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about our partnership with Facebook.) We found no evidence linking the newly unsealed Maxwell documents with the list, which includes sex cases made public years or even decades ago. The list is a recitation of cases involving sex allegations that have no apparent connection to Epstein. Epstein and Maxwell According to official autopsy results, the 66-year-old Epstein hanged himself on Aug. 10, 2019, in a New York jail cell where he was being held on federal sex trafficking charges.  He had been accused of victimizing dozens of girls and women over many years. We’ve debunked several claims about Maxwell, the daughter of the late British publishing baron Robert Maxwell. She has pleaded not guilty and is being held in jail in New York City. The unsealing The Facebook post was published July 31, the day after a judge unsealed dozens of court documents in civil litigation, which was settled in 2017, between Maxwell and one of Epstein’s accusers. Many news reports about the unsealing — including those by the Wall Street Journal, the Guardian, the Washington Post, Fox News and Bloomberg — made no mention of a lengthy list of other figures being named in the documents. The list of cases We reviewed the 638 pages of documents, which were posted by Law & Crime, a court and legal news website founded by attorney and TV legal commentator Dan Abrams. The documents focus on the sexual abuse allegations against Epstein and Maxwell; we didn’t find any indication that they refer to cases listed in the Facebook post. The post lists some 90 names and sex-related allegations involving each of those people. The list includes Democratic and Republican politicians. But the cases listed in the post have been publicly known for years, or even decades, news reports show.  We’ve posted a list of the names, the allegations in the post and links to news reports about the cases. Some examples: "Democratic Illinois State Representative, Keith Farnham, has resigned and was charged with possession of child pornography," the post says. Farnham resigned in 2014, was convicted of trafficking in child pornography over the internet and died in prison in 2017. "Spokesperson for Subway, Jared Fogle, was convicted of distribution and receipt of child pornography and traveling to engage in illicit sexual conduct with a minor," the post says. The conviction, which actually included charges of repeatedly having sex with minors, was in 2015. Fogle was sentenced to more than 15 years in prison. "Republican County Councilman Keola Childs pleaded guilty to molesting" a child, the post says. Childs had served as a Republican on the Hawai'i County Council from 1992 to 1996. He pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting a child in 2000 and served jail time. We rate the post False. PolitiFact researcher Caryn Baird contributed to this report.

Criminal Justice,Crime,Sexuality,Facebook Fact-checks,Facebook posts

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Donald Trump

2020-11-16 00:00:00

a Tweet:

“The recent statement by Chris Krebs on the security of the 2020 Election was highly inaccurate, in that there were massive improprieties and fraud."

Brooklyn Draisey

2020-11-18 00:00:00

pants-fire

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/aug/06/jeff-bezos/bezos-statistics-ignore-amazons-monopoly-us-e-comm/

Bezos’ statistics ignore Amazon’s monopoly of U.S. e-commerce and growing international revenue

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos opened his recent remarks to Congress with a claim that Amazon is in an "extraordinarily large and competitive" market, not only in the U.S. but internationally.  Bezos cited statistics to make his point, highlighting how "Amazon accounts for less than 1% of the $25 trillion global retail market, and less than 4% of U.S. retail." The figures don’t tell the whole story. They include a much larger pool of retailers than Amazon is directly competing with and minimize how large Amazon’s sales are compared to the rest of worldwide retail. We reached out to Amazon’s press team to ask for Bezos’ sources for the statistics he mentioned but they didn’t respond. On a global scale, figures show Amazon made up about 1.12% of international retail sales in 2019, which is just over 1%. According to a June 2019 report from eMarketer, total international retail sales were projected to be $25 trillion by the end of 2019. In Amazon’s last 2019 quarterly report, they announced that they had made $280.5 billion in sales during the 2019 fiscal year.  For U.S. retail, Amazon does make up less than 4% of total sales, according to eMarketer. In 2019, Amazon accounted for 38.7% of U.S. e-commerce retail sales alone, and e-commerce retail sales accounted for 11.3% of the U.S. retail market by the end of 2019. Just looking at these statistics, Amazon looks like a tiny company competing in an extremely large market. However, comparing Amazon to the entire retail market is problematic. The U.S. Census Bureau includes over fifty industries in their data for the retail market, including car dealers, gas stations, full service restaurants, and liquor stores. Amazon is not directly competing with most of the industries in the U.S. retail market, but it is responsible for the largest portion — 38.7% — of total e-commerce retail sales. Its largest competitor was Walmart, with 5.3% of sales.  This gap isn’t new, in 2018 Amazon made up 47% of e-commerce retail sales and the second-ranked e-commerce company was eBay, with 6.1% of sales. Amazon is dominating the U.S. e-commerce retail market, which is also accounting for a growing share of the U.S. retail industry. The e-commerce market rose from 4.2% of the U.S. retail market in 2010 to 11.8% of the market in 2020.  Internationally, when we look at the entire world of retail (be it online or not), Amazon had the second-highest revenue of any retail seller in 2018, behind Walmart, which made $517.7 billion, according to the Kantar Group. In 2018, Walmart accounted for only 2.07% of international retail sales, despite having the most revenue from retail in the world. Our ruling Bezos said Amazon is participating in a market that is "extraordinarily large and competitive. Amazon accounts for less than 1% of the $25 trillion global retail market, and less than 4% of US retail." Bezos cited those figures in an effort to portray Amazon as a less powerful force on the retail market than some may assume. These figures are misleading and don’t tell the full story.  In the most comparable category — U.S. e-commerce — Amazon easily outdistances all of its competitors, and on the international front, it is the second-most profitable company in the world when it comes to all retail. Even the retail company making the most revenue internationally, Walmart, doesn’t account for a large percentage of sales in the international market. We rate this claim Half True. Correction (Aug. 10, 2020): In 2018 Walmart made $517.7 billion in global retail sales, according to the Kantar Group. An earlier version of this story had an incorrect figure.

Congress,Corporations,Corrections and Updates,Jeff Bezos

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Donald Trump

2020-11-17 00:00:00

a press conference:

"If you can’t get a test through Test Iowa, there are multiple other sites: your doctor, your clinics, your pharmacies, the stroke detection clinic centers."

Ciara O'Rourke

2020-11-18 00:00:00

false

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/aug/06/linda-sanchez/comparing-price-child-care-college-tuition/

Comparing the price of child care with college tuition

In a July 29 press conference, Rep. Linda Sánchez of California joined House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other Democrats to show support for child care legislation to help businesses and families during the COVID-19 pandemic. "The average cost of child care in this country is more than what it costs to send a child to college for one year," Sánchez said at the press conference. Later that day, the House passed two bills to provide funding to child care providers. Sánchez did not specify what timespan she was referring to for child care spending, and her spokesperson did not respond for comment.  We found that child care certainly isn’t cheap, and depending on how you count it, it can cost nearly as much as a year of college. But, in most cases, in a year-to-year comparison, a year of college costs more. Child care industry jolted by pandemic Like many things during the pandemic, the already complicated landscape of child care has become even more difficult for families amid shutdowns.  At some point during the pandemic, half of child care programs closed, and, according to a July National Association for the Education of Young Children survey, about 40% of child care providers say they will close permanently if they don’t receive additional assistance from the government. Half of infants and toddlers and 63% of 3- to 5-year-olds were in nonparental child care in 2012, according to a 2016 survey by the Health and Human Services Department and the University of Chicago. The Cares Act, a congressional COVID-19 relief package passed in March, provided the child care industry with $3.5 billion. The Child Care Is Essential Act, which Sánchez co-sponsored, would allocate $50 billion in grants to child care providers.  Comparing price of child care to college A 2019 report by Child Care Aware of America, an advocacy group that provides families with child care resources, found the average price of center-based infant, toddler and 4-year-old care in each state and D.C.  PolitiFact’s analysis of the group’s numbers found that the nationwide median price of infant care is $11,107 annually. That figure falls to $10,267 for toddlers and $8,834 for 4-year-olds. By comparison, in 2017-18, the average price of tuition, fees, room and board for all four-year colleges — including public and private institutions — was $27,357, according to the U.S. Department of Education. Clearly, that’s more than what families nationwide average for one year of child care for an infant, toddler or a 4-year-old. If you look only at four-year public colleges, the total cost drops to $20,050 for a year on average, according to Education Department figures. That’s still more than the median price of one year of center-based infant, toddler or 4-year-old child care.  We should note that these college and child care figures don’t take financial assistance into account. In addition, many families depend on child care outside of centers, including through a family member or trusted friend. To be sure, there are instances when a year of child care can cost more than a year of college tuition, particularly in-state tuition for public universities. But Sánchez wasn’t that precise in her claim.  Our ruling "The average cost of child care in this country is more than what it costs to send a child to college for one year," Sánchez said. The nationwide median annual price of infant, toddler and 4-year-old care is much less expensive than the nationwide average of a year at a four-year college. However, a year of center-based child care is more expensive than a year of in-state public college tuition in many states. Sánchez did not specify a timeframe for her comparison. If she meant to compare the annual price of a four-year college to the amount families pay for a year of infant, toddler or 4-year-old center-based care, then her statement is incorrect. However, comparing the price of college to the price of child care over the course of a child’s lifetime would show a different picture. We rate Sánchez’s statement Mostly False.

Children,Education,California,Linda Sánchez

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Instagram posts

2020-11-08 00:00:00

a Facebook post:

Scores of politicians and others are on a “list” of sex cases from newly unsealed Ghislaine Maxwell court documents.

Tom Kertscher

2020-08-06 00:00:00

true

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/nov/11/matt-schlapp/matt-schlapps-baseless-claim-9000-nevada-mail-ball/

Matt Schlapp’s baseless claim that 9,000 Nevada mail ballots are illegitimate

As supporters of President Donald Trump ramp up their efforts to delegitimize the election with unsubstantiated allegations of widespread voter fraud, one high-profile Republican ally claimed that 9,000 Nevada ballots were fraudulently cast by nonresidents. "We have literally 9,000 people who voted in this election who don’t live in Nevada," American Conservative Union chair Matt Schlapp told Fox News on Nov. 8, wrongly claiming the election has seen widespread "fraud" and "illegality" but offering no proof to support his allegations. Schlapp also cited the 9,000 figure during a press conference the same day, telling a crowd of Trump supporters that many "non-Nevadans" had been caught illegally voting in the state.  Schlapp’s allegation earned a shoutout from Trump, who tweeted that Nevada was "a cesspool of fake votes." Schlapp has continued repeating the claim since. Nevada is turning out to be a cesspool of Fake Votes. @mschlapp & @AdamLaxalt are finding things that, when released, will be absolutely shocking!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 9, 2020 But there is no proof that 9,000 people cast illegal ballots in Nevada after moving out of state, and there remains no evidence of any widespread voter fraud in Nevada or elsewhere. President-elect Joe Biden led Trump by more than 36,000 votes in Nevada as of this writing.  Schlapp’s claim is derived from a Trump campaign list Schlapp’s 9,000 number derives in part from another unproven claim from the Trump campaign and Republicans in Nevada, who argued days earlier that there were 3,062 instances of voter fraud stemming from cases in which people moved out of Nevada but still voted in the state. Trump campaign attorneys sent U.S. Attorney General William Barr a list of 3,062 unnamed individuals who they claimed voted in Nevada after moving out of state. A recent lawsuit also referenced "over 3,000 instances of ineligible individuals casting ballots." The campaign’s list showed ZIP codes for voters’ current and previous addresses, but it left out other personally identifying information. The lawyers said they formed it by cross-referencing the list of general election voters in Nevada with publicly available change-of-address records. But the list alone did not prove that anyone had violated the law, as we reported. That’s because people who move within 30 days before an election can legally cast a ballot in their new state — or in their prior state of residence — in-person or via absentee ballot. Nevadans who leave the state to attend college or other reasons can also request a ballot.  The list from Trump’s lawyers also included addresses for Americans serving overseas in the military and their spouses, including some people who have since spoken out.  The ACLU of Nevada said the list showed changes of address for people who moved to military bases, including at least 129 Army or Air Post Office addresses, 13 Fleet Post Offices and 15 Diplomatic Post Offices, according to the Wall Street Journal. There are other addresses on the list, the Journal reported, that the ACLU said are located in cities near military hubs. "This list they’re talking about has been debunked as having, for example, having military personnel on there who are serving overseas and have the right to vote," Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford, a Democrat, said on Fox News Nov. 7. "It could include Mormon missionaries on that list. It could also include college students on that list." Any registered voter in Nevada could request to vote by mail in 2020, according to the website for the Nevada secretary of state. Clark County, which includes Las Vegas and nearly 75% of Nevada’s population, has so far referred just three cases of potential fraud to the Nevada secretary of state’s office, said county spokesperson Dan Kulin. None of the three cases involved an ineligible voter from out of state. A county election worker scans mail-in ballots at a tabulating area as an observer watches at the Clark County Election Department on Nov. 5, 2020, in Las Vegas. (AP) Schlapp does not have hard evidence to support his claim How did Schlapp get from the campaign’s list of 3,062 out-of-state voters to 9,000?  His number relies on back-of-the-envelope math and some major assumptions, including the assumption that everyone who mailed in a ballot was ineligible to do so. There are no signs of a new, bigger list that includes 9,000 changes of address or voter names. An American Conservative Union spokesperson said Schlapp had projected that the number of people who illegally voted from outside Nevada was actually three times as large as the 3,062 people originally alleged. The spokesperson said that’s because only one-third of people report changes of address to the national database maintained by the U.S. Postal Service. "The 3,000 that we came up with, we believe that that is two-thirds shy of the actual number because most people don’t go to the post office to change their address," Schlapp said in a Nov. 9 interview with former White House press secretary Sean Spicer. But Martha Johnson, a spokesperson for the Postal Service, said the service was "unable to confirm" that only one-third of people report when they change their address. "The USPS processed approximately 36 million change of addresses" in 2020, Johnson said. Schlapp has not backed his claims up with any hard evidence. Even if 9,000 absentee voters did mail in ballots to Nevada from out of state, there’s no proof any of them did so illegally, as he claimed. A spokesperson for Nevada Secretary of State Barbara Cegavske, a Republican, declined to comment on Schlapp’s specific claims but pointed to a statement. It said Nevada is investigating all credible allegations of fraud but noted that "many voter fraud complaints lack any evidence." Nevada law does allow the residency of registered voters to be challenged, including for people who have moved, the Nevada Independent reported. But that law would have required that an affidavit be filed by the challenger with the county clerk in advance of the election. Our ruling Schlapp claimed that as an example of voter fraud, "we have literally 9,000 people who voted in this election (in Nevada) who don’t live in Nevada." Schlapp has acknowledged that his 9,000 figure is not a literal count of illegal out-of-state voters. It is a speculative estimate he came up with based on a list of 3,062 individuals produced by the Trump campaign — a list that had its own problems.  The original list included military personnel in its count and did not establish that any of the people it identified were actually ineligible to vote in Nevada. The burden of proof is on the speaker, and Schlapp has provided no credible evidence to substantiate his claim.  We rate this statement Pants on Fire! This fact check is available at IFCN’s 2020 US Elections FactChat #Chatbot on WhatsApp. Click here, for more.

Nevada,Elections,Matt Schlapp

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Scott Fitzgerald

2020-07-31 00:00:00

a congressional hear

“The retail market we participate in is extraordinarily large and competitive. Amazon accounts for less than 1% of the $25 trillion global retail market, and less than 4% of U.S. retail.”

Emily Venezky

2020-08-06 00:00:00

pants-fire

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/nov/11/viral-image/no-132000-georgia-ballots-werent-likely-ineligable/

No, 132,000 Georgia ballots weren’t ‘likely ineligible’

As Georgia became one of the most surprising swing states in the 2020 presidential election, it also took center stage in a number of baseless social media claims. "BREAKING REPORT: 132,000 ballots in Fulton County, Ga., have been identified as likely ineligible," announced a viral image shared on Facebook Nov. 8. "BREAKING NEWS: President Donald J. Trump may win the state of Georgia after 132,000 ballots." The post, which is a picture of two tweets, was flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about our partnership with Facebook.) To say the ballots were "identified as likely ineligible" is a huge leap from the facts, which are scarce.  The claim appears to have originated with a tweet by Peoples Pundit, an account run by Richard Baris, who identifies himself as a data journalist and director of Big Data Poll. First, Baris said "there are 132k CoA flags in Fulton County, alone," referring to change of address flags in voter rolls, which implies that those voters might have been ineligible to vote in that county. Then he cited two queries of a Georgia voter database and included screenshots of both searches.  One of the queries Baris ran was for Fulton County voters including people "flagged" in the records for change of address, and the other query excluded people flagged for change of address. Baris’ claim about potentially ineligible ballots is based on the number of "unique individuals" listed for each query: the number is 842,486 when including those with a "change of address flag" in the records, and 710,454 when excluding those who have a "change of address flag," a difference of 132,032. The screenshots do not include any detail such as links that would allow others to replicate the search or verify its results. Baris did not indicate that the information had been verified with or vetted by election officials, who in many cases during the 2020 election have offered reasonable explanations for theories being floated. Jessica Corbitt-Dominguez, director of external affairs for Fulton County government, told PolitiFact the claim is "completely unsubstantiated." A county spokeswoman also provided a statement saying, "Fulton County is aware of allegations of 132,000 ballots being ‘flagged.’ These claims are simply false and baseless. Certain news organizations have circulated this information without contacting Fulton County for confirmation." On Monday, Georgia Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan, a Republican, also said on CNN that there have not been "any sort of credible examples" of voter fraud in Georgia. Georgia requires that those voting in person present a government-issued ID, WABE reported, and when voting by absentee ballot, a voter’s signature must match the one on both the ballot application and voter registration card. Georgia’s voter rolls were purged of 300,000 inactive voters last year, including 45,000 in Fulton County, according to WABE. Our ruling A Facebook post claims that "132,000 ballots in Fulton County, Ga., have been identified as likely ineligible," and that President Trump might win Georgia as a result.  There is no verified evidence that the ballots are ineligible. We rate this claim False.  

Elections,Facebook Fact-checks,Viral image

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Facebook posts

2020-07-29 00:00:00

a press conference:

“The average cost of child care in this country is more than what it costs to send a child to college for one year.”

Sophie Austin

2020-08-06 00:00:00

pants-fire

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/nov/10/dan-bishop/north-carolina-republican-falsely-accuses-election/

North Carolina Republican falsely accuses election workers of misconduct

President Trump says he might lose the election because of fraud.  And a couple of his supporters in North Carolina say they believe the unproven claims about fraud could be true. U.S. Rep. Dan Bishop, a Republican who represents a southern swath of the state, says he’s seen hints of wrongdoing in his own district. "Well, I’m echoing the President’s claims. Indications of grossly improper conduct from election officials right here in my district," part of his Nov. 5 tweet said. Is it true that there are "indications of improper conduct from election officials" in his district? We reached out to Bishop’s office and asked what he meant. Spokeswoman Hannah Hummelberg cited complaints about campaign volunteers at the lone early voting site in Anson County, which have been reported by WBTV and WFAE-FM public radio in Charlotte. These claims were investigated and addressed. But the actions in question were done by a candidate and his campaign volunteers -- not election officials. A quick summary The complaints: Officials received complaints that supporters of an Anson County Register of Deeds candidate, Dannie Montgomery, broke the law during early voting by assisting voters into the site and allegedly the voting booth. One voter said she was specifically told to vote for Montgomery, WBTV reported. "As soon as I pulled up and exited my vehicle a campaign worker came up to me and forced me to vote for Dannie Montgomery and told me not to vote Greg Eudy (the unaffiliated candidate). As a first time voter I felt it wasn’t fair to me," the voter said in the complaint. What the law says: A voter can receive help only from close relatives — unless that voter has a disability. Voters who have a disability may ask for help from any person, with a couple exceptions. The law also prohibits assistants from influencing someone’s vote. A response: On Oct. 23, the Anson County elections board held an emergency meeting to discuss the allegations. Meeting minutes show the board warned campaign volunteers about the behavior going forward.  The Anson board received and investigated more complaints after that meeting but could not substantiate the allegations, according to Gina Clarke, the board’s temporary assistant director. The state board of elections issued a press release on Oct. 31 to clarify North Carolina’s laws about assisting voters The outcome: No Anson County election observers or board staff were found to have done anything wrong, according to Clarke and Pat Gannon, spokesman for the state elections board. Unofficial election results show Montgomery losing to Eudy, the other Register of Deeds candidate, and underperforming compared to Democrats at the top of the ballot. Montgomery appears to trail by more than 500 votes. Meanwhile, Joe Biden, Cal Cunningham and Roy Cooper all lead their respective Republican opponents in Anson by at least 400 votes. Republican concerns Bishop has tweeted about the Anson County allegations several times. On Oct. 29, Bishop tweeted a video of the alleged campaign volunteer in question. On Nov. 1, Bishop tweeted a letter that he sent to top state and Anson County election officials. He asked them to produce video showing the campaign worker’s actions while inside the polling site. The same day, the North Carolina Republican Party sent a letter to Sherry Melton, director of the Anson County election board.  The NC GOP noted that there had been 18 incident reports about Montgomery and her supporters. The party asked for the alleged rule-breakers to be banned from the polling site. The Anson board investigated complaints about the campaign volunteers, said Clarke, the board’s temporary assistant director. She spoke to PolitiFact by phone on Nov. 10. Complaints filed after the Oct. 23 meeting were "unfounded," she said. "We looked into each one of them," Clarke said. She added: No election officials were found to have committed any misconduct. Important distinction The distinction between campaign volunteers, who greet people outside polling sites, and actual election officials, who conduct elections and count ballots, is an important one. We pointed out to Bishop’s office that his tweet omitted this key context and asked if Bishop is aware of any direct misconduct by Anson County election officials. Hummelberg, the spokeswoman, said the congressman is "just suggesting" that the county elections officials have been "permitting" campaign workers to "buttonhole voters in the buffer zone, accompany them into the voting enclosure and into the voting booth, and to direct them how to vote." As we mentioned: the county and state boards addressed the complaints — just not in a manner that Bishop or the state GOP might have preferred. Anson officials held an emergency meeting, issued warnings and investigated the complaints,while the state elections board issued a press release. Our ruling Bishop said there are "indications of grossly improper conduct from election officials right here in my district." His spokeswoman cited complaints about campaign volunteers outside a polling place. Complaints were filed against Anson County campaign volunteers accusing them of trying to coerce people into voting a certain way. And Bishop thinks local election officials didn’t do enough to stop campaign volunteers from improperly assisting voters with their ballots. But the North Carolina elections board says it’s not aware of any direct misconduct by Anson County election officials. We rate this claim False.

Elections,North Carolina,Dan Bishop

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Jeff Bezos

2020-07-29 00:00:00

a tweet:

"The GOP lawyer who helped Kanye West get on the ballot in Wisconsin is actively working for Donald Trump's campaign."

Haley BeMiller

2020-08-06 00:00:00

false

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/nov/10/facebook-posts/election-workers-didnt-find-biden-votes-overnight-/

Election workers didn’t ‘find’ Biden votes overnight. They counted and reported mail in ballots

The internet is flooded with baseless claims of surprise ballots being "found" for President-elect Joe Biden in certain swing states. One posted on Facebook Nov. 8 takes the form of a screenshot of a tweet posted Nov. 5 by  Nick Adams, who calls himself "Trump’s favorite author":  "Between 3:00-4:30 A.M., they ‘found’ 140,000 mail in ballots for Biden in Wisconsin. Between 3:30-5:00 A.M., they ‘found’ 200,000 mail in ballots for Biden in Michigan. Between 2:00-4:00 A.M., they ‘found’ 1,000,000 mail in ballots in Pennsylvania. All for Biden. None for Trump." The post was flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about our partnership with Facebook.) It seems to be based on a misunderstanding of how counting mail in ballots works. Some of the numbers are simply wrong, while others represent exaggerated versions of  misinformation we have already debunked. Let’s take it state by state. Wisconsin We previously debunked a Nov. 4 claim that said 112,000 ballots, all for Joe Biden, mysteriously surfaced in the middle of the night after Election Day in Wisconsin. Officials there said they didn’t know what the number could have been referencing; at the time they were still counting  absentee ballots overnight. This new post changes it up a bit, claiming instead that "140,000" ballots were found for Biden between 3 and 4:30 a.m. in the state, presumably the night after Election Day polls closed Nov. 3 and into the morning of Nov. 4. The figure is close to the number of mail in votes that were cast for Biden in Milwaukee County overall. There was a jump in votes for Biden on the night of Nov. 3 because a large batch of absentee ballots from the City of Milwaukee finished processing around 3:30 a.m., election officials told us. Election officials worked through the night in Wisconsin to tally the unprecedented numbers of mail in ballots, which under state law they were not allowed to start counting until Election Day. "A batch of about 170,000 absentee ballots is what came in from the City of Milwaukee. That’s just the final tally, and when it arrived," said Brian Rothgery, public information manager at the Milwaukee County Board of Supervisors, referencing the time cited in the post.  Biden has won 69% of the vote in the county. For comparison, Hillary Clinton won about 65% of the vote in the county in 2016. RELATED: Fact-checking the avalanche of Wisconsin election misinformation  Michigan  We couldn’t find evidence that 200,000 mail in ballots for Biden were found overnight, any night, in Michigan.  The claim appears to be an exaggerated iteration of posts that falsely said Biden received a suspicious influx of 138,339 votes in Michigan overnight following Election Day, while other candidates received none.  That claim relied on a data error that appeared on the elections map powered by Decision Desk HQ, an election data and analysis service.  The error came from the central Michigan county of Shiawassee. Caroline Wilson, the county’s clerk, told fact-checking organization AFP that she added an extra zero accidentally, reporting 153,710 votes for Biden instead of 15,371. The difference, 138,339, was removed from Biden’s total within about 20 minutes, election officials said. Pennsylvania  We have seen no credible reports that Pennsylvania election workers discovered 1 million mail in ballots for Biden "between 2 and 4 a.m.," or at any other time. The claim may have originated from this Gateway Pundit story, which says that, "Democrats, in the privacy of the Philly Convention Center, without ANY GOP inspectors, added OVER ONE MILLION VOTES to Joe Biden’s totals in 2 days!" That’s not the case. A judge ruled to let election observers watch the count in Philadelphia from closer up, but representatives from both parties have been allowed to observe the process all along. The counting is also being streamed live online. Election officials in the state told PolitiFact there is "no truth to the claim" that any votes were mysteriously "found" for Biden there. In Pennsylvania, both Trump and Biden gained around 1 million votes on the night of Nov. 3 and into the morning of Nov. 4, according to the FiveThirtyEight election graph, which showed that the biggest increase happened between midnight and 3 a.m. Our ruling Facebook posts are spreading a tweet that claims election workers, overnight, "found" 140,000 mail in ballots in Wisconsin, 200,000 in Michigan and 1 million in Pennsylvania, and all were for Biden. This is inaccurate. The numbers are either wrong or exaggerated, and the post misinterprets the counting and reporting of legal mail in ballots as "found" votes. We rate this False. This fact check is available at IFCN’s 2020 US Elections FactChat #Chatbot on WhatsApp. Click here, for more.

Facebook Fact-checks,Facebook posts

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Linda Sánchez

2020-08-05 00:00:00

a Facebook post:

Says Angela Merkel is the daughter of Adolf Hitler, Justin Trudeau is the son of Fidel Castro and Barbara Bush is the daughter of Aleister Crowley.

