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Stories by Eugene Kiely
Posted Mar 2, 2022, 10:13 am
Eugene Kiely, Brooks Jackson, Robert Farley, D'Angelo Gore, Jessica McDonald, Catalina Jaramillo, Cecelia Vieira & LucĂa Osses/Factcheck.org
In his first State of the Union address, President Joe Biden focused on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, before turning to his accomplishments and agenda for the coming year - but some of his statements didn’t square with the facts.... Read more»
Posted Feb 3, 2022, 11:39 am
Eugene Kiely
/Factcheck.org
Republicans have criticized Biden for pledging to nominate an African-American woman to the U.S. Supreme Court. They should read what former Presidents Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump said about women they appointed.... Read more»
Posted Dec 23, 2021, 8:02 am
Eugene Kiely, Robert Farley & D'Angelo Gore/Factcheck.org
Fact checkers spent much of 2021 addressing vaccine misinformation, baseless election claims - and of course, numerous claims made by, and about, the new Biden administration - so here are the top stories at the forefront of the discussion.... Read more»
Posted Sep 13, 2021, 1:14 pm
Eugene Kiely & Lori Robertson/Factcheck.org
FactCheck answers some questions about President Joe Biden’s plan to impose an emergency rule for businesses with 100 or more employees that would require workers to be fully vaccinated or be tested at least once a week.... Read more»
Posted Jul 12, 2021, 11:50 am
Eugene Kiely, D'Angelo Gore & Robert Farley/Factcheck.org
Homicides are on the rise, but the increase started last year when Donald Trump was president - according to data compiled by the Major Cities Chiefs Association, the number of homicides rose 33% in 66 major cities in 2020 compared with 2019.... Read more»
Posted Jun 28, 2021, 12:22 pm
Eugene Kiely & Robert Farley/Factcheck.org
A New York court suspended former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani’s law license in that state for making “demonstrably false and misleading statements” about the 2020 presidential election results to the courts and the public at large, while serving as former President Donald Trump’s lawyer.... Read more»
Posted Jan 7, 2021, 1:42 pm
Eugene Kiely, Robert Farley, D'Angelo Gore & Lori Robertson/Factcheck.org
Prior to the violence that disrupted Congress’ counting of the electoral votes, President Donald Trump gave an indignant speech filled with falsehoods about the presidential election he lost two months ago to Democrat Joe Biden.... Read more»
Posted Nov 4, 2020, 11:41 am
Eugene Kiely, Lori Robertson, Robert Farley & D'Angelo Gore/Factcheck.org
Shortly before 2:30 a.m. on Nov. 4, Trump made his remarks from the White House, falsely saying he had already defeated Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, with millions of votes still to be counted in several too-close-to-call states. He baselessly claimed some kind of “fraud” had occurred.... Read more»
Posted Feb 5, 2020, 9:08 am
Eugene Kiely, Brooks Jackson, Lori Robertson, Robert Farley, D'Angelo Gore, Jessica McDonald & Isabella Fertel/Factcheck.org
President Trump's address included false and misleading claims on jobs, wages, energy, immigration and more. ... Read more»
Posted Nov 21, 2019, 11:15 am
Eugene Kiely, Robert Farley, D'Angelo Gore, Brooks Jackson, Lori Robertson, Jessica McDonald & Saranac Hale Spencer/Factcheck.org
Several candidates twisted the facts on health care, student loan debt, the gender wage gap and more.... Read more»
Posted Oct 31, 2019, 3:40 pm
Eugene Kiely, Lori Robertson, D'Angelo Gore & Robert Farley/Factcheck.org
President Trump repeatedly 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.... Read more»
Posted Oct 16, 2019, 1:11 pm
Eugene Kiely, Brooks Jackson, Robert Farley, Lori Robertson, D'Angelo Gore, Jessica McDonald & Angelo Fichera/Factcheck.org
The spin focused mainly on the economy and health care. ... Read more»
Posted Sep 29, 2019, 5:31 pm
Eugene Kiely, Lori Robertson & D'Angelo Gore/Factcheck.org
President Donald Trump has been accused in a whistleblower complaint of “using the power of his office to solicit interference from a foreign country in the 2020 U.S. election.”... Read more»
Posted Sep 23, 2019, 5:35 pm
Eugene Kiely
/Factcheck.org
President Donald Trump last year signed a bill — the Right to Try Act — that provided another avenue for terminally ill patients to gain access to unapproved medications still in development. But there’s no evidence that the new law is saving “a lot of people,” as the president claims.... Read more»
Posted May 23, 2019, 2:14 pm
Eugene Kiely
/Factcheck.org
In interview that aired May 19 on “The Next Revolution,” Trump and the show’s host, Steve Hilton, discussed foreign policy, international trade, the economy, politics and more. FackCheck takes a closer look.... Read more»
Posted Apr 20, 2019, 4:51 pm
Eugene Kiely
/Factcheck.org
After the 2016 election, Vice President-elect Pence was asked if there was “any contact in any way between [Donald] Trump or his associates and the Kremlin or cutouts they had.” Pence answered, “Of course not. Why would there be any contacts between the campaign?” Of course, there were contacts.... Read more»