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Mostly False

Parent company donated to a pro-Trump PAC

Says every time someone purchases a Bang energy drink, a portion of the money is donated to help re-elect Donald Trump and "goes to the fund campaign for MAGA!"

— PolitiFact Facebook fact-checks on Tuesday, August 13th, 2019

Half-True

McCready returned Omar's money

Bishop

Says "Dan McCready took money from Ilhan Omar"

— PolitiFact North Carolina on Monday, July 22nd, 2019

Mostly True

He no longer takes their money

Trump

Says Cory Booker has accepted over $400,000 from the pharmaceutical industry during his political career.

— PolitiFact National on Tuesday, July 2nd, 2019

Mostly True

Dark money support, but a Pelosi tie is questionable.

Bishop

Said Dan McCready "got nearly $1 million in support from a Nancy Pelosi aligned dark money org in the 2018 election cycle right after he tweeted, ‘Dark money has no place in our politics’."

— PolitiFact North Carolina on Friday, June 14th, 2019

Mostly False

Video more funny than factual

Walker

"HR 1 is going to take your hard-earned tax dollars and millions more and send them to (a political candidate’s) campaign so (they) can put ads on TV."

— PolitiFact North Carolina on Tuesday, March 26th, 2019