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Rand Paul

Rand Paul

Rand Paul, a U.S. senator from Kentucky elected in 2010. He ran for president in 2016 before dropping out to seek re-election to the Senate. Paul is a medical doctor and an ophthalmologist. His father is Ron Paul, a 2008 presidential candidate and a former member of Congress from Texas. 

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Rand Paul
Rand Paul
stated on October 19, 2025 an interview:
“About 25% of the time the Coast Guard boards a ship, there are no drugs.”
Mostly True
By Samantha Putterman • October 22, 2025
Rand Paul
Rand Paul
stated on January 4, 2022 an ad:
“No one has been hospitalized for” the omicron variant of COVID-19.
False
By Tom Kertscher • January 7, 2022
Rand Paul
Rand Paul
stated on March 21, 2021 a tweet:
“Sorry Dr Fauci and other fearmongers, new study shows vaccines and naturally acquired immunity DO effectively neutralize COVID variants.”
Half-True
By Julie Appleby • March 26, 2021
Rand Paul
Rand Paul
stated on November 29, 2020 a tweet:
“Trump margin of ‘defeat’ in 4 states occurred in 4 data dumps between 1:34-6:31 AM. Statistical anomaly? Fraud?”
Pants on Fire!
By Miriam Valverde • December 2, 2020
Rand Paul
Rand Paul
stated on August 25, 2020 a speech at the RNC:
Says Joe Biden “voted for the Iraq War … He supported war in Serbia, Syria, Libya.”
Mostly True
By Miriam Valverde • August 26, 2020
Rand Paul
Rand Paul
stated on May 6, 2020 an interview:
$3 trillion for federal coronavirus stimulus packages is "being borrowed basically from China."
False
By Tom Kertscher • May 14, 2020
Rand Paul
Rand Paul
stated on November 10, 2019 an interview on Meet the Press:
President Donald Trump's phone call with the Ukrainian president "sounds exactly like what Joe Biden did."
False
By Amy Sherman • November 11, 2019
Rand Paul
Rand Paul
stated on October 11, 2019 an interview on ABC's "The View":
"Most people below $50,000 don’t pay any income tax. The top 1 percent in our country pay 40%."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • October 17, 2019
Rand Paul
Rand Paul
stated on February 8, 2018 a Senate floor speech:
"George W. Bush doubled the debt from $5 trillion to $10 trillion. President Obama doubled the debt from $10 trillion to $20 trillion. Now we're on course to exceed $30 trillion in the next seven years or so."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • February 9, 2018
Rand Paul
Rand Paul
stated on March 2, 2017 an interview on ABC's "This Week":
"We've repealed regulations for the first time in 20 years using the Congressional Review Act -- three regulations that were going to cost the economy hundreds of millions of dollars and tens of thousands of jobs."
Half-True
By Gabrielle Healy • March 2, 2017
Rand Paul
Rand Paul
stated on January 11, 2017 a Senate confirmation hearing:
"We give (foreign aid) to developing countries, and 70 percent of it's stolen off the top."  
False
By Jon Greenberg • January 17, 2017
Rand Paul
Rand Paul
stated on January 15, 2017 an interview on CNN's "State of the Union":
"The vast majority of people that got insurance under President Obama's Obamacare, the Affordable Care Act, got it through Medicaid."
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • January 15, 2017
Rand Paul
Rand Paul
stated on November 15, 2016 a column on rare.us:
Says John Bolton supported the Iraq War and said last year that "I still think the decision to overthrow Saddam was correct."
True
By Louis Jacobson • November 17, 2016
Rand Paul
Rand Paul
stated on January 28, 2016 a Republican debate:
"A third of the budget for the city of Ferguson (Missouri) was being reaped by civil fines."
Mostly False
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • January 29, 2016
Rand Paul
Rand Paul
stated on January 3, 2016 an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press":
"Both Cruz and Rubio are missing the vast majority of their votes."
Mostly False
By Lauren Carroll • January 3, 2016
Rand Paul
Rand Paul
stated on December 15, 2015 a Republican presidential debate in Las Vegas:
"If you are going to kill the families of terrorists, realize that there's something called the Geneva Convention we're going to have to pull out of."
True
By Louis Jacobson • December 17, 2015
Rand Paul
Rand Paul
stated on December 15, 2015 in the CNN debate in Las Vegas:
Says Marco Rubio "is the one for an open border."  
Pants on Fire!
By Amy Sherman • December 16, 2015
Rand Paul
Rand Paul
stated on December 6, 2015 an interview on NBC's 'Meet the Press':
"In France, they have a (surveillance) program a thousandfold more invasive" than the United States.
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • December 8, 2015
Rand Paul
Rand Paul
stated on November 10, 2015 a debate:
Says Marco Rubio is proposing a new $1 trillion "welfare program" in tax credits and "$1 trillion in new military spending."  
Mostly True
By Tom Kertscher • November 12, 2015
Rand Paul
Rand Paul
stated on November 10, 2015 a Republican presidential debate:
 Income inequality "seems to be worst in cities run by Democrats."
Half-True
By Lauren Carroll, Louis Jacobson • November 11, 2015
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Latest Fact-Checks About Rand Paul

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Facebook posts
stated on October 3, 2022 a Facebook post:
Video shows Rand Paul telling Nancy Pelosi “she’s a traitor.”
False
By Ciara O'Rourke • October 4, 2022
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on August 11, 2021 a Facebook post:
“Rand Paul’s medical license was just revoked!”
Pants on Fire!
By Ciara O'Rourke • August 13, 2021
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on July 21, 2019 a Facebook post:
Rep. Ilhan Omar "voted yes" to "provide further funding for the 9/11 First Responders Victims Fund" while Sen. Rand Paul "voted no."
True
By Daniel Funke • July 24, 2019
Claire McCaskill
Claire McCaskill
stated on August 21, 2015 comments to HBO host Bill Maher:
"You wonder why you don't see Rand Paul as much; he's still shopping for his billionaire. He's like the only one who hasn't found a billionaire to fund his super PAC."
False
By Katherine Knott • October 20, 2015
Sarah Silverman
Sarah Silverman
stated on May 22, 2015 a social media post:
Says Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., has stated that supporting the "right to health care ... means you believe in slavery."
True
By Louis Jacobson • May 27, 2015
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on March 10, 2014 a post from Being Liberal:
Says Marco Rubio believes the earth is 9,000 years old and that humans hunted dinosaurs to extinction; says  Rand Paul believes the earth is 10,000 years old and God removed dinosaurs "to make space for humans."
Pants on Fire!
By Tim Ryan • March 25, 2014
Chris Christie
Chris Christie
stated on July 30, 2013 an article on NJ.com:
"In fact New Jersey is a donor state, we get 61 cents back on every dollar we send to Washington. And interestingly Kentucky gets $1.51 on every dollar they send to Washington."
True
By Caryn Shinske • August 4, 2013
Jack Conway
Jack Conway
stated on October 15, 2010 a campaign commercial:
Rand Paul wants "to end all federal faith-based initiatives, and even end the deduction for religious charities."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • October 19, 2010
Jack Conway
Jack Conway
stated on September 28, 2010 a campaign commercial:
Rand Paul "wants us to pay $2,000 just to get Medicare."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • October 8, 2010
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