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Senate Leadership Fund
Senate Leadership Fund
stated on August 22, 2017 in an ad:
Says Kelli Ward hosted a town hall on "chemtrail conspiracy theories" and is open to sponsoring chemtrails legislation.
Mostly False
By Manuela Tobias • August 25, 2017
Jake Tapper
Jake Tapper
stated on August 23, 2017 comments on Twitter:
Says the Joker's "Red Hood" origin story is "the true one."
Mostly False
By Joshua Gillin • August 25, 2017
Paul Ryan
Paul Ryan
stated on August 21, 2017 a CNN town hall broadcast:
"We’ve got dozens of counties around America that have zero insurers left."
Pants on Fire!
By Jon Greenberg • August 24, 2017
Rick Kriseman
Rick Kriseman
stated on August 9, 2017 a podcast:
"We’ve got a police station that’s under construction right now, they are actually ahead of schedule and under budget."
Mostly False
By Allison Graves • August 24, 2017
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Viral image
stated on August 22, 2017 social media feeds:
"At the PEAK of slavery in 1860, only 1.4% of Americans owned slaves. What your history books (don't) tell you is that 3,000 blacks owned a total of 20,000 slaves the same year."
False
By Louis Jacobson • August 24, 2017
Steve Adler
Steve Adler
stated on July 26, 2017 a tweet:
"Austin is the safest big city in Texas."
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • August 24, 2017
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on August 22, 2017 a rally in Phoenix:
"We have become an energy exporter for the first time ever just recently."
False
By Louis Jacobson • August 23, 2017
David Frum
David Frum
stated on August 21, 2017 a tweet:
"No president in history has imposed larger personal lifestyle costs on the taxpayer than Donald Trump."
Mostly False
By Manuela Tobias • August 23, 2017
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on August 22, 2017 a rally:
"There aren't too many people outside protesting" his speech at the Phoenix Convention Center.
False
By Miriam Valverde • August 23, 2017
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on August 19, 2017 a headline:
Says "Barcelona terrorist" is cousins with former President Barack Obama.
Pants on Fire!
By Joshua Gillin • August 23, 2017
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on August 20, 2017 a headline:
"Rosa Parks’ daughter praises (President Donald) Trump’s response to Charlottesville."
Pants on Fire!
By Joshua Gillin • August 23, 2017
Sean Patrick Maloney
Sean Patrick Maloney
stated on August 3, 2017 a radio interview:
"Most people on Medicaid are kids, or seniors, or the disabled."
Mostly True
By Dan Clark • August 23, 2017
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on July 19, 2017 a tweet:
"We took Wisconsin from the Bottom 10 for business to the Top 10."
Mostly False
By Eric Litke • August 23, 2017
John Moorlach
John Moorlach
stated on August 4, 2017 an op-ed:
"Crime has been getting worse since Jerry Brown was elected governor."
Mostly False
By Chris Nichols • August 22, 2017
David Lewis
David Lewis
stated on July 31, 2017 in a blog:
Gov. Roy Cooper has "filed nearly one lawsuit a month, with every single one of them an attempt to extend his own power."
Mostly False
By Paul Specht • August 22, 2017
Matthew Rosendale
Matthew Rosendale
stated on July 31, 2017 Voices of Montana radio show:
Says Sen. Jon Tester "believes that we should have a national registration so that the people of Montana should have to ask permission before they purchase a gun, ask permission from the federal government."
Pants on Fire!
By John Kruzel • August 21, 2017
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on August 15, 2017 Internet posts:
"White supremacist who killed protester is a Democrat and visited (President Barack) Obama in Oval Office."
Pants on Fire!
By Joshua Gillin, Tyler Adkisson • August 21, 2017
Alex Castellanos
Alex Castellanos
stated on August 20, 2017 comments on ABC's 'This Week':
"(For) white working-class America, death rates among white men are up 20 percent."
Mostly False
By Joshua Gillin • August 20, 2017
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on August 14, 2017 Internet posts:
Says there is proof Democrats hired actors to plan violence in Charlottesville.
False
By Joshua Gillin • August 18, 2017
Rick Baker
Rick Baker
stated on July 28, 2017 a Facebook post:
Says he "made St. Petersburg the state's best maintained large sewer system in 2007."
Half-True
By Allison Graves • August 18, 2017
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