Latest from Nicole LewisFact CheckerAnalysisFact-checking the Trump administration’s claims on ‘saving’ coal countryThe Trump administration has made a lot of claims about gains in the coal industry, but virtually none of them are true.January 16, 2018Fact CheckerAnalysisTrump’s repeated claim: ‘We don’t have a surplus with anybody’The president keeps saying the United States doesn't have a trade surplus with any country. That's a Four-Pinocchio claim. January 8, 2018Fact CheckerAnalysisPresident Trump has made 1,950 false or misleading claims over 347 daysAn update on The Fact Checker's year-long project analyzing, categorizing and tracking every false or misleading claim by President Trump.January 2, 2018Fact CheckerAnalysisComparing the ‘Trump economy’ to the ‘Obama economy’Sarah Sanders bragged on Twitter about the "booming Trump economy" but most of the upward economic trends began in the Obama-era. December 14, 2017Fact CheckerAnalysisTrump’s claim that West Virginia is ‘sending clean coal’ to ‘China’Trump claims West Virginia is sending “clean coal” to China, but in 2015 and 2016 essentially no coal left the state en route to China. December 11, 2017Fact CheckerAnalysisDoes the Senate tax bill really offer a tax break for private jets, as key Democrats claim?Several Democratic leaders claim the bill offers a tax write off for private jets, but they're blowing the provision way out of proportion.December 6, 2017Fact CheckerAnalysisTrump’s claim that ‘they just kept cutting, cutting, cutting the military’ until it was ‘depleted’Trump claims the military budget has been slashed in recent years, but he's forgetting that the U.S. ended two wars overseas. December 5, 2017Fact CheckerAnalysisPence’s claim that ‘more Americans are working today than ever before in American history’This economic boast is so mindlessly dumb we can't believe we have to fact check it. November 28, 2017Fact CheckerAnalysisGOP lawmaker uses fuzzy math to make case for small-business tax cutsSen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) claims a tax cut on small businesses can help reduce the federal deficit, citing suspect data on revenueNovember 27, 2017Fact CheckerAnalysisIvanka Trump touts GOP tax cuts with data borrowed from the Obama administrationTrump claims the U.S. doesn't invest enough in young children, and her figures come from an unlikely source for a Trump official.November 20, 2017Load more