Latest Fact Checks By Louis Jacobson

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Klobuchar and Tapper

Did African-American incarceration drop 65% under Amy Klobuchar?

By Louis Jacobson
March 22, 2019
During her tenure as county attorney in Minnesota, "there was a 65 percent decrease in incarceration of African-Americans."
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Kevin Downing

The Pants on Fire claim that two courts backed Trump’s claim of no collusion with Russia

By Louis Jacobson
March 14, 2019
Says Paul Manafort’s sentencing judge, Amy Berman Jackson, "conceded that there was absolutely no evidence of any Russian collusion in this case. So that makes…
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Dowd Facebook post

Did Obama’s final years beat Trump on jobs, stock values?

By Louis Jacobson
March 13, 2019
"Job growth and stock growth for the first two years of Trump are down from where they were (during the) last two years of Obama."
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Melania-Michelle pic

Did Michelle Obama have a staff of 23 while Melania Trump has just 4?

By Louis Jacobson
March 12, 2019
Says Michelle Obama "had a staff of 23" while Melania Trump "has a staff of 4."
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Solyndra sign

Trump is wrong that Obama White House refused to turn over documents in congressional probes

By Louis Jacobson
March 8, 2019
When Congress sought documents from President Barack Obama, the White House "didn’t do anything. They didn’t give one letter of the request. Many requests were…
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Lankford on Morning Joe

Did tax collections rise after GOP law? The case is weak

By Louis Jacobson
March 7, 2019
"Tax revenue went up, actually, $14 billion last year after the tax cut actually occurred. We had greater revenue."
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Ilhan Omar

Meme wrong about Somali-Americans in Ilhan Omar’s district

By Louis Jacobson
March 5, 2019
"Obama settled 43,000 Somalian refugees in Minnesota. As of 2016, there were around 80,000. No wonder Ilhan Omar was elected. It was planned."
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Sanders for minimum wage

Fact-checking Bernie Sanders on a $15 minimum wage

By Louis Jacobson
March 1, 2019
Raising the federal minimum wage to $15 "would give more than 40 million low-wage workers a raise, more than 25 percent of the U.S. workforce."
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March for Life DC

Fact-checking Donald Trump’s tweet saying Democrats ‘don’t mind executing’ babies after birth

By Louis Jacobson
February 28, 2019
"The Democrat(ic) position on abortion is now so extreme that they don’t mind executing babies AFTER birth."
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North Dakota farm

Does the U.S. have record bankruptcies in farm country?

By Louis Jacobson
February 26, 2019
"We have record bankruptcies in farming country."
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Reid in retirement

Donald Trump wrong that Harry Reid was ‘thrown out’ of office

By Louis Jacobson
February 25, 2019
Says former Sen. Harry Reid "got thrown out."
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Biden 1994

How much have domestic violence rates fallen since the Violence Against Women Act passed?

By Louis Jacobson
February 22, 2019
"Since the passage of (the Violence Against Women Act), annual rates of domestic violence have dropped by 63 percent."
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