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Pete Buttigieg
Pete Buttigieg
stated on April 22, 2019 a town hall
Says he has "more executive experience than the vice president."  
Mostly False
April 24, 2019
Jared Kushner
Jared Kushner
stated on April 23, 2019 an interview
Russia’s interference in the 2016 election amounted to "a couple of Facebook ads."
Pants on Fire!
By John Kruzel • April 24, 2019
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on April 23, 2019 a tweet
"In the ‘old days’ if you were president and you had a good economy, you were basically immune from criticism."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • April 23, 2019
Mac Heller
Mac Heller
stated on April 7, 2019 an interview on CNN
"The 2008 election was the first election in which voters of color comprised over 25 percent of the electorate, and that number is going up."
True
By Amy Sherman • April 23, 2019
William Barr
William Barr
stated on April 18, 2019 a press conference
"The White House fully cooperated with the Special Counsel’s investigation."
False
By John Kruzel • April 22, 2019
Marianne Williamson
Marianne Williamson
stated on April 14, 2019 a CNN town hall
Says Jimmy Carter was the last "U.S. president to say flat out those (Israeli) settlements are illegal."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • April 22, 2019
Eric Swalwell
Eric Swalwell
stated on April 14, 2019 a campaign rally
In 2017, the first piece of legislation that Republicans passed "made it easier for the mentally ill to purchase guns."
Half-True
By Julianna Rennie • April 22, 2019
Tim Ryan
Tim Ryan
stated on April 11, 2019 a town hall
"There is $50 billion a year wasted in the Medicare program."  
Mostly True
April 19, 2019
Tulsi Gabbard
Tulsi Gabbard
stated on April 8, 2019 a tweet
Says President Donald Trump's "effort to roll back regulations means that Big Ag now gets to inspect its own pork" and "they decided to stop testing for E. coli."
Mostly False
By Miriam Valverde • April 16, 2019
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on April 11, 2019 a panel at the University of Pennsylvania
"People show up in the emergency room with a sprained ankle, 25 percent get an opioid prescription."
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • April 16, 2019
Marianne Williamson
Marianne Williamson
stated on April 4, 2019 an interview
"For every dollar we spend on actual peace creation, we spend over $1,000 on ways to prepare for war."
Half-True
April 15, 2019
Howard Schultz
Howard Schultz
stated on April 4, 2019 a Fox News town hall
Says presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama each tried to get immigration bills passed, but "it did not work because the other party was unwilling to provide the president and his party a victory."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • April 15, 2019
Ilhan Omar
Ilhan Omar
stated on March 23, 2019 a speech
Says that the Council on American-Islamic Relations was founded in response to 9/11.
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • April 15, 2019
Cory Booker
Cory Booker
stated on March 27, 2019 a CNN town hall in South Carolina
Says President Donald Trump "cut funding from the Justice Department to investigate these domestic terrorist groups, these white supremacist groups."
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • April 11, 2019
John Hickenlooper
John Hickenlooper
stated on March 31, 2019 in an interview on MSNBC
"We got to almost universal coverage in health care in Colorado."
Mostly True
By Julianna Rennie • April 11, 2019
Pete Buttigieg
Pete Buttigieg
stated on April 7, 2019 an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press"
"We cut unemployment by more than half" in South Bend, Ind.
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • April 10, 2019
X posts
X posts
stated on April 5, 2019 a tweet
Says President Donald Trump said asylum seekers "aren't people. These are animals."
False
By Miriam Valverde • April 8, 2019
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on April 2, 2019 a speech to the National Republican Congressional Committee
"The noise (from windmills) causes cancer."  
Pants on Fire!
By Jon Greenberg • April 8, 2019
Pete Buttigieg
Pete Buttigieg
stated on April 1, 2019 a podcast interview
"Since 1973, the income of the bottom 90 percent, so pretty much all of us, didn’t budge, or even retreated a little bit."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • April 5, 2019
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on April 2, 2019 remarks to reporters
Says his father, Fred Trump, was "born in a very wonderful place in Germany."
Pants on Fire!
April 4, 2019
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