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False

Different, unrelated soldier

Miller

Image shows U.S. National Guard Sgt. Leigh Ann Hester.

— PolitiFact Texas on Tuesday, December 3rd, 2019

False

Veterans got the money

Buttigieg

"The president had to confess in writing, in court to illegally diverting charitable contributions that were supposed to go to veterans."

— PolitiFact National on Thursday, November 21st, 2019

Mostly True

No one was alive to receive them

Miller

"Confederate veterans were conferred with many of the same benefits of other United States military veterans by Acts of Congress back in 1929 and 1957."

— PolitiFact Texas on Friday, November 15th, 2019

False

Donations covered

Says President Trump donated his "second quarter salary to rebuild military cemeteries" and that the media ignored it and every other story of him donating his salary as POTUS.

— PolitiFact Facebook fact-checks on Thursday, November 14th, 2019

False

No credible source found

Says Barbara Walters said Jane Fonda "betrayed not only the idea of our country, but specific men who served and sacrificed during the Vietnam War."

— PolitiFact Facebook fact-checks on Wednesday, October 30th, 2019