Latest Fact Checks By Louis Jacobson

Did Abraham Lincoln plan to send ex-slaves to Central America after the Civil War?

By Louis Jacobson

June 26, 2015

"Lincoln was fervently making plans to send all freed slaves to the jungles of Central America once the (Civil War) was over. … The only…

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Chain email says Medicare won’t pay for ‘observational’ stay in hospital due to Obamacare

By Louis Jacobson

June 25, 2015

"Under the Affordable Care Act, anyone on Medicare who is admitted to a hospital for observation will be responsible for the bill. Medicare won't pay…

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Barack Obama tweets that U.S. gun-homicide rate is much higher than in France, Israel, Japan

By Louis Jacobson

June 22, 2015

"Here are the stats: Per population, we kill each other with guns at a rate 297x more than Japan, 49x more than France, 33x more…

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Is Barack Obama correct that mass killings don’t happen in other countries?

By Keely Herring , Louis Jacobson

June 22, 2015

"This type of mass violence does not happen in other advanced countries. It doesn’t happen in other places with this kind of frequency."

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Jeb Bush says Democrats ‘responsible’ for ‘swift, mindless’ cuts to defense spending

By Louis Jacobson

June 22, 2015

The Democrats are "responsible" for "the swift, mindless drawdown of a military that was generations in the making."

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Donald Trump says ‘our nuclear arsenal doesn’t work’

By Louis Jacobson

June 18, 2015

"Even our nuclear arsenal doesn't work. It came out recently they have equipment that is 30 years old. They don't know if it worked."

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Bernie Sanders says income inequality is widest since the 1920s

By Louis Jacobson , Miles Adair

June 18, 2015

"The gap between the very rich and everyone else in America is wider today than at any time since the 1920s."

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Donald Trump says ‘real’ unemployment rate is 18 to 20 percent

By Louis Jacobson

June 16, 2015

"Our real unemployment is anywhere from 18 to 20 percent. Don't believe the 5.6. Don't believe it."

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Donald Trump gets claim about U.S. GDP doubly wrong

By Louis Jacobson

June 16, 2015

"The last quarter, it was just announced, our gross domestic product … was below zero. Who ever heard of this? It's never below zero."

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Meme says Bill Clinton, George W. Bush had basically the same policy on Iraq

By Keely Herring , Louis Jacobson

June 16, 2015

Says Bill Clinton "gave a speech in 1996 about Iraq having WMDs" and said "we needed a regime change," even though everyone blamed those things…

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Bernie Sanders says a black male baby born today has 1-in-3 chance of prison

By Louis Jacobson

June 15, 2015

"A black male baby born today, if we do not change the system, stands a one-in-three chance (of) ending up in jail."

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Social media posts say U.S. Embassy moved July 4 celebration to June 4 to ‘accommodate’ Ramadan

By Louis Jacobson

June 10, 2015

"U.S. Embassy Celebrates America’s Independence on June 4th in Order to Accommodate Muslims."

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