Fact Check Posts – Page 2

Infowars
stated on February 20, 2021 an article

“Joe Biden’s Dept. of Energy Blocked Texas from Increasing Power Ahead of Killer Storm”

By Daniel Funke • February 22, 2021

Tucker Carlson
stated on February 16, 2021 a TV segment

“Unbeknownst to most people, the Green New Deal came to Texas; the power grid in the state became totally reliant on windmills.”

February 17, 2021

Facebook posts
stated on February 15, 2021 a text post

Says Joe Biden planned a winter storm as "warfare, an attack on Texas by altering the jet stream."

By Daniel Funke • February 16, 2021

Ken Paxton
stated on January 7, 2021 a tweet

Says that “those who stormed the capitol yesterday were not Trump supporters. They have been confirmed to be Antifa.”

By Brandon Mulder • January 8, 2021

Ted Cruz
stated on December 15, 2020 a tweet

Says that guidance urging vaccinated people to avoid travel and continue wearing masks is "profoundly anti-science."

By Brandon Mulder • December 18, 2020

Facebook posts
stated on December 8, 2020 A post

Says Texas Rep. Terry Meza said changing the castle doctrine is meant to create a “peaceful” transfer of property from victims to thieves

By Monique Curet • December 10, 2020

Dan Patrick
stated on October 28, 2020 a press conference

Says “the city of Austin is a disaster if you haven’t been there. A great city, now one of the most dangerous cities in America and definitely in Texas.”

By Brandon Mulder • November 6, 2020

Donald Trump
stated on November 1, 2020 a campaign rally

Says his supporters were “protecting” Joe Biden’s campaign bus in Texas.

By Miriam Valverde • November 2, 2020

Louie Gohmert
stated on April 7, 2020 an interview

Says a powder has been developed that, when mixed with water, “is being used in Germany as a mist. Health care workers go through a misting tent going into the hospital and it kills the coronavirus completely dead not only right then, but any time in the next 14 days that the virus touches anything that’s been sprayed, it is killed.”

By Madlin Mekelburg • April 9, 2020

Conservative-Daily
stated on March 4, 2020 a post

Says a video of Joe Biden and Beto O’Rourke at a Texas Whataburger shows Biden “looking directly into the camera and promising to take away Americans’ guns if elected.”

By Madlin Mekelburg • March 13, 2020

Rick Range
stated on December 10, 2019 a Facebook post

"George P. Bush to place statue of (Mexican general) Santa Anna at the Alamo."

By Madlin Mekelburg • December 17, 2019

Louie Gohmert
stated on October 21, 2019 an op-ed

"As we have learned, the Intel Inspector General (IG) changed the rule after the complaint was known in order to allow hearsay complaints, but the IG dishonestly backdated the rule change so that damage could be done to President Trump."

By Madlin Mekelburg • October 30, 2019

Roger Williams
stated on August 22, 2019 an interview

"50% of the DUIs on Interstate 35 are from illegals. Ninety percent of the 50% have absolutely no identification."

By Madlin Mekelburg • October 4, 2019

Donna Campbell
stated on May 22, 2019 the Texas Senate

"A study was done, a post-mortem, so a retrospective study done, looking at autopsies and drug levels, what drugs were in the blood of veterans that committed suicide, and 70 percent had THC."

By Taylor Goldenstein • July 15, 2019

Dan Patrick
stated on May 15, 2019 in a television appearance

"We will have more people enter our country illegally than were born in this country in one year."

By Madlin Mekelburg • June 5, 2019

X posts
stated on March 18, 2019 a tweet

Says Beto O'Rourke "gave the remaining $4.5+ mill from his Senate race to (the Texas Democratic Party) a few months ago, & the Party sent the money back to him on the day of his announcement."

By Madlin Mekelburg • March 20, 2019

Ken Paxton
stated on August 26, 2018 an interview on Fox & Friends

Says Texas has "had over 600,000 crimes committed by illegals since 2011. Over 1,200 homicides."

By W. Gardner Selby • September 7, 2018

Will Hurd
stated on August 18, 2018 an interview with Hearst News

Says Democratic challenger Gina Ortiz Jones has raised "more money from Massachusetts than" from Texas.

By W. Gardner Selby • August 15, 2018

Austin for a Better Future
stated on June 27, 2018 In a video

Says proposal to use city-owned land for an Austin pro soccer stadium is a "$1 billion giveaway."

By Bob Sechler, Sebastian Herrera • June 27, 2018

Donald Trump
stated on June 6, 2018 a conference call about hurricane season

Says that people "went out in their boats to watch" Hurricane Harvey.

By W. Gardner Selby • June 7, 2018

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