Fact Check Posts – Page 8

Jimmy Kimmel
stated on June 6, 2019 on "Jimmy Kimmel Live":

"Richard Nixon was the last president to be impeached."

By Bill McCarthy • June 13, 2019

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stated on June 6, 2019 a Facebook post:

"In 1921, early suffragettes often donned a bathing suit and ate pizza in large groups to annoy men…it was a custom at the time."

By Ciara O'Rourke • June 7, 2019

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stated on June 6, 2019 a Facebook post:

A photo shows "brave women of the Red Cross" arriving in Normandy on D-Day to help injured troops.

By Ciara O'Rourke • June 7, 2019

Ralph Northam
stated on May 23, 2019 a TV interview:

An investigation of a racist photo "confirmed what I said all along, that I’m not in the picture."

By Warren Fiske • June 4, 2019

Tim Kaine
stated on May 20, 2019 a floor speech.:

The ceilings of the Virginia Senate and House chambers are "circled by gold-embossed tobacco leaves."

By Warren Fiske • May 30, 2019

Facebook posts
stated on May 22, 2019 a Facebook post:

Quotes Mark Twain as saying of journalists that it is "far better" to "fear the media for they will steal your honor" and describes them as "a horde of ignorant, self-complacent simpletons…"

By Samantha Putterman • May 24, 2019

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stated on May 22, 2019 a Facebook post:

Says a photo depicts a teacher and student with guns guarding a Delaware high school in 1973 after a shooting threat.

By Samantha Putterman • May 23, 2019

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stated on May 21, 2019 a Facebook post:

A photograph shows Barack Obama bowing to Ayatollah Khamenei.

By Ciara O'Rourke • May 23, 2019

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stated on May 21, 2019 a Facebook post:

A photo shows a Trump rally in Pennsylvania, not the Woodstock music festival.

By Ciara O'Rourke • May 22, 2019

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stated on May 16, 2019 a Facebook post:

"Donald Trump has been in public eye for over 30 years and he was never once accused of being racist by anyone until he decided to run against the Democrats."

By Ciara O'Rourke • May 22, 2019

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stated on May 15, 2019 a Facebook post:

Vanilla ice cream was black until 1912, when "white people couldn’t tolerate eating something that tasted soooooo delicious being black."

By Ciara O'Rourke • May 21, 2019

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stated on May 3, 2019 a Facebook post:

Says Donald Trump scored a 73 on an IQ test administered to him while in high school at New York Military Academy.

By Samantha Putterman • May 14, 2019

Brandon Creighton
stated on May 7, 2019 the Texas Senate:

"Texas actually leads in the number of (Confederate) monuments removed."

By Madlin Mekelburg • May 10, 2019

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stated on May 6, 2019 a Facebook post:

Says John F. Kennedy said, "What if we go to heaven and we, all our lives, have treated the Negro as an inferior, and God is there, and we look up and He is not white? What then is our response?"

By Ciara O'Rourke • May 10, 2019

Facebook posts
stated on April 29, 2019 a Facebook post:

Says a Roman statesman in 42 B.C. had a "warning about Trump" when he said 2,000 years ago that a nation "cannot survive treason from within."

By Samantha Putterman • May 3, 2019

Facebook posts
stated on April 22, 2019 a Facebook post:

Says Hillary Clinton was to be indicted over the Whitewater scandal four days before documents related to the case were destroyed in the Oklahoma City bombing.

By Samantha Putterman • May 1, 2019

Facebook posts
stated on April 22, 2019 a Facebook post:

Says Mitch McConnell was cured of polio when he was a child by government-funded care and now he’s trying to take that same care away from millions of Americans

By Samantha Putterman • April 29, 2019

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stated on April 9, 2019 a Facebook post:

"Shakespeare said: ‘I always feel happy. You know why? Because I don’t expect anything from anyone. Expectations always hurt. Life is short. So love your life. Be Happy. & Keep smiling."

By Ciara O'Rourke • April 26, 2019

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."

By Louis Jacobson • April 23, 2019

Mark Warner
stated on April 9, 2019 a TV interview.:

Other than University of Virginia’s 2019 basketball team, "We’ve not had a Virginia team even in the Final Four in over a decade. I think George Mason was the last one…"

By Warren Fiske • April 16, 2019

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