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SURPRISE! PolitiFact Finally Tags a Democrat 'False' in 2026, and Trump Gets a 'Mostly True'
On the very last day of April, PolitiFact finally dared to upset their liberal donors and found a Democrat to be “Mostly False” for the first time in 2026. Okay, technically, socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders is an independent, but he caucuses with the Democrats.
Sanders claimed that as a result of that "Big Beautiful Bill," fifteen million Americans "have been thrown off the healthcare that they need." PolitiFact noted that there are estimates that 15 million will eventually lose Obamacare coverage or quit it as too pricey, but it's only been a decline of about a million in the last year.
We could quibble that people refusing work requirements for Medicaid that kick in next year aren't being "thrown off" Medicaid, and people finding the premiums too pricey also aren't "thrown off." But it's the way leftists talk, that some Snidely Whiplash Republican is always ruining people's subsidies.
But the socialists can't be too angry. Overall, Sanders has only been rated "Mostly False" or worse in 47 of 180 fact checks on the "Truth-O-Meter," or 26 percent of the time. Since he's been "Mostly True" or "True" in 84 of 180 fact checks, he's just shy of 50 percent "true."
The day before brought another shocker: PolitiFact rated a Trump claim as "Mostly True," for his claim that "We are right now producing more oil than Saudi Arabia and Russia combined." PolitiFact ruled that if you include all liquids and not just crude oil, he's kinda correct.
It's the first rating on the True side since October 18, 2024, when the claim was: Kamala Harris “supports taxpayer-funded sex changes for prisoners and illegal aliens.” That was "Mostly True," even if we'd say true-true. That was their only deviation in putting Trump on the True side in 2024, when Trump landed on the False side 68 times. They had a 68 to 1 tilt against Trump, while Harris in 2024 had a false-true ratio of 10 to 10. That matches her overall record: 28 on the True side, 28 on the False. Include the "Half Trues," and she was on the False side in 28 of 65 checks (43 percent).
Over the 524 days between "Mostly Trues," PolitiFact threw 21 "Pants on Fire" ratings at Trump. Harris has never been "awarded" one.
That's now 224 "Pants" rants overall for Trump, more than 19% of his total. Overall, 899 out of 1,156 "fact checks" have been "Mostly False" or worse -- 77.7 percent of the time.
By the way, PolitiFact hasn't checked Barack Obama since June 2, 2021 -- almost five years. Since 2017, just seven checks -- three on the True side, three Half True, and ONE Mostly False.
For the first four months of 2024, then the Republicans were rated “Mostly False” or worse in 29 of 44 fact checks (66 percent). The Democrats getting one now out of 13 makes their False fraction 7.7 percent.
There’s a disparity in the number of fact checks of 44 to 13, or more than three to one, and the disparity in “False” warnings is 29 to 1.