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Facebook posts stated on October 9, 2020 in a Facebook post:

“Jeffrey Epstein found living in New Mexico!”

By Ciara O'Rourke • October 13, 2020

Viral image stated on August 19, 2020 in a Facebook post:

“This USPS employee was caught taking down Trump signs. These people are also responsible for the mail in ballots they are pushing so hard.”

By Ciara O'Rourke • August 21, 2020

Facebook posts stated on July 7, 2020 in a Facebook post:

“New Zealand let health experts” rather than politicians make decisions about how to deal with COVID-19, “and as of today they have zero COVID cases.”

By Tom Kertscher • July 10, 2020

Brian Kilmeade stated on July 2, 2020 in an episode of "Fox & Friends":

The President’s Daily Brief “is like a mini novel.”

By Bill McCarthy • July 7, 2020

George Borrello stated on May 11, 2020 in a press release:

“Infection rates in Allegany, Cattaraugus and Chautauqua counties have consistently been among the lowest in the state.”

By Michael Hogan, Sean Mickey • June 12, 2020

Andrew Cuomo stated on April 23, 2020 in a news conference:

“At the end of the year, we put into that federal pot $116 billion more than we take out,” while Kentucky “takes out $148 billion more than they put in.”

By Jill Terreri Ramos • May 5, 2020

Donald Trump stated on March 24, 2020 in a Fox News town hall:

Says N.Y. Gov. Andrew Cuomo “rejected buying recommended 16,000 ventilators in 2015 for the pandemic, for a pandemic, established death panels and lotteries instead. So, he had a chance to buy, in 2015, 16,000 ventilators at a very low price, and he turned it down.”

By Miriam Valverde • March 25, 2020

Facebook posts stated on March 4, 2020 in a Facebook post:

“Asteroid warning: NASA tracks a 4KM killer rock on approach - Could end human civilisation.”

By Tom Kertscher • March 5, 2020

Andrew Cuomo stated on January 8, 2020 in a speech:

"We have the lowest corporate tax rate since 1968."

By Jill Terreri Ramos • January 18, 2020

Bloggers stated on December 23, 2019 in a Facebook post:

Says Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ilhan Omar vowed "to remove senior’s ‘entitlements,’ Social Security/Medicare."

By Daniel Funke • January 2, 2020

Marc Molinaro stated on April 2, 2018 in a conversation with reporters:

New York has "among the highest tax burdens of any state in the nation"

By Dan Clark • April 12, 2018

Bernie Sanders stated on December 12, 2016 in an interview:

Fifty percent of workers ages 55 to 64 have "zero" money "in the bank as they enter retirement."

By Tom Kertscher • December 21, 2016

Pat Toomey stated on September 13, 2016 in In a press release:

McGinty previously told a local community newspaper in her native Philadelphia that she 'has found an alarming undercurrent of misinformed people in the 'T' part of the state' outside of Philadelphia and Pittsburgh.

By Mark Dent • September 16, 2016

Donald Trump stated on July 21, 2016 in a speech at the Republican national convention:

Says Hillary Clinton "wants to essentially abolish the Second Amendment."

By Linda Qiu • July 22, 2016

Sharron Angle stated on May 25, 2016 in in a television ad:

"Congressman Joe Heck has (voted) 62% of the time with Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats on a variety of important issues."

By Riley Snyder • June 3, 2016

Bernie Sanders stated on May 29, 2016 in an interview on "Meet the Press":

"I believe we should have tax on carbon and deal aggressively with climate change. That is not (Hillary Clinton's) position."

By Linda Qiu • May 29, 2016

Hillary Clinton stated on April 11, 2016 in an event in Port Washington, N.Y.:

"The state that has the highest per capita number of … guns that end up committing crimes in New York come from Vermont."

By Louis Jacobson • April 12, 2016

Donald Trump stated on November 21, 2015 in comments during a speech:

"I watched in Jersey City, N.J., where thousands and thousands of people were cheering" as the World Trade Center collapsed.

By Lauren Carroll • November 22, 2015

Juan Williams stated on November 10, 2015 in episode of Fox News' "The Five":

Says a car driving former University of Missouri System President Tim Wolfe "ran through the students, hit one of them" at the MU Homecoming Parade.

By Adam Aton • November 18, 2015

Bobby Jindal stated on August 18, 2015 in a statement:

Says Scott Walker's plan to replace Obamacare "is a new entitlement" program for "every single American human being from the time they are born right up until they grow old and become eligible for Medicare."

By Tom Kertscher • August 26, 2015

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