Supported12Partly supported23Not supported6Contradicted by evidence17Can't verify5
63 claims checked against independent sources, chosen by a fixed rule (every material claim (one that supports an argument, a policy or an attack) in the transcripts that count towards a score; in other transcripts, up to 10 claims spread evenly across each; plus any claim an emotional passage relies on). 0 more were found but not checked yet; they do not count.
Quotes leave out filler sounds and repeated words. Words in [square brackets] correct a transcript that misheard or misspelt them. The transcript keeps every word as published.
Not supported70% confidence
“I built it, frankly. I built it in my first four years.”
Claim checkedDonald Trump built the US military, the most powerful in the world, during his first four-year term.
Fact-checkers found that procurement was about 20% of the 2017-2020 defense budgets (about $591bn of roughly $2.5tn) and that most US weapons systems predate 2017, so the force was not built in a single four-year term; budgets did rise in that period.
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Partly supported70% confidence
“Their navy is gone. Their air force is gone. Their anti-aircraft is gone.”
Claim checkedIran's navy, air force and anti-aircraft defenses have been destroyed by US strikes.
AP's April 2026 tally reported much of Iran's conventional navy destroyed and about 80% of its air defense systems hit, but the IRGC's small-boat navy remained partly intact and Defense Secretary Hegseth conceded Iran 'can still shoot'; reports did not show the air force or air defenses wholly eliminated.
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Supported75% confidence
“this little ceasefire that we did at the request of some very good people, very, very fine people from — actually from numerous places, as you know. You know, there are a lot of people involved. But from Pakistan in particular, the field marshal and the prime minister.”
Claim checkedThe US-Iran ceasefire was agreed at the request of several countries, in particular Pakistan's Field Marshal Asim Munir and Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif.
Pakistan, led by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Field Marshal Asim Munir, brokered the US-Iran ceasefire announced on 8 April 2026 and hosted talks in Islamabad on 11-12 April; other countries such as Qatar were also involved.
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Supported70% confidence
“they tried a blockade, and now we blockaded them.”
Claim checkedThe US imposed a naval blockade on Iran after Iran first tried to blockade the Strait of Hormuz.
After the war began on 28 February 2026, Iran choked shipping through the Strait of Hormuz; after the Islamabad talks failed in April, the US Navy began blocking ships entering or leaving Iranian ports.
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Partly supported55% confidence
“they’re losing $400-500 million a day.”
Claim checkedIran is losing $400-500 million a day because of the US naval blockade.
An FDD analyst put Iran's loss at about $450 million a day in economic activity, close to the claim, but estimates of lost oil revenue were far lower: Al Jazeera put the oil revenue lost to the blockade at nearly $6bn by early June, roughly $100-120 million a day.
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Partly supported65% confidence
“Their leaders are gone. Their generals are gone. Their first tier and second tier are gone. Much of their third tier is gone.”
Claim checkedIran's leaders and generals have been killed, including its first and second tiers of leadership and much of its third tier.
Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and dozens of senior commanders, including IRGC chief Mohammad Pakpour, Defense Minister Aziz Nasirzadeh and later Ali Larijani, were killed, but Iran's state continued under a new supreme leader, a sitting president and replacement commanders, so 'first and second tier gone' overstates it.
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Partly supported75% confidence
“we beat Venezuela. We lost nobody. Took over the whole country. We lost nobody.”
Claim checkedThe US defeated Venezuela and took over the whole country without losing any US service members.
No US troops were killed in the 3 January 2026 raid that captured Nicolas Maduro (seven were wounded), but the operation was a raid that seized Maduro, and reporting describes no US takeover of the whole country.
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Supported85% confidence
“We’ve lost 13 people here”
Claim checkedThirteen US service members have been killed in the Iran war.
The Pentagon's official count of US service members killed in the Iran war stood at 13 from early April 2026; it rose to 14 only after a 1 July helicopter crash, so 13 was correct in early June.
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Partly supported60% confidence
“if you look at Vietnam, where hundreds of thousands of people were killed”
Claim checkedHundreds of thousands of people were killed in the Vietnam War.
US military deaths in Vietnam were 58,220 per the National Archives, well short of hundreds of thousands, though total deaths in the war, mostly Vietnamese, ran well over a million; the comparison with 13 US deaths implies US losses.
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Not supported60% confidence
“It costs us very little to keep them there.”
Claim checkedIt costs the US very little to keep its forces deployed in the Iran war region.
