Latest Fact-Checks In Terrorism

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Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on October 5, 2020 an NBC town hall in Miami
The president's own FBI director said that the greatest domestic terrorist threat is white supremacists.
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By Amy Sherman • October 6, 2020
Mark Walker
Mark Walker
stated on November 27, 2019 a tweet
Says the cartels are so bad in a Mexican border state that the U.S. government issued a ‘Do Not Travel’ warning -- the same warning it issued for Syria.
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By Paul Specht • December 5, 2019
Sheriff David Clarke for U.S. Senate
Sheriff David Clarke for U.S. Senate
stated on April 5, 2017 a fund-raising email
Says Milwaukee County Sheriff David A. Clarke Jr. has said Black Lives Matter "is a terrorist movement, a hate group and calls it, Black LIES Matter."
True
April 17, 2017
Rand Paul
Rand Paul
stated on November 15, 2016 a column on rare.us
Says John Bolton supported the Iraq War and said last year that "I still think the decision to overthrow Saddam was correct."
True
By Louis Jacobson • November 17, 2016
Jill Stein
Jill Stein
stated on October 17, 2016 a Green Party rally at Huston-Tillotson University in Austin
"We’re already bombing seven countries."
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By W. Gardner Selby • October 21, 2016
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on September 20, 2016 a speech to the Leader's Summit on Refugees
"Refugees are subject to more rigorous screening than the average tourist in the U.S."  
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By Joseph Cariz • October 13, 2016
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on October 9, 2016 the second 2016 presidential debate
"You can look at the propaganda on a lot of the terrorists' sites and what Donald Trump says about Muslims is used to recruit fighters."
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By C. Eugene Emery Jr., Miriam Valverde • October 10, 2016
Paul Ryan
Paul Ryan
stated on September 26, 2016 a tweet
"Repeated requests for additional security in Benghazi were routinely denied" by Hillary "Clinton’s State Department."  
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October 7, 2016
Mike Pence
Mike Pence
stated on September 4, 2016 an interview on "Meet the Press"
Says Hillary Clinton "wants to increase Syrian refugees to this country by 550 percent."
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By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 4, 2016
John Burton
John Burton
stated on August 16, 2016 in a press release
"While introducing Donald Trump, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani omitted the September 11, 2001, strikes as a ‘successful’ terrorist attack during the eight years before President Obama’s 2008 election."
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By Chris Nichols • August 18, 2016
Republican National Committee
Republican National Committee
stated on July 25, 2016 an email to reporters
Speakers at the Democratic National Convention made "zero mentions of the global terrorist threat posed by ISIS."
True
By Louis Jacobson • July 26, 2016
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on May 19, 2016 an interview on CNN
"We now do have evidence" that Donald Trump is being used as a recruiting tool for terrorists.
True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • May 20, 2016
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on March 22, 2016 a speech at Stanford University.
When it comes to fighting terrorism, "Another thing we know that does not work, based on lots of empirical evidence, is torture."
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By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • March 30, 2016
Stephen Hayes
Stephen Hayes
stated on December 27, 2015 on "Fox News Sunday"
Guantanamo has "never been a key component of ISIS or al-Qaida propaganda."
True
By Lauren Carroll • December 30, 2015
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on December 3, 2015 an interview
"Here in Wisconsin, we've put in previous budgets more money into mental health services than any governor has in the last 25 years."  
True
December 23, 2015
Rand Paul
Rand Paul
stated on December 15, 2015 a Republican presidential debate in Las Vegas
"If you are going to kill the families of terrorists, realize that there's something called the Geneva Convention we're going to have to pull out of."
True
By Louis Jacobson • December 17, 2015
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on November 14, 2015 a news conference.
Says President Barack Obama "will not utter the words ‘radical Islamic terrorism’ and as matter of policy, nobody in the administration will say the words ‘radical Islamic terrorism.’"
True
By Sean Gorman • November 30, 2015
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on November 19, 2015 a speech at Georgetown University
"Instead of fighting ISIS, (the Saudis) have focused more on a campaign to oust Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen."
True
By Linda Qiu • November 24, 2015
Ben Rhodes
Ben Rhodes
stated on November 15, 2015 comments on ABC's "This Week"
When President Barack Obama said ISIS, or ISIL, was contained, he "was responding very specifically to the geographic expansion of ISIL in Iraq and Syria."
True
By Lauren Carroll • November 15, 2015
John McCain
John McCain
stated on May 24, 2015 an interview on CBS' "Face the Nation"
If you count United States airstrikes against ISIS, "75 percent of those combat missions return to base without having fired a weapon."
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By Louis Jacobson • May 28, 2015
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