In a campaign speech supporting the Republican candidate in a special House election in Pennsylvania’s 18th District, President Donald Trump made several false and misleading statements on a range of topics, from drug smuggling to the stock market.
Politicians often make the same claims over and over again, leaving us fact-checkers empathizing with Bill Murray’s character in that 1993 classic “Groundhog Day.” This week was no different.
This video reviews President Donald Trump’s claims in the State of the Union about trade, job creation, auto plants, wages, immigration and U.S. aid to developing countries.
The president exaggerates his accomplishments in his address to Congress.
Statistical measures of the president’s term to date.
Leaders in both parties make false and misleading claims about the GOP’s $1.5 trillion tax cut plan.
The numbers are nearly all in now. What they show about what really happened during the eight years that Barack Obama was president is sometimes different from what politicians claimed.
At this stage of the campaign, we often hear similar claims repeated over and over in stump speeches.
Our last update on statistical indicators of the Obama presidency before his successor is elected.
This week, CNN’s Jake Tapper, working with FactCheck.org, highlights four claims Hillary Clinton made in a speech in Hampton, Illinois, on Sept. 5.