Fact Check Posts – Page 2

Donald Trump
stated on April 13, 2020 a tweet:

"It is the decision of the President," not governors, to "open up the states."

By Amy Sherman • April 13, 2020

Donald Trump Jr.
stated on November 1, 2019 a Tweet:

"Tens of thousands" of people leave New York every week.

By Jill Terreri Ramos • November 8, 2019

Scott Walker
stated on May 13, 2018 a TV interview:

"By law, Democrats gave the superintendent of public instruction, back in 2009, the ability to take over failing schools … The current superintendent has failed to do that."

By D.L. Davis • July 5, 2018

Kevin Nicholson
stated on April 19, 2018 news release:

Says conservative mega-donor Richard Uihlein is a Wisconsin resident.

By D.L. Davis • May 4, 2018

Liberty Headlines
stated on March 7, 2018 a headline:

"Seattle police begin gun confiscations: no laws broken, no warrant, no charges."

By Amy Sherman • March 14, 2018

Travis Allen
stated on February 1, 2018 an interview on Capital Public Radio:

"Californians are overwhelmingly against this concept of the illegal sanctuary state."

By Chris Nichols • February 7, 2018

John Cox
stated on October 21, 2017 a Capital Public Radio interview:

Californians pay "the highest electricity bills" in the nation.

By Chris Nichols • November 16, 2017

John Cox
stated on October 19, 2017 a San Francisco Chronicle op-ed.:

"It costs nearly five times as much in California to build and maintain a mile of road as it does in the rest of the nation."

By Chris Nichols • November 1, 2017

North Carolina Republican Party
stated on June 8, 2017 in an official statement:

Says former FBI Director James Comey admitted to leaking classified information.

By Will Doran • June 9, 2017

Chain email
stated on May 11, 2017 a chain email:

Says there are thousands of registered voters over 110 years old in North Carolina, including one who is 219 years old.

By Will Doran • May 18, 2017

Jim Patterson
stated on April 10, 2017 a press release:

California will have the "highest gas tax in the nation" once its 12 cent gas tax hike goes into effect.

By Chris Nichols • April 11, 2017

Caitlyn Jenner
stated on March 31, 2017:

Says North Carolina's replacement for HB2 "orders NC cities to discriminate against LGBT people until at least 2020 and unfair ‘bathroom bans’ remain."

By Will Doran • April 4, 2017

X posts
stated on December 6, 2016 tweets:

In Wisconsin, "300,000 voters were turned away by the state’s strict voter ID law" in the 2016 presidential election.

By Tom Kertscher • December 7, 2016

Reince Priebus
stated on November 14, 2016 an interview:

Says Donald Trump's presidential victory was "an electoral landslide."

By Tom Kertscher • November 21, 2016

Viral image
stated on November 9, 2016 a post-election Tweet:

Says the KKK marched in Mebane, N.C., after Trump’s victory

By Will Doran • November 9, 2016

Sean Hannity
stated on August 23, 2016 while interviewing Donald Trump in Austin:

"All of Texas is conservative, except a little bit of Austin."

By W. Gardner Selby • August 26, 2016

Wendy Davis
stated on March 14, 2016 an interview with Texas Monthly:

"Texas is one of only a handful of states that does not have an equal pay law."

By Eleanor Dearman • May 27, 2016

Chris Sgro
stated on May 4, 2016 a press release:

"We've already lost $500 million in economic impact" from HB2 fallout in North Carolina.

By Will Doran • May 16, 2016

Maggie Hassan
stated on February 4, 2016 her State of the State speech :

"Drug overdoses are now the second-most common cause of death in New Hampshire."

By Allie Morris • February 22, 2016

Christine Gilbert
stated on July 11, 2015 a letter to the editor of the Austin American-Statesman:

The Texas Capitol faces South toward Goliad, in memory of the most horrific battle of the Texas Revolution.

By W. Gardner Selby • July 24, 2015

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