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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."

August 2, 2019

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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

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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?’ "

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."

April 7, 2017

Donald Trump
stated on March 18, 2017 a post on Twitter

"Germany owes ... vast sums of money to NATO & the United States must be paid more for the powerful, and very expensive, defense it provides to Germany!"

By Allison Graves • March 19, 2017

Marco Rubio
stated on October 26, 2016 a U.S. Senate debate

Says President Obama "was proposing pinprick strikes" for military intervention in Syria.

By Joshua Gillin • October 27, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on October 13, 2016 a speech

Says Hillary Clinton was "let off the hook" for her email scandal while Gen. David Petraeus had his life "destroyed for doing far, far less."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • October 18, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on September 26, 2016 a presidential debate at Hofstra University

"NATO is opening up a major terror division. ... I'm sure I'm not going to get credit for it, but that was largely because of what I was saying and my criticism of NATO."

By Louis Jacobson • September 27, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on August 15, 2016 a speech on foreign policy in Youngstown, Ohio

"I had previously said that NATO was obsolete because it failed to deal adequately with terrorism. Since my comments, they have changed their policy and now have a new division focused on terror threats."

By Louis Jacobson • August 16, 2016

Joe Biden
stated on July 27, 2016 an appearance on MSNBC

Says Donald Trump "is going to go out and carpet bomb" the Middle East.

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • August 2, 2016

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