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Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on May 8, 2016 an interview on 'Meet the Press'
"We're the highest taxed nation in the world."
False
By Louis Jacobson, Linda Qiu • May 8, 2016
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on May 3, 2016 a Clinton campaign tweet
Says Donald Trump promised to repeal Obamacare, build a wall, ban Muslims, and more.
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • May 5, 2016
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on May 4, 2016 a tweet
"Increasing the min. wage to $15 an hour would reduce spending on food stamps, public housing and other programs by over $7.6 billion a year."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • May 5, 2016
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on May 3, 2016 an interview on Fox News
Says Ted Cruz’s father "was with Lee Harvey Oswald" before the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson, Linda Qiu • May 3, 2016
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on May 1, 2016 an interview on CBS News' "Face the Nation"
Winning enough pledged delegates is "not impossible."
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • May 2, 2016
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on May 2, 2016 an interview on CNN's "New Day"
"Frankly, (Hillary Clinton) doesn’t do very well with women."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • May 2, 2016
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on May 1, 2016 an interview on "Meet the Press"
Says Donald Trump’s "only economic agenda is imposing massive taxes on the American people with a 40 percent tax hike of a giant tariff."
Half-True
By Linda Qiu • May 1, 2016
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on May 1, 2016 an interview on "Meet the Press"
Says both Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton say Planned Parenthood is "terrific and that it should keep taxpayer funding." 
Mostly False
By Lauren Carroll • May 1, 2016
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on April 26, 2016 a multitude of Facebook posts
"Today President Obama said there will NOT be a National Day of Prayer in May."
Pants on Fire!
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • April 29, 2016
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on April 27, 2016 a foreign policy speech in Washington
"When President Obama landed in Cuba on Air Force One, no leader was there, nobody, to greet him -- perhaps an incident without precedent in the long and prestigious history of Air Force One."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • April 28, 2016
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on April 27, 2016 a foreign policy speech
"ISIS is making millions of dollars a week selling Libyan oil."
False
By Chris Nichols • April 27, 2016
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on April 27, 2016 a major foreign policy speech
"I was totally against the war in Iraq, saying for many years that it would destabilize the Middle East."
False
By Jon Greenberg • April 27, 2016
John Kirby
John Kirby
stated on April 25, 2016 a State Department news briefing
Says President Barack Obama never said, "No boots on the ground" in Syria.
False
By Louis Jacobson • April 27, 2016
New Day for America
New Day for America
stated on April 25, 2016 a robocall
Says "Hillary Clinton has promised to raise taxes by $1 trillion dollars."
Half-True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • April 27, 2016
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on April 21, 2016 a "Good Morning America" town hall
Marijuana is a Schedule I drug, "which you understand means that you can’t do any research about it."
Mostly False
By Lauren Carroll • April 26, 2016
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on April 22, 2016 an attack ad
Says Donald Trump thinks "a grown man pretending to be a woman (should) be allowed to use the women's restroom."
Mostly False
By Linda Qiu • April 25, 2016
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on April 25, 2016 remarks in Borden, Ind.
"I earned more votes in the state of Wisconsin than Donald Trump did in New York."
True
By Louis Jacobson • April 25, 2016
Bob Graham
Bob Graham
stated on April 24, 2016 an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press"
"We know that Saudi Arabia started al-Qaida."
Half-True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • April 24, 2016
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on April 24, 2016 an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press"
In the 2014 election, "80 percent of poor people did not vote."
Mostly True
By Linda Qiu • April 24, 2016
Robby Mook
Robby Mook
stated on April 19, 2016 a Medium post
"In last week’s debate, Bernie questioned Hillary’s commitment to fighting climate change because a whopping 0.2 percent of the money given to our campaign has come from employees of oil and gas companies. Not even 2 percent, mind you: 0.2 percent."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • April 22, 2016
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