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Donald Trump stated on October 6, 2020 in a tweet:

“Many people every year, sometimes over 100,000, and despite the vaccine, die from the flu … we are learning to live with Covid, in most populations far less lethal."

By Jon Greenberg • October 6, 2020

William Barr stated on September 16, 2020 in a speech at a Hillsdale College event:

“Putting a national lockdown, stay-at-home orders, is like house arrest. Other than slavery, which was a different kind of restraint, this is the greatest intrusion on civil liberties in American history."

By Jon Greenberg • September 22, 2020

Facebook posts stated on June 24, 2020 in an image:

Google and Apple “put a covid tracker on every phone.”

By Daniel Funke • June 25, 2020

Facebook posts stated on June 17, 2020 in a Facebook post:

Police officer is “the occupation with the highest suicide rate of any profession.”

By Tom Kertscher • June 24, 2020

Bloggers stated on April 27, 2020 in an article:

Dr. Anthony Fauci "has known for 15 years that chloroquine and … hydroxychloroquine will not only treat a current case of coronavirus but prevent future cases.”

By Daniel Funke • May 6, 2020

Gretchen Whitmer stated on April 15, 2020 in an April 15, 2020 press conference:

“During the flu pandemic of 1918, some cities lifted social distancing measures too fast, too soon, and created a second wave of pandemic.”

By Amy Sherman • April 17, 2020

Instagram posts stated on March 15, 2020 in a screenshot:

Says Donald Trump “cut funding to the CDC,” “fired the Pandemic Response Team,” “refused WHO tests” and “wasted two weeks calling this outbreak a ‘Democrat hoax.’”

By Daniel Funke, Jon Greenberg, Louis Jacobson, Victoria Knight • March 17, 2020

Phil Scott stated on October 10, 2018 in campaign debate:

"We had a waiting list in Chittenden County when I came into office of about 700. ... We opened a new treatment hub in St. Albans, and it reduced that number to zero."

By Lola Duffort • November 8, 2018

Ron DeSantis stated on October 30, 2018 in an interview:

Says that Andrew Gillum said, "Police and prisons have no place in justice."

By Kyra Haas • November 6, 2018

Troy Balderson stated on October 20, 2018 in a television interview:

"A lot of people are still dealing with lack of access to health care. There are counties out there, in my former Senate district, that didn’t have doctors and providers."

By Stephen Koff • October 30, 2018

Tammy Baldwin stated on June 26, 2018 in a public forum:

Says the Trump administration "has banned the CDC even using the word ‘transgender.’ "

By D.L. Davis • August 17, 2018

Peter Roskam stated on July 1, 2018 in in a Facebook ad:

Says Sean Casten supports "doubling premiums" and "cutting current health care plans."

By Kiannah Sepeda-Miller • August 12, 2018

Ron DeSantis stated on June 2, 2018 in during a BBQ :

"The bulk of the problem with the opioid epidemic is the fentanyl and all the synthetic drugs coming across the southern border."

By Allison Graves • June 7, 2018

JB Pritzker stated on March 30, 2018 in a tweet:

A recent stomach virus outbreak at the beleaguered Quincy Veterans’ Home shows Gov. Bruce Rauner "is letting persistent health issues jeopardize the wellbeing of our nation’s heroes."

By Kiannah Sepeda-Miller • April 10, 2018

Beverly Boswell stated on March 27, 2018 in a Facebook post:

Many March for Our Lives speakers called for "the murder of those who would not turn over their guns to the government."

By Paul Specht • March 29, 2018

Stacey Abrams stated on January 17, 2018 in a statement to The Root:

Says under her leadership, "Democrats fought to ... make sure the (2011 HOPE) bill ... prevented the use of ACT/SAT testing standards."

By Jon Greenberg • January 24, 2018

Pipo News stated on November 11, 2017 in a headline:

"Civil war erupts in Sweden as irate Swedes burn nine Muslim refugee centers to the ground"

By Amy Sherman • November 21, 2017

Donald Trump stated on October 25, 2017 in a news conference:

"We have done more in eight months than the previous administration has done in many years" against ISIS.

By Jon Greenberg • October 26, 2017

Bloggers stated on September 30, 2017 in blog posts:

"San Juan Teamsters didn't show up for work to distribute relief supplies" because they went on strike.

By Joshua Gillin • October 3, 2017

Kamala Harris stated on August 22, 2016 in a tweet. :

"Over the last 40 years, this country’s prison population has grown by 500 percent."

By Chris Nichols • September 16, 2016

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