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False90% confidence5 sourcesOct 15, 2026The 2020 presidential election was rigged through COVID and other things.Said by AThe claim that the 2020 election was rigged through COVID and other things is contradicted by authoritative reviews: AP found far too little fraud to change the outcome, and PolitiFact found the COVID-era mail-voting changes were lawful, public, and applied to all voters. The post's own words are not evidence, and the claim's wording matches the post's 'rigged... through COVID' assertion.False65% confidence6 sourcesOct 15, 20262% of the people create 91% of the crime.Said by AThe claim that 2% of people create 91% of crime is contradicted by fact-check and research sources: Prison Policy Initiative calls the claim bogus, noting the 2% figure is jail bookings, not offending, and Gigafact finds no authoritative U.S.-wide finding for a 2%-of-population share of crime. The 91% figure traces to a 1960s survey finding that 91% of adults had committed a serious crime, not that 2% produce 91% of crime. The post's wording is faithfully extracted.False60% confidence9 sourcesOct 15, 2026Drug traffic coming into Arizona and the United States has decreased by 97%.Said by ANo source measures total drug flow into Arizona or the U.S. at all, and FactCheck.org calls Trump's drug-flow claims unsupported. The best available measures show declines far smaller than 97%: national fentanyl seizures down about 50%, Arizona port fentanyl weight down about 30%, and Arizona pill seizures down from 19 million to 17.8 million. The 95-96% drops cited in the sources are border crossings of migrants, not drugs, so they do not support the claim. The post's own figure of 58% is also not the same as 97%. The claim departs from the post's wording only trivially, so it is graded as made.False85% confidence6 sourcesOct 15, 2026Canada charges a 409% tariff on milk imports from the United States after the first two bottles.Said by AThe claim is false: under USMCA, US milk enters Canada tariff-free up to a large quota (about 50,000+ metric tons a year), so nothing is charged after two bottles. Over-quota rates are roughly 241-298% per the sources, not 409%, and they apply only above the quota, which US exports don't reach. The claim also departs from the passage's framing only in wording, not substance, and the 409% figure is the speaker's own, not a sourced rate.False72% confidence8 sourcesOct 15, 2026The United States loses 80 to 100 billion dollars a year to support a country that is not one of us.Said by AThe claim that the US loses $80-100 billion a year supporting a country is contradicted: the quoted figure was a trade-deficit claim about Canada, not aid, and total US foreign assistance in the sources ($47.3B disbursed in FY2025, $11.8B disbursed in FY2026, about $50-56B appropriated) is far below $80-100B, let alone for one country. The extraction faithfully reflects the post, which was about Canada and the trade relationship, and as of 2026-10-15 the sources show no such aid outlay.False90% confidence7 sourcesOct 15, 2026The Islamic Republic of Iran has no military, navy, air force, radar, or anti-aircraft capabilities.Said by AThe claim that Iran has no military, navy, air force, radar, or anti-aircraft capability is contradicted by multiple primary and tier-1 sources, which describe Iran as still fielding a military, missile and drone forces, and a degraded but existing navy, air force and air defenses as of 2026-10-15. The extracted claim matches the passage's wording, so it is graded on its content, not on whether the speaker said it.False60% confidence6 sourcesOct 15, 2026The United States has taken total control of the Hormuz Strait.The claim matches the post's wording, and the US Central Command and the White House assert US control of the strait. However, independent reporting dated 2026-10-15 says neither side controls the whole waterway, with Iran still contesting it, attacks ongoing, and traffic far below prewar levels, so 'total control' is contradicted as of the post date. The sources also show a real but partial US control over escorted and blockaded flows, which is an overstatement rather than a complete absence of US influence.False95% confidence8 sourcesOct 15, 2026Joe Biden caused the highest inflation in history.Said by AMultiple tier1 fact-checkers (Snopes, PolitiFact, FactCheck.org) and CNN explicitly rate the claim that Biden gave the US the highest inflation in history as false: the peak year-over-year rate under Biden was about 9.1% in June 2022, while the 1919-1920 and 1970s/early-1980s rates were far higher. The claim is correctly extracted from Trump's Bullhead City remarks (Oct 14, 2026), so it is graded on its substance.False50% confidence6 sourcesOct 15, 2026Iran was two weeks away from having a nuclear weapon before B-2 bombers took out their sites.Said by AThe claim's two-week figure rests on Trump's own repeated assertion, and an unrated fact-check article states there is no evidence Iran was ever close to a nuclear weapon. The AP and NIDS sources do not corroborate a two-week gap at the time of the strikes; the two-week warning they cite is an Israeli 2022 estimate. The post's claim also matches the extraction faithfully, so the verdict rests on that single dismissal.False80% confidence4 sourcesOct 15, 2026The Trump administration has secured 21.2 trillion dollars in investment for building plants and factories in the United States.Said by AThe claim that $21.2 trillion in investment for plants and factories has been secured is contradicted by the record: FactCheck.org calls the $21 trillion figure an exaggeration, and the White House's own tally is $11.2 trillion 'in new investment in America, and counting' as of Oct. 22, about half the claimed amount. The figure also rests largely on speculative or routine announcements, and the claim as of 2026-10-15 is judged on that record, with no later development changing it.False88% confidence3 sourcesOct 15, 2026The United States went 45 years without building an auto factory.Said by AThe claim that the US went 45 years without building an auto factory is contradicted by fact-checkers. AP and FactCheck.org both found that more than two dozen major vehicle assembly plants opened in the US over the past four decades, so the claim is false.False60% confidence10 sourcesOct 15, 2026The United States government made a $72 billion profit from a deal with Intel.Said by AThe claim that the U.S. government made a $72 billion profit from its Intel deal is grossly overstated. The sources show a government stake bought for about $8.9 billion (plus $2.2 billion in earlier grants), with paper gains that peaked around $30 billion or more and stood near $19 billion after a late-October 2026 share drop, and the one source citing $72 billion gives no methodology. The post was checked 18 days after posting, and sources published after it still do not support the figure.