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  1. 4 hours ago

    And, as we have written, China doesn't pay tariffs. Tariffs are taxes paid by U.S. importers in the form of customs duties, and to some extent by U.S. consumers in the form of higher prices.

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  2. 4 hours ago

    Trump today said, "If you look at what we've done thus far with China. We've never taken in 10 cents, until I got elected. Now we're taking in billions and billions." We have looked at it. It's false.

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  3. May 10

    President Trump falsely claimed that Democrats “are trying to stop” disaster relief aid from going to several states.

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  4. May 10

    Beto O’Rourke repeatedly has claimed that state laws mandating universal checks “have been shown to reduce gun violence by 50 percent.” But academic research doesn’t support his claim.

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  5. May 10

    Viral Deception Alert: A viral rant that gives props to President Trump and likens immigrants in the country illegally to raccoons has been wrongly attributed to comedian Steve Harvey.

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  6. May 10

    At a town hall, looked at the "good side" of climate change. He said increased evaporation caused by higher temperatures will mean rain in “more and more places” -- a result that's "surely gotta shrink the deserts.” Scientists aren't so sure.

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  7. May 9

    Over the course of 17 hours, President Donald Trump repeated 17 false and misleading claims that we have written about since he became president. We summarize each one with links to our original articles.

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  8. May 9

    In a Q&A today, Trump claimed that Mueller had “tremendous conflicts.” He again cited a "business dispute" with Mueller and claimed that Mueller wanted the FBI job. We wrote about these alleged conflicts last month.

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  9. May 9

    In remarks today, Trump claimed that the U.S. takes in “$120 billion a year in tariffs – paid for mostly by China.” He also claimed the U.S. in the past had not collected “10 cents” in tariffs on Chinese goods. All of that is wrong.

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  10. May 9

    At his Florida rally, Trump said he signed "the largest package of tax cuts and reforms in American history." It was not the largest tax cut, as we wrote numerous times in 2017 and 2018.

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  11. May 9

    At his Florida rally, Trump repeated his claim that the Mueller report found he committed "no obstruction." That’s not at all what the Mueller report says, though, as we wrote last month.

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  12. May 9

    At his Florida rally, Trump repeats his false claim that Puerto Rico has received $91 billion in disaster relief funding after Hurricane Maria. We wrote about that last month.

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  13. May 9

    At his Florida rally, Trump repeats his exaggeration about tariff revenue, falsely claiming the U.S. is "taking in over $100 billion a year, $100 billion, we never did that before."

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  14. May 8

    President Donald Trump didn’t call for the “death penalty” for “suicide bombers,” as social media posts say. That’s a made-up quote from a satirical story published in 2017.

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  15. May 8

    President Trump falsely claimed that the U.S. collects “over $100 Billion a year in Tariffs.” The U.S. collected $41 billion in fiscal year 2018, and has collected $34.7 billion through the first six months of this fiscal year.

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  16. May 8

    Popular social media posts claim that climate change is a “made-up catastrophe,” despite a large body of evidence that supports the scientific consensus that it is real.

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  17. May 7

    President Trump claimed that the U.S. has “never taken in 10 cents from China” in tariffs, but “now we’re taking in billions and billions of dollars.” Actually, the U.S. has annually collected billions in tariffs on Chinese imports for years.

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  18. May 7

    A fake tweet circulating online purports to show a message from President Trump threatening to deport Rep. Ilhan Omar for comments she made referring to the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

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  19. May 6

    Trump today repeated his misleading claim that "Puerto Rico has been given more money by Congress for Hurricane Disaster Relief, 91 Billion Dollars, than any State in the history." We wrote about that last month.

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  20. May 3

    The Trump administration is in the process of rule-making that would roll back Obama-era fuel economy standards. Our science writer takes a close look at the Trump administration’s justification for the proposed rollback.

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