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Instagram posts stated on June 29, 2024 in an Instagram post:

"No live audience” at CNN debate means “We are watching a scripted movie.”

By Jeff Cercone • July 1, 2024

Facebook posts stated on February 28, 2020 in posts on social media:

“Every election year has a disease” ... SARS in 2004; avian flu in 2008; swine flu in 2010; MERS in 2012; Ebola in 2014 and 2018; Zika in 2016 and the coronavirus in 2020.

By Emily Venezky • March 11, 2020

Michael Bloomberg stated on February 26, 2020 in a CNN town hall:

Says of President Donald Trump’s actions on the coronavirus: “No. 1, he fired the pandemic team two years ago. No. 2, he's been defunding the Centers for Disease Control.”

By Louis Jacobson, Victoria Knight • February 28, 2020

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."

By Tom Kertscher • February 2, 2018

Virginia "Jennie Lou" Leeder stated on October 17, 2016 in an interview with the Austin American-Statesman:

Texas spends "more per day to house an inmate than we do on a student."

By Fauzeya Rahman • November 18, 2016

Ben Carson stated on September 16, 2015 in the CNN GOP presidential debate :

Pediatricians have cut down on the number and proximity of vaccines because they recognize there have been "too many in too short a period of time."

By Amy Sherman • September 17, 2015

James Clyburn stated on June 26, 2011 in an interview on ABC's "This Week with Christiane Amanpour":

"We do not want to raise anybody's tax rates. That's never been on the table."

By Louis Jacobson • June 28, 2011

Jared Moskowitz stated on May 1, 2025 in an interview on CNN:

Canadian tourism to Florida has declined by 80%.

By Amy Sherman, Loreben Tuquero • May 7, 2025

Jim Oberweis stated on September 18, 2020 in an ad:

Says U.S. Rep. Lauren Underwood described riots as “beautiful protests.”

By Kiannah Sepeda-Miller • October 11, 2020

Joe Biden stated on September 17, 2020 in a CNN town hall:

"If the president had done his job, had done his job from the beginning, all the people would still be alive. All the people. I'm not making this up. Just look at the data."

By Bill McCarthy • September 18, 2020

Wisconsin Trump Victory stated on August 12, 2020 in an email:

Says Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden backs a fracking ban that would cost 100,000 Wisconsin jobs

By Laura Schulte • August 18, 2020

Donald Trump stated on August 5, 2020 in a Fox and Friends interview:

Children are “almost immune from this disease.”

By Amy Sherman • August 6, 2020

Joe Biden stated on June 30, 2020 in a speech:

“The CDC tried to develop clear guidelines about what the stages of re-opening should look like — the administration delayed and scaled them back."

By Samantha Putterman • July 6, 2020

Rush Limbaugh stated on February 24, 2020 in an episode of his radio show:

“The coronavirus is the common cold, folks.”

By Bill McCarthy • February 27, 2020

Sherrod Brown stated on February 18, 2019 in an interview:

With the Trump tax law, "70 percent of the benefits went to the wealthiest 1 percent."

By Tom Kertscher • March 5, 2019

Matt Gaetz stated on February 7, 2019 in a CNN interview:

"One out of every 5 people that the federal government charges with murder is an illegal alien."

By Miriam Valverde • February 19, 2019

Viral image stated on January 10, 2019 in a meme:

"Lettuce killed more Americans this year than undocumented immigrants."

By Louis Jacobson • January 15, 2019

Ted Deutch stated on February 21, 2018 in a CNN town hall:

"Mass shootings went up 200 percent in the decade after the assault weapons ban expired."

By Miriam Valverde • February 23, 2018

Bernie Sanders stated on May 25, 2017 in a tweet:

Says President Donald "Trump’s budget gives a $100 billion tax break to three of the wealthiest families."

By Smitha Rajan • May 31, 2017

Rana Foroohar stated on April 26, 2017 in a CNN interview:

"There's no real evidence in the last 20 years that" growth from tax cuts has made up lost revenue.

By John Kruzel • April 28, 2017

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