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Latest Fact-Checks On Michael Bloomberg

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Michael Bloomberg
Michael Bloomberg
stated on February 26, 2020 in a CNN town hall:
“I certainly supported Barack Obama and Joe Biden. ... I was there both times for them.”
Half-True
By Miriam Valverde • March 3, 2020
Michael Bloomberg
Michael Bloomberg
stated on January 30, 2020 in a news release:
During his tenure as mayor of New York City, “street homelessness decreased by 28 percent.”
True
By Jill Terreri Ramos • March 1, 2020
Michael Bloomberg
Michael Bloomberg
stated on February 26, 2020 in a CNN town hall:
Says of President Donald Trump’s actions on the coronavirus: “No. 1, he fired the pandemic team two years ago. No. 2, he's been defunding the Centers for Disease Control.”
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson, Victoria Knight • February 28, 2020
Michael Bloomberg
Michael Bloomberg
stated on February 13, 2020 in a rally:
Says “black babies die at rates twice as high as white babies because of a lack of access to affordable health care.”
Mostly True
By Madlin Mekelburg • February 20, 2020
Michael Bloomberg
Michael Bloomberg
stated on February 20, 2020 in a tweeted video:
Video shows Democratic presidential candidates speechless for 20 seconds when discussing whether any of them started a business.
Mostly False
By Daniel Funke • February 20, 2020
Michael Bloomberg
Michael Bloomberg
stated on February 19, 2020 in a Democratic presidential primary debate in Las Vegas:
“When we discovered, I discovered, that we were doing many, many, too many stop and frisks, we cut 95% of it out.”
Half-True
By Miriam Valverde • February 20, 2020
Michael Bloomberg
Michael Bloomberg
stated on February 4, 2020 in a campaign letter:
North Carolina's Democratic primary is open to "all registered voters, regardless of registration."
False
By Paul Specht • February 7, 2020
Michael Bloomberg
Michael Bloomberg
stated on January 1, 2020 in a television ad:
"Mayor Bloomberg helped lower the number of uninsured by 40 percent, covering 700,000 more New Yorkers"
True
By Jill Terreri Ramos • January 28, 2020
Michael Bloomberg
Michael Bloomberg
stated on December 15, 2019 in a speech:
"We cut New York City’s carbon footprint twice as much as the rest of the country." 
Mostly True
By Jill Terreri Ramos • January 11, 2020
Michael Bloomberg
Michael Bloomberg
stated on November 17, 2019 in a speech:
"No other city in America did what (New York) did. We reduced murders by 50%, reduced police shootings to historic lows, reduced the number of people incarcerated by nearly 40%."
Mostly True
By Tom Kertscher • December 2, 2019
Michael Bloomberg
Michael Bloomberg
stated on August 11, 2019 in an interview on CBS's "Face the Nation":
"If you go back, you can see Wayne LaPierre, who runs the NRA, testifying in front of Congress in favor of background checks 15 or 20 years ago."
True
By Bill McCarthy • August 13, 2019
Michael Bloomberg
Michael Bloomberg
stated on January 21, 2019 in a speech:
"All of this work helped us increase graduation rates by 42 percent and substantially reduce the racial achievement gap."
Mostly True
By Jill Terreri Ramos • February 7, 2019
Michael Bloomberg
Michael Bloomberg
stated on September 18, 2017 in a website:
"The soda tax can make a difference by reducing consumption of unhealthy soda pop and sugary beverages."
Mostly True
By Matt Dietrich • October 2, 2017
Michael Bloomberg
Michael Bloomberg
stated on July 27, 2016 in a speech at the Democratic convention:
Says Donald Trump "games the U.S. visa system so he can hire temporary foreign workers at low wages."
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • July 28, 2016
Michael Bloomberg
Michael Bloomberg
stated on August 3, 2014 in comments on CBS' "Face the Nation":
Africa is spending "the highest percentage of their GDP on education of any part of the world."  
False
By Derek Tsang • August 7, 2014
Michael Bloomberg
Michael Bloomberg
stated on August 18, 2013 in an op-ed in the "Washington Post":
"New York is the safest big city in the nation, and our crime reductions have been steeper than any other big city’s."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • August 26, 2013
Michael Bloomberg
Michael Bloomberg
stated on March 24, 2013 in an appearance on 'Meet the Press':
"If you go back to 1999, Wayne LaPierre testified on behalf of the NRA that background checks were appropriate and should be done."
True
By Molly Moorhead • March 26, 2013
Michael Bloomberg
Michael Bloomberg
stated on July 22, 2012 in an interview on "Face the Nation":
"There's a loophole where you can sell guns without a background check … 40 percent of guns are sold that way" at gun shows and over the Internet.
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg, Molly Moorhead • July 25, 2012
Michael Bloomberg
Michael Bloomberg
stated on September 6, 2011 in a speech in Lower Manhattan:
"Over the past 10 years, the number of people living in Lower Manhattan has nearly doubled. In fact, Lower Manhattan has added more people over the last 10 years than Atlanta, Dallas and Philadelphia combined."
True
By Bill Wichert • September 11, 2011
Michael Bloomberg
Michael Bloomberg
stated on October 18, 2010 in an interview:
Georgia and other states with weak gun laws have more crime.
Mostly True
By Eric Stirgus • November 9, 2010
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