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Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on September 24, 2019 an exchange with reporters at the UN
"Europe and other nations (need to) contribute to Ukraine. Because they’re not doing it. Just the United States. We’re putting up the bulk of the money."  
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • September 25, 2019
Tucker Carlson
Tucker Carlson
stated on September 10, 2019 a TV segment
Says John Bolton "fundamentally was a man of the left."
Pants on Fire!
By Bill McCarthy • September 13, 2019
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on August 16, 2019 a Facebook post
Says the U.S. gives Israel "$3 billion annually" in aid and zero to Detroit.   
Mostly False
By Samantha Putterman • September 3, 2019
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on August 26, 2019 a press conference in Biarritz, France
Crimea "was sort of taken away from President Obama. … And he wanted Russia to be out of what was called the G-8. And that was his determination."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • August 27, 2019
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on August 26, 2019 a post-G7 news conference
"We made a ridiculous deal (with Iran). We gave them $150 billion. We gave them $1.8 billion, and we got nothing."
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • August 27, 2019
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on August 21, 2019 remarks at the White House
"Yesterday we had the strongest dollar in the history of our country."
False
By Louis Jacobson • August 22, 2019
Matt Gaetz
Matt Gaetz
stated on August 10, 2019 an interview on Fox News
In Australia "they went and confiscated all the guns. You know who did what Australia did? Venezuela."  
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • August 19, 2019
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on June 30, 2019 a press conference in South Korea
"The Obama administration was begging for a meeting" with Kim Jong Un.  
False
By Jon Greenberg • July 1, 2019
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on June 4, 2019 remarks at a business roundtable in London
The United Kingdom is "our largest (trading) partner."  
False
By Jon Greenberg • June 5, 2019
Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on May 13, 2019 a speech
Says "Nicolás Maduro is carrying out a genocide on his people."
False
By Amy Sherman, Louis Jacobson • May 16, 2019
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on May 9, 2019 remarks at the White House
Tariffs are "paid for mostly by China, by the way, not by us."
False
By Louis Jacobson • May 14, 2019
Viral image
Viral image
stated on May 2, 2019 social media posts
When Joe Biden’s son Hunter was serving as "a director to Ukraine’s largest private gas producer," the elder Biden "threatened to withhold $1 BILLION in U.S. aid to Ukraine if they didn’t fire a prosecutor looking into" the gas company.
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • May 7, 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
Kevin Downing
Kevin Downing
stated on March 13, 2019 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
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on February 28, 2019 a Facebook post
Says Bernie Sanders marched with Fidel Castro and Che Guevara in Cuba.
Pants on Fire!
By Amy Sherman • March 5, 2019
Ilhan Omar
Ilhan Omar
stated on February 27, 2019 a tweet
"#MichaelCohen: Convicted of lying to Congress re: Russia investigation … #ElliottAbrams: Convicted of lying to Congress re: arming Contra death squads"
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • March 1, 2019
Richard Hudson
Richard Hudson
stated on January 8, 2019 a tweet
Says Democrats want to give $54 billion in foreign aid, and Trump is only asking for 10 percent of that "to secure our border and build a wall.
Mostly False
By Paul Specht • January 24, 2019
Mike Pence
Mike Pence
stated on January 16, 2019 a speech
"The caliphate has crumbled and ISIS has been defeated."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • January 17, 2019
Mark Warner
Mark Warner
stated on January 13, 2019 in an interview
Says the Trump administration has "a scheme to try to take (Oleg Deripaska’s) ownership level down from 70 percent to roughly 40, 45" so that the Russian company is no longer subject to sanctions.
Half-True
By John Kruzel • January 15, 2019
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on January 2, 2019 in a discussion with reporters
"The reason Russia was in Afghanistan was because terrorists were going into Russia."
Pants on Fire!
By John Kruzel • January 9, 2019
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