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Whoopi Goldberg
Whoopi Goldberg
stated on September 3, 2019 an episode of ABC's "The View"
"The last time people (created a Hollywood blacklist), people ended up killing themselves … They were accused, and they lost their right to work."
True
By Bill McCarthy • September 5, 2019
Allen Frances
Allen Frances
stated on August 25, 2019 remarks on CNN's "Reliable Sources"
"Trump is as destructive a person in this century as Hitler, Stalin, and Mao were in the last century. He may be responsible for many more million deaths than they were."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • August 26, 2019
Mark Cuban
Mark Cuban
stated on August 15, 2019 a tweet
Says "wealthy people in Canada donate to hospitals" to get better health care treatment.
Mostly False
By Bill McCarthy • August 19, 2019
Rob Schmitt
Rob Schmitt
stated on August 14, 2019 a "Fox & Friends First" discussion
Says the Trump administration’s new policy for legal immigrants on welfare "has been around for a while. This is not a new thing that the president is trying to implement here, that the United States has been this way."
Half-True
By Bill McCarthy • August 15, 2019
Curt Schilling
Curt Schilling
stated on August 10, 2019 a tweet
Law-abiding gun owners stop crimes "2.5 million times a year," according to the federal Centers for Disease Control.
Mostly False
August 14, 2019
Nicolle Wallace
Nicolle Wallace
stated on August 5, 2019 on MSNBC
Says President Donald Trump is "talking about exterminating Latinos."
Pants on Fire!
By Bill McCarthy • August 8, 2019
Stephanie Ruhle
Stephanie Ruhle
stated on August 5, 2019 on MSNBC
Says Walmart is "one of the largest sellers of assault-style weapons."
False
By Bill McCarthy • August 7, 2019
Chelsea Handler
Chelsea Handler
stated on August 2, 2019 a tweet
"Elijah Cummings’ house was broken into after Trump publicly attacked him on Twitter."
False
By Bill McCarthy • August 2, 2019
Roland Martin
Roland Martin
stated on July 21, 2019 a panel on ABC's "This Week"
Republicans "are advancing federal judges who won't even say that Brown vs. Board of Education was properly decided."
Mostly True
By Bill McCarthy • July 25, 2019
Occupy Democrats
Occupy Democrats
stated on July 22, 2019 a Facebook post
"Fox ‘News’ just announced that they will not air Mueller’s testimony about his report, which they claim ‘exonerates’ Trump."
False
By Bill McCarthy • July 23, 2019
Rush Limbaugh
Rush Limbaugh
stated on July 12, 2019 a "Fox & Friends" appearance
"Somebody in the Obama regime decided to get rid of" the citizenship question in the census.
False
By Bill McCarthy • July 15, 2019
Jess McIntosh
Jess McIntosh
stated on June 30, 2019 a TV panel
"Fifty percent of Republicans are in favor of Medicare for All."
Mostly False
By Bill McCarthy • July 2, 2019
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Ta-Nehisi Coates
stated on June 19, 2019 congressional testimony
"The typical black family in this country has one-tenth the wealth of the typical white family."
True
July 1, 2019
Charles Payne
Charles Payne
stated on June 17, 2019 a TV appearance
"When President Obama was elected, the market crashed … Trump was up 9%, President Obama was down 14.8% and President Bush was down almost 4%. There is an instant reaction on Wall Street."
Mostly False
By Bill McCarthy • June 25, 2019
Jimmy Kimmel
Jimmy Kimmel
stated on June 6, 2019 on "Jimmy Kimmel Live"
"Richard Nixon was the last president to be impeached."
False
By Bill McCarthy • June 13, 2019
Anthony Scaramucci
Anthony Scaramucci
stated on May 11, 2019 an interview
China’s developing country status in the World Trade Organization "means they can tariff and embargo."
Half-True
By John Kruzel • May 15, 2019
Joel Griffith
Joel Griffith
stated on April 28, 2019 an op-ed on Fox News
"Of the 14 wealthy OECD countries with a wealth tax in 1996, 10 have since then abandoned it."
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • May 10, 2019
Candace Owens
Candace Owens
stated on April 9, 2019 a House Judiciary Committee hearing
The Southern strategy is a "myth" that "never happened."  
False
By Amy Sherman • April 10, 2019
Katie Pavlich
Katie Pavlich
stated on March 19, 2019 in a panel discussion
"America came along as the first country to end (slavery) within 150 years."
False
By John Kruzel • March 21, 2019
Matthew Dowd
Matthew Dowd
stated on March 8, 2019 a tweet
"Job growth and stock growth for the first two years of Trump are down from where they were (during the) last two years of Obama."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • March 13, 2019
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