Ciara O'Rourke

2020-11-11 00:00:00

false

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/nov/10/pamela-geller/debunking-hammer-and-scorecard-election-fraud-cons/

Debunking the ‘Hammer and Scorecard’ election fraud conspiracy theory

Some fans of President Donald Trump are sharing the theory that a package of CIA computer programs have hacked the 2020 election. One program, called Hammer, cracks into protected networks, while another, called Scorecard, changes vote totals. Pamela Geller, a right-wing activist and Trump supporter, has posted more than one piece about Hammer and Scorecard. On Nov. 9, her website Geller Report offered an item headlined, "HAMMER / Scorecard Voter Software Fraud in Real Time." Geller offered a video clip taken from CNN’s 2019 election coverage of the Kentucky governor’s race that she called, "Vote switching right in front of your eyes." Geller's post was flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about our partnership with Facebook.) Before we dive in, let’s be clear that independent election security researchers see no evidence that Hammer and Scorecard exist, and the head of the Cybersecurity and  Infrastructure Security Agency, a government body created by President Donald Trump in 2018, has said this theory of election interference is "nonsense."  To be crystal clear on ⬇️, I’m specifically referring to the Hammer and Scorecard nonsense. It’s just that - nonsense. This is not a real thing, don’t fall for it and think 2x before you share. #Protect2020 https://t.co/f2FpSbRXKy— Chris Krebs #Protect2020 (@CISAKrebs) November 7, 2020 With that, let’s look at the CNN evidence that Geller takes to be telling. Dissecting CNN Kentucky election coverage The video consists of a man giving a running commentary on shifting result totals in the 2019 Kentucky governor’s race in which Democrat Andy Beshear defeated incumbent Republican Matt Bevin. At one key moment in CNN’s live broadcast, the vote totals change inconsistently.  A large graphic shows Beshear with a total of 674,508, while a smaller running total at the bottom of the screen gives him 673,948. According to the man giving the commentary, the total at the bottom of the screen runs behind the more current one on the larger graphic. In that light, a difference of 560 votes makes sense. The one on the bottom has yet to catch up. But at the same moment, Bevin’s totals show 661,675 on the large graphic, while the one at the bottom shows 662,235. That’s 560 votes less than the most up-to-date one on the big graphic. In the view of Geller and the man speaking on the video, the fraud is obvious. "You have just seen 25% of the loss amount of this race happen in front of your very eyes," the man giving the commentary said. In the final official tally, Beshear won by over 5,000 votes. Is this proof of shenanigans? Two election security experts we reached were unimpressed. No sign of Hammer and Scorecard "The broader issue here is that the election night results are not official," said Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Charles Stewart III. "There’s a post-election canvas period when results are checked and mistakes spotted and corrected." Stewart said there’s a key flaw in the theory that the purported software package of Hammer and Scorecard could intercept the digital transmission of vote results and change them. He said the states that do send data that way also keep the data tapes of votes from the original machines. "The results only become official after the election department has compared the paper tapes  — which are immune to supposed hack — to the initially transferred results," Stewart said. The CNN election night results are "the sports aspect of elections, not the binding results," said statistics professor at the University of California-Berkeley Philip Stark. Stark cautioned that no election system comes with 100% ironclad protection against hacking. "Nothing is perfect, and they are all vulnerable," Stark said. He advocates for greater use of paper ballots and careful post-election audits. But that said, Stark sees no evidence that any results have been altered in this election or past ones. Regarding the CNN inconsistencies, he noted that CNN contracted for the data feed from a third party vendor. That puts CNN’s number even further removed from the official tally. Stark said nothing in the CNN example holds up. "That’s not how anyone would hack an election," Stark said. "If you really wanted to change the total, you would not change it on election night, where everyone could see it. You would change it in the voting tabulation system." And for those who think Hammer and Scorecard were deployed in the 2020 election, Stark said that raises the question of why skeptics look only at the presidential race. "If the motivation was to put the Democrats in power, why didn’t they flip the Senate?"  Stark  posed. "Biden will have a hard time without the Senate. Why would you leave the job half done?" One of the main promoters of the Hammer and Scorecard theory is a discredited military contractor who claims to have created them.  We asked Geller to respond to the issues raised above. She didn’t address the specific matters but said that she sees ample evidence of fraud, including "eyewitness accounts of tens of thousands of ballots coming in the back door (that) should give even you pause, despite your baked-in far-left bias." We have debunked multiple claims of fraud, including 14,000 dead people voting in Michigan, and poll workers in Pennsylvania filling out ballots. Our ruling Geller said that a 2019 CNN video clip shows the work of purported CIA-built hacking software Hammer and Scorecard in action. The clip shows a momentary glitch in election night totals. The head of the government agency created by Trump to protect against cyber attacks called the Hammer and Scorecard theory, "nonsense." Election security experts said election night totals are distinct from official results, and post-Election Day vetting by state officials catches discrepancies between local results and totals calculated at the central office. They also noted that if someone truly wanted to steal an election, the example Geller cited makes no practical sense. We rate this claim Pants on Fire. CORRECTION: This report has been changed to correct the description of the narrator's discussion of the winning margin in the Beshear-Bevin race. This fact check is available at IFCN’s 2020 US Elections FactChat #Chatbot on WhatsApp. Click here, for more.

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2020-08-03 00:00:00

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“The Beirut bombing today was directly next to the Lebanon Central Bank, which is also owned by the most evil deep state family, the Rothschilds. There are no coincidences.”

Bill McCarthy

2020-11-10 00:00:00

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https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/aug/13/kamala-harris/kamala-harris-flawed-social-security-medicare-atta/

Kamala Harris’ flawed Social Security, Medicare attack on Donald Trump

A couple of days before she became Joe Biden’s running mate, Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., jabbed President Donald Trump for threatening two pillars of America’s social safety net. "Trump just promised that if he wins reelection, he’ll gut Social Security and Medicare," Harris posted Aug. 9 on Instagram. Harris was talking about what Trump said when he unilaterally gave workers a four-month break on the payroll tax that helps fund Social Security. Trump’s action, via an executive memorandum, said nothing about Medicare payroll taxes. The meaning of Trump’s words at the signing event were unclear, and spurred legitimate confusion. But Harris exaggerated what was known even then. And more is known now. Trump’s murky words Each paycheck, employees see 6.2% of their wages go to Washington — a part of the payroll tax — to help fund Social Security. At an Aug. 8 event at Trump’s Bedminster, N.J., golf resort, Trump signed a memorandum that ordered Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin to defer those payments for four months, from September through the end of the year. That means someone making the median weekly wage of about $1,000 could see an extra $62 in their paycheck. (We say "could" because the memo says employers don’t need to send the money to Washington. It doesn’t say they must give it to their workers.) Deferring taxes means they would be due at some point. At the event, Trump made two comments to reassure the people who saw a little extra money. "If I’m victorious on Nov. 3, I plan to forgive these taxes and make permanent cuts to the payroll tax," Trump said. "So I’m going to make them all permanent." A bit later, he said, "If I win, I may extend and terminate. In other words, I’ll extend it beyond the end of the year and terminate the tax." This triggered a debate over what Trump had in mind for the future.  White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow later said Trump was talking solely about letting workers keep the tax holiday money.  But the Biden-Harris campaign took away a different meaning. Spokesman Michael Gwin told us that when Trump said he would "make permanent cuts to the payroll tax," that meant eliminating the employee side of the tax completely. That was a possible interpretation, even if Trump lacked the power to make it happen. What Trump’s plan means for Social Security Trump’s temporary deferral on payroll taxes costs somewhere between $80 billion and $100 billion.  Trump said he doesn’t want workers to pay it back. His memo tells the Treasury secretary to "explore avenues, including legislation, to eliminate the obligation to pay the taxes deferred." If workers aren’t on the hook, then there are two options. The money either comes out of Social Security’s trust funds, or general revenues. The last trim on payroll taxes came as the country was climbing out of the Great Recession. The Obama administration and Congress dropped the tax by two percentage points in 2011-12. The total cost was $224 billion, and the law that made it happen said Congress would backfill the trust fund money from general revenues. The Biden-Harris campaign told us that if Trump had that in mind, he could have said so, or included it in the memo. Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin told Fox News Sunday that the money would be made up with dollars from the general fund. The administration can’t promise that on its own. Congress, which controls federal spending, would need to pass a bill to make it happen. (That could be the "legislation" mentioned in the memo.) If Congress doesn’t backfill the money, Social Security runs out of money a bit sooner. Today, the combined Social Security trust funds are projected to be depleted as of 2035.  William Hoagland with the Bipartisan Policy Center estimates the cost of the payroll tax deferral at $80 billion. "A hit of $80 billion not replenished would not gut the program," Hoagland said. "It would only impact the date of depletion, possibly a year or two earlier than expected." A final note about statements that came after Harris' post: On Aug. 12, Trump said that he hoped to forgive the deferred payroll tax payments, backfill those payments from the general fund, and eliminate the payroll tax for Social Security going forward. He also promised to find another way to fund the program.   The next day, White House spokeswoman Kayleigh McEnany said, "What he was meaning yesterday is that he wants permanent forgiveness of the deferral." Our ruling Harris said Trump "promised that if he wins reelection, he’ll gut Social Security and Medicare." Trump did not make that statement, and his payroll tax deferral does not affect the funding for Medicare.  The element of truth is that Trump offered no clear plan to replenish the loss to the Social Security trust fund, which could undermine Social Security. In the scheme of things, a $100 billion loss would advance the trust fund depletion date from 15 years from now to 13 or 14 years from now.  We rate this claim Mostly False.

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2020-08-04 00:00:00

a Fox News appearance:

As an example of voter fraud, “we have literally 9,000 people who voted in this election (in Nevada) who don’t live in Nevada.”

Bill McCarthy

2020-11-10 00:00:00

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https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/aug/13/ron-johnson/johnsons-claim-some-earn-more-unemployment-working/

Johnson's claim that some earn more on unemployment than working is on the money

A central part of the stalemate between the White House and Democrats in Congress over a new coronavirus relief bill is what to do about enhanced federal unemployment benefits. Democrats want to extend the $600 weekly payment, which expired at the end of July. President Donald Trump signed an executive order that would create a new $400 payment – but only if states set up a new system and kick in a quarter of the cost. And some Republican lawmakers are balking at extending the benefit at all. That includes U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, who in an Aug. 2, 2020 interview on WISN-TV’s "UPFRONT" program characterized the $600 in federal bonus money as a "perverse incentive to keep people out of the economy."  "Depending on which study you look at," he said, "either 68% or 5 out of 6 individuals according to (the Congressional Budget Office) are making more on unemployment than they did on the job."  Is Johnson right about the stats?  And what about the underlying point, that the benefit is disincentivizing people from going back to work? The studies When asked to back up the claim, Johnson’s office cited a May 2020 study by the National Bureau of Economic Research, a private nonprofit that does economic research, for the 68% statistic and a June 2020 letter from the Congressional Budget Office’s director to U.S. Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, the Senate Finance Committee chair. The National Bureau of Economic Research study indicates 68% of unemployed workers eligible for unemployment payments received benefits that exceed lost earnings, with 20% able to receive benefits that are double lost earnings.  The study noted that the $600 benefit, when combined with state unemployment, is meant to replace the mean U.S. wage. Most U.S. workers have weekly earnings below the national average. In contrast, most states base unemployment benefits on a percentage of previous earnings, rather than a fixed amount, the study noted. Meanwhile, the CBO letter to Grassley said "roughly five of every six recipients would receive benefits that exceeded the weekly amounts they would expect to earn from work during those six months." So, Johnson is on the mark with the numbers in his claim. Now, let’s look at the disincentive question, which is the essence of his point. What’s the impact of the enhanced benefit? Let’s start with the same CBO letter Johnson cited. It indicated the nation’s economic output would be higher in the short term with the $600 benefit.   That’s because in the near term, Americans on unemployment would spend the additional money, increasing consumer demand. To meet that higher demand, suppliers would increase production and hire more people – or call them back to work – to do so. So, extending the $600 could boost employment, at least to a degree. But the letter also noted "the effects from reduced incentives to work would be larger than the boost to employment from increased overall demand for goods and services." But other reports tie people not looking for work more closely to the availability of jobs, not to the extra money through the benefit. A July 14, 2020 Yale University study on the effect of the $600 benefit found that – when it went into effect – workers who received bigger increases in overall payments were not less likely to leave unemployment and find a job. Yale also found that workers with expanded benefits returned to their previous jobs at similar rates than those who did not get the extra money. Moreover, a June 2020 analysis by the Chicago Federal Reserve says those who receive unemployment benefits are more likely to look for another job more intensively than those who have used up their unemployment benefits. Indeed, researchers found in this analysis once unemployed individuals exhaust their benefits, their search effort decreases. The analysis noted that, before the COVID enhancements, unemployment insurance – on average across the country – paid individuals 35% of their previous earnings. The analysis said there is evidence that when the government extended the unemployment eligibility period in the past, the length of time people spent unemployed increased.  However, researchers found those collecting unemployment now are looking for work more intensively than unemployed people not receiving benefits. The intensity of the job search was measured in terms of hours spent searching and the number of applications submitted. Our ruling In a television interview, Johnson said "Depending on which study you look at, either 68% or 5 out of 6 individuals ... are making more on unemployment than they did on the job." He gets the numbers right, and the CBO acknowledges a disincentive to work. That said, other studies found that those who are unemployed and getting the extra money are looking harder for work than those without it. In other words, those studies downplay the idea that the extra money is encouraging people to remain unemployed. Our definition for Mostly True is "The statement is accurate but needs clarification or additional information." That fits here.

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Facebook posts

2020-11-08 00:00:00

a post on Facebook:

Says “132,000 ballots in Fulton County, Ga., have been identified as likely ineligible,” and President Trump might win Georgia as a result.

Monique Curet

2020-11-10 00:00:00

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https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/aug/13/doug-jones/doug-jones-misleads-about-tommy-tubervilles-positi/

Doug Jones exaggerates Tommy Tuberville’s position on Social Security, Medicare

The most vulnerable Democrat in the U.S. Senate, Alabama’s Doug Jones, leveled a traditional Democratic charge against his Republican opponent Tommy Tuberville. "Tuberville is for privatizing Social Security and cutting Medicare," an Aug. 6 campaign ad said. This sort of attack is hardly new. Our archives are full of accusations that someone would undermine Social Security or Medicare or both. Democrats accuse Republicans, Republicans accuse Democrats, and sometimes, Democrats accuse Democrats. But Jones faces a special challenge in cornering Tuberville on policy. Tuberville is a newly minted politician who spent most of the past 25 years coaching college football, including a decade at Auburn, one of Alabama’s two powerhouse teams. Tuberville avoided any debates during the primary, and his interviews were more about values than policy. On these entitlement programs, Tuberville has given few details. In looking at what he has said, Tuberville has expressed an interest in private investment accounts as a substitute for Social Security, but said nothing about what that would look like. He said federal entitlement spending should come down, but said nothing about what he had in mind. A newspaper reported that he said he opposes cuts to Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. Particularly on Medicare, Jones’ ad stretches what’s known about Tuberville’s views.  Social Security Tuberville has called Social Security a "good" program. According to one newspaper article, he told voters outside a Montgomery restaurant in February that he opposed cuts to defense, Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. Tuberville did touch on changing how Social Security should be funded in three early interviews shortly after he launched his campaign in the spring of 2019. Tuberville twice floated the idea of people putting their Social Security contributions into a stock market account similar to 401(k) retirement funds. He mentioned it briefly in an April 24, 2019, interview with television station WRBL.  Tuberville got into more details with radio host Dale Jackson on May 2, 2019. Jackson brought up the deficit and asked Tuberville what could be done about Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. Tuberville mentioned a hybrid Social Security system, proposed by President George W. Bush, where people could choose to put some of their contributions into relatively low-risk stock market funds. The effort stalled as public concerns grew and opponents tagged it as privatization. Here’s the full exchange between Tuberville and Jackson: Tuberville: "What we have got to do is start a 401(k) for everybody. I think President Bush was for this."  Jackson: "So, you want to do away with Social Security and start 401(k)s." Tuberville: "Well, this would be Social Security, but you would put the 7% in —" Jackson: "But it’s there, as opposed to being spent elsewhere." Tuberville: "And the government can’t spend it. If we don’t do it, you’re not going to have any money. So, it’s Social Security, but it’s a 401(k). Retirement planning, that was what Social Security was meant to be. It’s not a slush fund." Privatization can be difficult to define. To some experts, Tuberville’s words come close. "Privatization is often used more when the 401(k) is used as a substitute and tries to make use of current revenues to Social Security," said Eugene Steuerle, cofounder of the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center. The Tuberville campaign rejected the privatization label and said he never got so specific. Research consultant and spokesman Gary Maloney said during the Jackson interview, Tuberville was "spitballing."  "Neither then nor now has he committed to any changes," Maloney said. "Coach (Tuberville) is furious about politicians stealing the Social Security money of seniors, and he wants that solved." Asked if Tuberville would consider the 401(k) option today, Maloney told PolitiFact "the 401(k) proposal is off the table." We asked the Tuberville campaign for any evidence that Tuberville had publicly rejected the 401(k) notion before we called. There seems to be none. At the time of the Jones ad, Tuberville’s statements on people putting their Social Security contributions into a personal investment account were the most detailed available. Steuerle affirmed that Social Security presents a daunting puzzle. As more people retire, there are fewer workers paying in to cover the cost of the money going out. Medicare Tuberville has said even less about Medicare than he has about Social Security. The closest he came was in a radio interview with Scott Dawson early in his campaign. Tuberville was talking about both Social Security and Medicare running out of money. "Our elected officials have taken our money and blown it," Tuberville said July 30, 2019. "Kicking the can down the road and trying to do other things we have no business doing, and it’s just an absolute disaster, and I don’t know what we’re going to do. I really don’t. We’ve got to make adjustments soon. We’re about to run over the cliff."  In the May 2019 interview with Jackson, when asked about what he would cut, Tuberville said, "Well it goes back to entitlements, where most of our money is spent." The Jones campaign told us that since entitlements include Medicare, Tuberville was open to cuts to the program. The Tuberville campaign said in a statement, "Coach Tuberville has not discussed cutting Medicare or changing the program in any way." Our ruling The Jones campaign said Tuberville supports privatizing Social Security and cutting Medicare. At the time of the ad, Tuberville had said he was interested in allowing people to direct their Social Security payments into a 401(k)-type account, which matches some definitions of privatization. The Tuberville campaign says now that he is not interested in the 401(k) option, but that was not public knowledge at the time of the Jones campaign ad. Early on, Tuberville spoke generically about favoring cuts in entitlements, but he did not mention Medicare. He told voters at a campaign stop in February that he opposed cuts in Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. There’s some support for the ad’s claim about Social Security given his initial comments. But the ad is wrong about his views on Medicare. We rate this claim Half True.

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Conspiracy about Moderna, Gates, Epstein, Fauci and Soros is wrong

In an online conspiracy circulating on Facebook, infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, billionaire investor George Soros, and financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein are all linked in the ongoing pursuit of a coronavirus vaccine.  An Aug. 2 post lists a series of accusations against the four men and claims their partnership was decades in the making.  "As many of you heard, Moderna is in stage 3 of their vaccine testing. If all goes well it'll become federal law to get the vaccine," the post begins. Then follows a series of unfounded claims, including: Fauci was the first CEO of Moderna. Fauci and Gates were roommates at Cornell. "It was at Cornell that Bill Gates designed the RFID (Radio-frequency identification) and patented it under US2006257852." "Moderna was a pharmaceutical company that started in Germany under the name IG Farben. IG Farben is infamous for it's mass production of Zyklon-B, the primary gas used to kill millions during the Holocaust." After World War II, IG Farben was "dissolved and its assets sold off by a Nazi turned American by the name of, you guessed it, George Soros." "Soros rebranded the company as Moderna." Jeffrey Epstein was "primary stockholder of Moderna until his death...His role in Moderna is where he made his fortune and established his connections." "Let that sink in," the post ends. It was flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about our partnership with Facebook.)  This post is filled with many accusations, none of them accurate. Let’s take them one by one: Moderna Inc. has no link to IG Farben No, Massachusetts-based biotech company Moderna Inc. does not trace its lineage to Germany. It was founded in 2010 with the mission of studying a technology known as mRNA to develop new pharmaceuticals and launched operations in 2011. Moderna is in phase 3 of a clinical trial for a COVID-19 vaccine. IG Farben––formally known in German as Interessengemeinschaft Farbenindustrie Aktiengesellschaft––was a chemical and pharmaceutical conglomerate established in 1925 and made up of four other German companies: BASF Aktiengesellschaft, Bayer AG, Hoechst Aktiengesellschaft, and Agfa-Gevaert Group, according to Encyclopedia Britannica.  The company did create a synthetic oil and rubber plant in Auschwitz and used inmates for drug experiments during World War II, according to Encyclopedia Britannica. But after the war, the Allied powers charged top executives with war crimes, and the company was divided into three: Hoechst, Bayer and BASF. We find no indication that IG Farben has any connection to Moderna. Moderna did not respond to our inquiries. Anthony Fauci was never CEO of Moderna Anthony Fauci is director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease at the National Institutes of Health has taken a leading public role in the coronavirus pandemic. He was never CEO of Moderna. He graduated from Weill Cornell Medical College in 1966 and began working for the NIAID two years after graduating, according to multiple sources including the Cornell Daily Sun and the NIH. He has spent the rest of his career in the public sector. Fauci was named director of the institute in 1984 and has overseen research to prevent, diagnose and treat HIV/AIDS, respiratory infections, diarrheal diseases, tuberculosis and malaria.  Gates and Fauci roomies? No. Gates and Fauci were not roommates at Cornell. First, Fauci was 14 when Gates was born in 1955. Second, Gates didn’t attend Cornell. He studied for two years at Harvard University beginning in 1973. By that time, Fauci was already working for the NIH. Gates later dropped out of Harvard and founded Microsoft. RELATED: No, Fauci wasn’t on the Clinton Foundation board for two decades Facts wrong on radio-frequency ID tag Gates also didn’t have a role in patenting the radio-frequency identification tag chips mentioned in the post. Mario Cardullo was the first to patent the tag in 1973.  And while the patent number "US2006257852" cited in the post is a real patent, it’s not for the RFID tag. It’s a patent related to the disease known as severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS). Soros was not a Nazi PolitiFact, along with other fact-checkers, has debunked claims that George Soros was a Nazi. Soros survived the Holocaust. When the Nazis invaded Hungary, Soros’ father obtained a false identity for Soros and sent him to live with an agricultural official who passed him off as his Christian godson, according to the New York Times. Soros also did not buy the assets of IG Farben and disguise the company under Moderna. In 1945, when the Allied powers split up IG Farben, Soros was a teenager.   Jeffrey Epstein not a primary Moderna stockholder  Epstein began working at Bear Stearns in 1976 and was promoted to partner in 1980, according to the Miami Herald. In 1982, he opened his own money management firm called J Epstein and Co., where he "would manage the individual and family fortunes of clients with $1 billion or more," according to a 2002 New York Magazine profile on Epstein. In the late 1990s, he renamed the firm to Financial Trust Company and moved the headquarters to the U.S. Virgin Islands to receive a tax break, according to the New York Times.  When Moderna was established in 2010, Epstein was serving a one-year probation after being convicted of sex offenses in 2008, contrary to the post. In 2012, he created a start-up business, Southern Trust, to develop algorithms and mine DNA and financial databases, according to the New York Times. The company managed to pay a tax rate of about 3.9% after generating a $300 million profit in 2013, and its corporate filings show no clients, according to the article. He would also start his own international bank, but it’s unclear whether it had any customers.  Neither Epstein, nor his management firm, are listed as one of the primary stockholders in Moderna, according to CNN Business and the Wall Street Journal. We found no indication that Epstein was one of the primary stockholders in Moderna when he died on Aug. 10, 2019. He was awaiting trial for federal sex trafficking charges when he committed suicide in his prison cell.  Our ruling  A Facebook post claims that the vaccine developer Moderna is connected to Dr. Anthony Fauci, Bill Gates, George Soros and Jeffrey Epstein. But none of the supposed connections are founded. We rate this Pants on Fire. 

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2020-11-09 00:00:00

a post on the Geller Report:

A CNN video shows “HAMMER / Scorecard Voter Software Fraud in Real Time”

Jon Greenberg

2020-08-13 00:00:00

half-true

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/aug/13/tucker-carlson/tucker-carlson-misrepresents-harris-comments-women/

Tucker Carlson misrepresents Harris’ comments on women accusing Biden of inappropriate touching

Fox News host Tucker Carlson mischaracterized Sen. Kamala Harris’ past comments on the women who in 2019 accused Joe Biden of inappropriate touching. "How can someone who said she believed that Joe Biden committed sexual assault against various women serve as his running mate?" Carlson said during an Aug. 11 TV segment. Harris, whom Biden recently selected as his running mate, said in April 2019 that she believed four women who described moments where Biden made them uncomfortable with inappropriate touching or kissing. But those women had not claimed that Biden sexually assaulted them.  Sexual assault refers to "sexual contact or behavior that occurs without explicit consent of the victim," according to RAINN, a nonprofit anti-sexual violence organization. The Biden campaign declined to comment on Carlson’s claim. Fox News did not respond to our requests for comment. What Harris was addressing Harris talked about the women’s stories, which were shared over a few days as Biden mulled whether to launch a White House bid, during an April 2, 2019, presidential campaign event. "I believe them, and I respect them being able to tell their story and having the courage to do it," Harris said at the event, which took place in Nevada. Asked if Biden should enter the race for president, Harris said he would "have to make that decision for himself." Biden announced his candidacy weeks later, on April 25, 2019. Sen. Kamala Harris on Joe Biden accusers: "I believe them and I respect them being able to tell their story and having the courage to do it." https://t.co/wJJXCADAHs pic.twitter.com/9FJ05g2t21— The Hill (@thehill) April 3, 2019 Lucy Flores, a former Democratic state lawmaker from Nevada, made the first of the four accusations in an essay in the Cut. She described how before a campaign rally in 2014, Biden put his hands on her shoulders, smelled her hair and kissed the back of her head. "Even if his behavior wasn’t violent or sexual, it was demeaning and disrespectful," Flores wrote, adding that it made her "feel uneasy, gross, and confused." She told a few of her staffers what happened, she said, but she didn’t make a public complaint. In an interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper days later, Flores said the incident left her "shocked" and feeling "powerless," but she added that the action didn’t amount to sexual assault. "Never do I claim that this rises to the level of a sexual assault or anything of that nature," Flores said. "What I am saying is that it’s completely inappropriate." Another woman, Amy Lappos, said around the same time that Biden had touched her inappropriately during a 2009 fundraiser in Connecticut for Rep. Jim Himes, a Democrat. "It wasn't sexual, but he did grab me by the head," Lappos told the Hartford Courant. "He put his hand around my neck and pulled me in to rub noses with me. When he was pulling me in, I thought he was going to kiss me on the mouth." Two additional women, Caitlyn Caruso and D.J. Hill, shared similar experiences with the New York Times. Caruso said Biden placed his hand on her thigh and hugged her "just a little bit too long" during an event on sexual assault at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.  Hill, a writer, said that Biden shifted his hand down her back and toward her waist while she and her husband were posing for a photo with him during a 2012 fundraiser in Minneapolis.  When asked by CBS News’ Tanya Rivero if the gesture struck her as sexual, Hill said, "I can’t say that that’s the case. I would call it extremely uncomfortable." Biden responded to Flores’ allegations by saying he had offered "countless handshakes, hugs, expressions of affection, support and comfort" during his many years as a public figure. "And not once — never — did I believe I acted inappropriately," he said. "If it is suggested I did so, I will listen respectfully," Biden said. "But it was never my intention." The former vice president addressed the allegations again in a two-minute video statement released on Twitter after the other allegations emerged. He said he believes politics is about personal connections but pledged to be "respectful of people’s personal space."  "Social norms have begun to change," Biden said. "They’ve shifted. And the boundaries of protecting personal space have been reset. And I get it. I get it. I hear what they’re saying. I understand it. And I’ll be much more mindful. That’s my responsibility." Social norms are changing. I understand that, and I’ve heard what these women are saying. Politics to me has always been about making connections, but I will be more mindful about respecting personal space in the future. That’s my responsibility and I will meet it. pic.twitter.com/Ya2mf5ODts— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) April 3, 2019 Biden was later accused in March of sexual assault by Tara Reade, a former aide who worked for him when he was a U.S. senator. Reade said the assault occurred in 1983.  RELATED: Tara Reade has accused Joe Biden of sexual assault. Here’s what we know Biden and his campaign have denied Reade’s allegations. And Harris, speaking to the San Francisco Chronicle in April, stood by the candidate who would later pick her as his running mate. "I can only speak to the Joe Biden I know. He’s been a lifelong fighter in terms of stopping violence against women," Harris said, adding that Reade "has a right to tell her story. And I believe that, and I believe Joe Biden believes that, too." When the New York Times examined Reade’s sexual assault allegation in April, its reporters spoke to seven women who had publicly complained about behavior from Biden that made them uncomfortable — including the four who spoke out before Harris’ comment.  The report said: "No other allegation about sexual assault surfaced in the course of reporting, nor did any former Biden staff members corroborate any details of Ms. Reade’s allegation. The Times found no pattern of sexual misconduct by Mr. Biden." Our ruling Carlson said Harris "said she believed that Joe Biden committed sexual assault against various women." Harris said she believed four women who, in 2019, alleged that Biden had inappropriately touched them in public or semi-public settings and made them uncomfortable. The women had not accused Biden of sexual assault. We rate this statement Mostly False.

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Pamela Geller

2020-11-09 00:00:00

a tweet:

“System 'Glitch' ... In Wisconsin - Reversal of Swapped Votes Removes Lead from Joe Biden.”

