Latest Fact Checks By Clayton Youngman

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No, a college ID does not show Barack Obama was a foreign student at Columbia University

December 9, 2015
Barack Obama’s Columbia University ID says he was a foreign student and went by "Barry Soetoro."
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YouTube video says Michigan Muslims can list multiple wives as ‘extended family’ for welfare

December 7, 2015
A Muslim immigrant in Michigan can list his second, third or fourth wives as "extended family" and qualify for welfare.
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Trump says NYPD used to spy on mosques

November 20, 2015
The New York Police Department used to have "surveillance going on in and around mosques in New York City. ... Our mayor totally cut that…
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Trump says China gets an advantage from the Trans-Pacific Partnership

November 12, 2015
The Trans-Pacific Partnership "was designed for China to come in, as they always do, through the back door and totally take advantage of everyone."
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Marco Rubio said wrongly that welders make more money than philosophers

November 11, 2015
"Welders make more money than philosophers."
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Marco Rubio said there was never evidence that the attacks on Benghazi were spontaneous

November 4, 2015
"There was never a single shred of evidence presented to anyone" that the attacks in Benghazi, Libya, were "spontaneous, and in fact, the CIA themselves understood…
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Internet graphic says suicide rate is much higher in Denmark than United States

October 23, 2015
Says Denmark’s suicide rate has been about twice as high as the United States’ over the past five decades.
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Clinton: 7 Benghazi probes so far

October 12, 2015
"There have been seven investigations (of Benghazi) led mostly by Republicans in the Congress" that concluded "nobody did anything wrong, but there were changes we…
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Bernie Sanders says federal government, not McDonald’s or Walmart, is biggest low-wage employer

September 29, 2015
The largest low-wage employer "is not McDonalds or Walmart but the U.S. government."  
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Fact-checking claims about Donald Trump’s four bankruptcies

September 21, 2015
Says Donald Trump was "forced to file for bankruptcy not once, not twice, four times."
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