• Fox News Host Fact-Checks Donald Trump After Interview

    Fox News host Howard Kurtz fact-checked former President Donald Trump on Sunday following an interview in which he shared an oft-repeated false claim about abortion.The exchange began during an interview Kurtz conducted with Trump, who is now the presumptive 2024 GOP presidential nominee, in which the host asked if he would support a nationwide abortion ban after 16 weeks of pregnancy, a proposal he has reportedly supported in private, but declined to commit to one way or the other in public.In...

  • Trump's claim about hush money judge's daughter debunked in devastating fact-check

    Former President Donald Trump attacked Judge Juan Merchan, the jurist overseeing his Manhattan hush money trial, by claiming that his daughter posted a picture of him behind bars on social media.The problem, according to The Spectator's Jacqueline Sweet, is that that almost certainly didn't happen."The account’s veracity is dubious at best, with a creation date of April 2023. Analysis of the Twitter ID associated with the account shows that Judge Juan Merchan’s daughter Loren’s known Twitter...

  • 'This is embarrassing': Jeanine Pirro ruthlessly fact-checked over Trump legal analysis

    Jeanine Pirro, the Fox News pundit who is also a former judge, raised eyebrows Monday when she made a strange legal comparison between former President Donald Trump and two notorious convicted fraudsters. Pirro complained that Trump had gotten an unfair deal in his New York City civil fraud trial — in which he was found liable for $464 million, but will be allowed to pay a $175 million bond as he pursues an appeal — in comparison to Bernie Madoff, the perpetrator of the world's largest Ponzi...

  • Fox News Fact-Checks Donald Trump Bond Claim: 'Actually Not True'

    Fox News host Eric Shawn fact-checked former President Donald Trump's claim that the $454 million bond he has to pay by Monday is "unprecedented," saying it is "actually not true."In February, Judge Arthur Engoron ordered Trump to pay $355 million, plus interest, and barred him from doing business in New York for three years after finding him liable for financial fraud in September 2023 in a lawsuit brought on by New York Attorney General Letitia James' office. Trump, the presumed GOP...

  • Fact check: Analyzing the life expectancies of Biden and Trump, survival odds through 2029

    Recent polls suggest a significant number of Americans doubt President Biden, 81, could handle another presidential term due to his age. On the other hand, fewer respondents express similar concerns about former President Donald Trump, but he’s only a few years younger at 77.

  • 'Newsflash': CNN fact checks Trump on claim he has 'never mocked Joe Biden's stutter'

    Donald Trump may enjoy jabbing 81-year-old Joe Biden for his frail state, but he appears to have forgotten the times that he's targeted his successor's stutter. A Washington Post story suggested former President Donald Trump's mockery of Biden might backfire as the duo close in on a potential rematch to become the 47th president. The story claims that in recent weeks Trump, 77, has been "falsely claiming that the president is stuttering during his speeches, and he has parodied the...

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    Fact check: Trump tells ‘mind-bogglingly nonsensical’ story about the New York Stock Exchange

    Former President Donald Trump told a story on Monday in which he claimed that he decided not to list the Trump Media & Technology Group on the New York Stock Exchange, even though the exchange “badly” wanted the company, because businesspeople are “treated too badly in New York” and “don’t want to be attacked by a thug like this horrible attorney general that we have in New York.” There is one problem. The story does not make any sense. Facts First: The stock exchange on which the Trump Media &...

  • Govt notifies fact-checking unit under PIB to check fake news, misinformation related to Centre

    The government on Wednesday notified the Press Information Bureau’s fact-check unit (FCU) as the nodal agency to flag fake news or misinformation related to the central government on social media and the internet.The move – coming weeks ahead of the general elections – gives “legal backing” to the PIB fact-check unit, established in November 2019, a senior government official said.“If they (FCU) flag any news related to the central government as false, intermediaries are now bound to take it...

    • MSNBC

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    Donald Trump faces an over $400 million judgment for his civil fraud trial Monday while he’s in court with Stormy Daniels in his criminal hush money case. Former Senior Trump White House Official Omarosa Manigault Newman joins Alex Witt to discuss what can be expected on Trump’s busy day.

    • CNN

    Trump snaps at reporter over campaign funding question. Here are the facts

    Former President Donald Trump said the bond amount he has to pay to appeal the $464 million civil fraud judgment against him was preventing him from giving money to his campaign. A New York appeals court reduced the amount Trump has to put up to appeal the case to $175 million. CNN’s Kristin Homes discusses whether or not Trump will actually put his own money into his campaign.

  • Reuters Ignores Biden, Fact Checks Babylon Bee

    The Babylon Bee lives rent-free in the minds of too many journalists. How else do you describe constant fact checks on a site that churns out satirical news stories a la The Onion? USA Today once fact-checked a Bee piece saying President Joe Biden sold Alaska to Russia. PolitiFact ran to the scene after a Bee article claimed, “ISIS Lays Down Arms After Katy Perry’s Impassioned Plea To ‘Like, Just Co-Exist’” Great work USA Today. Nothing like wasting your time. The Left has no sense of...

  • Reuters Ignores Biden, Fact Checks Babylon Bee

    The Babylon Bee lives rent-free in the minds of too many journalists. How else do you describe constant fact checks on a site that churns out satirical news stories a la The Onion? USA Today once fact-checked a Bee piece saying President Joe Biden sold Alaska to Russia. PolitiFact ran to the scene after a Bee article claimed, “ISIS Lays Down Arms After Katy Perry’s Impassioned Plea To ‘Like, Just Co-Exist’” Great work USA Today. Nothing like wasting your time. The Left has no sense of...