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Preserve America PAC, Republican super PAC

“Sen. Kamala Harris "helped raise money that got a man out of jail after he allegedly sexually penetrated a child.”

FactCheck.org rated this: Not the Whole Story

FactCheck.org says: The ad doesn’t explain that Harris was helping to raise money for protesters of racial injustice, not an accused sex offender, and it ignores that any decision to grant or deny bail is made by a judge.

William Barr, U.S. Attorney General

“Putting a national lockdown, stay-at-home orders, is like house arrest. Other than slavery, which was a different kind of restraint, this is the greatest intrusion on civil liberties in American history.”

PolitiFact rated this: False

PolitiFact says: Documented U.S. civil liberties violations include denying the right to vote to millions, terrorizing Black communities resulting in thousands of deaths and forcibly relocating or deporting over 1 million citizens.