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stated on April 5, 2019 in a tweet:

Says President Donald Trump said asylum seekers "aren't people. These are animals."

False

By Miriam Valverde • April 8, 2019

Donald Trump
stated on April 2, 2019 in 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
stated on April 1, 2019 in 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
stated on April 2, 2019 in remarks to reporters:

Says his father, Fred Trump, was "born in a very wonderful place in Germany."

Pants on Fire!

By Tom Kertscher • April 4, 2019

Elizabeth Warren
stated on March 27, 2019 in a policy paper posted on Medium:

Mergers and integration in agribusiness "squeeze" family farms, and "the result is that farmers are getting a record-low amount of every dollar Americans spend on food."

Half-True

By Jon Greenberg • April 4, 2019

Donald Trump
stated on March 2, 2019 in a speech:

"When the wind stops blowing, that’s the end of your electric."

Mostly False

By John Kruzel • April 3, 2019

Andrew Yang
stated on March 22, 2019 in an interview:

"America’s life expectancy has declined for the last three years in a row, the first time in a hundred years, because of surges in suicides and drug overdoses."

Mostly True

By Tom Kertscher • April 3, 2019

Mick Mulvaney
stated on March 31, 2019 in an interview on ABC News' "This Week":

"Every single (health care) plan that this White House has ever put forward since Donald Trump was elected covered pre-existing conditions."

Mostly False

By Jon Greenberg • April 1, 2019

Donald Trump
stated on March 27, 2019 in an interview on Hannity:

"The FBI said (former national security adviser Michael Flynn) wasn't lying."

False

By John Kruzel • March 28, 2019

Julián Castro
stated on March 26, 2019 in a tweet:

Says Donald Trump’s health care policies have "left millions more Americans uninsured since he took office."

Half-True

By Jon Greenberg • March 28, 2019

Joe Biden
stated on March 12, 2019 in a speech to the International Association of Fire Fighters:

The Trump budget "cuts $845 billion, almost a trillion dollar cut in Medicare."

Mostly False

By Jon Greenberg • March 26, 2019

John Hickenlooper
stated on March 20, 2019 in a CNN town hall:

After legalizing marijuana in Colorado, "we haven't seen a spike in consumption."

Half-True

By Louis Jacobson • March 25, 2019

Amy Klobuchar
stated on March 17, 2019 in an interview on CNN's "State of the Union":

During her tenure as county attorney in Minnesota, "there was a 65 percent decrease in incarceration of African-Americans."

False

By Louis Jacobson • March 22, 2019

Cory Booker
stated on March 18, 2019 in an interview on MSNBC:

"Farmer suicide rates are as high as they have been since the Great Depression."

False

By Jon Greenberg • March 21, 2019

Jay Inslee
stated on March 19, 2019 in in an interview:

"We have flown a Boeing 737 across the Atlantic Ocean on biofuels. We have flown F-18s."

Mostly True

By John Kruzel • March 21, 2019

Tulsi Gabbard
stated on March 10, 2019 in a town hall:

"We pay far more for health care than any other country in the world, yet we have far worse outcomes than any other country in the world."

Mostly True

By Tom Kertscher • March 18, 2019

Joe Cunningham
stated on March 7, 2019 in a U.S. House hearing:

"Seismic airgun blasting (used for energy exploration) is ... 16,000 times louder than" a conventional airhorn.

Mostly True

By Jon Greenberg • March 15, 2019

Kevin Downing
stated on March 13, 2019 in remarks to reporters:

Says Paul Manafort’s sentencing judge, Amy Berman Jackson, "conceded that there was absolutely no evidence of any Russian collusion in this case. So that makes two courts. Two courts have ruled no evidence of any collusion with any Russians."

Pants on Fire!

By Louis Jacobson • March 14, 2019

Jay Inslee
stated on March 10, 2019 in in an interview:

"We have developed a wind industry (in Washington state) from zero to $6 billion in 12 years."

Mostly True

By John Kruzel • March 13, 2019

Elizabeth Warren
stated on March 12, 2019 in a press release:

The Boeing 737 Max 8, the type of plane that crashed in Ethiopia, continues to fly in the United States, despite the FAA saying "software updates are likely coming."

True

By Jon Greenberg • March 12, 2019

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