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A timeline of Donald Trump’s false wiretapping charge
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Trump tweet: NSA, FBI said Russia did not influence election
Claim based on sample of petitions
Wealthy foreigners can obtain visas through a special program, but only a small number "invest in true high-unemployment areas. Almost every other EB-5 project uses gerrymandering to qualify as distressed."
— PolitiFact National on Tuesday, March 21st, 2017
Made-up details from a real forum
Says U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price said, "It’s better for our budget if cancer patients die more quickly."
— PunditFact on Tuesday, March 21st, 2017
Cliff notes might have helped
"There's no demonstrable evidence they (after-school programs that feed kids) are helping kids do better at school."
Amped up
"USAID put $8 billion up and attracted more than $45 billion in a public-private partnership called Power Africa."
— PolitiFact Global News Service on Tuesday, March 21st, 2017
Widespread impact not proven so far
Says Airbnb "decreases real estate values and increases costs for workforce housing."
— PolitiFact Florida on Monday, March 20th, 2017
Revoking the reset
"In recent years ... the Obama administration was committed to the notion, against all evidence, that we could reset relations with Putin."
— PolitiFact National on Monday, March 20th, 2017
They didn't say that
"The NSA and FBI tell Congress that Russia did not influence electoral process."
Out-of-date numbers
"Roughly one-fourth of rural Missourians are unable to purchase high-speed internet, which puts them at a disadvantage in everything from education to entertainment to health care."
— PolitiFact Missouri on Monday, March 20th, 2017
CBO didn't exist in 1964
"I remember years ago looking at a CBO report that in 1964 predicted that Medicare would cost $9 billion 10 years later. And I think it was already over $100 billion at that point."
— PolitiFact Georgia on Monday, March 20th, 2017
That's not how NATO works
"Germany owes ... vast sums of money to NATO & the United States must be paid more for the powerful, and very expensive, defense it provides to Germany!"
— PolitiFact National on Sunday, March 19th, 2017
We compared to last year
The proposed state budget contains "an additional tax cut for the middle class."
— PolitiFact New York on Friday, March 17th, 2017
No need to pump up this figure
"The average margin of victory in the House of Representatives was 37%" for Democrats and Republicans in the 2016 election.
— PolitiFact California on Friday, March 17th, 2017
If not first, near top
Wisconsin is "the most -- if not Number 1, number 2 -- gerrymandered state in the country" for state legislative boundaries.
— PolitiFact Wisconsin on Friday, March 17th, 2017
School choice bills in every session see similar fate
"Texas legislators have filed voucher proposals in every legislative session since 1995, but all of them have failed to become law."
— PolitiFact Texas on Thursday, March 16th, 2017
Raises, yes. 15%, no.
Says Republican legislators in North Carolina raised the average teacher's pay "by more than 15 percent in just three years."
— PolitiFact North Carolina on Thursday, March 16th, 2017
A weak stat now debunked
"Experts estimate that 40 percent of gun sales occur in no-questions-asked transactions that often take place at gun shows or on the Internet."
— PolitiFact Florida on Thursday, March 16th, 2017
In the works
"There’s not one public study, and by public study I mean a study available to the public, that has looked at using the product Kaput to poison feral hogs."
Similar claim, same rating
"The past (Obama) administration was the first administration that never had a whole year of 3 percent growth."
— PolitiFact Illinois on Thursday, March 16th, 2017
The 'failing' New York Times
Says "the New York Times wrote about" Barack Obama wiretapping Donald Trump during the election.
— PolitiFact National on Thursday, March 16th, 2017
Plenty of amendments, few of substance
"2009-2010, let's remember, hundreds of Republican amendments were adopted in the ACA."