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Facebook posts
stated on November 20, 2019 a Facebook post:

Says people can send Christmas cards to "a recovering American soldier" at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C.

By Samantha Putterman • December 4, 2019

Facebook posts
stated on November 13, 2019 a Facebook post:

Says President Trump donated his "second quarter salary to rebuild military cemeteries" and that the media ignored it and every other story of him donating his salary as POTUS.

By Samantha Putterman • November 14, 2019

Facebook posts
stated on August 13, 2019 a post on Facebook:

Says Barbara Walters said Jane Fonda "betrayed not only the idea of our country, but specific men who served and sacrificed during the Vietnam War."

By Ciara O'Rourke • October 30, 2019

Donald Trump
stated on October 16, 2019 answering questions from reporters:

"The Kurds are much safer right now."

By Tom Kertscher • October 16, 2019

Joe Biden
stated on September 3, 2019 an NPR interview:

Referring to the Iraq War, "immediately, the moment it started, I came out against the war at that moment."

By Miriam Valverde • September 5, 2019

Facebook posts
stated on August 1, 2019 a Facebook post:

Says Joe Biden leaked the names of SEAL Team 6’s families to al-Qaida and that he "cannot be trusted."

By Samantha Putterman • August 12, 2019

Tulsi Gabbard
stated on July 31, 2019 a debate:

Says that under President Donald Trump, "not only have we not gone after al-Qaida ... our president is supporting al-Qaida."

By Tom Kertscher • August 2, 2019

Viral image
stated on April 3, 2019 a Facebook post:

Says "13,506 Marines have applied for White House duty" since Trump’s inauguration. When Obama was president, "no Marines volunteered" but had to be "assigned."

By Samantha Putterman • April 8, 2019

Viral image
stated on March 31, 2019 a Facebook post:

"When Winston Churchill was asked to cut arts funding in favour of the war effort, he simply replied, ‘then what are we fighting for?’ "

By Ciara O'Rourke • April 2, 2019

Kamala Harris
stated on March 8, 2019 a tweet:

Says Trump administration is "raiding money" from military service member pensions to pay for the border wall.

By Chris Nichols • March 28, 2019

Donald Trump
stated on December 20, 2018 a tweet:

"Russia, Iran, Syria & many others are not happy" about U.S. troops leaving Syria.

By Miriam Valverde • December 21, 2018

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
stated on December 2, 2018 a tweet:

"$21T in Pentagon accounting errors. Medicare for All costs ~$32T. That means 66% of Medicare for All could have been funded already by the Pentagon."

By Louis Jacobson • December 3, 2018

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
stated on July 26, 2018 an interview on the Daily Show:

"Just last year we gave the military a $700 billion budget increase, which they didn’t even ask for."

By Manuela Tobias • August 1, 2018

Donald Trump
stated on July 11, 2018 the NATO summit:

"Many countries (in NATO) owe us a tremendous amount of money for many years back, where they’re delinquent, as far as I’m concerned, because the United States has had to pay for them."

By Bill McCarthy • July 11, 2018

David Rouzer
stated on May 8, 2018 a tweet:

"The #irandeal ultimately would have guaranteed Iran a nuclear bomb capable of reaching the US."

By Paul Specht • May 22, 2018

Ro Khanna
stated on April 19, 2018 a Facebook post:

"Most of our taxes are spent on the so-called ‘War on Terror.’"

By Louis Jacobson • April 24, 2018

George P. Bush
stated on February 14, 2018 a mailer pointed out by challenger Jerry Patterson:

Says he’s a "retired U.S. Navy officer."

By W. Gardner Selby • February 16, 2018

Donald Trump
stated on August 9, 2017 a tweet:

"My first order as president was to renovate and modernize our nuclear arsenal. It is now far stronger and more powerful than ever before."

By Louis Jacobson • August 9, 2017

Donald Trump
stated on July 25, 2017 a speech:

"We've achieved a historic increase in defense spending to get our troops the support they so richly deserve."

By Jon Greenberg, Manuela Tobias • July 27, 2017

Mark Pocan
stated on April 7, 2017 a statement:

"There is no legal basis" for Donald Trump's "missile strike against Syrian military assets."

By Tom Kertscher • April 7, 2017

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