Eric Litke

2020-08-13 00:00:00

pants-fire

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/aug/13/donald-trump/donald-trump-falsely-says-democrats-dont-want-prot/

Donald Trump falsely says Democrats don’t want to protect people from evictions

President Donald Trump criticized Democrats at a press briefing at his golf club in Bedminster, N.J., where he signed four executive actions on evictions, payroll taxes, unemployment benefits and student loans. Trump’s executive order on evictions tells federal agencies to consider ways to try to assist renters and homeowners faced with the threat of eviction amid the COVID-19 pandemic.  "The Democrats don’t want to do anything having to do with protecting people from eviction," Trump said at the briefing. He doubled down on that claim at an Aug. 11 press conference, but it’s false. Congressional Democrats have proposed and supported legislation to temporarily ban evictions and help residents pay rent. The CARES Act, a bipartisan coronavirus relief law passed in March, banned evictions for certain renters, including those in federal housing assistance programs. In May, the House passed the HEROES Act, a $3.4 trillion coronavirus relief package introduced by Democratic Rep. Nita Lowey of New York, which would extend the ban on evictions for renters and provide people with rent assistance.  White House Deputy Press Secretary Sarah Matthews told PolitiFact in an email that the bill was "unserious," in part because it includes a portion that would provide cannabis businesses with banking access. "If Democrats were serious about providing relief for the American people, then they shouldn’t have rejected the multiple clean bills put forward by Republicans," Matthews said. Meanwhile, Democrats are critical of the HEALS Act, a $1.1 trillion Republican-backed coronavirus relief package that doesn’t include an eviction moratorium.  CARES Act In addition to protecting renters in federal housing assistance programs from evictions, the over $2 trillion CARES Act also protects those in properties with federally backed mortgages. The economic stimulus law was introduced by Rep. Joe Courtney, D-Conn., in January and passed in the House and Senate with widespread bipartisan support. The Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta estimates that the CARES Act’s eviction provisions covered between 28% and 46% of rental units in the country. That’s up to 20 million units, but the law’s four-month eviction ban expired in late July, and Trump’s executive order did not extend it.  HEROES Act  Over 200 congressional Democrats voted to support the HEROES Act, which would extend the eviction moratorium for up to a year and expand it to protect homeowners. The bill would also allocate $100 billion to provide residents with emergency rental assistance.  "Being able to give money to people to pay their rent then also helps landlords be able to afford the mortgage on the property, the utilities, taxes, all of the things that it takes to maintain a property," said Peggy Bailey, vice president for housing policy at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a liberal think tank. The HEROES Act, which has not been voted on in the Senate, passed in the House along party lines, with 184 Republicans opposing the bill. Our ruling Trump said, "The Democrats don’t want to do anything having to do with protecting people from eviction." Congressional Democrats passed and supported bills that set out to protect people from evictions, including through an eviction moratorium and rental assistance. We rate Trump’s claim False.

National,Congress,Housing,Donald Trump

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Eric Trump

2020-08-02 00:00:00

a TV

“Depending on which study you look at, either 68% or 5 out of 6 individuals ... are making more on unemployment than they did on the job.”

Nusaiba Mizan

2020-08-13 00:00:00

half-true

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/dec/03/facebook-posts/no-hugo-chavezs-family-does-not-own-dominion-votin/

No, Hugo Chavez’s family does not own Dominion Voting Systems

A viral Facebook video rehashes conspiracy theories about Dominion Voting Systems to make unproven allegations of voter fraud in Arizona.  In the video, a man speaks to the camera, claiming to be a Biden voter who initially doubted the Trump campaign’s allegations of voter fraud. He says that an Arizona press conference held Nov. 30 by Trump lawyers Rudy Giuliani and Jenna Ellis caused him to reevaluate his belief in the legitimacy of the election results. Citing statements from the meeting, the man claims that Dominion Voting Systems, which makes software and hardware for election officials to use around the country, is owned by Hugo Chavez, the deceased former president of Venezuela.  "Hugo Chavez’s family still owns the company," reads the headline of the video.  The post, which has been viewed more than 74,000 times, was flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about our partnership with Facebook.) It’s wrong. There is no evidence to support the claim that the Chavez family owns Dominion.  Dominion’s real ownership Dominion was founded in 2003 in Toronto, Canada, not Venezuela. In 2018, the company was acquired by Staple Street Capital, a private equity firm based in New York.  In an April letter to the House Committee on Administration, Dominion CEO John Poulos said that Staple Street Capital owns a 75.2% stake in the company. Poulos, a Canadian citizen, wrote that he holds a 12% stake and that no other investor owns more than a 5% stake, according to the Associated Press.  "Dominion is not and has never been a front for communists. It has no ties to Hugo Chávez, the late dictator of Venezuela," Poulos wrote in an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal. "It has never been involved in Venezuelan elections." Claim appears tied to another conspiracy theory The speaker’s claim about Dominion echoes a baseless conspiracy theory that we have debunked in the past.  The thrust of the theory is that Smartmatic, a separate firm that builds electronic voting systems, is a Venezuelan company with close ties to Hugo Chavez.  The founders of Smartmatic were born in Venezuela, but the company itself was founded in Boca Raton, Fla.  Smartmatic says it has no affiliation with Chavez, who died in 2013, or with the current Venezuelan government.  According to the company’s website, Smartmatic is run by its two founders, Antonio Mugica and Roger Piñate; 83% of its shares are held by SGO, a London-based company owned by the Mugica and Piñate families. An additional 10% of its shares are held by employees, and 7% by outside investors.   Smartmatic voting systems have been used in elections around the world, including Venezuela. In 2017, the company said that its technology was manipulated to report a skewed vote total during a Venezuelan election. The company accused the Venezuelan government of election fraud, and it stopped its work there the following year. Smartmatic has claimed that the incident was an anomaly likely due to the lack of election monitors.  Smartmatic technology was not used in any of the battleground states won by Biden where Trump allies are disputing the results.  In order to draw a link between Smartmatic and the 2020 U.S. election, Trump supporters have baselessly alleged that the company owns its competitor Dominion, which was used to tabulate votes in key battleground states. But both Dominion and Smartmatic have issued statements denying that they are affiliated with each other. The companies have also denied that they use each other’s software.  Eddie Perez, a voting technology expert, told the Associated Press that there was no reason to believe that Dominion and Smartmatic have ties to each other or to Venezuela.  Our ruling A Facebook video claims that "Hugo Chavez’s family still owns" Dominion Voting Systems. According to Dominion, 75.2% of its shares are owned by Staple Street Capital, a New York-based private equity firm, and 12% of its shares are owned by John Poulos, its CEO. No other investor holds more than a 5% stake in the company.  The claim — which is tied to other baseless conspiracy theories that we have debunked —  is not accurate. We rate it False. ​

Elections,Facebook Fact-checks,Facebook posts

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Facebook posts

2020-08-12 00:00:00

a tweet:

“DEVELOPING: Kamala’s sister takes hydroxychloroquine.”

Ciara O'Rourke

2020-08-13 00:00:00

false

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/dec/03/ralph-northam/northam-right-about-about-racial-disparities-pot-a/

Northam is right about about racial disparities in pot arrests and convictions

Virginia will go to pot next year if Gov. Ralph Northam has his way. The Democrat says he will have legislation introduced this winter that would make Virginia the 16th state - and the first in the South - to legalize marijuana. One of his main reasons, he says, is to end a racial injustice. "People of color and those of not, they use marijuana at the same rate. People of color are three times more likely to get arrested and convicted," he said during a Nov. 20 radio interview on WAMU in Washington. We fact-checked his statement. Marijuana use by race The first part of Northam’s claim, that Black and white people use pot at the same rate essentially holds up, according to a 2018 national survey on drug use by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services: 18% of Black respondents and 17% of whites said they had used marijuana during the last year;  12% of Black respondents and 10% of whites said they had used it in the last month. A 2017 survey by HHS showed showed nearly identical results: 17% of Black respondents and 16% of whites said they had used marijuana during the last year; 12% of Black respondents and 10% of whites said they had used it in the last month. In Virginia, the 2018 survey found 7% of Black respondents and 6% of whites said they had used marijuana in the last month; 12% of Black respondents and 11% of whites said they had used it in the last year. Marijuana arrests Reports show a racial discrepancy in marijuana-related arrests in Virginia and across the nation. The Virginia General Assembly’s watchdog agency - the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission (JLARC) - issued a draft report in November  with data on the state’s pot arrests from 2010 through 2019. It found 1 people per 1,000. In other words, Black people in Virginia were 3.5 times more likely than white people to be arrested for marijuana. That’s very similar to findings in a study issued by the American Civil Liberties Union on April 20, 2020. The study said Black peoples were 3.4 times more likely than white people to be arrested in Virginia for marijuana crimes in 2018. Virginia ranked 27th among 49 states that provided data to the ACLU, which wants marijuana to be legalized (Florida did not cooperate). Nationally, Black people were 3.6 times more likely than white people to be run in for marijuana between 2010 and 2018, according to the ACLU. . JLARC found that, from 2015 through 2019, Black people were more likely than white people to be arrested for marijuana in each of 88 Virginia localities from which there was enough data to draw a conclusion. The largest discrepancy was in Carroll County, where Black people were 40.4 times more likely than white people to be run in for pot. In Hanover County, Black people were 14.8 times more likely than white people to be arrested for marijuana. The racial disparity was 6.4 times higher for Black people in Richmond, 5.2 times higher in Henrico County, and four times higher in Chesterfield County. According to JLARC, Virginia averaged 22,000 marijuana arrests a year during the last decade. "The vast majority...have been for possession of small amounts of marijuana," the agency wrote. "There were about 10 times as many arrests for marijuana possession as for distribution or other marijuana offenses."  Marijuana convictions JLARC found that Black people in Virginia were four times more likely than white people to be convicted on marijuana charges from 2010 to 2019. Four Black people per thousand were found guilty, compared to one white person per thousand.  According to JLARC, 58% of all state marijuana arrests in 2018 resulted in convictions, the vast majority of them winding up with "fines, court fees and driver license suspensions." Forty percent of the cases were dismissed by prosecutors or judges, and 2% resulted in not-guilty verdicts. JLARC found Black people were more likely to be prosecuted on pot charges in each of 83 localities where there was enough data to draw a conclusion.  Our ruling In his bid to legalize pot in Virginia, Northam said, "People of color and those of not, they use marijuana at the same rate. People of color are three times more likely to get arrested and convicted." Surveys show Black people and white people do use pot at just about the same rate in Virginia. But Black people are 3.5 times more likely than white people to get arrested in Virginia for marijuana offenses, and four times more likely to get convicted. If anything, Northam has slightly understated his case, but we don’t usually penalize for that. We rate his statement True.   

Criminal Justice,Drugs,Virginia,Ralph Northam

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Paul Sperry

2020-08-11 00:00:00

a TV segment:

Says Kamala Harris "said she believed that Joe Biden committed sexual assault against various women.”

Bill McCarthy

2020-12-03 00:00:00

pants-fire

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/dec/02/facebook-posts/pants-fire-claim-dominion-rep-georgia-manipulated-/

The Pants on Fire claim that a Dominion rep in Georgia manipulated data

A Georgia elections official called on President Donald Trump and the state’s two Republican senators to condemn death threats against election workers that are being fueled by misinformation. "Someone’s going to get hurt," said Gabriel Sterling, the state’s voting system implementation manager, during a Dec. 1 press conference. "Someone’s going to get shot. Someone’s going to get killed. And it’s not right." One worker who has faced threats is the subject of a Facebook post about a contractor for Dominion Voting Systems, which makes software and hardware used by elections workers in multiple states: The post says that the Dominion representative at a Gwinnett County elections office downloaded data to a USB flash drive from the election management server and plugged it into a laptop to "manipulate the data." This post was flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about our partnership with Facebook.)  Neither the video nor the Facebook post provides any proof that the worker manipulated the data. Although it’s not possible to tell what the representative is doing as he works on computers, the narrators leap to conclusions and portray his actions as nefarious. "He just pulled a USB out," says the male narrator. "Did he? Where is he going?...," says the female narrator. "Oh my god — is he taking it to that laptop?" The narrators then continue to chuckle and speculate about the man’s actions, but without any evidence that he is doing anything wrong. Gwinnett County spokesperson Joe Sorenson told us that the video shows "a Dominion technician producing a data report on the server and saving the report to a Dominion USB thumb drive and then using a laptop to filter requested information. The Dominion servers are not equipped with Excel and counties are not authorized to install any hardware or software on these systems." A Dominion spokesperson told Fox News’ Eric Shawn in a Nov. 22 interview that it wouldn’t be possible for a person to stick a thumb drive into a computer and fill it up with thousands of votes for Joe Biden. The interview was related to baseless claims made by pro-Trump lawyer Sidney Powell and occurred before the viral Facebook video appeared. Dominion election equipment has been a frequent subject of misinformation promoted by Trump’s allies and social media users following Trump’s narrow loss in Georgia. A Dominion representative didn’t respond to our questions about the video but referred us to the public remarks Sterling made debunking the misinformation. "A 20-something tech in Gwinnett County today has death threats and a noose put out, saying he should be hung for treason because he was transferring a report on batches from an (election management system) to a county computer so we could read it," Sterling told reporters. Sterling said that the allegation that the worker was manipulating election data from the recount was "wrong." He called on Trump and Georgia’s Republican senators — Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue, who are both campaigning for runoff elections against Democrats on Jan. 5 — to condemn violent rhetoric.  "This has to stop. We need you to step up and if you’re going to take a position of leadership, show something," Sterling said. Both senators’ campaigns put out statements saying they condemn violence. A Trump campaign spokesperson made a similar statement. Loeffler and Perdue were among those making baseless claims of malfeasance in the Nov. 3 election, and both called on Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, a Republican, to resign.  Our ruling A Facebook post says that a Dominion representative in Gwinnett County improperly downloaded election data to "manipulate the data." The video and the post include no proof that the representative was manipulating data. A state elections official and a county spokesperson told reporters that the allegation was wrong. We rate this statement Pants on Fire. This fact check is available at IFCN’s 2020 US Elections #Chatbot on WhatsApp. Click here, for more.

Georgia,Elections,Facebook Fact-checks,Facebook posts

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Tucker Carlson

2020-08-08 00:00:00

press brief

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

Sophie Austin

2020-12-03 00:00:00

pants-fire

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/dec/02/blog-posting/former-pfizer-employee-wrong-coronavirus-pandemic-/

Former Pfizer employee wrong that coronavirus pandemic is ‘effectively over’ in UK

As Pfizer landed approval to begin distributing its COVID-19 vaccine in the United Kingdom, a former company employee’s wrong claims downplaying the pandemic recirculated online. The social media posts rely on statements made by Michael Yeadon, who argued in an Oct. 16 blog post that the coronavirus pandemic is "effectively over" in the U.K., and that "there is absolutely no need for vaccines to extinguish the pandemic." The posts suggest that Yeadon’s connection to Pfizer makes his views on the pandemic and vaccines credible.  "This is a factual article from a factual publication by a factual doctor who happens to be one of the utmost leading expert(s) on vaccines in the world," one Instagram post said. "Here we have it," another post on Facebook said. "The company making the vaccine saying the pandemic is over and healthy people do not need a vaccine." But Yeadon hasn’t worked for Pfizer in nine years, according to the Associated Press and his LinkedIn profile. He was formerly the chief scientific officer of allergy and respiratory research, his profile says. And his claims are wrong, experts told PolitiFact. So are the social media posts that spread them. The posts were flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about our partnership with Facebook.)  The coronavirus pandemic is far from over in the U.K. and in other countries, as case spikes in recent months have shown. A widespread vaccine could prevent future waves, experts said. The Associated Press also debunked Yeadon’s statements. Fact-checkers with Lead Stories and Health Feedback previously addressed similarly inaccurate claims he made in a separate blog post and in an interview with a talk radio host in the U.K. PolitiFact’s efforts to contact Yeadon were unsuccessful.  The pandemic is not "effectively over" in the U.K. Yeadon’s claim that the pandemic is "effectively over" is at odds with data showing that the U.K. was among the many countries where cases rose over the last several months.  The U.K. saw a sharp surge in daily confirmed cases between September and mid-November, when the numbers began to fall again as stricter restrictions were introduced. The country is still reporting tens of thousands of new cases each day, along with hundreds of deaths daily. In total, the coronavirus has infected more than 1.6 million people in the U.K. to date, according to Johns Hopkins University data. It has killed nearly 60,000. "If Dr. Yeadon’s claim were true that the pandemic is effectively over, then the number of cases in various countries should be leveling off or dropping," said Richard Watanabe, a professor of preventive medicine at the University of Southern California.  Days before Yeadon published his blog post on Oct. 16, the U.K.’s deputy chief medical officer warned in an op-ed that the nation was "at a tipping point similar to where we were in March." Indeed, confirmed cases in the U.K. were already "on the upswing" in mid-October, said Emily Bruce, a faculty scientist in medicine at the University of Vermont’s Larner College of Medicine. They have increased substantially in the roughly six weeks since, Bruce said. Many other countries have experienced similar trends as colder weather has sent more people indoors. The U.S. reported over 1 million new cases in the first 10 days of November.  Scientists say vaccines are critical Yeadon’s claim about vaccines is also wrong. "There is definitely still a need for vaccines," said Brooke Nichols, an assistant professor of global health at Boston University.  In his blog post, Yeadon argued that more people are immune to COVID-19 than the U.K.’s scientists recognize, because many were previously infected with other coronaviruses that commonly circulate among humans and cause mild illness, like the common cold. That, he insisted, meant both the U.K. and the world are close to achieving herd immunity. Herd immunity occurs when enough people are immune to a virus to limit new infections and spread.  But experts told PolitiFact that Yeadon was leaping to conclusions. "Whether prior infection with a seasonal coronavirus confers protection from SARS-CoV-2 is still not a settled question," Bruce said. "While recent work indicates that it is possible that some cross protection (particularly from T cells) exists, this is not yet fully understood." "The immune system tends to be very specific, so exposure to related viruses does not necessarily result in protection from all of those related viruses," Watanabe added. Herd immunity generally requires greater than 70% of a population to be immune, Watanabe said. But experts agreed that’s a long way away without a vaccine. What we know about current case trends and the number of people who have been infected suggests that "vaccination would be required to prevent future waves," Nichols said.  Even if herd immunity were reached without widespread vaccination, she said, anyone who has not been infected would remain susceptible to the virus unless they got a vaccine.  RELATED: What we know about COVID-19 and immunity Our ruling In a blog post that has sparked several widespread social media posts, Yeadon claimed the pandemic is "effectively over" in the U.K. and "there is absolutely no need for vaccines." Both points are inaccurate and at odds with the realities of the pandemic, which has upended lives and killed over 1.4 million people globally. Confirmed daily case counts were rising in the U.K. at the time of Yeadon’s claim and remain in the tens of thousands. People are still dying. Experts said that COVID-19 infections, hospitalizations and deaths will continue to mount in the absence of widespread mitigation measures until a vaccine is distributed. We rate Yeadon’s claim Pants on Fire!

Public Health,Facebook Fact-checks,Coronavirus,Bloggers

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Donald Trump

2020-11-28 00:00:00

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Says “Former President Barack Obama arrested for ESPIONAGE.”

Ciara O'Rourke

2020-12-03 00:00:00

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https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/dec/02/ron-desantis/florida-doing-better-covid-19-locked-down-states/

Is Florida doing better on COVID-19 than “locked down” states?

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has resisted pleas from some of his state’s mayors to enact statewide measures to fight COVID-19, such as a mask mandate and the power to adopt local restrictions. The day before Florida recorded its 1 millionth case, DeSantis told reporters that states in lockdown mode are faring worse than Florida. "So I hear people say, ‘Oh, well, Florida is open, and they’re having increased cases,’" DeSantis said Nov. 30. "Well, OK, the states that are locked down are increasing at twice the rate we are. If you look at the per capita cases, in a lot of these states that have closed schools, businesses shuttered, some of them even post stay-at-home orders there, you see a huge increase in these cases." We checked DeSantis’ claim that "the states that are locked down are increasing at twice the rate we are." We found that while Florida is doing comparatively well at the moment, DeSantis overstated the correlation between cases and lockdown rules. It’s likely that other factors beyond just a state’s rules are affecting COVID-19 rates. The state of lockdowns nationwide In an effort to reduce the spread of the virus, states have enacted — and then sometimes relaxed or lifted — various restrictions, including mask mandates, limits on restaurant capacity, and bans on large gatherings. DeSantis, a Republican, issued an order Sept. 25 that generally lifted restrictions on businesses and suspended fines for people who didn’t comply. While many stores and restaurants have adopted their own mask and social distancing rules, Floridians have still packed into some bars and other gathering spots.  In November, cases in Florida were on the rise, but unlike some other governors, DeSantis said he wouldn’t issue new mandates. Reviewing the evidence We asked Fred Piccolo, a spokesperson for DeSantis, for evidence to explain the governor’s claim that cases in states that are locked down are increasing twice as fast as in Florida. Piccolo cited a New York Times state-by-state analysis, updated Nov. 30, showing which states have businesses that are mostly closed, which ones have no restrictions, and which ones are "mixed." The Times also published a map showing states with stay-at-home orders or advisories. Piccolo then used the Covid Act Now website to calculate the number of cases and hospitalizations per 100,000 residents in some of the states with more stringent restrictions. We checked the numbers ourselves. We focused on the states that the Times had cited as enacting the most stringent restrictions for either businesses or residents as of Nov. 30, as well as the states that had a medium level of restrictions on both businesses and residents. All told, 10 states qualified for this group of states with high coronavirus-related restrictions. (Our list of 10 states was slightly different from the one Piccolo provided, but not substantively so.) Broadly speaking, we found that Florida’s record, at least as of the beginning of December, compared favorably with most states across the country, including those with tighter restrictions. Specifically, in comparisons of coronavirus cases deaths and hospitalizations per capita, Florida ranked among the best, and better than some of the more highly regulated states. (Click on the chart to see separate comparisons for cases, deaths, and hospitalizations.)   So there’s something to what DeSantis said. However, there are also some important caveats. First, some of the more highly regulated states performed better than Florida did. For instance, Oregon, Washington state and California had fewer coronavirus deaths per capita than Florida did, while Massachusetts, Oregon and Washington state had lower hospitalization rates. Second, DeSantis’ reference to "twice the rate" undercuts the strength of his argument. Out of the 10 states with the most stringent rules, only about half had per capita cases, deaths and hospitalizations that were twice as high as Florida’s rate. Third, Florida may be faring better than many other states in fighting the coronavirus, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that a lack of restrictions is to credit for better coronavirus statistics. The following chart shows 27 states, including Florida, that the New York Times’ analysis found to have the least restrictive COVID-19 rules on businesses and residents.    Once again, Florida ranks well compared with the other states on cases, deaths and hospitalizations. But many of the states that followed similarly  low levels of restrictions as Florida did ended up with far worse outcomes.  We found that 12 of the low-restriction states had double Florida’s case rate, eight had double the rate of deaths, and nine had double the rate of hospitalizations. Five states had double Florida’s rate in each of the three statistics — South Dakota, North Dakota, Montana, Nebraska, and Indiana — and another five states had twice Florida’s rate for two statistics.  RELATED: In Nebraska, skyrocketing cases of COVID-19 put localities, governor on separate tracks It’s also important to note that some states added or tightened restrictions in November, making the impact so far difficult to evaluate. Why might Florida be doing relatively well? The comparison with other lightly regulated states suggests that Florida may be doing relatively well for reasons other than its low-regulation policy. For example, Florida’s weather makes it easier for residents to eat and gather outdoors, even at this time of year. Scientists have generally said that the virus passes from person to person less easily outdoors than in cramped indoor spaces. "I think it’s reasonable to say that the warmer weather certainly plays a part in Florida’s relative success," said Brooke Nichols, an infectious-disease mathematical modeler at the Boston University School of Public Health. "It’s no longer incredibly hot, necessitating indoor gathering for air conditioning, but not too cold that people need to congregate indoors for heat." In addition, it’s hard to establish causation: Is it the loose regulation that helps reduce infection rates, or is it the low infection rates that allow for looser regulations?  Miami-Dade, the state’s most populous county, had an increase in cases following the removal of the mitigation strategies, said Mary Jo Trepka, chair of the Department of Epidemiology at Florida International University. "We don’t know how bad it will get," Trepka said. It’s also important to remember that states aren’t walled-off jurisdictions. During much of the pandemic, Florida has been open to tourists, which means we don’t know whether coronavirus transmission within Florida is increasing infections in other states after those tourists return home, said Marissa Levine, a public health professor at the University of South Florida. Jason L. Salemi, associate professor of epidemiology at the University of South Florida, cautions that the success DeSantis claimed is only in comparison with other states, and that cases and hospitalizations have been rising over the last few weeks. "That, to me, is indicative of how serious the situation is across the country," he said. Our ruling DeSantis said, "The states that are locked down are increasing at twice the rate we are" in Florida. Currently, Florida does have relatively low rates of coronavirus cases, deaths and hospitalizations. But the connection between those statistics and Florida’s light restrictions on businesses and residents is less clear-cut than DeSantis suggests. Only about half of the 10 most stringently regulated states saw rates of cases, deaths and hospitalizations that were twice as high as Florida’s — DeSantis’ benchmark. Meanwhile, numerous other states that followed the same less restrictive policies as Florida have fared far worse than Florida. This suggests that factors other than behavioral regulations, such as warm weather, may play a role in keeping coronavirus infections relatively low in Florida. We rate the statement Half True.

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2020-12-03 00:00:00

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“People of color and those of not, they use marijuana at the same rate. People of color are three times more likely to get arrested and convicted.”

Warren Fiske

2020-12-02 00:00:00

pants-fire

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/sep/22/tammy-baldwin/baldwin-flip-flops-scotus-nominations-presidential/

Baldwin flip-flops on SCOTUS nominations in a presidential election year

An already tense and divisive election cycle added another layer with the passing of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. The 87-year-old was one of four justices nominated by Democratic presidents. So if Republican President Donald Trump is successful in his stated desire to get a successor confirmed before his term expires, conservatives would hold a 6-3 majority on the high court. The situation creates a fascinating case study in partisan consistency — or the lack thereof — since it’s basically a mirror image of 2016.  Then, the passing of conservative Justice Antonin Scalia cleared the way for Democratic President Barack Obama to nominate Merrick Garland in March 2016. Republicans who controlled the Senate protested the election year nomination, refusing to hold a confirmation hearing or vote. Wisconsin’s Democratic Senator, Tammy Baldwin, spoke in 2016 and again this year about what she felt the Senate’s responsibility should be. That makes this a good time to break out our Flip-O-Meter, and with it our requisite reminder:  We’re not measuring whether any change in position is good policy or good politics. We’re just examining whether a public official has been consistent in his or her stated views. PolitiFact National gave a Full Flop rating to Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Democratic Minority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer for switching their views on this topic since 2016. Has Baldwin also changed her stance? Her position in 2016 We should first note the timing in 2016 was different. Ginsburg’s death sparked a nomination fight that begins about a month and a half before the election — at a time when early voting has begun in some states. Garland, on the other hand, was nominated a full eight months before the 2016 election, where Trump defeated Democrat Hillary Clinton. So we’ll keep that difference in mind as we analyze Baldwin’s stance. With a president from her party on the way out the door, Baldwin pushed strongly for the Republican-controlled Senate to put Garland’s nomination to a vote. She referenced the time left to the election in one interview. In April 2016, she told Green Bay’s Fox 11 News, "President Obama was elected in 2012 to a full four-year term, not a three year and one-month term, and we can’t afford I think in this country an empty seat on the Supreme Court for nearly a full year." But other times she referenced no such qualifier. "It's the constitutional duty of the President to select a Supreme Court nominee and the Senate has the responsibility to give that nominee fair consideration with a hearing and a vote," she said in a March 2016 news release. "Our job is to fulfill our constitutional duties and Senate Republicans need to end their partisan obstruction and do their jobs on this high court vacancy." In August 2016, closer to the timing of this vacancy, Baldwin was still pushing for a vote, noting in a tweet that Garland had been waiting 147 days. She regularly attached #DoYourJob to her tweets calling for that action. Her position in 2020 Baldwin’s position in 2020 hinges on the differences in timing and the precedent created by the Senate’s inaction in 2016. Baldwin’s Sept. 19, 2020, statement said this: "The election that will determine our next President and control of the Senate is only 45 days away. Voters across America should be allowed to cast their ballots first, before a Supreme Court nomination and confirmation process moves forward." The release noted the Senate had "put in place the standard" in 2016 that Supreme Court nominations wouldn’t move forward in an election year. And she noted some people have already cast their votes for president. Baldwin’s staff noted the Senate has never confirmed a nomination to the Supreme Court this close to a presidential election, according to the Congressional Research Service. Our ruling Defending her 2020 position, Baldwin notes the change in precedent, as she argues the Republicans’ inaction in 2016 is reason to approach the 2020 nomination the same way. And she notes the timing is different being closer to the election. The timing and precedent can factor in to how voters view her position now. But it doesn’t change the simple fact that her position changed.  Baldwin asserted in 2016 that presidents are elected "to a full four-year term," and that certainly applies to Trump as it did to Obama. And she said in 2016 — without any reference to timing — that the Senate "has the responsibility to give that nominee fair consideration with a hearing and a vote."  We rate this a Full Flop.

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2020-12-01 00:00:00

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A Dominion representative in Gwinnett County improperly downloaded election data to “manipulate the data.”

