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Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on June 27, 2017 a tweet
CNN’s ratings are "way down."
Pants on Fire!
By John Kruzel • July 3, 2017
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on June 28, 2017 an immigration roundtable discussion
"We're pretty much at the 50 percent mark" on deportations of MS-13 gang members.
False
By Miriam Valverde • June 30, 2017
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on June 17, 2017 a blog post
"U.N. official John Ashe set to testify against the Clintons may not have died by accident."
False
By Jon Greenberg • June 30, 2017
Ron Johnson
Ron Johnson
stated on June 26, 2017 an op-ed in the New York Times
"We are $20 trillion in debt. The Congressional Budget Office projects an additional $129 trillion of accumulated deficits over the next 30 years."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • June 30, 2017
Sean Spicer
Sean Spicer
stated on June 28, 2017 in a tweet
"28.2 million Americans are still waiting under Obamacare and remain uninsured!"
Half-True
By Manuela Tobias • June 28, 2017
Paul Ryan
Paul Ryan
stated on June 27, 2017 an interview with Fox News
Says the CBO said "it's not that people are getting pushed off a plan; it's that people will choose not to buy something they don't like or want."  
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • June 28, 2017
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on June 26, 2017 in a tweet
"When Obamacare was signed into law, CBO estimated that 23 million people would be covered in Obamacare’s exchanges in 2017. They were off by more than 100 percent. Only 10.3 million people are covered by Obamacare."
Half-True
By Manuela Tobias • June 27, 2017
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on June 25, 2017 an interview on "Meet the Press"
"When you throw 23 million people off of health insurance -- people with cancer, people with heart disease, people with diabetes -- thousands of people will die. … This is study after study making this point."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • June 27, 2017
Kellyanne Conway
Kellyanne Conway
stated on June 25, 2017 an interview on ABC's "This Week with George Stephanopoulos"
There "are not cuts to Medicaid" in the GOP health care proposals.  
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • June 26, 2017
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on June 22, 2017 a Facebook post
The Senate bill "hands enormous tax cuts to the rich and to the drug and insurance industries, paid for by cutting health care for everybody else."
Mostly True
By John Kruzel • June 26, 2017
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on June 23, 2017 Fox & Friends
"I can say that the people that have been hired (for the independent Russia investigation) are all Hillary Clinton supporters, some of them worked for Hillary Clinton."
Mostly False
By Manuela Tobias • June 26, 2017
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on June 19, 2017 an interview
"Most likely the primary control knob (for the earth’s temperature) is the ocean waters and this environment that we live in."
False
By John Kruzel • June 22, 2017
AntiNews.in
AntiNews.in
stated on May 21, 2017 a blog post
"Chinese lunar rover finds no evidence of American moon landings."
Pants on Fire!
By Manuela Tobias • June 22, 2017
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on June 21, 2017 a White House tweet
Obamacare has led to fewer health insurance options for millions of Americans.
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • June 21, 2017
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on June 16, 2017 in a blog post
"Trump welcomes Jamaica as a U.S. territory"
Pants on Fire!
By Manuela Tobias • June 19, 2017
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on June 18, 2017 a tweet
"The new Rasmussen Poll, one of the most accurate in the 2016 Election, just out with a Trump 50% Approval Rating. That's higher than O's #'s!"
Mostly False
By Katie Sanders, Louis Jacobson • June 19, 2017
Karl Racine
Karl Racine
stated on June 12, 2017 a press conference
"The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, whose government has important business and policy before the president of the United States, has already spent hundreds of thousands of dollars at the Trump International Hotel."
Mostly True
By Smitha Rajan • June 19, 2017
Ivanka Trump
Ivanka Trump
stated on June 12, 2017 an interview on "Fox & Friends"
"There are currently 6 million jobs available in this country that are due in part to the skills gap."
True
By Louis Jacobson • June 16, 2017
Infowars
Infowars
stated on June 14, 2017 a website article
Says Loretta Lynch was part of "a stunning collection of calls to violence and murder from the intolerant, unhinged leftists in the Democrat party."  
Pants on Fire!
By Jon Greenberg • June 16, 2017
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on June 13, 2017 a tweet
Says Senate deliberations on the Affordable Care Act in 2009 and 2010 included hundreds of hours of debate and more than 100 Republican amendments, compared with zero for the American Health Care Act this year.
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • June 14, 2017
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