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Trump falsely said El Paso "used to have extremely high rates of violent crime -- one of the highest in the entire country," but now it is "one of the safest cities" because of a border wall. In fact, it was already among the safest cities before wall.

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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi opens the six hours of debate on the articles of impeachment by reciting the Pledge of Allegiance.

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ICYMI: Trump repeatedly claimed that when Biden was spearheading the 1994 crime bill, he called African Americans “super-predators, and they’ve never forgotten it.” Actually, that was a phrase famously uttered by Hillary Clinton — not Biden. #Debate2020

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Kamala Harris, former Vice President Joe Biden’s running mate, is eligible to serve as U.S. president, contrary to the false claims of viral posts on Facebook. Her mother is from India and her father from Jamaica — but Harris was born in Oakland.

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There is no evidence that “unindicted co-conspirators” mentioned in federal indictments related to the Jan. 6 Capitol attack are undercover FBI agents or informants, as conservative outlets have claimed or suggested.

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Trump again repeats his false claim that he built the "greatest economy” in history. Over the last 39 years, the real GDP has reached or exceeded Trump’s peak year of 3% a total of 17 times. #Debate

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Trump said Ambassador Stevens sent 600 requests for help. That's false. #debate

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Biden is right that FBI Director Christopher Wray called antifa more of an ideology, than an organization. #Debate

FBI's Wray says Antifa is more an ideology than an organized group

Wray also told Congress the FBI has seen "very active" Russian efforts to influence the 2020 election, to "sow divisiveness" and "denigrate" Biden.

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Elizabeth Warren claimed that Amy Klobuchar's health care plan is two paragraphs long. Warren is wrong. #DemDebate

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A baseless conspiracy theory claims that a secret supercomputer was used to switch votes from Donald Trump to Joe Biden. Experts — and the federal Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency — have said the theory is a hoax.

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Audits of ballots and voting equipment found no problems with the 2020 results in Maricopa County. But debunked claims about voter fraud are flowing again on social media amid a Republican-led audit in Maricopa.

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"Hoax" is trending on Twitter, since President Trump tested COVID-19 positive and some tweets claim Trump once called the virus a hoax. Here's what we wrote about Trump's "new hoax" remarks.

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Trump exaggerates the amount of voter fraud via mail-in ballots:

Trump's Latest Voter Fraud Misinformation - FactCheck.org

President Donald Trump continues to add false and exaggerated statements to his already lengthy list of bogus voter fraud claims.

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Trump falsely claimed that Biden called Blacks “super-predators.” Actually, that was a phrase famously uttered by Hillary Clinton about some “gangs of kids.” #Debate

FactChecking Trump's Fox News Interview - FactCheck.org

In an interview with Fox News' Laura Ingraham that aired over two days, President Donald Trump made several false, misleading and unsubstantiated claims.

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A viral deception on social media falsely claims a Biden campaign official was arrested in an illegal ballot-harvesting scheme in Texas. He has not been charged or arrested. The false claim stems from unverified allegations in an unsuccessful GOP lawsuit.

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6 years

President Trump tweets today that Comey "leaked CLASSIFIED information." There is no support for that claim, as we wrote once before.

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7 years

On Fox News, White House press aide Raj Shah misrepresented the special counsel's indictment last week against the Russians. Shah said it proved that Russia's meddling was "not about supporting one candidate over the other." That's false.

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Viral Deception Alert: A fictitious tweet attributed to Rep. Ilhan Omar is circulating on social media. The congresswoman didn’t write that the “time for violence is now” over her disagreement with President Donald Trump’s actions on Iran.

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Trump claims mail-in ballots are rife with fraud while absentee ballots — which he has used — require a voter to go through “a very strict process" that's "sometimes better" than a voting machine. In fact, the verification process is the same for both.

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A CDC document reviews the challenges of using a “shielding” approach to protect high-risk people living in places such as refugee camps from COVID. But Candace Owens falsely claimed it meant the agency was proposing putting high-risk Americans into camps.

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At campaign rallies and in tweets, Trump falsely said the World Health Organization changed its position and “admitted that Donald Trump was right” about lockdowns. But the agency has said no such thing. #FactCHAT

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Unsubstantiated posts spreading on Facebook and Twitter claim that Biden “got tonight’s debate questions in advance” and that he will be wearing an earpiece. There is no evidence for either assertion. #FactCHAT

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Sen. Joe Manchin, who opposes raising the federal minimum wage to $15 per hour, wrongly said “very few … if any” states have a minimum wage at the federally mandated $7.25 per hour. In fact, 21 states do.

