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Ron DeSantis
stated on December 15, 2023 in a Concord, New Hampshire Town Hall:

U.S. tax dollars “have gone to promote transgenderism in Bangladesh.”

By Grace Abels • January 12, 2024
Donald Trump
stated on October 23, 2023 in remarks at a rally in Derry, N.H.:

“When I came into office, Iran had $70 billion in foreign exchange reserves. … By the time I left, they had nothing. They were broke.”

By Louis Jacobson • October 26, 2023
Vivek Ramaswamy
stated on October 18, 2023 in a press gaggle in New Hampshire:

"Russia has hypersonic missile capabilities ahead of that of the U.S.”

By Louis Jacobson • October 20, 2023
Gavin Newsom
stated on September 27, 2023 in an interview with Sean Hannity:

“We are more energy independent today” under President Joe Biden.

By Louis Jacobson • September 28, 2023
Zach Nunn
stated on May 9, 2022 in a campaign ad:

“Zack Nunn saved over 2,000 Americans abandoned in Afghanistan by leading private rescue missions.”

By Lyle Muller • May 27, 2022
Facebook posts
stated on March 14, 2022 in a Facebook post:

“Wladimir Klitschko has auctioned off his 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games gold medal to raise money for the children of Ukraine.”

By Bill McCarthy • March 16, 2022
Mike Gibbons
stated on March 1, 2022 in an ad:

Joe Biden's sanctions on Russia “are riddled with loopholes and don't even start for 30 days. They have carve outs for the energy and financial sectors.”

By Tom Kertscher • March 4, 2022
Instagram posts
stated on September 23, 2021 in an Instagram post:

Says Joe Biden said: “If Haiti just quietly sunk into the Caribbean, or rose up 300 feet, it wouldn’t matter a whole lot in terms of our interests.”

By Tom Kertscher • September 24, 2021
Joe Biden
stated on August 20, 2021 in a press conference:

There has been “no question of our credibility from our allies around the world” regarding how the U.S. is withdrawing from Afghanistan.

By Miriam Valverde • August 26, 2021
Facebook posts
stated on August 16, 2021 in social media posts:

The U.S. is “now importing 800,000 barrels of oil from Russia,” but that could have been prevented if the Keystone XL pipeline hadn’t been cancelled.

By Louis Jacobson • August 23, 2021
Occupy Democrats
stated on August 15, 2021 in an Instagram post:

Donald Trump in 2020 "said he trusted the Taliban and then set in motion an even earlier exit" from Afghanistan.

By Tom Kertscher • August 17, 2021
Bernie Sanders
stated on February 24, 2020 in a CNN town hall:

Says Democratic members of Congress who represent Cuban Americans in Florida and have been critical of Sanders “just so happen to be supporting other candidates.”

By Amy Sherman • March 2, 2020
X posts
stated on February 22, 2020 in a tweet:

"Not once in his entire career in Washington, D.C., which started way back in 1991, has Democratic Socialist Bernie Sanders ever voted yes on sanctions against Russia."

By Tom Kertscher • February 27, 2020
Viral image
stated on May 2, 2019 in social media posts:

When Joe Biden’s son Hunter was serving as "a director to Ukraine’s largest private gas producer," the elder Biden "threatened to withhold $1 BILLION in U.S. aid to Ukraine if they didn’t fire a prosecutor looking into" the gas company.

By Louis Jacobson • May 7, 2019
Marianne Williamson
stated on April 14, 2019 in a CNN town hall:

Says Jimmy Carter was the last "U.S. president to say flat out those (Israeli) settlements are illegal."

By Louis Jacobson • April 22, 2019
Mark Warner
stated on January 13, 2019 in in an interview:

Says the Trump administration has "a scheme to try to take (Oleg Deripaska’s) ownership level down from 70 percent to roughly 40, 45" so that the Russian company is no longer subject to sanctions.

By John Kruzel • January 15, 2019
Donald Trump
stated on November 21, 2018 in a tweet:

Just before Thanksgiving, oil was $54 a barrel, down from $82. "Thank you to Saudi Arabia."

By Kyra Haas • November 26, 2018
Nicholas Burns
stated on July 11, 2018 in comments on MSNBC's "Morning Joe":

European allies "pay us $2.5 billion a year to keep our forces there. It would cost us more money to bring the troops home than to keep them in Europe."

By Louis Jacobson • July 12, 2018
Juan Williams
stated on June 3, 2018 in on a panel:

North Korea's history of international negotiations shows "they'll take the concessions, they'll keep them in their pocket and then they won't deliver."

By John Kruzel • June 7, 2018
Kevin McCarthy
stated on June 3, 2018 in an interview on CNN's "State of the Union":

"If you are talking about Canada .. our wine cannot sit on their supermarkets."

By Louis Jacobson • June 6, 2018
Dennis Kucinich
stated on April 19, 2018 in a radio interview:

Says of disclosing his $20,000 speech about Syria, "there was no hiding. I released it."

By Amy Sherman • April 26, 2018
Donald Trump
stated on April 18, 2018 in a press conference:

"The United States has a massive trade deficit with Japan. It's anywhere from $69 billion to a $100 billion a year."

By Louis Jacobson • April 19, 2018
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
Rex Tillerson
stated on October 15, 2017 in a CNN "State of the Union" interview:

"The president early on called on NATO member countries to step up their contributions ... and as a result of that countries have stepped up contributions toward their own defense."

By Allison Graves • October 15, 2017
Donald Trump
stated on September 17, 2017 in a tweet:

"Long gas lines forming in North Korea."

By Louis Jacobson • September 19, 2017
Pat Robertson
stated on July 12, 2017 in an interview with President Donald Trump:

Russian natural gas company "Gazprom held Europe by the throat -- they were a monopoly, and now the U.S. is breaking into that monopoly with our exports of (liquefied natural gas)."

By Louis Jacobson • July 17, 2017
Hagar Chemali
stated on July 6, 2017 in an interview on MSNBC:

"Cuba is far more sanctioned than North Korea."

By Louis Jacobson • July 7, 2017
Richard Burr
stated on June 8, 2017 in an interview:

"This is not the first time (the Russians) have been involved in our elections."

By Will Doran • June 20, 2017
Karen Handel
stated on June 6, 2017 in a debate:

"Nearly $2 billion in cash was flown over to Iran, money that the Obama administration has admitted is being used for terrorists and to support further activities there."

By Jon Greenberg • June 7, 2017
Donald Trump
stated on April 17, 2017 in an interview with Fox News:

With North Korea, "nobody has ever seen such a positive response on our behalf from China."

By Jon Greenberg • April 19, 2017

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