Q: Is President Trump giving $612 to all working Americans and their families?
A: No. That claim originated from a satirical website.
No Stimulus Check
Stories by D'Angelo Gore
Staff Writer, FactCheck.org
Trump’s Address to Congress
The president distorted the facts on jobs, immigration, health insurance, war spending and more.
FactChecking Trump’s CPAC Speech
President Donald Trump made a triumphant return to the annual Conservative Political Action Conference, where he made a lot of the same false and misleading claims we’ve been fact-checking for months.
Neil Gorsuch Didn’t Start Fascism Club
Q: Did Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch start a fascism club in high school?
A: No. Gorsuch’s senior yearbook jokingly says that he was the founder and president of the “Fascism Forever Club” at Georgetown Preparatory School.
Groundhog Day
It’s Groundhog Day all right. But instead of seeing our shadows, we noticed politicians making some of the same false and misleading claims that we have written about several times before.
Ted Cruz on SCOTUS Vacancies
Sen. Ted Cruz said that “it has been 80 years since the Senate confirmed any judicial vacancy for the Supreme Court that occurred during a presidential election.” He’s (almost) right, but his claim lacks context.
Eight Years of Trolling Obama
Some of the many false viral claims about Barack Obama’s faith and citizenship.
FactChecking Trump’s Press Conference
In his first press conference since July, President-elect Donald Trump repeated some false and misleading claims on jobs, health care and his tax returns.
Trump Errs in Reply to Streep
On Twitter, President-elect Donald Trump falsely wrote that a reporter “totally changed a 16 year old story that he had written in order to make me look bad.” As we have written before, the reporter never changed his story about the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
Plane Crew Didn’t Rebuff Obama
Q: Did the crew of Air Force One refuse to fly President Obama to play golf?
A: No. It’s a fake news story specifically targeting “conservative readers.”