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Matt Flynn
Matt Flynn
stated on June 13, 2018 in news release:
"Foxconn will not face oversight from any federal, state, or local agency to guarantee it complies with our wetlands protection laws."  
Mostly False
By D.L. Davis • July 11, 2018
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on July 5, 2018 in a blog post:
"US representatives promise implement of UN gun-control plans"
Mostly False
By Bill McCarthy • July 10, 2018
Kevin Nicholson
Kevin Nicholson
stated on May 30, 2018 in an interview:
The Iran deal "handed billions of dollars of cash on cargo planes, sent it to a state sponsor of terror, and Tammy Baldwin was one of the first U.S. senators to get on board and support that."  
Mostly False
By Tom Kertscher • June 29, 2018
Twentyeightmay
Twentyeightmay
stated on June 23, 2018 in a story:
Kurt Russell said that celebrities shouldn't "get political" when it comes to Donald Trump.
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • June 27, 2018
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on June 23, 2018 in a campaign speech:
"We’ve already started (the border wall). We started it in San Diego."
Mostly False
By Chris Nichols • June 26, 2018
Adam Putnam
Adam Putnam
stated on June 7, 2018 in an interview with Fox News:
Florida taxpayers "pay tens of millions of dollars a year to feed and house in our prison system criminal illegal aliens."
Mostly False
By Allison Graves • June 26, 2018
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on June 16, 2018 in a blog post:
"Obama administration kept illegal Mexican kids in detention camps as ‘experiment’"
Mostly False
By Bill McCarthy • June 25, 2018
Brad Parscale
Brad Parscale
stated on June 20, 2018 in a tweet:
"Fact: Over 90,000 kids were detained under Obama. And no one cared."
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • June 25, 2018
JB Pritzker
JB Pritzker
stated on June 7, 2018 in a campaign ad:
"$1 billion—that’s how much Bruce Rauner has wasted with his budget crisis."
Mostly False
By Kiannah Sepeda-Miller • June 25, 2018
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on June 11, 2018 in in a blog post:
"Busted: Obama is holding secret meetings to overtake the White House"
Mostly False
By Bill McCarthy • June 21, 2018
Tim Moore
Tim Moore
stated on June 7, 2018 in a TV interview:
States with voter ID laws have seen "zero decrease" in participation. "Most have seen an increase."
Mostly False
By Paul Specht • June 20, 2018
Corey Stewart
Corey Stewart
stated on June 13, 2018 in in an interview:
"I have always condemned … any of these white supremacists or bigots or anything like that."
Mostly False
By Bill McCarthy • June 20, 2018
Corey Stewart
Corey Stewart
stated on June 13, 2018 in in a tweet:
Says Sen. Tim Kaine "approves of and even applauds his son's participation in a known terrorist organization, #Antifa."
Mostly False
By Bill McCarthy • June 20, 2018
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on June 11, 2018 in an interview aired on "Think," produced by KERA radio in Dallas:
"There’s actually a court order that prevents keeping the kids with the parents when you put the parents in jail."  
Mostly False
By W. Gardner Selby • June 18, 2018
New Republican PAC
New Republican PAC
stated on June 11, 2018 in a political ad:
Says Bill Nelson voted for "cuts to Medicare providers" and voted to weaken "Social Security protections" as a U.S. senator.
Mostly False
By Allison Graves • June 15, 2018
Newsflash
Newsflash
stated on June 13, 2018 in a blog post:
"Trump’s DHS secretary confirms they are preparing to arrest sanctuary city leaders."
Mostly False
By Miriam Valverde • June 13, 2018
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on June 12, 2018 in Singapore press conference:
Says Bill Clinton "spent $3 billion and got nothing. And (North Korea) started making nuclear weapons a day later."
Mostly False
By Manuela Tobias • June 13, 2018
Lou Barletta
Lou Barletta
stated on June 7, 2018 in an interview:
"The city that I was mayor of was 50 percent Latino, and I won with 90 percent of the vote..." 
Mostly False
By Colin Deppen • June 12, 2018
Richard Cordray
Richard Cordray
stated on June 4, 2018 in an event in Springfield:
On Mike DeWine's record as attorney general: "Opioid deaths have tripled on his watch and there have been cuts to funds for first responders and people in the community fighting the crisis."
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • June 12, 2018
President Trump's lawyers
President Trump's lawyers
stated on January 29, 2018 in a memo:
Say President Donald Trump "dictated a short but accurate response to the New York Times article" about the Trump Tower meeting with Russians.
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • June 7, 2018
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