Why wasn't Hillary Clinton also indicted, Trump asks. Here's why. Since the final weeks of the 2016 presidential campaign, Donald Trump has referred often to Hillary Clinton's emails, but the references have increased in urgency as he continues to deploy them in response to special counsel Jack Smith's investigation into his own handling of classified documents. In a speech at his Bedminster, N.J., golf club the evening of his arraignment, Trump made many false claims about materials found on the private email server Clinton maintained as secretary of state. As usual, Trump mixed partial facts and invented assertions into a stew of false equivalence. Please click the link to read our complete report on eight false and misleading claims made by the former president. 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. The Fact Checker wins a Sigma Delta Chi award for Hunter Biden reporting Hunter Biden, the president's son, agreed this week to plead guilty to a pair of misdemeanor tax charges and settle an allegation that he possessed a firearm while being a user of illegal drugs. An IRS whistleblower, meanwhile, in a transcript released Thursday, accused the Justice Department of slowing and ultimately stifling the IRS investigation into Hunter Biden. By coincidence, the Society of Professional Journalists announced that I had won a Sigma Delta Chi award for a series of fact checks on claims about Biden, including the gun matter. In making the announcement, the organization said The Fact Checker had provided "a very detailed, balanced analysis of a complicated and horrifically convoluted story that spawned a thousand rumors and falsehoods." The five articles that made up the entry are listed below. They include an examination of a Russian claim that Hunter Biden had financed bioweapons labs in Ukraine and that he had received a $3.5 million transfer from a Russian billionaire. Both were false, as I documented through access to corporate and banking records and other reporting. 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. The newsletter will be taking a break next week because I will be attending the annual conference of the International Fact-Checking Network in Seoul. Scroll down to read our prize-winning fact checks on Hunter Biden | 
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