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What PolitiFact learned in 1,000 fact-checks of Donald Trump

The 45th president stands apart -- and the election year has barely started. Here's what our fact-checking data shows us about his Truth-O-Meter record so far.

PolitiFact reporters Grace Abels, Louis Jacobson, Renee Romo, and Amy Sherman

GOP Debate Fact Check: What Haley and DeSantis Said

<i>"Biden has let in 8 million people just in four years." </i>

The New York Times, New York Times

Fact check: Is inflation costing Americans $500 per month?

Republican presidential candidates are accusing the Biden administration of holding back the U.S. economy with Senator Tim Scott saying the average American is spending an extra $500 per month.

Fact Check: Does the United States pay more for prescription drugs?

That was the claim made by Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders on CNN's State of the Union. WRAL's Politifact Reporter Paul Specht to take a closer look into Sen. Sanders' claims.

Fact Check: Biden says rugby is safer than football

The president made the claim while meeting with the Irish parliament. WRAL's Politifact NC reporter Paul Specht digs a little deeper into the claims.

Fact-checking President Biden's State of the Union speech

President Joe Biden delivered his second State of the Union address on Tuesday.

By CNN staff

Top 7 PolitiFact NC fact-checks of 2022

Local claims about crime and immigration were PolitiFact North Carolina's top-read stories of the year.

Paul Specht, PolitiFact reporter

For once, the hurricane shark was real

Severe weather events often produce stunning photos and videos recorded by nonjournalists, making it occasionally difficult to sort out what's real on social media and what's doctored.

Daniel Victor, New York Times

Fox News hosts claim about IDs for immigrants is false

Conservative commentator Tomi Lahren tweeted that President Joe Biden "wants to give illegals ID cards so they can start collecting American benefits." PolitiFact checks her claim.

Fact-checking Joe Biden's 2022 State of the Union address

President Joe Biden argued forcefully for the power of democracy while calling out Russia's invasion of Ukraine in a State of the Union address that soon turned to the domestic concerns of the economy, inflation and COVID-19. PolitiFact's team of reporters and editors watched the March 1 address and fact-checked some of the president's remarks.

PolitiFact staff

Fact check: Some viral posts about Ukraine are deceptive

In addition to the war in Ukraine. there's another battle taking place - the war against disinformation.

Keely Arthur, WRAL 5 on Your Side reporter

Fact check: Deceptive attack ad against GOP Senate candidate Pat McCrory edits his quotes about Trump and rioters

A television attack ad from conservative Super PAC Club for Growth Action uses egregiously deceptive editing to build its case that Pat McCrory, a Republican candidate for a US Senate seat in North Carolina, is a "Trump-hater" and "liberal faker."

By Daniel Dale, CNN

Fact check: Biden tells inaccurate story about his 1973 meeting with Israeli prime minister

President Joe Biden has a favorite story about his long relationship with Israel. For decades, he has been publicly recounting his 1973 meeting with then-Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir -- which he described in 2015 as "one of the most consequential meetings I've ever had in my life."

By Daniel Dale, Oren Liebermann and Amir Tal, CNN

Checking NC's week-to-week gas price

U.S. Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) tweeted on Oct. 26 that "gas in North Carolina increased 14 cents per gallon this past week, the highest in the nation." PolitiFact NC checks his claim.

Fact check: US importing large amount of Russian oil, but Facebook post misstates Keystone XL role

Oil experts say a Facebook post draws a misleading relationship between Russian oil imports and the Keystone pipeline project.

Fact check: Women claim COVID vaccine causes uncontrollable shaking

Videos circulating on Facebook and other social media purport to show women shaking violently after receiving the coronavirus vaccine. PolitiFact NC, based at WRAL, could not verify that the vaccines caused the shaking and, in one case, couldn't verify that a woman took the vaccine.

Paul Specht and Samantha Putterman, PolitiFact reporters

PolitiFact launches Biden 'promise tracker' to monitor campaign vows

Biden laid out various plans to rebuild the economy, address systemic racism, combat climate change, provide a pathway to citizenship for certain immigrants who came to the U.S. illegally, and expand Obamacare.

Amy Sherman, PolitiFact reporter

No, There Are No Microchips in Coronavirus Vaccines

There are 10 ingredients in Pfizer's coronavirus vaccines. Contrary to several conspiracy theories circulating online, a tracking microchip planted by the government to surveil the movements of Americans is not among them.

Katherine J. Wu, New York Times

No, There Isn't Evidence That Pfizer's Vaccine Causes Infertility

Social media platforms were flooded this week with concerns about an alarming headline purporting that Pfizer's coronavirus vaccine, which is expected to be cleared for emergency use this week, could cause infertility in women. But experts say these claims are baseless.

Katherine J. Wu, New York Times

Army denies seizing servers; company says it doesn't even have offices in Germany

Voting equipment company Dominion Voting Systems has been at the center of unfounded conspiracy theories - many spread by President Donald Trump - that claim Democrats committed voter fraud and stole the 2020 election for Joe Biden.

Fact check: No, the US won't tie food stamps to coronavirus vaccines

As drugmakers get closer to vaccines for the novel coronavirus, posts online are claiming that a member of President-elect Joe Biden's COVID-19 task force recommends withholding federal assistance from people who refuse to get vaccinated.

Samantha Putterman, PolitiFact reporter

Newspaper headlines are easy to fake

Social media users altered headlines to make it seem like the Washington Times called the 2000 presidential race for Al Gore. They also contrived a New York Post front page that never existed.

Fact check: These New York Post, Washington Times headlines are fake

Social media users altered headlines to make it seem like the Washington Times called the 2000 presidential race for Al Gore. They also contrived a New York Post front page that never existed.

Ciara O'Rourke, PolitiFact reporter

Fact-checking Giuliani and the Trump legal team's wild, fact-free press conference

In a wild, tangent-filled and often contentious press briefing led by President Donald Trump's personal attorney Rudy Giuliani, the Trump campaign's legal team laid out its case for widespread voter fraud in the election. The roughly 90-minute briefing was overflowing with falsehoods and conspiracy theories.

By Tara Subramaniam, Holmes Lybrand and CNN staff, CNN

Fact-checking the final presidential debate, from health care to immigration to coronavirus

The final presidential debate between former Vice President Joe Biden and President Donald Trump may have had fewer interruptions, but it wasn't any more truthful. It was similar to the first debate, in that Trump's comments needed more fact-checking than Biden's.