Latest Fact-Checks By Manuela Tobias

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Donald Trump blames Democrats for own immigration policy separating families

May 29, 2018

A "horrible law" requires that children be separated from their parents "once they cross the Border into the U.S."

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Scott Dawson distorts Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey’s grant funding to LGBTQ nonprofit

May 29, 2018

"Gov. Kay Ivey gave nearly $1 million of taxpayers’ money to a liberal activist organization that promotes alternative lifestyles and transgenderism."

No, Brad Pitt didn’t say that Trump is not my president

May 24, 2018

"Actor Brad Pitt: ‘Trump is not my president, we have no future with this…’"

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No, Hillary Clinton isn’t furious at Melania Trump over hospital gift

May 23, 2018

"Hillary Clinton furious at ‘special gift’ Melania Trump sent her from her hospital bed"

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No links between Ritalin and school shootings, as NRA’s Oliver North claimed

May 22, 2018

Perpetrators of school shootings "have been drugged in many cases … many of these young boys have been on Ritalin since they were in kindergarten."

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Is a police officer assaulted every 10 minutes in the United States, as Donald Trump said?

May 15, 2018

"In 2016, an officer was assaulted in America on an average of every 10 minutes."

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Did Heidi Heitkamp cast ‘deciding’ vote on rule for energy industry?

May 10, 2018

Says Heidi Heitkamp "cast the deciding vote to kill the Congressional Review Act that would have repealed a BLM flaring rule that was designed just…

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Indiana’s Mike Braun overplays opponents’ records on Obama trade deals

May 4, 2018

Says Luke Messer and Todd Rokita "voted to fast-track Obama’s trade deals."

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Bernie Sanders says Amazon paid no federal income tax in 2017. He’s right

May 3, 2018

"You know what Amazon paid in federal income taxes last year? Zero."

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Alabama ranks lowest by state and local tax revenue per capita

May 1, 2018

"Alabama is operating government on the lowest amount of tax revenue of any state in the nation."

Did Luke Messer and Mike Braun raise taxes in Indiana?

April 30, 2018

"I am the only one onstage who has never voted to raise your taxes. These two, each, a billion dollars worth of votes to raise…

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Do 1,700 families generate 80 percent of crime in Mobile, Alabama?

April 23, 2018

"In Mobile, it’s something like, 1,700 families generate 80 percent of the crime. We know who those families are."

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