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Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on February 12, 2017 a tweet
Says "72% of refugees admitted into U.S. (2/3 -2/11) during COURT BREAKDOWN are from 7 countries: SYRIA, IRAQ, SOMALIA, IRAN, SUDAN, LIBYA & YEMEN."
Mostly True
By Allison Graves • February 12, 2017
Stephen Miller
Stephen Miller
stated on February 12, 2017 an interview on ABC's "This Week"
"This issue of busing voters in to New Hampshire is widely known by anyone who’s worked in New Hampshire politics. It’s very real, it’s very serious."
Pants on Fire!
By Katie Sanders • February 12, 2017
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on February 12, 2017 a tweet
"While on FAKE NEWS @CNN, Bernie Sanders was cut off for using the term fake news to describe the network. They said technical difficulties!"
False
By Allison Graves • February 12, 2017
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on February 5, 2017 an interview on CNN
Says former President Barack Obama’s Supreme Court nominations "required 60 votes."
Half-True
By Gabrielle Healy • February 9, 2017
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on February 9, 2017 a tweet
Says CNN’s Chris Cuomo "never asked" Sen. Richard Blumenthal about Blumenthal's misstatements on his own service in Vietnam.
False
By Jon Greenberg • February 9, 2017
Jeanne Shaheen
Jeanne Shaheen
stated on February 8, 2017 a CNN interview
"Back when Ted Cruz called Mitch McConnell a liar on the floor of the Senate floor, nobody invoked Rule 19 to censor him."
Mostly True
By Joshua Gillin • February 8, 2017
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on February 7, 2017 a meeting with sheriffs in the White House
"The murder rate in our country is the highest it’s been in 47 years."
False
By Louis Jacobson • February 8, 2017
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on February 2, 2017 a Facebook post
"Smart! 'Kuwait issues its own Trump-esque visa ban for five Muslim-majority countries.' "
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • February 7, 2017
Seth Moulton
Seth Moulton
stated on January 31, 2017 a CNN interview
"ISIS is already using the rhetoric from the Trump administration, the text of this executive order, to incite attacks against us and to recruit more terrorists to their side."
Mostly False
By Miriam Valverde • February 7, 2017
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on February 6, 2017 a speech in Tampa, Fla.
Terrorism and terrorist attacks in the United States and Europe have "gotten to a point where it's not even being reported."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • February 6, 2017
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on February 5, 2017 an interview with Bill O'Reilly
Says "109 people out of hundreds of thousands of travelers" were affected by the immigration executive order.
False
By Linda Qiu • February 6, 2017
Kellyanne Conway
Kellyanne Conway
stated on February 2, 2017 There was no massacre
"Two Iraqis came here to this country, were radicalized and they were the masterminds behind the Bowling Green massacre. … It didn't get covered"
False
By Louis Jacobson, Steve Contorno • February 3, 2017
Kellyanne Conway
Kellyanne Conway
stated on February 2, 2017 an interview on "Fox and Friends"
"This is longest that the nation has gone without a secretary of the Treasury, at least in modern times. If it's not the longest, it's darn close to it."
False
By Allison Graves • February 2, 2017
Keith Ellison
Keith Ellison
stated on January 29, 2017 a CBS 'Face The Nation' interview
"About three-quarters of (Syrian refugees) are women and children. A full third of them are kids under 12 years old."
True
By Miriam Valverde • February 2, 2017
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on February 1, 2017 a tweet
"The Obama Administration agreed to take thousands of illegal immigrants from Australia."
Half-True
By Linda Qiu, Miriam Valverde • February 2, 2017
Nancy Pelosi
Nancy Pelosi
stated on January 31, 2017 a CNN town hall
Says Neil Gorsuch "comes down on the side of felons over gun safety."
Mostly False
By Lauren Carroll • February 2, 2017
Nancy Pelosi
Nancy Pelosi
stated on January 31, 2017 a town hall on CNN
"Wall Street comes out en masse with its money against House Democrats every election."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • February 1, 2017
John McCain
John McCain
stated on January 18, 2017 an interview on Fox News
"The Taliban went after and murdered" people identified in the Chelsea Manning leaks. 
Mostly False
By Lauren Carroll • February 1, 2017
Joni Ernst
Joni Ernst
stated on January 27, 2017 a speech at the March for Life
The Obama administration issued an "11th-hour rule that entrenches federal family planning funding for Planned Parenthood."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • February 1, 2017
Sean Spicer
Sean Spicer
stated on January 30, 2017 a daily press briefing
The language that's part of the president's National Security Council memo "is identical to the language" used by President George W. Bush in 2001 and President Barack Obama in 2009.
Mostly False
By Linda Qiu • January 31, 2017
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