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Everytown for Gun Safety
Everytown for Gun Safety
stated on March 8, 2016 a Facebook meme:
The rate of U.S. female homicide victims outnumbers 24 other developed countries by more than 2½ to 1.
Half-True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • March 14, 2016
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on March 2, 2016 remarks after the Super Tuesday balloting:
"The Great Wall of China, built 2,000 years ago, is 13,000 miles (long)."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • March 7, 2016
Bob Goodlatte
Bob Goodlatte
stated on February 15, 2016 a TV interview.:
"It’s highly unusual to have a Supreme Court confirmation in a presidential election year. The last one was 1940."
Half-True
By Sean Gorman • February 22, 2016
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on February 4, 2016 comments during the New Hampshire Democratic debate:
"I waited until (the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement) had actually been negotiated" before deciding whether to endorse it.
Half-True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • February 5, 2016
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on January 25, 2016 a CNN town hall:
When terrorists killed more than 250 Americans in Lebanon under Ronald Reagan, "the Democrats didn’t make that a partisan issue."
Half-True
By Lauren Carroll • February 1, 2016
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on November 10, 2015 the Fox Business Network debate:
Says President Dwight Eisenhower "moved 1.5 million illegal immigrants out of this country."
Half-True
By Lauren Carroll • November 11, 2015
Trevor Noah
Trevor Noah
stated on November 3, 2015 a broadcast of "The Daily Show":
"Iowa's Republican caucus stopped mattering years ago. It in no way determines the party nominee."
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • November 4, 2015
Jim Webb
Jim Webb
stated on August 12, 2015 a web post:
"We did not even have a federal income tax in this country until 1913."
Half-True
By Sean Gorman • August 24, 2015
Glenn Hegar
Glenn Hegar
stated on June 24, 2015 a tweet:
"Texas still owns all of its public lands. If the federal gov't wants to create a park, they must ask permission!"
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • July 17, 2015
Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton
stated on June 14, 2015 comments on CNN's State of the Union:
After a federal inquiry corroborated Hillary Clinton on Whitewater, "the next day, there was nothing in the media about it."
Half-True
By Linda Qiu, Christian Belanger • June 23, 2015
Michael Skolnik
Michael Skolnik
stated on June 16, 2015 comments on CNN:
"For most black people in the history of this country … it was illegal to pass as a white person. You were actually put in jail if you tried to pass."
Half-True
By Anna Bruzgulis • June 18, 2015
Paul Ryan
Paul Ryan
stated on May 17, 2015 on CNN's "State of the Union":
"Every president since Franklin Delano Roosevelt has had" fast-track trade authority.
Half-True
By Lauren Carroll • May 17, 2015
Henry Sanders
Henry Sanders
stated on March 8, 2015 a video clip aired on NBC's "Meet the Press":
Today in Selma, Ala., "the poverty rate is roughly nine times that of whites."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • March 10, 2015
Scott Surovell
Scott Surovell
stated on February 4, 2015 a floor speech.:
"When did the decline of coal start? It started when natural gas took off … that started to begin in (President George W.) Bush’s administration."
Half-True
By Sean Gorman • February 23, 2015
Alfonso Lopez
Alfonso Lopez
stated on January 19, 2015 a floor speech.:
Ronald Reagan "banned ownership of fully automatic rifles. He supported the assault weapons ban."
Half-True
By Warren Fiske • February 4, 2015
Reince Priebus
Reince Priebus
stated on December 2, 2014 a speech:
Says Barack Obama has "the worst record of any president when it comes to putting America deeper in debt."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • December 4, 2014
John Carlevale
John Carlevale
stated on August 10, 2014 an interview on WPRI's "Newsmakers" program:
"Over 60 percent of the provisional ballots cast in [the 2012] election were disqualified because those folks were not duly registered as voters."
Half-True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • August 26, 2014
Angel Taveras
Angel Taveras
stated on July 12, 2014 an interview with The Providence Journal:
"If you look at what we’ve done over the last several years, the crime rate has actually gone down in [Providence] and . . . the number of shootings has been going down."
Half-True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • July 24, 2014
Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton
stated on June 29, 2014 comments on NBC's "Meet the Press":
"I had the lowest net worth of any American president in the 20th century when I took office."
Half-True
By Katie Sanders • June 29, 2014
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on December 4, 2013 a speech at the Center for American Progress:
The minimum wage "in real terms right now is below where it was when Harry Truman was in office."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • December 4, 2013
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