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Social Media
stated on October 17, 2016 in social media sites:

Creflo Dollar has endorsed Republican Donald Trump for president.

By Jim Tharpe • October 19, 2016
Terry McAuliffe
stated on September 25, 2013 in a debate.:

Ken Cuccinelli "tried to shut down" state government.

By Nancy Madsen • October 2, 2013
Restore Our Future
stated on January 12, 2012 in a television ad:

Says Newt Gingrich "co-sponsored a bill with Nancy Pelosi that would have given $60 million a year to a U.N. program supporting China’s brutal one-child policy."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • January 12, 2012
Newt Gingrich
stated on December 6, 2011 in an interview with Fox News' Greta Van Susteren:

Says the congressional ethics investigation against him was conducted by "a very partisan political committee" in a way that "related more to the politics of the Democratic Party than to ethics."

By Louis Jacobson • December 8, 2011
Rick Perry
stated on July 13, 2010 in an interview:

"We don't get a lot of calls from this White House… I have, frankly, never had a call from them."

By W. Gardner Selby • July 19, 2010