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Latest Fact-Checks By Samantha Putterman

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Threads posts
stated on August 6, 2025 in a Threads post:
The official U.S. government website erased sections of the U.S. Constitution without amending it.
False
By Samantha Putterman • August 7, 2025
Donald Trump
stated on July 28, 2025 in an interview:
“I’ve stopped six wars” since taking office in January 2025.
Mostly False
By Samantha Putterman • August 5, 2025
Donald Trump
stated on July 27, 2025 in a press briefing:
“We gave $60 million two weeks ago” for food aid to Gaza.
Half-True
By Gabrielle Lazor, Samantha Putterman • July 30, 2025
Gavin Newsom
stated on July 18, 2025 in an X post:
Florida: #51 in mental health care, #1 in home insurance costs, #1 in elder fraud, #1 in rent hikes.
Half-True
By Ella Moore, Samantha Putterman • July 23, 2025
Randy Fine
stated on January 28, 2025 in a senate special session:
Florida’s in-state college tuition waiver for immigrants in the country illegally costs the state $41 million.
Mostly False
By Samantha Putterman • February 6, 2025
Ashley Moody
stated on January 30, 2025 in a hearing:
The National Human Trafficking Hotline “in the last four years decided that they would no longer report tips to law enforcement, that they would take a more victim-centered approach.”
False
By Samantha Putterman • February 4, 2025
Donald Trump
stated on January 22, 2025 in an interview:
The U.S. House Select Committee that investigated the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol “deleted and destroyed all of the information that they collected over two years.”
False
By Amy Sherman, Samantha Putterman • January 24, 2025
Donald Trump
stated on January 20, 2025 in remarks:
The United States is the only country with unrestricted birthright citizenship.
False
By Samantha Putterman • January 21, 2025
Donald Trump
stated on December 27, 2024 in a U.S. Supreme Court brief:
On banning TikTok
Full Flop
By Amy Sherman, Kwasi Gyamfi Asiedu, Samantha Putterman • January 16, 2025
Mike Johnson
stated on December 5, 2024 in remarks to reporters:
About 1% of federal employees are “actually working in the office.”
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson, Samantha Putterman • December 11, 2024
Instagram posts
stated on November 8, 2024 in an Instagram post:
“BREAKING: Zillow CEO just said on CNBC Trump’s deportation plan will help with housing affordability.”
False
By Samantha Putterman • November 12, 2024
Threads posts
stated on November 6, 2024 in a Threads post:
“Abortion is never medically necessary in the last trimester. Literally never. They just do a C-section.”
False
By Samantha Putterman • November 11, 2024
Instagram posts
stated on October 23, 2024 in a video:
Kamala Harris imprisoned a woman for three years for praying.
False
By Samantha Putterman • October 25, 2024
Kamala Harris
stated on September 27, 2024 in un anuncio de campaña:
El expresidente Donald Trump quiere eliminar la Ley del Cuidado de Salud a Bajo Precio.
Half-True
By Samantha Putterman, Marta Campabadal Graus • October 25, 2024
Donald Trump
stated on October 23, 2024 in a post on X:
Vice President Kamala Harris has been “going so far as to call me Adolf Hitler.”
False
By Amy Sherman, Samantha Putterman • October 24, 2024
Kamala Harris
stated on September 27, 2024 in a campaign ad:
Former President Donald Trump wants to take away the Affordable Care Act.
Half-True
By Samantha Putterman, Marta Campabadal Graus • October 24, 2024
X posts
stated on September 30, 2024 in an X post:
Photo shows President Joe Biden lounging on the beach “while towns all over America were being wiped out” by Hurricane Helene.
False
By Samantha Putterman • September 30, 2024
Vote No on 3
stated on September 7, 2024 in a TV ad:
Florida’s Amendment 3 is “the monopoly amendment.”
False
By Samantha Putterman • September 27, 2024
Vote No on 4
stated on September 10, 2024 in a TV ad:
“Unlike other amendments, Amendment 4 has no definitions. … Without definitions these words can mean almost anything.”
Mostly False
By Samantha Putterman • September 23, 2024
Social Media
stated on September 21, 2024 in a video:
Sen. JD Vance admitted he has a ‘rent-a-dog’ from the Trump campaign to make him “seem like a dog person.”
False
By Samantha Putterman • September 22, 2024
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