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Rachel Maddow
stated on March 1, 2021 in a TV segment:

"While he was president, President Trump never encouraged Americans to get vaccinated."

By Bill McCarthy • March 4, 2021
Rachel Maddow
stated on July 13, 2015 in a television show:

Under Scott Walker, "the Wisconsin middle class is shrinking at a faster rate than any other state in the country."

By Kevin Crowe • August 24, 2015
Rachel Maddow
stated on June 3, 2014 in comments on "The Rachel Maddow Show":

"The Pentagon made up" the since-debunked heroics of POW Jessica Lynch as she tried to avoid capture in Iraq.

By Aaron Sharockman • June 5, 2014
Rachel Maddow
stated on February 17, 2011 in a segment on her television talk show:

"Despite what you may have heard about Wisconsin’s finances, Wisconsin is on track to have a budget surplus this year."

By Dave Umhoefer • February 18, 2011
Rachel Maddow
stated on December 15, 2010 in an interview on CBS' Late Show with David Letterman:

Fox News "said the New Black Panther Party decided the election for Barack Obama."

By Louis Jacobson • February 9, 2011
Rachel Maddow
stated on October 22, 2009 in "The Rachel Maddow" show:

"President Bush never did one interview with the New York Times during his entire presidency."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • October 27, 2009
Rachel Maddow
stated on April 6, 2009 in an episode of her MSNBC show:

Gov. Sarah Palin "got precisely zero support for her call for Alaska's Democratic Senator Mark Begich to resign because Ted Stevens' corruption conviction was overturned."

By Alexander Lane • April 10, 2009