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stated on February 6, 2019 a Facebook post
Chinese workers made "90,000 banners" for Trump’s 2020 re-election campaign and the president chose to hire "Chinese workers instead of American workers"
Mostly False
By Samantha Putterman • February 15, 2019
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Facebook posts
stated on February 12, 2019 a Facebook post
Says U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez took a "$10 million payout from Netflix."
False
By Samantha Putterman • February 15, 2019
Beto O'Rourke
Beto O'Rourke
stated on February 8, 2019 a blog post
When visa holders exit the United States and enter Mexico, "if they leave through a land port of entry we literally have no clue if they are still here or have returned to their country of origin."
Mostly True
By Miriam Valverde • February 15, 2019
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stated on February 14, 2019 a Facebook post
Says Dr. Robert Gallo, the man who helped discover the HIV virus, confessed he was "forced" to "create the HIV virus as a secret weapon to wipe out the African race."  
Pants on Fire!
By Samantha Putterman • February 15, 2019
Tony Evers
Tony Evers
stated on January 3, 2019 news reports
On Evers' support for a $15 minimum wage
No Flip
By D.L. Davis • February 14, 2019
Gavin Newsom
Gavin Newsom
stated on February 12, 2019 a State of the State Address
"More than a million Californians" do not have "clean water to bathe in or drink."
True
By Chris Nichols • February 14, 2019
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on February 13, 2019 a speech
"Violent crime is now going down for the first time in a long while."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • February 14, 2019
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stated on February 13, 2019 a Facebook post
The intersection of a rainbow and tornado is called a "tornabow."
Pants on Fire!
By Ciara O'Rourke • February 14, 2019
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stated on January 31, 2019 a Facebook post
Says Mitch McConnell's "biggest donor" is a "Russian oligarch that the GOP just lifted sanctions on."
False
By Samantha Putterman • February 14, 2019
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stated on February 13, 2019 a Facebook post
Says Eric Trump said, "The president should be able to choose governors, senators, and congressmen, just like our founders meant it to be. The only election should be for president."
Pants on Fire!
By Ciara O'Rourke • February 14, 2019
Jerrold Nadler
Jerrold Nadler
stated on February 6, 2019 a committee hearing
"In 2011, for example, the United Kingdom had 146 deaths due to gun violence; Denmark, 71; Portugal, 142; and Japan, 30. But last year, in the United States, almost 40,000."
Mostly True
By Yanqi Xu • February 14, 2019
Roy Cooper
Roy Cooper
stated on January 30, 2019
Says "30,000 veterans in North Carolina have no health insurance."
Mostly True
By Paul Specht • February 14, 2019
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stated on February 11, 2019 a Facebook post
Quotes Robert Mueller as saying, "We must move as quickly as possible to a one-world government; a one-world religion; under a one world leader."  
Pants on Fire!
By Ciara O'Rourke • February 14, 2019
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stated on February 13, 2019 a Facebook post
Quotes Beto O’Rourke as saying, "If I could throw two kinds of people in the garbage it would be the elderly and wounded veterans. When a tool breaks you don’t fix it, you throw it in the damn trash."
Pants on Fire!
By Ciara O'Rourke • February 14, 2019
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stated on February 11, 2019 a Facebook post
Since 1938 the minimum wage has been increased "23 times" and was raised "21 times during Democratic congresses, and only twice during Republican ones."
Mostly True
By Samantha Putterman • February 14, 2019
Elizabeth Warren
Elizabeth Warren
stated on February 4, 2019 a Facebook post
"By rubber-stamping the Bayer-Monsanto merger, the Justice Department is handing control over one quarter of the world's seeds and pesticides market to one ginormous agribusiness."  
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • February 14, 2019
Darren Jackson
Darren Jackson
stated on January 30, 2019 a tweet
"Expanding Medicaid would bring 40,000 jobs to North Carolina."
Mostly True
By Bill McCarthy • February 13, 2019
Kamala Harris
Kamala Harris
stated on February 11, 2019 a tweet
"The average tax refund is down about $170 compared to last year. Let’s call the President’s tax cut what it is: a middle-class tax hike to line the pockets of already wealthy corporations and the 1%."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • February 13, 2019
Matt Gaetz
Matt Gaetz
stated on February 7, 2019 an interview on CNN
"In 1992, the Democratic Party had in their platform provisions that said that illegal aliens were coming in this country, committing felonies, sent back and then they were right back across the border to do the same thing."
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • February 13, 2019
Bobby Scott
Bobby Scott
stated on February 7, 2019 a speech.
"Today’s minimum wage worker making $7.25 an hour has less buying power than a minimum wage worker in the 1960s."
True
By Warren Fiske • February 13, 2019
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