Latest True Fact-checks on John McCain Clear Any Rating True Mostly True Half True Mostly False False Pants on Fire Full Flop Half Flip No Flip Any Speaker Any Date Range Last 3 Months Last 6 Months Last 12 Months 2025 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 Any Category John McCain stated on January 5, 2008 in a debate in Manchester, N.H.: "The fact is it's not amnesty." John McCain stated on November 29, 2007 in a campaign event in St. Petersburg: " ... following World War II war crime trials were convened. The Japanese were tried and convicted and hung for war crimes committed against American POWs. Among those charges for which they were convicted was waterboarding." John McCain stated on November 26, 2007 in Interview on Fox News: "He was a member of the Iraq Study Group and was either fired or quit from a very important commission that was trying to figure out the way forward in Iraq." John McCain stated on November 28, 2007 in St. Petersburg, Fla.: "I saved the taxpayers $2-billion on a bogus Air Force Boeing tanker deal where people went to jail." John McCain stated on October 21, 2007 in a Republican debate in Orlando, Fla.: "Senator Clinton tried to spend $1 million on the Woodstock Concert Museum." John McCain stated on August 4, 2007 in a comment to a reporter.: "We spent approximately $20-billion of that money on pork barrel, earmark projects. Maybe if we had done it right, maybe some of that money would have gone to inspect those bridges and other bridges across the country." John McCain stated on October 1, 2007 in a TV ad: "One man opposed a flawed strategy in Iraq. One man had the courage to call for change. One man didn't play politics with the truth."
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John McCain stated on January 5, 2008 in a debate in Manchester, N.H.: "The fact is it's not amnesty." John McCain stated on November 29, 2007 in a campaign event in St. Petersburg: " ... following World War II war crime trials were convened. The Japanese were tried and convicted and hung for war crimes committed against American POWs. Among those charges for which they were convicted was waterboarding." John McCain stated on November 26, 2007 in Interview on Fox News: "He was a member of the Iraq Study Group and was either fired or quit from a very important commission that was trying to figure out the way forward in Iraq." John McCain stated on November 28, 2007 in St. Petersburg, Fla.: "I saved the taxpayers $2-billion on a bogus Air Force Boeing tanker deal where people went to jail." John McCain stated on October 21, 2007 in a Republican debate in Orlando, Fla.: "Senator Clinton tried to spend $1 million on the Woodstock Concert Museum." John McCain stated on August 4, 2007 in a comment to a reporter.: "We spent approximately $20-billion of that money on pork barrel, earmark projects. Maybe if we had done it right, maybe some of that money would have gone to inspect those bridges and other bridges across the country." John McCain stated on October 1, 2007 in a TV ad: "One man opposed a flawed strategy in Iraq. One man had the courage to call for change. One man didn't play politics with the truth."
John McCain stated on January 5, 2008 in a debate in Manchester, N.H.: "The fact is it's not amnesty."
John McCain stated on November 29, 2007 in a campaign event in St. Petersburg: " ... following World War II war crime trials were convened. The Japanese were tried and convicted and hung for war crimes committed against American POWs. Among those charges for which they were convicted was waterboarding."
John McCain stated on November 26, 2007 in Interview on Fox News: "He was a member of the Iraq Study Group and was either fired or quit from a very important commission that was trying to figure out the way forward in Iraq."
John McCain stated on November 28, 2007 in St. Petersburg, Fla.: "I saved the taxpayers $2-billion on a bogus Air Force Boeing tanker deal where people went to jail."
John McCain stated on October 21, 2007 in a Republican debate in Orlando, Fla.: "Senator Clinton tried to spend $1 million on the Woodstock Concert Museum."
John McCain stated on August 4, 2007 in a comment to a reporter.: "We spent approximately $20-billion of that money on pork barrel, earmark projects. Maybe if we had done it right, maybe some of that money would have gone to inspect those bridges and other bridges across the country."
John McCain stated on October 1, 2007 in a TV ad: "One man opposed a flawed strategy in Iraq. One man had the courage to call for change. One man didn't play politics with the truth."
