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Can't verify60% confidence
“the broadcast didn't mention that when Steve Witkoff mentioned President Trump, the crowd actually cheered.”
Claim checkedNBC's broadcast covering the 11 October 2025 Hostages Square rally reported boos for Netanyahu but did not mention that the crowd cheered when Steve Witkoff mentioned President Trump.
Reports confirm that at the 11 October 2025 Hostages Square rally the crowd booed when Steve Witkoff named Netanyahu and cheered at Trump's name, but the content of the specific NBC broadcast referred to could not be checked.
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Supported80% confidence
“he gave Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner a remarkable amount of authority to go and get a peace deal done.”
Claim checkedPresident Trump gave Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner an unusually large amount of authority to negotiate the Gaza peace deal.
Trump relied on special envoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, neither a career diplomat, to lead the Gaza ceasefire and hostage talks that produced the October 2025 deal, as widely reported.
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Partly supported60% confidence
“the president of the United States has done something that no other world leader has been able to do: unite the Israelis with the Gulf Arab states for a common objective”
Claim checkedPresident Trump has done something no other world leader has done: unite Israel and the Gulf Arab states behind a common objective of freeing the hostages, ending the Gaza war and a long-term settlement.
Israel and Arab states including Qatar, Egypt and Gulf states backed Trump's 20-point plan in 2025, but earlier hostage-ceasefire deals (November 2023, January 2025) were also brokered by the US with Qatar and Egypt, so 'no other world leader' overstates the novelty.
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Contradicted by evidence75% confidence
“for our entire history, we've never had a president who's been willing to sit down both with the Gulf Arab states and the Israelis”
Claim checkedNo US president before Trump has been willing to deal with both the Gulf Arab states and Israel to get a Gaza deal done.
Previous presidents worked directly with both Israel and Arab Gulf states on Gaza; the January 2025 ceasefire and hostage deal was reached after months of diplomacy by the Biden administration together with Qatar and Egypt.
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Supported80% confidence
“They actually confirmed yesterday that Israel pulled back to the agreed-upon lines”
Claim checkedUS Central Command confirmed on 11 October 2025 that Israel had pulled its forces back to the agreed lines in Gaza.
The IDF said its forces completed the pullback to the agreed 'yellow line' at noon on 10 October 2025, and Witkoff said CENTCOM had confirmed it; CENTCOM commander Adm. Brad Cooper toured the line on 11 October.
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Supported75% confidence
“we've had a number of Muslim majority countries offer to step up and have them put troops on the ground to secure Gaza.”
Claim checkedSeveral Muslim-majority countries, from Indonesia to the Gulf Arab states, have offered to put troops on the ground to secure Gaza.
Indonesian President Prabowo told the UN General Assembly in September 2025 that Indonesia was prepared to deploy 20,000 or more troops to help secure peace in Gaza, and Arab and Muslim-majority states discussed contributing to a stabilisation force.
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Supported60% confidence
“the president was talking back then when Barack Obama was president about the political realities.”
Claim checkedTrump's earlier remarks blaming the president for a government shutdown were made while Barack Obama was president.
Trump's comments that the president bears responsibility for a shutdown were made on Fox & Friends in 2013, when Barack Obama was president; describing them as about 'political realities' is a characterisation.
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Partly supported65% confidence
“Chuck Schumer and the Democrats have shut down the government.”
Claim checkedChuck Schumer and the Democrats shut down the US government in October 2025.
The shutdown began 1 October 2025 after Senate Democrats, led by Chuck Schumer, repeatedly blocked the House-passed stopgap (e.g. 54-44 on 3 October, short of 60) while demanding an extension of ACA premium tax credits; the lapse reflected a two-sided standoff, as Republicans declined to add those terms.
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Supported75% confidence
“there is a clean bill to open the United States government.”
Claim checkedThere is a clean bill (the House-passed continuing resolution) to reopen the US government.
H.R. 5371, passed by the House on 19 September 2025, extended funding at current levels to 21 November 2025 without major policy riders, though it added about $88 million for security of officials.
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Supported80% confidence
“the vast majority of Republicans and even a few moderate Democrats voted to open the government.”
Claim checkedThe vast majority of Republican senators and a few moderate Democrats voted for the House continuing resolution to reopen the government.
