Donald Trump
Terrorism and terrorist attacks in the United States and Europe have "gotten to a point where it's not even being reported."
— PolitiFact National on Monday, February 6th, 2017
Accusations came a month before election
Donald Trump
"If Russia, or some other entity, was hacking, why did the White House wait so long to act? Why did they only complain after Hillary lost?"
— PolitiFact National on Thursday, December 15th, 2016
No evidence
Donald Trump
There was "serious voter fraud" in Virginia.
— PolitiFact Virginia on Tuesday, November 29th, 2016
Zero complaints this election
Donald Trump
There was "serious voter fraud" in New Hampshire.
— PolitiFact New Hampshire on Monday, November 28th, 2016
No evidence to back up reckless claim
Donald Trump
There was "serious voter fraud" in California.
— PolitiFact California on Monday, November 28th, 2016
Zero evidence for this conspiracy theory
Donald Trump
Says he "won the popular vote if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally."
— PolitiFact National on Monday, November 28th, 2016
POTUS defended the protester
Donald Trump
Says that at a campaign rally President Barack Obama "spent so much time screaming at a protester, and frankly it was a disgrace."
— PolitiFact National on Sunday, November 6th, 2016
Preposterous
Donald Trump
Says Hillary Clinton "wants to let people just pour in. You could have 650 million people pour in and we do nothing about it. Think of it. That’s what could happen. You triple the size of our country in one week."
— PolitiFact National on Monday, October 31st, 2016
Common data, not voter suppression, technique
Donald Trump
"Wikileaks also shows how John Podesta rigged the polls by oversampling Democrats, a voter suppression technique."
— PolitiFact National on Tuesday, October 25th, 2016
It wasn't lost or stolen
Donald Trump
When Hillary Clinton "ran the State Department, $6 billion was missing. How do you miss $6 billion? You ran the State Department, $6 billion was either stolen — they don't know."
— PolitiFact National on Thursday, October 20th, 2016
A fraudulent claim about fraudulent votes
Donald Trump
"It’s possible that non-citizen voters were responsible for Obama’s 2008 victory in North Carolina."
— PolitiFact North Carolina on Wednesday, October 19th, 2016
Still no evidence
Donald Trump
"Of course, there is large scale voter fraud happening on and before election day."
— PolitiFact National on Monday, October 17th, 2016
Fact-check and mate!
Donald Trump
"We don't have any" chess grandmasters in the United States.
— PolitiFact National on Friday, October 14th, 2016
All 4 scientific polls show he lost
Donald Trump
Says he won the second debate with Hillary Clinton "in a landslide" in "every poll."
— PolitiFact Wisconsin on Wednesday, October 12th, 2016
He literally asked people to 'check out sex tape'
Donald Trump
Says a tweet he sent out "wasn’t saying, ‘check out a sex tape.’ It was just ‘take a look at" the background of Alicia Machado.
— PolitiFact National on Sunday, October 9th, 2016
He needs a few history lessons
Donald Trump
"Our African-American communities are absolutely in the worst shape they've ever been in before. Ever. Ever. Ever."
— PolitiFact National on Thursday, September 22nd, 2016
Kept tweeting about it, and many still believe it
Donald Trump
"I finished" the controversy about where President Barack Obama was born.
— PolitiFact National on Friday, September 16th, 2016
Right there on her website
Donald Trump
"My opponent has no child care plan."
— PolitiFact National on Wednesday, September 14th, 2016
She has said plenty
Donald Trump
Says Hillary Clinton has "not answered a single question" about her immigration plan.
— PolitiFact Arizona on Friday, September 9th, 2016
Expert: Absolutely zero possibility
Donald Trump
"Inner-city crime is reaching record levels."
— PolitiFact National on Tuesday, August 30th, 2016
Expert: "I'd like to see him try"
Donald Trump
Says the U.S. election system is "rigged."
