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Donald Trump
stated on February 16, 2017 comments during and after the 2016 presidential campaign:

On leaks and the release of secret information.

Full Flop

By Louis Jacobson • February 16, 2017

Ron Johnson
stated on February 3, 2017 a CNN interview:

Israel cut its illegal immigration rate by "99 percent" by constructing a 143-mile fence along its southern border.

Mostly True

By Miriam Valverde • February 13, 2017

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
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

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

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

John Cornyn
stated on November 22, 2016 a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson:

Says the Department of Homeland Security didn't request any hours of aerial surveillance for the U.S.-Mexico border from the Department of Defense for 2017.

Mostly False

By Fauzeya Rahman • January 31, 2017

Joe DeFelice
stated on January 25, 2017:

"From the release of a child rapist from the Dominican Republican to that of an Italian drug smuggler, Philadelphians have already been put in direct danger by Mayor Kenney’s policy of blocking local law enforcement from participating with federal immigration authorities."

Mostly False

By Cassie Owens • January 31, 2017

Jerrold Nadler
stated on January 28, 2017 a CNN interview:

"The various people who have, in fact, committed terrorist acts in this country, from 9/11 on, none of them came from any of the seven countries that are the subject of the president's executive order."

Half-True

By Miriam Valverde • January 29, 2017

Donald Trump
stated on January 25, 2017 remarks at Department of Homeland Security:

Says ICE and border patrol officers "unanimously endorsed me for president."

Mostly False

By Miriam Valverde • January 26, 2017

Luke Messer
stated on January 5, 2017 a CNN story:

"By funding the authorization that’s already happened a decade ago (in the Secure Fence Act of 2006), we could start the process of meeting Mr. Trump’s campaign pledge to secure the border."

True

By Miriam Valverde • January 17, 2017

Richard Durbin
stated on January 10, 2017 Sessions' Senate confirmation hearing for attorney general:

Of Sen. Jeff Sessions, "you've objected to immigrants volunteering to serve in our armed forces, saying, 'In terms of who's going to be most likely to be a spy, somebody from Cullman, Ala., or somebody from Kenya?'"

Mostly True

By Miriam Valverde • January 10, 2017

Donald Trump
stated on January 6, 2017 a statement released by the transition office:

Activities by foreign governments had "absolutely no effect on the outcome of this election."

Mostly False

By Louis Jacobson • January 8, 2017

Jesse Watters
stated on January 4, 2017 an episode of Fox News' "Outnumbered":

Says John Podesta’s email password was "password."

False

By Lauren Carroll • January 6, 2017

Scott Walker
stated on December 23, 2016 an interview:

"We don't get any of that information" from the federal government on who refugees are, where they come from and how long they are likely to stay.

Mostly False

By Tom Kertscher • January 6, 2017

Donald Trump
stated on December 15, 2016 a tweet :

"If Russia, or some other entity, was hacking, why did the White House wait so long to act? Why did they only complain after Hillary lost?"

Pants on Fire!

By Miriam Valverde • December 15, 2016

Geraldo Rivera
stated on December 12, 2016 an interview on Fox News' Hannity:

Says "tens of thousands of children" were rushed across the southwest border "because they fear the wall."

Mostly False

By Miriam Valverde • December 15, 2016

Bloggers
stated on December 1, 2016 an MRCTV post:

"More than two-thirds of the aliens the Obama administration has brought to the United States under the president's Central American Minors program weren’t actually minors at all."

Mostly True

By Miriam Valverde • December 7, 2016

Roger Williams
stated on November 16, 2016 an interview with McClatchy's Washington bureau:

"NAFTA allows a lot of trucks from Mexico, for example, to leave there and ... drive straight through without even being inspected."

Mostly False

By W. Gardner Selby • December 5, 2016

Bill de Blasio
stated on November 18, 2016 a WNYC interview:

On Donald Trump’s plan to cut federal funding to sanctuary cities, "because of a decision by the Supreme Court, no president's in a position to cut off funding across the board. It has to be very specific to the matter at hand."

Mostly True

By Miriam Valverde • December 1, 2016

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