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Charles Schumer
Charles Schumer
stated on January 27, 2017 a tweet
Says Rex "Tillerson won't divest from Exxon."
Pants on Fire!
By Lauren Carroll • January 27, 2017
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on January 18, 2017 a headline
Says Barack "Obama orders life-sized bronze statue of himself to be permanently installed in White House."
Pants on Fire!
By Joshua Gillin • January 27, 2017
Tammy Baldwin
Tammy Baldwin
stated on January 12, 2017 a news release
Imitation dairy products often differ nutritionally from those they mimic, and labeling them "milk" or "cheese" or "yogurt" is "against the law."
Mostly True
By Dave Umhoefer • January 27, 2017
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on January 25, 2017 an interview with ABC News' David Muir
"A poll just came out on my inauguration speech. … People loved it. Loved and liked."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • January 26, 2017
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on January 25, 2017 remarks at Department of Homeland Security
Says ICE and border patrol officers "unanimously endorsed me for president."
Mostly False
By Miriam Valverde • January 26, 2017
Whoopi Goldberg
Whoopi Goldberg
stated on January 25, 2017 a segment on ABC's 'The View'
Says Barack Obama "didn’t do executive orders in the beginning." 
Pants on Fire!
By Allison Graves • January 26, 2017
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on January 26, 2017 In a speech at the GOP Retreat
"Here in Philadelphia murder has been steady — I mean — just terribly increasing."
False
By Mark Dent • January 26, 2017
Claire McCaskill
Claire McCaskill
stated on January 23, 2017 an interview on MSNBC's "Morning Joe"
"Not one dime of the tax cut that they are going to enact with the repeal of Obamacare will go to people who make under $200,000."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • January 26, 2017
Jerry Brown
Jerry Brown
stated on January 24, 2017 his State of the State address
"One hundred and ninety-four countries signed the Paris Agreement to control greenhouse gases. Our own voluntary agreement to accomplish the same goal — the Under2  MOU — has 165 signatories, representing a billion people."
Mostly True
By Linda Qiu • January 26, 2017
Cory Gardner
Cory Gardner
stated on January 23, 2017 an interview on Fox
"About 30 percent of terrorists at Guantanamo Bay went back into battle. We know that a dozen or so killed Americans."
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • January 25, 2017
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on January 24, 2017 a blog post
Say George Soros's money "went straight into the (Women’s March) protesters’ pockets."
Pants on Fire!
By Jon Greenberg • January 25, 2017
Sean Spicer
Sean Spicer
stated on January 24, 2017 the daily press briefing
"There's one (study) that came out of Pew in 2008 that showed 14 percent of people who voted were noncitizens."
False
By Lauren Carroll • January 25, 2017
Mark Pocan
Mark Pocan
stated on January 11, 2017 a letter
Says Betsy DeVos and her family "have donated extensively to groups which promote the idea that students who identify as LGBT must undergo 'conversion' therapy."
Mostly False
By Dave Umhoefer, Tom Kertscher • January 25, 2017
Sean Spicer
Sean Spicer
stated on January 23, 2017 the daily press briefing
There has been a "dramatic expansion of the federal workforce in recent years."
Mostly False
By Lauren Carroll • January 25, 2017
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on January 21, 2017 a page on the White House website
"In 2015, homicides increased by 17 percent in America’s 50 largest cities. That’s the largest increase in 25 years."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • January 24, 2017
Jerry Brown
Jerry Brown
stated on January 24, 2017 a State of the State Address
Twenty-seven percent of Californians, almost 11 million, "were born in a foreign land."
True
By Chris Nichols • January 24, 2017
Nikki Haley
Nikki Haley
stated on January 18, 2017 a Senate confirmation hearing
"Some countries are contributing (peacekeeping) troops because they're making money off of them."  
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • January 24, 2017
Carlos Gimenez
Carlos Gimenez
stated on January 18, 2017 a state of the county speech
Miami-Dade is "the first community in the world to break the cycle of local transmission of the Zika virus."
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • January 24, 2017
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on January 20, 2017 a statement on the White House website
"In our nation’s capital, killings have risen by 50 percent."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • January 23, 2017
George Takei
George Takei
stated on January 20, 2017 a Tweet
"The White House removed its climate change web page. And the healthcare, civil rights and LGBT sections."
Mostly True
By Lauren Carroll • January 23, 2017
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