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Latest Fact-Checks On Rand Paul

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Rand Paul
Rand Paul
stated on October 28, 2015 a Republican presidential debate in Boulder, Colo.:
The debt limit deal "allows President Obama to borrow unlimited amounts of money."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • November 2, 2015
Rand Paul
Rand Paul
stated on September 16, 2015 a presidential debate:
"There's never been a direct Supreme Court case on people who were here illegally, whether or not their kids are citizens."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • September 18, 2015
Rand Paul
Rand Paul
stated on August 6, 2015 a Republican presidential debate in Cleveland:
"The Fourth Amendment was what we fought the Revolution over. John Adams said it was the spark that led to our war for independence."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • August 7, 2015
Rand Paul
Rand Paul
stated on July 26, 2015 an interview on "Fox News Sunday":
"(Hillary Clinton's State Department) actually admonished one of her ambassadors because he wasn’t using the proper server."
True
By Linda Qiu • July 26, 2015
Rand Paul
Rand Paul
stated on July 17, 2015 a campaign rally in Houston:
"We borrow a million dollars every minute."
Mostly True
By Lauren Carroll • July 21, 2015
Rand Paul
Rand Paul
stated on April 18, 2015 a speech in Nashua, N.H.:
"Hillary Clinton’s State Department sent three comedians to India on the ‘Make Chai, Not War’ tour."
True
By Allie Morris • April 24, 2015
Rand Paul
Rand Paul
stated on April 12, 2015 comments on CNN's "State of the Union":
Says Hillary Clinton "completely ignored" "dozens and dozens of requests for more security" for the Benghazi consulate.    
Half-True
By Katie Sanders • April 12, 2015
Rand Paul
Rand Paul
stated on April 8, 2015 a town hall meeting in Milford, NH:
"The founders of New Hampshire came up with the motto Live Free or Die."
False
By Nick Reid • April 10, 2015
Rand Paul
Rand Paul
stated on April 7, 2015 a speech announcing his presidential campaign:
"Debt doubled" under Bush "and now it’s tripling under Barack Obama’s watch."
Half-True
By Lauren Carroll • April 9, 2015
Rand Paul
Rand Paul
stated on March 24, 2015 an interview on the Kelly File:
Says according to recent polls, no Republican candidate "is doing better against Hillary Clinton than myself."
Mostly False
By Katharina Fiedler, Lauren Carroll • March 25, 2015
Rand Paul
Rand Paul
stated on February 27, 2015 a speech at CPAC:
U.S. military involvement in Libya "allowed thousands of surface-to-air missiles to fall into the hands of radical Islamists."
Mostly False
By Lauren Carroll • March 9, 2015
Rand Paul
Rand Paul
stated on January 25, 2015 a forum at the Freedom Partners 2015 California retreat:
"When you look at the earned income tax credit, it has about a 25 percent fraud rate. We're looking at $20 billion to $30 billion."
Half-True
By Steve Contorno • January 30, 2015
Rand Paul
Rand Paul
stated on January 14, 2015 a speech in New Hampshire:
"Over half the people on disability are either anxious or their back hurts."
False
By Steve Contorno • January 16, 2015
Rand Paul
Rand Paul
stated on October 16, 2014 an interview with a New Hampshire radio station:
Ebola is "incredibly contagious," "very transmissible" and "easy to catch."
Mostly False
By Steve Contorno • October 27, 2014
Rand Paul
Rand Paul
stated on October 15, 2014 a speech.:
"$2.4 million of the NIH dollars was spent on ‘origami’ condoms."
Mostly True
By Sean Gorman • October 27, 2014
Rand Paul
Rand Paul
stated on September 11, 2014 an interview with NPR:
"Income inequality is worse in towns run by Democrat mayors than in towns run by Republican mayors."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • September 16, 2014
Rand Paul
Rand Paul
stated on September 4, 2014 an op-ed for Time magazine:
In Tripoli, "jihadists today swim in our embassy pool."
Half-True
By Steve Contorno • September 11, 2014
Rand Paul
Rand Paul
stated on August 14, 2014 an opinion column:
"Washington has incentivized the militarization of local police precincts."
True
By Lauren Carroll • August 21, 2014
Rand Paul
Rand Paul
stated on August 4, 2014 comments to reporters:
"I haven’t really proposed (phasing out aid to Israel) in the past."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • August 7, 2014
Rand Paul
Rand Paul
stated on August 5, 2014 a speech in Iowa:
"It cost us more to shut the government down than to keep it open."
True
By Lauren Carroll • August 7, 2014
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