— PolitiFact National on Monday, August 15th, 2016
He flatly rejected a more plausible critique
Donald Trump
Says Barack Obama "founded ISIS. I would say the co-founder would be crooked Hillary Clinton."
— PolitiFact National on Thursday, August 11th, 2016
Phonetic analysis says otherwise
Donald Trump
"Hillary Clinton says she wants to, ‘raise taxes on the middle class.’ "
— PolitiFact National on Friday, August 5th, 2016
Ayotte has long done better than Trump in N.H. polls
Donald Trump
"I’m beating (Kelly Ayotte) in the polls by a lot."
— PolitiFact New Hampshire on Friday, August 5th, 2016
Speaking of fire ...
Donald Trump
"We have a fire marshal that said, 'Oh we can't allow more people’ ... And the reason they won't let them in is because they don't know what the hell they're doing."
— PolitiFact Colorado on Wednesday, August 3rd, 2016
No one in Clinton campaign or DNC had a say
Donald Trump
"As usual, Hillary & the Dems are trying to rig the debates so 2 are up against major NFL games."
— PolitiFact National on Monday, August 1st, 2016
You mean the other way around?
Donald Trump
On gift taking, "Bob McDonnell took a fraction of what (Tim) Kaine took."
— PolitiFact Virginia on Sunday, July 24th, 2016
Denied months ago
Donald Trump
Says Ted Cruz "never denied" his father was photographed with Lee Harvey Oswald.
— PolitiFact Texas on Friday, July 22nd, 2016
Only if you don't look
Donald Trump
"We don't know anything about Hillary in terms of religion. Now, she's been in the public eye for years and years, and yet there's no — there's nothing out there."
— PolitiFact National on Friday, June 24th, 2016
Deleted? So why are her comments still there?
Donald Trump
Says Hillary Clinton "has even deleted this record of total support (for the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement) from her book."
— PolitiFact National on Thursday, June 23rd, 2016
One is much costlier than the other
Donald Trump
"For the amount of money Hillary Clinton would like to spend on refugees, we could rebuild every inner city in America."
— PolitiFact National on Wednesday, June 22nd, 2016
U.S. has always opposed ISIS and its predecessors
Donald Trump
"The Obama administration was actively supporting Al Qaeda in Iraq, the terrorist group that became the Islamic State."
— PolitiFact National on Wednesday, June 15th, 2016
It's not
Donald Trump
"Crime is rising."
— PolitiFact National on Thursday, June 9th, 2016
He could have kept quiet, but didn't
Donald Trump
"I wanted to keep it private, because I don't think it's anybody's business if I want to send money to the vets."
— PolitiFact National on Tuesday, May 31st, 2016
Don't hold your breath, Kaczynski
Donald Trump
It "is Hillary Clinton's agenda" to "release the violent criminals from jail. She wants them all released."
— PolitiFact National on Thursday, May 26th, 2016
A nonsensical jumble
Donald Trump
"Look, we are at war with these people and they don't wear uniforms. … This is a war against people that are vicious, violent people, that we have no idea who they are, where they come from. We are allowing tens of thousands of them into our country now."
— PolitiFact National on Wednesday, May 25th, 2016
Expert: 'Outlandish at best'
Donald Trump
Says Ted Cruz’s father "was with Lee Harvey Oswald" before the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
— PolitiFact National on Tuesday, May 3rd, 2016
Clinton leads Trump among women by historic margin
Donald Trump
"Frankly, (Hillary Clinton) doesn’t do very well with women."
— PolitiFact National on Monday, May 2nd, 2016
Donald Trump
The number of illegal immigrants "could be 3 million. It could be 30 million."
— PolitiFact National on Thursday, September 1st, 2016 Bowling Green massacre part two?
Donald Trump
"Look at what’s happening last night in Sweden. Sweden, who would believe this? Sweden. They took in large numbers. They’re having problems like they never thought possible."
— PolitiFact National on Sunday, February 19th, 2017
Sanders was mocking Trump
Donald Trump
"While on FAKE NEWS @CNN, Bernie Sanders was cut off for using the term fake news to describe the network. They said technical difficulties!"
