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Latest Fact-Checks On Joe Scarborough

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Joe Scarborough
Joe Scarborough
stated on September 11, 2018 a newspaper column:
"President Trump’s Republican Party will create more debt in one year than was generated in the first 200 years of America’s existence."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • September 12, 2018
Joe Scarborough
Joe Scarborough
stated on December 4, 2015 on MSNBC's "Morning Joe":
In the weekend after the terrorist attacks in Paris, the White House said "this couldn't happen in the United States. ISIS couldn't reach us here."
False
By Lauren Carroll • December 8, 2015
Joe Scarborough
Joe Scarborough
stated on October 2, 2015 a broadcast of MSNBC's "Morning Joe":
About "3 percent of murders and crimes are committed with guns from people who actually (legally) purchase those guns."
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • October 5, 2015
Joe Scarborough
Joe Scarborough
stated on April 30, 2015 a broadcast of MSNBC's "Morning Joe":
Says the Clintons "burst through their own self-pronounced guidelines" by accepting foreign donations. "There is a clip of Bill Clinton saying we're not going to take foreign donations."
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • May 4, 2015
Joe Scarborough
Joe Scarborough
stated on April 27, 2015 a segment on 'Morning Joe':
Algeria "wanted to be taken off of the terror list" at the time it made an unreported donation to the Clinton Foundation. 
False
By Katie Sanders • April 28, 2015
Joe Scarborough
Joe Scarborough
stated on March 9, 2015 a broadcast of MSNBC's "Morning Joe":
Says Hillary Clinton "sent a memo" to all State Department staff that said "you should not do State Department business on personal email."  
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • March 10, 2015
Joe Scarborough
Joe Scarborough
stated on January 29, 2015 a tweet on Twitter:
"More people have watched ‘Morning Joe’ than CNN and HLN 5 years in a row."
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • February 2, 2015
Joe Scarborough
Joe Scarborough
stated on November 3, 2014 a segment on "Morning Joe":
2014 midterm election spending by "the left and the right are both equal."
Half-True
By Katie Sanders • November 6, 2014
Joe Scarborough
Joe Scarborough
stated on May 12, 2014 a broadcast of MSNBC's "Morning Joe":
Americans "bought into climate change" in 2004-06, but then most "began wandering away from this issue."
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • May 13, 2014
Joe Scarborough
Joe Scarborough
stated on April 10, 2014 comments on MSNBC's "Morning Joe":
Before "our last three presidents, you have to go back to the 1800s, early 1800s to find three presidents in a row being consecutively re-elected."
True
By Aaron Sharockman • April 10, 2014
Joe Scarborough
Joe Scarborough
stated on January 21, 2014 a broadcast of MSNBC's "Morning Joe":
"Since Barack Obama became president of the United States, 95 percent of economic gains have been made by the richest 1 percent."
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • January 22, 2014
Joe Scarborough
Joe Scarborough
stated on March 24, 2010 a comment on his "Morning Joe'' program on MSNBC:
The health care reform bill "is the largest tax increase in U.S. history."
False
By Robert Farley • March 25, 2010
Joe Scarborough
Joe Scarborough
stated on April 7, 2009 a discussion on MSNBC:
President Obama has never received a paycheck from a profitmaking business in his entire life.
False
By Alexander Lane • April 15, 2009