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Latest Fact-Checks On Ben Carson

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Ben Carson
Ben Carson
stated on November 29, 2015 an interview on CNN
"The Family Research Council, according to some government agencies, is a terrorist group."
False
By Louis Jacobson • December 1, 2015
Ben Carson
Ben Carson
stated on November 22, 2015 a TV interview.
Says Thomas Jefferson helped "craft" the Constitution.
False
By Warren Fiske • November 27, 2015
Ben Carson
Ben Carson
stated on November 10, 2015 the fourth GOP debate.
"The Chinese are there" in Syria.
False
By Linda Qiu • November 15, 2015
Ben Carson
Ben Carson
stated on November 10, 2015 the Republican debate in Milwaukee, Wis.
"Every time we raise the minimum wage, the number of jobless people increases."
False
By Louis Jacobson • November 11, 2015
Ben Carson
Ben Carson
stated on October 28, 2015 the third GOP primary debate.
Says his tax plan wouldn't leave the federal government with a $1.1 trillion hole.
False
By Linda Qiu • November 4, 2015
Ben Carson
Ben Carson
stated on October 28, 2015 a Republican presidential debate in Boulder, Colo.
Says he "didn’t have an involvement with" nutritional supplement company Mannatech.
False
By Lauren Carroll • October 29, 2015
Ben Carson
Ben Carson
stated on October 9, 2015 his book "A More Perfect Union"
"German citizens were disarmed by their government in the late 1930s," which allowed the Nazis to "carry out their evil intentions with relatively little resistance."    
False
By Jon Greenberg • October 26, 2015
Ben Carson
Ben Carson
stated on September 30, 2015 a campaign stop in Exeter, N.H
Birth control pioneer Margaret Sanger "believed that people like me should be eliminated."
False
By Clay Wirestone • October 5, 2015
Ben Carson
Ben Carson
stated on September 16, 2015 the second GOP debate
There are a "multitude" of vaccines that do not prevent deadly and crippling diseases.
False
By April Hunt • September 23, 2015
Ben Carson
Ben Carson
stated on August 6, 2015 the first Republican debate
"Ukraine was a nuclear-armed state. They gave away their nuclear arms with the understanding that we would protect them."
False
By Jon Greenberg • August 7, 2015
Ben Carson
Ben Carson
stated on April 22, 2015 a speech
"There are more young black males involved in the criminal justice system than there are in higher education."  
False
May 5, 2015
Ben Carson
Ben Carson
stated on March 4, 2015 an interview on CNN
"A lot of people who go into prison straight, and when they come out they’re gay."
False
By Lauren Carroll • March 4, 2015