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Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on June 15, 2017 in a web post:
Say Gretchen Carlson said, "The 2nd Amendment Was Written Before Guns Were Invented."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • July 24, 2017
Casey Cagle
Casey Cagle
stated on June 22, 2017 in a meeting with small business owners:
Says of Georgia, "for four years in a row, we are the No. 1 state to do business in."
Half-True
By Lauren Carroll, Louis Jacobson • July 19, 2017
Pat Robertson
Pat Robertson
stated on July 12, 2017 in an interview with President Donald Trump:
Russian natural gas company "Gazprom held Europe by the throat -- they were a monopoly, and now the U.S. is breaking into that monopoly with our exports of (liquefied natural gas)."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • July 17, 2017
Uspoln Website
Uspoln Website
stated on July 7, 2017 in a post on the Internet:
Says former Rep. Michele Bachmann said that "White People Have Suffered More In The Last 8 Years Than Blacks Did During Couple Years Of Slavery."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • July 14, 2017
FreedomCrossroads.us
FreedomCrossroads.us
stated on June 21, 2017 in a post on the Internet:
Says "James Comey Has Been Having An Affair With" Debbie Wasserman Schultz.
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • July 10, 2017
Hagar Chemali
Hagar Chemali
stated on July 6, 2017 in an interview on MSNBC:
"Cuba is far more sanctioned than North Korea."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • July 7, 2017
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on July 4, 2017 in a tweet:
"Gas prices are the lowest in the U.S. in over ten years!"
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson, Manuela Tobias • July 6, 2017
Sarah Huckabee Sanders
Sarah Huckabee Sanders
stated on June 29, 2017 in a White House press briefing:
"The president in no way, form or fashion has ever promoted or encouraged violence."
False
By Louis Jacobson, Manuela Tobias • July 5, 2017
Ron Johnson
Ron Johnson
stated on June 26, 2017 in an op-ed in the New York Times:
"We are $20 trillion in debt. The Congressional Budget Office projects an additional $129 trillion of accumulated deficits over the next 30 years."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • June 30, 2017
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on June 25, 2017 in an interview on "Meet the Press":
"When you throw 23 million people off of health insurance -- people with cancer, people with heart disease, people with diabetes -- thousands of people will die. … This is study after study making this point."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • June 27, 2017
Joy Reid
Joy Reid
stated on June 20, 2017 in a tweet:
In the Georgia House district that hosted a special election on June 20, "Trump won by 20+ points."
False
By Louis Jacobson • June 21, 2017
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on June 18, 2017 in a tweet:
"The new Rasmussen Poll, one of the most accurate in the 2016 Election, just out with a Trump 50% Approval Rating. That's higher than O's #'s!"
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • June 19, 2017
Ivanka Trump
Ivanka Trump
stated on June 12, 2017 in an interview on "Fox & Friends":
"There are currently 6 million jobs available in this country that are due in part to the skills gap."
True
By Louis Jacobson • June 16, 2017
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on June 13, 2017 in a tweet:
Says Senate deliberations on the Affordable Care Act in 2009 and 2010 included hundreds of hours of debate and more than 100 Republican amendments, compared with zero for the American Health Care Act this year.
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • June 14, 2017
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on June 12, 2017 in a Cabinet meeting:
Rare is the president "who's passed more legislation, who's done more things than what we've done, between the executive orders and the job-killing regulations that have been terminated."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • June 13, 2017
Ivanka Trump
Ivanka Trump
stated on June 12, 2017 in an interview on "Fox & Friends":
"While (women) represent 47 percent of the overall work force, we only make up 23 percent of STEM-related occupations."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • June 12, 2017
Vet TV
Vet TV
stated on May 23, 2017 in a web page:
"Trump Removing Marines From the Navy."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • June 7, 2017
Scott Pruitt
Scott Pruitt
stated on June 4, 2017 in an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press":
"Since the fourth quarter of last year until most recently, we've added almost 50,000 jobs in the coal sector. In the month of May alone, almost 7,000 jobs."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • June 5, 2017
National Republican Congressional Committee
National Republican Congressional Committee
stated on May 31, 2017 in a campaign ad:
"ISIS is infiltrating America and using Syrians to do it."
False
By Louis Jacobson • June 1, 2017
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on May 26, 2017 in a tweet:
Deals struck on his first foreign trip as president made and saved "millions of jobs."
False
By Louis Jacobson • May 26, 2017
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