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Latest Fact-Checks On Newt Gingrich

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Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on September 29, 2022 On Fox News
Pennsylvania Senate candidate John Fetterman’s tattoo references ‘heroin use’ and the Crips
Mostly False
October 5, 2022
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on November 6, 2016 comments on "Meet the Press"
"There’s a section in the Constitution called the Emoluments Clause that says no one, nor their spouses, can take money from foreigners. (Hillary Clinton) has to be guilty of 70 or 100 counts just on that one charge."
Mostly False
By Lauren Carroll, Tyler Adkisson • November 6, 2016
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on April 26, 2015 comments on ABC's "This Week"
The money the Clinton Foundation took from from foreign governments while Hillary Clinton was secretary of state "is clearly illegal. … The Constitution says you can’t take this stuff."
Mostly False
By Katie Sanders • April 26, 2015
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on December 15, 2013 comments on ABC's "This Week"
"Every major city which has a center of poverty is run by Democrats. Every major city."
Mostly False
By Julie Kliegman • December 15, 2013
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on February 22, 2012 a televised address
One estimate says there may be "three times as much oil in the United States as there is in Saudi Arabia."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • February 24, 2012
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on January 30, 2012 a speech in Tampa, Fla.
"Gov. Romney cut off kosher meals for Jewish senior citizens who were on Medicaid to save $5 a day."
Mostly False
By Becky Bowers • February 1, 2012
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on January 30, 2012 a town hall in Jacksonville, Fla.
"The Obama administration ... would impose on every Catholic institution, every Jewish institution, every Protestant institution the Obamacare standard of what you have to buy as insurance." 
Mostly False
By Becky Bowers • January 31, 2012
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on January 28, 2012 comments at a campaign event
Students today "take more years to get through" college.
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • January 30, 2012
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on January 10, 2012 a video ad
"Romney signed government-mandated health care with taxpayer-funded abortions."
Mostly False
By Molly Moorhead • January 20, 2012
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on January 13, 2012 a campaign ad
Says Mitt Romney "runs away from Ronald Reagan."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • January 13, 2012
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on December 18, 2011 an interview on CBS' "Face the Nation"
In a watershed 1958 decision, "the Warren court asserted by itself that the Supreme Court was supreme over the president and the Congress."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • December 20, 2011
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on December 5, 2011 a press conference
"The only reason the unemployment rate is going down is because … twice as many people dropped out of the employment pool as the number of jobs were created."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • December 6, 2011
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on December 5, 2011 a press conference
President Barack Obama "has now spent three years proving that he kills jobs in energy, he kills jobs in manufacturing."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • December 6, 2011
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on September 7, 2011 a debate
Ben Bernanke has been the most "inflationary" chairman in the history of the Federal Reserve.
Mostly False
By Eric Stirgus • September 12, 2011
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on July 31, 2011 a newspaper interview
Says his Twitter account has 1.3 million followers.
Mostly False
By Eric Stirgus • August 9, 2011
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on June 27, 2011 a television interview
Newt Gingrich’s presidential campaign has "exactly the same" challenges as Ronald Reagan’s successful 1980 bid.
Mostly False
By Willoughby Mariano • July 8, 2011
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on May 10, 2009 a television interview
Democrats in Congress "had control since January of 2007. They haven't passed a law making waterboarding illegal. They haven't gone into any of these things and changed law."
Mostly False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • May 13, 2009