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West Virginians For Health Freedom stated on August 29, 2025 in a billboard in Morgantown, W.Va.:

“Vaccine makers are exempt from all liability for vaccine injury and death.”

By Natalie Ribar • October 15, 2025

Facebook posts stated on August 15, 2019 in a Facebook post:

"ICE has not deported or detained one white illegal immigrant."

By Miriam Valverde • September 24, 2019

John Larson stated on November 10, 2017 in a House Ways and Means Committee markup:

Democrats on the House Ways and Means Committee weren’t "even entitled to bring an expert witness on any aspect of the tax code that affects 100 percent of our economy."

By Louis Jacobson • November 22, 2017

Hillary Clinton stated on September 26, 2016 in the first presidential debate at Hofstra University:

The Great Recession emerged "in large part because of tax policies that slashed taxes on the wealthy, failed to invest in the middle class, took their eyes off of Wall Street, and created a perfect storm."

By Louis Jacobson • October 2, 2016

Donald Trump stated on March 13, 2016 in an interview on "Meet the Press":

Says the man who rushed the stage at him in Dayton, Ohio, "had chatter about ISIS, or with ISIS" in his social media posts.

By Louis Jacobson • March 13, 2016

Bernie Sanders stated on March 6, 2016 in a Democratic debate in Flint, Mich.:

"When you're white ... you don't know what it's like to be poor."

By Louis Jacobson • March 7, 2016

Ron Johnson stated on October 10, 2012 in a television interview:

Says President Barack Obama "did not come into office with the economy in a free fall."

By James B. Nelson • November 26, 2012

Robert Brown stated on June 2, 2011 in a press release:

Georgia’s illegal immigration crackdown laws should be called the "Brown Codes" because of their similarity to the "Black Codes" governing blacks after the Civil War.

By Willoughby Mariano • July 1, 2011

Debbie Wasserman Schultz stated on June 5, 2011 in an interview with political commentator Roland Martin:

By advocating new requirements for voters to show ID cards at the polls, Republicans "want to literally drag us all the way back to Jim Crow laws."

By Louis Jacobson • June 9, 2011

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Fact-checking 2024 presidential candidates, who’s running

By PolitiFact Staff • June 5, 2023

Cash register till for Biden economic charts story

As Joe Biden announces his reelection bid, how has the economy fared on his watch?

By Louis Jacobson • April 25, 2023

Back of a police car in Memphis, Tenn. Jan. 2023

What’s the ‘determinant’ in police use-of-force cases: The civilian’s race or the officer’s?

By Maria Ramirez Uribe • February 9, 2023

Fact-checking the March 13 Sunday news shows

By Louis Jacobson, Linda Qiu • March 13, 2016

PAC’s newspaper ad filled with falsehoods

By Angie Drobnic Holan, Becky Bowers, Jon Greenberg, Katie Sanders, Louis Jacobson, Molly Moorhead • September 26, 2012