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Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on August 7, 2019 in a campaign stop in Iowa:
Says Donald Trump "asserted that immigrants would quote, ‘carve you up with a knife’."  
False
By Jon Greenberg • August 9, 2019
Pete Buttigieg
Pete Buttigieg
stated on August 5, 2019 in a Medium post:
"The Trump Administration cut funding allocated to the Department of Homeland Security to combat white nationalism."
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • August 9, 2019
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on August 7, 2019 in a tweet:
Says U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown and Dayton Mayor Nan Whaley were "totally misrepresenting what took place inside of the hospital. Their news conference after I left for El Paso was a fraud. It bore no resemblance to what took place with those incredible people that I was so lucky to meet and spend time with."  
False
By Jon Greenberg • August 9, 2019
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on August 4, 2019 in remarks in Morristown, N.J.:
Asked what his administration would be doing about "the gun problem," said, "We have done much more than most administrations. … We’ve done, actually, a lot."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • August 8, 2019
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on August 5, 2019 in a video on Twitter:
"There are more assault rifles, as I understand it, in the hands of private citizens than in the hands of the United States military. We're talking about 5 to 10 million assault weapons in the hands of private citizens."  
Half-True
By Tom Kertscher • August 8, 2019
Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton
stated on August 5, 2019 in a tweet:
"After (the assault weapon ban) passed in 1994, there was a big drop in mass shooting deaths. When the ban expired, they rose again."  
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • August 7, 2019
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on August 5, 2019 in a speech:
"Last year, we prosecuted a record number of firearms offenses."
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • August 5, 2019
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on August 1, 2019 in a rally:
"The homicide rate in Baltimore is significantly higher than El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala. ...  I believe it’s higher than Afghanistan."
Half-True
By John Kruzel • August 2, 2019
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on August 1, 2019 in a rally in Cincinnati, Ohio:
Democrats "want virtual immunity for illegal aliens who have created horrible crimes and murder."  
False
By Jon Greenberg • August 2, 2019
Kirsten Gillibrand
Kirsten Gillibrand
stated on July 31, 2019 in the Detroit debate:
"When the Senate was debating middle-class affordability for child care," then-Sen. Joe Biden "voted against it, the only vote, but what he wrote (in) an op-ed was that he believed that women working outside the home would, quote, ‘create the deterioration of family.’ He also said that women who were working outside the home were, quote, ‘avoiding responsibility.’"  
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • August 2, 2019
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on July 31, 2019 in a Democratic presidential primary debate:
Says Kamala Harris oversaw a police department that was "abusing people’s rights" and that she did not "disclose to defense attorneys" when there was exculpatory evidence: "She didn't do that. She never did it. And so, what happened? Along came a federal judge and said enough, enough, and he freed 1,000 of these people."
Mostly True
By Bill McCarthy • August 2, 2019
Tulsi Gabbard
Tulsi Gabbard
stated on July 31, 2019 in a debate:
Says that under President Donald Trump, "not only have we not gone after al-Qaida ... our president is supporting al-Qaida."
False
By Tom Kertscher • August 2, 2019
Ben Carson
Ben Carson
stated on July 31, 2019 in a press conference:
 "You look at the homelessness situation. Take a city like Tokyo, which has more people than New York City. There's no homelessness there."
Mostly True
By John Kruzel • August 1, 2019
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on July 31, 2019 in a re-election campaign ad:
Says the Democratic presidential candidates "support giving illegal immigrants free health care at our expense."
Mostly False
By Miriam Valverde • August 1, 2019
Marianne Williamson
Marianne Williamson
stated on July 28, 2019 in an appearance on CBS's "Face the Nation":
"We are the only advanced industrialized nation that bases our educational funding on property taxes."
Half-True
By Bill McCarthy • July 31, 2019
X posts
X posts
stated on July 23, 2019 in a tweet:
"Reagan took the deficit from $70 billion to $175 billion. Bush 41 took it to $300 billion. Clinton got it to zero. Bush 43 took it from zero to $1.2 trillion. Obama halved it to $600 billion. Trump’s got it back to a trillion."
Mostly True
By Daniel Funke • July 29, 2019
Elizabeth Warren
Elizabeth Warren
stated on July 22, 2019 in a post on Medium:
"The country is now in a manufacturing recession."  
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • July 26, 2019
John Ratcliffe
John Ratcliffe
stated on July 24, 2019 in a House hearing with Robert Mueller:
Says Robert Mueller "didn’t follow the special counsel regulations. It clearly says write a confidential report about decisions reached. Nowhere in here does it say write a report about decisions that were not reached."
False
By Jon Greenberg • July 24, 2019
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on July 23, 2019 in a speech to conservative high school students:
Says Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez "called our country and our people garbage."
False
By Jon Greenberg • July 23, 2019
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on July 17, 2019 in a speech at George Washington University:
With Medicare for All, "study after study has shown that ... the average middle-class families will save $3,000 each and every year on their health care bills."  
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • July 22, 2019
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