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2020-12-02 00:00:00

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https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/sep/22/ron-johnson/johnson-flip-flops-scotus-nominations-presidential/

Johnson flip-flops on SCOTUS nominations in a presidential election year

The passing of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg creates an unusual election-year vacancy on the U.S. Supreme Court. And it generates a unique opportunity to examine the role of party politics in the process, since it’s basically a mirror-image of the 2016 situation. In March 2016, Democratic President Barack Obama nominated Merrick Garland about eight months before the election following the death of conservative Justice Antonin Scalia. Now — a month and a half before a presidential election — we have a Republican president filling a spot created by the passing of a Democrat-appointed justice. If President Donald Trump is successful in his stated desire to get a successor confirmed before his term expires, conservatives would hold a 6-3 majority on the high court. The pending showdown between Republicans and Democrats in the U.S. Senate — which must approve any nomination — makes this a good opportunity to check in on Wisconsin’s Republican senator, Ron Johnson, has approached the two situations. For that, we’ll break out our Flip-O-Meter, and our standard reminder: We’re not measuring whether any change in position is good policy or good politics. We’re just examining whether a public official has been consistent in his or her stated views. PolitiFact National gave a Full Flop rating to Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Democratic Minority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer for switching their views on this topic since 2016. Has Johnson also changed his tune with a different party in the White House? His position in 2016 The 2016 situation was notably different given the longer time before the election, but Johnson still said that the eight-month window four years ago was too close for an outgoing president to put forth a nominee. "In the politicized atmosphere of an election year, you probably shouldn't even nominate someone," he told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel in March 2016. "It's not fair to the nominee, it's not fair to the court." In a news release two months later, he made a similar assertion. "Let the American people have a voice in the composition of the Supreme Court," Johnson said in the May 2016 statement. "Instead of a lame duck president and Senate nominating and confirming, a new president and Senate – elected by the people only a few months from now – should make that important decision. I can’t think of a fairer or more democratic process." In another May 2016 interview, he told reporters the government should let voters "decide the direction of the court through their votes." His position in 2020 Now, Johnson says "the Senate should vote" on Trump’s forthcoming nominee, despite the closeness of the election. Defending that position, he said things are different now because the Senate and White House are both held by Republicans. "We had divided government (in 2016). That’s a valid argument when you have divided government (saying) 'Let’s let the American people decide.' Right now, we don’t have divided government," he told the Journal Sentinel for a Sept. 19, 2020, story. "That makes all the difference in the world." Asked to elaborate on how letting the voters decide wouldn’t apply in this situation, Johnson told the paper, "it's just the reality of the situation." Johnson also noted on Twitter that John Roberts (23 days) and Sandra Day O’Connor (33 days) were confirmed in less time than the gap between now and the election — assuming Trump brings a nominee forth quickly. Among the 11 justices nominated since 1990, however, the average time to confirmation has been 66 days. Our ruling Johnson said in 2016 that an election-year Supreme Court vacancy should be delayed until after the election to "let the American people have a voice," calling it a "more democratic process." But in 2020 — even though the election is six months closer — Johnson says the spot should be filled immediately. Of course, the president is now a Republican, whereas a Democrat brought forth the nomination in 2016. Johnson is arguing his statements aren’t contradictory because now the Senate and president are both from the same party, which wasn’t true in 2016. But Johnson offered no such qualifier in 2016. He simply said a nomination shouldn’t be made or confirmed in an election year. He’s attempting to retroactively make a distinction based on party control, but that only speaks to how likely a nomination is to be approved, not whether it’s proper to approve a nomination in an election year. That means Johnson has completely reversed his position. We rate this a Full Flop.

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Ralph Northam

2020-10-16 00:00:00

a blog post:

The coronavirus pandemic is “effectively over” in the United Kingdom and “there is absolutely no need for vaccines.”

Bill McCarthy

2020-09-22 00:00:00

false

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/sep/22/william-barr/covid-19-rules-second-only-slavery-civil-liberties/

COVID-19 rules second only to slavery on civil liberties intrusions? Barr gets it wrong

Attorney General William Barr made the case that while the COVID-19 pandemic is grave, the response should be measured. Governors who issued sweeping rules to keep the spread of the virus in check, he said, were treating "free citizens as babies that can’t take responsibility for themselves." "Putting a national lockdown, stay-at-home orders, is like house arrest," Barr said Sept. 16 at an event sponsored by Michigan’s Hillsdale College. "Other than slavery, which was a different kind of restraint, this is the greatest intrusion on civil liberties in American history." Putting social distancing rules second only to slavery as a violation of civil liberties drew criticism. House Majority Whip James Clyburn, D-S.C., called it "the most ridiculous, tone-deaf, God-awful thing I've ever heard."  As fact-checkers, we looked at whether recent public health-driven restrictions on businesses and public gatherings exceeded the harm of other episodes in America’s past. Compared, for example, to the denial of voting rights to millions of Black Americans, we found Barr’s claim fell short. His depiction of the COVID-19 restrictions also seemed exaggerated. Stay-at-home orders According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, 44 states plus Washington, D.C. issued some form of stay-at-home order as the pandemic hit the nation. Generally, those orders shut offices, restaurants, bars and any other business judged to be nonessential.  States enjoy broad legal authority to protect the general welfare. In 1905, the U.S. Supreme Court laid down a standard that still applies today. So long as the state’s restrictions have a substantive connection to public health, they tend to pass legal muster. That said, opponents of Pennsylvania’s stay-at-home orders won at least a temporary victory when a federal judge ruled major portions of that state’s order unconstitutional. The ruling is under appeal. Challenges in other states have been common, with judges often backing the governors. The U.S. Supreme Court decided not to hear an appeal from a Nevada church to hold in-person services. Broadly, state orders directed people to stay home, but they offered many exceptions. West Virginia’s was typical. Residents could leave to "engage in outdoor activity," buy groceries, attend religious services, and visit other family members, to name a few permitted reasons.  While Barr painted these orders as similar to house arrest, the comparison is dicey. The terms of house arrest can range from an evening curfew to an absolute requirement to stay in the home. But regardless of how strict or loose they are, house arrest orders are closely enforced, often through the use of tracking devices. The COVID-19 orders did not reach that level of enforcement, although states often had the option to charge violators with misdemeanors, and in some instances, people were charged. The economic impact has been severe. Well over 11 million Americans lost their jobs due to the virus and remain unemployed. Tens of millions faced a temporary loss of income, and thousands of businesses suffered. Infringements of civil liberties since 1900 The shutdown orders had an immediate effect on the lives of millions of Americans. We asked over a dozen historians if they could think of instances in post-slavery America that might be worse than shutting down restaurants, offices and many other enterprises for several months.  Without any suggestion that this list is fully inclusive, here are a few examples they offered as "the greatest intrusion on civil liberties" other than slavery. Anti-Black violence, Jim Crow and discrimination Between 1900 and 1940, there were nearly 2,000 lynchings. Black people accounted for over 90% of the victims. White mobs attacked entire communities. In 1919, government soldiers, armed with rifles and seven machine guns, and aided by white vigilantes, attacked the Black residents of Elaine, Ark. Over a span of five days, they killed many and burned farms and buildings throughout the region. In 1921, a mob of white people turned the Black neighborhood of Greenwood in Tulsa, Okla., to rubble. Estimates of the death toll range from 75 to 300. In 1923, Rosewood, Fla., suffered the same fate. There are many other examples. Turning to voting rights, states, mainly but not exclusively in the South, systematically denied the franchise to millions of citizens. "Black voter participation, which in some places had been 90% of eligible male voters in the late 1860s and early 1870s, was cut to essentially zero by the early decades of the 20th century," Harvard Law School professor Michael J. Klarman told us when we looked at the history of this in 2011. "Jim Crow regimes involved relentless efforts to stop all African Americans from voting and included brutal intimidation tactics, like lynching," said Heather Gerken, a Yale Law School professor.  Home mortgages were beyond the reach of Black families due to Federal Housing Administration rules. Between 1930 and 1950, 98% of private mortgages were insured by the FHA. Only 2% of borrowers were non-white. The presence of Black people in a neighborhood was deemed a risk factor that discouraged lending. The policy denied Blacks people the same chance to accumulate wealth that white people enjoyed. The Espionage and Sedition Acts during World War I During World War I, Congress passed the Espionage and Sedition Acts to bolster the country in its battle against Germany. The Sedition Act outlawed any criticism of the war. Columbia University historian Eric Foner called the period "the most intense repression of civil liberties the nation has ever known." "Two thousand people were prosecuted for speech or press violations," said Oakland University professor emeritus Robert Justin Goldstein. "One thousand were jailed. Eugene Debs (a trade union activist and Socialist Party candidate) was jailed for opposing the draft." Goldstein, author of "Political Repression in Modern America: From 1870 to 1975," tells the story of a filmmaker who received a 10-year sentence for a movie about the American Revolution. "It was called ‘The Spirit of 1776,’" and it included a scene with British soldiers committing atrocities against Americans," Goldstein said. "That got him in trouble. At the time, we were fighting (along) with the British, and the movie was seen as undercutting that." Expulsion of Mexicans and Mexican Americans in the 1930s As the Great Depression hit the U.S., people of Mexican descent were blamed for draining public resources. Secretary of Labor William Doak said deportation was essential for reducing unemployment.  Immigration agents conducted raids across the country, but the largest number of removals took place in Southern California. By one estimate, local, state and federal officials deported nearly 2 million people, many of them minors born in the United States. "More than half of those — about 1.2 million — were U.S. citizens, returned to a country where they had never been before and where they had few if any, rights, because they were not Mexican citizens," said Yale historian Laura Barraclough. The program also undercut the freedom of American firms to conduct business. Farms struggled to find field workers, and in 1931, at a time when banks were in crisis, California reported a loss of $7 million in bank deposits as departing customers took their money with them to Mexico. Internment of Japanese Americans during World War II After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued an executive order in February 1942 to remove anyone on the West Coast judged to be a threat to national security. The move was aimed at Japanese Americans. In congressional hearings, Justice Department officials objected on constitutional grounds, and the work of forced relocation was put in the hands of the U.S. Army. Within six months in 1942, 122,000 people were sent to inland internment centers. About 70,000 of them were U.S. citizens.  "Japanese Americans who evacuated often left without anything but a suitcase or two, and most never recovered their losses of homes, businesses, and possessions," said Northwestern University’s Shana Bernstein. "The violation of civil liberties was so egregious that President Ronald Reagan officially apologized for it." A 1983 commission put their property losses at $1.3 billion. Other intrusions No list could be fully inclusive. For scale and brutality, the forced relocation and killings of Native Americans in the 19th century loomed large for several historians.  In the 20th century, both the federal government and the states curtailed liberties in Americans’ private lives. Under the Comstock Act of 1873, it was a federal crime to distribute birth control materials through the mail or across state lines, even for married couples.  Many states also banned interracial marriage. That stood until 1967, when the U.S. Supreme Court took the case of Loving v the State of Virginia. Two Virginia residents were convicted and sentenced to a year in jail for violating the state’s miscegenation law. The judge offered to suspend the sentence if they left the state and didn’t return for 25 years. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 1967 that miscegenation laws violated the 14th Amendment and were "odious to a free people." Other historians also listed the government study in collaboration with Tuskegee University that denied treatment for syphilis to over 600 Black men between 1932 and 1972. The government’s goal was to track the long-term effects of untreated disease. By the late 1940s, penicillin was the standard treatment but was never provided. Our ruling Barr said that COVID-19 stay-at-home orders were like house arrest and represented "the greatest intrusion on civil liberties in American history" since slavery. While efforts to contain the coronavirus have brought hardship to millions of people, public health restrictions, while challenged, have largely passed legal muster. On the flipside, denying the right to vote to millions of Black people, terrorizing Black communities, jailing people for voicing an opinion, and forcibly relocating or deporting over a million citizens go against core principles of the Constitution. Suffering is not easily quantified, and we recognize that actions taken in the past that were not ruled at the time as having violated civil rights are viewed differently through history’s lens. But the scale and force of assaults on civil liberties in the past outweigh the infringements due to COVID-19. We rate this claim False. This fact check is available at IFCN’s 2020 US Elections FactChat #Chatbot on WhatsApp. Click here, for more.  

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Ron DeSantis

2020-09-19 00:00:00

a statement:

On whether to nominate and confirm a Supreme Court justice in a presidential election year

Eric Litke

2020-09-22 00:00:00

false

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/nov/09/blog-posting/trump-supporters-falsely-tie-nancy-pelosi-broader-/

Trump supporters falsely tie Nancy Pelosi to broader election misfire scheme

Elections are rarely error-free, and in a close election, every misstep draws scrutiny. In Michigan and Georgia, pro-Trump bloggers have aimed to turn lapses in three counties into signs of a broad pattern of deception. Bloggers posted a Nov. 6 story that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi "has suspicious ties with election software ‘glitch’ company in favor of Biden ballots." This blog post said that the same problem in Georgia and Michigan caused inaccurate vote tallies. The private voting company, Dominion Voting Systems, provided the voting machines in both states. "Their DC lobbyist is Nancy Pelosi’s longtime aide," the post said. "The company hired Brownstein Farber Hyatt & Schreck earlier this year. Nadeam Elshami, Pelosi’s former chief of staff, is one of the lobbyists on the account." This post was flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about our partnership with Facebook.)  The post gets some details right, but it’s wrong that the same problem lay behind the glitches in both states, and it overlooks that Dominion Voting Systems also hired lobbyists with solid Republican ties. Glitches strike in Antrim County, Mich. The day after the Nov. 3 election, Antrim County, Mich., appeared to have swung to Joe Biden by about 3,000 votes. On Nov. 5, county officials changed that to a win by President Donald Trump by about 2,500 votes. There was an error, and our partners at the Detroit Free Press have been following this story. J. Alex Halderman, a University of Michigan professor and voting systems expert, dug into the problem and found that county officials had left an old version of a key file on some machines in their digital voting system. As a result, those machines failed to match votes to the right candidate when tallies at some precincts were added to the county total. The Michigan secretary of state’s office reported on the incident and said it came down to human error by the Antrim County clerk, not a failure in the underlying system. "Because the clerk did not update software, even though the tabulators counted all the ballots correctly, those accurate results were not combined properly when the clerk reported unofficial results," the Nov. 6 statement said. The secretary of state noted that the initial results were unofficial, and that steps that followed to verify the count — carried out by representatives from both parties — would have caught the error. The mistake was limited to that one county. It is one of 65 counties in Michigan that uses equipment from a private voting technology company, Dominion Voting System. Glitches strike in two Georgia counties Dominion Voting Systems was also involved in a snafu that hit two Georgia counties. On the morning of Election Day, voters in Morgan and Spalding counties were unable to cast machine ballots for a few hours when the machines crashed. The issue there had to do with a breakdown between the digital list of voters provided by one company, and the voting machines provided by a second company, Dominion Voting Systems. Technicians resolved the problem, and a judge allowed the affected polls to stay open until 11 p.m. to make up for lost time. Georgia uses the same system statewide, and the glitch only took place in these two counties. There is no report that votes were miscounted. Trump easily carried both places, winning by a 40 point margin in Morgan County and by 20 points in Spalding. Lobbying is bipartisan The blog post correctly notes that lobbyist Nadeam Elshami worked for Pelosi. It fails to mention that two other lobbyists listed on the company’s disclosures used to work for Republicans. William Moschella was a high-ranking Justice Department official in the administration of George. W. Bush. Brian Wild is the former chief of staff of Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Pa, and was a top staffer on the House Republican Steering Committee. Bipartisanship is alive and well in lobbying, with large firms putting people with both Democratic and Republican resumes on big contracts. Our ruling A blog post linked Pelosi to a company that provides a voting system that favored Biden. Glitches did happen, but beyond that, the argument falls apart. The breakdowns touched three counties, while scores of other counties using the same system had no issues. The problems were caught and corrected. The one instance of flawed tallies had no impact on official results, and the returns came down strongly in Trump’s favor. The link to Pelosi rests on the private company hiring a lobbying firm that assigned Pelosi’s former chief of staff to the company. But the firm also assigned two men with strong Republican credentials. We rate this claim Mostly False. This fact check is available at IFCN’s 2020 US Elections FactChat #Chatbot on WhatsApp. Click here, for more.

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Ron Johnson

2020-11-09 00:00:00

a blog post:

“Election worker brags about destroying Trump ballots; rips up a ballot for DJT on video.”

Ciara O'Rourke

2020-11-09 00:00:00

barely-true

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/mar/30/facebook-posts/no-autopsy-doesnt-say-george-floyd-died-overdose/

No, autopsy doesn’t say George Floyd died of overdose

Months after a video of George Floyd gasping for air sparked months of protests nationwide, the murder trial began for Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer who pressed his knee into Floyd’s neck for several minutes. At the center of the case is the question of how Floyd, a 46-year-old Black man, died. In the runup to the trial, social media users and some conservative commentators have recycled debunked claims that the autopsies said Floyd died of a drug overdose.  "Toxicology report was made public by the MN prosecution revealing the cause of George Floyd’s death was a fentanyl overdose," said one March 24 Facebook post. The Facebook post is wrong about what the Hennepin County medical examiner’s autopsy said. The post was flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about our partnership with Facebook.)  Two autopsies were completed after Floyd died in May 2020, following what video footage shows was roughly nine minutes spent pinned under Chauvin’s knee. The two reports found different causes of death, but neither ruled that Floyd died because of an overdose. An independent autopsy ordered by Floyd’s family ruled Floyd’s death a homicide. The two doctors who conducted the autopsy concluded that Floyd died of asphyxiation, or suffocation. The Hennepin County medical examiner’s office also ruled that Floyd died in a homicide. But it said the cause of his death was "cardiopulmonary arrest complicating law-enforcement subdual restraint, and neck compression," which occurred while Floyd was being "restrained." In other words, Floyd’s heart stopped as Chauvin restrained him, as PolitiFact has reported. Chauvin is charged with second- and third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter. The medical examiner also found that Floyd had a combination of underlying health conditions, including heart issues, and that he had fentanyl and methamphetamine in his system. Notes from a meeting, which were submitted as evidence, show that Andrew Baker, the county’s chief medical examiner, told prosecutors that Floyd’s fentanyl use was higher than what a chronic pain patient would be on. "If he were found dead at home alone and no other apparent causes, this could be acceptable to call an OD," Baker said, per the notes. Baker added: "I am not saying this killed him." Defense attorney Eric Nelson argued on the first day of Chauvin’s trial that Floyd’s health issues and drug use combined with "the adrenaline flowing through his body" to make his "already compromised" heart fail. The defense previously made the same case in court documents. But several experts in toxicology, cardiology and drug use told the Washington Post ahead of Chauvin’s trial that death by fentanyl overdose was unlikely or impossible.  "From my review of the video and the autopsy report, I see nothing that makes me think he died of an opioid overdose," Kavita Babu, chief opioid officer and chief of the Division of Medical Toxicology at UMass Memorial Health Care in Worcester, Mass., told the Post. Our ruling A Facebook post said, "Toxicology report was made public by the MN prosecution revealing the cause of George Floyd’s death was a fentanyl overdose." That’s not what the county medical examiner’s autopsy revealed. The report indicated that relatively high levels of fentanyl were found in Floyd’s system, but it ruled the manner of death a homicide and said the cause of his death was "cardiopulmonary arrest complicating law-enforcement subdual restraint, and neck compression."  An independent autopsy ordered by Floyd’s family also ruled Floyd’s death a homicide, and it said the cause was asphyxiation. We rate this Facebook post False.

Criminal Justice,Race and Ethnicity,Facebook Fact-checks,Facebook posts

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2020-11-07 00:00:00

a blog post:

“Mitt Romney has been asked to lead Health and Human Services in Biden administration.”

Ciara O'Rourke

2021-03-30 00:00:00

false

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/mar/29/facebook-posts/border-barrier-wasnt-90-finished-when-biden-halted/

Border barrier wasn’t 90% finished when Biden halted construction

A Facebook post claims that construction of a southern border wall stopped just before completion. It’s highly misleading. "We spent billions on a border wall and quit when it was 90% finished," said a March 23 Facebook post, which included a photo claiming to show people streaming through an opening at the border. The post was flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about our partnership with Facebook.) President Joe Biden on his first day in office issued a proclamation to pause construction on the southern border and to assess the legality of the funding and construction contracts. Critics of the Biden administration say his policies are encouraging people to migrate illegally to the U.S. But the post fails to account for some important facts. Among them is that former President Donald Trump routinely moved the goal post regarding how many miles of border wall he wanted to build. Most of the construction that happened under his presidency involved the replacement of old barriers with new fencing that’s expected to be more effective in stopping illegal immigration. And experts have said that the border barriers are not a significant factor in the current migration surge. "The amount of wall that would have been built between January and now is negligible and would have practically no effect on how many people are crossing the border," Nicole Hallett, director of the Immigrants’ Rights Clinic at the University of Chicago Law School, recently told PolitiFact North Carolina. Trump’s shifting promise As a presidential candidate, Trump repeatedly said that the nearly 2,000-mile southern border needed a wall only along 1,000 miles. Natural barriers took care of the rest, he said.  After his election, Trump offered varying estimates on the length of the wall and how many miles needed protection. He lowered projections the longer he was in office.  "You’ll need anywhere from 700 to 900 miles," he said in July 2017.  "We are going to do about 537 miles altogether," he said in July 2020. About a week before he left office — with about 450 miles of barriers completed — Trump claimed to have "completed the wall." "And today, we celebrate an extraordinary milestone, the completion of the promised 450 miles of border wall, 450 miles," Trump said Jan. 12. He claimed that an additional 300 miles were "either in construction or pre-construction." Trump’s inconsistent statements make it tough to measure his success. But we did not find a way to get to 90% completion, regardless of the metric used. Construction under Trump’s tenure Trump’s talk of a border wall commonly gave the impression that no barriers existed at the southern border and that he would build a wall along hundreds of unprotected miles. That’s not what happened. The Trump administration is responsible for about 7% of the approximately 700 miles of primary barriers now in place on the southern border. When Trump entered office, the southern border had 654 miles of primary barriers — fencing to stop people on foot and in vehicles. By the time he left, that increased by 52 miles, to 706 miles of primary barriers. U.S. Customs and Border Protection said that since January 2017, officials had "identified" about $15 billion for about 738 miles of border projects. As of late January 2021, crews had completed work on about 458 miles of those 738 miles (mainly replacement projects). So even by that metric, overall construction was not "90% finished" by the time Trump left office. Here’s a breakdown of what construction crews had done by late January: Replaced 351 miles of outdated and/or dilapidated primary barriers; Replaced 22 miles of outdated and/or dilapidated secondary barriers; Installed 52 miles of primary barriers in places where no barriers previously existed; Installed 33 miles of secondary barriers in places where no barriers previously existed. Despite Trump’s promise, Mexico did not pay for the construction. Funding for the projects came from the U.S. departments of Homeland Security and Defense, and the Treasury Forfeiture Fund, CBP said.   Our ruling A Facebook post said, "We spent billions on a border wall and quit when it was 90% finished." Contracts for construction at the southern border total billions of dollars, and Biden has directed a pause in construction. That’s not in dispute. But construction was not 90% finished. In addition, most of the work completed under the Trump administration involved the replacement of older barriers. The post contains an element of truth but ignores critical facts that would give a different impression. We rate it Mostly False.

Immigration,Border Security,Homeland Security,Facebook posts

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2020-11-07 00:00:00

a Facebook post:

Says The Washington Times ran a front-page headline that said, “President Gore.”

Ciara O'Rourke

2021-03-30 00:00:00

false

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/mar/29/josh-holmes/facts-about-georgias-ban-food-water-giveaways-vote/

The facts about Georgia’s ban on food, water giveaways to voters

On "Fox News Sunday," host Chris Wallace and a Republican strategist argued about the particulars of Georgia’s new law banning certain food and water giveaways to voters in line. "Why on earth, if Americans are willing to wait in hours to vote, would you make it a crime for people to come and give them a bottle of water?" Wallace asked.  Josh Holmes, a former chief of staff to Sen. Mitch McConnell, later came on and circled back to respond to Wallace’s assertion. Holmes said that Democrats have misrepresented that provision of a new Georgia law. "I've heard it a couple times on this program, that the idea that they've criminalized giving people bottles of water. They have not," said Holmes, founder of a consulting firm. "What is in the statute, what is absolutely clear, is that they're preventing political organizations from giving people in line things: meals, water, what have you. Water is and should be provided at the polls for people who are standing in line." Wallace and Holmes went back and forth about the particulars of the new Georgia law. Wallace repeatedly said that the new law bans giving food and water to voters in line, and Holmes pushed back. "Are you really suggesting that it should be wrong to provide water or drinks to people waiting in line to exercise their democratic franchise?" Wallace asked. Holmes replied: "No, I'm not. What I'm suggesting is wrong is to suggest that the law does that." He later said, "It very specifically says that it can't be provided by political entities seeking to one way or another influence an outcome of a vote." We decided to fact-check Holmes’ statement that the Georgia law doesn’t criminalize giving voters bottles of water. Gov. Brian Kemp signed SB 202 on March 25. Voting rights advocates quickly sued and raised multiple objections, including to what the law says about food and water giveaways.  Voting rights advocates routinely organize food and water distribution near voting sites where residents sometimes have to wait in line for hours to vote, often in nonwhite communities, where polling places are more crowded. Some of the larger events are organized by those with ties to the left, although they make the food and water available to anyone. What Georgia’s SB 202 says about food and water giveaways  Following the show, the debate moved to Twitter where "Fox News Sunday" and Holmes tweeted provisions of SB 202. Here is what that section of the law says: "(a) No person shall solicit votes in any manner or by any means or method, nor shall any person distribute or display any campaign material, nor shall any person give, offer to give,  or participate in the giving of any money or gifts, including, but not limited to, food and drink, to an elector, nor shall any person solicit signatures for any petition, nor shall any person, other than election officials discharging their duties, establish or set up any tables or booths on any day in which ballots are being cast (1) Within 150 feet of the outer edge of any building within which a polling place is established; (2) Within any polling place; or (3) Within 25 feet of any voter standing in line to vote at any polling place." The bill also states that poll workers can make available "self-service water from an unattended receptacle to an elector waiting in line to vote." But nothing in the law requires poll workers to make water easily available to voters while they are waiting in line. Holmes tweeted that the "last section clearly exempts poll workers from prohibitions on political entities providing, water etc." Holmes is correct that poll workers can set up self-serve water stations. However, during the show he misled when he said the law doesn’t criminalize giving away water. The law makes it a misdemeanor to give away food or water within 150 feet of the outer edge of a polling place building or within 25 feet of any voter in line. Violations of this law are punishable by up to a year in jail and a $1,000 fine. While people other than poll workers can give away food or water, they have to adhere to these boundaries to avoid breaking the law. Holmes emphasized in an email to PolitiFact that water is allowed, but from an unattended receptacle. And he repeated his assertion that the law is targeted at preventing people from political organizations from making such handouts. "I was responding specifically to the repeated claims that it criminalized water at the polls," Holmes told PolitiFact. "In reading the statute and speaking with Georgia officials, I understand that the intent of the statute is to deter electioneering at the polls, which is consistent with many other state laws. What I thought required clarification about the claim of criminalizing water, is that this Georgia statute was not silent on the issue. It specifically addressed the manner in which it may be provided." But the language in the law doesn’t ban only political entities from handing out water. Keith Williams, general counsel to Republican House Speaker David Ralston, told PolitiFact: "Any individual other than a worker at a polling place is prohibited from handing out water, etc., within 150 feet of a polling place or within 25 feet of the line."  Election law experts reached similar conclusions. "I read the solicitation provision and the prohibition on food and water at the polls to be separate prohibitions in the law," said Richard Hasen, a University of California Irvine election law professor. "It is not limited to those who are soliciting votes." Justin Levitt, a Loyola Marymount University law school professor, told PolitiFact: "I read, and I believe courts would read, SB 202 to prohibit anyone from giving food or water to any voter in line." A spokesperson with Georgia's secretary of state noted that voters are welcome to bring their own food and refreshments with them to stand in line. He said the purpose of the provision is to avoid having situations such as candidates handing out water or food wrapped in campaign materials. Cracking down on food and water giveaways to voters in Georgia is not new. A state law already banned giving gifts "for the purpose of registering as a voter, voting, or voting for a particular candidate." That provision doesn’t mention food or water directly, but Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger had previously interpreted it to include food or water.  Our ruling Holmes said a Georgia law has not "criminalized giving people bottles of water." It pertains to political organizations. SB 202 makes it a crime for people — and not just people from political organizations — to hand out food or bottles of water within 150 feet of a polling place or 25 feet of any voter standing in line. The only kernel of truth is that the law has a sentence which allows poll workers to make available "self-service water from an unattended receptacle to an elector waiting in line to vote." But just because poll workers can make self-service water available, doesn’t mean they are required to come up with a way to make water accessible to voters in every line at every polling site. Also, people could hand out water or food to voters outside the 150-foot and 25-foot boundaries. We rate this statement Mostly False. 

