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Checked by PolitiFact25 Apr 2022United States Politics and government

Mike Gibbons, 2022 candidate for GOP nomination for U.S. Senate in Ohio

“As Ohio treasurer, Josh Mandel loaned your money to Chinese business interests, and Mandel opposed a bill holding Communist China accountable when they cheated and stole American jobs.”

PolitiFact rated this: Mostly False

PolitiFact says: Mandel was the administrator of a state fund that invested public money in multinational corporations such as U.S.-based Exxon and Apple. The companies do business in China, but are not based there.

Checked by PolitiFact24 May 2021United States Politics and government

Josh Mandel, Ohio politician

“The federal government spent over $500k trying to force fish to exercise on treadmills, an additional $150k to see if gingerbread houses are earthquake proof.”

PolitiFact rated this: Mostly False

PolitiFact says: Washington spent about $3,400, not on testing gingerbread houses, but on a workshop about earthquake resistant design. The fish experiment was about the emergence of life on land millions of years ago.