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Oath Keepers
stated on April 19, 2018 in a blog post:

"California State Assembly bill would ban the (sale of the) Bible!"

By Jon Greenberg • April 26, 2018
Donald Trump
stated on April 2, 2018 in a tweet:

Mexico has "very strong border laws -- ours are pathetic."

By Louis Jacobson • April 2, 2018
Mahlon Mitchell
stated on January 17, 2018 in a tweet:

"When @ScottWalker told firefighters we didn’t need to worry about Act 10, we said hell no, we stand with working Wisconsinites everywhere."

By Eric Litke • March 7, 2018
Ohio Democratic Party
stated on January 4, 2018 in a press release:

Says Mike DeWine "interfered with and stifled" a sexual harassment investigation and then "eliminated the office that investigated harassment claims within the AG’s office."

By Amy Sherman • February 6, 2018
Joe Berrios
stated on December 11, 2017 in a campaign ad:

"(Fritz) Kaegi managed a fund that invested nearly $30 million in private prisons."

By Matt Dietrich • December 29, 2017
Doug Jones
stated on November 30, 2017 in a campaign ad:

"In a 2014 case involving a man convicted of abusing two underage girls, Judge Roy Moore disagreed and wrote the dissenting opinion."

By Jon Greenberg • December 6, 2017
Claire McCaskill
stated on October 10, 2017 in a campaign statement:

Says Josh Hawley "broke his promise to create a Public Corruption Unit to crack down on the pay-to-play culture of Jefferson City."

By Emily McCarter • November 24, 2017
Jeff Sessions
stated on September 5, 2017 in remarks at the Justice Department:

Says President Barack Obama’s policy known as DACA "contributed to a surge of minors at the southern border."

By Louis Jacobson • September 5, 2017
Katie Pavlich
stated on August 26, 2017 in in a tweet:

Says former President Barack Obama "pardoned a traitor who gave U.S. enemies state secrets, he also pardoned a terrorist who killed Americans."

By Manuela Tobias • August 30, 2017
David Lewis
stated on July 31, 2017 in in a blog:

Gov. Roy Cooper has "filed nearly one lawsuit a month, with every single one of them an attempt to extend his own power."

By Paul Specht • August 22, 2017
Roy Cooper
stated on August 15, 2017 in Press release:

House Bill 330 "grants immunity from liability to motorists who strike protesters."

By Paul Specht • August 16, 2017
Donald Trump
stated on July 25, 2017 in a tweet:

"The person in charge of the Hillary investigation, Andrew McCabe, got $700,000 from (Hillary Clinton) for wife!"

By Louis Jacobson • July 25, 2017
Eric Bolling
stated on July 11, 2017 in comments on 'Fox News Specialists':

"Collusion is not illegal."

By Joshua Gillin • July 12, 2017
Rush Limbaugh
stated on May 17, 2017 in an episode of the "Rush Limbaugh Show":

"What Trump is alleged to have done is actually no different than what Barack Obama did in April last year when he made it known that he didn’t want Hillary prosecuted."

By Lauren Carroll • May 18, 2017
Judy Chu
stated on May 4, 2017 in a press release:

The GOP health bill "would once again allow being a rape or domestic violence victim to be a pre-existing condition."

By Chris Nichols • May 9, 2017
Gwen Moore
stated on May 4, 2017 in a news release:

"Under ‘Trumpcare,’" domestic violence and sexual assault "could be considered pre-existing conditions."

By Tom Kertscher • May 9, 2017
Stephen Miller
stated on February 12, 2017 in an interview on ABC's "This Week":

"I'm calling into question the accuracy of the ruling. The district judge in Seattle said there was no indication of terrorism from these seven countries in our country."

By Louis Jacobson • February 14, 2017
Eric Greitens
stated on September 29, 2016 in a press release:

Says Chris Koster "fell silent" as attorney general in pursuing a case against a free classified service accused of promoting prostitution after accepting "over $12,000 in campaign contributions' from people affiliated with the service."

By Natalia Alamdari • November 2, 2016
Donald Trump
stated on October 25, 2016 in a speech:

"The man who was in charge of the investigation of Hillary Clinton accepted essentially from Hillary Clinton $675,000 that went to his wife."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • October 26, 2016
Donald Trump
stated on August 31, 2016 in a speech:

Says "Hillary Clinton has pledged amnesty in her first 100 days, and her plan will provide Obamacare, Social Security, and Medicare for illegal immigrants, breaking the federal budget."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • September 2, 2016
Joe Biden
stated on August 15, 2016 in a speech in Scranton, Pa.:

Says military commanders have said that if Donald Trump were elected, "they would not follow his orders."

By Louis Jacobson • August 17, 2016
Pat McCrory
stated on August 2, 2016 in a press release:

"Roy Cooper's refusal to do his job is costing taxpayers money."

By Will Doran • August 16, 2016
Ted Cruz
stated on May 14, 2016 in his speech at the Republican Party of Texas convention:

Barack Obama issued a decree "demanding that every public school now allow grown men and boys into the little girls’ bathroom."

By Eleanor Dearman • June 26, 2016
Donald Trump
stated on June 19, 2016 in an interview on "Meet the Press":

Says delegates can't "legally" change the Republican National Convention rules to prevent Donald Trump’s nomination.

By Linda Qiu • June 19, 2016
Donald Trump
stated on June 5, 2016 in an interview on CBS News' "Face the Nation":

Says Judge Gonzalo Curiel "is a member of a club or society, very strongly pro-Mexican."

By Jon Greenberg • June 7, 2016
Ted Cruz
stated on December 5, 2015 in a speech at the Rising Tide Summit in Cedar Rapids, Iowa:

"The Democrats in the Senate last year introduced a constitutional amendment to repeal the free speech protections of the First Amendment."

By Jason Noble • December 22, 2015
Ted Cruz
stated on November 30, 2015 in a radio interview with Hugh Hewitt:

"Here’s the simple and undeniable fact: The overwhelming majority of violent criminals are Democrats."

By Louis Jacobson • December 1, 2015
Emanuel Cleaver
stated on August 11, 2015 in on 'Up to Date':

Two years ago motorists in Ferguson, a city of 20,000 people, "received 31,000 citations. That's at least one citation per person plus 10,000 for visitors. The city is still surviving only on traffic tickets; there's virtually no industry there."

By Sean Nelson • October 22, 2015
Edward Flynn
stated on August 27, 2015 in a forum:

In Milwaukee County, juveniles arrested for car theft "get sent immediately home, because under the point system in juvenile court" on holding suspects, "a stolen car gets zero points."

By Tom Kertscher • October 19, 2015
Ted Cruz
stated on October 18, 2015 in an interview on NBC's 'Meet the Press':

"Republican leadership took the lead confirming Loretta Lynch as attorney general."

By Louis Jacobson • October 18, 2015

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