Fact Checks

Fact-checking Trump’s claim the U.S. is the ‘only country’ that uses mail-in voting

By Amy Sherman, PolitiFact

President Donald Trump vowed to take action against voting by mail, which he said makes the United States an outlier.

7 moments from Trump and Putin’s history of falsehoods before their Alaska summit

By Amy Sherman, PolitiFact

U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin have lots of history. As their planned Alaska summit nears, here are key moments when each of them misled about Ukraine, Russia and the 2016 U.S. election.

How Trump exaggerates DC crime in taking over its police department and deploying the National Guard

By Gabrielle Lazor, Samantha Putterman, Maria Ramirez Uribe, Amy Sherman, PolitiFact

The nation’s capital is "becoming a situation of complete and total lawlessness," President Donald Trump said at an Aug. 11 press conference. Many of the details he cited do not stand up to scrutiny.

Fact-checking Trump’s claims about homicides in DC

By Maria Ramirez Uribe, PolitiFact

President Donald Trump stretched an outdated homicide rate into an inaccurate blanket statement.

The facts and timeline of Trump and Epstein’s falling out

By Madison Czopek, Gabrielle Lazor, PolitiFact

Before Trump’s presidency and Epstein’s conviction as a sex offender, the two socialized at soirées with Victoria’s Secret models, parties in Palm Beach, Florida, and trips between New York and Florida on Epstein’s private jet.

Fact-checking Trump’s threat to take away Rosie O’Donnell’s U.S. citizenship

By Maria Ramirez Uribe, PolitiFact

President Donald Trump is threatening to strip people of their U.S. citizenship, including political foes, as his administration works to deport people from the country in mass numbers.

Fact-checking Trump’s remarks at ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ on immigration and Medicaid

By Maria Briceño, Louis Jacobson, Amy Sherman, PolitiFact

President Donald Trump toured Florida’s Alligator Alcatraz migrant detention facility in the Everglades ahead of its first expected detainees. Here is a fact-check of some of his remarks.

Fact-checking unsubstantiated claims linking Gov. Walz to Minnesota lawmakers’ shootings

By Madison Czopek, PolitiFact

In 2019, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz reappointed the suspect wanted in connection with the shooting of Minnesota state legislators to a workforce development board. Conservatives baselessly said that implicated Walz in the killing.

Fact-checking misinformation about the Los Angeles protests

By Maria Ramirez Uribe, PolitiFact

Days of demonstrations against federal immigration raids in Los Angeles have fueled round-the-clock news coverage and a number of misleading social media posts, including unrelated videos being mislabeled or shared out of context.

Fact-checking Trump’s claim that prescription drug price drops could happen ‘almost immediately’

By Louis Jacobson, PolitiFact

Experts said Trump’s action could potentially lower the cost of prescription drugs, perhaps by the 30 percent to 80 percent scale Trump said, but they cautioned that the order’s required procedural steps would make it far from an immediate fix.