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Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on February 2, 2018 a headline
"First NFL team declares bankruptcy over kneeling thugs."
Pants on Fire!
By Amy Sherman • February 7, 2018
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on February 5, 2018 a speech near Cincinnati
At the State of the Union address, Democrats, "even on positive news … were like death and un-American. Un-American. Somebody said, ‘treasonous.’ I mean, yeah, I guess, why not? Can we call that treason? Why not?"
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • February 6, 2018
X posts
X posts
stated on February 5, 2018 a tweet attributed to @realdonaldtrump
"If the Dow Joans ever falls more than 1000 ‘points’ in a Single Day the sitting president should be 'loaded' into a very big cannon and Shot into the sun at TREMENDOUS SPEED! No excuses!"
Pants on Fire!
By Amy Sherman • February 6, 2018
Say Anything Blog
Say Anything Blog
stated on January 29, 2018 a blog post
"Heitkamp High-Fives Schumer After Voting Against 20-Week Abortion Ban."
False
By Manuela Tobias • February 6, 2018
Ohio Democratic Party
Ohio Democratic Party
stated on January 4, 2018 a press release
Says Mike DeWine "interfered with and stifled" a sexual harassment investigation and then "eliminated the office that investigated harassment claims within the AG’s office."
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • February 6, 2018
Chris Kennedy
Chris Kennedy
stated on January 16, 2018 an interview with the Chicago Sun-Times
"There was no requirement to put in affordable housing."
True
By Kiannah Sepeda-Miller • February 6, 2018
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on January 24, 2018 a speech
"We invested" in our transportation system "$24 billion over eight years. That’s $3 billion more than what former Governor Jim Doyle spent on transportation over the same period of time."
Mostly False
By Tom Kertscher • February 6, 2018
Devin Nunes
Devin Nunes
stated on February 2, 2018 a staff-written memo from the House Intelligence Committee
Says the Steele dossier "was—according to (James Comey's) June 2017 testimony—'salacious and unverified.' "
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • February 5, 2018
Phil Ting
Phil Ting
stated on January 21, 2018 a newspaper article
"Trump’s tax reform plan was nothing more than a middle-class tax increase."
False
By Chris Nichols • February 5, 2018
Americanproud.info
Americanproud.info
stated on January 22, 2018 a headline
Says that singer Dolly Parton said, "Trump in one year is already better than 16 years of Bush, Obama put together."
Pants on Fire!
By Amy Sherman • February 5, 2018
Trey Blocker
Trey Blocker
stated on January 24, 2018 a commentary in the Odessa American
Says the Texas Department of Agriculture didn’t notify over 700 Texas students about a computer hack releasing critical personal information including Social Security numbers until 32 days after the breach.  
Mostly False
By W. Gardner Selby • February 5, 2018
Stacey Evans
Stacey Evans
stated on January 26, 2018 campaign website
Georgia "has the lowest minimum wage in the country."
Mostly True
By Miriam Valverde • February 5, 2018
Ann Coulter
Ann Coulter
stated on January 30, 2018 a tweet
"100% of heroin/fentanyl epidemic is because we don't have a WALL."
Pants on Fire!
By Paul Specht • February 2, 2018
Richard Corcoran
Richard Corcoran
stated on January 29, 2018 an ad
"Incredibly, some Tallahassee politicians want to make Florida a sanctuary state."  
Half-True
By Allison Graves • February 2, 2018
Eco News
Eco News
stated on February 1, 2018 a headline
"NFL lawyer, who claimed Super Bowl is ‘rigged’, found dead."
Pants on Fire!
By Amy Sherman • February 2, 2018
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on January 26, 2018 a speech
"Instead of two for one, we have cut 22 burdensome regulations for everyone new rule."
Mostly False
By Manuela Tobias • February 2, 2018
Markwayne Mullin
Markwayne Mullin
stated on January 30, 2018 a post on Rep. Mullin's Facebook page
Under President Barack Obama: 4 million jobs lost, unemployment rose from 7.8% to 9.9%, the S&P 500 was 1,115.1 and the GDP went down 2.8%.  
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • February 2, 2018
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on January 26, 2018 a speech in Davos, Switzerland
"Consumer confidence, business confidence, and manufacturing confidence are the highest they have been in many decades."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • February 2, 2018
Bruce Rauner
Bruce Rauner
stated on January 29, 2018 a session with Chicago Tribune editorial board
"I have introduced balanced budgets every year that I’ve been governor."
Pants on Fire!
By Brett Chase, Kiannah Sepeda-Miller • February 2, 2018
Ron Johnson
Ron Johnson
stated on January 12, 2018 an interview
About 1.1 million people legally enter the U.S. each year as permanent residents -- "65 percent of that is some kind of chain migration; 22 percent is diversity lottery, ‘asyling,’ refugees; only about 14, 15 percent has anything to do with work."  
Half-True
By Tom Kertscher • February 2, 2018
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