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Joaquin Castro
Joaquin Castro
stated on June 6, 2016 in a tweet:
"@realDonaldTrump is coming to San Antonio, which is 60% Mexican-AMERICAN."
Mostly True
By Filipa Ioannou • June 17, 2016
Priorities USA Action
Priorities USA Action
stated on June 8, 2016 in a TV ad:
Says Donald Trump mocked "someone with a disability."
True
By Alan Gathright • June 13, 2016
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on June 2, 2016 in a foreign policy speech:
"A trade war is something very different (than curbing new trade agreements). We went down that road in the 1930s. It made the Great Depression longer and more painful."
True
By Louis Jacobson • June 6, 2016
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on June 2, 2016 in a foreign policy speech :
Says Donald Trump "says he has foreign policy experience because he ran the Miss Universe pageant in Russia."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • June 3, 2016
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on June 2, 2016 in a foreign policy speech :
Says "Donald Trump says climate change is a hoax invented by the Chinese."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • June 3, 2016
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on May 29, 2016 in an interview on NBC's 'Meet the Press':
"Right now, in every major poll, national poll and statewide poll done in the last month, six weeks, we are defeating Trump, often by big numbers and always at a larger margin than Secretary Clinton is."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • May 29, 2016
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on April 21, 2016 in an online campaign ad:
Says Donald Trump "has the second-highest disapproval ratings of anyone running for president."
False
By Dylan Baddour • May 27, 2016
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on May 24, 2016 in an advertisement:
"In 2006, Donald Trump was hoping for a real estate crash."
Mostly True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • May 26, 2016
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on May 22, 2016 in an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press":
"The only two (Donald Trump tax returns) we have show that he hasn't paid a penny in taxes."
Mostly False
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • May 24, 2016
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on May 19, 2016 in an interview on CNN:
"We now do have evidence" that Donald Trump is being used as a recruiting tool for terrorists.
True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • May 20, 2016
Jennifer Shilling
Jennifer Shilling
stated on May 11, 2016 in a teleconference:
Under Donald Trump's tax plan, "the top 0.1 percent of taxpayers -- people earning multiple millions of dollars a year, on average --  would get more tax relief than the bottom 60 percent of taxpayers combined."
True
By Tom Kertscher • May 20, 2016
Priorities USA Action
Priorities USA Action
stated on May 16, 2016 in a television ad:
Says Donald Trump said of women, "And you can tell them to go f--- themselves."
Pants on Fire!
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • May 18, 2016
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on May 2, 2016 in a TV ad:
Says Donald Trump "brings in hundreds of foreign workers to replace Americans."  
Half-True
By Amy Sherman, Joshua Gillin • May 6, 2016
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on May 3, 2016 in a Clinton campaign tweet:
Says Donald Trump promised to repeal Obamacare, build a wall, ban Muslims, and more.
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • May 5, 2016
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on April 30, 2016 in a speech at the California Republican Party Convention:
"Here in California, Donald Trump has given $12,000 to Jerry Brown, Gavin Newsom and Kamala Harris."  
Mostly True
By Chris Nichols • May 3, 2016
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on April 22, 2016 in an attack ad:
Says Donald Trump thinks "a grown man pretending to be a woman (should) be allowed to use the women's restroom."
Mostly False
By Linda Qiu • April 25, 2016
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on April 25, 2016 in remarks in Borden, Ind.:
"I earned more votes in the state of Wisconsin than Donald Trump did in New York."
True
By Louis Jacobson • April 25, 2016
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on March 21, 2016 in a campaign speech:
Says Donald Trump "wants us to pull out of NATO."
Mostly False
By Tom Kertscher • April 1, 2016
Club for Growth
Club for Growth
stated on March 17, 2016 in a political ad:
Says Donald Trump promised "to take care of everybody (through government-run healthcare and) the government's going to pay for it."
False
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • March 21, 2016
John Kasich
John Kasich
stated on March 20, 2016 in an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press":
Says Donald "Trump got, you know, $1.8 billion worth of free media. I got, like, none."
Mostly True
By Joshua Gillin • March 20, 2016
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