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- Trump falsely said El Paso "used to have extremely high rates of violent crime -- one of the highest in the entire country," but now it is "one of the safest cities" because of a border wall. In fact, it was already among the safest cities before wall. ow.ly/mJ2w30nAXSD
- House Speaker Nancy Pelosi opens the six hours of debate on the articles of impeachment by reciting the Pledge of Allegiance.
- ICYMI: Trump repeatedly claimed that when Biden was spearheading the 1994 crime bill, he called African Americans “super-predators, and they’ve never forgotten it.” Actually, that was a phrase famously uttered by Hillary Clinton — not Biden. ow.ly/V8e130rcDts #Debate2020
- Kamala Harris, former Vice President Joe Biden’s running mate, is eligible to serve as U.S. president, contrary to the false claims of viral posts on Facebook. Her mother is from India and her father from Jamaica — but Harris was born in Oakland. ow.ly/cGry30r3Uyh
- There is no evidence that “unindicted co-conspirators” mentioned in federal indictments related to the Jan. 6 Capitol attack are undercover FBI agents or informants, as conservative outlets have claimed or suggested. factcheck.org/2021/06/conser…
- Trump again repeats his false claim that he built the "greatest economy” in history. Over the last 39 years, the real GDP has reached or exceeded Trump’s peak year of 3% a total of 17 times. ow.ly/qnWI30rctkd #Debate
- Trump said Ambassador Stevens sent 600 requests for help. That's false. #debate
- Biden is right that FBI Director Christopher Wray called antifa more of an ideology, than an organization. ow.ly/pJT530rctBY #Debate
- Elizabeth Warren claimed that Amy Klobuchar's health care plan is two paragraphs long. Warren is wrong. ow.ly/GtWK30qjbEA #DemDebate
- A baseless conspiracy theory claims that a secret supercomputer was used to switch votes from Donald Trump to Joe Biden. Experts — and the federal Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency — have said the theory is a hoax. factcheck.org/2020/11/bogus-…
- Audits of ballots and voting equipment found no problems with the 2020 results in Maricopa County. But debunked claims about voter fraud are flowing again on social media amid a Republican-led audit in Maricopa. ow.ly/yKdG30rHyK2
- "Hoax" is trending on Twitter, since President Trump tested COVID-19 positive and some tweets claim Trump once called the virus a hoax. Here's what we wrote about Trump's "new hoax" remarks. ow.ly/TiNP30rcWvh
- Replying to @factcheckdotorgTrump exaggerates the amount of voter fraud via mail-in ballots: factcheck.org/2020/04/trumps…
