Katie Sanders
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PolitiFact | Tell us: What was the biggest lie of 2022?
Vote in our reader poll before we release our 2022 Lie of the Year! PolitiFact awards the Lie of the Year to the most si → Read More
PolitiFact | Joe Biden, Olivia Rodrigo did not appear in press briefing together with Jen Psaki
Teen singer and actress Olivia Rodrigo visited the White House on July 14 to encourage younger Americans to get the COVI/> <meta name= → Read More
PolitiFact | Transcript: What Dr. Fauci told
PolitiFact interviewed Dr. Anthony Fauci, longtime chief of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, f → Read More
PolitiFact - Lie of the Year: Coronavirus downplay and denial
PolitiFact is a fact-checking website that rates the accuracy of claims by elected officials and others on its Truth-O-Meter. → Read More
PolitiFact - Mitch McConnell flip-flops on considering Supreme Court justices in a presidential election year
PolitiFact is a fact-checking website that rates the accuracy of claims by elected officials and others on its Truth-O-Meter. → Read More
PolitiFact | Introducing the Truth-O-Meter Minute, PolitiFact's new YouTube show
PolitiFact is a fact-checking website that rates the accuracy of claims by elected officials and others on its Truth-O-Meter. → Read More
Lie of the Year 2019: Donald Trump’s claim whistleblower got Ukraine call 'almost completely wrong'
President Donald Trump started the morning of Sept. 20 dismissing headlines about someone who blew the whistle on a phone call he had with the president of Ukraine. The call, he tweeted, was → Read More
In Context: What Donald Trump said about Meghan Markle
President Donald Trump denied calling Meghan Markle "nasty" in an interview ahead of his visit to the United Kingdom this week. An audio clip shows him using the words both "nasty" and "nice" during an Oval Office interview with the British tabloid The Sun. The interviewer had asked for Trump's reaction to not seeing Markle on this visit, noting that she spoke against him in 2016 and said she… → Read More
The Trump file: Trump's 10 top falsehoods of 2018
President Donald Trump has twice garnered PolitiFact’s Lie of the Year → Read More
Fact-checking Donald Trump's interview on Fox & Friends
Fox & Friends co-hosts heard from a longtime listener and former caller April 26: President Donald Trump. In the free-wheeling interview, Trump started by wishing his wife Melania a happy birthday and then launched into his opinions about the Iran nuclear deal, → Read More
Scott-O-Meter: Create over 700,000 jobs
"The 7-step economic program — over a 7-year period — will have a positive economic impact and create over 700,000 jobs for the state of Florida." → Read More
Fact-checking the March For Our Lives
Young people flocked to March for Our Lives rallies in Washington, Parkland, Fla., and many other cities around the nation March 24 to speak out against gun violence. The rallies occurred about six weeks after the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland that left 17 dead. The crowd in Washington listened to a roster of young speakers, including survivors of the attack,… → Read More
Seven years after the Fukushima nuclear disaster, Japanese town rebounds from zero
NARAHA, Japan One hour from the evacuation zone, at a rest stop in the mountains, it hits you. A blue sign on the wall, with birds that look like flying oranges and a message for travelers. → Read More
PolitiFact Live: Parsing the Kimmel-Cassidy health care feud
PolitiFact editors explain President Donald Trump's misleading tweet about gas lines forming in North Korea as well as the exaggerations in Jimmy Kimmel's monologue about the Graham-Cassidy health care bill. Tune in live Thursdays on Facebook at 9:30 a.m. ET. → Read More
Watch the Aug. 3 PolitiFact Live: It's our 10th birthday!
PolitiFact editors celebrate the 10th birthday of PolitiFact with fact-checks of the Trump administration, a Harry Potter-themed segment and sparklers on a cake. (Well, we tried.) → Read More
Fact-checking the St. Petersburg mayoral debate between Rick Baker, Rick Kriseman
Rick Baker and Rick Kriseman tussled over St. Petersburg’s sewage problems and accused each other of bringing partisan politics into a nonpartisan mayoral race during the only televised debate before the Aug. 29 primary election. Kriseman, the incumbent mayor, said it was a mistake to close the Albert Whitted sewage plant in 2015. The closure led to nearly 200 million gallons of sewage spilling… → Read More
Donald Trump tweet on 50% approval cherry-picks polling data
President Donald Trump opened his first Father’s Day as president with a bright-and-early boast about his poll numbers. → Read More
PolitiFact Live for June 15: Fact-checking Trump's Cabinet boast
This week on PolitiFact Live, editors Aaron Sharockman and Katie Sanders discuss President Donald Trump's overblown boast about his accomplishments compared to his predecessors and review the latest claim from Georgia's 6th Congressional District special election. Watch the show on Facebook and tune in Thursdays at 11:30 A.M. EST. → Read More
Donald Trump's tweet misleads about London mayor's reaction to bridge, stabbing attacks
Saturday night, President Donald Trump responded to the London Bridge and market attacks with solidarity for London and the United Kingdom. Sunday morning, Trump had harsh words for the city’s mayor, Sadiq Khan. → Read More
PolitiFact Live: Trump's climate deal withdrawal
PolitiFact Live for June 1 By Katie Sanders on Thursday, June 1st, 2017 at 3:57 p.m. PolitiFact editors the week in fact-checking political news. PolitiFact staffers discuss the truth behind the week in news. The show airs live at 11:30 a.m. ET Thursday on Facebook. → Read More