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Donald Trump
stated on July 19, 2015 in comments on ABC's This Week.:

Says John McCain "has done nothing to help the vets."

False

By Linda Qiu • July 21, 2015

Donald Trump
stated on July 19, 2015 in comments on ABC's "This Week":

"Four times, I said, he (John McCain) is a hero, but you know ... people choose selective pieces."

Mostly False

By Linda Qiu • July 19, 2015

Joe Theismann
stated on July 9, 2015 in a discussion on "Outnumbered":

"We don’t have a (military) reserve force if something happens."

False

By Katie Sanders • July 14, 2015

E.W. Jackson
stated on July 4, 2015 in a news release.:

Says President Obama "is reducing our naval fleet to 1917 levels..."

Mostly False

By Sean Gorman • July 13, 2015

Scott Walker
stated on June 20, 2015 in a speech:

Says Barack Obama told the U.S. Coast Guard Academy "that the number one threat to the military and the world today is global warming."

Mostly False

By Tom Kertscher • June 25, 2015

Jeb Bush
stated on June 15, 2015 in his presidential announcement speech:

The Democrats are "responsible" for "the swift, mindless drawdown of a military that was generations in the making."

Mostly False

By Louis Jacobson • June 22, 2015

Doonesbury
stated on June 14, 2015 in the strip about Greg Abbott and the Jade Helm military exercise:

Greg Abbott "activated the state guard to monitor" Jade Helm 15 "in case the troops try to impose martial law, disarm innocent Texans, and detain them in tunnels beneath closed Walmart stores."

Half-True

By W. Gardner Selby • June 19, 2015

Donald Trump
stated on June 16, 2015 in his presidential announcement speech:

"Even our nuclear arsenal doesn't work. It came out recently they have equipment that is 30 years old. They don't know if it worked."

False

By Louis Jacobson • June 18, 2015

Facebook posts
stated on June 15, 2015 in a social media post:

Says Bill Clinton "gave a speech in 1996 about Iraq having WMDs" and said "we needed a regime change," even though everyone blamed those things on George W. Bush.

Mostly False

By Keely Herring, Louis Jacobson • June 16, 2015

Gary Painter
stated on May 10, 2015 in as quoted in a Midland Reporter-Telegram news story:

"We’re the only nation in the world that does not use the military to secure our border."

Pants on Fire!

By W. Gardner Selby • June 5, 2015

John McCain
stated on May 24, 2015 in an interview on CBS' "Face the Nation":

If you count United States airstrikes against ISIS, "75 percent of those combat missions return to base without having fired a weapon."

True

By Louis Jacobson • May 28, 2015

Ted Cruz
stated on July 12, 2014 in a roundtable with Texas businesses:

"Every year we spend roughly $500 billion on tax compliance. That is roughly the budget of our entire military, entirely wasted on tax compliance."

False

By W. Gardner Selby • May 20, 2015

Rob Wittman
stated on April 30, 2015 in a news release.:

The 2005 round of military base closings "has not yet resulted in savings."

Half-True

By Sean Gorman • May 15, 2015

Marco Rubio
stated on April 25, 2015 in a speech at the Iowa Faith and Freedom Summit:

The United States "is not building the aircraft, the long-range bombers, the additional aircraft carriers, the nuclear submarines."

False

By Amy Sherman • May 5, 2015

David Perdue
stated on April 27, 2015 in his debut Senate floor speech:

The United States is "about to have the smallest Army since before WWII, the smallest Navy since WWI and the smallest Air Force ever."

Half-True

By April Hunt • May 4, 2015

City of Atlanta
stated on August 8, 2014 in press release:

Tyler Perry’s plan to turn a majority of the former Fort McPherson into a film and television studio is expected "to add over 8,000 new jobs to Atlanta."

Half-True

By Nancy Badertscher • May 1, 2015

Represent.us
stated on April 30, 2015 in a meme on social media:

"The U.S. representatives that voted to keep militarizing the police received 73 percent more campaign money from the defense industry" than the representatives who voted to stop it.

Mostly True

By Louis Jacobson • April 30, 2015

Evan Bayh
stated on April 2, 2015 in an interview in Concord, N.H.:

"The fastest-growing part of the Pentagon’s budget are health care expenses."

True

By Clay Wirestone • April 21, 2015

Reince Priebus
stated on April 12, 2015 in an interview:

Says Hillary Clinton took "money from kings of Saudi Arabia and Morocco and Oman and Yemen."

Half-True

By Tom Kertscher • April 20, 2015

Judicial Watch
stated on April 14, 2015 in a web item:

"ISIS camp a few miles from Texas, Mexican authorities confirm."

False

By W. Gardner Selby • April 17, 2015

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