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Trump said "more women in the workforce than ever before." True, but that has been the case every month for years before Trump took office.

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In Wisconsin, Trump falsely claimed the state’s dairy farms were “decimated” under the Obama/Biden administration but “now … are doing very well,” and he greatly overstated the potential impact of the USMCA trade pact. #FactCHAT

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Scott Pruitt: “Coal sector” added 7K jobs in May & “almost 50K" since last year. BLS: 400 in May & 1.3K since Dec.

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8 years

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Sen. Sanders claimed there was a “huge voter turnout” among young caucusgoers in Iowa this year, saying the turnout was “even higher than Obama’s extraordinary victory in 2008.” In fact, about 10,300 fewer young voters turned out this year than in 2008.

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Trump said he is "reversing decades of calamitous trade policies." Not yet. During a 12-month ending in October, the trade deficit was $604 billion. That’s an increase of $102 billion, or 20.2 percent, compared with 2016.

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The NIH did not admit it funded gain-of-function research on bat coronaviruses in China, and the NIH-funded experiments conducted by EcoHealth Alliance could not have led to SARS-CoV-2.

Republicans Spin NIH Letter About Coronavirus Gain-of-Function Research - FactCheck.org

Republicans say a letter from a National Institutes of Health official is an admission that the agency funded so-called gain-of-function research on bat coronaviruses in China, with some falsely...

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Cory Booker said “raising the minimum to $15 an hour … would put more money in people’s pockets than giving them $1,000 a month” under Andrew Yang’s plan. But the minimum wage bill phases in over 6 years & doesn't raise everyone's income. #DemDebate

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8 years

Trump is wrong that many people saw bombs all over the apartment floor in San Bernardino terror attack case. #debate

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Facebook posts falsely suggest that envelopes used for mail-in ballots in general elections reveal party affiliation. Voting experts say they don’t know of any such labels in general elections — only on envelopes during primary elections.

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Several of President Trump’s supporters have claimed or suggested — without providing evidence — that a substantial number of votes were fraudulently cast by “dead people” in Pennsylvania.

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6 years

In calling for a border wall, Trump talked about "lethal drugs that cross our border and flood into our cities." However, the vast majority comes through legal ports of entry in cars and trucks.

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A conspiratorial video circulating on Facebook misleadingly edits Bill Gates’ Ted Talk to suggest his “wish” was to depopulate the planet through vaccines. #scicheck

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8 years

Trump Jr said Clinton ignored requests for help on the night of Benghazi attacks. Congressional investigators found no evidence of that.

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In outlining steps his administration would take on gun regulations, President Joe Biden misstated the facts on three existing policies.

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Viral posts wrongly claim that a painting depicting children in face masks was created as a mural for the Denver airport in 1994 — and baselessly suggest the COVID-19 pandemic was planned. The painting is not at the airport and not from 1994.

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7 years

President Trump falsely claimed that he “never said Russia did not meddle in the election.” He did. Numerous times. We list them.

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Trump says Clinton will raise "everybody's taxes massively." In fact, 95% of taxpayers will see little or no change.

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In apology, Trump says "we are losing our jobs." In fact there are 10.7M more jobs since Jan2009: #ObamasNumbers

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The president keeps tweeting about ballots being "found" and "counted" in swing states, repeating his false claims from the early morning WH speech. The ballots are being counted because they are legally cast ballots and that's how the process works.

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Trump said "more people are working now than at any time in our history –- 157 million." That's a fairly meaningless stat. As the population rises, the number US workers has increased fairly steadily for as long as such figures have been tracked. #SOTU

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Viral stories falsely claim a “Stanford study” showed that face masks are unsafe and ineffective. But the paper is not a study and not written by anyone at Stanford. #scicheck

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GOP Rep. Doug Collins - ranking member of the Judiciary Committee - quotes Pelosi as saying "it would be dangerous to leave it to voters to determine whether President Trump stays in office." That's not what she said.

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Trump says poll watchers are being blocked from observing early voting in Philly. He’s wrong. -- Philadelphia Inquirer #Debate

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8 years

Trump implies there isn’t much to learn from his tax returns. Tax experts disagree. #debatenight

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Trump falsely said Biden wants to get rid of 180 million private insurance plans and go to socialism. Biden has opposed M4A #Debate

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Trump said 100% of his foundation funds goes to charity. False: #debatenight

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Romney says he will pay for $5T tax cut without raising deficit or raising taxes on middle class. Experts say that's not possible....

