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Roy Blunt
Roy Blunt
stated on November 19, 2017 an interview on "Meet the Press"
"In the current law, if you report harassment, you're the one that has to go into 20 hours of counseling before you can decide whether you were really harassed."
Half-True
By Emily McCarter • December 8, 2017
Doug Jones
Doug Jones
stated on November 30, 2017 a campaign ad
"In a 2014 case involving a man convicted of abusing two underage girls, Judge Roy Moore disagreed and wrote the dissenting opinion."  
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • December 6, 2017
news.groopspeak.com
news.groopspeak.com
stated on November 29, 2017 a headline
"Breaking: federal judge grants permission to subpoena Trump."
False
By Amy Sherman • December 5, 2017
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on December 4, 2017 remarks to reporters
"Hillary Clinton lied many times to the FBI."
False
By Miriam Valverde • December 5, 2017
Ann Wagner
Ann Wagner
stated on November 1, 2017 a campaign website
"Satanists have teamed up with the ACLU and Planned Parenthood in Missouri to roll back the rights of the unborn."
False
By Emily Sanderson, Tessa Weinberg • November 24, 2017
Claire McCaskill
Claire McCaskill
stated on October 10, 2017 a campaign statement
Says Josh Hawley "broke his promise to create a Public Corruption Unit to crack down on the pay-to-play culture of Jefferson City."
Mostly False
By Emily McCarter, Lucille Sherman • November 24, 2017
NARAL Pro-Choice America
NARAL Pro-Choice America
stated on November 15, 2017 an online popup ad
Says Paul Ryan is leading the effort to "pass a tax bill with divisive conception language by disguising it as a college savings plan" in "another attempt to ban abortion and rob women of their reproductive rights."
Half-True
November 22, 2017
Freshmedianews.com
Freshmedianews.com
stated on November 6, 2017 a headline
"‘The largest bust in U.S. history’ 412 Muslims arrested from Michigan!"
False
By Amy Sherman • November 21, 2017
Sean Duffy
Sean Duffy
stated on November 30, 2017 an interview
Says special counsel Robert Mueller "has brought in Democrat campaign donors at a very high level" on his team of lawyers.
Half-True
November 3, 2017
Eric Greitens
Eric Greitens
stated on August 13, 2017 a Facebook live video
"Seventy-three percent of our veterans are graduating from drug courts. By contrast, I think most of the people in the very good drug court program — the graduation rate’s like 53, 55 percent. The point of that is that drug courts are working for veterans."
Mostly True
By Emily Sanderson, Tessa Weinberg • October 21, 2017
Roy Moore
Roy Moore
stated on October 16, 2017 in an interview
NFL players taking a knee during the national anthem is "against the law."
False
By John Kruzel • October 19, 2017
Colin Jost
Colin Jost
stated on October 7, 2017 a Weekend Update report on NBC-TV's "Saturday Night Live"
"There is a real law in Texas that says it’s illegal to own more than six dildos."
Mostly True
By W. Gardner Selby • October 13, 2017
Feministing
Feministing
stated on June 21, 2017 a web post
"Missouri Votes to Let Employers Fire People Who Use Birth Control."
Pants on Fire!
By Carolina Vargas, Emma Diltz • September 27, 2017
Derrick Johnson
Derrick Johnson
stated on August 2, 2017 a travel advisory
"African Americans in Missouri are 75 percent more likely to be stopped and searched by law enforcement officers than caucasians."
Half-True
By Emily McCarter, Lucille Sherman • September 18, 2017
William Lacy Clay
William Lacy Clay
stated on August 18, 2017 an article in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch
"Calling for the assassination of the president is a federal crime."
Half-True
By Emily Sanderson, Tessa Weinberg • September 15, 2017
Jeff Sessions
Jeff Sessions
stated on September 5, 2017 remarks at the Justice Department
Says President Barack Obama’s policy known as DACA "contributed to a surge of minors at the southern border."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • September 5, 2017
Katie Pavlich
Katie Pavlich
stated on August 26, 2017 in a tweet
Says former President Barack Obama "pardoned a traitor who gave U.S. enemies state secrets, he also pardoned a terrorist who killed Americans."
Mostly False
By Manuela Tobias • August 30, 2017
Adam Schiff
Adam Schiff
stated on August 20, 2017 an interview
"I think what the authors of the (25th) Amendment principally had in mind was some kind of physical incapacitation or serious mental illness or a breakdown, an inability to function in office."
True
By John Kruzel • August 29, 2017
Joe Arpaio
Joe Arpaio
stated on August 25, 2017 a tweet
Says his conviction is "a political witch hunt by holdovers in the Obama justice department."
False
By Jon Greenberg • August 29, 2017
David Lewis
David Lewis
stated on July 31, 2017 in a blog
Gov. Roy Cooper has "filed nearly one lawsuit a month, with every single one of them an attempt to extend his own power."
Mostly False
By Paul Specht • August 22, 2017
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