Latest Fact Checks By Louis Jacobson

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Donald Trump off-base in saying Hillary Clinton will ‘double your taxes’

October 20, 2016
Says Hillary Clinton's "plan is going to raise taxes and even double your taxes."
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CLINTON-PONDER

Hillary Clinton says 33,000 Americans die each year from guns

October 20, 2016
"We have 33,000 people a year who die from guns."
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In N.C. Senate race, claim by Democrat Deborah Ross against GOP’s Richard Burr is misleading

October 18, 2016
"Sen. (Richard) Burr voted no on the Violence Against Women Act."
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Trump says workers making less, working harder than 20 years ago

October 17, 2016
"Workers in the United States are making less than they were almost 20 years ago, and yet they are working harder."
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Chess

Donald Trump wrongly maligns U.S. chess prowess

October 14, 2016
"We don't have any" chess grandmasters in the United States.
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Trump Tight

Donald Trump off-base in claim about Michelle Obama ad against Hillary Clinton

October 11, 2016
"I've gotten to see the commercials that they did on you. And I've gotten to see some of the most vicious commercials I've ever seen…
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Donald Trump incorrectly pins Benghazi criticism on Sidney Blumenthal

October 11, 2016
Says Sidney Blumenthal wrote that the Benghazi attack was "almost certainly preventable. Clinton was in charge of the State Department, and it failed to protect…
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Donald Trump largely accurate that U.S. had biggest increase in murders in 45 years

October 10, 2016
"We have an increase in murder within our cities, the biggest in 45 years."
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Trump to Audience

Trump’s Pants on Fire about his early-morning tweet on Alicia Machado

October 10, 2016
Says a tweet he sent out "wasn’t saying, ‘check out a sex tape.’ It was just ‘take a look at" the background of Alicia Machado.
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Clinton to Audience

Hillary Clinton says a record 90% of Americans have health insurance today

October 10, 2016
"Right now we are at 90 percent health insurance covered. That's the highest we've ever been in our country."
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Donald Trump has no ‘fiduciary responsibility’ on his personal tax returns, experts say

October 10, 2016
Says he has "a fiduciary responsibility to his business, his family and his employees to pay no more tax than legally required."
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PenceTight

Mike Pence tidies up Donald Trump’s quote about Mexicans as ‘good people’

October 5, 2016
Says Donald Trump, in his campaign announcement speech, "also said, ‘And many of them (Mexicans) are good people. You keep leaving that out of your…
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