Statements we say are Pants on Fire!

Rick Range

"George P. Bush to place statue of (Mexican general) Santa Anna at the Alamo."

— PolitiFact Texas on Tuesday, December 17th, 2019

Louie Gohmert

"As we have learned, the Intel Inspector General (IG) changed the rule after the complaint was known in order to allow hearsay complaints, but the IG dishonestly backdated the rule change so that damage could be done to President Trump."

— PolitiFact Texas on Wednesday, October 30th, 2019

Roger Williams

"50% of the DUIs on Interstate 35 are from illegals. Ninety percent of the 50% have absolutely no identification."

— PolitiFact Texas on Friday, October 4th, 2019

Donna Campbell

"A study was done, a post-mortem, so a retrospective study done, looking at autopsies and drug levels, what drugs were in the blood of veterans that committed suicide, and 70 percent had THC."

— PolitiFact Texas on Monday, July 15th, 2019

Dan Patrick

"We will have more people enter our country illegally than were born in this country in one year."

— PolitiFact Texas on Wednesday, June 5th, 2019

Tweets

Says Beto O'Rourke "gave the remaining $4.5+ mill from his Senate race to (the Texas Democratic Party) a few months ago, & the Party sent the money back to him on the day of his announcement."

— PolitiFact Texas on Wednesday, March 20th, 2019

Ken Paxton

Says Texas has "had over 600,000 crimes committed by illegals since 2011. Over 1,200 homicides."  

— PolitiFact Texas on Friday, September 7th, 2018

Will Hurd

Says Democratic challenger Gina Ortiz Jones has raised "more money from Massachusetts than" from Texas.

— PolitiFact Texas on Wednesday, August 15th, 2018

Austin for a Better Future

Says proposal to use city-owned land for an Austin pro soccer stadium is a "$1 billion giveaway."

— PolitiFact Texas on Wednesday, June 27th, 2018

Donald Trump

Says that people "went out in their boats to watch" Hurricane Harvey.

— PolitiFact Texas on Thursday, June 7th, 2018

Anonymous Caller

Says that unless the recipient called back about "your tax filings," you "will be taken into custody by the local cops as there are more serious allegations pressed on your name."  

— PolitiFact Texas on Wednesday, April 11th, 2018

Mike Pence

Says that "along the southern border of the U.S.," the government apprehends "seven individuals a day who are either known or suspected terrorists."

— PolitiFact Texas on Wednesday, February 21st, 2018

Dan Patrick

Says "566,000 crimes" were "made in Texas by criminal aliens in the last 6 years."  

— PolitiFact Texas on Thursday, January 25th, 2018

Ken Paxton

"President Obama used" his DACA order "to unilaterally confer U.S. citizenship."

— PolitiFact Texas on Friday, September 15th, 2017

Pete Olson

Says that Bill Clinton "basically" told then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch in 2016 that "we killed Vince Foster."

— PolitiFact Texas on Wednesday, July 5th, 2017

Dan Patrick

Says Texas tax legislation would "save the average homeowner in Texas $20,000 a year over the next 20 years or so."

— PolitiFact Texas on Tuesday, May 23rd, 2017

Greg Abbott

Says Travis County Sheriff Sally Hernandez "declared that she would not detain known criminals accused of violent crimes."  

— PolitiFact Texas on Thursday, May 18th, 2017

Bloggers

Say Lance Armstrong is dead.

— PolitiFact Texas on Monday, May 15th, 2017

Bloggers

A University of Texas "student pulled out a concealed handgun" on a knife-wielding suspect "and made him back down."

— PolitiFact Texas on Wednesday, May 10th, 2017

Bloggers

Says extras are needed to portray aliens in a Star Wars movie being shot near Rosenberg, Texas.

— PolitiFact Texas on Sunday, April 2nd, 2017