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Turning Point USA
Turning Point USA
stated on July 1, 2019 a Facebook post
"San Francisco has spent $72.5 million this fiscal year cleaning up human waste and drug paraphernalia" and "there are more drug users on their public needle program than high school graduates."
False
By Daniel Funke • July 16, 2019
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on July 10, 2019 a Facebook post
Former President Barack Obama gave Presidential Medals of Freedom to Bill Cosby, Anthony Weiner and Harvey Weinstein.
Pants on Fire!
By Daniel Funke • July 16, 2019
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on July 15, 2019 remarks at the White House
Says Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., was "speaking about how wonderful al-Qaida is."
False
By Amy Sherman, Louis Jacobson • July 16, 2019
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on July 12, 2019 a speech at Derco Aerospace
"We won (Wisconsin in 2016) not so late in the evening — a little bit early in the evening, actually, which is even better."
False
By Eric Litke • July 15, 2019
Rush Limbaugh
Rush Limbaugh
stated on July 12, 2019 a "Fox & Friends" appearance
"Somebody in the Obama regime decided to get rid of" the citizenship question in the census.
False
By Bill McCarthy • July 15, 2019
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on July 11, 2019 a Facebook post
Quotes George Washington as saying "it is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible."  
False
By Samantha Putterman • July 15, 2019
Donna Campbell
Donna Campbell
stated on May 22, 2019 the Texas Senate
"A study was done, a post-mortem, so a retrospective study done, looking at autopsies and drug levels, what drugs were in the blood of veterans that committed suicide, and 70 percent had THC."
Pants on Fire!
By Taylor Goldenstein • July 15, 2019
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on July 10, 2019 an op-ed in the Washington Post
"42 percent of (Walmart’s) associates are black."
False
By Jon Greenberg • July 12, 2019
Weston Pagano
Weston Pagano
stated on June 24, 2019 an essay on Medium
Says Joe Biden "voted to expand deportations and indefinite detention for immigrants multiple times."
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • July 12, 2019
Julián Castro
Julián Castro
stated on June 30, 2019 an interview
Says Section 1325 of U.S. immigration law was "put into place in 1929, by a segregationist."
Mostly True
By Madlin Mekelburg • July 12, 2019
Ron Johnson
Ron Johnson
stated on June 12, 2019 a Facebook post
Obama-era ban on whole and 2% milk in schools has caused "notable decline" in student milk consumption.
Half-True
By Eric Litke • July 12, 2019
Ken Cuccinelli
Ken Cuccinelli
stated on July 7, 2019 a Fox News Sunday interview
"Last year, we were in the range of 850,000 and that was the most in five years. … We are letting more people become citizens than has happened in years."
Half-True
By Miriam Valverde • July 11, 2019
Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on July 8, 2019 a tweet
"Americans are traveling to Canada to pay 12 times less for insulin than they would here in the US."  
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • July 11, 2019
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on July 9, 2019 a Facebook post
Quotes Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as saying "I’m speaking with myself, number one, because I have a very good brain and I’ve said lots of things."
Pants on Fire!
By Samantha Putterman • July 11, 2019
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on July 5, 2019 a post on Facebook
"White man asked black friend to impregnate his wife to fight ‘white privilege.’"  
False
By Ciara O'Rourke • July 11, 2019
Viral image
Viral image
stated on July 5, 2019 a Facebook post
Says Michael Kors said, "I’m tired of pretending I like blacks."
Pants on Fire!
By Ciara O'Rourke • July 11, 2019
Breitbart
Breitbart
stated on July 5, 2019 a post on Facebook
The "establishment media ignored" President Donald Trump’s Fourth of July event.  
False
By Ciara O'Rourke • July 11, 2019
Cory Booker
Cory Booker
stated on July 5, 2019 an interview
"In 2017, we had more marijuana possession arrests in our country than all other violent crimes combined."
True
By Tom Kertscher • July 11, 2019
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on July 8, 2019 a TV interview with CNN's Chris Cuomo
"We made parity between mental health and physical health. It was a fundamental breakthrough in how we thought about how things should work."
Mostly True
By Shefali Luthra • July 11, 2019
Pete Buttigieg
Pete Buttigieg
stated on July 4, 2019 an event in Carrol, Iowa
"A black person is four times as likely as a white person to be incarcerated for the exact same crime."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • July 10, 2019
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