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Trump vows "we will again build the greatest economy in history." He didn't build the "greatest economy in history" - as we have written multiple times, including last night. #RNC2020

Republican Convention Night 3 - FactCheck.org

The vice president accepted his party's nomination and then delivered a speech filled with false and misleading claims..

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Trump says illegal drugs "will be cut by a number that nobody will believe" if a wall is built on the southern border. But, as we wrote, most illegal drugs comes through legal ports of entry.

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Trump says "ISIS was formed" when US troops left Iraq. That's not what experts say: #debatenight

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Trump says Bill Clinton signed NAFTA. Bush41 signed it; Clinton signed implementing legislation. #debatenight

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Trump falsely claimed "we all laughed together" when in 2016 he said, “Russia, if you’re listening, find her [Clinton’s] emails.” Watch for yourself. #FactCHAT

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In his remarks yesterday, Trump repeated his false claim that "80% of spending is coming to the NATO from the United States." It's 22%, as we wrote before.

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When discussing the tax cut bill he signed, Trumped said "We passed a massive tax cut for working families." An analysis by the Tax Policy Center found most of the benefits of the tax cut go to the top 1 percent. #SOTU

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This week's fact-checking video is on President Trump's baseless claim that Hillary Clinton "lied many times to the FBI," but was treated differently than Michael Flynn.

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Former President Trump and the GOP Senate candidate in New Hampshire both resurrected a zombie claim that has been *repeatedly* debunked about busloads of people coming from out of state to vote illegally in New Hampshire. #NHSen

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7 years

No #FakeNewsAwards yet? While you wait, here's our partial list of times when @realDonaldTrump labeled accurate reporting as “fake news” or spread false information, while at the same time accusing the media of being “fake” or “dishonest.”

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Trump said, "We have now completed over 100 miles" of "a long, tall, and very powerful wall." Only one mile is new; the 99 other miles replaced existing barriers. #StateOfTheUnion

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Clinton is right that 90% of US has health insurance: #debate

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A Trump tweet & White House press release say today's indictment indicates there was “no collusion” between Russians and the Trump campaign, and that “the results of the election were not impacted.” But the indictment did not go that far on either count.

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. @SenSanders tweetstorm about the video @jaketapper did on M4A as part of our fact-checking collaboration with @CNNSotu was more misleading spin from the senator.

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Trump said a priority for him is "to protect patients with pre-existing conditions." However, his administration is siding with plaintiffs in a lawsuit that, if successful, would end ACA protections for those with preexisting conditions.

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Trump counts on 3% GDP growth to both balance the budget AND replace lost tax revenues. That's double counting:

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Trump doubled down on his claim that "3000 people did not die" in PR as a result of Maria, retweeting a @LouDobbs claim that researchers "threw out science and statistics" to make Trump look bad. Two experts we interviewed said the methodology was sound.

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Trump yesterday said he inherited "an economy that was going down." In fact, the economy had added 11.6 million jobs over Obama's 8 years and gained jobs for 75 straight months – the longest streak on record at the time.

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Trump claimed Fauci said masks are "not good." This is misinformation that is also being spread on social media. #Debate

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Pence said Russia investigation found "no obstruction" of justice by President Trump. That’s not at all what the Mueller report says. #VPDebate

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Biden's statement that 1 in 1,000 African Americans died of COVID-19 is correct: #Debate

Color of Coronavirus: COVID-19 deaths analyzed by race and ethnicity — APM Research Lab

COVID-19 has claimed over a million lives in the U.S. Our ongoing Color of Coronavirus project monitors how and where COVID-19 mortality is inequitably impacting certain communities — to guide policy...

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8 years

The latest video in our collaboration with @jaketapper looks at Trump’s misleading statements on Michael Flynn.

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ICYMI: The CDC hasn't "reduced" COVID-19 death count, contrary to false claims on social media.

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Tom Cotton said Biden opposed the mission to kill Osama bin Laden. As we wrote last night, Biden has said he wanted to delay the mission to seek stronger confirmation that bin Laden was at the Pakistani compound. #RNC2020

Republican Convention Night 3 - FactCheck.org

The vice president accepted his party's nomination and then delivered a speech filled with false and misleading claims..

