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Claims assessed

September 2025,
by the verdicts.

A claims-only index of every assessment published in that month’s daily editions. Activity without an assessed claim is excluded.

30daily editions
48claims assessed
0supported
Supported0False37Misleading7Unresolved4

What the verdicts show

Only attributable claims count.

Attendance, travel, meetings and other schedule facts remain in daily timelines but are excluded from claim totals.

Unresolved marks an evidence limit.

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Full index

Every assessed claim

Supported 0

False 37

Joe Biden never said the United States had the strongest military in the world.

Biden repeatedly called the U.S. military the strongest fighting force in the world and in history.

Biden said he wanted to terminate the Space Force.

Biden made no such statement, and his administration said the Space Force had its full support.

Trump raised NATO's defense-spending target from 1% to 2% during his first term.

NATO defense ministers agreed on the 2% benchmark in 2006 and reaffirmed it in 2014, before Trump's presidential campaign.

Biden gave Ukraine $350 billion.

Independent tracking and U.S. oversight figures put aid allocations, disbursements and appropriations far below $350 billion.

Portland was burning down and looked like World War II.

Protests and incidents were localized near a federal facility; Portland as a whole was not burning down.

The FBI placed 274 agents in the January 6 crowd who were probably agitators and insurrectionists.

Reviews found the FBI deployed agents in response to the Capitol attack and did not authorize or direct them to incite illegal activity.

The 2020 presidential election was rigged.

Certified results, audits, court rulings and election-security reviews found no fraud sufficient to change the result.

Inflation had been defeated.

Inflation was still positive and had risen since the spring, with August CPI around 2.9% year over year.

Grocery prices were down under Trump.

Average grocery prices were higher than when Trump returned to office, even though some individual items had declined.

U.S. electricity bills were coming way down.

Electricity prices were higher than a year earlier and higher than in January.

The United States had secured $17 trillion in new investment commitments and money paid in eight months.

The figure exceeded the White House's own recent public tally and relied on commitments that were not documented as paid investment.

China has very few wind farms and barely uses wind energy.

China had the world's largest operating wind-farm capacity and the largest number of operating wind farms.

Wind energy is the most expensive energy ever conceived and cannot exist without massive subsidies.

Onshore wind is often cheaper than coal or gas on a levelized-cost basis, while nuclear is typically more expensive than wind.

Global warming is a hoax and the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world.

Scientific evidence shows the planet is warming and that human greenhouse-gas emissions are the primary driver.

Scientists switched from saying global warming to climate change because the Earth started cooling.

Scientists use both terms; climate change describes the broader effects of a warming planet, not a retreat from warming evidence.

The Paris climate accord required the United States to pay about $1 trillion.

The accord did not require the United States to pay $1 trillion, and U.S. climate-finance commitments were far lower.

China did not have to act or pay under the Paris accord until 2030.

The Paris accord took effect for all participating countries in 2016 and allowed each country to set its own voluntary targets.

Twenty-five million people entered the United States under Biden.

Federal encounter data, even with estimated gotaways, did not come close to 25 million people entering the country.

Trump had the highest poll numbers he had ever had.

Public polling averages showed his approval well below peaks from earlier in the year and his first term.

There is no downside to avoiding Tylenol during pregnancy.

Untreated fever and pain during pregnancy can create maternal and fetal health risks, and acetaminophen remains a recommended option when needed.

The Amish do not take vaccines and have essentially no autism.

Research found many Amish parents vaccinated at least some children, and autism has been documented in Amish communities.

There is no reason to give newborns the hepatitis B vaccine because the virus is sexually transmitted.

Hepatitis B can spread from mother to baby at birth and through nonsexual household contact, and early infection is more likely to become chronic.

Mercury and aluminum in vaccines are dangerous ingredients being pumped into children.

Studies have not found thimerosal or aluminum adjuvants in vaccines to be harmful in the way Trump suggested; thimerosal was already removed from routine childhood vaccines except some multidose flu shots.

Doctors pump babies with 80 different vaccines or blends in one visit.

Children do not receive 80 vaccines at once; the claim mischaracterized the recommended vaccination schedule.

Breaking up the MMR vaccine into separate shots is safer.

Evidence does not show the combined MMR vaccine causes autism, and separate component shots are not available in the United States.

Small children receive 80 different vaccines.

The childhood schedule does not give children 80 different vaccines, and the claim conflated doses, ingredients and visits.

The United States had no inflation.

Consumer prices were still rising, with year-over-year inflation around 2.9%.

Trump won the 2020 presidential election by a large margin.

Joe Biden won the certified election with 306 electoral votes and a national popular-vote margin of more than seven million.

The administration had already solved inflation and prices.

Consumer prices were still rising, with annual inflation increasing to 2.9% in August from 2.7% in July.

Biden-era inflation was the worst in United States history.

The 9.1% peak in 2022 was the highest in about 40 years, far below the 23.7% historical peak recorded in 1920.

China was paying the tariffs imposed on Chinese imports.

U.S. importers pay tariffs to the U.S. government and may pass some of those costs to consumers; China does not make the tariff payments.

The United States was into the Ukraine war for $350 billion.

Independent aid tracking and the U.S. inspector general reported allocations, appropriations and disbursements far below $350 billion.

About 25 million people entered the United States illegally during Biden's presidency.

Recorded nationwide encounters plus estimated evasions were far below 25 million, and encounters include repeat attempts and people rapidly expelled.

Nancy Pelosi rejected an offer of 10,000 National Guard troops for January 6.

No evidence established such an offer to Pelosi, and the House speaker did not control the D.C. National Guard.

The House January 6 committee deleted and destroyed all of its information.

The committee preserved extensive evidence with the National Archives and publicly released its report, more than 100 transcripts and other records.

The United States had almost no inflation.

Consumer prices were 2.9% higher than a year earlier and the inflation rate had risen for four consecutive months.

Chicago was the murder capital of the world.

International homicide-rate comparisons did not place Chicago among the world's highest-ranked cities, though Chicago had a high number of murders among large U.S. cities.

Misleading 7

Trump had settled seven wars.

Several examples were not wars or remained violent and unresolved; the claimed tally overstated both settlement and Trump's role.

Trump had settled seven wars.

Several cited disputes were not wars or were not conclusively settled, and experts disputed the claimed role in multiple examples.

Trump had ended seven unendable wars.

Trump played a role in some ceasefires and accords, but several cited conflicts were not wars, remained violent or unresolved, or involved disputed U.S. influence.

Wind energy does not work because the wind does not always blow.

Wind is variable, but grids use multiple power sources and storage rather than relying on wind alone.

Coal is clean, beautiful coal.

Coal plants can use pollution controls, but coal combustion still emits pollutants and more carbon dioxide than other fossil-fuel power sources.

The Biden administration lost more than 300,000 migrant children, many of whom were raped, exploited, abused, sold or killed.

The cited inspector general report covered years spanning both administrations and did not establish that hundreds of thousands of children were missing or harmed.

Autism rates rose from about 1 in 10,000 or 1 in 20,000 to about 1 in 31 because children are taking something artificial.

Reported autism prevalence has risen, but researchers attribute much of the change to broader definitions, awareness and diagnostic practices rather than a demonstrated pharmaceutical cause.

Method

Totals reflect verdicts on attributable Trump claims published in the daily editions for this month. Evidence gaps that are not claims are excluded.