Fact Checks

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.

Fact-checking RFK Jr.’s claim that environmental toxins cause autism

By Madison Czopek, PolitiFact

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. attributed increasing autism rates to environmental toxins. Autism researchers told PolitiFact that lacks evidence and omits other important factors such as growing awareness that help explain the increase.

Fact-checking Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s statements on autism

By Louis Jacobson, PolitiFact

Medical experts, along with people on the autism spectrum, told PolitiFact that Kennedy’s portrayal was skewed.

Fact-checking misleading claims by Trump and his allies about Judge James Boasberg

By Amy Sherman, PolitiFact

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.