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Jesse Ventura stated on December 2, 2014 in an interview with Salon.com:

"Fluoride in the water, that was originally done by the Nazis!"

By Louis Jacobson • December 8, 2014

Phil Gingrey stated on July 7, 2014 in a letter to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention:

Amid the "crisis at our southern border," there are "reports of illegal migrants carrying deadly diseases such as … Ebola virus."

By Louis Jacobson • July 18, 2014

Donald Trump stated on October 9, 2023 in a Truth Social post:

“The same people that raided Israel are pouring into our once beautiful USA, through our TOTALLY OPEN SOUTHERN BORDER, at Record Numbers.”

By Amy Sherman, Maria Ramirez Uribe • October 12, 2023

National Republican Senatorial Committee stated on August 10, 2022 in News release:

Says Democratic Senate candidate Mandela Barnes “supports abolishing ICE.”

By Vanessa Swales • August 29, 2022

Facebook posts stated on October 20, 2021 in a Facebook post:

“Gas prices were WAY higher in 2008, under REPUBLICAN president George W. Bush.”

By Gabrielle Settles • October 25, 2021

Mike Pence stated on January 16, 2019 in a speech:

"The caliphate has crumbled and ISIS has been defeated."

By Louis Jacobson • January 17, 2019

Corey Stewart stated on June 13, 2018 in in an interview:

"I have always condemned … any of these white supremacists or bigots or anything like that."

By Bill McCarthy • June 20, 2018

Sebastian Gorka stated on August 8, 2017 in an interview with MSNBC:

"There's no such thing as a lone wolf. ... That was a phrase invented by the last administration to make Americans stupid."

By Louis Jacobson • August 10, 2017

Donald Trump stated on April 24, 2017 in an interview wth the Associated Press:

"Back when they did NATO, there was no such thing as terrorism."

By John Kruzel • April 25, 2017

Greg Abbott stated on February 6, 2017 in a tweet:

Says Travis County’s sheriff refuses to enforce 8 USC 1373.

By W. Gardner Selby • March 1, 2017

Pat McCrory stated on October 11, 2016 in a North Carolina governor's race debate:

Says Syrian refugees are not being vetted, and "the FBI is not even being told where they are."

By Will Doran • October 12, 2016

Bret Baier stated on January 20, 2015 in an analysis of Obama's speech:

In President Barack Obama’s 2015 State of the Union address, "the words ‘al-Qaida’ were never used, the first time those words have not been used in a State of the Union address since February 2001."

By Katie Sanders • January 21, 2015

Bloggers stated on August 19, 2014 in stories:

Documents released by Edward Snowden reveal that American, British and Israeli intelligence agencies worked together to create the Islamic State.

By Derek Tsang • August 19, 2014

Americans for a Strong Defense stated on January 21, 2013 in a television ad:

Says Chuck Hagel has called for "an end to our nuclear program."

By Amy Sherman • January 30, 2013

Tommy Thompson stated on August 15, 2012 in an interview:

Says U.S. Senate rival Tammy Baldwin wants a "completely government-controlled" health care system that goes "far beyond 'Obamacare'" and is "a Medicare system for all."

By Tom Kertscher • August 26, 2012

Michael Moore stated on September 28, 2011 in an interview on "Democracy Now":

"Not a single banker, a CEO from Wall Street, anyone from corporate America — nobody, (there was) not one arrest of any of these people who brought down the economy in 2008."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • October 7, 2011

Kendrick Meek stated on October 24, 2010 in a debate:

"The Taliban has been there for years and years, I mean, hundreds of thousands of years."

By Amy Sherman • October 25, 2010

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Can the Jan. 6 committee get to the truth about the attack — and get Americans to believe it?

By Jon Greenberg • December 1, 2021

9/11 twin towers photo for conspiracy theories story

How the 9/11 attacks helped shape the modern misinformation, conspiracy theory industry

By Bill McCarthy • September 9, 2021

Michele Bachmann’s comments on 9/11 and the Muslim Brotherhood

By Julie Kliegman • September 11, 2013

These are PolitiFact’s top 10 most-read fact-checks of Donald Trump

By Amy Sherman, Louis Jacobson • February 1, 2024

QAnon ideas proliferate in 2022 midterms, raising continued concerns of violence

By Madison Czopek • November 7, 2022

False flags: They’re real, but far less widespread than social media suggest

By Bill McCarthy, Louis Jacobson • February 8, 2022

Rioters scale Capitol walls on Jan. 6, more headlines art for 2021 LOTY

The 2021 Lie of the Year: Lies about the Jan. 6 Capitol attack and its significance

By Angie Drobnic Holan, Amy Sherman, Bill McCarthy • December 15, 2021

What is QAnon, the baseless conspiracy spilling into US politics?

By Daniel Funke • August 27, 2020

Ask PolitiFact: What is antifa, and why is it all over my timeline?

By Daniel Funke • July 2, 2020

How George Floyd protests evolved in 5 major cities

By Daniel Funke • June 10, 2020

Fact-checking Bernie Sanders in Ames, Iowa

By Amy Sherman, Louis Jacobson • January 26, 2020

Timeline: The Trump impeachment inquiry

By Bill McCarthy, John Kruzel • October 3, 2019

What to expect at the first Democratic debates

By Sophie Austin • June 25, 2019

kirsten gillibrand campaign kickoff march 2019

Who is Kirsten Gillibrand? A bio of the Democratic presidential candidate

By Miriam Valverde • June 21, 2019

Fact-checking Donald Trump’s rally in Huntington, W.Va.

By Davis Versprille, Douglas Soule, Julia Mellett, Louis Jacobson, Shannon MacNeil • November 2, 2018

Who carries out more terror attacks on U.S. soil: Right wing or Islamic extremists?

By Chris Nichols • August 31, 2017

Hillary Clinton’s acceptance speech, annotated

By Adam Thorp, Joseph Cariz, Taylor Leighton • July 29, 2016

Fact-checking Bill Clinton on the second night of the Democratic convention

By Allison Graves, Neelesh Moorthy • July 26, 2016

What is the citizenship status of terrorist suspects in the United States?

By Amy Sherman • December 29, 2015

Is ISIS an ‘existential threat’ to the United States?

By Louis Jacobson • November 16, 2015