Published estimates put the direct cost of the war in the billions: a Pentagon briefing to lawmakers put the first six days at about $11.3bn, and analysts cited roughly $1bn a day, which does not support 'very little', though the cost of keeping forces in place during the ceasefire is lower than during active combat.
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Partly supported55% confidence
“The stock market already, as you know, it’s at an all-time high. Even in the midst of it, it hit all-time highs. We had 73 all-time highs in the short period of time that I’ve been in office, which is a record”
Claim checkedThe US stock market is at an all-time high and has set 73 all-time highs since Donald Trump took office in 2025, which is a record.
US stocks were setting records in mid-2026, but CFRA counted 64 S&P 500 record closes since January 2025 even by early August, so 73 by June overstates it (74 is reached only counting from the 2024 election) and no source was found supporting 'a record'.
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Can't verify50% confidence
“It’s the third group that we’ve been dealing with.”
Claim checkedThe Iranian officials now leading the country are the third group of leaders the US has dealt with during the war.
Whether the officials now negotiating are the 'third group' is a characterization of changes in Iran's leadership after successive killings, not a measurable fact.
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Partly supported55% confidence
“He’s pretty badly injured.”
Claim checkedIran's new supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei is badly injured.
Reports cited a source saying Iran's new supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei suffered a fractured foot and facial lacerations on the war's first day, but most accounts described the injuries as minor and Iranian officials said he was safe and well.
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Supported65% confidence
“They’ve conceded the fact that they will not have nuclear weapons.”
Claim checkedIn negotiations with the US, Iran has conceded that it will not have nuclear weapons.
Iran had long said it does not seek nuclear weapons, and the US-Iran memorandum concluded on 14 June 2026 records Iran reaffirming that it will never develop nuclear weapons, though enrichment and the uranium stockpile were left to later talks.
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Contradicted by evidence70% confidence
“they were very close to having a nuclear weapon twice.”
Claim checkedIran came very close to having a nuclear weapon twice, including under the JCPOA nuclear deal.
FactCheck.org reported that under the 2015 JCPOA Iran's breakout time was 12-plus months and that Iran expanded enrichment only after the US withdrew in 2018; US intelligence said in March 2025 that Iran was not building a nuclear weapon.
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Supported60% confidence
“it expired long ago.”
Claim checkedThe 2015 Iran nuclear deal (JCPOA) expired long ago.
The JCPOA reached its termination day on 18 October 2025, about eight months before the interview, and Iran declared its restrictions ended; the US had withdrawn in 2018. 'Long ago' is a loose description of eight months.
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Supported70% confidence
“I’m into three months. You know, Vietnam lasted 19 years.”
Claim checkedThe Iran war is three months old, while the Vietnam War lasted 19 years.
The US-Iran war began on 28 February 2026, a little over three months before the interview; US military deaths in Vietnam span 1956 to 1975, roughly 19 years of involvement.
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Partly supported60% confidence
“Most of the drone factories have been knocked out, most of the launching pads have been knocked out and most of the missile manufacturing areas have been knocked out.”
Claim checkedUS strikes have knocked out most of Iran's drone factories, launch pads and missile manufacturing sites.
US intelligence reports said more than two-thirds of Iran's missile, drone and naval production facilities and more than half of its launchers were damaged, destroyed or trapped, but CNN reported satellite images showing Iran had repaired most of its underground missile facilities.
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Not supported60% confidence
“three mountains have fallen in on them”
Claim checkedIn the June 2025 US strikes, three mountains collapsed on Iran's nuclear sites.
The June 2025 US strikes hit three sites (Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan), of which only Fordow is built into a mountain; experts said the sites were badly damaged but not obliterated, and no evidence shows three mountains collapsed.
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Partly supported60% confidence
“every one of those bombs went right down those chutes, blew up.”
Claim checkedIn the June 2025 strikes on Iran, every US bunker-buster bomb went down the ventilation shafts and exploded.
At a Pentagon briefing Gen. Dan Caine described the bunker-buster bombs entering Fordow's ventilation shafts and detonating as planned, with 14 dropped on Fordow and Natanz; the first fell at about 2:10 a.m. local time, not 1 a.m., and early intelligence assessments of the damage were mixed.
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Not supported60% confidence
“the only two countries that can get it are us and China because we’re the only two with the equipment that’s capable of doing that kind of work.”
