Latest Fact-Checks By Allison Graves

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Republican Party of Florida
stated on August 19, 2016 in a Facebook post:

Says Hillary Clinton "voted to raise taxes on workers earning as little as $41,500."

Mostly False

By Allison Graves • August 29, 2016

Reince Priebus
stated on August 28, 2016 in an interview during NBC's Meet the Press:

Says Hillary Clinton "is the one that labeled African-American youth as ‘superpredators.’"

Mostly True

By Allison Graves • August 28, 2016

Marco Rubio
stated on August 12, 2016 in a campaign ad:

Says "Marco Rubio wrote and passed bipartisan legislation allowing the VA to fire negligent workers."

Mostly True

By Allison Graves • August 17, 2016

Hillary Clinton
stated on August 2, 2016 in a campaign ad:

Says Donald Trump "has been talking about the option of using a nuclear weapon against our Western European allies."

Mostly False

By Allison Graves • August 12, 2016

Viral image
stated on August 5, 2016 in a viral image:

In the 2012 election, there were more votes cast than registered voters in St. Lucie County, and Palm Beach County had 141 percent turnout.

Pants on Fire!

By Allison Graves • August 9, 2016

Barack Obama
stated on August 2, 2016 in at the White House:

Because of the Trans-Pacific Partnership "we’ve got a country like Malaysia taking really serious efforts to crack down on human trafficking."

Mostly True

By Allison Graves, Neelesh Moorthy • August 5, 2016

Barack Obama
stated on August 2, 2016 in a press conference at the White House:

Thanks to the Trans-Pacific Partnership, "Vietnam is drafting and presenting unprecedented labor reforms, changing their Constitution to recognize worker organizations in Vietnam for the first time."

Half-True

By Allison Graves, Neelesh Moorthy • August 4, 2016

Barack Obama
stated on August 2, 2016 in a White House press conference:

The Trans-Pacific Partnership "knocks out 18,000 tariffs that other countries place on American products and goods."

Mostly True

By Allison Graves, Neelesh Moorthy • August 4, 2016

Reince Priebus
stated on July 17, 2016 in an interview on "Meet the Press":

Says no one from the Bush family attended the 2012 Republican National Convention and "there was no President Bush" at the 2008 convention.

False

By Allison Graves, Neelesh Moorthy • July 17, 2016

Jim Waldman
stated on July 8, 2016 in a campaign email:

Says Gary Farmer’s claim that he "received an 'A' from the NRA" is "an absolute lie."

True

By Allison Graves • July 15, 2016

Carlos Beruff
stated on July 6, 2016 in a campaign ad:

"The folks in Washington" are "already forcing you to buy government health care."

Mostly False

By Allison Graves • July 12, 2016

Alan Grayson
stated on June 30, 2016 in an interview with the "Tampa Bay Times" editorial board:

Says Patrick Murphy has "taken more money from Wall Street than any other member of Congress other than the speaker and the majority leader."

Mostly True

By Allison Graves • July 7, 2016

Daily Mail
stated on June 24, 2016 in a headline:

"Google search spike suggests many people don’t know why they voted for Brexit."

Mostly False

By Allison Graves • July 1, 2016

Dana Young
stated on June 21, 2016 in a tweet:

"DUI arrests dropped significantly in Tampa once Uber began operating here."

Half-True

By Allison Graves • June 29, 2016

Andrew Napolitano
stated on June 16, 2016 in a segment on Fox & Friends:

"Attempts to find things like, ‘crime,’ ‘criminal activity,’ ‘indictment,’ have been filtered out by Google" in favor of Hillary Clinton.

Mostly False

By Allison Graves • June 23, 2016

Bloggers
stated on June 13, 2016 in an article:

Says Hillary Clinton’s "State Department blocked investigation into Orlando killer’s mosque."

False

By Allison Graves • June 23, 2016

Catherine Hanaway
stated on June 6, 2016 in Missouri:

"Only half of the murders in the city of St. Louis get solved."

True

By Allison Graves • June 14, 2016

Hillary Clinton
stated on June 13, 2016 in an interview with CNN:

"Florida doesn't regulate assault weapons or .50 caliber rifles or large-capacity ammunition magazines. It doesn't require a permit to purchase a gun. It doesn't require any registration, whatsoever."

Mostly True

By Allison Graves • June 13, 2016

Viral image
stated on June 1, 2016 in Facebook post by Liberals are Cool:

"Tuition-free public universities and colleges are just a pipe dream. False. They were both free up until the Vietnam War."

Mostly False

By Allison Graves • June 10, 2016

Mitch McConnell
stated on May 31, 2016 in an interview on MSNBC's "Morning Joe":

Says Obama "called Kagan a moderate. He called Sotomayor a moderate."

Mostly True

By Allison Graves • June 7, 2016

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