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Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on April 28, 2017 a speech to the National Rifle Association:
"The first Congress passed a law mandating that every able-bodied man must own a musket."
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • May 19, 2017
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
By Tom Kertscher • 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
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