Claim checkedDonald Trump said only the United States and China have the equipment able to dig out Iran's buried enriched uranium, so only they could get it.
Reporting in March 2026 (citing US intelligence, via the New York Times) said Iran could still reach the highly enriched uranium buried at Isfahan through a narrow access point, though tunnels were damaged and mined. No evidence was found that only the US and China have equipment able to dig it out.
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Can't verify60% confidence
“if you walked over there, I would be able to read your first name on your lapel. And these are cameras up in space.”
Claim checkedDonald Trump said US satellite cameras watching the Iranian nuclear site could read a person's first name on their lapel.
The resolution of US reconnaissance satellites is classified. Public estimates put the best optical resolution at roughly 10-15 cm, which would make reading a name on a lapel unlikely, but no official figure exists to confirm or rule it out.
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Partly supported65% confidence
“You were in Korea for many, many years.”
Claim checkedDonald Trump said the United States fought in the Korean War for many, many years.
US combat in the Korean War lasted about three years, from 25 June 1950 to the armistice of 27 July 1953, with over 36,000 American deaths. US troops have stayed in South Korea since, but the war itself was not 'many, many years' long.
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Supported80% confidence
“We’ve had 13 people killed. And that includes two wars. That’s Venezuela, and that’s Iran.”
Claim checkedDonald Trump said 13 US service members have been killed across the Venezuela operation and the Iran war combined.
By early June 2026, 13 US service members had died in the Iran war that began on 28 February (seven from Iranian attacks in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, six in a KC-135 crash in Iraq); US officials said no Americans were killed in the January 2026 raid in Venezuela. Further deaths in July brought the Iran total to 16.
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Partly supported60% confidence
“in three months, I’ve demolished the navy, the air force, anti-aircraft. They have no radar.”
Claim checkedDonald Trump said that in three months the US demolished Iran's navy, air force and anti-aircraft defences and that Iran has no radar.
Iran's regular navy was largely destroyed and its air force and air defences heavily damaged, but May 2026 reports of US intelligence assessments said the IRGC naval forces kept about half their capability, Iran kept about 70% of its mobile missile launchers, and coastal defence missiles remained largely functional.
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Partly supported70% confidence
“Obama flew a Boeing 757, a plane I know very well. They took the seats out, and they loaded it up with $1.7 billion in cash from the banks in Maryland and Virginia and D.C.”
Claim checkedDonald Trump said the Obama administration flew $1.7 billion in cash to Iran on a Boeing 757, drawn from banks in Maryland, Virginia and Washington DC.
The US did deliver $1.7 billion in cash to Iran in 2016 to settle a 1979 arms-sale claim ($400 million principal plus about $1.3 billion interest). But the money came from a trust fund and the Treasury judgment fund and was converted to foreign currency through European banks, not drawn from banks in Maryland, Virginia and DC; the first $400 million went on an unmarked cargo plane.
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Partly supported60% confidence
“they gave them tens of billions of dollars.”
Claim checkedDonald Trump said the Obama administration gave Iran tens of billions of dollars.
Under the 2015 nuclear deal Iran regained access to its own frozen assets, which the US Treasury estimated at about $56 billion in usable funds; this was Iran's money released by sanctions relief, not US payments.
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Can't verify50% confidence
“Nobody really has an accurate list of who they are, what they are, or if they’re being held.”
Claim checkedDonald Trump said nobody has an accurate list of who the people in question are or whether they are being held.
The statement does not name which people or list are meant, and no public record was found that would confirm or refute it.
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Contradicted by evidence80% confidence
“I inherited a terrible military. We had no equipment.”
Claim checkedDonald Trump said he inherited a terrible US military in 2017 that had no equipment.
The US spent roughly $600 billion on defence in the year before January 2017 and had the world's largest military; fact-checkers and defence analysts found readiness strains but no lack of equipment or ammunition.
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Partly supported60% confidence
“Biden gave a lot of it away”
Claim checkedDonald Trump said Joe Biden gave away a lot of US military equipment.
The Biden administration sent more than $65 billion in security assistance to Ukraine from 2022 to 2024, much of it drawn from existing US stocks under presidential drawdown authority, so a substantial amount of equipment did leave US inventories; this was aid to an ally with replenishment funded by Congress rather than equipment simply given away.
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Contradicted by evidence75% confidence
“we’ve just had all brand new stock market records today.”
Claim checkedDonald Trump said US stock markets set brand new records on the day of the interview (5 June 2026).
