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Donald Trump stated on August 08, 2024 in a press conference:

Says his Jan. 6, 2021, speech on the White House Ellipse drew the “same number of people,” as the 1963 March on Washington where Martin Luther King Jr. gave his “I Have a Dream” speech.

By Louis Jacobson, Samantha Putterman, Amy Sherman• August 9, 2024

Instagram posts stated on August 02, 2024 in an Instagram post:

President Joe Biden walked “onto an empty airplane for no reason.”

By Ciara O'Rourke• August 7, 2024

Cory Booker stated on July 27, 2015 in a post on Instagram:

"We built a new prison every 10 days between 1990 and 2005 to keep up with our mass incarceration explosion of nonviolent offenders."

By Keely Herring• July 31, 2015

Patients First stated on September 29, 2009 in a news release:

"Health care mandate will require imprisonment and fines for Americans who can’t afford to purchase insurance or pay hefty government penalties."

By Louis Jacobson• September 29, 2009

Charles Schumer stated on May 18, 2017 in a Senate floor speech:

"President Obama became the first president since Carter to leave the White House with a smaller federal prison population than when he took office."

By Louis Jacobson• May 18, 2017

L.C. "Buster" Evans stated on November 12, 2014 in in a press release:

"It has been many years, if ever, since an inmate has completed his or her high school diploma while incarcerated in a state correctional facility for adults."

By Nancy Badertscher• December 16, 2014

Steve Southerland stated on January 17, 2011 in comments at the Liberty County Chamber of Commerce annual dinner.:

"92 percent" of President Barack Obama's administration has "never worked outside government."

By Aaron Sharockman• January 20, 2011

Donald Trump stated on May 20, 2016 in a speech to the National Rifle Association:

It "is Hillary Clinton's agenda" to "release the violent criminals from jail. She wants them all released."

By Louis Jacobson• May 26, 2016

Bernie Sanders stated on August 26, 2019 in an Instagram post:

"Last year, South Carolina spent $21,756 per prison inmate and $11,552 per student."

By John Kruzel• August 27, 2019

Eric Holder stated on February 17, 2015 in remarks at the National Press Club:

Last year, "we saw the first reduction in the federal prison population in 32 years."

By Lauren Carroll• February 23, 2015

Dan Forest stated on February 14, 2017 in a written statement:

"If Governor Cooper's proposed bill for repealing HB2 becomes law, it will create a state-sanctioned 'Look But Don't Touch' policy in our bathrooms."

By Will Doran• February 17, 2017

Tony Evers stated on September 26, 2018 in a campaign ad:

"Under Scott Walker, the Department of Corrections has only 18 people tracking 25,000 sex offenders" and "there are nearly 3,000 sex offenders that are unaccounted for."

By D.L. Davis• October 29, 2018

Rodney Ellis stated on May 19, 2016 in a press release in response to a lawsuit:

Harris County, Texas has "some of the highest jailing and incarceration rates in the U.S. and the world."

By Fauzeya Rahman• July 8, 2016

Louie Gohmert stated on May 10, 2016 in House floor remarks:

"Of all the people in federal prison for possession of illegal substances, 77 percent of them are not citizens of the United States."

By W. Gardner Selby• June 17, 2016

Joe Berrios stated on December 11, 2017 in a campaign ad:

"(Fritz) Kaegi managed a fund that invested nearly $30 million in private prisons."

By Matt Dietrich• December 29, 2017

Stephen Wise stated on March 31, 2011 in in a Senate Education PreK-12 committee hearing:

"Every person on death row was a foster kid."

By Laura Figueroa• April 25, 2011

Glenn Beck stated on June 28, 2010 in comments on his radio program:

"The government is trying to now close the Lincoln Memorial for any kind of large gatherings."

By Robert Farley• August 27, 2010

John Cornyn stated on August 03, 2010 in a press release:

"Taxpayer money will provide iPod Touch devices to high school students in Utah, BlackBerry smart phones to smokers who kick the habit and funding for a study of exotic ants in East Africa."

By Ciara O'Rourke• August 24, 2010

Republican State Leadership Committee stated on March 26, 2020 in a campaign ad:

Says Jill Karofsky as a prosecutor “went easy on” a Madison man in a 1999 sexual assault case

By Eric Litke• March 27, 2020

Kelda Helen Roys stated on September 28, 2021 in Email:

Says gubernatorial candidate Rebecca Kleefisch “worked with Scott Walker to sign five abortion restrictions into law that took away services and threatened doctors with prison time for providing safe and legal abortions.”

By Madeline Heim• November 2, 2021

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