Georgia,National,Elections,Josh Holmes

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Bloggers

2020-11-08 00:00:00

a Facebook post:

Says a New York Post cover used the headline “YOU'RE FIRED" on Nov. 4 with an image of Donald Trump.

Gabrielle Settles

2021-03-29 00:00:00

false

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/mar/29/james-clyburn/james-clyburn-misspeaks-saying-43-states-have-pass/

James Clyburn misspeaks in saying 43 states have passed voting restrictions

One of the biggest political controversies today involves laws that govern voting and elections.  In Washington, D.C., Democrats passed a bill that would use national standards to preempt many of the proposed state laws pushed by Republicans. State by state, Republican legislators have offered measures that tighten procedures for registering to vote and casting a ballot.  Republicans say these proposals would target voter fraud, but Democrats counter that voter fraud is virtually nonexistent, and that these proposals would unfairly disenfranchise voters. Rep. James Clyburn, D-S.C., the third-ranking Democrat in the House leadership, touted the House bill on MSNBC on March 25. "There are 43 states that have now passed voter suppression laws," Clyburn said. "So I believe, and I've talked to Sen. (Jeff) Merkley about this, I said to him, if you’ve got 43 states, that’s only seven short of all 50 states. We ought to make the Voting Rights Act apply to all 50 states. Just put it out there and have it applied (to) all 50 states. Because 43 have now proved that they needed it to apply for it. Every state will be treated alike." A reader emailed us, suggesting that we check the claim. The reader noted that if 43 states have enacted such restrictive laws, that number would include a lot of solidly Democratic states — and that would run counter to the conventional thinking that Democratic states favor easing restrictions on voting, not tightening them. The reader was correct to question Clyburn’s statement. When we checked with Clyburn’s office, a spokesperson told us, "Yes, he misspoke." Clyburn appears to have been thinking of a widely shared finding by the liberal Brennan Center for Justice at New York University Law School. In February, the group published a report detailing efforts at the state level to enact bills that either restrict or expand voting-related procedures. (The term "voter suppression" is hard to define and is subject to dispute, but for the purposes of this fact-check, we’ll stipulate that it means proposals to tighten registration or voting procedures.) The group counted 253 voting-restrictive bills that had been proposed in 43 states. (It also found 704 bills to expand voting access in a different set of 43 states.) Some states, notably Iowa and Georgia, have passed significant bills that tighten prior election rules. But because many state legislatures are still in session, most of the measures tracked by the Brennan Center have not yet had a final vote. And the restrictive bills proposed by Republicans in Democratic-controlled states face no clear route to passage. The bottom line is that the standard used by the Brennan Center was to track laws that had been "proposed." Due to Clyburn’s mistake in the interview, a viewer would take away the message that many more states had actually enacted restrictive election laws than have done so in reality. Our ruling Clyburn said, "There are 43 states that have now passed voter suppression laws." His office acknowledged to PolitiFact that he misspoke. Bills to restrict voting procedures have been proposed in 43 states — not passed. That’s a significant distinction, because any lawmaker in a chamber controlled by the other party can propose a bill, but it’s vastly harder to actually enact the legislation into law. We rate the statement False.

Elections,James Clyburn

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Viral image

2021-03-25 00:00:00

a Facebook post:

Says Jimmy Kimmel, Jimmy Fallon and Stephen Colbert are “still not doing Biden jokes."

Samantha Putterman

2021-03-29 00:00:00

barely-true

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/mar/29/tweets/viral-tweet-wrongly-ties-biden-attorneys-resignati/

Viral tweet wrongly ties Biden, attorney's resignation, election fraud

A viral tweet suggests President Joe Biden may have pushed out a federal prosecutor for investigating the integrity of the election. "Joe Biden forced the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina to resign after 24 people were charged with election fraud and the Mainstream Media never even batted an eyelash," the tweet says.  The account has more than 40,000 followers and the tweet was shared more than 1,900 times. The tweet cobbles some factual information together but links them under a false premise. Charges and resignation Let’s start with the facts. On Feb. 9, Biden asked for the resignation of nearly all Trump-era U.S. attorneys — including Robert Higdon Jr., the attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina. On Feb. 11, Higdon announced he would resign at the end of the month.  On March 19, the Office for the Eastern District issued a press release announcing it had filed criminal charges against 24 people as the result of an investigation into voter fraud. While the announcement came after Higdon left, the probe spanned 18 months and the charges were filed under Higdon’s watch. "The charges include making false claims of U.S. citizenship in order to register to vote, naturalization fraud, and fraud and misuse of visas, permits, and other documents as it relates to the registration to vote, and false statements in immigration proceedings. Two defendants are charged with illegally voting in the 2016 general election," the press release said. It’s inaccurate to claim that the media ignored these events. News media reported on Biden’s request, Higdon’s resignation announcement, and the voter fraud charges brought by Higdon’s office. In fact, PolitiFact partner WRAL and other media outlets have followed the voter fraud investigation for 18 months, producing an in-depth report just three days after the viral tweet. Because of how the tweet is written, someone could get the impression Biden asked Higdon to resign as retaliation for the charges. However, there’s no evidence the two events are related. Inaccurate suggestion Let’s address some possible misconceptions. The resignation request: It’s not uncommon for new presidents to ask federal prosecutors to step down if they were appointed by another administration. U.S. attorneys are political appointees, as NBC News reported.  Donald Trump, when he assumed office in 2017, likewise ordered the resignation of 46 attorneys who served during the Obama administration. Higdon’s resignation letter didn’t mention any of his office’s projects or even hint at any animosity toward Biden. "The tweet is not accurate," said Don Connelly, spokesman for the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of North Carolina. "All of the presidentially appointed U.S. Attorneys were asked to resign and it had nothing to do with any case," Connelly told PolitiFact NC in an email. The fraud investigation: The tweet could give the impression that Higdon acted alone in finding voter fraud. That’s not exactly how it works.  While Higdon’s office at times had a contentious relationship with the North Carolina State Board of Elections, Connelly said the voter fraud probe "was the result of the Board of Elections contacting our office to initiate the investigation." The charges stemmed from an audit produced by the North Carolina elections board in 2017, board spokesman Patrick Gannon told PolitiFact. "When the U.S. Attorney’s office heard about the audit, they subpoenaed records from the State and County Boards of Elections and launched an investigation," he said. Generally speaking, Gannon said the board receives tips about voting irregularities and fraud from multiple sources, "including county boards of elections, election watchdog and advocacy organizations, internal audits of elections data, private citizens, political parties and candidates." If the board believes a crime was committed, it refers the evidence to a prosecutorial agency. In other words, Higdon was not solely responsible for the 24 filed charges and he’s not the only person looking for voter fraud. The fraud charges: The tweet could also give the impression that the fraud was related to Biden’s election win. That’s not true either. None of the 24 charges announced are for casting a fraudulent ballot in the 2020 election. In fact, included in those charges are 11 that were filed before last year’s election.  Two of the defendants were charged with unlawful voting in the 2016 general election. Meanwhile, more than 15 were related to unlawful voter registration in earlier elections. Arrests were made in the last two years. Federal prosecutors under Trump, including Higdon, did search for what some suspected was "systemic" or "pervasive" election fraud. Ultimately, the multi-year North Carolina investigation yielded charges for about 70 people. In the press release about the latest charges, attorneys for the Eastern District of North Carolina specifically noted that the defendants were charged individually and that "there are no charges of conspiracy." Our ruling The tweet said "Joe Biden forced the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina to resign after 24 people were charged with election fraud and the Mainstream Media never even batted an eyelash."  Biden did ask for the resignation of the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, as is common practice during a presidential transition. And the attorney recently announced charges against 24 people as part of an investigation into voter fraud. But this tweet leaves out context about those events and wrongly suggests the events are somehow related. It’s also inaccurate to say that the media didn’t report on these matters. There was extensive reporting surrounding the investigation that led to election fraud charges, as well as the post-election changes in the attorney general’s office. The tweet contains elements of truth but ignores critical facts that would give a different impression. We rate this claim Mostly False.

Elections,North Carolina,Tweets

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Viral image

2021-03-28 00:00:00

a Facebook post:

Says Google Earth blocked people from seeing the Suez Canal.

Miriam Valverde

2021-03-29 00:00:00

barely-true

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/aug/06/facebook-posts/qanon-conspiracy-theorists-seek-link-beirut-blast-/

QAnon conspiracy theorists seek to link Beirut explosion to Rothschilds

Facebook posts from accounts connected to the QAnon conspiracy theory are wrongly blaming the Rothschilds, the influential European banking family, for the explosion at the port of Beirut. The Facebook posts falsely claim that the Rothschilds own the Central Bank of Lebanon, which has been struggling to contain the country’s spiraling financial crisis. And because the central bank’s headquarters is located just a few miles away from the site of the explosion, the posts conclude that the Aug. 4 boom was the family’s doing. "The Beirut bombing today was directly next to the Lebanon Central Bank, which is also owned by the most evil deep state family, the Rothschilds," one post says. "There are no coincidences." "Rothschild bank explosion in Lebanon," says another. "Covering up evidence … bodies everywhere, this was premeditated, multiple explosions." "Don’t believe the first narrative," the second post adds. The two Facebook posts were flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about our partnership with Facebook.) Let’s start by debunking the posts’ most outlandish claim: There’s no evidence to suggest that the Rothschilds — the wealthy Jewish family that established a financial empire in Europe beginning in the 1700s — are responsible for what happened in Beirut.  Details are still emerging about the explosion, which as of this writing has left at least 135 people dead and many more wounded, displaced or unaccounted for. Lebanese Prime Minister Hassan Diab and President Michael Aoun have pledged to investigate.  But U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper said Aug. 5 that "most believe" it "was an accident, as reported," despite President Donald Trump’s suggestions that it was an "attack." RELATED: No evidence Israel hit Beirut with a nuclear missile Lebanese authorities said the blast took place at a warehouse along the Beirut waterfront. They have attributed it to the detonation of more than 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate, a chemical commonly used in fertilizer. Diab said the stockpile had been at the warehouse for six years. It remains unclear what set off the ammonium nitrate. A fire appears to have spread with the help of fireworks also kept at the port, according to early reports. The resulting explosion registered as the equivalent of a 3.3 magnitude earthquake. Reverberations are said to have been felt as far as Cyprus, more than 100 miles away from Beirut. But what about the Central Bank of Lebanon? The Facebook posts claim that the Rothschilds own the bank, putting them in charge of a building not too far from the site of the explosion. The Facebook posts are wrong about that connection, too.  The headquarters of the Central Bank of Lebanon, or Banque du Liban, is located a few miles away from the port of Beirut, according to Google Maps. It is not "directly next to" the explosion site, as one Facebook post claims. Reuters reported that the building was not seriously damaged by the blast. And there’s no evidence that it’s controlled by the Rothschild family.  The Rothschilds have been a target of anti-Semitic conspiracy theories for centuries, according to the Washington Post, including accusations that they control the global economy and various central banks. Supporters of QAnon have newly embraced those tropes.  But the Central Bank of Lebanon is an independent government agency. It was established on Aug. 1, 1963, according to its website, and it started to operate a year later. The central bank is currently headed by Riad Salamé, its governor since 1993. "BDL is a legal public entity enjoying financial and administrative autonomy," the bank’s website says. "Its capital is totally appropriated by the State." As Reuters first reported, the 2019 annual report from Rothschild & Co, the family’s strongest present-day tie to banking, does not mention ownership of central banks. Only a handful of countries, including the U.S., have central banks with shareholders outside their respective governments. We rate these posts False.

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Facebook posts

2021-03-23 00:00:00

a Facebook post:

“We spent billions on a border wall and quit when it was 90% finished.”

Amy Sherman

2021-03-29 00:00:00

false

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/aug/06/facebook-posts/calif-has-extra-us-house-seats-because-illegals-no/

Fact-checking a claim about immigrants and California’s 'extra' House seats

All U.S. residents, including immigrants here legally or illegally, are eligible to be counted in the national census mandated by the Constitution that’s done every 10 years. Those counts determine how many U.S. House seats each state gets and, in turn, the number of electoral votes it gets in presidential elections. We found no evidence to back a claim that California has six more House seats than it would have if people in the country illegally were excluded from the apportionment. The claim "is off base," said demographer Dudley Poston Jr., an emeritus professor of sociology at Texas A&M University. He and other experts say California likely has two to four more seats than it would without counting people in the country illegally. But according to the U.S. Constitution, all residents are to be counted in the census and for the purpose of apportionment, regardless of immigration or citizenship status.   The claim On July 23 on Facebook, conservative podcast host Dan Bongino shared an article from his Bongino.com that carried this headline: "Report: California Has Six Extra Representatives Because Illegals Are Counted in Census." The report that article cited is actually a Facebook post published the previous day from a Facebook user called Unbiased America. It refers to the 2010 census in making the California claim. Bongino’s Facebook post was flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about our partnership with Facebook.) It comes as President Donald Trump seeks to exclude the count of immigrants in the country illegally in determining how the House’s 435 seats are divided up after the 2020 census. We asked Bongino via Facebook Messenger if he had any additional information we should consider in doing this fact-check. He referred us to the author of the Bongino.com article, who did not provide us any additional information. (As we prepared to publish this fact-check on Aug. 6, Bongino’s Facebook post was no longer available. A message on Facebook said: "This Content Isn't Available Right Now. When this happens, it's usually because the owner only shared it with a small group of people, changed who can see it or it's been deleted." We archived Bongino’s original post.) Constitution doesn’t cite legal status in counting Regarding apportionment, the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution does not refer to citizenship or residency status with regard to counting residents. It declares:  "Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed." The "Indians not taxed" clause was made obsolete by laws that granted Native Americans U.S. citizenship. Courts have held that all people be counted.  Citizenship question on census forms As we’ve reported, the last time all households were asked about U.S. citizenship was in the 1950 census.  From 1970 to 2000, the Census Bureau used two questionnaires: a long form and short form. About 1 in 6 households received the long-form questionnaire, which included a question on citizenship.  The 2010 census used only a short-form questionnaire with 10 questions. It did not ask about citizenship.  "It is impossible to know how many undocumented immigrants might have been included in the 2010 census count," John Weeks, director of the International Population Center at San Diego State University, told PolitiFact. The Supreme Court last year blocked an effort by the Trump administration to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census, questioning its rationale.  "Extra" seats: 2 to 4, not 6 As a result of the 2010 census, California has 53 U.S. House seats, the most of any state. Its delegation includes the House leaders of both parties: Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a Democrat, and Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, a Republican. We did not find evidence to back a claim of six "extra seats." The Census Bureau did not provide information to PolitiFact on whether the claim is accurate.  According to estimates by the Pew Research Center, the Public Policy Institute of California and others, California has more than 2 million immigrants who are in the country illegally. Poston, who has done analyses regarding the 2000 and 2020 censuses, estimated that the counting of these immigrants in the 2010 census accounts for two or three of California’s House seats.  Ira Mehlman, a spokesman for the Federation for American Immigration Reform, which works to reduce legal and illegal immigration, estimated three or four. Steven Camarota, director of research for the Center for Immigration Studies, which uses data to argue for low levels of immigration, estimated two. Another demography expert, University of Houston sociology professor Amanda Baumle, said the claim of six appears to be based on analyses of apportionment based on only U.S. citizens being counted, and not lawful permanent residents or other noncitizens with legal status. Immigrants without legal status, she estimates, account for three California seats. One of the articles cited by Unbiased America, a 2007 post by Mehlman's group, says the difference would be six if only U.S. citizens were counted. The 2020 census Immigration status may come into play with the outcome of the 2020 census. In July, Trump issued a memorandum directing that immigrants in the country illegally be excluded from the apportionment base following the 2020 census — that is, they would not be counted in determining how many House representatives each state gets.  "Excluding these illegal aliens from the apportionment base is more consonant with the principles of representative democracy underpinning our system of government," the memo says.  Census and legal experts say such an action would be illegal and unconstitutional, and several lawsuits have been filed challenging the order. The suit filed by California and several other plaintiffs notes that all immigrants have been included since the first national census in 1790, and that the U.S. Constitution mandates that all persons be counted for apportionment. In a 2012 paper, the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service said "it appears a constitutional amendment would be necessary to exclude any individuals from the census count for the purpose of apportioning House seats." If Trump’s order withstands challenges, California, Florida and Texas would each end up with one fewer congressional seat than they would have been awarded based on population change alone; and Alabama, Minnesota and Ohio would each hold on to a seat that they would have otherwise lost, the Pew Research Center reported. Our ruling A Facebook post says California has six "extra" U.S. House representatives because immigrants in the country illegally are counted in the census. Under the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, all residents are to be counted in the census for purposes of apportionment. The amendment does not refer to legal residency status. Census and demographic experts say California would have two to four fewer seats if immigrants who are here illegally were excluded from the count used to determine apportionment of House seats.  We rate the post Mostly False.

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Fact-checking Arizona Senate race claim about Mark Kelly, PPP loan

In the competitive Arizona Senate race, Republican Sen. Martha McSally is taking aim at Democratic opponent Mark Kelly, claiming that he’s a hypocrite who attacked a loan program to help businesses during the pandemic and then took money from the program for his own company. "Small businesses were hit hard by the pandemic, which is why I fought" for the Paycheck Protection Program, McSally tweeted July 31. "Mark Kelly criticized the program, then turned around and took money for his own multi-million dollar company." Is McSally right about Kelly? Not really. An Arizona company that Kelly co-founded and in which he has investments did receive a loan under the Paycheck Protection Program. But Kelly’s campaign said he left the company more than a year ago and had no role in the company’s application for the coronavirus pandemic relief. Moreover, Kelly’s criticism of the program centered on Congress and the red tape that he said was preventing deserving small businesses in Arizona from getting aid. His public statements show that he wasn’t against the program itself. McSally, a former U.S. House member and retired Air Force pilot, is vying to hold on to a Senate seat she was appointed to after the resignation of Sen. John Kyl. Kelly is a retired U.S. Navy pilot and astronaut. Both easily won primary elections on Aug. 4. Background on Paycheck Protection Program Congress created the Paycheck Protection Program to help small businesses affected by the pandemic. The program was established by the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act, or CARES Act, signed into law in March by President Donald Trump. The law allows businesses to get loans to pay their employees and to cover certain other expenses, such as rent and utilities. The loans are forgiven if businesses meet specified terms. While the federal government created and administers the program, banks, credit unions and other lending institutions handle the loan applications and disbursement of funds. ‘Mark Kelly criticized the program’ McSally’s campaign said Kelly criticized the program in an April 10 statement and a June 9 tweet. In his messages, Kelly directed his criticism at Congress — saying it should hold banks accountable for ensuring that small businesses can get aid. His criticism centered on how the program was being administered. "I’ve heard over and over from small businesses across Arizona that the clock is ticking for them, and now it’s clear many of them are running into a wall of red tape blocking them from the aid they desperately need," Kelly’s statement said. "Congress created this program and put much of the application process in the hands of big banks, and they have to provide accountability and make sure this money is getting to those small business owners and their employees who need it." In an April 16 statement, not flagged by McSally’s campaign, Kelly said the program was running out of money, that only 10% of Arizona small businesses were approved for relief and that the Senate was adjourning without addressing the issue. "Washington needs to get out of its own way, immediately put more resources into this program, and fix some of the issues that have made it harder for Arizona small businesses to get this relief," Kelly said. Big banks, Kelly said, had the power to choose which applications got priority "and that’s not how this should work. This money should go where it’s needed most. Congress needs to get this done." McSally on April 21 tweeted a similar grievance. "Dear big banks: PPP is NOT your money. It is the taxpayers’ money intended to be a lifeline for small businesses & to keep them from going under due to coronavirus. We expected everyone in America, including you, to act with grace & speed to rescue those most hurt by this crisis." In a follow-up tweet, McSally said she was troubled by reports of publicly traded companies with "capital & bank relationships" getting funds, "while many ma & pa shops can't even get a call back or $1." The next round of funds had to focus on small businesses, with better oversight and transparency, she said. ‘Then turned around and took money for his own multi-million dollar company.’ McSally’s attack on Kelly refers to a loan received by a company Kelly co-founded. World View Enterprises, of Tucson, says it provides aerial data and analytics from sensors deployed to the stratosphere. Kelly’s stake in the company is valued at between $115,000 and $300,000, Kelly’s campaign told PolitiFact. But he left his role as strategic adviser in February 2019 and has never been a member of the company’s board of directors, said Jacob Peters, a spokesperson for Kelly. World View also told PolitiFact in a statement that Kelly was an investor but had no day-to-day involvement with the company. In late April, World View was approved for a loan to retain 38 employees. The loan was for an amount between $1 million and $2 million, according to Small Business Administration data. Kelly was not informed about World View’s loan application, "nor was he involved in the decision process to decide to pursue a PPP loan," the company said. McSally’s campaign did not provide information to dispute the Kelly campaign’s explanation. PolitiFact did not find information showing Kelly was involved in the application process. Our ruling McSally said Kelly, "criticized the (Paycheck Protection Program), then turned around and took money for his own multi-million dollar company." Kelly has criticized the way the program has been administered, but not the existence of the program itself. He’s argued that red tape is preventing small businesses from getting funds and that Congress needs to do more to help businesses get the funds and to hold banks accountable. A company that Kelly co-founded and in which he has investments received up to $2 million in a loan from the program. But Kelly’s campaign and the company say he was not involved in the application process. McSally’s campaign did not provide information disputing that statement and we didn’t find any either. McSally’s statement contains an element of truth but ignores critical facts that would give a different impression. We rate it Mostly False.

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Josh Holmes

2021-03-21 00:00:00

a tweet:

"Joe Biden forced the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina to resign after 24 people were charged with election fraud and the Mainstream Media never even batted an eyelash."

Tom Kertscher

2020-08-06 00:00:00

barely-true

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/mar/29/veronica-escobar/surge-minors-border-due-numerous-factors-biden-pol/

Border surge of minors is due to numerous factors, Biden policies among them

U.S. Rep. Veronica Escobar, D-El Paso, joined CNN host Jake Tapper on March 14 to defend President Joe Biden’s response to the influx of unaccompanied children at the southern border and shift blame to the Trump administration.  The number of unaccompanied children encountered by Border Patrol increased sharply earlier this year, from 5,858 in January to 9,457 in February — a 61% increase, according to federal data. It’s the largest one month percentage increase since U.S. Customs and Border Protection began reporting the data in 2010.  "Is this a crisis?" Tapper asked Escobar.   "There is no doubt, Jake, that what we're seeing today is an enormous challenge," Escobar replied, adding that the uptick is a consequence of the Trump administration’s immigration policies that the Biden administration is "is working day and night" to amend.   "We began seeing the increase in unaccompanied minors going back to last April 2020. This is not something that happened as a result of Joe Biden becoming president," Escobar said. "We saw the increases dating back almost a year. And this was during the Trump administration."  The growing number of people arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border has become a  partisan issue — Democrats blaming the uptick on Trump policies while Republicans blame it on changes the Biden administration has implemented.  During a March 21 interview on ABC News, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas made comments similar to Escobar’s.  "Why is it especially challenging and difficult now? Because the entire system under United States law that has been in place throughout administrations of both parties was dismantled in its entirety by the Trump administration," Mayorkas said. Gov. Greg Abbott, on the other hand, has blamed Biden’s "reckless open border policies" for the "surge in border crossings and cartel activity." Migration patterns are complex and driven by numerous factors beyond changes in U.S. immigration policy, experts say. Is Escobar accurate in saying that increases in the number of unaccompanied minors arriving at the border dates back to the Trump administration? And is she correct to say that these increases are not "a result of Joe Biden becoming president"?  Unaccompanied minors in 2020 The first part of Escobar’s statement is accurate — the number of unaccompanied minors encountered at the border has been increasing since April 2020. But this trend generally follows seasonal migration patterns. Migration numbers typically peak in the spring, usually in May, and decrease in the late summer.   But in 2020, the steady rise continued through the winter. According to Art Arthur, a former immigration judge and a fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies, a think-tank that advocates for low immigration numbers, the steady rise in migrants through June, July and August is a "reversion to the mean."   Migration numbers across the board "fell off a cliff" in late March 2020 after the Trump administration activated Title 42, a provision of the 1944 Public Health and Safety Act that allows Border Patrol to expel any migrant for health and safety reasons, in this case to limit the spread of COVID-19 into the U.S. Since migration numbers bottomed out in April 2020 because of Title 42, the increases in migrant numbers throughout the remainder of 2020 returned monthly totals closer to average levels, Arthur said. But that steady rise changed in February, when U.S. Customs and Border Protection reported the 61% uptick. "We are seeing a reversion to the mean as it relates to unaccompanied children, but we saw a huge spike (in February 2021), and it’s a bigger spike than we’ve seen in any February ever," Arthur said.  That uptick occurred in the same month the Biden administration suspended Title 42 for unaccompanied children only, leaving it in place for all other categories of apprehended migrants, much to the chagrin of immigrant advocates.  In late January, after a federal appeals court ruled that the federal government could use Title 42 to expel unaccompanied minors, the White House announced that, unlike under the Trump administration, it would no longer apply Title 42 to children crossing the border alone. The uptick in unaccompanied minors was recorded soon after that announcement. And as of March 23, there were 4,962 children in Customs and Border Patrol custody, well above the 30-day average of 3,243, according to NBC News. "I can’t identify a single other factor that would point to that," Arthur said. "There’s no other variable other than that." Push vs. pull factors  While Arthur highlights the White House’s policy change as a pull factor that was a primary driver behind February’s uptick, other experts underscore the push factors driving migrants out of their origin countries.  Migrants and migrant children travel from their origin countries — primarily Mexico, Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador — to the southern U.S. border for a multitude of reasons: worsened economic conditions due to COVID-19, cartel violence, corruption, natural disasters, agricultural diseases or droughts and, among others, the vagaries of U.S aid. These issues have factored into people’s migration decisions for decades.  One such push factor challenged the Central America region in November, when two category-4 hurricanes struck Nicaragua, Honduras and Guatemala within a two-week span. More than 200 people were killed, and millions were left in need of aid. The hurricanes exacerbated poverty and worsened access to clean water, giving an extra nudge to people considering northern migration.  "There are clearly push factors coming out of all those countries, regardless of what our policies are," said Ruth Wasem, a professor of public policy at the University of Texas. And it’s hard to say that pull factors created by liberalized U.S. immigration policies are stronger than the push factors driving migrants away from their origin countries, she said.  To Wasem, it’s no surprise border authorities are reporting high numbers of unaccompanied minors after four years of austere immigration policies under the Trump administration, which revamped the asylum-seeking processes in many ways that reduced the number of asylum seekers entering the U.S.   But the near closure of the U.S.-Mexico border under Trump doesn’t mean that migrants stopped packing their bags for the U.S.  "Trump basically shut down our immigration system and ended the laws on the books," Wasem said. "So there’s going to be a pent-up number of people that were waiting to come, or that were en route."  Wasem points to data from the Mexican Commission for Refugee Assistance, a Mexican federal agency that processes refugee-status applications. Under Trump administration policies, asylum seekers were required to apply for asylum and be denied in one of the countries they passed through before seeking asylum in the U.S.  According to the data, monthly application numbers ebbed and flowed prior to Biden’s policy changes, showing that push factors in origin countries are a major driver behind migrant and unaccompanied children seeking to enter the U.S., Wasem said.  "Unaccompanied children coming to the U.S. is a result of what's going on in the countries they're coming from," she said. "How we respond to them changes from administration to administration. So when Escobar says the increase in unaccompanied children didn't happen as a result of Biden, I would say the ebb and flow isn't a result of who's in the White House."  That logic is echoed by other immigration researchers. Writing for the Washington Post, Director of the U.S. Immigration Policy Center Tom Wong and University of California at San Diego researchers say that the latest spike is attributable to a migration backlog.  "The current increase in apprehensions fits a predictable pattern of seasonal changes in undocumented immigration combined with a backlog of demand because of 2020’s coronavirus border closure," they wrote in their analysis of federal immigration data.   Long-term federal data suggests that "Title 42 expulsions delayed prospective migrants rather than deterred them — and they’re arriving now," they wrote.   The Biden factor There’s little doubt that migrants, and young children in particular, are being sent across the border inspired by Biden’s new immigration policies. But Wasem says that the hope Biden administration policies have inspired in migrants is hard to measure.  "Are people coming because the thought of Biden’s presidency gives them hope? That might be. But you can't measure that," she said.  One 9-year-old boy, for instance, traveled on foot for over a month through Mexico from Honduras aiming to connect with a family member in Florida. He was discovered by Border Patrol in the Rio Grande Valley and told one ABC News reporter that his mother had sent him because she had heard that immigration authorities were turning families away, but not children.  Biden himself has acknowledged that while his administration has drawn the attention of migrant families, his more humanitarian policies can’t be the only factor compelling families to send their kids on the perilous northward journey. Many of the push factors cited by Wasem — like worsening poverty or gang violence — are also factoring into the calculus of migrants. "That (9-year-old boy’s) mother did not sit around at the kitchen table and say, ‘I got a great idea. The way I’m going to make sure my son gets taken care of is I’m going to send him on a 10,000-mile journey through the desert into the U.S. because I know Joe Biden’s a nice guy and he’ll take care of him,’" Biden said. "What a desperate act to have to take. Circumstances must be horrible."  Our ruling Escobar, whose office did not respond to requests for comment, said that increases in the number of unaccompanied minors reaching the southern U.S. border have been increasing since April 2020, when Trump was president.   It’s accurate to say that the number of children traveling alone to the border has been increasing since last April, but her statement downplays the fact that February saw a record increase in unaccompanied minors encountered by Border Patrol agents. Escobar also said that these increases are not "a result of Joe Biden becoming president." Experts say that the pull factor created by Biden’s policy change to stop expulsions of the minors is one of several factors driving the uptick in unaccompanied minors. However, there’s dispute over whether this pull factor is a more primary driver than other push factors.  We rate this claim Half True.

