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Bruce Rauner
stated on October 20, 2017 a press conference

"To be clear, all my investments are in a trust that I don’t control."

Half-True

By Matt Dietrich • October 27, 2017

Karl Racine
stated on June 12, 2017 a press conference

"The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, whose government has important business and policy before the president of the United States, has already spent hundreds of thousands of dollars at the Trump International Hotel."

Mostly True

By Smitha Rajan • June 19, 2017

Richard Burr
stated on June 13, 2017 his opening statement before Jeff Session's testimony

Says the Senate Intelligence Committee has held 10 public hearings this year, "more than double that held by the committee in any recent year."

True

By Will Doran • June 14, 2017

Jeff Sessions
stated on June 13, 2017 a congressional hearing

"It's a longstanding policy of the Department of Justice not to comment on conversations that the attorney general has had with the president of the United States."

Half-True

By Lauren Carroll • June 14, 2017

James Risch
stated on May 15, 2017 remarks to reporters

"The minute the president speaks about it to someone, he has the ability to declassify anything at any time without any process."

Mostly True

By Louis Jacobson • May 16, 2017

Jackie Speier
stated on April 13, 2017 an interview

Says President Donald Trump as a candidate mentioned WikiLeaks "over 160 times in speeches" in the last month of the campaign.

Mostly True

By Gabrielle Healy • April 21, 2017

Jay Chaudhuri
stated on April 5, 2017 an interview explaining his bill

Says the T.R.U.M.P. Act, which would force presidential candidates to release their tax returns to run in North Carolina, "has a lot of support – by a majority of North Carolinians and members of both parties."

Mostly True

By Will Doran • April 19, 2017

Sara Stevenson
stated on April 3, 2017 to the editor of the Austin American-Statesman

Says a Texas Senate committee considering "private school voucher" legislation randomly called people to testify regardless of when the people submitted requests to testify.

True

By W. Gardner Selby • April 14, 2017

Congressional Leadership Fund
stated on April 5, 2017 a web video

Says Al Jazeera, "a mouthpiece for terrorists, has been paying Jon Ossoff thousands of dollars. ... What is he hiding?"

Mostly False

By Jon Greenberg • April 13, 2017

Sherrod Brown
stated on February 2, 2017 a Senate floor speech

Says ExxonMobil "fought to kill" a rule requiring oil and mining companies to disclose payments made to foreign governments.

True

By Jon Greenberg • February 8, 2017

Roy Cooper
stated on January 25, 2017 an address to education leaders

Says North Carolina gives taxpayer dollars to private schools, but "we really don’t know what these schools are doing or how they are performing."

Half-True

By Will Doran • February 2, 2017

Donald Trump
stated on October 31, 2016 a campaign rally

"The FBI has reopened its investigation into Hillary Clinton ... and discovered another 650,000 emails."

Half-True

By Linda Qiu • November 1, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on October 25, 2016 a speech

"The man who was in charge of the investigation of Hillary Clinton accepted essentially from Hillary Clinton $675,000 that went to his wife."

Mostly False

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • October 26, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on October 13, 2016 a speech

Says Hillary Clinton was "let off the hook" for her email scandal while Gen. David Petraeus had his life "destroyed for doing far, far less."

False

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • October 18, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on October 9, 2016 the second 2016 presidential debate

"You (Hillary Clinton) get a subpoena, and after getting the subpoena you delete 33,000 emails."

Half-True

By Lauren Carroll • October 10, 2016

Tim Kaine
stated on October 4, 2016 a debate

"Richard Nixon released tax returns when he was under audit."

True

By Sean Gorman • October 5, 2016

Freedom Partners Action Fund
stated on September 21, 2016 In a political ad

Says Senate candidate Katie McGinty "made thousands from companies she previously regulated."

True

By Mark Dent • October 4, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on September 26, 2016 a Presidential debate at Hofstra University

"You will learn more about Donald Trump by going down to the Federal Elections" to see the financial disclosure form than by looking at tax returns.

False

By Louis Jacobson • September 27, 2016

Michael Morell
stated on September 19, 2016 an open letter to Donald Trump

Says Donald Trump has outlined "policies that read like a Kremlin wish list."

Mostly True

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • September 22, 2016

John Fleming
stated on September 12, 2016 a radio ad

"The head of the IRS ordered 24,000 emails erased before Congress could review them, making sure the American people will never know the real truth."

False

By Katherine Burns, Rachel Tiede • September 15, 2016

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