Fact Check Posts – Page 5

Facebook posts
stated on March 26, 2021 a Facebook post:

"Ted Cruz says owning a gun should be as hassle free as owning a car, which as I recall requires a license and registration."

By Bill McCarthy • March 29, 2021

Allen West
stated on February 19, 2021 a Facebook post:

"Since 2006 Texas has given $19B in taxpayer subsidies to wind energy companies. Over the past 2-3 years Texas has tripled our dependence on wind energy to 23-25 percent of our energy distribution system."

By Taylor Goldenstein • March 26, 2021

Facebook posts
stated on March 21, 2021 a Facebook post:

“Texas has launched ‘Operation Lone Star’ to finish the border wall themselves.”

By Ciara O'Rourke • March 23, 2021

Dan Crenshaw
stated on February 16, 2021 a tweet:

“Subsidizing investment in wind has pushed gas and nuclear out. Now we live with the consequences.”

By Brandon Mulder • February 26, 2021

Lara Logan
stated on February 19, 2021 a TV segment:

"The reality" in Texas is that "you’re flying helicopters, using fossil fuels, to put oil on wind turbines to defrost them.”

By Bill McCarthy • February 24, 2021

Students for Trump
stated on February 16, 2021 a Tweet:

“Joe Biden is handing our power grid to the Chinese Communist Party.”

By Noah Y. Kim • February 23, 2021

Facebook posts
stated on February 18, 2021 a Facebook post:

Says Joe Biden didn’t act in response to the emergency in Texas.

By Samantha Putterman • February 19, 2021

Viral image
stated on February 19, 2021 a Facebook post:

Says Ted Cruz tweeted, “I’ll believe in climate change when Texas freezes over.”

By Ciara O'Rourke • February 19, 2021

Facebook posts
stated on February 17, 2021 a Facebook post:

Photo shows an ice mass hanging inside a Houston home during Texas winter storms.

By Tom Kertscher • February 19, 2021

Greg Abbott
stated on February 16, 2021 an interview:

"Our wind and our solar got shut down ... and that thrust Texas into this situation where it was lacking power at a statewide basis.”

By Brandon Mulder • February 19, 2021

Facebook posts
stated on February 17, 2021 a Facebook post:

“FEMA is paying for hotel rooms!!!” for Texas winter storm victims.

By Tom Kertscher • February 19, 2021

Greg Abbott
stated on January 24, 2021 a tweet:

“Innocent lives will be saved” by ending taxpayer funding of Planned Parenthood.

By Brandon Mulder • February 12, 2021

John Kerry
stated on January 31, 2021 in an interview:

Says that Hurricane Harvey “dropped more water on Houston in five days than goes over Niagara Falls in a year.”

By Brandon Mulder • February 5, 2021

Royce West
stated on November 23, 2020 a committee meeting:

Says that this year is the first time during his 27 years as senator “that two African Americans have ever served on the same (Senate) committee.”

By Brandon Mulder • December 11, 2020

Facebook posts
stated on December 8, 2020 a Facebook post:

The Supreme Court “has decided to take up the Texas case.”

By Ciara O'Rourke • December 9, 2020

Greg Abbott
stated on November 19, 2020 a press conference:

Says that shutdowns are “ineffective” and that we now know that COVID-19 is not commonly spread “by someone going to work.”

By Brandon Mulder • November 27, 2020

Bloggers
stated on November 15, 2020 a Facebook post:

“Biden campaign director arrested for electoral fraud.”

By Ciara O'Rourke • November 17, 2020

Ted Cruz
stated on November 5, 2020 a Fox News interview:

Philadelphia is “clouding the vote counting in a shroud of darkness.”

By Bill McCarthy • November 6, 2020

Ted Cruz
stated on October 26, 2020 an interview:

Says Trump “didn’t campaign on cutting the debt” … “That’s not what he promised to do.”

By Brandon Mulder • October 30, 2020

Sri Preston Kulkarni
stated on October 23, 2020 an ad:

Says Troy Nehls “called wearing masks 'un-American' and called those who do 'communists.'"

By Tom Kertscher • October 27, 2020

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