Immigration,Border Security,Texas,Veronica Escobar

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James Clyburn

2021-03-27 00:00:00

Facebook posts:

Nike and Lil Nas X are launching “demonic shoes” containing human blood.

Miriam Valverde

2020-08-06 00:00:00

barely-true

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/mar/29/facebook-posts/mobys-claim-there-would-be-no-pandemics-if-world-w/

Moby’s claim there would be ‘no pandemics’ if world were vegans ignores important context

It’s been just over a year since the COVID-19 pandemic spawned mass shutdowns and exploded into the public consciousness, and scientists still don’t fully understand the origins of the disease that has killed millions around the world. Electronica easy-listening pop artist Richard Melville Hall — known professionally as Moby — suggested in a Facebook post that all of this could have been avoided if humans did not consume animals:  "In a vegan world there would be no pandemics. 100% of pandemics are zoonotic in origin," his March 23 post read. The post was flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about our partnership with Facebook.) Is he right? In short, no — and for some of the same reasons we found a similar claim specific to COVID-19 Mostly False. We reached out to Moby’s representatives through email but did hear back. While scientists have found that most human infectious diseases originate with animals — and, yes, all pandemics in the last 100 years fall into this category — it’s not accurate to say that they would be eliminated if humans did not eat other animals. There are other means by which a disease can move from animal to human. Likewise, there are other ways a disease could emerge and become a pandemic.     With COVID-19, scientists largely agree that the novel coronavirus likely originated in a bat, but by the same token they also agree that an intermediary host would have been necessary for the virus to be transmitted to a human — and we still don't know what that intermediary source is. Therefore, "patient zero" almost certainly did not contract COVID-19 by consuming a bat. Moby’s broader claim suggests that any pandemic would not exist if the world’s population practiced veganism, the practice of not eating or using animal products. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a disease is "zoonotic" if it can be spread from animals to humans.  "Zoonotic diseases are caused by harmful germs like viruses, bacterial, parasites, and fungi," CDC’s guidance reads. "These germs can cause many different types of illnesses in people and animals, ranging from mild to serious illness and even death." Zoonotic diseases, or "zoonoses," are extremely common considering they comprise at least 60% of known infectious diseases. Additionally, the CDC notes, roughly 75% of new or emerging infectious diseases are known to come from animals. But a pandemic can also evolve from sources beyond wildlife. "Most human infectious diseases find their origin in another animal species," said Dr. Amesh Adalja, a senior scholar at Johns Hopkins University Center for Health Security. "However, there are environmentally acquired infectious diseases such as anthrax, tetanus, and botulism. However, these tend to be non-communicable between person to person and therefore not able to cause a pandemic."  "It is within the realm of possibility that an environmental fungus, for example, could infect a large amount of humans," Adalja said. "In amphibian species, for instance, environmental fungal disease (e.g. chytrid disease) are pandemics. One could also envision a stable human pathogen, by chance, acquiring some new trait allowing it to spread in a new manner. " In a recent interview with the online news magazine Inverse published March 24, Adalja also pushed back directly on Moby’s claim.  Adalja told the publication that a determining factor in which a zoonotic illness becomes a pandemic has less to do with animal consumption and more to do with how humans generally interact with animals since there are other ways beyond consumption an animal-borne pathogen can be transmitted. "You can get bitten by a raccoon and get rabies," Adalja said in the interview, "not because you were going to eat it, but just because you happened to encounter it in the wild." Our ruling Moby said, "In a vegan world there would be no pandemics. 100% of pandemics are zoonotic in origin." Scientists have found that the pandemics of the last 100 years have been zoonotic. And they say that most infectious disease in humans originates with animals. But that does not mean that worldwide adherence to veganism would eradicate pandemics. There are other sources by which disease can emerge — and consuming animals is not the only path by which disease can make the jump from animals to humans. The statement contains an element of truth but ignores critical facts that would give a different impression. We rate this Mostly False.

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Facebook posts

2020-07-31 00:00:00

a tweet:

“Mark Kelly criticized the (Paycheck Protection Program), then turned around and took money for his own multi-million dollar company.”

Brandon Mulder

2021-03-29 00:00:00

half-true

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/mar/29/tony-evers/yes-there-are-just-few-wisconsin-school-districts-/

Yes, there are just a few Wisconsin school districts still doing largely virtual learning

Wisconsin students, parents and educators shouldered a heavy burden over the past year: A patchwork of in-person, hybrid and virtual schooling as the coronavirus devastated the state. Last March, Gov. Tony Evers closed K-12 schools in an attempt to limit the spread of the virus. A closure meant to last two weeks ended up lasting till the school year’s end, and in the fall, only some returned to the classroom full-time. Reopening decisions have been fraught with controversy. In Madison, teachers taught outside school buildings in early March 2021 to protest their district’s plan to resume in-person learning, arguing it should have been postponed until staff could get vaccinated. On the flip side, in early February Republicans in the state Legislature moved to send $66 million in federal aid to schools already holding in-person classes. "The bottom line is our kids need to be in school," state Sen. Howard Marklein, R-Spring Green, said at the time. Evers has said he wants the decision to reopen to be left up to individual school districts because those officials will best understand how much of a threat COVID-19 poses in their community, a stance in line with Wisconsin’s status as a local-control state. Appearing on Capital City Sunday on March 14, 2021, the governor said he’s spoken with many superintendents who’ve successfully managed in-person school since last September. That success depends on class sizes, building ventilation and the landscape of local virus transmission — all factors he said would make it difficult to make a statewide judgment on returning to classrooms. "There’s still a handful of school districts out," Evers said, but added that he’d like to get students back in school. Is he correct that just a handful of districts are still learning largely online? Let’s take a look. Only state’s two largest school districts remain largely virtual, survey finds State officials have chosen not to track district reopenings since the end of mandatory closures last June. However, a USA TODAY Network-Wisconsin survey of Wisconsin’s regional education agencies found that every district currently has at least some in-person instruction, and only the Madison Metropolitan School District and Milwaukee Public Schools remain mostly virtual. In Madison, only the youngest students have returned to school buildings, while students in grades 3 and up are set to return in phases beginning in April. MPS offers an in-person option for some students with disabilities and could begin bringing others back starting April 12, 2021. Wisconsin has 12 Cooperative Educational Service Agencies, known as CESAs, that help communicate between the state’s Department of Public Instruction and its 422 school districts. Seven CESA administrators surveyed said collectively, there were 150 districts in their jurisdiction where all students can attend school five days a week. Thirty-nine districts use a blended model, where students are in school part of the week and learn virtually on other days. Other CESA administrators said they weren’t tracking how many districts were teaching students in-person or blended, but did say all districts were back to some in-person learning. While some students have been back in the classroom since September, more moved to come back after winter break. Such was the case for the Appleton Area School District, for example, the sixth-largest in the state. School districts generally have virtual options for students and families who did not feel safe returning to the school building, the survey found. David Honish, agency administrator of CESA 8 in northeastern Wisconsin, told a reporter that "you have people almost making the assumption" that districts aren’t back face-to-face, even when that isn’t the case. While many districts in his region began the school year virtually or in a hybrid model, most have returned to in-person learning, Honish said, with a few exceptions — including one high school that went virtual for two weeks after a COVID-19 outbreak. Districts are required to notify their local health department when they learn of at least two confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the same building within two weeks. Our ruling Evers said there were still a handful of districts learning mostly virtually. A USA TODAY Network-Wisconsin survey found only the state’s two largest school districts were keeping students mostly virtual, although even they have limited in-person options and are planning April returns. We rate his claim True.

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2021-03-14 00:00:00

an

"We began seeing the increase in unaccompanied minors going back to last April 2020. This is not something that happened as a result of Joe Biden becoming president.”

Michael Majchrowicz

2021-03-29 00:00:00

barely-true

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/mar/29/alex-padilla/it-easier-obtain-rifle-register-vote-alex-padilla-/

In majority of states, it's faster to obtain a rifle than to register to vote

Shortly after high-profile mass shootings in Georgia and Colorado, the Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing on gun violence. Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Calif., used an analogy with voting rights to make the case for stricter gun control. "In a majority of states, new voters are able to obtain a rifle quicker than they’re able to cast their first ballot," Padilla said on March 22. "It seems to me we have our priorities entirely backwards when it comes to this, when we make it easier to buy a gun than we do to cast a ballot." Some critics disagreed. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, tweeted that Padilla’s statement was "demonstrably, laughably false." This is demonstrably, laughably false. Find me the Dem that says “it’s abusive to require a photo ID to buy a gun!”They ALL say that about voting.(Except for the CA gubernatorial recall....) https://t.co/YEVqiIbzTq— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) March 24, 2021 As support, Padilla’s office referred PolitiFact to statistics from the nonpartisan National Conference of State Legislatures; the pro-gun-control Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence; and an analysis by the Washington Post. When we reviewed these sources, we found Padilla’s assertion to be largely supported by the evidence, though we found some nuances. What are the state laws? In his analysis, Philip Bump of the Washington Post compared every state and the District of Columbia on how quickly a resident could secure a rifle and cast a ballot after registration. (Bump noted that policies for purchasing a handgun are different, but Padilla specifically mentioned rifles at the hearing. A rifle is a type of "long gun," which is a firearm with a longer barrel that is meant to be held with both hands.) In 13 states, going through either process is equally fast: In Vermont, for instance, it’s possible to buy a rifle without a waiting period, and you can register to vote on Election Day itself.  Three states — Illinois, Minnesota and Washington — make it faster to cast a ballot after registering than to secure a rifle. (There are some complications in some states, such as rules applying to certain types of rifles but not others, Bump noted.) But the majority of states — 34 states plus D.C. — have a longer wait time to cast a ballot than to obtain a rifle, according to Bump’s analysis. . According to Giffords, some states have waiting periods for firearms generally, including rifles. For instance, in Hawaii, the waiting period is 14 days, while in both California and D.C. it takes 10 days. In Florida, the law is three days or however long it takes to complete a background check, whichever is longer. Only two states have waiting periods specific to rifles — Minnesota at seven days and Washington state at 10 days.  As for voting, registration is mandatory in every state except for North Dakota. However, the last day one can register before casting a ballot — in effect, the "waiting period" to vote — varies by state. According to data compiled by the group Vote.org, some states like Alaska and Arkansas require registration 30 days prior to Election Day, while in other states like Colorado you can register on Election Day if you are going to vote in person. The fastest voting procedures are in force in 17 states and D.C., where a resident can register and vote the same day, said Danielle Lang, co-director of voting rights and redistricting for the Campaign Legal Center.  "So there is essentially a waiting period for voting in all other states," she said. "You have to plan to vote ahead of time and can’t do it on a whim the day of." The bottom line, then, is that about two-thirds of states have a faster process for obtaining a gun than for being able to vote. That’s a "majority," as Padilla said. Context for the comparison is needed While Padilla is right on the numbers, the elements of his comparison — guns and voting — are not entirely parallel.  Bump noted in his article that voting "necessarily involves the state, while a gun purchase doesn’t. One can buy a rifle from a friend, for example; you can’t vote with a friend. That by itself tends to lower the benchmarks required" for clearing a new gun owner. In addition, election bookkeeping is focused on the smooth functioning of a specific event on a specific date, said Edward B. Foley, an Ohio State University law professor who specializes in election law. The purchase of a gun isn’t. "Once a background check has been done on a potential gun owner, is there any reason for the government to keep track of the gun owner’s identity?" he said. "A gun ownership ‘registry’ would be different than a background check." Our ruling Padilla said, "In a majority of states, new voters are able to obtain a rifle quicker than they’re able to cast their first ballot." By the numbers, this is accurate: About two-thirds of states have a faster timetable for obtaining a gun than for casting a ballot after registration. Obtaining a gun and casting a ballot aren’t exactly parallel activities. An election is an event on a specific day that requires some degree of advance bookkeeping by state officials to be prepared. Gun purchases do not require advance work to prepare for a deadline. With that clarification, we rate the statement Mostly True.

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Martha McSally

2021-03-23 00:00:00

a post on Facebook:

“In a vegan world there would be no pandemics. 100% of pandemics are zoonotic in origin.”

Bill McCarthy

2021-03-29 00:00:00

false

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/aug/28/donald-trump/donald-trumps-false-rnc-claim-about-joe-biden-and-/

Donald Trump weaves Joe Biden into his false claims about the border wall

As he accepted the Republican nomination for reelection, President Donald Trump claimed that Joe Biden’s immigration plan would disadvantage Americans. Speaking from the South Lawn of the White House, Trump also claimed his Democratic opponent would undo one of Trump’s proudest undertakings: the construction of border barriers. "The Biden plan would eliminate America's borders in the middle of a global pandemic," Trump said Aug. 27. "And he is even talking about taking the wall down. How about that?" Is that right? No. Biden does not plan to eliminate American’s borders, and he has not said he would demolish border construction done by the Trump administration. This fact-check will focus on the wall claim. We asked the White House and Trump’s re-election campaign for evidence that backed Trump’s claim. We didn’t hear back. RELATED: Fact-checking Donald Trump's 2020 RNC speech Biden’s stance on border security Biden has not said he would take down barriers built at the border. What he has said is that he wouldn’t build more of them. "Trump campaigned on ‘Build that wall.’ Are you willing to tear that wall down?" NPR’s Lulu Garcia-Navarro asked Biden in an interview aired Aug. 6. "No. There will not be another foot of wall constructed on my administration, No. 1," Biden answered. "No. 2, … I'm going to make sure that we have border protection, but it's going to be based on making sure that we use high-tech capacity to deal with it and at the ports of entry. That's where all bad stuff is happening." Biden’s immigration plan says that most contraband comes into the United States through legal ports of entry and that nearly half of the people who are illegally in the country overstayed a visa, rather than crossed a border illegally. Trump has misallocated resources by focusing on a border wall, Biden argues. If elected president, Biden says, he would "direct federal resources to smart border enforcement efforts," such as cameras, sensors, large-scale X-ray machines, and fixed towers at and between ports of entry. "Like every nation, the U.S. has a right and a duty to secure our borders and protect our people against threats," Biden’s plan says. "But we know that immigrants and immigrant communities are not a threat to our security, and the government should never use xenophobia or fear tactics to scare voters for political gain." Tearing down border barriers also isn’t among the policy recommendations of a task force that Biden and Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., appointed to help unify Democrats. In his acceptance speech and in previous speeches Trump has mischaracterized several elements of the task force’s recommendations. The task force called Trump’s border barriers "unnecessary, wasteful, and ineffective," but did not propose taking them down. It’s worth noting that there’s not much new border wall to take down. Trump’s repeated boasts that he has "built 300 miles of border wall" are wrong. What he’s referring to is mostly the replacement of older barriers with new fences, not new barriers in unprotected areas. Before Trump took office, the nearly 2,000-mile southern border had 654 miles of primary barriers (the first physical impediment a border crosser may face). More than three years into Trump’s presidency, that has increased by 5 miles. RELATED: Donald Trump promised to build a border wall and make Mexico pay for it. That didn’t happen Our ruling Trump said Biden "is even talking about taking the wall down." Biden has not said that. Biden opposes construction of barriers at the border, but has not said he would demolish existing structures. Trump’s claim is inaccurate. We rate it False. This fact check is available at IFCN’s 2020 US Elections FactChat #Chatbot on WhatsApp. Click here, for more.

Immigration,Homeland Security,Donald Trump

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Veronica Escobar

2021-03-26 00:00:00

a Facebook post:

"Ted Cruz says owning a gun should be as hassle free as owning a car, which as I recall requires a license and registration."

Madeline Heim

2021-03-29 00:00:00

true

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/aug/28/facebook-posts/obama-era-shift-electronic-social-security-payment/

Obama-era shift to electronic Social Security payments wasn’t due to concerns over USPS

President Donald Trump has made a target of the U.S. Postal Service by raising spurious concerns about the security of mail-in ballots. And now misinformation targeting the Postal Service is gaining traction on social media. One Facebook post claims that there were concerns about the security of U.S. mail service when President Barack Obama was in office. "Did you know in 2013 obama determined Social Security would not send checks through the USPS, because it was not secure!?" the post reads.  The post was flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about our partnership with Facebook.)  During the Obama administration, Social Security payments did largely shift to electronic delivery. But the post errs in saying the shift was due to concerns about the security of the Postal Service.  The push for paperless Each month, the U.S. Treasury sends payments for Social Security and Supplemental Security Income benefits to 69 million recipients around the country. Until 2010, about 16% were done by mailed checks and 84% were done electronically through direct deposit or through debit cards that could be automatically replenished. In April 2010 — just a few days before Earth Day — the Treasury Department announced a rule that would increase the number of electronic Social Security transactions and decrease the number of mailed checks by 2013. The change was expected to save "more than $400 million and 12 million pounds of paper in the first five years alone," according to the Treasury Department press release. "By moving to all-electronic payments, Treasury will save hundreds of millions of dollars and substantially reduce our environmental impact, making this a win-win for all Americans," then-Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner said in a statement. News coverage of the new rule focused on the fact that electronic deposits would save taxpayer money, reduce the Social Security Administration’s environmental impact and provide increased security for the payments.  In a 2011 Social Security Administration press release, Michael Astrue, commissioner of Social Security, said getting benefit payments by direct deposit or on a debit card was safe and reliable. "You don't have to worry about your check being lost or stolen, and your money is available immediately on your payment date," Astrue said. "There is no need to wait for the mail to arrive." Testifying before a Senate committee in 2013, Theresa Gruber, assistant deputy commissioner for operations at the Social Security Administration, pointed out that electronic Social Security payments do not face the same disruption that mailed checks face from natural disasters such as hurricanes. She also said paper checks are more likely to be lost or stolen than electronic deposits. A spokesperson for the Social Security Administration told PolitiFact that the push to switch to primarily direct deposit was not at all related to concerns about the security of mailing checks via the Postal Service. "Direct deposit is a secure and convenient method for people to receive their benefits," the spokesperson said. "Their money is immediately available in their account at their financial institution, making a separate trip to their bank with a paper check unnecessary — especially important for people with transportation or mobility issues, in bad weather, or when natural disasters strike."  He added that the 2013 shift was part of a government-wide initiative led by the Treasury to move to electronic benefit delivery. The plan was to "phase out" paper checks by March 1, 2013. But in some circumstances, people could apply for waivers that would allow them to continue receiving paper checks. By 2014, 98.6% of Social Security payments were made via direct deposit. Today, 99.1% of Social Security payments are made by direct deposit, leaving about 550,000 payments to be made via mailed checks each month, according to Social Security Administration data. Although officials referenced "lost" and "stolen" checks as a potential benefit of the switch to direct deposit payments, PolitiFact found no evidence the Obama administration enacted the rule because of concerns with the security of the Postal Service, as the post claims. Our ruling A Facebook post said, "in 2013 Obama determined Social Security would not send checks through the USPS, because it was not secure."  The claim is misleading.  Officials said the switch to direct deposit Social Security payments was environmentally prudent and would save millions of taxpayer dollars. Officials also said direct deposit payments would prevent checks from being lost or stolen, but we found no evidence anyone argued the Postal Service was not a secure way to deliver checks.  More than half a million people still receive Social Security checks by mail today. We rate this claim False.

Social Security,Facebook Fact-checks,Facebook posts

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Facebook posts

2021-03-14 00:00:00

TV

“There’s still (only) a handful of school districts" doing no in-person instruction.

Louis Jacobson

2021-03-29 00:00:00

mostly-true

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/aug/28/facebook-posts/yes-trump-said-he-offered-russia-help-wildfires-no/

Yes, Trump Said He Offered Russia Help With Wildfires. No, He Didn’t Deny California Fire Assistance

UPDATE: Nearly two months after we published our fact check, the Trump administration on Oct. 15, 2020 rejected California’s subsequent request for disaster relief for six major wildfires, including the Creek Fire near Fresno. A White House spokesman told The New York Times that President Donald Trump had already come to the state’s assistance by authorizing funds for fires earlier this year and that data on the recent fires did not meet a threshold for federal help. California officials planned to appeal. Our rating of False on the Aug. 23 Facebook post remains the same as we decide our ratings based on the information available at the time. On Oct. 16, 2020, the Trump administration reversed course and approved California's request.  President Trump has repeatedly threatened to withhold federal wildfire assistance to California, including last week as hundreds of lightning-sparked blazes burned across the state’s northern and central regions. He’s also made numerous false and oversimplified claims about what’s driving these infernos, reducing the complex matter to a need to remove "leaves, debris and fallen trees," from the forest floor.  But has Trump ever "denied fire assistance" to the Golden State? And did he really help Russia with their fires in Siberia?  That’s the claim in a viral Facebook post published Aug. 23:  The post was flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about PolitiFact California’s partnership with Facebook).  We decided to douse this fiery claim with a bucket of facts.  Did Trump ‘Deny’ Fire Aid To California?  Trump’s most recent threat to withhold assistance was Aug. 20 during a campaign speech in Pennsylvania: "Maybe we're just going to have to make them pay for it, because they don't listen to us," Trump said at the event. "We say, you've got to get rid of the leaves. You've got to get rid of the debris. You've got to get rid of the fallen trees." Forestry and fire experts say dense material on forest floors can make fires worse. But that’s not what’s driving them. California’s extreme heat, a siege of lightning strikes and low humidity all combined to cause the current blazes, Keith Gilless, chairman of the California Board of Forestry and Fire Protection said last week. Given Trump’s repeated criticism of the state, some might assume he withheld the aid. But he didn’t.  Two days after the president’s threat, Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom announced the White House had approved the state’s request for a Presidential Major Disaster Declaration. The approval helps fire victims with crisis counseling, housing, unemployment assistance and legal services.   "It also provides federal assistance to help state, tribal and local governments fund emergency response, recovery and protective measures," Newsom’s announcement reads. The same day Trump threatened to withhold aid, Newsom thanked the Trump administration for its help. He told the Associated Press that he has a "strong personal relationship with the president." "While he may make statements publicly, the working relationship privately has been a very effective one," Newsom said, according to the AP.  Earlier in the month, on Aug. 18, the Federal Emergency Management Agency said in a news release it had "authorized the use of federal funds" to help the state fight the LNU Lightning Complex fire. As of Aug. 27, that set of fires in Napa, Lake, Solano and Yolo counties had burned nearly 369,000 acres, killed five people, injured four, destroyed 1,080 structures and damaged another 272, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection. It was threatening another 30,500 structures and was 35% contained.  It is one of several massive fires burning in the state.  As for the post’s claim California "didn’t vote" for Trump, that is correct. Hillary Clinton received 61.5% of the state’s vote in the 2016 presidential election and nearly 4.3 million more votes than Trump. Did Trump Help Russia ‘With Their Wildfires In Siberia’?  It’s not clear Trump actually helped Russia with wildfires that burned across Siberia last year. But both Trump and Russia say he offered to. As Snopes.com reported last year, the Russian government published a statement about a phone call between Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin on July 31, 2019: The statement reads: "Vladimir Putin had a telephone conversation with US President Donald Trump this evening at the American side’s initiative. The US President offered help in putting out wildfires in Siberia. The President of Russia expressed sincere gratitude for the kind attention and the offer of help and assistance." In the statement, Putin goes on to say he would accept the offer "if it becomes necessary." At a press conference the next day later, Trump told reporters he offered Russia help.  "Mostly we discussed the forest fires in Siberia, and other parts of Russia. And I said, look, we have the greatest equipment, if we could help you let us know. Large sections are burning, and so I said to President Putin, if we can help you, let me know," Trump said.  We did not find any evidence he followed through and provided assistance to combat the fires in Siberia.  Our Rating A widely-shared Facebook post claims President Trump "denied fire assistance" to California but helped Russia with its wildfires in Siberia.  Trump has repeatedly said he would withhold fire assistance to the state, including last week as a set of massive blazes burned in California. But he didn’t follow through in the past or this time. Instead, we found announcements showing the White House approved federal assistance.  Last year, Trump said he offered Russia help in Siberia, but we found no evidence that he followed through on that pledge, either.  In the end, the viral post plays on some assumptions about Trump — that he disdains left-leaning California but supports the authoritarian Russian Federation. The problem is it takes some big and inaccurate leaps in the process.  We rated it False.  FALSE – The statement is not accurate.

National,Corrections and Updates,Fires,Facebook Fact-checks,California,Facebook posts

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Facebook posts

2021-03-22 00:00:00

remarks

“In a majority of states, new voters are able to obtain a rifle quicker than they’re able to cast their first ballot.”

Jon Greenberg

2021-03-29 00:00:00

half-true

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/aug/27/facebook-posts/online-post-wrong-about-some-claims-sex-gun-offens/

Online post wrong about some claims on sex, gun offenses in Jacob Blake’s past

Editor's note: This story has been updated to note that dispatch audio indicates responding officers were aware of Blake's warrant. This did not affect our rating. When Kenosha police shot a Black man in the back seven times, it launched a now all-too-familiar avalanche of reaction. Protests. Property damage. And an online rush to judgement fueled by each poster’s pre-existing position on social justice and the Black Lives Matter movement. Police shot Jacob Blake, 29, on the evening of Aug. 23, 2020, as he attempted to get into a small SUV with his three sons inside while officers aimed guns at him, according to officials and a bystander’s video of the incident that has been shared throughout the world. Blake survived, but his family’s attorney said he is paralyzed from the waist down At this stage, there are more questions than answers about what happened before the video was taken. Some of that may not be known for months, until an outside review by the state Department of Justice is completed. But we can address Blake’s background, which many posters have used to suggest is evidence that he is to blame for what happened. An Aug. 24, 2020, Facebook post shared thousands of times asserts Blake "had an active warrant for domestic violence and sexual assault" and "has prior criminal convictions for illegal gun use." This post was flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about our partnership with Facebook). Such allegations are a common and patently unfair response to tragic events that need to be corrected, said Daniel Medwed, professor of law and criminal justice at Northeastern University School of Law.  Attacks on a victim’s actions and background can impact both the court of public opinion and the ensuing criminal court actions, he said. "You’re fighting in two different courts basically with a high-profile case, and victim-blaming can 'help' with both," Medwed said. "The narrative seems to always be about the danger posed by the victim, to basically create a sentiment that police were in danger. … The implication from that is that because there’s something bad about their character they somehow deserved what they got, which is patently absurd and absolutely disgusting." Here’s what we know about Blake’s past contact with law enforcement. One open case had warrants The first part of this claim is largely accurate. Blake was charged July 6, 2020, with felony third-degree sexual assault and misdemeanor trespassing and disorderly conduct. All three offenses carried a penalty enhancer because they were connected to domestic abuse. The charges — which have not gone to trial — stem from a May 3, 2020, incident in Kenosha County. A woman Blake knew told police he came into her house about 6 a.m., sexually assaulted her and then took a debit card and car keys before fleeing in her vehicle, according to a criminal complaint. (Contrary to many social media claims, the woman involved in this case was an adult). A warrant for Blake’s arrest was filed the day after the criminal complaint, online court records show. Police radio traffic shows officers were dispatched for "family trouble," and a dispatcher named Blake as taking the caller’s keys and refusing to give them back. A dispatcher used the police code 10-99 while sending officers, alerting them to Blake's warrant. Charges, but no conviction for gun use The second element of the claim is wrong. Blake was charged with a gun-related offense in 2015, but he was not convicted. The Facebook post offered as proof a Sept. 22, 2015, article from the Racine County Eye website. It described charges being filed, but did not reference a conviction. Our review of court records shows a confrontation at a Racine County bar led to a combative traffic stop and a total of five criminal charges in September 2015, including resisting an officer, disorderly conduct and three gun-related ones. But those charges were later dismissed on a motion from prosecutors, said Racine County Clerk of Circuit Court Samuel Christensen. The court file said it was dismissed in February 2018 "due to witness issues and age of case." After this fact-check published, the Facebook page that posted the claim edited the post to note the error and correct the reference to a conviction. Since more than two years has passed since the case was dismissed, it is no longer visible via online court records, per a Wisconsin Supreme Court rule.  Our ruling A viral Facebook post says Blake had a warrant for sexual assault and prior convictions for gun use. Blake did have an active warrant for sexual assault and several other crimes related to domestic violence at the time he was shot. But Blake was not convicted of any prior gun offenses. Charges filed in 2015 were ultimately dismissed at the request of prosecutors. We rate this claim Half True. 

