In our final wrap-up of repeated claims for 2016, the president and president-elect rehash familiar talking points.
Groundhog Friday
Locations: National
A Fake Mike Pence Quote
Q: Did Mike Pence call Michelle Obama “the most vulgar first lady we’ve ever had”?
A: No. That is a made-up quote and story from a self-described “news/satire” website.
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The Facts on Trump’s EPA Nominee
Scott Pruitt, President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to head the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, has made some questionable claims related to global warming, fracking and the Clean Power Plan.
Groundhog Friday
On his so-called “victory tour,” President-elect Donald Trump has been repeating some inaccurate talking points that we’ve flagged before.
Clinton Counties
Q: In the election, did Hillary Clinton only win 57 out of 3,141 counties?
A: No. Clinton won at least 487 counties, according to two different counts of preliminary results.
Trump, Russia and the U.S. Election
President-elect Donald Trump again discounted the possibility that Russia was behind the hacking of U.S. political organizations, including the Democratic National Committee’s servers, despite evidence to the contrary.
Video: Spotting Fake News
We offer a video guide of the advice we detailed in our report “How to Spot Fake News.”
Mailbag: Manufacturing Jobs and Fidel Castro
This week, readers sent us letters about President Barack Obama’s record on manufacturing jobs, and Sen. Ted Cruz’s claim that Obama praised the late Cuban leader Fidel Castro.
Trump’s Campaign-Style Exaggerations
President-elect Donald Trump kicked off his “victory tour” in Cincinnati, delivering a campaign-style speech that contained campaign-style exaggerations.