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Greg Kelly
Greg Kelly
stated on January 11, 2021 a TV segment
Says Joe Biden is on video "admitting to" election fraud in a "confession."
False
By Bill McCarthy • January 12, 2021
Rush Limbaugh
Rush Limbaugh
stated on December 15, 2020 a radio show segment
The American Medical Association rescinded a previous statement and now says "hydroxychloroquine is okay" for COVID-19.
False
By Bill McCarthy • December 16, 2020
Laura Ingraham
Laura Ingraham
stated on December 8, 2020 a TV handoff
"You know what the biggest lie is, is that restaurants are spreaders of COVID. There's no science for that."
False
By Bill McCarthy • December 10, 2020
Erick Erickson
Erick Erickson
stated on November 13, 2020 a tweet
Says Raphael Warnock "ran over his wife" and was "arrested for obstructing an investigation into child abuse."
Mostly False
November 16, 2020
Tucker Carlson
Tucker Carlson
stated on November 2, 2020 a Fox News broadcast
“When large numbers of people in Butler (Pa.) started killing themselves with narcotics, no one in Washington or New York or Los Angeles said a word about it.”
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • November 5, 2020
Brit Hume
Brit Hume
stated on September 29, 2020 a Fox News interview
“I don’t think there’s any doubt (Joe) Biden’s senile.”
False
By Miriam Valverde • October 1, 2020
Hugh Hewitt
Hugh Hewitt
stated on September 28, 2020 a radio show
President Donald Trump’s tax returns show “what any wealthy person's tax history is, if you can believe it — which is good years and bad years, years of immense taxes and years of almost no taxes at all because you carry over losses.”
Mostly False
By Bill McCarthy • September 30, 2020
Todd Starnes
Todd Starnes
stated on September 29, 2020 a tweet
“Word on the street is that Joe Biden got tonight’s debate questions in advance.”
Pants on Fire!
By Jon Greenberg • September 30, 2020
Dinesh D'Souza
Dinesh D'Souza
stated on September 23, 2020 an Instagram post
Kamala Harris “has not formally taken questions from the press a single time” since she was announced as Joe Biden’s vice presidential pick.
False
By Bill McCarthy • September 25, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on September 17, 2020 a Facebook post
“CBS stole a photo from Latinos for Trump in Phoenix and tagged it as a Biden event.”
False
By Bill McCarthy • September 18, 2020
Rush Limbaugh
Rush Limbaugh
stated on August 21, 2020 a radio segment
Says Joe Biden’s Democratic National Convention speech “had to be taped in segments, and the segments had to be edited together.”
Pants on Fire!
By Bill McCarthy • August 24, 2020
Greg Gutfeld
Greg Gutfeld
stated on August 20, 2020 a TV segment
“QAnon violence! There is none.”
False
By Bill McCarthy • August 24, 2020
Tucker Carlson
Tucker Carlson
stated on August 11, 2020 a TV segment
Says Kamala Harris "said she believed that Joe Biden committed sexual assault against various women.”
Mostly False
By Bill McCarthy • August 13, 2020
Sean Hannity
Sean Hannity
stated on July 21, 2020 an episode of his TV show
The Trump administration has had “zero unfulfilled equipment and supply requests from state governors.”
False
By Bill McCarthy • July 27, 2020
Sunny Hostin
Sunny Hostin
stated on July 15, 2020 an episode of ABC's "The View"
“Homicides are intraracial. When you look at white-on-white crime, it's 84%. Right? Homicides. White people kill white people.”
True
By Bill McCarthy • July 17, 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
Chris Hayes
Chris Hayes
stated on July 7, 2020 a TV segment
"Higher education is one of America's strongest export sectors. Over 1 million international students studied at American universities, (in the) 2018-19 school year. They contributed over $40 billion to the economy.”
True
By Bill McCarthy • July 10, 2020
Brian Kilmeade
Brian Kilmeade
stated on July 2, 2020 an episode of "Fox & Friends"
The President’s Daily Brief “is like a mini novel.”
False
By Bill McCarthy • July 7, 2020
Desiree Rogers
Desiree Rogers
stated on June 10, 2020 an interview on CNN
In COVID-19 crisis, “only 20% of African Americans had jobs where they could work from home.”
True
By Jon Greenberg • June 16, 2020
Erin Burnett
Erin Burnett
stated on June 1, 2020 remarks on her CNN show
If President Trump decides to deploy the U.S. military domestically, he would be “mobilizing U.S. military troops on American soil for the first time since 1807.”
False
By Louis Jacobson • June 2, 2020
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