Lauren Carroll

Lauren Carroll

Staff Writer

Lauren Carroll is a PolitiFact staff writer based in Washington. Before PolitiFact, she held internships with the Tampa Bay Times in St. Petersburg, Fla., and the News and Observer in Raleigh, N.C. She is a 2014 graduate of Duke University, where she majored in political science.

lcarroll@politifact.com

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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
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on July 6, 2017 in a press conference in Poland:
Says Barack Obama found out about Russia "in August. Now, the election was in November. That's a lot of time. He did nothing about it."
Mostly False
By Lauren Carroll • July 10, 2017
Marc Short
Marc Short
stated on July 2, 2017 in an episode of "Fox News Sunday":
7 million people the Congressional Budget Office says won't have health insurance coverage under the Senate health care bill "don't exist."  
Half-True
By Lauren Carroll • July 5, 2017
Jeff Sessions
Jeff Sessions
stated on June 13, 2017 in a congressional hearing:
"It's a longstanding policy of the Department of Justice not to comment on conversations that the attorney general has had with the president of the United States."
Half-True
By Lauren Carroll • June 14, 2017
Kimberley Strassel
Kimberley Strassel
stated on May 28, 2017 in "Meet the Press" on NBC:
In 2008, "candidate Obama, he's not even president-elect, sends William Miller over to Iran to establish a back channel and let the Iranians know that should he win the election, they will have friendlier terms."
False
By Lauren Carroll • June 2, 2017
Uspoln Website
Uspoln Website
stated on May 23, 2017 in an online article:
"Rubio: ‘Rape victims should be in custody if there is suspicion that they’re planning abortion.’ "
Pants on Fire!
By Lauren Carroll • June 1, 2017
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on May 21, 2017 in an episode of "Fox and Friends":
Democratic National Committee staffer Seth Rich "apparently was assassinated at 4 in the morning, having given WikiLeaks something like 53,000 emails and 17,000 attachments. ... It turns out, it wasn’t the Russians."
Pants on Fire!
By Lauren Carroll • May 23, 2017
Rush Limbaugh
Rush Limbaugh
stated on May 17, 2017 in an episode of the "Rush Limbaugh Show":
"What Trump is alleged to have done is actually no different than what Barack Obama did in April last year when he made it known that he didn’t want Hillary prosecuted."
Mostly False
By Lauren Carroll • May 18, 2017
Richard Blumenthal
Richard Blumenthal
stated on May 9, 2017 in a press conference:
"What does Trumpcare do? Yank tax credits away from veterans unlike any other American."
Half-True
By Lauren Carroll • May 15, 2017
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on May 4, 2017 in blog headlines:
Under the House Republican health plan, sexual assault is a pre-existing condition.
Mostly False
By Lauren Carroll • May 5, 2017
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