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Harris Faulkner
Harris Faulkner
stated on July 6, 2015 in a broadcast of "Outnumbered" on Fox News:
"President Obama in November of last year wiped away (a program) that allows for shared fingerprinting for those who are behind bars so you know who is here legally and illegally."  
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • July 8, 2015
Paul Krugman
Paul Krugman
stated on July 5, 2015 in an interview on ABC's "This Week with George Stephanopoulos":
"Greece is not a big economy. It's about the size of metropolitan Miami."
True
By Jon Greenberg • July 6, 2015
Donna Brazile
Donna Brazile
stated on June 30, 2015 in a tweet:
"Chris Christie has led New Jersey to a record-breaking 9 credit downgrades."
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • July 2, 2015
Gavin McInnes
Gavin McInnes
stated on June 22, 2015 in a broadcast of "The Greg Gutfeld Show":
"50 percent of murders in Texas have been linked to illegal aliens."
False
By Jon Greenberg • July 1, 2015
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on June 28, 2015 in comments on ABC's "This Week":
"We are the only major country on Earth that doesn't guarantee health care to all people as a right."
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • June 29, 2015
Juan Williams
Juan Williams
stated on June 22, 2015 in a broadcast of "The Five" on Fox News:
Polls indicate that "white people think that black people are less intelligent. They think they’re less trustworthy, less patriotic."  
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • June 29, 2015
Gavin McInnes
Gavin McInnes
stated on June 23, 2015 in a tweet:
"The Civil War wasn't about slavery."
Pants on Fire!
By Jon Greenberg • June 25, 2015
Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton
stated on June 17, 2015 in a broadcast of "The Daily Show":
"Between 2010 and 2014, there was no net in-migration from Mexico."
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • June 22, 2015
James Clyburn
James Clyburn
stated on June 21, 2015 in comments on NBC's "Meet the Press":
The original compromise for the Confederate battle flag in South Carolina "was to put it on the back side of the statehouse, out of public view so it would not have any appearance of sovereignty."
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • June 21, 2015
Breitbart
Breitbart
stated on June 14, 2015 in an article on the Breitbart website:
Says the California flag was supposed to be a pear, not a bear.
Pants on Fire!
By Jon Greenberg • June 18, 2015
Ron Christie
Ron Christie
stated on June 12, 2015 in a panel discussion on HBO's "Real Time with Bill Maher":
"After the 2001 and 2003 Bush tax rate cuts ... there was more money coming into the treasury."
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • June 17, 2015
George Will
George Will
stated on June 14, 2015 in comments on "Fox News Sunday":
Says Jeb Bush "happens to be where a majority" of Republican voters are on giving legal status to illegal immigrants.
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • June 14, 2015
Brad Woodhouse
Brad Woodhouse
stated on June 5, 2015 in an interview on CNN's "New Day":
The New York Times "had to retract" its story that Hillary Clinton’s email handling had broken certain laws.
False
By Jon Greenberg • June 11, 2015
Hunter Schwarz
Hunter Schwarz
stated on June 8, 2015 in a "Washington Post" article:
47 percent of Americans "can’t pay for an unexpected $400 expense through savings or credit cards, without selling something or borrowing money."
True
By Jon Greenberg • June 9, 2015
Rick Santorum
Rick Santorum
stated on June 7, 2015 in comments on "Fox News Sunday":
If Fox News' presidential debate rules had been in place during the 1992 election, "Bill Clinton wouldn't have been on the stage."
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • June 7, 2015
Al Sharpton
Al Sharpton
stated on May 29, 2015 in a broadcast of MSNBC's "PoliticsNation":
The Texas Senate "approved a bill to put a special label on the insurance cards of anyone who bought a plan through Obamacare" that includes the letter "S" for subsidy.
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • June 3, 2015
Ann Coulter
Ann Coulter
stated on May 26, 2015 in an interview on "America with Jorge Ramos":
"America has already taken in one-fourth of Mexico's entire population."  
Pants on Fire!
By Jon Greenberg • June 2, 2015
George Will
George Will
stated on May 31, 2015 in a broadcast of "Fox News Sunday":
"We spend more money on lobbying than we do on campaigns."  
True
By Jon Greenberg • June 1, 2015
Megyn Kelly
Megyn Kelly
stated on May 13, 2015 in a broadcast of "The Kelly File":
The lack of an automatic braking system that could have prevented the Philadelphia Amtrak crash "wasn't driven by a lack of funding. It just takes a while. They (Congress) just passed it in the recent past."
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • May 18, 2015
Bill Gates
Bill Gates
stated on May 17, 2015 in an interview on CNN's "Fareed Zakaria GPS":
The "highest economic growth decade was the 1960s. Income tax rates were 90 percent."  
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • May 17, 2015
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