Criminal Justice,Crime,Race and Ethnicity,Wisconsin,Facebook posts

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Tony Evers

2021-03-18 00:00:00

a House hear

The Democratic clean energy plan is pro-China, because "90% of the solar panels, 80% of the wind machines, 90% of the rare earth minerals … are in Asia or in China.”

Madison Czopek

2020-08-28 00:00:00

false

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/aug/27/doug-jones/tuberville-did-say-he-wouldnt-have-clue-covid-19-h/

Tuberville did say he ‘wouldn’t have a clue’ on COVID-19, but has said more

Sen. Doug Jones, an Alabama Democrat who could face an uphill battle for re-election against Republican Tommy Tuberville, is attacking the former college football coach as something of a know-nothing on a critical subject: the federal response to the coronavirus pandemic. Jones made the attack on Tuberville in an Aug. 7 interview with Alabama Public Television host Don Dailey.  "He’s never been challenged on the issues, Don, and that’s the key," Jones said. "In April, he said on a radio show, when asked how he would handle the pandemic, he said he didn’t have a clue. Just right after the Republican nomination, he was asked the same question and he still said he didn’t have a clue." Jones also posted that clip from the "Capitol Journal" show on Facebook. Tuberville did say, in March, he "didn’t have a clue" on how to handle COVID-19 and in July said, "I don’t know which way you go." He has not laid out a plan for addressing the virus, though he has taken some positions on pandemic-related shutdowns and federal emergency aid. Tuberville’s campaign referred us to statements he has made in support of sending children back to school and restarting sports. A pivotal Senate race Tuberville, who had his greatest success as a football coach at Auburn University in Alabama, is making his first run for public office. He’s challenging Jones, who won a special election in December 2017 for the seat vacated by Republican Jeff Sessions, who became President Donald Trump’s first attorney general. The outcome of their Nov. 3 race could help determine whether Republicans keep a majority in the Senate, where they now control 53 seats. As of Aug. 17, the race is rated as "lean Republican" by the Cook Political Report. Jones’ evidence To back Jones’ attack, his campaign cited two Tuberville radio interviews. 1. "Wouldn’t have a clue": Birmingham talk show co-host Matt Murphy asked Tuberville on March 19 if he agreed with the Trump administration on sending stimulus checks to people in response to the coronavirus pandemic.  "I’d have to look at it, Matt, because we don’t have the money, number one," Tuberville said, adding that it was unknown how many people would need the financial assistance. "The unknown is what is so tough here and that's the reason, the decision's going to have to be made from just a group of people in the White House and hopefully a few people, people in the Senate and the House of making the decision for the people and take politics out of it." He added:  "The decision is basically two words. You’re either going to pay or you’re going to send people back to work, at the end of the day. And they know a lot more about the situation than we do. They’ve got all the facts and figures and they’re working around the clock. So, to make a decision from my standpoint, I wouldn’t have a clue. It’d be like putting a game plan together and not be around it and all of a sudden trying to call plays, not knowing what the defense does. You’ve got to know everything around you." 2. "Don’t know which way you go": On July 17, Rick Burgess, co-host of a Birmingham show, raised COVID-19 and asked: "What would be your approach to what’s going on?" After saying that initially the pandemic might have been "overblown to a point," and then making a reference to how Sweden responded, Tuberville replied: "The thing you’ve got to remember — five, eight years ago, we couldn’t have done that; technology-wise, we couldn’t have shut the country down like we did. We didn’t have the Zooms and all those things that we could continue to work, and we would have just fought through it. I think that technology gives us an easier out in terms of saying, Shut everybody down." He added: "I tell you, we’ve got to work through this. But I tell you, it’s an unseen virus. We know very little about it. We’re learning more about it. The previous administration just left us without any kind of medical supplies. President Trump’s had to dig deep. And boy, he’s taken a lot of hits. But I don’t know which way you go, at the end of the day, whether you’re right or wrong, or anything that you do with this. Because, we’ve got to just fight through it ourselves and mentally fight back." Other Tuberville statements Tuberville has not laid out a plan for addressing COVID-19 and has sometimes downplayed its seriousness. He highlights 10 issues on his campaign website, including health care, but COVID-19 is not mentioned.  In July, Tuberville raised funds and held face-to-face meetings in Washington, D.C., defying orders from the city that visitors from certain coronavirus hot spots quarantine upon arrival, the Washington Post reported. "The D.C. Democrat mayor’s order specifically applies only to nonessential travel, and Coach Tuberville was not up there sightseeing," his campaign responded in a statement. But we found that Tuberville has expressed some opinions on the response to the pandemic, especially in the education and athletic contexts: For playing football, returning to school: "We have to put our kids in a school — keep them protected, be socially responsible — but we need to get back to school and get back to normal life," Tuberville said Aug. 12 on Fox News. He also said college football should be played this fall: "There’s nobody more protected than college athletes and high school athletes. They have doctors, they have ways to wash their clothes that get them disinfected." Against extending unemployment aid: Tuberville opposed extending a $600-per-week federal bonus on unemployment checks as being "way too much." He said, according to an Aug. 6 AL.com report: "We’re having people just sit out not working because they’re making more sitting around. We’ve got to go back to work." On investigating the origins of the virus: Asked about whether China should be investigated regarding the origins of the coronavirus, Tuberville said it should, according to a May 7 report from WPMI-TV in Mobile. He added: "I trust President Trump to get us out of it, and everybody wants to start pointing fingers. We don’t need to point fingers until we get out of it, then we can hold whoever’s accountable, accountable." Tuberville’s campaign referred us to a July 23 radio interview it described as representative of statements Tuberville has made on COVID-19. On that show, Tuberville noted that the virus affects people differently, complained that medical experts such as Dr. Anthony Fauci have often been wrong about the virus, and said: "If you need to wear a mask, wear a mask."  He reiterated that kids need to return to school, perhaps with modifications for children or teachers who have health risks. "These people make a lot of money, these superintendents and principals. They can figure out a way to make it safe for the teachers and the kids. We’ve got to get back to school and we’ve got to get back to athletics," he said. Our ruling Tuberville did say in March he "wouldn’t have a clue" about whether to make stimulus payments to Americans unemployed by the pandemic or to send them back to work. And in July, when asked what his approach to the pandemic would be, he said: "But I don’t know which way you go, at the end of the day, whether you’re right or wrong, or anything that you do with this." Tuberville also has not laid out a plan for what he would do about COVID-19, but he has stated some positions, including that people should return to work and children should return to school. Jones’ statement is accurate, but needs additional information — our definition of Mostly True.

Public Health,Coronavirus,Doug Jones

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Alex Padilla

2020-08-18 00:00:00

a Facebook post:

“... in 2013 Obama determined Social Security would not send checks through the USPS, because it was not secure”

Chris Nichols

2020-08-28 00:00:00

false

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/aug/27/facebook-posts/cosmetology-license-takes-more-training-hours-poli/

A cosmetology license takes more training hours than policing, but comparison oversimplifies

Editor's note: This item was updated to reflect that officers may be permitted up to five years to attain an associate's degree. This does  not change our rating. Police are under a national microscope after a Kenosha officer repeatedly shot a Black man in the back.  A video of the Aug. 23, 2020, incident circulated widely on social media appeared to show a Kenosha police officer grabbing Jacob Blake by the back of his shirt as he tried to get into a small SUV before an officer shot Blake seven times at point-blank range. Three of Blake’s children were in the vehicle.  The shooting, which paralyzed Blake from the waist down, provoked protests in Kenosha and across the country over police brutality and its disproportionate impact on Black people. It also renewed criticism of police departments, which some say are overfunded and do not adequately train officers.  An Aug. 24, 2020, Facebook post shared more than 1,300 times underscored that message. "Police training in Wisconsin is 21 weeks," the post said. "A cosmetology license takes 40 weeks." This post was flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about our partnership with Facebook.) Is the post correct about the imbalance? Police training vs. cosmetology  In Wisconsin, both police officers and cosmetologists must undergo training before they can assume the job. But the processes are very different. According to the state Department of Safety and Professional Services, applicants for a cosmetology license must complete at least 1,550 hours — or about 39 weeks if you assume 40 hours per week — of training at a licensed cosmetology school. The program must last a minimum of 10 months.  Alternatively, aspiring cosmetologists can take two to four years to complete at least 4,000 hours of practical training and theoretical instruction through an apprenticeship. They must also have a high school diploma or the equivalent of one.  Approved candidates must then pass a practical and written exam, which can take up to 6.5 hours altogether. Those who succeed and meet all other requirements receive a license.  So, depending which measure you use, the Facebook post is either about right or vastly understated the amount of time required to obtain a cosmetology license.  It also doesn’t tell the full story about police training. As of 2016, anyone who applies to be a law enforcement officer or tribal law enforcement officer in Wisconsin must undergo 720 hours, or 18 weeks, of training — even less than what the Facebook post claimed. The training curriculum for jail and juvenile detention officers is 160 hours. According to a document from multiple statewide law enforcement groups, the 720-hour academy includes written exams, 40 hours of scenario-based evaluations and training on ethics, cultural competency and racial sensitivity.  However, training is only one part of the puzzle. Unlike cosmetologists, law enforcement officials employed after 1993, excluding jail and juvenile officers, must have an associate’s degree or at least 60 accredited college credits -- or attain one within five years. They must also undergo a medical assessment, background check, oral interview and drug test.  The Facebook post doesn’t factor in the degree requirement, which is a key difference in this comparison. Cosmetology training can begin right out of high school, while police officers typically would first complete at least a two-year degree. The post also doesn’t acknowledge the 24 hours of annual training officers must undergo to remain in law enforcement. Cosmetologists, by contrast, are no longer required to participate in continuing education and must read a digest of rule changes that occurred during the biennium when they renew their license. The Facebook poster did not respond to a request for comment. Our ruling A widely-shared Facebook post in the aftermath of Blake’s shooting by Kenosha police said: "Police training in Wisconsin is 21 weeks. A cosmetology license takes 40 weeks." When you look only at training, cosmetologists are required to put in more time than police officers. The numbers in the Facebook post are slightly off and actually understate the gap, but the underlying point still stands.  That said, the post doesn’t account for the additional education requirements needed to become a police officer, nor the assessments they must undergo before they even begin training. That leaves us with a statement that’s partially accurate but leaves out important details or takes things out of context. We rate this Half True. See Figure 1 on PolitiFact.com

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Cathy McMorris Rodgers

2020-08-23 00:00:00

a Facebook post:

“Trump denies fire assistance to California because they didn't vote for him, but helped Russia with their wildfires in Siberia.”

Eric Litke

2020-08-27 00:00:00

half-true

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/aug/27/facebook-posts/no-jacob-blake-did-not-brandish-knife-gun-kenosha/

No evidence that Jacob Blake “brandished” a knife, got a gun before police shooting in Kenosha

Editor’s Note: Prosecutors revealed Jan. 5, 2021, that Jacob Blake was armed with a "razor blade-type knife" when he was shot by police. Kenosha County District Attorney Michael Graveley said as a result the officer who shot Blake could successfully argue self-defense, and therefore wouldn’t face criminal charges. That does not affect the rating for this item because ratings are based on what is known at the time. When this statement was made in August 2020, it was not clear what Blake was holding or when, given the grainy cell phone video and lack of detail released by police. As we wait for a full Wisconsin Department of Justice report on the Jacob Blake shooting, speculation has run rampant online about whether the 29-year-old Kenosha man was armed — and with what — in the moments before a Kenosha police officer shot him seven times in the back. The lack of detailed information from law enforcement has only added to the speculation. That includes a widely shared Aug. 26, 2020, Facebook post that starts out blaring "FACTS MATTER!!" before asserting this: "Jacob Blake declared he had a gun in the car and was going to go get it. He continued to brandish the knife while disregarding officer commands. When he reached into the car, officers fired. This is why they are burning down Kenosha, Wisconsin right now." It was accompanied by a screen grab from an onlooker’s video of Blake, where an object in his hand is circled. This post was flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about our partnership with Facebook). Here’s what we know. There was no gun The Facebook post avoids directly claiming a gun, instead attributing statements to Blake about having and getting a gun. We don’t know what was said, and we may never know since the responding officers weren’t wearing body cameras. The Kenosha Police Department doesn’t use them. Audio in the cell-phone video shot by a witness is hard to discern due to bystanders’ shouts. So there’s no way to prove this part of the claim directly — though no witness reports have emerged since the incident that offer this account. The man who made the Facebook post did not respond to a request for the evidence behind the claim. But we know there was no gun. An Aug. 26, 2020, news release from the Department of Justice said officers found a knife on the driver’s side floorboard, but "a search of the vehicle located no additional weapons." Knife involvement still ambiguous The role of the knife is much less clear. The DOJ has not clarified whether the knife was on the floorboard throughout the confrontation, or if Blake may have held it at some point. Spokeswoman Gillian Drummond declined to answer that question when asked by PolitiFact Wisconsin on Aug. 27, 2020. Video taken by onlookers shows something in Blake’s hand, but the resolution is low, so it could be a knife, sunglasses or something else. The man who said he made the widely shared cellphone video of the shooting, 22-year-old Raysean White, told the Associated Press he heard officers yell, "Drop the knife! Drop the knife!" as they scuffled with Blake before the shooting.  White said he didn’t see a knife in Blake’s hands. The audio captured by White is inconclusive, though there is a phrase or two that could be interpreted as, "Drop the knife." Blake’s representatives have said he was unarmed. His father told the Chicago Sun-Times for an Aug. 25, 2020, story, "My son didn’t have a weapon. He didn’t have a gun."  Blake’s attorney, Ben Crump, said in a statement released Aug. 27, 2020, "Jacob did nothing to provoke police. … Witnesses confirm that he was not in possession of a knife and didn’t threaten officers in any way." But another attorney representing the Blake family, Patrick Salvi Jr., had told CNN the day before that Blake didn’t have a weapon in the vehicle, which turned out to not be true. What we do know is that referring to Blake as "brandishing" appears to be an exaggeration. Video of the shooting shows Blake walking around the front of the car with his back to officers and his left arm swinging at his side, grasping some object.  Brandishing is defined by Merriam-Webster as "to shake or wave (something, such as a weapon) menacingly." That’s not what the video shows. Our ruling A viral Facebook post says Blake "declared he had a gun in the car and was going to go get it" and was "brandishing" a knife. We have no way of knowing for sure what Blake said, but we know there was no gun. And we don’t yet know if the knife police later found in the SUV was there throughout the confrontation or held by Blake at some point. But Blake was not "brandishing" anything in the video taken by bystanders. For our fact checks, the burden of proof is on the speaker. Due to the lack of evidence establishing these claims at this point, we rate this claim False.

Criminal Justice,Wisconsin,Facebook posts

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Facebook posts

2020-08-24 00:00:00

a Facebook post:

Says Jacob Blake, shot by police in Kenosha, had a warrant for sexual assault and prior convictions for gun use

Tom Kertscher

2020-08-27 00:00:00

mostly-true

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/aug/27/chris-larson/yes-police-were-208-more-likely-kill-be-killed-cri/

Yes, police were 20.8 more likely to kill than be killed by a criminal in 2019

Widespread condemnation of police brutality has picked up once again after Kenosha police shot Jacob Blake, a 29-year-old Black man, seven times at close range as he attempted to get into his SUV late in the afternoon of Aug. 23, 2020.  As Blake remained at a Milwaukee hospital, where his family’s attorneys say he is paralyzed from the waist down, protests developed in Kenosha and across the state. Politicians from both sides of the aisle have weighed in, including state Sen. Chris Larson, D-Milwaukee, who wrote this in an Aug. 24, 2020, Facebook post: "In 2019, 89 officers died in the line of duty. While every death is tragic, almost half (41) were accidental. That same year, officers shot and killed 999 people. Police are 20.8 times more likely to kill than be killed by a criminal. We must drastically reduce the use of deadly force in this country." Is he correct that in 2019, police were "20.8 times more likely to kill than be killed by a criminal."  Is he correct?  This post was flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about our partnership with Facebook). Let’s break down the numbers.  Police officer deaths vs. deaths caused by police, by the numbers  To back up his claim, Larson’s office cited statistics from the Federal Bureau of Investigation on the number of law enforcement officers who died in the line of duty during 2019.  According to those statistics, 89 officers were killed in such incidents last year. Forty-one of those officers were killed accidentally, the FBI says, most often in car accidents.  That leaves 48 of what the FBI calls "felonious" deaths, which are deaths caused by criminal acts.  Turning to the number of people killed by police last year, Larson’s office pointed to the Washington Post’s "Fatal Force" database, which since 2015 has been logging fatal shootings by on-duty police officers throughout the U.S. The Post tracks such cases by following local news, law enforcement websites and social media, submitting open records requests and verifying incidents with the police department in question.  In 2019, 999 people were shot and killed by police, according to the database.  In his Facebook post, Larson does the math: If criminal acts led to 48 officer deaths in 2019, and officers killed 999 people in the same year, that would make police approximately 20.8 times more likely to kill someone than be killed in a criminal act. The Post database breaks down another important data point: Black Americans are more likely to be shot and killed by police than white Americans. Black people account for less than 13% of the U.S. population but are killed by police at more than double the rate of white people  Black people are killed by police at a rate of 32 deaths per million people, Hispanic people at a rate of 24 per million, and white people at a rate of 13 per million, according to the database.  Our rating  Larson said police are "20.8 times more likely to kill than be killed by a criminal."  FBI statistics and a national database show that checks out: In 2019, police killed 999 people, and 48 officers were killed by a criminal act in the line of duty. We rate Larson’s claim True. 

National,Legal Issues,Wisconsin,Chris Larson

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2020-08-24 00:00:00

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2020-08-27 00:00:00

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https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/aug/27/mike-pence/pence-rnc-speech-praises-trumps-covid-19-seamless-/

Pence in RNC speech praises Trump’s COVID-19 ‘seamless’ response, leaves out his state feuds

Vice President Mike Pence portrayed his boss President Donald Trump as a leader who reached out across the aisle to help during the pandemic. "President Trump marshalled the full resources of the federal government and directed us to forge a seamless partnership with governors across America in both parties," Pence said during his Aug. 26 Republican National Convention speech. Clearly the federal government has provided supplies and funding to states led by both parties in response to the pandemic, and Pence himself has held regular conference calls with governors in both parties. But Pence was speaking about the actions of Trump, not his own.  Pence’s comments ignore Trump’s multiple feuds, many times with Democratic governors, about state-federal responsibilities and pandemic response.  A Trump campaign spokesperson sent us a list of dozens of tele-conferences and meetings that Trump or Pence had with governors including Democrats such as New York’s Andrew Cuomo, and Michigan’s Gretchen Whitmer. In March, Trump sent a letter to governors thanking them for "stepping up to help America confront this unprecedented global pandemic." The campaign pointed to actions by administration officials to brief governors about making available supplies, such as testing swabs, utilizing the National Guard, and reopening their state’s economies.  Trump argued with governors over COVID-19 supplies, tests Early in the pandemic, Trump traded barbs with governors, especially over where responsibility lay in securing medical supplies for the states.  After declaring a national emergency over the health crisis on March 13, Trump directed governors to order their own ventilators, respirators and supplies, saying the federal government is "not a shipping clerk." Governors in both parties shot back that Trump’s stance, and the lack of coordination from Washington, left states bidding against one another and the federal government for access to critical equipment. Cuomo said it was akin to competing on eBay with 50 other states and the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Whitmer and Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan, a Republican and then chair of the National Governors Association, were among those pleading for better coordination from FEMA to ensure that supplies were distributed based on need.  "The lack of any centralized coordination is creating a counterproductive competition between states and the federal government to secure limited supplies, driving up prices and exacerbating existing shortages," they wrote in a joint March 30 op-ed in the Washington Post. A couple days earlier, Trump said during a White House briefing that governors should be "appreciative" toward him and the federal government. Speaking of Pence, Trump said: "He calls all the governors. I tell him — I mean, I’m a different type of person — I say, ‘Mike, don’t call the governor of Washington. You’re wasting your time with him. Don’t call the woman in Michigan.’" On Twitter, Trump said Whitmer was "way in over her head, she doesn’t have a clue." In April, Trump said that testing "is a local thing" and that states should turn to commercial labs for help. After he was blasted by governors from both parties, Trump said the federal government would step up efforts to get testing supplies. Governors also called on Trump early on to enact the Defense Production Act, a law that gives the president authority to expedite the supply of materials for national defense, in order to ramp up production of personal protective equipment and COVID-19 testing supplies. While the president did eventually invoke the act to produce ventilators and medical equipment, he delayed efforts to do so and did it sparingly. Washington Gov. Jay Inslee and Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson called for him to broaden its use.  Trump’s justification for slow-rolling the act was that he didn’t want the government to intervene in the private sector.  "You know, we’re a country not based on nationalizing our business," Trump said at a coronavirus task force press briefing on March 22. "Call a person over in Venezuela, ask them how did nationalization of their businesses work out? Not too well." In April, Trump said that Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp, a Republican, had reopened Georgia "too soon." In May, he criticized Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf, a Democrat, for keeping parts of his state closed that Trump said were "barely affected."  Trump said in mid April that it was up to him — not the governors — about when to re-open states on lockdown. Some governors bypassed the federal government to work together Frustrated with the responses from the Trump administration, some governors teamed up with each other to get needed supplies. In May, a coalition of governors from seven Northeastern states, including New York, Connecticut, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania and Delaware, teamed up to buy personal protective equipment and ventilators and to create a re-unified reopening strategy.  As late as July, some governors were calling on the feds for help and not getting what they needed. There were shortages of testing supplies, as well as personal protective gear. Washington state asked for 4.2 million N-95 respirators. It got a bit under 500,000. It asked for about 300,000 gowns. It got about 160,000. On Aug. 18, a bipartisan group of governors — five Democrats and five Republicans — announced they would be teaming up with the Rockefeller Foundation to create a national testing strategy in the absence of federal action. The 10 states are Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Ohio, North Carolina, Utah, Arkansas, Rhode Island and Virginia. Their goal is to buy and deploy 5 million COVID-19 antigen tests.  Feuds between Trump administration and states continue The Trump administration sought to pressure states to reopen in-person schools. In July, Trump threatened to cut off funding if schools didn’t reopen. This summer, the Trump administration reduced the federal share of National Guard assistance to the states to help with pandemic response, despite pleas from governors in both parties. An Aug. 3 memo said that the federal government would no longer continue to pay for 100% of the tab for most states and that it would be reduced to 75% as of Aug. 21. And when the CDC unveiled new testing guidelines that downplayed the need to test people who don’t show symptoms — about 40% of those infected — Cuomo and California Gov. Gavin Newsom said that they won’t follow it. Asymptomatic people are thought to be significant spreaders of the virus.  Both governors at times praised certain responses by the Trump administration to help their states respond to the pandemic. Our ruling Pence said, "President Trump marshalled the full resources of our federal government from the outset. He directed us to forge a seamless partnership with governors across America in both political parties." Trump and top administration officials have communicated with governors of both parties for months in meetings, phone calls and written communication. But Pence’s comment ignores that Trump has feuded with governors over state-federal responsibilities, supplies and shutdown or reopen policies. He’s also suggested a lesser role for the federal government, and said that the handling of COVID-19 should be left to the states.  We rate this claim Mostly False.   Loading…

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2020-08-25 00:00:00

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“BLM rioters just burned down a black church in a black community with a BLM sign out front.”

Ciara O'Rourke

2020-08-27 00:00:00

pants-fire

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/aug/27/ryan-holets/drug-overdose-deaths-declined-2018-theres-more-sto/

Overdose deaths declined in 2018. But there’s more to the story

Detective Ryan Holets, whose personal story includes the adoption of an infant born to a drug-addicted mother, addressed the Republican National Convention on its second night. He praised President Donald Trump’s efforts in addressing drug and opioid abuse and noted "drug overdose deaths decreased in 2018 for the first time in 30 years." The detective has worked for the Albuquerque, New Mexico, police department for nine years and was invited by Trump to the 2018 State of the Union address. The year before, Holets promised an addicted mom that he and his wife would adopt her baby — and they did. Holets has seen the results of the nation’s drug crisis both professionally and personally. We reached out to the Albuquerque Police Department for the source of Holets’ data but did not get a response. The nation’s opioid crisis has been a talking point in Trump’s campaign since 2016 — and his administration has touted efforts it has made to provide money to states for treatment and other programs, so we decided to look into it. Did the death rate decline in 2018 as Holets noted? Yes, but that’s not the whole story. First, some context According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 67,367 people died of a drug overdose in 2018. That number exceeded the tally, based on the most recent data available, of those who died either in car wrecks or by firearms. Two-thirds of those drug overdose deaths involved some type of opioid, including those given by prescription or those purchased illicitly, such as heroin. The CDC cites a rise in opioid deaths as coming in three "waves." The origin of the first wave came after doctors began prescribing more opioids for pain relief in the 1990s, with data showing a rise in deaths emerging around 1999, the CDC said. Another wave began in 2010. This one was fueled by deaths involving the illegal use of heroin. The third wave quickly followed, starting in 2013, with increases in deaths associated with synthetic opioids, particularly illicitly manufactured fentanyl. Despite the rising number of deaths, opioid prescribing continued to rise, fueled by marketing campaigns aimed at physicians by drug manufacturers. The total number of opioid prescriptions peaked in 2012 at more than 81 prescriptions per every 100 people in the U.S., according to CDC data. To combat that, a growing number of prescribing recommendations have been issued by physician and hospital groups, aimed at reducing the number of pills per prescription and the total number of prescriptions. The overall prescribing rate fell to 51 prescriptions per 100 people by 2018, according to the CDC. Still, Americans are more likely to fill a prescription painkiller than patients in other countries, and the rate of opioid prescriptions in the U.S. remains among the highest in the world. Deaths associated with all types of opioid use — from prescriptions to street use — are a lagging indicator of the number of people dependent or addicted to the drugs, said experts. Improved access to treatments to help people quit, as well as increased use of overdose reversal treatments, such as naloxone, can suppress death rates. The Trump administration has continued and expanded funding efforts, some of which began under President Barack Obama, to help provide treatment, research and other services. Yet the administration is also actively seeking to end the Affordable Care Act, which includes a provision requiring insurers to offer substance abuse treatment and has expanded access to treatment through Medicaid in the majority of states that fully implemented the law. So what happened with drug overdose deaths? Drug overdose deaths did decrease from 2017 to 2018, dropping by about 4.1%, according to the CDC. Still, the agency notes that the crisis is far from over, as the number of overdose deaths was four times higher in 2018 than in 1999. Parsing those numbers further, the decrease in deaths in 2018 came in three categories, with prescription-involved opioid deaths falling the most, a 13.5% decrease, followed by heroin deaths, down 4%. Conversely, deaths associated with the use of synthetic opioids, such as fentanyl, rose by 10%. So Holets was correct to say drug overdose deaths fell in 2018. But that statistic doesn’t put the issue in perspective. "It did decrease slightly, meaning it went from 134 deaths a day to 130 deaths a day," noted Dr. Chad Brummett, a director of the Michigan Opioid Prescribing Engagement Network, a collaboration of physicians that makes recommendations on prescribing. "It’s disingenuous to pretend that was a huge win," said Amy Bohnert, associate professor at the University of Michigan. "As someone who does research on this, I would be reluctant to consider a change of that scale to be clearly a sign of a real change as opposed to random error." Brandeis University professor Andrew Kolodny said it was the first overall downtick in drug overdoses in 30 years, but he would parse it a bit for opioids, saying it was the first decline in 25 years. However, a bigger issue for Kolodny is that the speaker failed to mention that drug overdose numbers went up again last year. "It is misleading to point to a slight reduction in 2018, when deaths went up again in 2019 and we remain at record-high levels of opioid deaths," said Kolodny, medical director for the Opioid Policy Research Collaborative at the Heller School for Social Policy and Management. The CDC says preliminary data shows reported overdose deaths went up 6% in the 12 months ending in January 2020. Our ruling Holets is correct in saying that overall drug overdose deaths ticked down in 2018, although a small category of deaths — those related to fentanyl — rose. And it’s pretty close to 30 years since a decline was documented. Still, Holets failed to mention that drug overdose deaths went up again last year, according to preliminary data from the CDC. Also left unsaid were other factors that may contribute to the rising or falling drug death rates — and what that may say about the underlying level of dependence or addiction. We rate his statement Mostly True.

