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Latest Fact-Checks On Michele Bachmann

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Michele Bachmann
Michele Bachmann
stated on May 9, 2022 an interview on Steve Bannon's "War Room" podcast
“The Biden administration is bringing amendments that would propose that all nations of the earth cede their sovereignty over national health care decisions to the WHO.”
False
By Jon Greenberg • May 19, 2022
Michele Bachmann
Michele Bachmann
stated on September 10, 2015 an interview on CNN
Says Donald Trump’s polling numbers show that he’s "the highest with Hispanics that any Republican has ever been."
False
By Katie Sanders • September 15, 2015
Michele Bachmann
Michele Bachmann
stated on May 15, 2013 an interview on Fox News' "On the Record" with Greta Van Susteren
The IRS is "going to be in charge of our health care."
False
By Louis Jacobson • May 20, 2013
Michele Bachmann
Michele Bachmann
stated on August 27, 2012 a Fox News interview
"A report just came out that if we continue with President Obama's policies, we're looking at over 9 percent unemployment next year in the fourth quarter."
False
By Becky Bowers • August 29, 2012
Michele Bachmann
Michele Bachmann
stated on November 23, 2011 an interview
Says Newt Gingrich "has said that we should make the 11 million illegal workers that are in this country legal."
False
By Eric Stirgus • November 29, 2011
Michele Bachmann
Michele Bachmann
stated on November 22, 2011 a foreign policy debate in Washington, D.C.
Says Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said that "if he has a nuclear weapon he will use it to wipe Israel off the face of the earth. He will use it against the United States of America."
False
By Aaron Sharockman • November 23, 2011
Michele Bachmann
Michele Bachmann
stated on November 9, 2011 a Republican presidential debate in Michigan
"By 2015, we will be sending so much interest" to China that "we will be paying for the entire People's Liberation Army."
False
By Louis Jacobson • November 10, 2011
Michele Bachmann
Michele Bachmann
stated on October 18, 2011 a Republican presidential debate in Las Vegas
"We saw the president of the United States engage American troops in a fourth conflict in a foreign land. This is historic."
False
By Louis Jacobson • October 19, 2011
Michele Bachmann
Michele Bachmann
stated on October 11, 2011 a debate in New Hampshire
"These 15 political appointees (on the IPAB) will make all the major health care decisions for over 300 million Americans."
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • October 12, 2011
Michele Bachmann
Michele Bachmann
stated on September 13, 2011 several media interviews
Says the vaccine to prevent HPV can cause mental retardation.
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan, Louis Jacobson • September 16, 2011
Michele Bachmann
Michele Bachmann
stated on August 11, 2011 a debate in Ames, Iowa
When Standard & Poor's "dropped our credit rating, what they said is, we don't have an ability to repay our debt. ... I was proved right in my position" that the debt ceiling should not have been raised.
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • August 12, 2011
Michele Bachmann
Michele Bachmann
stated on June 26, 2011 an interview on Fox News
"My husband and I have never gotten a penny of money from the farm."
False
July 1, 2011
Michele Bachmann
Michele Bachmann
stated on June 1, 2011 an interview on WKXL-AM in Concord, N.H.
"If you threw a barbecue yesterday for the Memorial weekend, it was 29 percent more expensive than last year because Barack Obama's policies have led to groceries going up 29 percent."
False
By Jake Berry • June 27, 2011
Michele Bachmann
Michele Bachmann
stated on June 26, 2011 an interview on CBS's "Face the Nation"
"The president released all of the oil from the Strategic Oil Reserve."
False
By Louis Jacobson • June 27, 2011
Michele Bachmann
Michele Bachmann
stated on April 13, 2011 an interview on NBC's "Today" show
"The top 1 percent of income-earners pay about 40 percent of all taxes into the federal government."
False
By Louis Jacobson • April 18, 2011
Michele Bachmann
Michele Bachmann
stated on February 15, 2011 an interview on "The Laura Ingraham Show"
The government will "go out and buy my breast pump for my babies."
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • February 18, 2011
Michele Bachmann
Michele Bachmann
stated on November 3, 2010 a CNN interview
"The president of the United States will be taking a trip over to India that is expected to cost the taxpayers $200 million a day."
False
November 4, 2010
Michele Bachmann
Michele Bachmann
stated on June 11, 2010
"Social Security, like I told you, is out of money. This year it is borrowing from the general treasury."  
False
June 24, 2010
Michele Bachmann
Michele Bachmann
stated on March 28, 2010 on CBS's "Face the Nation"
"The New England Journal of Medicine released a survey the week that President Obama signed Obamacare stating that over 30 percent of American physicians would leave the profession if the government took over health care."
False
March 29, 2010
Michele Bachmann
Michele Bachmann
stated on March 3, 2010 an interview on CNN's Larry King Live
"President Obama's bill won't bring down the costs (of health care) for average Americans -- or really for very few Americans, if any."
False
By Louis Jacobson • March 5, 2010
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