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Tim Kaine
Tim Kaine
stated on May 20, 2019 a floor speech.
The ceilings of the Virginia Senate and House chambers are "circled by gold-embossed tobacco leaves."
False
By Warren Fiske • May 30, 2019
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stated on May 16, 2019 a Facebook post
"Donald Trump has been in public eye for over 30 years and he was never once accused of being racist by anyone until he decided to run against the Democrats."
False
May 22, 2019
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stated on May 15, 2019 a Facebook post
Vanilla ice cream was black until 1912, when "white people couldn’t tolerate eating something that tasted soooooo delicious being black."
False
May 21, 2019
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stated on May 6, 2019 a Facebook post
Says John F. Kennedy said, "What if we go to heaven and we, all our lives, have treated the Negro as an inferior, and God is there, and we look up and He is not white? What then is our response?"
False
May 10, 2019
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stated on April 29, 2019 a Facebook post
Says a Roman statesman in 42 B.C. had a "warning about Trump" when he said 2,000 years ago that a nation "cannot survive treason from within."
False
By Samantha Putterman • May 3, 2019
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stated on April 22, 2019 a Facebook post
Says Mitch McConnell was cured of polio when he was a child by government-funded care and now he’s trying to take that same care away from millions of Americans
False
By Samantha Putterman • April 29, 2019
Mark Warner
Mark Warner
stated on April 9, 2019 a TV interview.
Other than University of Virginia’s 2019 basketball team, "We’ve not had a Virginia team even in the Final Four in over a decade. I think George Mason was the last one…"  
False
By Warren Fiske • April 16, 2019
Candace Owens
Candace Owens
stated on April 9, 2019 a House Judiciary Committee hearing
The Southern strategy is a "myth" that "never happened."  
False
By Amy Sherman • April 10, 2019
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stated on April 1, 2019 a Facebook post
Says John F. Kennedy Jr. said, "If my dear friend Donald Trump ever decided to sacrifice his fabulous billionaire lifestyle to become president he would be an unstoppable force for ultimate justice that Democrats and Republicans alike would celebrate."
False
April 8, 2019
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stated on April 1, 2019 a Facebook post
Photos related to gun violence in present-day United States and the Holocaust in Nazi Germany suggest that gun control laws created or exacerbated the genocide of Jews.
False
By Samantha Putterman • April 8, 2019
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stated on March 21, 2019 a Facebook post
Quotes Adolf Hitler as saying the best way to control a people is "to take a little of their freedom at a time."
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By Samantha Putterman • April 1, 2019
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stated on March 21, 2019 a Facebook post
Says Joseph Stalin said, "It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything."
False
March 27, 2019
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stated on March 17, 2019 a Facebook post
Says a photograph of Harriet Tubman shows she was a "gun-toting, Democrat-shooting, 2nd Amendment-supporting Republican."
False
By Samantha Putterman • March 25, 2019
Katie Pavlich
Katie Pavlich
stated on March 19, 2019 in a panel discussion
"America came along as the first country to end (slavery) within 150 years."
False
By John Kruzel • March 21, 2019
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stated on March 6, 2019 a Facebook post
Says Winston Churchill said, "When you’re 20, you care what everyone thinks, when you’re 40 you stop caring what everyone thinks, when you’re 60, you realize no one was ever thinking about you in the first place."
False
March 8, 2019
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stated on February 26, 2019 Facebook posts
Says the WIC program was created by the Black Panthers to help feed single mothers and children in their communities.
False
By Samantha Putterman • March 5, 2019
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stated on February 26, 2019 a Facebook post
A photograph of a black couple pictures the Sundance Kid.  
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March 5, 2019
Robert McKinzie
Robert McKinzie
stated on February 19, 2019 a Fort Lauderdale City Commission meeting
The word picnic is a "racially insensitive word."
False
By Amy Sherman • February 21, 2019
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stated on February 3, 2019 a Facebook post
A photograph shows KKK members marching at the 1924 Democratic National Convention.
False
February 11, 2019
Jerry Falwell Jr.
Jerry Falwell Jr.
stated on January 1, 2019 a newspaper interview.
"This midterm (election), the president did better than the average president does in his first midterms."  
False
By Warren Fiske • January 8, 2019
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