Drugs,Health Care,Health Check,Ryan Holets

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Chris Larson

2020-08-09 00:00:00

a Facebook post:

Photo shows Don Lemon and Jeffrey Epstein embracing.

Paul Specht

2020-08-27 00:00:00

false

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/nov/10/eric-trump/no-rock-county-did-not-have-glitch-stole-votes-tru/

No, Rock County did not have a glitch that stole votes from Trump

The latest baseless Wisconsin voter fraud claim centers on Rock County, where Eric Trump and other conservatives claim to have uncovered votes that switched from President Donald Trump to President-Elect Joe Biden. Eric Trump, the president’s son and adviser, tweeted this late on Nov. 9, 2020: "BREAKING EXCLUSIVE: System 'Glitch' Also Uncovered In Wisconsin - Reversal of Swapped Votes Removes Lead from Joe Biden." He linked to a story from the Gateway Pundit bearing similar text as a headline. Eric Trump and Gateway Pundit have both circulated misinformation since the election, claiming voter fraud without evidence — or even in the face of clear evidence to the contrary. This claim is baseless. Rock County votes were accurately recorded.  Here’s what actually happened. The claim Gateway Pundit’s article claims they "identified approximately 10,000 votes that were moved from President Trump to Biden in just one Wisconsin County." They present as evidence two screenshots from Fox News’ election results showing President Trump listed with 46,649 votes at 11:43 p.m. on Nov. 3, compared to 37,133 for Biden. Those numbers then switched in a screenshot with a time of 11:57 p.m. Since current counts show Biden leading in Wisconsin by just 20,540 votes, the article notes switching those 9,516 votes back to Trump and away from Biden would make the state a virtual tie. But this projection only makes sense if Trump rightfully received those votes. And he didn’t. The article does not include any discussion of why those votes flipped, or interviews with election officials. Here’s what Gateway Pundit would have found if they had done that research. Media error led to brief number swap Vote totals reported by the Associated Press create the stream of data used by Fox News and many other election websites on Election Day. For Rock County, Wisconsin, that stream showed a steady increase for both President Trump and Biden from the first report around 8:30 p.m. until the last one just before midnight. When the final vote tallies were reported at 11:43 p.m. — after poll workers tabulated the absentee ballots — Biden’s total jumped from 30,453 to 46,649, while President Trump’s jumped from 31,343 to 37,133. (That difference in absentee ballots is consistent with the rest of the state and nation, as President Trump had repeatedly urged his supporters not to use mail-in votes, while Biden and Democrats had encouraged absentee balloting.) The Rock County Clerk’s Office website shows those tallies for the two candidates and has not been updated since 11:43 p.m. on Election Day, Clerk Lisa Tollefson said. However, the Associated Press sent an update at 11:45 p.m. that transposed the numbers, wrongly assigning the 37,133 total to Biden and the 46,649 total to President Trump. That was corrected minutes later to correctly show President Trump losing by 9,516 votes. That data is entered by the AP based on the clerk’s website, without involvement from election officials. "There was a brief technical error in AP’s collection of the vote count in Rock County, Wisconsin, that was quickly corrected," Patrick Maks, AP spokesman, said in an email to PolitiFact Wisconsin. "AP has myriad checks and redundancies in place to ensure the integrity of the vote count reporting. We are confident in what we have delivered to customers." In other words, the "glitch" was in a media system, not a voting system. The wrong numbers were briefly loaded into an array of media websites, but the numbers were never counted or reported incorrectly by Rock County. "Everybody’s human, but maybe you should check your source instead of jumping to conclusions," Tollefson said of the voter fraud claim. The 55% to 44% margin in Biden’s favor is in line with the 2016 election, when Trump drew 41% of the vote, compared to 52% for Democrat Hillary Clinton. Our ruling Eric Trump claimed on Twitter that a glitch uncovered in Rock County removes Biden’s lead in Wisconsin. But there was no glitch in the election system. And there’s no "gotcha" moment or evidence that will move votes over to President Trump’s column. The presidential totals were transposed for several minutes due to a data entry error by the Associated Press, without any involvement by election officials. The votes were counted following standard procedures by the Rock County Clerk’s Office and show Biden winning the county by a margin of more than 9,000 votes. We rate this claim Pants on Fire!

Elections,Wisconsin,Eric Trump

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Madison Cawthorn

2020-08-25 00:00:00

“Drug overdose deaths decreased in 2018 for the first time in 30 years.”

Daniel Funke

2020-08-26 00:00:00

false

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/nov/10/facebook-posts/siri-glitch-sparks-misinformation-about-biden-25th/

Siri glitch sparks misinformation about Biden, 25th Amendment

After four days of counting ballots, the 2020 presidential race was called for Joe Biden on Nov. 7. But some Facebook users say his election was a Democratic plot to put his running mate, Sen. Kamala Harris, in the White House. Their evidence? Something Siri told some iPhone users over the weekend. "God gave us a gift today--CONFIRMATION of the Democrats' sinister plan to REMOVE Sleepy Joe immediately using the 25th Amendment and instate Kamala Harris as President!" wrote actor Darin Southam in a Nov. 9 Facebook post. The post includes several clips that show people asking Siri, a virtual, voice-activated assistant included in Apple’s operating systems, how old the president is. In response, Siri responds: "Kamala Harris was born 56 years ago on Tuesday, Oct. 20, 1964." Southam’s post was flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about our partnership with Facebook.) Similar claims have been shared in hundreds of other posts, according to CrowdTangle, a social media insights tool. So we wanted to investigate. (Screenshot from Facebook) The 25th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution provides for the vice president to become president if the president is unable to do his or her job. But there is no evidence that Democrats are working to invoke the 25th Amendment against Biden — and if there were, it doesn’t stand to reason that Siri would reveal their plot. The Siri responses were the result of a bug involving election data supplied by Wolfram Alpha, one of the websites that provide information to form Siri’s responses. In one of the videos included in the Facebook post, Siri answered an iPhone user’s question with information from Wolfram Alpha, which describes itself as a "computational intelligence engine." Another version of the post shows that, at some point, Wolfram Alpha appeared to label Harris as president. In a Nov. 9 tweet, the company acknowledged a problem with some of its data about the election, but said it had been fixed. "The brief issue affecting data on Wolfram|Alpha about the US presidential election has now been corrected," the tweet says. "A bug in a new update process for handling uncertain/projected results caused garbled data to go live." Danielle Rommel Mayer, director of outreach and communications, explained it this way: "A small mistake made by a data curator, and quickly aborted, led to a chain of issues within our new update system that caused an inconsistency to be introduced, and not detected by our automated testing. The ultimate result of this was that certain natural language queries produced garbled results that incorrectly accessed mismatched parts of (the) internal knowledgebase, without correct tagging." In layman's terms: A mistake made by a data curator at Wolfram Alpha gave some iPhone users incorrect results when asking Siri about the age of the president. Rommel Mayer said the bug was fixed by 2:22 a.m. CST on Nov. 9. The bug is not evidence that Democrats are trying to remove Biden, who will be the oldest president ever to take office. RELATED: Trump supporters falsely tie Nancy Pelosi to broader election misfire scheme The 25th Amendment has been the subject of conjecture and misinformation since House Democrats introduced a bill in October that would create a new body to take over the role of the Cabinet accordingly. The bill came days after President Donald Trump was diagnosed with COVID-19.  Trump tweeted Oct. 9 that Speaker Nancy Pelosi was "looking at the 25th Amendment in order to replace Joe Biden with Kamala Harris." There is no evidence that’s the case.  On Nov. 9, we tried asking Siri how old the president is. The assistant responded: "Donald Trump is 74 years old." The Facebook post is not accurate and makes a claim based on a ridiculous premise that Siri would reveal a "sinister plan" by Democrats. Siri’s answer was the result of a mundane error. We rate this post Pants on Fire.

National,Technology,Facebook Fact-checks,Facebook posts

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Instagram posts

2020-11-04 00:00:00

a post on Facebook:

Officials in Fairfax, Va., gave 100,000 Trump votes to Biden.

Hayat Norimine

2020-11-07 00:00:00

barely-true

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/nov/07/tweets/list-does-not-show-over-14000-dead-people-cast-bal/

List does not show over 14,000 dead people cast ballots in Michigan’s Wayne County

A viral tweet claims that thousands of dead Wayne County voters cast ballots in this election. "Here is a list of 14+ thousand dead people who voted in Wayne County (Detroit)," the tweet says, linking to a list that provides the first and last names of just over 14,500 individuals and their birth year. This tweet marks the latest in a long line of false claims that individuals fraudulently cast mail-in ballots on behalf of dead voters. All of the voters listed are over the age of 100, but they’re not all Wayne County residents, and at least several of the voters named on the list are not marked in the state’s voter information center as ever having received or cast an absentee ballot. And at least one woman listed seems to still be alive. According to the state’s voter information center, one voter, Imo Oliver of Ypsilanti, included on the list of allegedly dead voters cast an absentee ballot this year. The state’s voter information center shows that Oliver received her absentee ballot Sept. 24, and it was returned to the clerk’s office Oct. 2. PolitiFact Michigan used public records to identify the Ypsilanti voter, and spoke to a woman who identified herself as Imo Oliver. She was an elderly woman who said she suffered from memory loss, but she said her son assisted her to vote in this election. Some may be dead, but there’s no evidence that the state counted any ballots cast by deceased voters. Others may be old, but there’s no law establishing an age limit on voting. Michigan is a member of the Electronic Registration Information Center, a multi-state partnership that offers access to federal databases and technology to ensure the integrity of voter files. The system relies on Social Security Administration death records to flag deceased voters. The state also checks to ensure that ballots cast by people who are deceased are not counted. In the August primary, the state successfully identified ballots cast by 846 people who had passed away between casting their ballot and the election.  "Ballots of voters who have died are rejected in Michigan, even if the voter cast an absentee ballot and then died before Election Day," the Secretary of State’s Office noted on its fact-check page. Sometimes clerical errors occur when recording ballots received by voters with similar names. The Secretary of State’s fact-check notes, "On rare occasions, a ballot received for a living voter may be recorded in a way that makes it appear as if the voter is dead." One viral example from this week concerned a son and his late father, who shared the same name and home address. A screenshot from the voter information center showed the elder Bradley as having cast a mail ballot in the 2020 election, even though he died in 1984. PolitiFact investigated and learned this was a mistake, not voter fraud. The city clerk’s office initially recorded the younger ballot as belonging to the deceased father, a consultant for the Detroit Department of Elections told PolitiFact.  The New York Times reported that "internet sleuths have widely disseminated what they said was evidence that showed Democrats were trying to steal the election. In virtually every case so far, mainstream journalists have found the claims to be false or the product of typical errors in the election process." Despite widespread claims that dead voters cast ballots in Detroit, Michigan, Virginia, Nevada and Wisconsin, none stack up. This one doesn’t either. Our ruling A tweet claims that this election, over 14,000 dead people in Wayne County voted. There is no evidence to support this claim. While the list contains the names of over 14,000 individuals, they are not all Wayne County residents. Several of the individuals did not receive or cast an absentee ballot. At least one woman listed seems to still be alive. There is no evidence that Michigan clerks counted ballots fraudulently cast on behalf of dead people. We rate it False. Reporting contributed by Ashley Nerbovig

Michigan,Tweets

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Facebook posts

2020-11-06 00:00:00

a Facebook post:

“The NAACP has received credible information that some of the white nationalist groups … will be looking to snatch black men and boys and hang them, shoot them, torture them and kill them.”

Ciara O'Rourke

2020-11-07 00:00:00

false

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/nov/06/nevada-republican-party/fact-checking-republican-claim-illegal-votes-nevad/

Fact-checking Republican claim of illegal votes in Nevada

President Donald Trump’s campaign and Republicans in Nevada are questioning the integrity of the 2020 election, claiming that there "appear" to be thousands of people who voted illegally. "Our lawyers just sent a criminal referral to (U.S. Attorney General Bill) Barr regarding at least 3,062 instances of voter fraud," the Nevada Republican Party tweeted Nov. 5. "We expect that number to grow substantially. Thousands of individuals have been identified who appear to have violated the law by casting ballots after they moved from NV." "In Nevada, there appear to be thousands of individuals who improperly cast mail ballots," Matt Morgan, general counsel for Trump’s reelection campaign, similarly said in a statement Nov. 6. PolitiFact reached out to Trump’s campaign, a law office representing the campaign, and to the Nevada Republican Party seeking information. We did not hear back. At this point, the claims are unproven. Lawsuit filed against against officials in Nevada, letter sent to Justice Department A lawsuit filed Nov. 5 against Nevada’s secretary of state and the Clark County registrar of voters alleges that "irregularities have plagued the election in Clark County." Clark County is Nevada’s most populous county, is home to Las Vegas and has the state’s highest number of registered Democrats. The lawsuit claims that there were "over 3,000 instances of ineligible individuals casting ballots," and that ballots were cast on behalf of deceased voters. It does not include evidence to back those claims. The lawsuit, which challenges the county’s use of a machine as a step in signature verification, was filed on behalf of a Nevada resident, candidate committees for two Republicans running for Congress, and another person identified as a credentialed member of the media. "We are not aware of any improper ballots that are being processed," Clark County Registrar of Voters Joe Gloria said during a press conference Nov. 5. Lawyers for Trump’s campaign sent a letter to Clark County’s counsel, saying, "We have confirmed that thousands of votes have been cast improperly. Indeed, we have initially identified 3,062 voters who moved from Nevada before the election but still cast ballots in this election." The lawyers said they cross-referenced the list of general election voters with publicly available change of address records. The attorneys sent a similar letter to Barr, the U.S. attorney general. However, a mismatch in those records doesn’t necessarily mean that a vote was cast illegally. The ACLU of Nevada said that an American who moved within 30 days before an election has a right to vote in a presidential race in their new state of residence, or may cast a ballot in their previous state of residence, in-person or via absentee ballot. A spokesperson for Nevada Secretary of State Barbara K. Cegavske, a Republican, told PolitiFact that the ACLU statement is accurate and also applies to Nevada. Trump’s lawyers produced a list of voters who allegedly voted improperly. But Jon Ralston, editor of The Nevada Independent, a nonprofit news organization, noted in a Nov. 6 tweet that the list includes Nevadans in the military who voted absentee. "Many on list sent to the DOJ have these postal codes: AE, AA and AP: Armed Forces Europe, Armed Forces Americas and Armed Forces Pacific," Ralston said. The list does not include voters’ names, but does show other identifying information. It includes the city, state, and zip code where one voter moved from, and the city, state, and zip code where the voter moved. For instance, the first page of the list says that "vote cast record 28" moved from Las Vegas, Nev., and lists as the new city "FPO" and as the new state "AE." The Defense Department says that "FPO" stands for Fleet Post Office, and is associated with Navy installations and ships. The U.S. Postal Service says that "AE" should be used as the "state" abbreviation for Armed Forces in Europe. Nevadans who go to college out-of-state and other people who leave the state temporarily can also get a ballot at a new address. So the list produced by Trump’s lawyers on its own does not prove whether the identified people cast a vote illegally. Our ruling Nevada Republicans said they found "at least 3,062 instances of voter fraud. ... Thousands of individuals have been identified who appear to have violated the law by casting ballots after they moved from NV." The GOP lawyers issued a list that they say shows more than 3,000 people who were no longer living in Clark County by the time they cast their ballots. The list alone does not prove a violation of the law. People who move within 30 days before an election can cast a vote in their new state, or in their prior state of residence, in-person or via absentee ballot. A Nevadan who goes to another state for college can also request a ballot. The list from Trump’s lawyers also included addresses for Americans serving overseas in the military. The burden of proof is on the speaker making the claim. The information released so far by Trump’s team does not confirm their claim. We rate the claim False. RELATED: Donald Trump’s Pants on Fire claim about illegal votes This fact check is available at IFCN’s 2020 US Elections #Chatbot on WhatsApp. Click here, for more.

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Recounts have swung elections in Wisconsin, but nowhere near the 2020 margin

Recounts are the topic de jour in Wisconsin, where the official canvass shows President Donald Trump lost the state by a more than 20,000-vote margin out of more than 3.2 million ballots.  We learned Nov. 18, 2020 that Trump will seek a partial recount, focused on the state’s two largest (and Democrat-leaning) counties, though the chances of flipping the outcome is considered a longshot at best. A recount in the 2016 presidential race in which Trump defeated Democrat Hillary Clinton by about 22,000 votes added just 131 votes to Trump’s margin. And a statewide recount in the 2011 Wisconsin Supreme Court race changed the margin by just 310 votes, retaining a 7,000-vote win for David Prosser. Even former Republican Gov. Scott Walker has noted on Twitter that Trump is unlikely to see a recount change the outcome.  Meanwhile, Meagan Wolfe, director of the Wisconsin Elections Commission, has said her agency had "not received any report of any irregularities" — despite repeated claims to the contrary from Trump and his team, made without evidence. Nevertheless, some Republicans have pushed forward on the idea of a statewide recount, including U.S. House Representative-elect Scott Fitzgerald, R-Juneau.  Speaking before the completion of the statewide canvass that confirmed the 20,000-vote margin, Fitzgerald said Nov. 8, 2020, on WISN-TV’s UpFront program it appeared the state was in "recount territory." Then he said this about recounts: "That is a very back-and-forth type of process in which arguments are made as to whether or not to keep a ballot, or throw a ballot out, and I’ve seen elections change as a result of those. I know some say that’s a high margin to really change but, you know, it can happen."  Have recounts really flipped Wisconsin elections? Yes. But not any statewide races or ones with the margin of difference seen here. Election recounts have not flipped statewide elections here Fitzgerald, the current state Senate majority leader, did not respond to repeated requests from PolitiFact Wisconsin to provide evidence for his claim. So we checked with experts and news archives to see what we could find. Reid Magney, spokesman for the Wisconsin Elections Commission, said to his knowledge no statewide race in Wisconsin has ever flipped due to a recount.  Since 2000, only three statewide races have flipped anywhere in the United States, according to a 2020 Survey and Analysis of Statewide Election Recount from FairVote, which advocates for ranked choice voting. They were a 2004 governor’s race in Washington, a 2006 auditor’s race in Vermont and a 2008 U.S. Senate seat race in Minnesota. All had initial margins of less than 300 votes. The FairVote study found the average statewide recount shifted results by 430 votes between the frontrunners, representing 0.024% of the vote in those elections.  But results have shifted in local races on multiple occasions in Wisconsin given the smaller vote totals involved. A few we came across in our research: In a 1996 race for Appleton mayor, a recount flipped the race from an eight-vote loss to a 14-vote win for the challenger.  In an April 2009 race for chairman in the Town of Wausau, a challenger had defeated an incumbent by a card draw after a tied vote, but a recount yielded one extra vote in favor of the incumbent.  In 1997, the former town chair of the Town of Fayette in Lafayette County ran as a write-in and won by a single vote in the initial count, but after a recount he lost by two. Other recounts have broken or created ties, including a 2004 mayoral election in South Milwaukee that initially ended in a tie, but showed a one-vote margin upon a recount.  And an April 2011 Oshkosh Common Council election showed a 14-vote victory, but a recount ended in a tie, forcing the candidates to draw cards to determine the victor.  How recounts work Recounts are conducted by the County Board of Canvassers, made up of a county clerk and two other electors appointed by the clerk, one from each party. A candidate who lost a race but was within 1% of the winner’s total can request a recount. For races with at least 4,000 votes, the candidate must pay for the recount unless the margin is less than 0.25%. In those tightest races the municipality bears the cost. The board of canvassers decides whether to hand-count votes or use a machine tabulator. Magney said there can be a "back and forth" at a recount, in line with Fitzgerald’s claim. "If there is an objection to the counting of a particular ballot, there could be a situation where arguments are made on both sides that the recount board of canvassers hears, it is documented in the minutes, the board of canvassers makes a determination, the decision is noted, and they move on," Magney wrote in an email. "The issue is preserved for any potential legal challenge to a decision made by the recount board of canvassers." Under state law, board members might discuss votes if a petitioner for a recount believes an error has been made (9.01(1)(b)9), if they need to determine voter intent (9.01(1)(b)8s), or if the person demanding a recount object to the counting of a ballot in a recount (9.01(1)(b)11). Our ruling  Amid discussions of a potential presidential recount in Wisconsin, Fitzgerald said Wisocnsin appeared to be in "recount territory" and "I’ve seen elections change as a result of" recounts. Some local races have indeed flipped, which lines up with Fitzgerald’s claim.  But he made this comment in the context of a potential recount affecting the presidential race, and no races of that magnitude or vote-gap have flipped in Wisconsin. Nationwide, a total of three statewide races flipped in a recount between 2000 and 2020, but none had margins anywhere near the 20,000 we see in Wisconsin. So races have flipped, but not races like this. We define Half True as a statement that is partially accurate but leaves out important details or takes things out of context. That fits here.

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Facebook posts

2020-11-05 00:00:00

a tweet:

A list shows over 14,000 dead people voted in Wayne County, Michigan.

Clara Hendrickson

2020-11-06 00:00:00

false

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/nov/18/facebook-posts/joe-biden-did-not-hire-mob-fabricate-ballots-phila/

Joe Biden did not hire the mob to fabricate ballots in Philadelphia

If you’ve seen a post that claims Joe Biden hired the Philadelphia mob to rig the presidential election results, you should forget about it. In a Nov. 17 Facebook post, Jeremy Herrell, a Donald Trump supporter and hip-hop artist who runs a popular conservative page whose handle is @TheHipHopPatriot, said Biden hired the mob to "crate (sic) fake ballots by the thousands." "We have breaking news of how the mob, reportedly at this point, has helped Joe Biden get thousands and thousands and thousands of fraudulent votes," he said during a Facebook Live video. "You cannot make this stuff up, ladies and gentlemen." Actually, you can — the claim is baseless. Herrell’s video was flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about our partnership with Facebook.) It has more than 176,000 views. (Screenshot from Facebook) We reached out to his page for a comment, but we haven’t heard back. During his video, Herrell cites a Nov. 14 report from the Buffalo Chronicle with the headline: "How a Philly mob boss stole the election — and why he may flip on Joe Biden." The Buffalo Chronicle website is owned by businessman Matthew Ricchiazzi. It has published false claims about prospective members of the Biden administration, Canadian politics and New York’s response to COVID-19. This new Buffalo Chronicle article cites anonymous sources to say the Biden campaign paid $3 million to "Skinny Joey" Merlino, a reputed mafia veteran in Philadelphia, and Merlino’s associates to fabricate 300,000 ballots in the battleground state. On Election Night, the site claims, Merlino and his team were creating 6,000 fraudulent ballots per hour. "They were then packaged into non-descript cardboard boxes and dropped off outside the Philadelphia Convention Center," the article says. "The ballots were purchased in cash." The Buffalo Chronicle wrote that Merlino "might just be willing to flip on Biden" if Trump expunges his criminal record. Merlino would "really like a job with the National Parks Service," according to the site’s anonymous source. There is no evidence the Biden campaign hired a mob boss to fabricate hundreds of thousands of ballots in Pennsylvania. The article plays into other baseless claims that widespread voter fraud in battleground states affected the outcome of the presidential race. On Nov. 16, the Buffalo Chronicle story was shared on Twitter by attorney Jordan Sekulow, who — along with his father Jay Sekulow — is a member of Trump’s legal team. The Sekulows have helped the president mount legal challenges in battleground states over the election results. "This is being reported by the Buffalo Chronicle," Herrell said in his video. "And it is verified by Jordan Sekulow." Jordan Sekulow shared the link and said "follow all leads." Meanwhile, Rudy Giuliani, Trump’s personal lawyer who recently falsely claimed there were hundreds of thousands of "unlawful votes" in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, told Fox Business the allegation was "far-fetched." We reached out to the Buffalo Chronicle for a comment, but we haven’t heard back. There is no evidence of widespread voter fraud in Philadelphia — and certainly not hundreds of thousands of fabricated ballots favoring Biden. "We just had the most transparent and secure election in the history of Philadelphia," said Philadelphia City Commissioner Al Schmidt, a Republican who sits on the city’s elections board, in a Nov. 11 interview with CNN. "I have seen the most fantastical things on social media, making completely ridiculous allegations that have no basis in fact at all." In a Nov. 12 statement, a committee made up of U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency officials and its election partners said that, nationwide, this election was "the most secure in American history." RELATED: How we know Joe Biden won the 2020 presidential race "There is no evidence that any voting system deleted or lost votes, changed votes, or was in any way compromised," the agency wrote. "While we know there are many unfounded claims and opportunities for misinformation about the process of our elections, we can assure you we have the utmost confidence in the security and integrity of our elections, and you should too." As for Merlino, the purported mob boss has been on supervised release in South Florida since 2018, when he took a plea deal in a racketeering and conspiracy case. During his most recent trial, Merlino said he had retired from the mob and was focused on running an upscale Italian restaurant in Boca Raton, Fla. Merlino’s lawyer denied his client was part of any voter fraud scheme in Pennsylvania.  "My client categorically denies all the allegations and Joey would rather die than ever be a snitch," John Meringolo told the New York Daily News. We reached out to the Biden transition team for a comment, but we haven’t heard back. The Facebook post is inaccurate and makes a ridiculous claim. We rate it Pants on Fire!

National,Elections,Facebook Fact-checks,Pennsylvania,Facebook posts

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Facebook posts

2020-11-05 00:00:00

a tweet:

Republicans in Nevada found “at least 3,062 instances of voter fraud. ... Thousands of individuals have been identified who appear to have violated the law by casting ballots after they moved from NV."

Miriam Valverde

2020-11-06 00:00:00

false

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/nov/18/donald-trump/no-michigan-has-not-refused-certify-election-resul/

No, Michigan has not refused to certify the election results

President Donald Trump continues his quest for victories in states that he lost at the ballot box, this time with a dubious claim to a procedural win in Michigan. "Wow! Michigan just refused to certify the election results." Trump said in a Nov. 17 tweet. "Having courage is a beautiful thing. The USA stands proud!" He was wrong. Michigan didn’t refuse to certify its election results. In fact, the Board of State Canvassers, which is tasked with certifying the results, has not yet met to do so. The meeting is scheduled for Nov. 23. Trump appeared to have confused the state board with the Board of Canvassers in Wayne County, the state’s largest. On Nov. 17, the four-member county board briefly deadlocked when its two Republican members initially voted against certifying the results. They later joined their Democratic colleagues to unanimously certify the results. What happened at the Wayne County Board of Canvassers Meeting The Wayne County board met Nov. 17 to consider the election results for the county’s 43 jurisdictions, which include Detroit. The Republican members of the board — chairperson Monica Palmer and William Hartmann — initially voted against certifying the county’s results, pointing to discrepancies in some Detroit precincts and absent-voter counting boards between the number of ballots recorded as cast and the number of ballots counted. Precincts with such discrepancies are considered "out of balance," unless the gaps are accounted for and explained in polling records. Of Detroit's 503 Election Day precincts, 85 were out of balance, as were 94 of the city's 134 absent-voter counting boards. Most of them recorded discrepancies of three votes or fewer; 10 Election Day precincts and 43 counting boards had larger discrepancies. The discrepancies amounted to roughly 400 votes, out of the roughly 250,000 votes cast in Detroit, according to unofficial election results. During the meeting, Palmer said she would be open to certifying the election results for jurisdictions outside Detroit, even though some of them also had precincts that were out of balance. The Republican votes drew a strong public outcry. Commenters weighing in on the Zoom call accused the the two Republicans of racism for suggesting excluding votes from Detroit, the state’s largest city, which is nearly 80% Black. Palmer and Hartmann changed their minds and ultimately voted to certify the election results and passed a resolution to have Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson audit the county's results. What happens next? Now that canvassing boards in all 83 Michigan counties have certified their results, the Board of State Canvassers is scheduled to meet Nov. 23 to certify the statewide results. A federal lawsuit filed by the Trump campaign asks the U.S. District Court for Western Michigan to stop the certification of Michigan’s election results. The court has not ruled on the case yet. The lawsuit largely bases its claims on hundreds of affidavits filed by Republican election challengers present at TCF Center, where Detroit election workers counted absentee ballots cast by the city’s voters. Claims of election fraud in Detroit have so far been rejected in court. Steven Liedel, a Lansing attorney specializing in state constitutional law, said state board members are obligated to certify the statewide results. "They have taken an oath to uphold the U.S. and Michigan Constitution, and they have a clear legal duty to certify the results if they have results presented to them," he said. Our ruling Trump claimed that Michigan "refused to certify the election results." That’s not true. The State Board of Canvassers that certifies the statewide results has not met yet. The board is scheduled to meet Nov. 23 to vote on certification. In Wayne County, two Republican members of the county canvassing board initially voted against certifying the results but later changed their votes. We rate Trump’s claim False.  This fact check is available at IFCN’s 2020 US Elections FactChat #Chatbot on WhatsApp. Click here, for more.

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