PolitiFact was demoralized by the idea that Donald Trump was re-elected in 2024, but that doesn’t mean they’ve stopped rigging their “fact checking” apparatus against the Republicans. What’s truly amazing about the first quarter of 2026 is that the number of occasions they have rated Democrats as “Mostly False” or worse is at zero.
A NewsBusters analysis of all the “Truth-O-Meter” ratings of elected or appointed officials from January 1 through March 31, 2025 found the Democrats drew 11 “fact checks” — one “True” rating, six “Mostly True” ratings, and four “Half Trues.”
By contrast, the Republicans were rated “Mostly False” or worse in 22 of 32 fact checks (69 percent). That’s zero “True” ratings, two “Mostly True,” eight “Half True,” four “Mostly False,” 15 “False,” and three “Pants on Fire” ratings (all three to Trump). Overall, the number of “Truth-o-Meter” fact checks is smaller than we’ve observed over the last several years.
There’s a disparity in the number of fact checks of 32 to 11, or almost three to one, and the disparity in “False” warnings is 22 to 0.