Statements about Crime

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False

Partial cooperation, at best

Barr

"The White House fully cooperated with the Special Counsel’s investigation."

— PolitiFact National on Monday, April 22nd, 2019

Mostly False

Not investigative

Booker

Says President Donald Trump "cut funding from the Justice Department to investigate these domestic terrorist groups, these white supremacist groups."

— PolitiFact National on Thursday, April 11th, 2019

Mostly True

This number alone says very little

Bettencourt

Paul Bettencourt

"194,000 criminal aliens booked into Texas jails from 2011-2019 were charged with more than 299,000 criminal offenses."

— PolitiFact Texas on Monday, April 8th, 2019

False

Ethics and crime are two different bags

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Says Donna Brazile is a "criminal."

— PolitiFact Facebook fact-checks on Friday, March 29th, 2019

False

Reverse-PIN technology isn't in use

ATM users in distress can enter their PIN backwards to secretly call the police.

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