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John Fetterman
DEMOCRATSenator· Pennsylvania
STATEMENTS · 13VERIFIED TRUE · 0RANK · #96 of 160
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02FACT-CHECK LOG · 13 STATEMENTS

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STMT-SEN-JOHN-FE · 2026-05-02 · John Fetterman mention (augustafreepress.com)
I’m a proud pro-union Democrat,” the useful idiot told Watters, “but the kinds of mess that you see are showing up in many of them, I mean, that’s, that is the worst impulses that are our party continues. We just seem to can’t resist those things.
STATUS · COMPLETEAGREEMENT · 100%
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FALSE
STMT-SEN-JOHN-FE · 2026-05-02 · John Fetterman mention (augustafreepress.com)
Graham Platner being examples of the Democratic Party’s descent into an 'orgy of socialism.'
STATUS · COMPLETEAGREEMENT · 100%
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FALSE
STMT-SEN-JOHN-FE · 2026-05-02 · John Fetterman mention (wfmd.com)
Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., warned against what he called a “small communist takeover” within his own party during an appearance on “Jesse Watters Primetime.”
STATUS · COMPLETEAGREEMENT · 67%
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FALSE
STMT-SEN-JOHN-FE · 2026-05-02 · John Fetterman mention (wfmd.com)
Fetterman described the current state of activism as an “orgy of socialism.”
STATUS · COMPLETEAGREEMENT · 50%
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STMT-SEN-JOHN-FE · 2026-05-02 · John Fetterman mention (wfmd.com)
Fetterman said Friday, “It’s like a marriage of the Palestinian, the anti-ICE, the abolish ICE, and now turning it into like an orgy of socialism here.”
STATUS · COMPLETEAGREEMENT · 75%
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FALSE
STMT-SEN-JOHN-FE · 2026-05-02 · John Fetterman mention (wfmd.com)
Fetterman said, “I am an absolutely proud pro-union Democrat, but the kinds of mess that you see are showing up in many of them. That is the worst impulses that our party continues.”
STATUS · COMPLETEAGREEMENT · 100%
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FALSE
STMT-SEN-JOHN-FE · 2026-05-02 · John Fetterman mention (wfmd.com)
Fetterman said, “These kinds of protests are being funded by billionaires against billionaires.”
STATUS · COMPLETEAGREEMENT · 100%
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FALSE
STMT-SEN-JOHN-FE · 2026-05-02 · John Fetterman mention (wfmd.com)
Fetterman said, “I don’t know if they realize the irony in many of those things right now.”
STATUS · COMPLETEAGREEMENT · 100%
17
FALSE
STMT-SEN-JOHN-FE · 2026-05-02 · John Fetterman mention (wfmd.com)
Fetterman expressed disappointment at students being pulled out of class for political demonstrations, stating, “Your kids should be in school. My kids were in school. And you can have beliefs, but I really believe that education is the most important thing, and that’s a value that we can’t forget.”
STATUS · COMPLETEAGREEMENT · 75%
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FALSE
STMT-SEN-JOHN-FE · 2026-05-02 · John Fetterman mention (wfmd.com)
Fetterman said, “Especially celebrating some of the worst ideas that ever visited humanity.”
STATUS · COMPLETEAGREEMENT · 100%
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FALSE
STMT-SEN-JOHN-FE · 2026-05-02 · John Fetterman mention (augustafreepress.com)
Fetterman, unaware that he is the appointed useful idiot to the Fox Newsers, instead said it's "these terrible groups like Code Pink and a lot of the other ones that are strongly aligned to the CCP" – the CCP being the Chinese Communist Party.
STATUS · COMPLETEAGREEMENT · 100%
3
FALSE
STMT-SEN-JOHN-FE · 2026-05-02 · John Fetterman mention (augustafreepress.com)
Dipsh-t went on to denigrate Graham Platner, the presumptive Democratic Senate nominee in Maine, as being an "avowed communist" – because of an offhand remark in a Reddit forum from years ago.
STATUS · COMPLETEAGREEMENT · 100%
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FALSE
STMT-SEN-JOHN-FE · 2026-05-02 · John Fetterman mention (augustafreepress.com)
"I'm a proud pro-union Democrat," the useful idiot told Watters, "but the kinds of mess that you see are showing up in many of them, I mean, that's, that is the worst impulses that are our party continues. We just seem to can't resist those things."
STATUS · COMPLETEAGREEMENT · 100%
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FALSE
VERDICT DISTRIBUTIONn=13
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FALSE12 · 92%
MODEL AGREEMENT90%
Across 13 fact-checks, the council registered 4 disagreements where models split on the verdict.