Fact Check Posts – Page 6

Donald Trump
stated on August 19, 2020 a tweet

Says President Barack Obama “spied on my campaign, and got caught!”

By Jon Greenberg • August 20, 2020

Donald Trump
stated on July 20, 2020 Campaign ad

Says “Joe Biden is absolutely on board with defunding the police.”

By Laura Schulte • August 5, 2020

Facebook posts
stated on June 28, 2020 Facebook post

Says Milwaukee police were protecting a sex offender's house and snuck children out of it after a mother tracked her missing daughter to that address.

By Lawrence Andrea • August 3, 2020

Facebook posts
stated on May 31, 2020 a Facebook post

Says Donald Trump got “exposed for raping a 13-year-old" in retaliation for law enforcement officers “killing black people.”

June 3, 2020

Facebook posts
stated on May 31, 2020 a Facebook post

If protesters blocking the road “start banging on your windows, threatening you and trying to get in your vehicle,” it is legal to “hit the gas and plow through them.”

June 3, 2020

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.”

By Louis Jacobson • June 2, 2020

Chuck Todd
stated on May 10, 2020 a TV segment

Says Attorney General William Barr didn’t cite the "rule of law” in explaining his decision in the Michael Flynn case during a CBS News interview.

By Bill McCarthy • May 11, 2020

Facebook posts
stated on January 16, 2020 a Facebook post

Says Aaron Hernandez' daughter is, by Massachusetts law, entitled to the remainder of his $15 million NFL contract because he committed suicide during his appeal, making his conviction "null and void."

By Samantha Putterman • January 23, 2020

Donald Trump
stated on December 3, 2019 a press conference

Says House Intelligence Chair Adam Schiff "made up the conversation. He lied. If he didn't do that in the halls of Congress, he'd be thrown in jail. He did it in the halls of Congress, he's given immunity."

By Louis Jacobson • December 5, 2019

Pete Buttigieg
stated on November 20, 2019 Democratic primary debate in Atlanta

"The president had to confess in writing, in court to illegally diverting charitable contributions that were supposed to go to veterans."

By Miriam Valverde • November 21, 2019

Facebook posts
stated on October 8, 2019 a Facebook post

"The Trump family was disallowed from operating any charity in the State of New York because they stole from a kids cancer charity."

By Miriam Valverde • October 24, 2019

Robin Vos
stated on August 15, 2019 a radio interview

The push by Assembly Democrats seeking Americans with Disabilities Act accommodations for a lawmaker were timed to make Vos look bad as he became president "of the nation’s largest bipartisan organization called the National Conference of State Legislatures."

By Mica Soellner • August 30, 2019

John Ratcliffe
stated on July 24, 2019 a House hearing with Robert Mueller

Says Robert Mueller "didn’t follow the special counsel regulations. It clearly says write a confidential report about decisions reached. Nowhere in here does it say write a report about decisions that were not reached."

By Jon Greenberg • July 24, 2019

Viral image
stated on April 10, 2019 a Facebook post

For the first time in U.S. history, a one-year-old appears in court as a defendant.

By Samantha Putterman • April 26, 2019

Dave Griffith
stated on February 12, 2019 a hearing

"Every county in the state of Texas has a veterans court."

By Gaëlle Fournier • April 25, 2019

Amy Klobuchar
stated on March 17, 2019 an interview on CNN's "State of the Union"

During her tenure as county attorney in Minnesota, "there was a 65 percent decrease in incarceration of African-Americans."

By Louis Jacobson • March 22, 2019

Jim Ott
stated on December 3, 2018 a newsletter

"Municipalities are now required to have two or more polling locations opened 24-hours a day, two weeks before any election."

By Mica Soellner • January 15, 2019

Nancy Pelosi
stated on November 16, 2018 in a press conference

"There’s bipartisan consensus that (Matthew Whitaker’s) appointment violates the Appointments Clause of the Constitution."

By John Kruzel • November 29, 2018

Donald Trump
stated on October 24, 2018 a rally in Mosinee, Wis.

"Many presidents don’t get the chance to put a Supreme Court justice on."

By Louis Jacobson • October 25, 2018

Stephen Carter
stated on October 9, 2018 in an interview

The 5-4 decisions the Supreme Court reaches "are going up."

By John Kruzel • October 12, 2018

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