Cotton hypes questions on Biden's DHS nominee As a top immigration official in the Obama administration, Alejandro Mayorkas pressed for approvals for three projects at the behest of powerful Democrats: then-Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and former governors Terry McAuliffe and Ed Rendell. An inspector general report criticized Mayorkas, who was director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services from 2009 to 2013, for going against agency policy to give the approvals. Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) brought up the 2015 report and said it disqualifies Mayorkas, who is now President-elect Joe Biden's nominee to lead the Department of Homeland Security. "He was found by Barack Obama's inspector general to be guilty of selling green cards to Chinese nationals on behalf of rich Democratic donors," Cotton claimed. The report certainly raises fair questions for a confirmation hearing. But they're not the questions Cotton seems interested in. His statement is filled with damning words and loaded phrasings with a faint resemblance to the facts in the sober inspector general's report. Cotton got Two Pinocchios. 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. Trump trots falsehood to Supreme Court As part of his brazen and so-far fruitless bid to overturn the election he lost, President Trump submitted a filing to the Supreme Court with two jaw-dropping errors. See if you can spot them. "President Trump prevailed on nearly every historical indicia of success in presidential elections. For example, he won both Florida and Ohio; no candidate in history — Republican or Democrat — has ever lost the election after winning both States," Trump attorney John C. Eastman wrote in the filing. First, the Latin word "indicia" (a $10 version of "indications") is ungrammatical because it's a plural where the sentence should take a singular ("indicium"). Perhaps more embarrassingly, Eastman stated falsely — to the Supreme Court, a bunch of history buffs! — that no president has ever won election without Florida and Ohio. John F. Kennedy accomplished this feat running in 1960 against Richard Nixon. Trump was 14 years old at the time, so it's not even far back in history. We're always looking for fact-check suggestions. You can reach us via email, Twitter (@GlennKesslerWP, @rizzoTK, @mmkelly22) or Facebook. Read about our process and rating scale here, and sign up for the newsletter here. Scroll down for this week's Pinocchio roundup. | 
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