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Latest Fact-Checks On Rick Perry

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Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on August 14, 2019 a speech:
"The U.S. now leads the world in producing both oil and natural gas, and at the same time reducing energy-related emissions."
Half-True
By Madlin Mekelburg • August 27, 2019
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on June 27, 2017 a White House briefing:
France "wouldn’t buy Texas beef for some reason, yet 76 percent of their energy comes from nuclear power."
Mostly True
By W. Gardner Selby • June 30, 2017
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on June 19, 2017 an interview:
"Most likely the primary control knob (for the earth’s temperature) is the ocean waters and this environment that we live in."
False
By John Kruzel • June 22, 2017
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on January 15, 2016 Radio interview:
"Building a wall" on the U.S.-Mexico border "will take literally years."
True
By Eleanor Dearman • February 27, 2016
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on August 2, 2015 an interview on "Fox News Sunday":
Says Donald Trump is for a single-payer health care system.
Half-True
By Linda Qiu • August 2, 2015
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on June 4, 2015 his speech declaring his candidacy for president:
"I deployed the Texas National Guard" to the Texas-Mexico border. "And the policy worked; apprehensions at the border declined 74 percent."
Mostly False
By Bradley Saacks • July 26, 2015
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on July 2, 2015 a speech at the National Press Club:
"Texas’ high school graduation rate went from 27th in the country in 2002, to second highest in the country in 2013."
Mostly False
By W. Gardner Selby • July 20, 2015
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on June 4, 2015 his declaration for president:
"Texas now has the second-highest high school graduation rate in the country. And it has the highest graduation rate for African Americans and Hispanics."
Mostly True
By W. Gardner Selby • June 19, 2015
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on June 4, 2015 his speech declaring his candidacy for president:
"In the last seven years of my tenure, Texas created 1.5 million new jobs. As a matter of fact, without Texas, America would have lost 400,000 jobs."
Mostly True
By W. Gardner Selby • June 8, 2015
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on May 7, 2015 a visit to Deerfield, NH:
"The entirety of North America -- Canada, the United States and Mexico -- there's more known reserves in those three countries than in Russia and Saudi Arabia."
Mostly False
By Clay Wirestone • June 5, 2015
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on May 16, 2015 a speech in Iowa:
"One out of five of our children live in a family that’s on food stamps."
True
By W. Gardner Selby • June 3, 2015
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on May 5, 2015 an oped column:
On reauthorization of Export-Import Bank.
Full Flop
By W. Gardner Selby • May 7, 2015
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on April 7, 2015 an interview with the Texas Tribune:
On in-state tuition for unauthorized immigrants.
Half Flip
By W. Gardner Selby • April 15, 2015
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on February 24, 2015 a speech:
"Thomas Paine wrote that ‘the duty of a patriot is to protect his country from his government.’"
False
By Sean Gorman • March 9, 2015
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on February 27, 2015 a web ad:
"At this particular point in time, looking at the field, there’s only one individual that’s ever had the uniform of his country on—and that’s me."
Half-True
By Alex Wilts, W. Gardner Selby • March 4, 2015
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on February 24, 2015 a speech.:
"America produces more oil and gas than any other nation in the world."
True
By Sean Gorman • March 2, 2015
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on February 11, 2015 a statement:
"Obama has chosen to deny the vicious anti-Semitic motivation of the attack on a kosher Jewish grocery in Paris."
False
By Lauren Carroll • February 12, 2015
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on February 5, 2014 an interview with the Texas Tribune and Washington Post.:
"When I came into office, our vaccination rate in Texas was 65 percent. When I left two weeks ago, it was 95 percent."
False
By W. Gardner Selby • February 12, 2015
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on January 15, 2015 valedictory speech as governor to the Texas Legislature:
Texas has "the lowest crime rate in this state since 1968" because of changes in law regarding nonviolent drug offenders.
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • February 3, 2015
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on January 26, 2015 a breakfast talk in Iowa:
The U.S. unemployment rate has "been massaged, it’s been doctored."
Pants on Fire!
By W. Gardner Selby • January 26, 2015
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