Vice President JD Vance gave the keynote address on the second night of the Republican midterm convention, which also featured Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., House Speaker Mike Johnson and a final send-off from President Donald Trump. Here’s what we found in fact-checking their remarks:
In announcing the latest FBI annual report on nationwide crime, President Donald Trump wrongly cast the decline in crime in 2025 as a dramatic turnaround and made misleading claims about the impact of his administration’s policies.
Our quarterly series presents just the statistics on various measures since Trump reentered the White House.
Our first quarterly update of various economic and social indicators under Trump’s second term as president.
At the one-year mark of Trump’s second term, we launch our “numbers” series, providing various statistical measures of his presidency thus far.
Statistical indicators of President Biden’s four years in office.
Crime statistics compiled by the FBI and other sources show an increase in violent crime, notably murders, in 2020 and a decline since. A revision to the FBI data this year doesn’t change that overall trend, despite claims made on social media and by the Trump campaign to the contrary.
Our latest quarterly report on various statistical indicators comes less than three weeks before Election Day.
We fact-checked Biden’s speech — which included many claims we’ve heard before — as well as the remarks of other speakers.
Former President Donald Trump said FBI data that show homicides and other violent crimes trending down are “fake numbers.” They’re not.