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** FactCheck.org's Weekly Update
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November 2, 2019
** State of the Union with Jake Tapper
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Video: FactChecking Trump’s 9/11 and Iraq Claims ([link removed]) Posted on Friday, November 1st, 2019
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This week, CNN’s Jake Tapper looks at claims President Donald Trump made about Osama bin Laden and the Iraq war during his Oct. 27 press conference announcing the death of Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
** SciCheck
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What Does Science Say About the Need for Nuclear? ([link removed]) Posted on Friday, November 1st, 2019
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Sen. Bernie Sanders has said “scientists tell us” that it’s possible to go carbon neutral without relying on nuclear power. Fellow Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Cory Booker, who backs the use of some nuclear energy, has said the data is on his side. Who’s right? Both have a point, but neither is telling the full story.
** FactCheck Posts
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Trump Ad Misleads on Illegal Immigration ([link removed]) Posted on Friday, November 1st, 2019
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President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign makes the misleading claim in a TV ad that he is “cutting illegal immigration in half.” In fact, apprehensions at the U.S.-Mexico border in fiscal year 2019 were more than double the total in fiscal year 2016 and almost triple the total in fiscal year 2017.
What We’ve Learned From Impeachment Inquiry ([link removed]) Posted on Thursday, October 31st, 2019
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President Donald Trump repeatedly has said his July 25 phone call with the Ukrainian president was “perfect,” and a simple reading of the “transcript” is all that’s needed to evaluate the impeachment probe. But congressional testimony has revealed key pieces of information beyond that conversation.
Not ‘Twitter Intel’ ([link removed]) Posted on Tuesday, October 29th, 2019
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National Security Adviser Robert O’Brien dismissed as “Twitter intel” the suggestion that more than 100 captured Islamic State fighters escaped from prisons in Syria amid fighting between Turkish soldiers and Syrian Kurds. But that was a figure provided by the secretary of defense and a top official in the State Department.
Trump’s False Claim about Syrian ‘Safe Zone’ ([link removed]) Posted on Tuesday, October 29th, 2019
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In explaining his decision to pull U.S. forces from northern Syria and allow Turkey to set up a “safe zone” in Syria, President Donald Trump falsely claimed that Turkey has lost “thousands and thousands of people from that safe zone.”
** Debunking False Stories
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Viral Posts Distort Impeachment Inquiry Rules ([link removed]) Posted on Friday, November 1st, 2019
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Facebook posts purport to outline “the rules” of the House impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump, but they distort the facts in doing so.
Meme Falsely Claims Obama Released al-Baghdadi ([link removed]) Posted on Thursday, October 31st, 2019
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Various memes circulating online falsely claim that Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the Islamic State leader who recently died after a U.S. raid, had been released from U.S. military custody under President Barack Obama. He was actually released in 2004, under President George W. Bush.
Misleading Posts Target GOP Rep. Matt Gaetz ([link removed]) Posted on Thursday, October 31st, 2019
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Social media posts distort the facts around an 11-year-old, dismissed DUI charge against Rep. Matt Gaetz. They also leave the false impression that he “stole from dying people.”
Dubious Posts Tie Political Families to Ukraine Work ([link removed]) Posted on Tuesday, October 29th, 2019
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There’s no evidence for social media claims that the children of Nancy Pelosi, Mitt Romney and John Kerry are working for “Ukrainian gas companies” or sitting “on the board of directors for energy companies doing business in Ukraine.”
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