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Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on February 28, 2019 a Facebook post
Says Bernie Sanders marched with Fidel Castro and Che Guevara in Cuba.
Pants on Fire!
By Amy Sherman • March 5, 2019
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on February 22, 2019 a Facebook post
"In 1963 Bernie Sanders was arrested for throwing eggs at black civil rights protestors."  
Pants on Fire!
By Amy Sherman • February 25, 2019
Danielle Pletka
Danielle Pletka
stated on July 8, 2018 remarks on NBC's "Meet the Press"
Says Bernie Sanders was indifferent to Russia's annexation of Crimea because he felt "they have a lot of Russians anyway."
False
By Louis Jacobson • July 11, 2018
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on July 24, 2016 a tweet
"An analysis showed that Bernie Sanders would have won the Democratic nomination if it were not for the Super Delegates."
False
By Linda Qiu • July 25, 2016
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on May 22, 2016 an interview on "Meet the Press"
"Let me say that I don't think (Bernie Sanders has) had a single negative ad ever run against him." 
False
By Linda Qiu • May 22, 2016
Julián Castro
Julián Castro
stated on March 8, 2016 Hillary Clinton campaign news release
"Bernie Sanders voted with Republicans to protect the Minutemen, a hate group that used military tactics against our community."
Half-True
By Filipa Ioannou • April 30, 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
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on April 14, 2016 the Democratic debate in New York
Says Bernie Sanders "has been largely a very reliable supporter of the NRA."
Mostly False
By Linda Qiu • April 15, 2016
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on April 11, 2016 an event in Port Washington, N.Y.
"The state that has the highest per capita number of … guns that end up committing crimes in New York come from Vermont."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • April 12, 2016
Bill McCoshen
Bill McCoshen
stated on March 11, 2016 a talk show
Says when Bernie Sanders was in college, Sanders said "something very similar" to what conservative Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Rebecca Bradley had written as a college student in the 1990s -- that "women have a legitimate role in date rape."
Half-True
March 17, 2016
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on March 9, 2016 a Democratic presidential debate in Miami
In 2006, Bernie Sanders "voted in the House with hard-line Republicans for indefinite detention for undocumented immigrants, and then he sided with those Republicans to stand with vigilantes known as Minutemen who were taking up outposts along the border to hunt down immigrants."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • March 10, 2016
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on March 9, 2016 in the Democratic debate in Florida
"The Clean Power Plan is something that Sen. Sanders has said he would delay implementing."
False
By Linda Qiu • March 10, 2016
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on February 7, 2016 comments on Meet the Press
"There really isn’t any kind of foreign policy network that is supporting and advising Sen. Sanders."
Mostly True
By Joshua Gillin • February 7, 2016
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on February 4, 2016 the Democratic debate in Durham, N.H.
Says Bernie Sanders advocated putting "Iranian troops into Syria to try and resolve the conflict there. Putting them right on the doorstep of Israel."  
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • February 5, 2016
Jennifer Granholm
Jennifer Granholm
stated on January 24, 2016 an appearance on ABC's 'This Week'
When a Gallup poll asked about presidential candidate characteristics, "When they get to the question on, 'Would you vote for a socialist,' it is even less popular than voting for atheists."
True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • January 29, 2016
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on January 17, 2016 comments during the South Carolina Democratic presidential debate
Says Bernie Sanders "has reversed his position on immunity" for gun manufacturers and sellers.
True
By Louis Jacobson • January 18, 2016
Martin O'Malley
Martin O'Malley
stated on November 6, 2015 the First in the South Democratic Presidential forum.
"When President Obama was running for re-election … Senator Sanders was trying to find someone to primary him."
Half-True
By Linda Qiu • November 10, 2015
Chris Christie
Chris Christie
stated on October 28, 2015 a Republican presidential debate in Boulder, Colo.
Bernie Sanders’s plan is "to raise your taxes to 90 percent."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • October 29, 2015
Viral image
Viral image
stated on October 21, 2015 an image on the Internet
"CNN's Crap Polling" is so bad that it shows that "no one under the age of 50 has an opinion of Hillary Clinton."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • October 21, 2015
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on October 14, 2015 comments at a rally.
Says Bernie Sanders is going to "tax you people at 90 percent."
Pants on Fire!
By Linda Qiu • October 20, 2015
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