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Latest Fact-Checks By Paul Specht

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Marcia Morey
stated on April 30, 2025 in a speech in the North Carolina House of Representatives:
“Google caved in to Trump. They erased Black History Month from the calendar.”
Mostly False
By Paul Specht • May 15, 2025
Brian Tyler Cohen
stated on April 12, 2025 in an X post:
Trump “just denied North Carolina’s request for FEMA relief from Hurricane Helene.”
Half-True
By Paul Specht • April 24, 2025
Sydney Batch
stated on February 28, 2025 in a podcast interview:
North Carolina “always had nonpartisan judicial races, and when the Republicans took over several years ago they changed it.”
Mostly False
By Paul Specht • March 28, 2025
Donald Trump
stated on January 24, 2025 in remarks in North Carolina:
“The Biden administration kicked 2,000 displaced North Carolinians out of their temporary housing into freezing 20-degree weather,” earlier in January.
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman, Paul Specht • January 29, 2025
Roy Cooper
stated on December 3, 2024 in comments to reporters:
North Carolina Republicans “took money out of western North Carolina” with Hurricane Helene relief bill.
Half-True
By Paul Specht • January 29, 2025
Dana Loesch
stated on January 6, 2025 in an X post:
Buncombe County “is still demanding property taxes on homes destroyed by Hurricane Helene based on pre-Helene assessments that no longer apply.”
Half-True
By Paul Specht • January 17, 2025
TikTok posts
stated on December 4, 2024 in a video:
Mitchell County, North Carolina, sheriff’s deputies “stole” generators intended for Hurricane Helene victims.
False
By Paul Specht • January 6, 2025
X posts
stated on November 20, 2024 in an X post:
FEMA delivered “only four” temporary housing units to Helene victims in North Carolina as of Nov. 20.
Half-True
By Paul Specht • December 10, 2024
X posts
stated on November 12, 2024 in a social media post:
“Red Cross is set to close shelters across North Carolina on Nov. 15. Families staying in these shelters are being told: ‘If you don’t have a safe place to take your children, you won’t be leaving with them.’”
False
By Paul Specht • November 18, 2024
Tim Moore
stated on October 21, 2024 in a press conference:
“I’ve not gotten a single call from the White House.”
Mostly False
By Paul Specht • October 31, 2024
Lisa Grafstein
stated on October 12, 2024 in a campaign mailer:
Scott Lassiter “repeatedly campaigned to promote” North Carolina’s “largest-ever” school funding cut, sending public school money to “unaccountable private schools” and ending science education.
False
By Paul Specht • October 25, 2024
Donald Trump
stated on October 11, 2024 in a Truth Social post:
“It has just come out that Democrats in Washington and the Democrat Governor’s Office of North Carolina (Roy Cooper) were blocking people and money from coming into North Carolina.”
Pants on Fire!
By Amy Sherman, Paul Specht • October 12, 2024
Terence Everitt
stated on October 11, 2024 in a campaign advertisement:
Republican state Senate candidate Ashlee Adams “campaigned for Mark Robinson and his radical agenda.”
False
By Paul Specht • October 12, 2024
House Majority PAC
stated on September 9, 2024 in a television ad:
Laurie Buckhout is “trying to get to Congress to pass a national abortion ban, allowing politicians to ban abortions with no exceptions and prosecute women if they get an abortion, treating women right here like criminals.”
Mostly False
By Paul Specht • October 1, 2024
Republican Governors Association
stated on June 24, 2024 in a campaign advertisement:
“On (Josh) Stein’s watch, rapes in North Carolina are up 53%.”
Mostly False
By Paul Specht • September 17, 2024
Michele Morrow
stated on September 16, 2024 in a social media post:
The plus in LGBTQ+ includes pedophilia.
Pants on Fire!
By Paul Specht • September 17, 2024
Josh Stein
stated on September 5, 2024 in a press release:
“Mark Robinson skips Board of Education vote on teacher bonuses to hold campaign event.”
Mostly False
By Paul Specht • September 6, 2024
X posts
stated on August 27, 2024 in a social media post:
The order of candidate names on North Carolina’s ballot shows a “clear attempt at voter manipulation.”
False
By Paul Specht • August 28, 2024
Doug Burgum
stated on May 25, 2024 in a speech at the North Carolina Republican Party convention:
Donald Trump “shut down” Nord Stream 2 pipeline, Joe Biden approved it, then Biden shut down U.S. liquified natural gas export capacity.
Mostly False
By Paul Specht • June 17, 2024
Anderson Clayton
stated on May 10, 2024 in a social media post:
“Justice Paul Newby is out here removing judges who were elected to their positions by the voters of North Carolina!!!”
False
By Paul Specht • June 3, 2024
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