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Katie Pavlich
stated on August 26, 2017 in 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
stated on August 20, 2017 in 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
stated on August 25, 2017 in 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
stated on July 31, 2017 in 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

James Peterson
stated on June 23, 2017 in a ruling from the bench:

"Ted Kaczynski has less restrictive confinement than the youth at Lincoln Hills."

Mostly True

By Alan Hovorka • August 18, 2017

Roy Cooper
stated on August 15, 2017 in Press release:

House Bill 330 "grants immunity from liability to motorists who strike protesters."

Mostly False

By Paul Specht • August 16, 2017

Gwen Moore
stated on June 29, 2017 in a speech:

Says Dontre Hamilton "was shot 14 times by police for resting on a park bench in Milwaukee."

Mostly True

By Tom Kertscher • August 1, 2017

Anthony Scaramucci
stated on July 26, 2017 in a tweet:

"In light of the leak of my financial disclosure info which is a felony I will be contacting @FBI and the @TheJusticeDept"

False

By Manuela Tobias • July 27, 2017

Donald Trump
stated on July 25, 2017 in a tweet:

"The person in charge of the Hillary investigation, Andrew McCabe, got $700,000 from (Hillary Clinton) for wife!"

Mostly False

By Louis Jacobson • July 25, 2017

Donald Trump
stated on July 19, 2017 in an interview with the New York Times:

During the Nixon Watergate investigation, "out of courtesy, the FBI started reporting to the Department of Justice. But there was nothing official."

False

By Jon Greenberg • July 21, 2017

Donald Trump
stated on July 17, 2017 in a speech:

"We’ve signed more bills -- and I’m talking about through the legislature -- than any president ever."

False

By Tom Kertscher • July 20, 2017

Eric Bolling
stated on July 11, 2017 in comments on 'Fox News Specialists':

"Collusion is not illegal."

Mostly False

By Joshua Gillin • July 12, 2017

Richard Corcoran
stated on July 3, 2017 in a tweet:

Says Miami-Dade Circuit Court Judge Milton Hirsch "is constantly overturned."

False

By Amy Sherman • July 11, 2017

Jeff Sessions
stated on June 13, 2017 in 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

Rafael Anchia
stated on April 20, 2017 in a tweet:

"How many federal rulings have NOW found intentional discrimination by #Txlege since 2011? 6."

True

By Bobby Cervantes • June 14, 2017

North Carolina Republican Party
stated on June 8, 2017 in in an official statement:

Says former FBI Director James Comey admitted to leaking classified information.

False

By Will Doran • June 9, 2017

Gregg Jarrett
stated on May 30, 2017 in an interview on Fox News:

"You can collude all you want with a foreign government in an election. There's no such statute" (that makes collusion a crime).

False

By Jon Greenberg • May 31, 2017

Rush Limbaugh
stated on May 17, 2017 in an episode of the "Rush Limbaugh Show":

"What Trump is alleged to have done is actually no different than what Barack Obama did in April last year when he made it known that he didn’t want Hillary prosecuted."

Mostly False

By Lauren Carroll • May 18, 2017

Charles Schumer
stated on May 18, 2017 in a Senate floor speech:

"President Obama became the first president since Carter to leave the White House with a smaller federal prison population than when he took office."

True

By Louis Jacobson • May 18, 2017

James Risch
stated on May 15, 2017 in 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

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