The interview was recorded on Friday 5 June 2026, when the S&P 500 fell 2.6% and the Nasdaq 4.2%, the worst day since October; the Dow fell 1.3% a day after a record close on 4 June. No index set a record that day.
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Partly supported75% confidence
“Then I sent the B2 bombers in about nine, ten months ago.”
Claim checkedDonald Trump said he sent B-2 bombers to strike Iran's nuclear sites about nine or ten months before the interview.
The B-2 strikes on Iran's nuclear sites took place on 21-22 June 2025, about 11 and a half months before the 5 June 2026 interview, not nine or ten months.
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Partly supported60% confidence
“they obliterated, totally obliterated, the site.”
Claim checkedDonald Trump said the June 2025 B-2 strikes totally obliterated Iran's nuclear site.
The June 2025 strikes caused severe damage to Iran's nuclear sites, but experts cited by FactCheck.org said the sites were damaged rather than 'obliterated', and the strikes did not remove or account for about 400 kg of 60% enriched uranium.
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Supported70% confidence
“I just won a big election.”
Claim checkedDonald Trump said he recently won a big election (the November 2024 presidential election).
Trump won the November 2024 presidential election with 312 electoral votes to 226 and the national popular vote; it took place about 19 months before the interview, so 'just' is loose.
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Supported75% confidence
“We’ve been doing this for three months. Much of it has been under the form — a pretty good form of ceasefire.”
Claim checkedDonald Trump said the US-Iran war had lasted about three months and that much of that time was under a reasonably good ceasefire.
The war began on 28 February 2026, a little over three months before the 5 June interview, and a ceasefire agreed on 8 April (extended to July) covered roughly two of those months, though it was strained by the US blockade and Iran's re-closing of the Strait of Hormuz.
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Not supported65% confidence
“We took over Venezuela in a matter of minutes.”
Claim checkedDonald Trump said the US took over Venezuela in a matter of minutes.
The 3 January 2026 raid that captured Nicolas Maduro took several hours (forces were in and out within about five hours), and the US did not take over Venezuela: Maduro's deputy Delcy Rodriguez was sworn in as interim president.
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Contradicted by evidence85% confidence
“I built 1,000 miles of wall on our southern border.”
Claim checkedDonald Trump said he built 1,000 miles of wall on the US southern border.
PolitiFact (25 June 2026) reports about 450 miles of barrier in Trump's first term, mostly replacing existing barriers, plus about 110 miles built since the 2025 contracts, roughly 560 miles in all and far short of 1,000.
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Partly supported60% confidence
“I took the worst border in history, and I made it the best border in history in a matter of weeks.”
Claim checkedDonald Trump said he took the worst border in US history and made it the best in history within weeks.
Southwest border apprehensions fell to 8,347 in February 2025, the lowest monthly figure on record, within weeks of the inauguration. But crossings had already fallen sharply from their December 2023 peak before he took office, so he did not take over the border at its worst point.
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Contradicted by evidence75% confidence
“They were developing it during the nuclear deal.”
Claim checkedDonald Trump said Iran was developing a nuclear weapon during the 2015 nuclear deal.
The IAEA verified Iran's compliance with the 2015 deal until the US withdrew in 2018, and arms control experts say Iran expanded enrichment only after the withdrawal; US intelligence assessed in March 2025 that Iran was not building a nuclear weapon.
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Partly supported60% confidence
“when Obama signed that stupid deal where he paid them billions, and billions of dollars.”
Claim checkedDonald Trump said that under the Iran nuclear deal Barack Obama paid Iran billions and billions of dollars.
The US paid Iran $1.7 billion in 2016 to settle a 1979 arms-sale claim, and the deal let Iran regain access to its own frozen assets (Treasury estimated about $56 billion usable). The settlement was a separate claim, and the larger sums were Iran's own funds rather than US payments.
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Contradicted by evidence85% confidence
“They got all of this uranium during Obama.”
Claim checkedDonald Trump said Iran obtained all of its enriched uranium during the Obama administration.
The 2015 deal capped Iran's enriched uranium stockpile at 300 kg of 3.67% material; Iran exceeded the limits from July 2019 after the US withdrawal and built up more than 400 kg of 60% uranium afterwards, according to IAEA reporting and arms control experts.
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Contradicted by evidence90% confidence
“They didn’t escalate anything.”
Claim checkedDonald Trump said Iran did not escalate its nuclear programme after the US withdrew from the 2015 nuclear deal.
