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Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on July 24, 2017 Twitter
Amazon has a "no-tax monopoly."
Pants on Fire!
By John Kruzel • July 26, 2017
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on July 12, 2017 a blog
"Russian mansions Obama seized were meant to be illegal gifts to Sasha and Malia"
Pants on Fire!
By Manuela Tobias • July 26, 2017
Andy Gronik
Andy Gronik
stated on July 11, 2017 an interview
Wisconsin is "dead-last in creating new businesses" for "three years in a row."  
Half-True
By Andrew Mollica, Tom Kertscher • July 26, 2017
Charles Schumer
Charles Schumer
stated on July 23, 2017 an interview on ABC's "This Week"
"When the price for oil goes up on the markets, it goes right up, but it never goes down."
False
By Louis Jacobson • July 25, 2017
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on July 24, 2017 a speech at the Boy Scout Jamboree
"We had the best jobs report in 16 years."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • July 25, 2017
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on July 25, 2017 a tweet
"The person in charge of the Hillary investigation, Andrew McCabe, got $700,000 from (Hillary Clinton) for wife!"
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • July 25, 2017
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on June 15, 2017 a web post
Say Gretchen Carlson said, "The 2nd Amendment Was Written Before Guns Were Invented."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • July 24, 2017
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on July 16, 2017 a fake news blog post
Say Oscar Pistorius "commits suicide in prison."  
Pants on Fire!
By Jon Greenberg • July 24, 2017
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on June 28, 2017 a blog post
"Over $13 million worth of crops have ROTTED in California, all because no one is willing to work jobs vacated by migrants."
Half-True
By Joshua Gillin • July 24, 2017
Jeff Sessions
Jeff Sessions
stated on July 21, 2017 In a speech
Preliminary murder rates in Philadelphia "will put the murder rate at the highest of this decade in the city."
Mostly False
By Mark Dent • July 24, 2017
Jeff Sessions
Jeff Sessions
stated on July 12, 2017 a speech
"According to a recent study from the University of California Riverside, (sanctuary) cities with these policies have more violent crime on average than those that don’t."  
Mostly False
By Miriam Valverde • July 24, 2017
Tony Fabrizio
Tony Fabrizio
stated on July 10, 2017 an interview with Politico
Says Adam Putnam "was for amnesty."
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • July 24, 2017
Eric Schneiderman
Eric Schneiderman
stated on July 17, 2017 a speech at Mount Sinai, Icahn School of Medicine
"We have been able to cut New York’s uninsured rate in half since 2013 from 10 percent to 5 percent of our population."
True
By Dan Clark • July 24, 2017
Kellyanne Conway
Kellyanne Conway
stated on July 22, 2017 Fox News interview
Just 6 percent of Americans say Russia is the country’s most important issue, yet the story receives "75 percent of the coverage" in the media.
Mostly False
By Manuela Tobias • July 23, 2017
Kevin McCarthy
Kevin McCarthy
stated on July 11, 2017 an interview with Fox Business
"More people, almost twice as many, pay the penalty or take the waiver than signed up for (Obamacare)."
False
By Chris Nichols • July 21, 2017
John Faso
John Faso
stated on July 15, 2017 an article in the Times Herald-Record
"We now have about one-third of New York’s population on Medicaid."
True
By Dan Clark • July 21, 2017
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on July 19, 2017 an interview with the New York Times
During the Nixon Watergate investigation, "out of courtesy, the FBI started reporting to the Department of Justice. But there was nothing official."  
False
By Jon Greenberg • July 21, 2017
Mike Pence
Mike Pence
stated on July 18, 2017 a speech
Says President Donald Trump "has signed more laws cutting through federal red tape than any president in American history and has already saved businesses and families up to $18 billion in red tape costs every year."
Half-True
By Manuela Tobias • July 21, 2017
Ian Bremmer
Ian Bremmer
stated on July 18, 2017 comments on 'The Rachel Maddow Show'
Says President Richard Nixon held meetings with heads of state without an American interpreter.
True
By Joshua Gillin • July 21, 2017
Rick Baker
Rick Baker
stated on July 13, 2017 an interview with the "Tampa Bay Times" editorial board
"We went from zero A elementary schools when I took office to 16 when I left, and our total A and B schools went up by 260 percent."
Mostly True
By Allison Graves • July 21, 2017
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