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Pants on Fire!

Her own evidence contradicts this

Ives

Says U.S. Rep. Sean Casten has held numerous "invite-only" town halls.

— PolitiFact Illinois on Thursday, December 5th, 2019

Mostly False

An inaccurate bit of rhetorical flair

Donovan

"Most of the requests for records possessed by the Attorney General’s Office are from private law firms and companies."

— PolitiFact Vermont on Tuesday, October 22nd, 2019

False

The WH doesn't control that webcam

Says the National Mall’s webcam was "abruptly shut down" and removed from the White House’s website to stop viewers from seeing the lack of attendees at president Trump’s Fourth of July event.

— PolitiFact Facebook fact-checks on Tuesday, July 9th, 2019

Pants on Fire!

Clearly wrong

Trump

"There has never been, ever before, an administration that’s been so open and transparent."

— PolitiFact National on Tuesday, June 4th, 2019

False

The later edition reflects Trump's change in tone after his speech

Viral image

Shows a photo of two similar Wall Street Journal newspapers with different headlines about President Donald Trump, and describes the editions as, "Same paper, same dates, different markets. What did you just learn? Feeling manipulated yet?"

— PolitiFact Facebook fact-checks on Tuesday, March 26th, 2019