Trump allies attack DeSantis for policies Trump once also embraced Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) officially announced this week he's running for president. But for months a political organization supporting former president Donald Trump has been running ads with biting and often amusing attacks on policy positions taken by the governor when he was a member of Congress. Past policy positions are, of course, frequent fodder for attack ads. Sometimes such ads highlight non-consequential votes in misleading ways. The ads might also focus on a policy position that was once popular within a political party but has since been abandoned. Never mind that the politician being attacked might have an entirely new policy proposal; the ads seek to remind voters that he or she once embraced it. What's unusual about the pro-Trump ads is that they attack DeSantis for policy positions that once enjoyed broad support within the Republican Party — so much so that Trump also embraced these same ideas. The Trump group attacked DeSantis for wanting to raise the retirement age for Social Security, proposing to reduce spending on Medicare by introducing insurance-company competition and for considering replacing the current tax system with a national sales tax. But, at one time or another, so did Trump. The ads earned two Pinocchios. Please click the link to read our complete report. 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. Tim Scott hypes 'terrorist watch list' border crossings Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) also formally announced he was running for president. In his speech he made a statement that caught our attention: "Hundreds of people on our terrorist watch list are crossing our borders." He made this claim as part of an attack on President Biden's handling of immigration policy. It's an interesting example of how politicians can twist facts and make a misleading impression. Just before he referenced "hundreds of people" on the terrorist list crossing borders, Scott set up the sentence with this introduction: "On my first day as commander in chief, the strongest nation on Earth will stop retreating from our own southern border. If you don't control your back door, it's not your house. And if our southern border is unsafe and insecure, it's not our country." As a listener, you'd probably think he meant that most of these people with terrorist links were crossing the U.S.-Mexico border. You would be wrong. Scott earned Two Pinocchios. 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 campaign-related claims | 
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