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Facebook posts
stated on April 14, 2019 in a Facebook post:
“When you pull up to the gas pump to fill up your car, get your cell phone and search for Bluetooth devices. If a sequence of letters and numbers show up don’t pay at the pump. One of the pumps has a credit card skimmer inside of it. All of these skimmers run on bluetooth.”
Half-True
By Cade Moisey, Davis Versprille, Mary Alice Truitt, Patrick Orsagos • May 17, 2019
Joe Biden
stated on February 15, 2019 in a tweet:
“Since the passage of (the Violence Against Women Act), annual rates of domestic violence have dropped by 63 percent.”
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • February 22, 2019
Donald Trump
stated on February 5, 2019 in a State of the Union Address:
San Diego’s border barrier “almost completely ended illegal crossings.”
Half-True
By Chris Nichols • February 7, 2019
Garry McCarthy
stated on December 11, 2018 in a speech:
“There was almost a 70 percent reduction in police-related shootings under my tenure because of training, supervision and policy decisions.”
Half-True
By Kiannah Sepeda-Miller • December 23, 2018
Scott Walker
stated on September 12, 2018 in a TV ad:
Says Tony Evers “wants to cut Wisconsin’s prison population in half, a dangerous plan that today would mean releasing thousands of violent criminals back into our communities.”
Half-True
By Tom Kertscher • September 21, 2018
Mike DeWine
stated on August 22, 2018 in a TV ad:
“While Richard Cordray was Attorney General, 12,000 rape kits like Allyssa’s were left untested. Cordray’s failure left serial rapists free to strike again. Then Mike DeWine became Attorney General. He tested all 12,000 rape kits. Now hundreds of rapists are behind bars.”
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • August 30, 2018
Greater Wisconsin Committee
stated on August 20, 2018 in a TV ad:
“When the law stopped Tony Evers from revoking a teacher’s license for viewing pornography, Tony worked with lawmakers from both parties to change the law so offenders could be kicked out of the classroom.”  
Half-True
By Tom Kertscher • August 29, 2018
Matt Flynn
stated on August 8, 2018 in a candidates forum:
Says he was “not part of transferring” any priests accused of sexual abuse.
Half-True
By Tom Kertscher • August 10, 2018
Scott Walker
stated on August 7, 2018 in a tweet:
“A number of Democrats running for governor want to cut the prison population by 50%” and “that would require the release of thousands of violent felons.”  
Half-True
By Tom Kertscher • August 9, 2018
Bloggers
stated on July 19, 2018 in a blog post:
“Satanic leader confesses to sacrificing 675 children ‘gifted’ to him by doctors.”
Half-True
By Katie Akin • August 1, 2018
Paul Soglin
stated on March 23, 2018 in a public forum:
“If there is a firearm available, it is 17 times more likely to be used either for suicide or for assaulting a friend, relative, an acquaintance than it is to be used in fending off an intruder.”  
Half-True
By Taylor Palmby • July 12, 2018
Bill Hightower
stated on April 18, 2018 in a debate:
“In Mobile, it’s something like, 1,700 families generate 80 percent of the crime. We know who those families are.”
Half-True
By Manuela Tobias • April 23, 2018
Stacey Abrams
stated on February 14, 2018 in campaign website:
“The majority of Georgians incarcerated in local jails have never been convicted of crime. They are simply too poor to pay their bail.”
Half-True
By Miriam Valverde • February 21, 2018
Kevin Nicholson
stated on February 18, 2018 in an interview:
“There are more guns in this country than there are people.”  
Half-True
By Tom Kertscher • February 20, 2018
Donald Trump
stated on January 30, 2018 in State of the Union address:
Many gang members have taken advantage of “glaring loopholes and our laws to enter the country as illegal, unaccompanied, alien minors.”
Half-True
By Miriam Valverde • February 7, 2018
Bill Nelson
stated on February 2, 2018 in a tweet:
“Violent crime in Puerto Rico is on the rise as nearly one-third of the island remains without power.”
Half-True
By Allison Graves • February 7, 2018
Cory Booker
stated on January 16, 2018 in an interview on CNN:
“In American history since 9/11, we’ve had 85 major attacks in our country, 73 percent of them have been by white nationalist hate groups.”
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • January 18, 2018
Infowars
stated on December 23, 2017 in a headline:
“Pier 39 terrorist was an anti-Trump antifa supporter.”
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • December 29, 2017
Lupe Valdez
stated on July 31, 2017 in a Dallas Morning News news story:
Says Texas Department of Public Safety numbers show that 1.6 percent of crime is committed by unauthorized immigrants.
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • December 22, 2017
Marsha Blackburn
stated on November 9, 2017 in a Fox News post:
“When Phoenix dropped its sanctuary city policy in 2008, its murder rate fell 27 percent the following year.”
Half-True
By Miriam Valverde • November 17, 2017
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