Politics Jun 12 What U.S. law says about Trump’s deployment of active duty troops to Los Angeles The standard to dispatch the military to a state is not simply in the eye of the beholder. There are limited legal circumstances in which a president is supposed to deploy the military domestically.
Politics May 21 Fact-checking Trump’s claims of white farmer ‘genocide’ in South Africa White farmers have been murdered in South Africa, but those murders account for such a small percentage of the country's total and do not amount to genocide, experts say.
Politics Apr 10 Fact-checking Trump’s previous claim he wasn’t looking at pausing tariffs For two days, Trump and the White House denied that he was considering changing his tariff plan, before doing just that on April 9.
Politics Apr 06 Fact-checking misleading claims by Trump and his allies about Judge James Boasberg Displeased with the check on Trump’s power, the president and his allies have lashed out at federal judges — and against one judge in particular: James Boasberg, chief judge of the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C.
Politics Mar 18 Fact-checking Trump’s claim that Biden pardons are ‘void’ because he used an autopen Legal scholars say that the Constitution doesn’t require a pardon’s direct human signing, and subsequent judicial decisions and legal memoranda support an autopen’s use for similar purposes.
Politics Mar 02 Fact-checking Trump and Vance’s attacks on Ukrainian President Zelenskyy During Friday's televised Oval Office fight, Trump and Vance made several misleading claims about Zelenskyy and Ukraine. Here are the facts about three of them.
Politics Feb 16 Fact-checking Trump and Musk’s claims that they are cutting government ‘fraud and abuse’ Elon Musk and President Donald Trump say they have uncovered massive "fraud" in the federal government. But the projects the White House points to are largely ones that the administration disagrees with ideologically, such as about diversity, equity and inclusion…
Politics Nov 04 Don’t fall for these false claims as you await the 2024 election results On election night 2020, then-President Donald Trump prematurely declared hours after polls had closed, "We already have won." He hadn’t.
Politics Oct 28 Fact-checking Trump’s claims at Madison Square Garden rally Trump said the Republican Party he leads "has really become the party of inclusion, and there’s something very nice about that."…
Politics Oct 26 Here’s how election officials have boosted security since 2020’s threats of violence After the polls closed in November 2020, Americans witnessed an unprecedented intersection of violent threats and voting. PolitiFact interviewed current and former election officials about what they have done to mitigate violence and protect their staff and voters.