Latest Fact Checks By Louis Jacobson

Mike Pence offers misleading statistic on employment peak in Indiana

By Louis Jacobson

July 14, 2016

"Today, there are more Hoosiers going to work than ever before in the 200-year history of the great state of Indiana."

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Hillary Clinton says that, according to analysts, Donald Trump would increase debt by $30 trillion

By Louis Jacobson

July 13, 2016

"Independent analysts say (Donald Trump) would add $30 trillion to the national debt."

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Was Saddam Hussein good at killing terrorists, as Donald Trump says?

By Louis Jacobson

July 7, 2016

"You know what (Saddam Hussein) did well? He killed terrorists."

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Barack Obama wrong about size of U.S. steel production, work force

By Louis Jacobson

July 5, 2016

"The steel industry is producing as much steel in the United States as it ever was. It’s just (that) it needs one-tenth of the workers…

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Donald Trump exaggerates Hillary Clinton’s role in growing trade deficit with China

By Louis Jacobson , Taylor Leighton

June 28, 2016

"Hillary Clinton surged the trade deficit with China 40% as Secretary of State, costing Americans millions of jobs."

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Hillary Clinton correct that analysts have called Donald Trump a top global economic risk

By Louis Jacobson

June 27, 2016

"Risk analysts listed Donald Trump, a Donald Trump presidency, as one of the top threats facing the global economy, ahead of terrorism."

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Donald Trump wrong that ‘there’s no real assimilation’ by U.S. Muslims

By Louis Jacobson

June 18, 2016

Even among "second and third generation" Muslims in the United States, "there's no real assimilation."

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Donald Trump suggests Barack Obama supported ISIS, but that’s a conspiracy theory

By Louis Jacobson

June 15, 2016

"The Obama administration was actively supporting Al Qaeda in Iraq, the terrorist group that became the Islamic State."

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Hillary Clinton says anti-Muslim hate crimes tripled after Paris, San Bernardino

By Louis Jacobson

June 14, 2016

"Hate crimes against American Muslims and mosques have tripled after Paris and San Bernardino."

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Donald Trump correct that U.S. gives 100,000 green cards a year to migrants from Middle East

By Louis Jacobson

June 13, 2016

"We admit more than 100,000 lifetime migrants from the Middle East each year."

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Donald Trump said, ‘Crime is rising.’ It’s not (and hasn’t been for decades)

By Louis Jacobson

June 9, 2016

"Crime is rising."

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In shot at Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton is correct about tariffs’ role in Great Depression

By Louis Jacobson

June 6, 2016

"A trade war is something very different (than curbing new trade agreements). We went down that road in the 1930s. It made the Great Depression…

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