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Gavin Newsom
Gavin Newsom
stated on July 18, 2025 an X post:
Florida: #51 in mental health care, #1 in home insurance costs, #1 in elder fraud, #1 in rent hikes.
Half-True
By Ella Moore, Samantha Putterman • July 23, 2025
Karoline Leavitt
Karoline Leavitt
stated on January 28, 2025 White House press briefing:
The U.S. has an egg shortage because the “Biden administration and the Department of Agriculture directed the mass killing of more than 100 million chickens.”
Half-True
By Jeff Cercone • January 30, 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
Kamala Harris
Kamala Harris
stated on September 27, 2024 un anuncio de campaña:
El expresidente Donald Trump quiere eliminar la Ley del Cuidado de Salud a Bajo Precio.
Half-True
By Samantha Putterman, Marta Campabadal Graus • October 25, 2024
Kamala Harris
Kamala Harris
stated on September 27, 2024 a campaign ad:
Former President Donald Trump wants to take away the Affordable Care Act.
Half-True
By Samantha Putterman, Marta Campabadal Graus • October 24, 2024
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on May 19, 2024 a speech:
Donald Trump wants to terminate the Affordable Care Act.
Half-True
By Samantha Putterman • June 3, 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
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on April 30, 2023 an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union”:
"We pay by far the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs, in some cases 10 times more than the people of any other country."
Half-True
By Michelle Andrews • May 18, 2023
Mike Pence
Mike Pence
stated on April 14, 2023 a speech to the National Rifle Association:
"In the 1960s, liberals emptied our psych wards."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • April 20, 2023
Chris Murphy
Chris Murphy
stated on April 3, 2023 a tweet:
“The 5 states with the highest gun homicide rates in the nation all have loose gun laws” while “the 5 states with the lowest rates have some of the toughest laws.”
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • April 11, 2023
Instagram posts
Instagram posts
stated on October 17, 2022 an Instagram post:
“Boston University CREATES a new COVID strain that has an 80% kill rate.”
Half-True
By Jeff Cercone • October 20, 2022
Herschel Walker
Herschel Walker
stated on August 22, 2022 a tweet:
Joe Biden and Raphael Warnock "are spending $1.5 billion on ‘urban forestry’ and raising taxes on those making under $200k to pay for it.”
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson, Tori Gantz • September 1, 2022
Tony Evers
Tony Evers
stated on July 24, 2022 TV interview:
"We are number one in the country as far as our spending (COVID-19 relief) money on businesses as it relates to the percentage of federal funds that we receive."
Half-True
By D.L. Davis • August 16, 2022
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on May 21, 2022 a Facebook post:
“U.S. Orders MILLIONS Of Smallpox Vaccines Amid Global Monkeypox Outbreak.”
Half-True
By Ciara O'Rourke • June 8, 2022
Tammy Baldwin
Tammy Baldwin
stated on March 16, 2022 Twitter:
"The price of insulin has been jacked up by Big Drug Corporations.”
Half-True
By D.L. Davis • April 8, 2022
Rob Astorino
Rob Astorino
stated on January 20, 2022 a tweet:
Gov. Kathy Hochul’s “record” includes “firing” 34,000 health care workers.
Half-True
By Tom Gaughan, Caroline Paterno • April 6, 2022
Greg Casar
Greg Casar
stated on February 8, 2022 an ad:
“Greg Casar passed paid sick leave."
Half-True
By Tom Kertscher • February 10, 2022
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on December 19, 2021 social media posts:
“More people, aged 18-45, died of Fentanyl overdoses in 2020 than covid, car accidents, cancer, + suicide combined.”
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • December 23, 2021
Ron Klain
Ron Klain
stated on November 7, 2021 an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press":
The Biden administration inherited gains of “50,000 jobs a month. We're now finally back to 500,000 jobs a month. We inherited a country where 4,000 people a day were dying from Covid. That's now down 75%.”
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • November 10, 2021
YouTube videos
YouTube videos
stated on October 17, 2021 a Facebook post:
COVID-19 “surges among most vaxxed communities, says Harvard study.”
Half-True
By Tom Kertscher • October 19, 2021
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