Category: Fact Checks
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Fact-Check: Trump’s Claim About Eliminating Social Security Taxes
The claim contains a sweeping overgeneralization by stating “NO TAXES ON SOCIAL SECURITY” when the actual effect is far more limited and nuanced. The new senior deduction will benefit some seniors but not all, and even for those who benefit, the mechanism is not an elimination of Social Security taxation but rather a general deduction…
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Fact-Check: President Trump’s Claims About the Insurrection Act
President Trump’s statements about the Insurrection Act during the October 31, 2025, interview with Norah O’Donnell contained multiple significant factual errors.
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Trump, Biden, Obama Votes
In this statement attributed to Donald J. Trump, he asserts that Joe Biden received 15 million more votes in 2020 than Barack Obama did in 2012 (81 million vs. 65.9 million). Trump further claims Biden “beat” Obama in every swing state among Black voters despite those voters supposedly “hating him,” concluding that the 2020 election…
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Misleading on Gerrymandering
The meme simplifies a complex issue by equating disproportional outcomes with gerrymandering and by ignoring structural and geographic factors that explain seat distribution.
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Why don’t you make the vaccine safe?
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. stated that during a 1980s meeting between Wyeth (now Pfizer) and the Reagan administration, pharmaceutical executives demanded immunity from vaccine injury lawsuits, claiming vaccines are “unavoidably unsafe,” which led to the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986.
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Fact-Check: Trump in South Korea
In an address to business leaders at the APEC CEO Lunch in Gyeongju, South Korea, President Donald Trump made numerous claims that require examination.
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Donald Trump Remarks on Mail-in Voting
Donald Trump stated that mail-in voting is “totally rigged.”
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Trump’s Executive Power Deconstruction
The assertion that decades of bipartisan executive orders created an authoritarian control mechanism fundamentally misrepresents how U.S. emergency powers actually work. While these authorities are substantial and raise legitimate constitutional concerns, they operate within legal boundaries established by Congress and subject to judicial review – not as tools for overriding other branches of government.
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Trump Versus 100-day Polls
Let’s critically examine the claims made by Donald J. Trump in this post, focusing on his accusations against The New York Times, ABC/Washington Post, and Fox News polls, as well as his broader assertions about election fraud and media bias.