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Juan Williams
stated on June 3, 2018 in on a panel:
North Korea’s history of international negotiations shows “they’ll take the concessions, they’ll keep them in their pocket and then they won’t deliver.”
Half-True
By John Kruzel • June 7, 2018
Kevin McCarthy
stated on June 3, 2018 in an interview on CNN's "State of the Union":
“If you are talking about Canada .. our wine cannot sit on their supermarkets.”
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • June 6, 2018
Dennis Kucinich
stated on April 19, 2018 in a radio interview:
Says of disclosing his $20,000 speech about Syria, “there was no hiding. I released it.”
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • April 26, 2018
Donald Trump
stated on April 18, 2018 in a press conference:
“The United States has a massive trade deficit with Japan. It’s anywhere from $69 billion to a $100 billion a year.”
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By Louis Jacobson • April 19, 2018
Ron Johnson
stated on January 12, 2018 in an interview:
About 1.1 million people legally enter the U.S. each year as permanent residents — “65 percent of that is some kind of chain migration; 22 percent is diversity lottery, ‘asyling,’ refugees; only about 14, 15 percent has anything to do with work.”  
Half-True
By Tom Kertscher • February 2, 2018
Rex Tillerson
stated on October 15, 2017 in a CNN "State of the Union" interview:
“The president early on called on NATO member countries to step up their contributions … and as a result of that countries have stepped up contributions toward their own defense.”
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By Allison Graves • October 15, 2017
Donald Trump
stated on September 17, 2017 in a tweet:
“Long gas lines forming in North Korea.”
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • September 19, 2017
Pat Robertson
stated on July 12, 2017 in an interview with President Donald Trump:
Russian natural gas company “Gazprom held Europe by the throat — they were a monopoly, and now the U.S. is breaking into that monopoly with our exports of (liquefied natural gas).”
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By Louis Jacobson • July 17, 2017
Hagar Chemali
stated on July 6, 2017 in an interview on MSNBC:
“Cuba is far more sanctioned than North Korea.”
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By Louis Jacobson • July 7, 2017
Richard Burr
stated on June 8, 2017 in an interview:
“This is not the first time (the Russians) have been involved in our elections.”
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By Will Doran • June 20, 2017
Karen Handel
stated on June 6, 2017 in a debate:
“Nearly $2 billion in cash was flown over to Iran, money that the Obama administration has admitted is being used for terrorists and to support further activities there.”  
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • June 7, 2017
Donald Trump
stated on April 17, 2017 in an interview with Fox News:
With North Korea, “nobody has ever seen such a positive response on our behalf from China.”
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • April 19, 2017
Jon Ossoff
stated on February 20, 2017 in a campaign appearance:
“I’ve got five years of experience as a national security staffer in the U.S. Congress.”
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By Louis Jacobson • April 3, 2017
Devin Nunes
stated on March 20, 2017 in a House Intelligence Committee hearing:
“In recent years … the Obama administration was committed to the notion, against all evidence, that we could reset relations with Putin.”
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By Louis Jacobson • March 20, 2017
Anthony Tata
stated on February 19, 2017 in an interview on CNN:
“The sanctions that we put on (Russia) for the Crimea annexation and meddling in Ukraine … have absolutely crushed the ruble by 50 percent. And GDP from 2014 to 2016 is 50 percent down in Russia, as well.”
Half-True
By Lauren Carroll • February 21, 2017
Paul Ryan
stated on January 25, 2017 in an interview:
In the United States, “we tax our exports and don’t tax our imports.”
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By Tom Kertscher • February 9, 2017
Reince Priebus
stated on January 29, 2017 in an interview:
The seven nations identified in Donald Trump’s travel ban were “identified by the Obama administration as the seven most dangerous countries in the world in regard to harboring terrorists.”
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By Tom Kertscher • February 7, 2017
Donald Trump
stated on October 19, 2016 in a presidential debate:
“ISIS is in 32 countries.”
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By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • October 24, 2016
Rob Portman
stated on October 20, 2016 in an Ohio Senate debate in Cleveland:
“The director of the FBI said that we cannot figure out who (Syrian refugees) are, what their intentions are, because we have no information on them, because we don’t have any contact with the Syrian government or any people on the ground to be able to determine that.”
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By Louis Jacobson • October 21, 2016
Donald Trump
stated on October 19, 2016 in the third presidential debate:
Russia has “tremendous numbers of nuclear warheads — 1,800, by the way — where they expanded, and we didn’t.”
Half-True
By Lauren Carroll • October 20, 2016
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