“They’ve been fighting for 300 years that we know of, 300 years.”
Washington Post rated this: Not the Whole Story
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“Saudi Arabia is paying for 100 percent of the cost, including the cost of our soldiers.”
Washington Post rated this: Three Pinocchios
“When I came in, we had no ammunition two and a half years ago.”
Washington Post rated this: Three Pinocchios
“So the data show that we have had a lot of problems with losing jobs, but the principal reason has been bad trade policy.”
Washington Post rated this: Two Pinocchios
“Donald Trump has broken his promises because Ohio, Michigan and Pennsylvania actually in the latest jobs data have lost jobs, not gained them.”
Washington Post rated this: False
“Nancy Pelosi said, ‘Well, that’s what he said. Isn’t it?’ But she was angry as hell when she got to read the transcript. Because she said, ‘Wait a minute, that’s not what I was told.’ But she was stuck, she was stuck.”
Washington Post rated this: Four Pinocchios
“The Whistleblower’s facts have been so incorrect about my ‘no pressure’ conversation with the Ukrainian President.”
Washington Post rated this: Four Pinocchios
“President Trump wants to dig up dirt on his 2020 opponent, what he wants is he wants an accounting of what happened in 2016. Who set him up? Did things spring from Ukraine?”
Washington Post rated this: No evidence
“We have not spoken directly with the whistleblower, we would like to.”
Washington Post rated this: Four Pinocchios
“Well, John, you’re asking me to comment on an IG report I haven’t seen and some reporting [on President Trump's request that Ukraine investigate Joe Biden's son] — I have no idea if that has any foundation whatsoever.”
Washington Post rated this: Four Pinocchios
“WHO CHANGED THE LONG STANDING WHISTLEBLOWER RULES JUST BEFORE SUBMITTAL OF THE FAKE WHISTLEBLOWER REPORT? DRAIN THE SWAMP!”
Washington Post rated this: Four Pinocchios
“We’re 100% grassroots-funded.”
Washington Post rated this: Two Pinocchios
“In the letter, they implied that their support for U.S. assistance to Ukraine was at stake and that if they didn’t do the right thing, they wouldn’t get any assistance....I just told you about senators that threatened him with votes and no money coming into Ukraine if they do." things.”
Washington Post rated this: False
“When Biden’s son walks out of China with $1.5 billion in a fund, and the biggest funds in the world can’t get money out of China, and he’s there for one quick meeting and he flies in on Air Force Two, I think that’s a horrible thing. I think it’s a horrible thing.”
Washington Post rated this: Four Pinocchios
“I’m leading in the polls; they have no idea how they stop me.”
Washington Post rated this: Four Pinocchios
“What wasn’t perfect is the horrible thing that Joe Biden said. And now he made a lie when he said he never spoke to his son. I mean, give me a break. He’s already said he spoke to his son.”
Washington Post rated this: Not the Whole Story
“Joe said that Medicare-for-all would cost over $30 trillion. That’s right, Joe. Status quo over 10 years will be $50 trillion.”
Washington Post rated this: Three Pinocchios
“Together, we enacted the VA Accountability Act, so that anyone who mistreats or abuses our great veterans can be promptly fired. There was a time you couldn’t fire anyone, no matter how they treated our veterans, whether they stole or they were sadists. And we had some of them, too. You couldn’t fire them, and now we can do it very, very quickly and easily.”
Washington Post rated this: Three Pinocchios
“President Trump’s wall costs less than the Obamacare website. Let that sink in, America.”
Washington Post rated this: Four Pinocchios
“We have more African Americans under criminal supervision today than all the slaves in 1850.”
Washington Post rated this: False