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Donald Trump
stated on July 5, 2016 a tweet:

"Taxpayers are paying a fortune for the use of Air Force One on the campaign trail" by President Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.

Mostly True

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • July 7, 2016

Pat Robertson
stated on June 27, 2016 a TV broadcast:

President Barack Obama attended "an Islamic madrassa."

Mostly False

By Sean Gorman • July 5, 2016

Ted Cruz
stated on May 14, 2016 his speech at the Republican Party of Texas convention:

Barack Obama issued a decree "demanding that every public school now allow grown men and boys into the little girls’ bathroom."

Mostly False

By Eleanor Dearman • June 26, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on June 15, 2016 a Facebook post:

"The Obama administration was actively supporting Al Qaeda in Iraq, the terrorist group that became the Islamic State."

Pants on Fire!

By Louis Jacobson • June 15, 2016

John Carter
stated on March 10, 2016 a commentary published in the Round Rock Leader:

"This is not a joke: the president wants to house illegal aliens on our nation’s military installations."

Mostly True

By Nicole Barrios • May 4, 2016

Facebook posts
stated on April 26, 2016 a multitude of Facebook posts:

"Today President Obama said there will NOT be a National Day of Prayer in May."

Pants on Fire!

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • April 29, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on April 27, 2016 a foreign policy speech in Washington:

"When President Obama landed in Cuba on Air Force One, no leader was there, nobody, to greet him -- perhaps an incident without precedent in the long and prestigious history of Air Force One."

Half-True

By Louis Jacobson • April 28, 2016

Jennifer Horn
stated on March 16, 2016 a press release:

"For more than 80 years, there has not been a nomination and confirmation of a Supreme Court Justice in a presidential election year. This is simply not the time to break with decades of bipartisan practice."

Half-True

By Clay Wirestone • March 18, 2016

Greg Abbott
stated on March 14, 2016 responding to reporters:

"The fact is voter fraud is rampant."

Pants on Fire!

By W. Gardner Selby • March 17, 2016

Roy Blunt
stated on January 15, 2016 a news release:

"The [Obama] administration’s regulatory assault on coal-fired energy has put thousands of Americans out of work"

Mostly False

By Mary McIntyre • March 17, 2016

Right to Rise
stated on March 1, 2016 a television ad.:

Like Marco Rubio, Sen. Barack Obama had "one of the worst attendance records in the Senate."

True

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • March 8, 2016

Glenn Grothman
stated on November 20, 2015 a radio interview:

Says "Barack Obama is apparently not for vetting people and saying just anybody can come" to the United States.

False

By Sarah Hauer • February 26, 2016

Jeb Bush
stated on February 5, 2016 a column posted on Medium.com:

"Barack Obama will somehow manage to add more than $8 trillion to the national debt, which is more debt than the 43 presidents who held office before him compiled together."

Mostly True

By Louis Jacobson • February 18, 2016

Ron Johnson
stated on January 22, 2016 a campaign email:

Says Barack Obama's administration has admitted that money from its Iran nuclear deal "would go directly to terrorism."

Half-True

By Tom Kertscher • January 29, 2016

Ted Cruz
stated on January 28, 2016 a Fox News debate :

"Barack Obama, right now, No. 1, over seven years has dramatically degraded our military."

Mostly False

By Amy Sherman, Louis Jacobson • January 29, 2016

Roger Williams
stated on January 12, 2016 response to President Barack Obama's State of the Union address:

Under Barack Obama, "the fewest number of adults are working since Jimmy Carter’s presidency."

False

By W. Gardner Selby • January 22, 2016

Ted Cruz
stated on January 15, 2016 a Republican presidential debate in North Charleston, S.C.:

Says President Barack Obama "appointed Eric Holder as attorney general. Eric Holder said he viewed his mission as brainwashing the American people against guns."

Half-True

By Louis Jacobson • January 15, 2016

Nikki Haley
stated on January 12, 2016 the Republican response to the State of the Union address:

The economy is "too weak to raise income levels."

Mostly True

By Louis Jacobson • January 13, 2016

Carly Fiorina
stated on December 17, 2015 a column posted on Medium:

"When we held recent economic dialogues with China, we agreed on over 100 different things — including wildlife trafficking and volcano research. None of these 100-plus points of agreement addressed cybersecurity."

Mostly False

By Louis Jacobson • January 7, 2016

Chris Christie
stated on December 15, 2015 a Republican presidential debate in Las Vegas:

Says the Obama administration invited "Russia into Syria."

Mostly False

By Louis Jacobson • December 21, 2015

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