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Sean Hannity
Sean Hannity
stated on January 27, 2022 a radio show segment
“There's never been a president (before Joe Biden) that has made race and gender the defining factor” for a Supreme Court nomination.
False
By Bill McCarthy • January 28, 2022
TikTok posts
TikTok posts
stated on November 21, 2021 a TikTok post
Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi planned “the ethnocide of the peoples of Europe” through “the encouragement of mass non-white immigration.”
False
January 24, 2022
Doug Wilder
Doug Wilder
stated on January 3, 2022 a radio interview.
“When I became mayor of the City of Richmond in 2004, the crime rate was at its highest. When I left in 2008, it was at its lowest.”
Half-True
By Warren Fiske • January 10, 2022
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on October 29, 2021 a post
“Stalin once ripped all the feathers off a live chicken as a lesson to his followers.”
False
November 16, 2021
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on November 3, 2021 a news conference.
“No governor in Virginia has ever won when...he or she is the same party as the sitting president.”
False
By Warren Fiske • November 12, 2021
Ben Wikler
Ben Wikler
stated on September 23, 2021 Twitter
Says Rebecca Kleefisch played a key role in the Foxconn deal, “the largest attempted government handout to a foreign company in American history."
Mostly True
By Madeline Heim • October 26, 2021
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on October 13, 2021 a Facebook post
"Tennessee new law passed 48 hours ago now makes it illegal to teach Black history in the grades K-12."
Mostly False
October 19, 2021
Glenn Grothman
Glenn Grothman
stated on September 22, 2021 Twitter
Says the U.S. National Archives put a ‘harmful content’ warning on our nation’s Founding documents.
Half-True
By Laura Schulte • September 30, 2021
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on August 23, 2021 a Facebook post
Thalidomide was FDA-approved for pregnant women in the 1960s.
False
By Gabrielle Settles • August 30, 2021
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on July 19, 2021 a Facebook post
Says the white man who wanted Rosa Parks’ seat on the bus was suffering from ADHD and anxiety.
False
By Gabrielle Settles • August 2, 2021
Kayleigh McEnany
Kayleigh McEnany
stated on July 6, 2021 a TV segment
“We know most of our forefathers, all of our main Founding Fathers were against slavery, recognized the evils of it.”
Mostly False
By Bill McCarthy • July 9, 2021
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on June 23, 2021 a White House announcement
"The Second Amendment, from the day it was passed, limited the type of people who could own a gun and what type of weapon you could own.”
False
By Jon Greenberg • June 25, 2021
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on June 21, 2021 a post on Facebook
Says President John F. Kennedy said, “There are people in Washington, D.C., in positions of power to whom the border is just a nuisance, and I think some of them believe that illegal immigration is a moral good. It is not.”
False
By Aaron Sharockman • June 22, 2021
Glenn Youngkin
Glenn Youngkin
stated on May 4, 2021 TV interview
Terry McAuliffe favors “taking the Pledge of Allegiance and the 4th of July out of the (school) curriculum.”
False
By Warren Fiske • June 3, 2021
Winsome Earle-Sears
Winsome Earle-Sears
stated on May 13, 2021 a TV interview.
“The very first Republican convention after the Civil War was held in Virginia in a Black church.”
False
By Warren Fiske • May 27, 2021
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on April 6, 2021 a Facebook post
Schools stopped teaching children cursive so they wouldn’t be able to read the U.S. Constitution and other historical documents.
Pants on Fire!
By Samantha Putterman • April 19, 2021
Instagram posts
Instagram posts
stated on March 30, 2021 Instagram post
“56 million defenseless people ‘rounded up and exterminated’ in the 20th Century because of gun control.”
False
April 9, 2021
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on January 27, 2021 remarks
"Only in the Third World do you see this habitual use of prosecutions of former leaders.”
False
By Miriam Valverde • January 29, 2021
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on January 22, 2021 a tweet
Says Joe Biden “has issued more executive fiats than anyone in such a short period of time, ever, more than Obama, more than Trump, more than anyone.”
True
By Miriam Valverde • January 27, 2021
Royce West
Royce West
stated on November 23, 2020 a committee meeting
Says that this year is the first time during his 27 years as senator “that two African Americans have ever served on the same (Senate) committee.”
False
By Brandon Mulder • December 11, 2020
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