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Trump says he got small loan from his father. He got more help than that: #debatenight

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Biden criticizes the cost of Medicare for All. The plan would require an increase in federal taxes, but it also would also eliminate or reduce health care spending by other payers, such as employers and individuals. #DemDebate

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Trump says he opposed going into Iraq. Here’s what he said before and after war started: #debatenight

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In this week's fact-checking video, CNN’s Jake Tapper looks at a false claim Rudy Giuliani made about the June 2016 meeting at Trump Tower between Russian attorney Natalia Veselnitskaya and Trump campaign officials.

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Trump boasts about Ford, Fiat & others creating jobs since election. The moves are unrelated to him: #JointSession

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Ronna McDaniel said Biden will "raise taxes on 82% of Americans." We wrote about Biden's tax plan. #RNC2020

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Farmers have NOT done poorly for 15 years. They had their best years from 2011 thru 2014. And tariffs are not "destroying their businesses." U.S. agricultural exports were up 30% last year. Get the facts:

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I am in Brussels, but always thinking about our farmers. Soy beans fell 50% from 2012 to my election. Farmers have done poorly for 15 years. Other countries’ trade barriers and tariffs have been destroying their businesses. I will open...

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Pence said “that’s nonsense” after Kaine claimed Trump proposed a “deportation force." But that's what Trump said.

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Trump repeats misleading $800Bn figure for U.S. trade deficit. It's not quite that high. The facts: #debatenight

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Trump today tweeted that Mueller lied when he testified "to Congress that he did not see me to become the FBI Director." But, as we wrote, Bannon told FBI investigators that Mueller “did not come in looking for the job."

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Pence said Biden would "ban fracking." Biden's plan will not permit new fracking on federal land - but there is no ban in the plan. Most fracking is done on private or state-owned land. #VPDebate

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Georgia State Sen. Vernon Jones said "mass incarceration of Black people" was "caused by no other than Joe Biden." Experts say the 1994 crime bill didn't cause mass incarceration, but some of its provisions exacerbated the trend. #RNC2020

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Cruz says “Obamacare is discouraging people from going to medical school.” But enrollment is at an all-time high.

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Trump refers to "American carnage" when talking about crime. Here's the murder rates since 1960.

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President Trump claims Roger Stone did “nothing” wrong and “nobody even can define what he did.” Stone was convicted on seven counts for crimes that are clearly defined in the U.S. criminal code. We review each of them.

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Harris says Trump called the coronavirus a “hoax.” That’s a matter of dispute. Trump says he was referring to Democrats finding fault with his administration’s response to coronavirus, not the virus itself. #VPDebate

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On @foxandfriends , Trump continues to push the debunked conspiracy theory about Ukraine. He said: "They gave the server to CrowdStrike -- or whatever it is called – which is a company owned by a very wealthy Ukrainian. And I still want to see the server." None of that is true.

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Trump says illegal immigration at the border is a crisis. Apprehensions on the Southwest border peaked in FY2000 at 1.64 million and have generally declined since, totaling 396,579 in FY2018.

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On Fox, Trump said, "I was in Louisiana opening up a $10 billion LNG plant that would’ve never been approved under another type of administration, never." False. The Cameron liquefied natural gas exporting plant was approved by the Obama administration.

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Pence misleadingly claimed Biden opposed the mission to take out Osama bin Laden. Biden said only that he wanted further confirmation that bin Laden was actually present at the compound in Pakistan. #VPDebate

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Trump says Bill Clinton signed NAFTA. Bush41 negotiated & signed it; Clinton signed implementing bill. #debatenight

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Contrary to claims amplified by podcaster Bret Weinstein during an interview with Tucker Carlson, COVID-19 vaccines have saved millions of lives, not killed 17 million people worldwide.

Tucker Carlson Video Spreads Falsehoods on COVID-19 Vaccines, WHO Accord - FactCheck.org

COVID-19 vaccines are generally safe and have not killed 17 million people worldwide, contrary to claims amplified by podcaster Bret Weinstein during an interview with Tucker Carlson. Weinstein also...

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At press conference, Trump said he won "by a very, very large Electoral College vote." He ranked 46th out of 59:

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Trump claimed Biden would ban fracking. Biden's plan says he’d ban “new oil and gas permitting on public lands and waters.” That wouldn’t prohibit fracking under existing permits or in non-federal areas. #32 on our list. #Debate2020

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Trump claimed ex-Clinton campaign manager confirmed that Clinton camp spread birther rumors in 08. He twists facts:

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