In Senate votes on H.R. 5371, all Republicans but Rand Paul voted yes, joined by Democrats Catherine Cortez Masto and John Fetterman and independent Angus King (54-44 on 3 October 2025).
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Supported75% confidence
“There are low-income women and children who will not get the food benefits they need to feed their families unless we reopen the government.”
Claim checkedLow-income women and children will not get the food benefits (WIC) they need unless the government reopens.
WIC, serving about 7 million low-income women and young children, faced running out of funds in some states during the shutdown; the White House said on about 7-9 October 2025 it would use tariff revenue to keep it going temporarily.
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Contradicted by evidence75% confidence
“crime has gotten out of control in our cities.”
Claim checkedCrime has gotten out of control in US cities.
The Council on Criminal Justice found homicide and other violent crime in US cities fell further in the first half of 2025, below pre-2020 levels, and major-city homicides fell about 19% in the first nine months of 2025.
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Not supported80% confidence
“our ICE agents, the people who are enforcing our immigration laws, have faced a 1,000% increase in violent attacks against them.”
Claim checkedICE agents have faced a 1,000% increase in violent attacks against them.
DHS and ICE cited rising percentages (500%, 830%, then over 1,000%) without releasing the baseline data; NPR and Colorado Public Radio found federal court cases alleging assaults on federal officers rose about 25% in 2025.
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Not supported75% confidence
“crime is down in Chicago and Portland often because they're so overwhelmed at the local level, they're not even keeping the statistics properly.”
Claim checkedReported crime declines in Chicago and Portland are partly because local authorities are too overwhelmed to keep crime statistics properly.
Police data show homicides and shootings in Chicago fell more than 30% in the first half of 2025 and Portland homicides fell 51%; no evidence was found that either city stopped keeping crime statistics properly.
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Partly supported75% confidence
“Just a couple of weeks ago, we had an ICE office get shot at by a far left assassin who was trying to kill our law enforcement officers. He fortunately didn't kill law enforcement officers. He did kill some other innocent people in the process.”
Claim checkedA couple of weeks before 12 October 2025, a far-left gunman shot at an ICE office (Dallas) trying to kill law enforcement officers, killing other people but no officers.
On 24 September 2025 a gunman, Joshua Jahn, fired on the Dallas ICE field office, killing two detainees and wounding another; no officers were hurt and anti-ICE notes were found, but investigators reported no known political affiliation, so the 'far left' label is not established.
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Partly supported70% confidence
“a far left grand jury in a far left area indicted Letitia James and James Comey.”
Claim checkedGrand juries in a left-leaning area indicted Letitia James and James Comey.
Federal grand juries in the Eastern District of Virginia indicted James Comey (25 September 2025, Alexandria; one proposed count was rejected) and Letitia James (9 October 2025, Norfolk); there is no record of the grand jurors' politics, so the 'far left' description is not supported.
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Not supported75% confidence
“James Comey obviously lied under oath.”
Claim checkedJames Comey made false statements under oath in his testimony to Congress.
Comey was indicted on charges of false statements and obstruction relating to his September 2020 Senate testimony and pleaded not guilty on 8 October 2025; the charges were unproven allegations at the time.
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Not supported75% confidence
“Letitia James obviously committed mortgage fraud.”
Claim checkedLetitia James committed mortgage fraud.
Letitia James was indicted on 9 October 2025 on bank fraud and false-statement charges over a Norfolk, Virginia mortgage and denied the charges; at the time they were unproven allegations, not established fact.
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Partly supported65% confidence
“the Biden Department of Justice, Kristen -- – which actually went after Donald Trump in the midst of an election”
Claim checkedThe Biden Justice Department pursued criminal cases against Donald Trump during an election campaign.
Special counsel Jack Smith, appointed by Biden's Attorney General Merrick Garland, indicted Trump in June and August 2023 while Trump was campaigning for 2024; the cases were run by a special counsel rather than at Biden's direction, and were dropped after the election.
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Procedural claims (the speaker's own dates, petition counts, who said what, background), clear slips of the tongue, and words read out from someone else. They stay on the record and do not count in Accuracy.
Pending“The president of the United States is planning to travel to the Middle East to gulf – to greet the hostages Monday morning, Middle Eastern time”Procedural: The president's travel plans, given as timing in answer to when the hostages will be released; scene-setting, not part of an argument. · Meet the Press interview, 12 Oct 2025