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Marianne Williamson
stated on April 14, 2019 in 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

Joyce Krawiec
stated on April 15, 2019 in in a speech on the state Senate floor:

"No, we do not have laws in place protecting babies who are born alive as the result of an abortion."

False

By Louis Jacobson, Paul Specht • April 19, 2019

Howard Schultz
stated on April 4, 2019 in a Fox News town hall:

Says presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama each tried to get immigration bills passed, but "it did not work because the other party was unwilling to provide the president and his party a victory."

Mostly False

By Louis Jacobson • April 15, 2019

Pete Buttigieg
stated on April 7, 2019 in an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press":

"We cut unemployment by more than half" in South Bend, Ind.

Mostly True

By Louis Jacobson • April 10, 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

Kamala Harris
stated on March 26, 2019 in a tweet:

"In 30 states, average teacher pay is less than the living wage for a family of four."

Mostly True

By Louis Jacobson • April 1, 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

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

Matthew Dowd
stated on March 8, 2019 in 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

Turning Point USA
stated on March 11, 2019 in a post on Facebook:

Says Michelle Obama "had a staff of 23" while Melania Trump "has a staff of 4."

Half-True

By Louis Jacobson • March 12, 2019

Donald Trump
stated on March 5, 2019 in remarks at the White House:

When Congress sought documents from President Barack Obama, the White House "didn’t do anything. They didn’t give one letter of the request. Many requests were made. They didn’t give a letter."

Pants on Fire!

By Louis Jacobson • March 8, 2019

James Lankford
stated on March 6, 2019 in an interview on MSNBC's "Morning Joe":

"Tax revenue went up, actually, $14 billion last year after the tax cut actually occurred. We had greater revenue."

Mostly False

By Louis Jacobson • March 7, 2019

Viral image
stated on February 28, 2019 in a post on the Internet:

"Obama settled 43,000 Somalian refugees in Minnesota. As of 2016, there were around 80,000. No wonder Ilhan Omar was elected. It was planned."

Pants on Fire!

By Louis Jacobson • March 5, 2019

Bernie Sanders
stated on February 26, 2019 in a tweet:

Raising the federal minimum wage to $15 "would give more than 40 million low-wage workers a raise, more than 25 percent of the U.S. workforce."

Half-True

By Louis Jacobson • March 1, 2019

Donald Trump
stated on February 25, 2019 in a tweet:

"The Democrat(ic) position on abortion is now so extreme that they don’t mind executing babies AFTER birth."

False

By Louis Jacobson • February 28, 2019

Heidi Heitkamp
stated on February 24, 2019 in a roundtable on ABC's "This Week":

"We have record bankruptcies in farming country."

Mostly False

By Louis Jacobson • February 26, 2019

Donald Trump
stated on February 25, 2019 in a tweet:

Says former Sen. Harry Reid "got thrown out."

Pants on Fire!

By Louis Jacobson • February 25, 2019

Joe Biden
stated on February 15, 2019 in a tweet:

"Since the passage of (the Violence Against Women Act), annual rates of domestic violence have dropped by 63 percent."

Half-True

By Louis Jacobson • February 22, 2019

Amy Klobuchar
stated on February 18, 2019 in a CNN town hall:

"Comprehensive immigration reform, the bill we had back in 2013 ... brought the debt down $158 billion."

Half-True

By Louis Jacobson • February 20, 2019

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