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False80% confidence1 sourceOct 15, 2026Washington, D.C. is now one of the safest cities in the country.Said by AAvailable evidence indicates that Washington, D.C. has some of the highest violent crime rates in the United States, directly contradicting the claim that it is among the safest cities.False80% confidence3 sourcesOct 15, 2026Donald Trump won Arizona in the most recent election by the largest margin.Said by AThe claim treats Trump's 2024 Arizona win as the largest margin in the most recent election, but NBC News reports his 5.5-point 2024 Arizona margin was only the 25th biggest among the 50 states. The 2026 Arizona election had not yet taken place as of the check date, so the 2024 result is the most recent one.False80% confidence7 sourcesOct 15, 2026The United States won Arizona in the most recent election by the largest margin and largest number of votes ever recorded.Said by AThe post, made 2026-10-15, refers to Trump's 2024 Arizona win, which the sources show was by 5.5 points (R+5.5), not the largest margin ever. The 1960-2024 Arizona table shows Reagan's 1980 win by 32.4 points, so the 'largest margin ever' superlative is contradicted, and the 'largest number of votes' element is only partly checkable because the sources do not list every year.False75% confidence7 sourcesOct 15, 2026The United States has increased its earnings from trade with China compared to previous periods.Said by AThe sources show the US running a large goods trade deficit with China, not earning money from it, and US exports to China fell in 2025 and early 2026. The deficit has narrowed, so the US is losing less, but that is not an increase in earnings.False90% confidence7 sourcesOct 15, 2026The President of China visited the United States for a meeting with Donald Trump during the week of October 8, 2026.Said by AThe claimed visit during the week of October 8, 2026 is contradicted: the White House and other sources place Xi Jinping's state visit to Washington on September 23-25, 2026, weeks before that week. No source reports a Trump-Xi in-person visit in early October, so the claim is false; the post's 'last week' (posted October 15) does not match the record.False85% confidence8 sourcesOct 15, 2026Voting machines in Republican areas of Arizona were broken purposely during a past election.Said by AThe claim that Arizona voting machines in Republican areas were purposely broken in the 2022 election is contradicted by the record: printer/ballot-ink malfunctions hit both Republican and Democrat-leaning sites, election officials and AP found no deliberate sabotage, and fact-checkers and courts rejected the fraud allegations. The claim was made by Trump at an October 2026 rally, and the sources (including a 2026 PBS fact-check of the same quote) dismiss it.False85% confidence6 sourcesOct 15, 2026The Democratic Party caused the worst inflation in American history while in power.Said by AThe claim that Democrats caused the worst inflation in American history is contradicted by fact-checkers: the worst inflation was the post-WWI spike of 1919-1920 (23.7% in one year), and the Biden-era peak of about 9.1% was not the worst. The claim also widens the post's 'radical Democrats' to the whole party and drops the 'last time they had power' framing, though the core assertion fails either way.False75% confidence5 sourcesOct 15, 2026The Democratic Party allowed 25 million people to enter the United States illegally across the southern border.Said by AThe claim that Democrats let 25 million people enter illegally across the southern border is contradicted by the sources' encounter data. FactCheck.org's tier-1 figure is about 7.38 million Border Patrol encounters over the entire Biden administration, and BBC reports roughly 8 million southwest-border encounters since January 2021, so 25 million is roughly three times the record. Encounters also count repeat attempts and are not a count of people who entered, so the magnitude is grossly overstated.False70% confidence5 sourcesOct 15, 202611,888 murderers entered the United States illegally in the last 17 months.Said by AThe 11,888 murderers figure comes from Trump's remarks about the Biden-era border, not the last 17 months as the claim states, and fact-checkers reject it. Source [8] rates the claim a 'blatant lie' because the figure includes noncitizens who entered under multiple administrations, some legally, and many were incarcerated, while Source [6] calls the Biden/Democrat murderer claim untrue. The claim also departs from the passage, which ties the 11,888 figure to 'they let them pour in' over the past 17 months, so the time framing is the post's own.False75% confidence4 sourcesOct 15, 2026Zero illegal aliens have been admitted into the United States in the last 17 months.Said by AFactCheck.org, a tier1 fact-checker, examined Trump's near-identical 'zero illegal aliens have entered' claim and rejected it as wrong, noting roughly 9,295 border apprehensions in July alone. The claim matches the post's wording, but the sources show zero releases and zero interior releases, not zero admissions, so the claim's core is contradicted.False60% confidence6 sourcesOct 15, 2026Rent in Arizona has plummeted by 14% since Donald Trump took office.Said by AStatewide and Phoenix-area rent data show modest year-over-year declines of roughly 3% to 7%, not a 14% drop, and KTAR reports the decline began before Trump returned to office in January 2025. The 14% figure matches only a single-city, one-bedroom Zumper figure for Glendale, and the claim's 'since Trump took office' framing is not supported as of 2026-10-15.False60% confidence4 sourcesOct 15, 2026Under President Trump, car insurance premiums have declined at the highest rate in the last 14 years.Said by AThe claim that premiums declined at the highest rate in 14 years under Trump is not supported. Premiums fell in 2025 (about 6% per Insurify), but 2026 sources show increases (Insurify up 1% in the first half, CarInsurance.com rising), and none of the sources describes the decline as the largest in 14 years. The post's 'highest price' is a garbled phrase; the claim's 'rate' wording is a faithful paraphrase.