Fact Check Posts – Page 10

Rick Scott
stated on May 13, 2019 a speech:

Says "Nicolás Maduro is carrying out a genocide on his people."

By Amy Sherman, Louis Jacobson • May 16, 2019

Donald Trump
stated on May 9, 2019 remarks at the White House:

Tariffs are "paid for mostly by China, by the way, not by us."

By Louis Jacobson • May 14, 2019

Viral image
stated on May 2, 2019 social media posts:

When Joe Biden’s son Hunter was serving as "a director to Ukraine’s largest private gas producer," the elder Biden "threatened to withhold $1 BILLION in U.S. aid to Ukraine if they didn’t fire a prosecutor looking into" the gas company.

By Louis Jacobson • May 7, 2019

Marianne Williamson
stated on April 14, 2019 a CNN town hall:

Says Jimmy Carter was the last "U.S. president to say flat out those (Israeli) settlements are illegal."

By Louis Jacobson • April 22, 2019

Kevin Downing
stated on March 13, 2019 remarks to reporters:

Says Paul Manafort’s sentencing judge, Amy Berman Jackson, "conceded that there was absolutely no evidence of any Russian collusion in this case. So that makes two courts. Two courts have ruled no evidence of any collusion with any Russians."

By Louis Jacobson • March 14, 2019

Facebook posts
stated on February 28, 2019 a Facebook post:

Says Bernie Sanders marched with Fidel Castro and Che Guevara in Cuba.

By Amy Sherman • March 5, 2019

Ilhan Omar
stated on February 27, 2019 a tweet:

"#MichaelCohen: Convicted of lying to Congress re: Russia investigation … #ElliottAbrams: Convicted of lying to Congress re: arming Contra death squads"

By Jon Greenberg • March 1, 2019

Richard Hudson
stated on January 8, 2019 a tweet:

Says Democrats want to give $54 billion in foreign aid, and Trump is only asking for 10 percent of that "to secure our border and build a wall.

By Paul Specht • January 24, 2019

Mike Pence
stated on January 16, 2019 a speech:

"The caliphate has crumbled and ISIS has been defeated."

By Louis Jacobson • January 17, 2019

Mark Warner
stated on January 13, 2019 in an interview:

Says the Trump administration has "a scheme to try to take (Oleg Deripaska’s) ownership level down from 70 percent to roughly 40, 45" so that the Russian company is no longer subject to sanctions.

By John Kruzel • January 15, 2019

Donald Trump
stated on January 2, 2019 in a discussion with reporters:

"The reason Russia was in Afghanistan was because terrorists were going into Russia."

By John Kruzel • January 9, 2019

Donald Trump
stated on December 20, 2018 a tweet:

"Russia, Iran, Syria & many others are not happy" about U.S. troops leaving Syria.

By Miriam Valverde • December 21, 2018

Donald Trump
stated on November 21, 2018 a tweet:

Just before Thanksgiving, oil was $54 a barrel, down from $82. "Thank you to Saudi Arabia."

By Kyra Haas, Louis Jacobson • November 26, 2018

Bloggers
stated on October 22, 2018 a post on Facebook:

"'Caravan' Migrant Army Paint Swastika on American Flag, Burn It in the Street."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • October 25, 2018

Donald Trump
stated on October 20, 2018 an exchange with reporters:

Saudi Arabia has ordered $450 billion, "$110 billion of which is a military order," producing "over a million jobs."

By Jon Greenberg • October 23, 2018

Donald Trump
stated on October 1, 2018 a White House press event:

"Since NAFTA’s adoption, the United States racked up trade deficits totaling more than $2 trillion."

By Louis Jacobson • October 1, 2018

Bloggers
stated on September 9, 2018 a website post:

Says Barack Obama "referred to the carnage that took place in Benghazi as a conspiracy theory."

By Jon Greenberg • September 14, 2018

Donald Trump
stated on August 22, 2018 a tweet:

Says the "South African Government is now seizing land from white farmers" and alleges a "large scale killing of farmers" in the country.

By Katie Akin • August 24, 2018

Jeff Denham
stated on July 24, 2018 a podcast interview:

China has "not acted so well with our elections. They’ve tampered with our elections quite a bit."

By Chris Nichols • August 14, 2018

Bloggers
stated on July 31, 2018 a blog post:

Says Donald Trump contradicted his own administration when he said the decision to allow blueprints for 3D-printed guns to be distributed "doesn’t seem to make much sense."

By Bill McCarthy • August 2, 2018

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