Buttigieg versus Rubio on railway safety The train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, has become tangled up in politics, with former president and 2024 presidential candidate Donald Trump paying a visit to the site Wednesday and Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg making a pilgrimage Thursday. Earlier this week, Buttigieg got in a public feud with Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) — who has called for him to be fired — over whether Rubio wanted to "weaken our practices around track inspection." Rubio responded by calling Buttigieg a liar. That's not a word we normally use at The Fact Checker, so it inspired us to take a deep look at this complicated issue. Click the link to read more. Enjoy this newsletter? Forward it to someone else who'd like it! If this email was forwarded to you, sign up here. Did you hear something fact-checkable? Send it here; we'll check it out. Lawmakers cite fishy poll on Hunter Biden laptop House Republicans are convinced that the mainstream media's reluctance to regurgitate the New York Post's reporting on Hunter Biden's laptop in the weeks before the 2020 election helped seal Donald Trump's loss to Joe Biden. But it's always difficult to prove something that did not happen. Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.) and Rep. Pat Fallon (R-Tex.) recently cited a poll that they say makes their case — that a stunning 17 percent of Biden voters would not have voted for him if they had known about the laptop. So we dug into the poll — its methodology and questions — and discovered some significant problems. Comer and Fallon ended up with Two Pinocchios. Click the link to find out why. We're always looking for fact-check suggestions. You can reach us via email, Twitter (@GlennKesslerWP and @AdriUsero) or Facebook. Read about our process and rating scale here, and sign up for the newsletter here. Scroll down to read other fact checks on Buttigieg | 
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