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Latest Fact-Checks On Greg Abbott

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Greg Abbott
Greg Abbott
stated on August 31, 2022 a campaign event
Three court rulings since May 2022 “have made it clear that it is unconstitutional to ban someone between the ages of 18 and 20 from being able to buy an AR.”
Mostly False
By Nusaiba Mizan • September 21, 2022
Greg Abbott
Greg Abbott
stated on May 25, 2022 a press conference
"We need to realize that people who think that ‘well, maybe if we could just implement tougher gun laws, it’s going to solve it,’ Chicago and LA and New York disprove that thesis."
Mostly False
By Analisa Trofimuk • June 3, 2022
Greg Abbott
Greg Abbott
stated on May 12, 2022 a press release
Says the Biden administration is choosing to send baby formula to the border as one of its “out-of-touch priorities.”
Mostly False
By Madison Czopek • May 13, 2022
Greg Abbott
Greg Abbott
stated on March 3, 2021 a tweet
“The Biden Administration is recklessly releasing hundreds of illegal immigrants who have COVID into Texas communities.”
Mostly False
By Brandon Mulder • March 11, 2021
Greg Abbott
Greg Abbott
stated on October 1, 2020 a tweet
Says “Property crime rising in Austin. This is the kind of thing that happens when cities defund and deemphasize police. Residents are left to fend for themselves.”
Mostly False
By Brandon Mulder • October 9, 2020
Greg Abbott
Greg Abbott
stated on June 9, 2019 in a tweet
"Turns out the critics of the Texas maternal mortality rate were just lying. It’s less than half of what the critics said. It’s about 1/10 of 1%."
Mostly False
By Madlin Mekelburg • June 11, 2019
Greg Abbott
Greg Abbott
stated on February 5, 2019 a speech
Says he met a teacher in Dallas "who was only in his third year of teaching and already making more than $90,000 a year in salary."
Mostly False
By Allie Morris • May 10, 2019
Greg Abbott
Greg Abbott
stated on April 9, 2018 an interview by Trey Ware of San Antonio's KTSA radio station
Says that as of March 2018 compared with 2017, "there’s been a more than 200 percent increase in the number of people who are apprehended coming across the border. And, I’ll tell you this, there’s been a more than 200 percent increase in apprehension of heroin coming across the border."
Mostly False
By W. Gardner Selby • April 24, 2018
Greg Abbott
Greg Abbott
stated on December 8, 2015 a press conference with Sen. Ted Cruz
Says President Barack Obama "himself has granted waivers allowing into the United States refugees who provided material support to terrorists."
Mostly False
By W. Gardner Selby • December 18, 2015
Greg Abbott
Greg Abbott
stated on November 18, 2015 a tweet
"8 Syrians caught at Texas border in Laredo."
Mostly False
By Dylan Baddour • November 20, 2015
Greg Abbott
Greg Abbott
stated on August 25, 2015 a tweet
"After Texas defunded Planned Parenthood, both the unintended pregnancy and abortion rates dropped."
Mostly False
By W. Gardner Selby • September 13, 2015
Greg Abbott
Greg Abbott
stated on June 12, 2015 a press release
A Texas law "will repatriate $1 billion of gold bullion from the Federal Reserve in New York to Texas."
Mostly False
By W. Gardner Selby • June 26, 2015
Greg Abbott
Greg Abbott
stated on September 19, 2014 a debate in the Rio Grande Valley.
A 2011 measure passed into law with Wendy Davis’ support "removes from the attorney general the ability to settle lawsuits just like" the school funding case.
Mostly False
By W. Gardner Selby • September 30, 2014
Greg Abbott
Greg Abbott
stated on June 26, 2014 a billboard message
"Wendy Davis’ legal work is currently under FBI investigation."
Mostly False
By W. Gardner Selby • June 27, 2014
Greg Abbott
Greg Abbott
stated on November 4, 2013 as quoted in an Associated Press news story
In "reality," there have "been no problems whatsoever" with the Texas voter ID law.
Mostly False
By W. Gardner Selby • November 19, 2013
Greg Abbott
Greg Abbott
stated on October 18, 2013 a Facebook page
Wendy Davis is "threatening to raise taxes up to $35 billion."
Mostly False
By W. Gardner Selby • October 25, 2013
Greg Abbott
Greg Abbott
stated on July 15, 2012 an interview with Fox News.
Says Texas proved in court that more than 200 dead people voted in the latest Texas election.
Mostly False
By W. Gardner Selby • July 24, 2012
Greg Abbott
Greg Abbott
stated on November 9, 2011 a tweet
"Obama has (a) new Christmas tree tax."
Mostly False
By Janie Har, Louis Jacobson, Meghan Ashford-Grooms • November 20, 2011
Greg Abbott
Greg Abbott
stated on February 16, 2010 a press release
Says the EPA "outsourced the scientific basis for its greenhouse gas regulation to a scandal-plagued international organization that cannot be considered objective or trustworthy."
Mostly False
By W. Gardner Selby • May 11, 2010