Latest Fact-Checks In Terrorism

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John Cornyn
John Cornyn
stated on March 22, 2022 a Senate judiciary committee hearing
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson called former President George W. Bush and former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld as “war criminals in a legal filing.”
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By Madison Czopek • March 24, 2022
Occupy Democrats
Occupy Democrats
stated on August 15, 2021 an Instagram post
Donald Trump in 2020 "said he trusted the Taliban and then set in motion an even earlier exit" from Afghanistan.
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August 17, 2021
Pete Buttigieg
Pete Buttigieg
stated on August 5, 2019 a Medium post
"The Trump Administration cut funding allocated to the Department of Homeland Security to combat white nationalism."
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By Amy Sherman • August 9, 2019
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on April 28, 2018 a speech in Washington, Mich.
"We have spent $7 trillion, trillion with a T, $7 trillion in the Middle East."
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By Jon Greenberg • May 1, 2018
Cory Booker
Cory Booker
stated on January 16, 2018 an interview on CNN
"In American history since 9/11, we've had 85 major attacks in our country, 73 percent of them have been by white nationalist hate groups."
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By Amy Sherman • January 18, 2018
Infowars
Infowars
stated on December 23, 2017 a headline
"Pier 39 terrorist was an anti-Trump antifa supporter."
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By Amy Sherman • December 29, 2017
Scott Perry
Scott Perry
stated on November 30, 2017 a House committee hearing
Says the Obama administration purged "training courses and information about Islamism, jihad, Sharia, and the Muslim Brotherhood."
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By Miriam Valverde • December 15, 2017
Michael McCaul
Michael McCaul
stated on October 31, 2017 an interview by Fox News
Says the New York bike path assault "was the ninth vehicle assault used by ISIS."
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By W. Gardner Selby • November 10, 2017
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on October 25, 2017 a news conference
"We have done more in eight months than the previous administration has done in many years" against ISIS.
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By Jon Greenberg • October 26, 2017
Karen Handel
Karen Handel
stated on June 6, 2017 a debate
"Nearly $2 billion in cash was flown over to Iran, money that the Obama administration has admitted is being used for terrorists and to support further activities there."  
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By Jon Greenberg • June 7, 2017
Reince Priebus
Reince Priebus
stated on January 29, 2017 an interview
The seven nations identified in Donald Trump's travel ban were "identified by the Obama administration as the seven most dangerous countries in the world in regard to harboring terrorists."
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February 7, 2017
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on October 19, 2016 a presidential debate
"ISIS is in 32 countries."
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By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • October 24, 2016
Rob Portman
Rob Portman
stated on October 20, 2016 an Ohio Senate debate in Cleveland
"The director of the FBI said that we cannot figure out who (Syrian refugees) are, what their intentions are, because we have no information on them, because we don’t have any contact with the Syrian government or any people on the ground to be able to determine that."
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By Louis Jacobson • October 21, 2016
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on September 19, 2016 an interview on Fox News
Says Israel profiles based on ethnicity and "does it very successfully."
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By Linda Qiu • September 23, 2016
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on September 19, 2016 in a Facebook post and video
Hillary Clinton said, "with a straight face, that the terrorist attacks this weekend were caused by Donald J. Trump"
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By Jim Tharpe • September 23, 2016
Paul Ryan
Paul Ryan
stated on June 19, 2016 a TV interview
Under the current procedure, if someone "on a terror watch list" tries to buy a gun, authorities are notified.
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By Jonathan Anderson • September 2, 2016
Richard Burr
Richard Burr
stated on August 3, 2016 a press release
Says Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are "responsible for leading America into a deal that will arm Iran."
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By Will Doran • August 5, 2016
Rudy Giuliani
Rudy Giuliani
stated on July 18, 2016 a speech at the Republican National Convention.
The Iran nuclear deal is "putting billions of dollars back into a country that’s the world’s largest supporter of terrorism. We are actually giving them the money to fund the terrorists that are killing us and our allies."
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By Dan Clark • August 5, 2016
Joseph Crowley
Joseph Crowley
stated on July 26, 2016 a speech at the Democratic convention
Says Donald Trump "cashed in" on Sept. 11,  "collecting $150,000 in federal funds intended to help small businesses recover — even though days after the attack Trump said his properties were not affected."
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By Linda Qiu • July 27, 2016
Ron Johnson
Ron Johnson
stated on July 19, 2016 a speech at the Republican convention
Says that as a U.S. senator, Russ Feingold "voted against authorizing our military 11 separate times."
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July 22, 2016
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