Jeff Cercone | PolitiFact
Jeff Cercone is a staff writer for PolitiFact. He has previously worked as a content editor for the Chicago Tribune and for the South Florida Sun-Sentinel.
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A video of Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., speaking in glowing terms about the Heritage Foundation was filmed in 2015, eight years before the conservative think tank published Project 2025, a policy blueprint for a Republican president -
An onslaught of conspiracy theories followed Hurricanes Helene and Milton. Although many of the claims originate online, targeting FEMA has real-world consequences, including deterring storm victims from seeking federal aid and endangering the agency’s employees on the ground. -
There are no weather modification projects that can create or modify hurricanes, weather officials and experts said. -
Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee, recently tied a Project 2025 plan to former President Donald Trump, arguing they both support policies that will raise mortgage costs for U.S. homebuyers. -
A photo shared on social media of a front-row seat reserved for Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa at Donald Trump’s July 9 Miami rally was altered. The seat was reserved for Barron Trump, the former president’s 18-year-old son. -
An FBI operations order for the search of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida, included language about the Justice Department’s lethal force policy. -
A video showing legislators dancing was taken in the Florida Legislature in May 2023, as legislators there celebrated "Boots Day" and line-danced in the House chamber. -
Politifact Florida found that none of the books on Pink’s 13-title list has been banned statewide. Ten have been temporarily or permanently removed or restricted from shelves in at least one Florida school district, reports said. -
In a 2015 interview, before he was president, Donald Trump said he was "fine" with affirmative action. Later, when Trump was president, his administration took actions seeking to leverage federal government policy against affirmative action. -
An Instagram post claimed that Miami-Dade County banned Gorman’s poem from elementary schools. PolitiFact and WLRN found there was no countywide effort to remove this poem.