— PolitiFact National on Sunday, February 12th, 2017
Cuomo did ask about it.
Donald Trump
Says CNN’s Chris Cuomo "never asked" Sen. Richard Blumenthal about Blumenthal's misstatements on his own service in Vietnam.
— PolitiFact National on Thursday, February 9th, 2017
This is wrong
Donald Trump
"The murder rate in our country is the highest it’s been in 47 years."
— PolitiFact National on Wednesday, February 8th, 2017
More like 60,000+
Donald Trump
Says "109 people out of hundreds of thousands of travelers" were affected by the immigration executive order.
— PolitiFact National on Monday, February 6th, 2017
Christian refugees have entered U.S.
Donald Trump
"If you were a Muslim, you could come in, if you were a Christian, it was impossible."
— PolitiFact National on Sunday, January 29th, 2017
They were the third-lowest last year since 1990
Donald Trump
"Here in Philadelphia murder has been steady — I mean — just terribly increasing."
— PolitiFact Pennsylvania on Thursday, January 26th, 2017
Unprecedented tough words
Donald Trump
"The media ... sort of made it sound like I had a feud with the intelligence community."
— PolitiFact National on Sunday, January 22nd, 2017
Polls show many Americans want to see them
Donald Trump
Americans don't "care at all" about Donald Trump's tax returns.
— PolitiFact National on Wednesday, January 11th, 2017
Historically, it's in the bottom quarter
Donald Trump
"We had a massive landslide victory, as you know, in the Electoral College."
— PolitiFact National on Monday, December 12th, 2016
That's not what it said
Donald Trump
"The @nytimes sent a letter to their subscribers apologizing for their BAD coverage of me."
— PolitiFact National on Tuesday, November 15th, 2016
Read his New York Times interview
Donald Trump
"The @nytimes states today that DJT believes ‘more countries should acquire nuclear weapons.’ How dishonest are they. I never said this!"
— PolitiFact National on Monday, November 14th, 2016
A fitting close to our 2016 fact-checks
Donald Trump
"Beyonce and Jay Z, I like them, I like them ... I get bigger crowds than they do. It's true. I get far bigger crowds."
— PolitiFact National on Monday, November 7th, 2016
Lags well behind past GOP candidates
Donald Trump
"I have tremendous support from women."
— PolitiFact National on Friday, November 4th, 2016
We've seen the crowds. Thanks, media!
Donald Trump
The media "never show crowds."
— PolitiFact National on Thursday, November 3rd, 2016
No evidence at all
Donald Trump
"Twitter, Google and Facebook are burying the FBI criminal investigation of Clinton. Very dishonest media!"
— PolitiFact National on Wednesday, November 2nd, 2016
Tanks but no tanks
Donald Trump
Says Ohio’s I-X Center "used to be a great plant," but "thousands of people of worked here, and they left" when their jobs were moved overseas.
— PolitiFact Ohio on Monday, October 31st, 2016
His evidence is faulty
Donald Trump
"14 percent of noncitizens are registered to vote."
— PolitiFact National on Monday, October 24th, 2016
Thin rebuttals
Donald Trump
The stories from women saying he groped or forced himself on them "largely have been debunked."
— PolitiFact National on Thursday, October 20th, 2016
Let's go to the tape
Donald Trump
Says Hillary Clinton is "wrong" to say he mocked a disabled reporter.
— PolitiFact National on Thursday, October 20th, 2016
FBI director says, "It's the reverse."
Donald Trump
Says Hillary Clinton was "let off the hook" for her email scandal while Gen. David Petraeus had his life "destroyed for doing far, far less."
— PolitiFact National on Tuesday, October 18th, 2016
The ad was from a pro-Trump super PAC
Donald Trump
"I've gotten to see the commercials that they did on you. And I've gotten to see some of the most vicious commercials I've ever seen of Michelle Obama talking about you, Hillary."