After the US left the nuclear deal in May 2018, Iran began exceeding its limits in July 2019: its low-enriched uranium stockpile passed the cap, enrichment rose from 3.67% to 4.5% and later 60%, and by September 2020 the stockpile was about 10 times the deal's limit, according to IAEA figures.
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Partly supported65% confidence
“Really strong. By how much? Triple.”
Claim checkedDonald Trump said the May 2026 jobs report beat economists' expectations by about three times.
The May 2026 jobs report showed 172,000 jobs added, well above forecasts of about 85,000 (LSEG) to 88,000 (Bloomberg). That beat is roughly double the forecast, not triple.
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Contradicted by evidence75% confidence
“The farmers are doing very well.”
Claim checkedDonald Trump said that US farmers were doing very well in June 2026.
USDA forecast that 2026 net farm income would fall slightly, and by about 12% without record government payments of $44.3 billion. Low crop prices, high costs and lost exports left farm income about 24% below the 2022 record. In the same interview, the moderator cited a survey in which 70% of farmers said they could not afford fertilizer.
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Contradicted by evidence80% confidence
“You know what I gave farmers last term? $28 billion because China took advantage and other people. And you know who paid for it? China, last term.”
Claim checkedDonald Trump said he gave farmers $28 billion in his first term and that China paid for it.
USDA did provide about $28 billion in trade aid to farmers in 2018-2019, so the figure is about right. But the money came from the US Treasury through USDA's Commodity Credit Corporation, and studies show that US importers and consumers, not China, paid the tariffs.
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Contradicted by evidence75% confidence
“I had the greatest economy ever.”
Claim checkedDonald Trump said the US economy in his first term was the greatest economy ever.
In Donald Trump's first term, the best year for real GDP growth was 2018, at 2.9%. That was below his own 3% target, and growth was higher in many earlier periods, including the late 1990s. Growth never reached 4% in any full year of the term.
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Supported70% confidence
“they voted for me in record numbers.”
Claim checkedDonald Trump said farmers voted for him in record numbers in the 2024 election.
In Pew's study of validated voters, Trump won rural voters 69% to 29% in 2024, a 40-point margin. That was larger than his margins in 2016 and 2020. The most farming-dependent counties gave him about 78% of the vote on average.
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Partly supported65% confidence
“Fertilizer was very cheap. Everything was cheap. Gasoline was very low.”
Claim checkedDonald Trump said that in his first term fertilizer was very cheap and gasoline prices were very low.
In Trump's first term, regular gasoline averaged about $2.41 a gallon in 2017, $2.75 in 2018 and $2.60 in 2019, which is low compared with 2022 and 2026. Nitrogen fertilizer prices fell from 2013 to 2017 and then rose gradually, before a record spike in 2021-2022. 'Everything was cheap' is a broad description that cannot be checked.
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Contradicted by evidence85% confidence
“I was in Iowa, and the prices were $1.85 a gallon.”
Claim checkedDonald Trump said gasoline prices in Iowa were $1.85 a gallon when he visited before the US attacked Iran.
Trump visited Iowa in late January 2026. That day, AAA put the Iowa average for regular gasoline at $2.57 a gallon. GasBuddy found only four of 2,036 stations below $2 (the lowest was $1.97), and a station near the venue charged $2.69. About $1.85 was the price of E85 ethanol blend, not regular gasoline.
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Can't verify50% confidence
“if you go back 15 or 20 years, when you had good reports, the market went up. Nowadays when you have good reports, the market goes down”
Claim checkedDonald Trump said that 15 to 20 years ago markets rose on good economic reports, but now they fall because investors expect higher interest rates.
Markets sometimes fall on strong data when traders expect higher interest rates, a pattern often called 'good news is bad news'. But there is no clear measure that shows this pattern started only in the last 15 to 20 years.
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Contradicted by evidence70% confidence
“We have more money coming into our country right now from other countries and people than ever before.”
Claim checkedDonald Trump said more money is coming into the United States from other countries and people than ever before.
BEA reported $232.2 billion in new foreign direct investment in the US in 2025. That was up 49.5% from 2024, but far below the $439.6 billion recorded in 2015 and the $373.4 billion in 2016.
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Not supported60% confidence
“growth does not cause inflation.”
Claim checkedDonald Trump said that economic growth does not cause inflation.
