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stated on July 26, 2020 a Facebook post:
“Mississippi got 10,145 warrants for unemployment fraud!!”
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By Bill McCarthy • July 31, 2020
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Facebook posts
stated on July 26, 2020 a Facebook post:
“Florida is doing over five times better” than New Jersey and New York in COVID-19 deaths per million people.
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By Tom Kertscher • July 31, 2020
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Facebook posts
stated on June 29, 2020 a Facebook post:
The longest filibuster in U.S. history was 75 days and “took place in 1964, when Democrats tried to block the Civil Rights Act.”
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By Samantha Putterman • July 30, 2020
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Facebook posts
stated on July 19, 2020 posts on Facebook:
Michigan House “passes bill to ‘voluntarily’ begin placing human implantable microchips into the bodies of all state government employees”
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By Madison Czopek • July 27, 2020
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on July 21, 2020 a White House briefing:
“We're setting record job numbers.”
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By Louis Jacobson • July 24, 2020
National Republican Senatorial Committee
National Republican Senatorial Committee
stated on July 23, 2020 a TV aad:
The estate tax "would punish family farms and small businesses, forcing them to be sold off instead of passed on to the next generation.”
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By Caleb McCullough • July 23, 2020
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on July 20, 2020 an MSNBC interview:
Says President Donald Trump “is still yet to say anything as the president of the United States about bounties on American troops.”
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By Miriam Valverde • July 23, 2020
AFSCME
AFSCME
stated on June 18, 2020 an attack ad:
Says John James "wants to allow insurance companies to discriminate against people with preexisting conditions.”
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By Clara Hendrickson • July 22, 2020
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on July 14, 2020 a press conference in the Rose Garden:
“Joe Biden wants to end school choice.”
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By Jon Greenberg • July 17, 2020
Democratic Party of Wisconsin
Democratic Party of Wisconsin
stated on July 10, 2020 an email:
Says Wisconsin Republicans “pushed for long lines and polls open for one day only.”
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By Lawrence Andrea • July 17, 2020
Donald Trump Jr.
Donald Trump Jr.
stated on July 8, 2020 a tweet:
"Marquette University threatened to rescind student’s admission over pro-Trump TikTok video."
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By Eric Litke • July 16, 2020
Alex Azar
Alex Azar
stated on July 9, 2020 comments made during a virtual summit sponsored by The Hill newspaper:
“First off, it’s in statute already in HIPAA that preexisting conditions are covered.”
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By Julie Rovner • July 14, 2020
Tucker Carlson
Tucker Carlson
stated on July 7, 2020 a TV segment:
“To children and the vast majority of young and middle-aged adults and the vast majority of teachers, (the coronavirus) poses virtually zero threat."
Mostly False
By Bill McCarthy • July 13, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on July 7, 2020 a Facebook post:
Says COVID-19 testing could be done with mouth swabs, so maybe deeper swabbing is “implanting something.”
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By Tom Kertscher • July 13, 2020
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on July 9, 2020 a speech:
On COVID-19, Donald Trump said that “maybe if you drank bleach you may be okay.”
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By Jessica Calefati • July 11, 2020
Mike Pence
Mike Pence
stated on July 9, 2020 a speech:
“And I heard that just yesterday, Joe Biden said that well-armed police in his words ‘become the enemy’ and he said that he would ‘absolutely cut funding for law enforcement.’”
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By Louis Jacobson, Tom Kertscher • July 10, 2020
Gwen Moore
Gwen Moore
stated on June 12, 2020 a TV interview:
Says police unions have it “written into a contract that (officers) are not going to be accountable” for misconduct.
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By D.L. Davis, Eric Litke • July 10, 2020
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stated on June 26, 2020 a Facebook post:
A patient discharge document proves that “The WHO and CDC do NOT recommend that healthy people wear masks.”
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By Ciara O'Rourke • July 9, 2020
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stated on June 6, 2020 a post on Facebook:
Quotes LeBron James as saying, “I don’t want nothing to do with white people. I don’t believe they want anything to do with me. I don’t want no (white) friends. It’s me and my boys.”
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By Patrick Orsagos • July 9, 2020
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stated on July 5, 2020 a Facebook post:
Photo shows Raz Simone, “the alleged leader of CHAZ crying after Seattle police arrested him.”
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By Ciara O'Rourke • July 8, 2020
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