Lori Robertson

Mar 5, 2025 | post-gazette.com | Benjamin Kail |Joey Cappelletti |Zeke Miller |Michelle L. Price |Robert Farley |D'Angelo Gore | +7 more

This article was published as part of a partnership with FactCheck.org. In his first address to a joint session of Congress in his second term, President Donald Trump distorted the facts on fraud, immigration, aid to Ukraine, the economy, autism and more.

Oct 31, 2024 | post-gazette.com | Robert Farley |D'Angelo Gore |Lori Robertson |Hallie Lauer

This article was published as part of a partnership with FactCheck.org. In the closing weeks of the campaign, Vice President Kamala Harris has portrayed former President Donald Trump as a danger to democracy. She also has warned he will enact policies that will hurt blue-collar workers, women, seniors, and the nation’s health care system and economy, while cutting taxes for “billionaires and corporations.”That was her message at eight campaign events that we reviewed from Oct. 18 through Oct. 22.

Oct 23, 2024 | post-gazette.com | Lori Robertson

This article was published as part of a partnership with FactCheck.org. Crime statistics compiled by the FBI and other sources show an increase in violent crime, notably murders, in 2020 and a decline since. A revision to the FBI data this year doesn’t change that overall trend, despite claims made on social media and by the Trump campaign to the contrary.

Oct 18, 2024 | post-gazette.com | D'Angelo Gore |Robert Farley |Lori Robertson |Kate Yandell

This article was published as part of a partnership with FactCheck.org. Both presidential candidates appeared on Fox News on Oct. 16 — former President Donald Trump in a town hall with women voters in Georgia and Vice President Kamala Harris in an interview with Bret Baier.

Oct 16, 2024 | post-gazette.com | D'Angelo Gore |Lori Robertson |William G. Gale

Former President Donald Trump is proposing to lower the federal corporate tax rate to 15%, insisting that when he lowered it to 21% starting in 2018, revenues received by the government actually went up due to economic growth it spurred. Economists say that’s not what happened. They say that while cutting the rate from 35% to 21% did stimulate some growth, it did not cover the loss in tax revenue.