Latest Fact-Checks By Jon Greenberg

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Fact-checking Sanders’ claim that U.S. spends 3 times per capita what the U.K. spends on health care

December 20, 2015

The United States spends "almost three times per capita what they spend in the U.K." on health care and "50 percent more than they pay…

Rep. Carson miscasts racial supremacists as greater threat than jihadists

December 18, 2015

"Our larger domestic threat is from racial supremacist groups."  

Trump repeats tale of flights home of 9/11 hijackers’ wives, girlfriends, families

December 17, 2015

The 9/11 terrorists' friends, family, girlfriends in the United States "were sent back for the most part to Saudi Arabia. They knew what was going on. They…

Carly Fiorina claims military generals ‘retired early’ after being frank with Obama

December 16, 2015

"One of the things I would immediately do … is bring back the warrior class -- Petraeus, McChrystal, Mattis, Keane, Flynn. ... Every one was…

Occupy Democrats graphic oversimplifies Trump’s inheritance

December 9, 2015

"If Trump had just put his father’s money in a mutual fund ... he’d have $8 billion."

Grayson wrongly says Cruz not an American

December 8, 2015

"Technically, (Ted Cruz is) not even an American."

Bush says law requires religious screening of refugees

December 1, 2015

"It is already in the law that there is a requirement to screen (refugees) for religion."

Identifying Middle Eastern Christians can be harder than Bush suggests

December 1, 2015

Says there are "ample means" to "tell when someone is a Christian in the Middle East ... by name, by where they’re born, their birth…

Trump’s Pants on Fire tweet that blacks killed 81% of white homicide victims

November 23, 2015

Says crime statistics show blacks kill 81 percent of white homicide victims.  

Fox’s Cavuto stacks Medicare spending against wealthiest 1% with dodgy results

November 19, 2015

Taking all the money of the top 1 percent wouldn’t keep Medicare going for three years.

Obama: U.S. is largest donor for displaced persons, refugee relief

November 17, 2015

"The United States (is) the largest provider of humanitarian assistance to displaced persons and refugees."

Sanders: ‘Significantly less than 10%’ of defense dollars go to fight terrorism

November 15, 2015

Out of the total U.S. military budget, "significantly less than 10 percent of that money is used to fight international terrorism."  

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