— PolitiFact National on Tuesday, October 11th, 2016
A Newsweek journalist wrote that, not Blumenthal
Donald Trump
Says Sidney Blumenthal wrote that the Benghazi attack was "almost certainly preventable. Clinton was in charge of the State Department, and it failed to protect U.S. personnel and an American consulate in Libya."
— PolitiFact National on Tuesday, October 11th, 2016
There's laughter, but not at the girl
Donald Trump
Says after Hillary Clinton helped a man accused of raping a 12-year-old, "she's seen laughing on two separate occasions, laughing at the girl who was raped."
— PolitiFact National on Monday, October 10th, 2016
She wants to protect Obamacare
Donald Trump
Says Hillary Clinton "wants to go to a single-payer plan" for health care
— PolitiFact National on Sunday, October 9th, 2016
No such duty exists, experts say
Donald Trump
Says he has "a fiduciary responsibility to his business, his family and his employees to pay no more tax than legally required."
— PolitiFact National on Sunday, October 9th, 2016
No figures to back that figure
Donald Trump
"In her campaign for president, Hillary Clinton has received $100 million in contributions from Wall Street and hedge funds."
— PolitiFact Wisconsin on Thursday, October 6th, 2016
What about Bernie?
Donald Trump
Says to Hillary Clinton, "You heard what I said about (the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal), and all of a sudden you were against it."
— PolitiFact National on Tuesday, September 27th, 2016
A minor change, and not due to Trump
Donald Trump
"NATO is opening up a major terror division. ... I'm sure I'm not going to get credit for it, but that was largely because of what I was saying and my criticism of NATO."
— PolitiFact National on Tuesday, September 27th, 2016
All based on assumptions
Donald Trump
Says "Hillary Clinton's plan would bring in 620,000 refugees in her first term, alone, with no effective way to screen or vet them. Her plan would cost $400 billion in terms of lifetime welfare and entitlement costs."
— PolitiFact National on Tuesday, September 27th, 2016
Figure is cherrypicked, refers to 30 years period
Donald Trump
Says Hillary Clinton’s energy agenda "will cost the U.S. economy over $5 trillion"
— PolitiFact National on Tuesday, September 27th, 2016
Despite repetition, still not true
Donald Trump
Says top Clinton advisers "were pressing" birther movement stories "very hard."
— PolitiFact National on Tuesday, September 27th, 2016
For the nth time...
Donald Trump
"I did not support the war in Iraq … The record shows that I’m right."
— PolitiFact National on Monday, September 26th, 2016
Only returns would show taxes paid, charitable giving
Donald Trump
"You will learn more about Donald Trump by going down to the Federal Elections" to see the financial disclosure form than by looking at tax returns.
— PolitiFact National on Monday, September 26th, 2016
He didn't object when asked about it, twice
Donald Trump
"I never said" that Muslims would be subject to profiling under his policies.
— PolitiFact National on Wednesday, September 21st, 2016
A repeated falsehood
Donald Trump
"Hillary Clinton and her campaign of 2008 started the birther controversy."
— PolitiFact National on Friday, September 16th, 2016
His campaign stuck by this claim
Donald Trump
"Our veterans, in many cases, are being treated worse than illegal immigrants."
— PolitiFact National on Friday, September 9th, 2016
More like cautious acceptance
Donald Trump
"I was totally against the war in Iraq."
— PolitiFact National on Wednesday, September 7th, 2016
Tax returns are a glaring omission
Donald Trump
"I released the most extensive financial review of anybody in the history of politics. … You don't learn much in a tax return."
— PolitiFact National on Wednesday, September 7th, 2016
A lot of fertilizer here
Donald Trump
"Hillary Clinton wants to shut down family farms" using "radical regulation," by raising business tax "rates as high as nearly 50 percent" and by taxing "family farms again at death by as much as 45 percent."
— PolitiFact Iowa on Wednesday, August 31st