Mike Pence

Did Mike Pence sign a bill when he was governor of Indiana to send same-sex marriage applicants to jail? No, that's not true: Pence, while a strong opponent of same-sex marriage, could not have signed any such bill because the legislation never existed. The claim appeared in a post (archived here) on Instagram. It opened: Mike Pence signed a bill…

Was Kamala Harris California's "TOP COP" in 2010, making her responsible for the state's Black incarceration rate that year? No, that's not true: Harris served as attorney general of California between January 2011 and January 2017. The claim appeared in a tweet (archived here) by U.S. President Donald Trump. It was published on October 7, 2020, the day of the…

Were thousands of mail-in ballots for registered Republicans in Pennsylvania destroyed? No, that's not true. The paper items shown in the video are mailers from the Pennsylvania Republican Party to encourage people to request a mail-in ballot. They are not themselves mail-in ballots. A video claiming to show shredded mail-in ballots cast for Donald Trump only shows a private direct…

Did Vice President Mike Pence tweet that there was "evidence of Kamala receiving the questions beforehand" about their debate? No, that's not true. A fake Pence tweet claimed Sen. Kamala Harris, the Democratic nominee for vice president, received the October 7, 2020, debate questions "beforehand." Pence did not post the tweet on his personal account nor on his official government…

Did the White House doctor say there is zero evidence of a live virus in President Trump? No, that's not true. In word and deed, the White House and Dr. Sean P. Conley have made it clear the president is infected with COVID-19, likely infectious and that antibodies in his blood tests point to the existence of viruses in his…

Did President Donald Trump claim Americans are "going to die" when he's not president and call his staff "stupid" in a television interview? No, that's not true: a video -- posted by an anti-Trump political action committee -- deceptively snipped footage from Trump's Aug. 31 interview with FOX News host Laura Ingraham, taking his words out of context. The claim…

Does an upcoming book on President Donald Trump report he suffered a mini-stroke or other cerebral event when he unexpectedly went to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in November of 2019? No, that's not true: Posting on Sept. 1, 2020 in response to the claim, the book's author -- New York Times reporter Michael Schmidt -- wrote that he…

Did Joe Biden claim "You won't be safe in Joe Biden's America"? No, that's not true: Biden was quoting what the Trump campaign was saying about him and went on to remark that their "proof" was "the violence we're seeing in Donald Trump's America". The phrase "You won't be safe in Joe Biden's America" that Biden was quoting was used…

Was JFK Jr. spotted at the Fourth of July celebration at Mount Rushmore on July 3, 2020? No, that's not true: John F. Kennedy Jr. died in plane crash in 1999, which makes it a certainty that the son of the 35th president of the United States did not attend the Mount Rushmore speech of the 45th, President Donald Trump.…

Did Sheryl Crow say on television that she won't let her kids watch TV when President Trump is on, and that she prefers "classy people like Hillary Clinton"? No, that's not true: This clickbait headline has been circulating since 2017. And while the first part about Trump is fairly accurate, the second part - "I prefer classy people like Hillary…