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Ivanka Trump
Ivanka Trump
stated on May 1, 2017 her new book
Says John Quincy Adams said, "If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, you are a leader."
False
By Katie Sanders • May 5, 2017
Charlie Geren
Charlie Geren
stated on April 11, 2017 a letter to WFAA-TV in Dallas
Says Texas House rules authorized by the Texas Constitution supersede the state law permitting anyone to record a public government meeting.
Mostly True
By W. Gardner Selby • April 27, 2017
Center for American Progress
Center for American Progress
stated on April 25, 2017 a tweet
"Trump's Cabinet is more white and more male than any first Cabinet since President Ronald Reagan’s."  
Mostly True
By Allison Graves • April 26, 2017
Viral image
Viral image
stated on April 20, 2017 posts on social media
"After prohibition ended, police deaths didn't reach 200 a year again until the year Nixon declared war on drugs."
Mostly False
By Will Doran • April 24, 2017
Sean Spicer
Sean Spicer
stated on April 11, 2017 comments to reporters
Says Adolf Hitler "didn't even sink to the level of using chemical weapons. ... He was not using the gas on his own people the same way that (Bashar al-)Assad is doing."  
Pants on Fire!
By Jon Greenberg • April 11, 2017
Roy Blunt
Roy Blunt
stated on February 8, 2017 a speech
"Somebody observed this week that you have to go back to the very founding of the government to the first administration of George Washington to find a time when it’s taken longer to put a Cabinet in place."
False
By Grace Hase • March 25, 2017
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on February 28, 2017 a speech to Congress
Says his budget "calls for one of the largest increases in national defense spending in American history."
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • March 1, 2017
True Pundit
True Pundit
stated on February 8, 2017 a web post
Says a video shows "Coretta Scott King thanking Jeff Sessions for Rosa Parks library."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • February 9, 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
Don Willett
Don Willett
stated on January 12, 2017 a speech at a Texas Public Policy Foundation event
"The overwhelming majority of America’s elite universities, they no longer require history majors to take a single course in American history."
Mostly True
By W. Gardner Selby • January 30, 2017
Dan Patrick
Dan Patrick
stated on January 5, 2017 remarks to reporters supporting legislation related to bathroom access
"Martin Luther King said our lives begin to end the day we become silent on things that matter."
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • January 6, 2017
Russ Feingold
Russ Feingold
stated on October 7, 2016 a debate
Social Security "was basically invented" at the University of Wisconsin-Madison; "that's where Franklin Roosevelt got the idea."
True
By Jonathan Anderson • December 16, 2016
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on December 2, 2016 a radio interview.
"We adopted the modern Social Security system at a time when the average person died before they were old enough to get Social Security."
True
By Warren Fiske • December 12, 2016
Annie's List
Annie's List
stated on November 30, 2016 a press release
Even "though men comprise 49% of the population, they hold 80% of the lawmaking power in the Legislature (144 of 181 seats)."
True
By Bobby Cervantes • December 6, 2016
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on October 26, 2016 a rally for a Colorado U.S. Senate nominee
"There is long historical precedent for a Supreme Court with fewer justices."
Mostly False
By Bobby Cervantes • November 23, 2016
Rush Limbaugh
Rush Limbaugh
stated on November 21, 2016 "The Rush Limbaugh Show"
"Alexander Hamilton was an immigration hawk."
Half-True
By Lauren Carroll • November 22, 2016
Reince Priebus
Reince Priebus
stated on November 14, 2016 an interview
Says Donald Trump's presidential victory was "an electoral landslide."    
False
November 21, 2016
Pat Robertson
Pat Robertson
stated on November 8, 2016 a TV broadcast.
Margaret Sanger "wanted a black Christian leader to be like a Judas goat and lead the blacks to genocide. Remember that? And they picked Martin Luther King as their spokesman."
Pants on Fire!
By Warren Fiske • November 14, 2016
Ann Coulter
Ann Coulter
stated on November 9, 2016 a tweet
"1928 was last time Republicans had the White House, the House and the Senate."
False
By Miriam Valverde • November 11, 2016
Tim Kaine
Tim Kaine
stated on November 3, 2016 a speech in Phoenix
"Spanish was the first European language spoken in this country."
True
By Miriam Valverde • November 7, 2016
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