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Filing a made-up flight plan

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Bloggers

"There was someone else on that plane for the secret Bill Clinton/Loretta Lynch meeting."

— PunditFact on Tuesday, July 18th, 2017

Mostly False

Misleading statistics

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Pat Toomey

Medicaid "is contributing to 70 percent of our budget deficit right now. It’s the one that is in our lap because of Obamacare."

— PolitiFact National on Wednesday, July 12th, 2017

False

Documents disprove the claim

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Diane Savino

Giving a committee chair’s stipend in the New York State Senate to another member of that committee "has been, in fact, a legislative practice for decades."

— PolitiFact New York on Monday, July 10th, 2017

Half-True

Leaves out important context

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Donald Trump

"When Obamacare was signed into law, CBO estimated that 23 million people would be covered in Obamacare’s exchanges in 2017. They were off by more than 100 percent. Only 10.3 million people are covered by Obamacare."

— PolitiFact National on Tuesday, June 27th, 2017

Pants on Fire!

UPDATED: Shaky tax rate assumptions

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Dan Patrick

Says Texas tax legislation would "save the average homeowner in Texas $20,000 a year over the next 20 years or so."

— PolitiFact Texas on Tuesday, May 23rd, 2017