Speaker Mike Johnson
56th Speaker of the House | Christian, husband, dad, Constitutional law attorney & small biz owner.
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Mostly holds65Claims checked
179across 37 checks
False
2916% of claims
Mixed
4726% of claims
True
8849% of claims
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Mixed60% confidence9 sourcesOct 31, 2026Juan Gomez Santiago has a conviction for second-degree assault and battery.The DHS primary source states Juan Gomez Santiago's criminal history includes a conviction for second-degree assault and battery, and the Daily Signal piece attributes the same to the White House, so the conviction claim is directly supported by a primary government source. However, the claim is extracted as a plain conviction, while the source reports this from a government press release that is not independently verified by court records in the sources (the court index results are empty or non-specific), so confidence is capped.Minor detail. The sources confirm the claim; only a minor detail differs, such as a name's spelling, a title's wording or a rounding.Mixed60% confidence11 sourcesOct 31, 2026Republicans have reduced crime nationwide.The sources firmly document a nationwide decline in crime in 2025 (FBI violent crime down 9.7% to 9.3%, record murder drop, NCVS victimization down 25%), so the fact of a drop is supported. However, the sources also state that the decline began before Trump's return to office and during the Biden administration, which disputes the claim that Republicans reduced crime; the extracted claim also drops the passage's 'secured the border' phrase, which is not verified here.True70% confidence2 sourcesOct 31, 2026Juan Gomez Santiago was arrested in South Carolina.The DHS primary source states that ICE arrested Juan Gomez Santiago, an illegal alien from Mexico, in Charleston, South Carolina, on October 9, so the core arrest-location claim is supported. The claim omits the passage's 'worst of the worst' characterization, which the sources neither confirm nor contradict, and the Daily Signal report merely repeats the White House account.True85% confidence6 sourcesOct 31, 2026Juan Gomez Santiago has an arrest for second-degree domestic violence.A DHS primary source (Source 4) states that Juan Gomez Santiago, an illegal alien from Mexico arrested by ICE in Charleston, SC on October 9, has a criminal history including an arrest for second-degree domestic violence, matching the claim. Daily Signal (Source 6) repeats the same details attributed to the White House, so it adds no independent corroboration; the extracted claim faithfully reflects the passage.True60% confidence4 sourcesOct 31, 2026The Washington Post stated that its polls are likely inaccurate because they cannot get GOP voters, center-right voters, or centrist independents to respond.Sources quoting a Washington Post article show its polling director acknowledged that Republicans were undercounted and that the Post's midterm polling may suffer from inaccuracy, which supports the core of the claim. The claim's specific mention of center-right and centrist independents is not addressed, and the acknowledged problem was tied to particular surveys (Kansas, Maine) rather than all its polls. The claim is extracted from Hugh Hewitt's post, which paraphrases the Post, so the wording is his characterization.