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The post claims Pelosi has been in office for 28 years, during which she earned $193,400 per year. That math adds up to about $5.4 million, according to the post, which goes on to claim that Pelosi’s net worth is $196,299,990
Pelosi entered Congress in 1987 — 34 years ago, not 28 — and the meme has the wrong current salary for the House speaker. A review of Pelosi’s most recent financial disclosure shows that it got her net worth wrong, as well.
Because Congress members are required only to disclose a range of values for their assets and liabilities, the Center for Responsive Politics provides a minimum and a maximum net worth for each member. It calculates an average of those two numbers to determine an estimated net worth.
While the meme uses Pelosi’s maximum net worth from 2010, the average is nearly half that: about $100 million.
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The Facebook user who shared the meme did not respond to a request for comment.
is this even real
The claim that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is worth more than $196 million while working on a $193,000 salary is FALSE. Financial disclosures show that Pelosi’s net worth isn’t close to $196 million, and the salary used in the post is wrong. Pelosi earns $223,500 a year as speaker and is worth about $106 million
Claim: Ted Kennedy murdered people by driving his truck into a lake
Fact Check: Actually he only killed one person by driving his sedan into a pond and he didn’t explicitly kill her, he was merely responsible for her death—a death he failed to report for nine hours after the accident occurred. He went home, took a nap, and then later admitted to leaving the scene of an accident. He got a two-month suspended sentence for leaving the scene and wasn’t charged in any way for the death of Kopechne.
Our rating: 100% FALSE
The last bit of that I directly copypasted from an article because I didn’t know about it and holy shit he got away with that so hard