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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."

By Allison Graves • 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."

By Allison Graves • 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."

By Allison Graves • August 4, 2016
Donald Trump
stated on July 30, 2016 in a tweet:

"American homeownership rate in Q2 2016 was 62.9% - lowest rate in 51yrs."

By Neelesh Moorthy • August 2, 2016
Brian Kilmeade
stated on August 1, 2016 in on Fox and Friends:

"Nobody covered" the remarks of Patricia Smith, the mother of a Benghazi victim, "live, but almost everybody covered Khizr Khan's, Mr. Khan's remarks live."

By Neelesh Moorthy • August 1, 2016
James Woods
stated on July 31, 2016 in a tweet:

Says Hillary Clinton wrote, "I believe the primary role of the state is to teach, train and raise children. Parents have a secondary role."

By Neelesh Moorthy • August 1, 2016
Joaquin Castro
stated on July 28, 2016 in a speech at the DNC:

Says "Donald Trump has defended" World War II internment camps.

By Miriam Valverde • July 29, 2016
Rudy Giuliani
stated on July 18, 2016 in a speech at the Republican convention”:

"Hillary Clinton is for open borders."

By Amy Sherman • July 19, 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.

By Allison Graves • July 17, 2016
Mike Rawlings
stated on July 8, 2016 in a news conference:

In 2016, Dallas, Texas, has fewer "police officer-related shootings than any large city in America."

By Neelesh Moorthy • July 12, 2016