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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.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.