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Glenn Kessler

Glenn Kessler

Editor & Chief Writer, Fact Checker at Fact Checker - The Washington Post

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  • English
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  • Politics

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Recent Articles

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Analysis | Pelosi’s flawed claim that Biden did better than Trump on the border

The former House speaker flubs a line regarding deportations, but the data does not back her up.
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Analysis | What I’ve learned from 9 years of fact-checking Donald T...

Trump’s stunning victory shows that his falsehoods have staying power.
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Analysis | Trump votes, and then utters 15 falsehoods in 15 minutes

The former president couldn’t resist repeating his greatest hits on crime, immigration, elections and Oprah’s last show.
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Analysis | Trump’s closing ad features debunked claim about Olympic...

Algerian boxer Imane Khelif won the gold medal, after facing false social-media claims traced to a disgraced Russian organization.
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Analysis | 13 ways Democrats will steal the election (according to ...

Tall tales of switched votes, stolen ballots, colluding migrants, coups, unfair prosecutions, the weather and wily dead people.
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Analysis | No, Biden didn’t authorize military lethal force against...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and other Trump supporters cite a routine bureaucratic update as part of a nefarious plot.
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Analysis | Trump’s exaggerated claim that Pennsylvania has 500,000 ...

The real number of lost jobs without fracking could be one-tenth of what the former president says repeatedly when he visits Pennsylvania.
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Analysis | Trump’s ‘crazy,’ false ad claiming ‘massive layoffs’ amo...

Motor vehicle manufacturing employment hit a 34-year high in July.
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Analysis | Trump’s recent Four Pinocchio flights of fancy

Exploding cars, collapsing bridges, and a ban on cows have been added to his falsehood repertory.
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Analysis | Vance falsely claims Trump ‘didn’t go after’ his enemies

We identify a dozen examples of Donald Trump demanding probes, but they all fell short because of lack of evidence.
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Analysis | Democratic senator attacks his Pennsylvania rival with a...

Sen. Bob Casey falsely says Republican Dave McCormick “made clear” he’d slash Medicare and Social Security.
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Analysis | Fact checking Harris’s round of media appearances

Harris misled on an immigration bill and success on curbing fentanyl.
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Analysis | No, Biden didn’t take FEMA relief money to use on migran...

Donald Trump falsely accuses President Joe Biden of redirecting disaster funds, a budget maneuver Trump himself approved in 2019.
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Analysis | Trump campaign ad falsely claims Harris will raise taxes...

New ad clips, snips and twists so many things that nearly every frame is deceptive.
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Analysis | Trump’s outrageously false claim of 13,000 migrant murde...

Convicted killers not held in ICE’s limited facilities are serving their time in state or federal prisons.
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Analysis | Fact-checking the VP debate between Vance and Walz

Vance dominated on the falsehood meter, with faulty claims on lost children, the environment, inflation, immigration and the Jan. 6 attack. 
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Analysis | Trump campaign ad is stuck in an economic time warp

The Fed is cutting interest rates, inflation is down, stocks are soaring, but Trump acts as if it’s still 2022.
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Analysis | No, Zelensky never said Trump ‘did absolutely nothing wr...

Trump puts words in the mouth of the Ukrainian president he pressured to investigate Biden.
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Analysis | Harris flubs manufacturing jobs claim in MSNBC interview

Earlier, in a speech in Pittsburgh, the vice president correctly noted that manufacturing jobs were falling under Donald Trump before the pandemic.
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Analysis | Obama and Biden achievements that Trump claims for himself

Trump claims credit for a law capping insulin at $35 a month that was approved under the Biden-Harris administration.
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Analysis | Day by day, how JD Vance tweeted misinformation about Sp...

Despite his staff learning that the cat-eating story wasn’t true on the day of his first post, Vance doubled down and kept going.