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Latest Fact-Checks By Lauren Carroll

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Club for Growth
Club for Growth
stated on September 15, 2015 a television ad
Says Donald Trump "supports eminent domain" and the Supreme Court’s Kelo decision. 
True
By Lauren Carroll • October 7, 2015
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on October 1, 2015 remarks following a school shooting in Oregon
"States with the most gun laws tend to have the fewest gun deaths."
Mostly True
By Lauren Carroll • October 6, 2015
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on September 30, 2015 a campaign Tweet
The Benghazi probe is "the longest-running congressional investigation ever."
False
By Lauren Carroll • October 2, 2015
Tom Cole
Tom Cole
stated on September 27, 2015 an interview on Fox News Sunday
"There’s no money" for Planned Parenthood in the bill that would keep the government open.
True
By Lauren Carroll • September 29, 2015
Ben Carson
Ben Carson
stated on September 22, 2015 an interview with Fox's "The Kelly File"
There is not "one of the Muslim nations" that doesn't have "discrimination against women, discrimination against gays, subjugation of other religious beliefs."
Mostly False
By Lauren Carroll • September 25, 2015
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on September 19, 2015 remarks at the 2015 New Hampshire Democratic Party State Convention
"Under Republicans, recessions happen four times as frequently as under Democrats."  
Mostly True
By Lauren Carroll • September 22, 2015
Carly Fiorina
Carly Fiorina
stated on September 16, 2015 the CNN debate
Says Donald Trump was "forced to file for bankruptcy not once, not twice, four times."
Mostly True
By Clayton Youngman, Lauren Carroll • September 21, 2015
Town hall audience member
Town hall audience member
stated on September 17, 2015 a town hall held by Donald Trump in Rochester, N.H.
"You know our current president is (Muslim). You know he's not even an American."  
Pants on Fire!
By Lauren Carroll • September 18, 2015
Carly Fiorina
Carly Fiorina
stated on September 16, 2015 the CNN debate
One of the Planned Parenthood videos shows "a fully formed fetus on the table, its heart beating, its legs kicking, while someone says, 'We have to keep it alive to harvest its brain.' "
Mostly False
By Lauren Carroll • September 17, 2015
Mike Huckabee
Mike Huckabee
stated on September 16, 2015 comments on the CNN debate
"We've just now given over $100 billion" to Iran, "the equivalent in U.S. terms is $5 trillion."  
Half-True
By Lauren Carroll • September 17, 2015
Credo Action
Credo Action
stated on August 27, 2015 a YouTube video
The Obama administration is "proposing to mine another 10 billion tons of Wyoming coal, which would unleash three times more carbon pollution than Obama's Clean Power Plan would even save through 2030."
Mostly False
By Lauren Carroll • September 1, 2015
Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush
stated on August 25, 2015 remarks at a town hall in Colorado
Planned Parenthood is "not actually doing women’s health issues."
Pants on Fire!
By Lauren Carroll • August 26, 2015
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on August 19, 2015 a town hall in Derry, N.H.
"Many of the great scholars say that anchor babies are not covered" by the 14th Amendment.
Half-True
By Lauren Carroll • August 25, 2015
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on August 17, 2015 an interview with Iowa Public Radio
"If I had not asked for my emails all to be made public, none of this would have been in the public arena."
Mostly False
By Lauren Carroll • August 20, 2015
Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton
stated on August 11, 2015 an interview with Inc. magazine
"There's not a single, solitary example that" signing the bill to end Glass-Steagall "had anything to do with the financial crash."
Mostly True
By Lauren Carroll • August 19, 2015
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on August 16, 2015 an interview on "Meet the Press"
Says "if the (Iran nuclear) deal gets rejected, they still get" $150 billion.
Half-True
By Lauren Carroll • August 16, 2015
Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush
stated on August 10, 2015 a Twitter exchange
There has been a 100 percent "increase in student debt under this Democratic White House."
Half-True
By Lauren Carroll • August 14, 2015
Andrew Napolitano
Andrew Napolitano
stated on August 5, 2015 in an interview on Fox's "Hannity"
Emails released to the public show Hillary Clinton discussed "the location of Ambassador Stevens, who of course was murdered, in Libya."
Half-True
By Lauren Carroll • August 11, 2015
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on August 6, 2015 in comments at a GOP debate in Cleveland
"A majority of the candidates on this stage have supported amnesty ... I have never supported amnesty."
Mostly True
By Lauren Carroll • August 7, 2015
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on August 6, 2015 comments at a GOP debate in Cleveland
Says Hillary Clinton has "been in office and in government longer than anybody else running here tonight."
Mostly False
By Lauren Carroll • August 7, 2015
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