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Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on April 5, 2018 an event in West Virginia
"This will be the last time — April — that you’re going to (fill out) that old-fashioned, big, lots of pages, complicated tax form. Because next April you’re going to, in many cases, (file) one page, one card. It’s going to be very, very different. Very, very different."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • April 9, 2018
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on April 4, 2018 a fake news blog post
"YouTube witness makes shocking admission on live TV. CNN pulls plug immediately"
Pants on Fire!
By Jon Greenberg • April 6, 2018
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on April 5, 2018 a speech in West Virginia
"In many places, like California, the same person votes many times. You probably heard about that. They always like to say 'oh that's a conspiracy theory.' Not a conspiracy theory, folks. Millions and millions of people."
Pants on Fire!
By Amy Sherman • April 6, 2018
Ron Wyden
Ron Wyden
stated on March 29, 2018 a tweet
"Republicans in Congress are plotting to take away Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security."
False
By Louis Jacobson • April 5, 2018
Ruben Gallego
Ruben Gallego
stated on April 3, 2018 a tweet
"For what it would cost the (National) Guard to make just two arrests at the border, we could give a homeless veteran permanent housing for an entire year."
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • April 5, 2018
Alex Mooney
Alex Mooney
stated on March 25, 2018 a Wall Street Journal op-ed
"From 2000-10, U.S. manufacturing employment shrank by a third after holding steady for 30 years."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • April 4, 2018
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on April 3, 2018 a press conference
"We’ve started building the wall."
Mostly False
By Miriam Valverde • April 4, 2018
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on April 2, 2018 a tweet
Mexico has "very strong border laws -- ours are pathetic."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • April 2, 2018
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on April 2, 2018 a tweet
"Only fools, or worse, are saying that our money losing Post Office makes money with Amazon. THEY LOSE A FORTUNE, and this will be changed."
False
By Manuela Tobias • April 2, 2018
Viral image
Viral image
stated on March 20, 2018 In a meme
"The United States is 3rd in murders throughout the world. If you remove Chicago, Detroit, Washington, St. Louis and New Orleans, the United States is then 189th out of 193 countries in the entire world."
Pants on Fire!
By Manuela Tobias • March 28, 2018
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on March 23, 2018 in a news conference
"Last year we lost $500 billion on trade with China."
Mostly False
By John Kruzel • March 28, 2018
Joe Manchin
Joe Manchin
stated on March 21, 2018 a tweet
Small businesses in West Virginia "make up about 96 percent of our state's economy."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • March 26, 2018
Doug Jones
Doug Jones
stated on March 21, 2018
"States that have implemented waiting periods have seen significant decreases in suicides."
Mostly True
By John Kruzel • March 24, 2018
National Rifle Association
National Rifle Association
stated on March 21, 2018 a segment on NRATV
"March For Our Lives is backed by radicals with a history of violent threats, language and actions."
Pants on Fire!
By Jon Greenberg • March 23, 2018
Evan Jenkins
Evan Jenkins
stated on March 20, 2018 a press release
West Virginia "has the highest overdose death rate in the nation."
True
By Louis Jacobson • March 23, 2018
Meghan McCain
Meghan McCain
stated on March 20, 2018 a discussion on "The View"
"It happened under Obama, and it was lauded by the media as being genius. And now under the Trump campaign — it’s the Cambridge Analytica scandal."
Half-True
By Manuela Tobias • March 22, 2018
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on March 18, 2018 a tweet
Robert Mueller’s investigative team has "13 hardened Democrats, some big Crooked Hillary supporters, and Zero Republicans."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • March 21, 2018
Heidi Heitkamp
Heidi Heitkamp
stated on March 14, 2018 an interview
"There are no provisions in here that substantially affect or advantage the big Wall Street bankers."
Half-True
By Manuela Tobias • March 20, 2018
Ryan Zinke
Ryan Zinke
stated on March 13, 2018 testimony before a Senate committee
A Trump administration proposal for the Interior Department "is the largest investment in our public lands infrastructure in our nation's history."
False
By Louis Jacobson • March 19, 2018
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on March 14, 2018 in a tweet
Says Democratic obstruction is the reason why "many important positions in government are unfilled."
Half-True
By John Kruzel • March 16, 2018
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