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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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…

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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.

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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."…

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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.

Politics Oct 05

Fact-checking Trump’s false claims about voter fraud and ‘rigged’ elections

Former President Donald Trump’s election-year message to his supporters is clear and often repeated: If Democrats win the November election, blame voter fraud.

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