Economists say growth does not always cause inflation: when productivity and capacity rise with demand, prices can stay stable. But when demand grows faster than the economy's capacity, the result is 'demand-pull' inflation, so as a general rule the claim is not supported.
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Partly supported60% confidence
“And Democrats. Most, excuse me, mostly Democrats. Some. Very few Republicans.”
Claim checkedDonald Trump said opposition to the anti-weaponization fund came mostly from Democrats and from very few Republicans.
Democrats opposed the $1.8 billion anti-weaponization fund, but Republican opposition was more than 'very few'. Senate Majority Leader John Thune said he saw no purpose for it and asked the administration to shut it down, and GOP objections put a larger Senate bill at risk.
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Supported90% confidence
“They raided Mar-a-Lago”
Claim checkedDonald Trump said federal authorities raided his Mar-a-Lago home.
On 8 August 2022, the FBI searched Mar-a-Lago under a court warrant in its investigation of classified documents and seized 102 documents with classification markings.
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Partly supported55% confidence
“People have committed suicide because a bunch of thugs went after them.”
Claim checkedDonald Trump said some people prosecuted by federal authorities, including January 6 defendants, died by suicide because of how they were pursued.
Several January 6 defendants died by suicide while their cases were open, including Matthew Perna in February 2022 while he awaited sentencing. Whether the prosecutions caused these deaths cannot be established, and 'thugs' is a characterisation, not a fact that can be checked.
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Contradicted by evidence85% confidence
“They had FBI agents ushering them into the building.”
Claim checkedDonald Trump said FBI agents ushered January 6 rioters into the Capitol building.
The Justice Department inspector general found in December 2024 no undercover FBI employees in the January 6 crowd. Of 26 FBI informants present, four entered the Capitol, none of them at the FBI's direction. NBC reported no evidence that FBI agents brought anyone into the building.
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Can't verify50% confidence
“they told they were going to jail for 15 years”
Claim checkedDonald Trump said January 6 defendants pleaded guilty because prosecutors told them they would otherwise go to jail for 15 years.
Private plea negotiations are not public, and we found no evidence that January 6 defendants were generally told they faced 15 years in prison unless they pleaded guilty.
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Supported70% confidence
“Many of them were arrested without even going into the building.”
Claim checkedDonald Trump said many January 6 defendants were arrested without having entered the Capitol building.
Many January 6 defendants were charged for conduct outside the building, such as assaulting police on the Capitol grounds. For example, David Dempsey was sentenced to 20 years for assaults committed outside. NBC notes that the probe focused on people who entered the Capitol or committed aggravating acts outside it.
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Contradicted by evidence90% confidence
“The election was rigged.”
Claim checkedDonald Trump said the 2020 presidential election was rigged.
Courts, state election officials and Trump's own attorney general, William Barr, found no fraud on a scale that could have changed the outcome of the 2020 election. Barr said so in December 2020.
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Contradicted by evidence85% confidence
“They’re dropping fast because it’s a rigged election. Let me tell you, it’s four days and they aren’t even close to coming up with the”
Claim checkedDonald Trump said Republican margins in California's June 2026 primary were dropping fast because the election was rigged, as shown by the slow count four days after the vote.
California mails ballots to all active voters and accepts ballots that arrive up to seven days after election day. Counties have until 15 June to count most ballots, so a slow count is normal. Republican margins shrink as later mail ballots, which lean Democratic, are counted, and that is not evidence of fraud.
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Contradicted by evidence85% confidence
“they’re cheating on the election.”
Claim checkedDonald Trump said California officials were cheating in the June 2026 primary election.
PolitiFact rated the claim that California's slow ballot count shows cheating 'Pants on Fire'. The pace comes from the state's mail-ballot rules and signature checks, and when asked for evidence the White House pointed only to the president's own comments.
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“I won an election in a landslide and I got 94% bad press.”
Claim checkedDonald Trump said he won the 2024 election in a landslide while receiving 94% negative press coverage.
Trump won in 2024 with 312 electoral votes, but by about 1.5 points in the popular vote. That was the smallest popular-vote margin for a winner since 1968, so 'landslide' overstates it. The conservative Media Research Center reported network coverage of him as about 91% to 94% negative in several studies, so the press figure matches that group's own measure.
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Pending“I took Scott, Howard, I took Pete, I took everybody into a room.”Procedural: His own account of a meeting with his officials: scene-setting for the decision. · Meet the Press interview, 7 Jun 2026