PolitiFact’s most widely read fact-checks of Donald Trump
Feb 1, 2024 · PolitiFact has published its 1,000th fact-check of Donald Trump. In addition to our data analysis, we decided to back at the 10 Trump fact-checks that our readers clicked the most.The list ...
PolitiFact | Donald Trump
Donald Trump. Donald Trump is the president-elect of the United States and will begin his second presidential term Jan. 20, 2025. He defeated Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 election ...
PolitiFact | How Donald Trump performed on 11 key promises
Jan 19, 2021 · Since Trump’s inauguration in 2017, PolitiFact has tracked 102 pledges Trump made to voters during the 2016 campaign. As he leaves office, our final report on the Trump-O-Meter shows he kept 25 ...
Fact-checking false claims about the 2020 election - PolitiFact
Nov 20, 2020 · Since Election Day, PolitiFact has fact-checked more than 80 misleading or false claims about voter fraud in the 2020 election. Federal agencies, state election officials and technology experts ...
Ask PolitiFact: What is antifa, and why is it all over my timeline?
Jul 2, 2020 · Antifa stands for “anti-fascist.”. It’s a broad, loosely affiliated coalition of left-wing activists that’s been around for decades, but has had a resurgence since the election of ...
Terrorism in the United States: key facts, patterns and trends
Dec 5, 2019 · The group reports that in the period post-9/11 to Aug. 3, 2019, jihadists killed 104 people. Far-right terrorists killed at least 109 people. The latest example cited by New America of a far-right ...
PolitiFact | The long history of racism in the US presidency
Jul 22, 2020 · Martin Van Buren was from New York, where slavery lingered after formal abolition. By the standard of enslaving people, "the first 60 years of the U.S. republic would have been run by racists ...
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Fact-checking Joe Biden on debt accumulated under Donald Trump
Mar 7, 2024 · Biden left out that the debt under his watch is on pace to exceed Trump’s one-term debt accumulation by the end of his current term, Jan. 20, 2025. During his first three years, Biden already ...
PolitiFact’s guide to understanding public opinion polls
Nov 21, 2019 · PolitiFact participated in a workshop hosted by the Poynter Institute (which owns PolitiFact) on understanding election polling. Here are some suggestions about what voters should pay attention to ...