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Pine Tree Results PAC
Pine Tree Results PAC
stated on April 26, 2026 an ad:
“Graham Platner blames Maine’s women for getting raped because he says they get f----- up drunk"
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • April 29, 2026
Restoration of America
Restoration of America
stated on April 13, 2026 an ad:
“83% of us favor requiring a photo ID to vote. In fact, most of the civilized world requires it but not us.”
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • April 17, 2026
Mark Kelly
Mark Kelly
stated on March 17, 2026 an X post:
The SAVE America Act “requires everyone to re-register to vote in person and your driver’s license, REAL ID, or military ID aren’t even good enough.”
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • March 24, 2026
Chris Murphy
Chris Murphy
stated on August 27, 2025 an X post:
Following the passage of a 2022 gun safety law, mass shootings “began to drop.”
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • August 28, 2025
Elizabeth Warren
Elizabeth Warren
stated on June 24, 2025 an X post:
“If every one of the 340 million people in America paid a new $35 copay to visit the doctor, that still wouldn’t be enough to cover how much Meta would get from just one tax break in Donald Trump's ‘Big Beautiful Bill.’"
Half-True
By Amy Sherman, Louis Jacobson • June 27, 2025
American Action Network
American Action Network
stated on June 4, 2025 an ad:
The Republican tax and spending bill will provide a “tax cut for Social Security recipients.”
Half-True
By Loreben Tuquero • June 24, 2025
Elizabeth Warren
Elizabeth Warren
stated on January 29, 2025 a Senate confirmation hearing:
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. “made $2.5 million off suing one of the entities that (he would be regulating) and plans to keep getting a take of every lawsuit in the future.”
Half-True
By Sara Swann • January 30, 2025
Robert Reich
Robert Reich
stated on October 8, 2024 an Instagram post:
“Two weeks ago 100 GOP lawmakers voted against additional FEMA funding.”
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • October 11, 2024
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on October 14, 2023 remarks at the 2023 Human Rights Campaign National Dinner:
Republicans in Congress are “trying to wipe out federal funding to end the HIV epidemic.”
Half-True
By Grace Abels • November 3, 2023
Matt Gaetz
Matt Gaetz
stated on October 1, 2023 an interview on ABC's "This Week":
"Since the mid-'90s, this country has been governed by revolving continuing resolution and omnibus spending bill(s). … That is the reason we're $33 trillion in debt."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • October 2, 2023
Instagram posts
Instagram posts
stated on September 22, 2023 an Instagram post:
U.S. aid to Ukraine will continue during a government shutdown, but programs for food stamps, transportation, education, justice, environmental protection and homelessness will not.
Half-True
By Jeff Cercone • September 26, 2023
Kevin McCarthy
Kevin McCarthy
stated on September 12, 2023 a news conference:
“We know the bank records show that nearly $20 million in payments were directed to the Biden family members and associates through various shell companies.”
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson, Madison Czopek • September 18, 2023
Bill Cassidy
Bill Cassidy
stated on June 12, 2023 a social media posts:
“The White House Gift Shop is putting out a commemorative coin for Donald Trump's indictment.”
Half-True
By Loreben Tuquero • June 13, 2023
Charles Schumer
Charles Schumer
stated on March 28, 2023 a Senate floor speech:
Sen. Tommy Tuberville is preventing military promotions “because he objects to women within the military getting access to reproductive care.”
Half-True
By Mary McNaughton • May 4, 2023
DeSantis Watch
DeSantis Watch
stated on February 8, 2023 a Facebook post:
"Ron DeSantis voted to cut $473 billion from Medicare."
Half-True
By Yacob Reyes • February 22, 2023
Brian Fitzpatrick
Brian Fitzpatrick
stated on January 22, 2023 an interview on Fox News Sunday:
“Classified documents can never be taken out of a (sensitive compartmented information facility), ever.”
Half-True
By Amy Sherman, Louis Jacobson • January 24, 2023
Kevin McCarthy
Kevin McCarthy
stated on January 10, 2023 an interview with Fox News' Sean Hannity:
“When the Republicans were in power the last time for eight years, do you know how much discretionary spending increased in those eight years? Zero.”
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • January 18, 2023
Chris Murphy
Chris Murphy
stated on November 27, 2022 an interview on CNN:
“60% of counties in this country are refusing to implement the nation's gun laws.”
Half-True
By Amy Sherman, Yacob Reyes • December 2, 2022
League of Conservation Voters
League of Conservation Voters
stated on November 28, 2022 a statement on a website:
Herschel Walker “is heavily funded by the oil and gas industry, raking in more than $140,000 in donations from Big Oil and other energy interests."
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • December 1, 2022
JD Vance
JD Vance
stated on September 23, 2022 an ad:
Tim Ryan said “I do love” Nancy Pelosi and votes with Joe Biden and Pelosi 100%.
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • October 4, 2022
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