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Donald Trump
stated on May 20, 2016 a speech to the National Rifle Association:

It "is Hillary Clinton's agenda" to "release the violent criminals from jail. She wants them all released."

Pants on Fire!

By Louis Jacobson • May 26, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on May 18, 2016 an interview with the New York Times Magazine:

"There are places in America that are among the most dangerous in the world. You go to places like Oakland. Or Ferguson. The crime numbers are worse. Seriously."

False

By Linda Qiu • May 25, 2016

George Holding
stated on May 19, 2016 a debate on WRAL:

Says North Carolina Rep. Renee Ellmers was the only Republican to vote against "an amendment to prioritize the deportation of sexual criminals who are illegal immigrants."

Half-True

By Will Doran • May 23, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on May 4, 2016 an interview with NBC News:

Germany "is crime-riddled right now" because of migration to Europe.

Mostly False

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • May 11, 2016

Duf Sundheim
stated on May 10, 2016 a debate:

"There is a 34 percent increase in violent crime in the state of California. … And that’s just within the last year."

False

By Chris Nichols • May 11, 2016

Terry McAuliffe
stated on April 22, 2016 a speech.:

Before April 22, "we have restored the rights of more than 18,000 individuals, which is more than the past seven governors combined in their four-year terms."

True

By Warren Fiske • May 9, 2016

Amy Schumer
stated on April 28, 2016 an episode of "Inside Amy Schumer":

"You can absolutely get a gun if you have several felonies as long as you buy it on the Internet or at a gun show."

Half-True

By Lauren Carroll • April 29, 2016

Kofi Annan
stated on April 19, 2016 an op-ed in the Huffington Post:

"Studies have consistently failed to establish the existence of a link between the harshness of a country’s drug laws and its levels of drug use."

Mostly True

By Jon Greenberg • April 22, 2016

Bernie Sanders
stated on March 26, 2016 a speech:

"Under the federal Controlled Substance Act, marijuana is listed in the same Schedule I as heroin," even though "marijuana is not a killer drug like heroin."

Mostly True

By Tom Kertscher • April 22, 2016

Our City, Our Safety, Our Choice
stated on April 8, 2016 a fund-raising letter from female supporters:

Austin’s Stop Abuse for Everyone has seen in its offices "sexual assault survivors that report being attacked by their ridesharing drivers, at a rate of one per month."

Half-True

By W. Gardner Selby • April 15, 2016

Ellen Troxclair
stated on April 10, 2016 a voter forum hosted by the League of Women Voters of the Austin Area:

Statistics show "you are about nine times more likely to be assaulted by a taxi driver" in Austin than a driver for a ride-hailing service.

Pants on Fire!

By W. Gardner Selby • April 15, 2016

Hillary Clinton
stated on March 29, 2016 a forum:

About "1 percent of all the gun sellers are responsible for more than half of the guns that are used in crimes."

Half-True

By Tom Kertscher • April 15, 2016

Hillary Clinton
stated on April 11, 2016 an event in Port Washington, N.Y.:

"The state that has the highest per capita number of … guns that end up committing crimes in New York come from Vermont."

Half-True

By Louis Jacobson • April 12, 2016

Frank Luntz
stated on April 6, 2016 a tweet:

"Team Trump has accused Ted Cruz of fraud" in Iowa, Texas, Colorado, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Kansas, Maine, Utah and Wisconsin."

Half-True

By W. Gardner Selby • April 11, 2016

Bill Clinton
stated on April 7, 2016 during a campaign stop in Philadelphia:

"Because of (the 1994 crime bill), we had a 25-year low in crime, a 33-year low in the murder rate, and listen to this, because of that and the background check law, a 46-year low in the deaths of people of gun violence."

Mostly False

By Anna Orso, Cassie Owens • April 8, 2016

Mark Pocan
stated on April 7, 2016 a blog post:

"More people are struck by lightning than commit in-person voter fraud" by impersonation.

True

By Tom Kertscher • April 7, 2016

Chris Sgro
stated on March 17, 2016 a speech urging Charlotte's anti-discrimination ordinance be left intact:

"There have not been any public safety issues" in cities that allow transgender people to use the bathroom of the gender they identify as.

Mostly True

By Will Doran • April 1, 2016

Gina Hinojosa
stated on February 26, 2016 a campaign mailer:

"Texas has a higher incarceration rate than Russia or Iran."

Mostly True

By Emma Hinchliffe • March 23, 2016

Greg Abbott
stated on March 14, 2016 responding to reporters:

"The fact is voter fraud is rampant."

Pants on Fire!

By W. Gardner Selby • March 17, 2016

Bill McCoshen
stated on March 11, 2016 a talk show:

Says when Bernie Sanders was in college, Sanders said "something very similar" to what conservative Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Rebecca Bradley had written as a college student in the 1990s -- that "women have a legitimate role in date rape."

Half-True

By Tom Kertscher • March 17, 2016

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