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Barack Obama's 2015 State of the Union address: annotated

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President Barack Obama delivers the 2015 State of the Union address.

Lauren Carroll

By Lauren Carroll January 21, 2015

Steve Contorno

By Steve Contorno January 21, 2015

Joshua Gillin

By Joshua Gillin January 21, 2015

Jon Greenberg

By Jon Greenberg January 21, 2015

Angie Drobnic Holan

By Angie Drobnic Holan January 21, 2015

Louis Jacobson

By Louis Jacobson January 21, 2015

Katie Sanders

By Katie Sanders January 21, 2015

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stated on June 22, 2017 in a meeting with small business owners:

Says of Georgia, "for four years in a row, we are the No. 1 state to do business in."

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stated on July 6, 2017 in a press conference in Poland:

Says Barack Obama found out about Russia "in August. Now, the election was in November. That's a lot of time. He did nothing about it."

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stated on July 2, 2017 in an episode of "Fox News Sunday":

7 million people the Congressional Budget Office says won't have health insurance coverage under the Senate health care bill "don't exist."

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stated on June 13, 2017 in a congressional hearing:

"It's a longstanding policy of the Department of Justice not to comment on conversations that the attorney general has had with the president of the United States."

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Kimberley Strassel

stated on May 28, 2017 in "Meet the Press" on NBC:

In 2008, "candidate Obama, he's not even president-elect, sends William Miller over to Iran to establish a back channel and let the Iranians know that should he win the election, they will have friendlier terms."

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stated on May 23, 2017 in an online article:

"Rubio: ‘Rape victims should be in custody if there is suspicion that they’re planning abortion.’ "

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stated on May 21, 2017 in an episode of "Fox and Friends":

Democratic National Committee staffer Seth Rich "apparently was assassinated at 4 in the morning, having given WikiLeaks something like 53,000 emails and 17,000 attachments. ... It turns out, it wasn’t the Russians."

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stated on May 17, 2017 in an episode of the "Rush Limbaugh Show":

"What Trump is alleged to have done is actually no different than what Barack Obama did in April last year when he made it known that he didn’t want Hillary prosecuted."

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Richard Blumenthal

stated on May 9, 2017 in a press conference:

"What does Trumpcare do? Yank tax credits away from veterans unlike any other American."

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stated on May 4, 2017 in blog headlines:

Under the House Republican health plan, sexual assault is a pre-existing condition.

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stated on May 2, 2017 in her book "Women Who Work":

"40 percent of American households have female primary breadwinners."

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stated on April 30, 2017 in an interview on CBS:

"General Flynn got his clearance from the Obama administration."

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stated on April 28, 2017 in the National Rifle Association Annual Meeting:

"For the first time in the modern political era, we have confirmed a new justice in the first 100 days."

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stated on April 25, 2017 in the daily White House press briefing:

Trump has "worked with Congress to pass more legislation in his first 100 days than any president since Truman."

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stated on April 26, 2017 in a tweet:

The Ninth Circuit has an overturned record "close to 80%."

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stated on April 14, 2024 in a Facebook post:

A photo shows a mine for “lithium for electric cars.”

By Ciara O'Rourke • April 23, 2024
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stated on April 18, 2024 in a Facebook post:

Kelly Clarkson is promoting weight loss gummies or other diet products.

By Ciara O'Rourke • April 23, 2024
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stated on March 18, 2024 in una publicación en Facebook:

"Artista Juvenil Taylor Swift promueve el Satanismo contra Dios".

By Madison Czopek • April 23, 2024
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
stated on April 21, 2024 in a post on X:

“Congress prohibits the NIH from researching the cause of mass shootings.”

By Louis Jacobson • April 23, 2024
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stated on April 14, 2024 in a Facebook post:

Video shows Iranian drone sent to Israel stuck in a power line in Iraq.

By Jeff Cercone • April 22, 2024
Instagram posts
stated on April 13, 2024 in una publicación en Instagram:

Video muestra “ataque aéreo de Irán contra Israel".

By Maria Briceño • April 22, 2024
Facebook posts
stated on April 9, 2024 in a video:

Morton Salt and other plain and iodized table salts contain 25% sand and 25% glass that cut up “your arterial and venous network and that’s how you get high blood pressure.”

By Kwasi Gyamfi Asiedu • April 22, 2024
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stated on April 9, 2024 in una publicación en Facebook:

"OVNI en Arlington, Texas, avistado durante el eclipse solar".

By Marta Campabadal Graus • April 22, 2024
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stated on March 24, 2024 in una publicación en Facebook:

"La diabetes desaparece por sí sola en 3 noches. ¡No se necesitan inyecciones ni medicamentos costosos!...”.

By Maria Briceño • April 22, 2024
Kamala Harris
stated on April 15, 2024 in a moderated conversation:

“As many as 75% of school shootings resulted from a gun that was not secured.”

By Samantha Putterman • April 22, 2024