Latest Fact-Checks In Military

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Rand Paul
Rand Paul
stated on October 19, 2025 an interview
“About 25% of the time the Coast Guard boards a ship, there are no drugs.”
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By Samantha Putterman • October 22, 2025
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on July 9, 2024 a speech in Washington D.C.
In 2020, “only nine NATO allies were spending 2%” of their GDP on defense. “This year, 23 will spend at least 2%.”
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By Madison Czopek • July 12, 2024
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on March 4, 2023 a speech
“We banned transgender” people from serving in the military.
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By Maria Ramirez Uribe • March 8, 2023
Patrick Testin
Patrick Testin
stated on August 29, 2021 TV interview
"The vast majority of the (refugees) coming into Fort McCoy are not the SIVs" and some have "no documentation at all."
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By Alan Hovorka • October 13, 2021
Kirsten Gillibrand
Kirsten Gillibrand
stated on February 23, 2021 an interview with WNYC
“We had the highest number of (military) sexual assaults ever reported in the last year” and “we had the lowest conviction rate and the lowest prosecution rate.”
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By Landon Allison, Cassidey Kavathas • March 25, 2021
Rand Paul
Rand Paul
stated on August 25, 2020 a speech at the RNC
Says Joe Biden “voted for the Iraq War … He supported war in Serbia, Syria, Libya.”
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By Miriam Valverde • August 26, 2020
William Taylor
William Taylor
stated on November 13, 2019 impeachment inquiry testimony
"The Russians are violating all of the rules, treaties, understandings that they committed to that actually kept the peace in Europe for nearly 70 years."
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November 14, 2019
Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee
Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee
stated on September 29, 2019 a tweet
Says Thom Tillis voted to support Trump’s emergency declaration to fund the border wall even though it would "raid $80 million from North Carolina."
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By Julianna Rennie • November 6, 2019
Beto O'Rourke
Beto O'Rourke
stated on July 11, 2019 a public forum
"We are incarcerating more children than any time ... since we interned Japanese-Americans during World War II"
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By Mica Soellner • July 26, 2019
Tulsi Gabbard
Tulsi Gabbard
stated on July 11, 2019 a public forum
At the same time President Trump talks about supporting veterans, "he is deporting service members who have volunteered to serve this country."  
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By D.L. Davis • July 19, 2019
Jay Inslee
Jay Inslee
stated on March 19, 2019 in an interview
"We have flown a Boeing 737 across the Atlantic Ocean on biofuels. We have flown F-18s."
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By John Kruzel • March 21, 2019
Tammy Baldwin
Tammy Baldwin
stated on June 26, 2018 a public forum
"President Trump continues to disrespect patriotic transgender Americans who want to serve their country."
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By D.L. Davis • August 20, 2018
Gwen Graham
Gwen Graham
stated on May 18, 2018 a Facebook post
"So far this year, more students have been killed in schools than soldiers in combat zones."
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By Louis Jacobson • May 21, 2018
Kevin Nicholson
Kevin Nicholson
stated on May 4, 2018 an interview
"Tammy Baldwin cosponsored legislation that wanted to establish the Department of Peace and Nonviolence."  
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May 9, 2018
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on April 19, 2018 a speech at Duke University
"We’ve spent more money on the military than the next 12 nations combined."
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By Paul Specht • April 24, 2018
Ted Lieu
Ted Lieu
stated on July 26, 2017 comments on CNN
"You've got thousands of people serving in the military who are transgender."
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By Joshua Gillin • July 26, 2017
James Risch
James Risch
stated on May 15, 2017 remarks to reporters
"The minute the president speaks about it to someone, he has the ability to declassify anything at any time without any process."
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By Louis Jacobson • May 16, 2017
Richard Burr
Richard Burr
stated on April 18, 2017 a speech in Youngsville, NC
"The pace of missile development between (Kim Jong Il and Kim Jong Un) has increased the testing about twenty-fold."
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By Will Doran • April 24, 2017
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on January 20, 2017 a statement on the White House website
"Our Navy has shrunk from more than 500 ships in 1991 to 275 in 2016."
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By Amy Sherman • January 20, 2017
Senate Leadership Fund
Senate Leadership Fund
stated on October 11, 2016 a TV ad
"(Deborah) Ross defends those who want to burn the American flag, and even called efforts to ban flag-burning ‘ridiculous,’ yet refused to help a disabled veteran fly the flag."
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By Will Doran • November 5, 2016
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