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Byron Donalds
Byron Donalds
stated on April 12, 2026 an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press":
The U.S. Navy was created "to free international waters from the Barbary pirates."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson, Zoe Weyand • April 14, 2026
JD Vance
JD Vance
stated on August 24, 2025 an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press":
"If you go back to World War II, if you go back to World War I, if you go back to every major conflict in human history, they all end with some kind of negotiation."
False
By Louis Jacobson • August 26, 2025
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on August 19, 2025 a Truth Social post:
The Smithsonian Institution includes “nothing about success, nothing about brightness, nothing about the future.”
Pants on Fire!
By Grace Abels, Louis Jacobson • August 20, 2025
Lisa Murkowski
Lisa Murkowski
stated on January 20, 2025 an X post:
"Our nation’s tallest mountain … has been called Denali for thousands of years."
Mostly True
By Kwasi Gyamfi Asiedu • January 23, 2025
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on August 8, 2024 a press conference:
Says his Jan. 6, 2021, speech on the White House Ellipse drew the “same number of people,” as the 1963 March on Washington where Martin Luther King Jr. gave his “I Have a Dream” speech.
False
By Amy Sherman, Louis Jacobson, Samantha Putterman • August 9, 2024
Kristi Noem
Kristi Noem
stated on March 30, 2024 an X post:
“Joe Biden banned ‘religious themed’ eggs at the White House’s Easter Egg design contest for kids.”
False
By Samantha Putterman • April 1, 2024
Nicole Shanahan
Nicole Shanahan
stated on March 26, 2024 her vice presidential announcement speech:
If elected, “I will be the youngest vice president in American history.”
False
By Louis Jacobson • March 26, 2024
Instagram posts
Instagram posts
stated on February 12, 2024 an Instagram post:
"Google proves that no one ever went to the moon.”
False
By Samantha Putterman • February 16, 2024
Instagram posts
Instagram posts
stated on January 26, 2024 an Instagram post:
"Last time Democrats removed a Republican from the ballot” was Abraham Lincoln in 1860.
False
By Jeff Cercone • February 6, 2024
Nikki Haley
Nikki Haley
stated on January 31, 2024 a radio interview:
If Texas says, “‘We don’t want to be part of America anymore’ … that’s their decision to make.”
False
By Sara Swann • February 5, 2024
Kevin McCarthy
Kevin McCarthy
stated on November 26, 2023 a speech at the Oxford Union:
“In every single war that America has fought, we have never asked for land afterwards, except for enough to bury the Americans who gave the ultimate sacrifice for that freedom we went in for.”
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • November 28, 2023
Markwayne Mullin
Markwayne Mullin
stated on November 15, 2023 an interview with CNN:
“Abraham Lincoln challenged a guy to a sword fight.”
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • November 16, 2023
Isabel Brown
Isabel Brown
stated on August 23, 2023 a post on TikTok:
Americans “currently are making less than at the height of the Great Depression.”
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • September 7, 2023
Kamala Harris
Kamala Harris
stated on July 20, 2023 a speech to the Delta Sigma Theta Sorority:
Florida “decided middle school students will be taught that enslaved people benefited from slavery.”
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman, Louis Jacobson, Sofia Bliss-Carrascosa • July 24, 2023
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on April 6, 2023 a video shared on Facebook:
U.S. public schools don't teach the Declaration of Independence.
False
By Madison Czopek • April 7, 2023
North Carolina Republican Party
North Carolina Republican Party
stated on February 24, 2023 an email:
“The left is determined to erase Mount Rushmore from our history books.”
False
By Paul Specht • March 14, 2023
Sawyer Hackett
Sawyer Hackett
stated on January 16, 2023 a tweet:
Gov. Abbott “signed a bill last year eliminating the requirements for Texas schools to teach MLK’s ‘I have a dream’ speech.”
Half-True
By Nusaiba Mizan • February 14, 2023
Dave Grohl
Dave Grohl
stated on February 12, 2023 a Super Bowl ad:
Canada is to thank for American football.
Mostly True
By Samantha Putterman • February 13, 2023
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on January 18, 2023 a post:
Black Americans are not descended from people who were taken from Africa to be enslaved.
Pants on Fire!
By Gabrielle Settles • January 31, 2023
Louise Lucas
Louise Lucas
stated on January 18, 2023 a tweet.:
Glenn Youngkin is “the first sitting Governor in the modern era to have their party have less legislative seats than when they were elected.”
False
By Warren Fiske • January 31, 2023
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