Pro-Trump TV Ad Overstates His Second-Term Economic Record
A TV ad from a group supportive of President Donald Trump makes misleading claims, and uses outdated data, to argue that he is "fixing" an economy "ruined" by Democrats.
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Trump Administration Incorrectly Claims Certainty About Origin of Coronavirus
Since regaining power in January, the Trump administration has repeatedly claimed with false certainty that the COVID-19 pandemic originated in a lab. But there isn’t clear evidence that the virus came from a lab. A new government website promoting the claim also gets some basic facts wrong.
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A False Claim About Illegal Immigration and Medicaid
A House-passed reconciliation bill would reduce federal funding to states that provide state-funded health insurance to people in the U.S. illegally, resulting in 1.4 million people losing coverage, according to a preliminary Congressional Budget Office analysis. But President Donald Trump and Republican lawmakers have wrongly cast the bill as removing these immigrants from Medicaid.
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Trump, Allies Spread Unfounded Claims About Biden’s Cancer Diagnosis
Former President Joe Biden's office announced on May 18 that he had been diagnosed with an aggressive form of prostate cancer two days earlier, following the discovery of a prostate nodule. President Donald Trump and others have suggested, without evidence, that Biden's diagnosis had been known much earlier and hidden from the public.
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Trump Video Doesn’t Show ‘Burial Sites’ in South Africa
In a salient moment with the leader of South Africa, President Donald Trump played a video that he said showed "burial sites" for a thousand white farmers -- the victims of what he has called a genocide -- along a roadside in South Africa. It actually showed a 2020 demonstration bringing attention to the issue of violence against farmers of all races in South Africa.
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