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Latest Fact-Checks On Ron DeSantis

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Ron DeSantis
Ron DeSantis
stated on October 24, 2018 a debate at Broward College
Says Andrew Gillum was "singing a different tune" about charter schools at the Florida debate.
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • October 29, 2018
Ron DeSantis
Ron DeSantis
stated on September 23, 2018 CBS4 interview
Says Andrew Gillum has presided over "the highest crime in Florida four years running."
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • October 8, 2018
Ron DeSantis
Ron DeSantis
stated on September 2, 2018 a radio interview
Says Andrew Gillum "wants to abolish ICE and doesn't believe in doing any type of immigration enforcement."
Half-True
By Miriam Valverde • September 11, 2018
Ron DeSantis
Ron DeSantis
stated on August 30, 2018 Laura Ingraham's radio show
Says Andrew Gillum has a "far left socialist platform."
False
By Amy Sherman • September 6, 2018
Ron DeSantis
Ron DeSantis
stated on July 16, 2018 an interview on Fox News
Says John Brennan "was a member of the Communist Party during the Cold War."
Mostly False
By Heaven Taylor-Wynn • July 19, 2018
Ron DeSantis
Ron DeSantis
stated on June 28, 2018 a Fox News debate
Says Adam Putnam "endorsed the Schumer-Obama Gang of Eight immigration amnesty."
Mostly True
By Allison Graves • June 29, 2018
Ron DeSantis
Ron DeSantis
stated on June 2, 2018 during a BBQ
"The bulk of the problem with the opioid epidemic is the fentanyl and all the synthetic drugs coming across the southern border."  
Half-True
By Allison Graves • June 7, 2018
Ron DeSantis
Ron DeSantis
stated on May 2, 2018 during an interview
Says Adam Putnam "opposed bringing troops, putting troops on our southern border using the National Guard."
Half-True
By Allison Graves • May 7, 2018
Ron DeSantis
Ron DeSantis
stated on January 11, 2018 a event at the Heritage Foundation
In one year, the United Nations "did 24 resolutions and 20 of them were against Israel."
False
By Allison Graves • January 25, 2018
Ron DeSantis
Ron DeSantis
stated on March 23, 2016 a House Oversight Committee National Security Subcommittee hearing
"Recent reports state that the U.S. Customs and Border Protection has apprehended several members of known Islamist terrorist organizations crossing the southern border in recent years."
Mostly True
By Joshua Gillin • April 4, 2016
Ron DeSantis
Ron DeSantis
stated on January 21, 2013 an interview on Fox News
The tax penalty that the government imposes if you don't buy health insurance "is lower than it would have cost to buy insurance."
True
By Molly Moorhead • January 24, 2013
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