Fact Check Posts – Page 106

Dave Brat
stated on September 7, 2017 an interview on MSNBC:

"So the number on DACA is 800,000, but every one person can bring in their entire extended family once they reach a certain status. So it's 3 or 4 million, right?"

By Miriam Valverde • September 15, 2017

Bloggers
stated on September 7, 2017 a fake news article:

"Georgia mosque keeps Hurricane Harvey donations, will send to Syrian refugees instead"

By Greg Auman, Jon Greenberg • September 11, 2017

Eric Schneiderman
stated on September 6, 2017 an interview on The Rachel Maddow Show:

"No court has held (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) unconstitutional."

By Miriam Valverde • September 11, 2017

Al Franken
stated on September 5, 2017 an interview:

"President (Ronald) Reagan did a similar thing. George H.W. Bush did a similar order" as former President Barack Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA.

By John Kruzel • September 8, 2017

Rick Santorum
stated on September 3, 2017 a CNN interview:

"We have over a million (legal immigrants) a year, more than at any time in the history of this country. We have the largest percentage of immigrants, almost tied now with the historical high as a percentage of immigrants living in this country."

By Manuela Tobias • September 6, 2017

Jeff Sessions
stated on September 5, 2017 remarks at the Justice Department:

Says President Barack Obama’s policy known as DACA "contributed to a surge of minors at the southern border."

By Louis Jacobson • September 5, 2017

Senate Leadership Fund
stated on August 2, 2017 an ad:

In addition to his compensation as a judge, "Roy Moore and his wife (paid themselves) over $1 million from a charity they ran."

By John Kruzel • September 5, 2017

Bloggers
stated on August 29, 2017 Internet posts:

Says video shows Mike Pence quoting the Bible as justification for "Congress not to fund Katrina relief effort."

By Joshua Gillin • August 31, 2017

Donald Trump
stated on August 28, 2017 a press conference:

"We stopped traffic coming through -- 78 percent."

By Miriam Valverde • August 31, 2017

Ted Cruz
stated on August 28, 2017 an MSNBC interview:

"Two-thirds of the (Hurricane Sandy relief) bill had nothing to do with Sandy."

By Jon Greenberg • August 30, 2017

Adam Schiff
stated on August 20, 2017 an interview:

"I think what the authors of the (25th) Amendment principally had in mind was some kind of physical incapacitation or serious mental illness or a breakdown, an inability to function in office."

By John Kruzel • August 29, 2017

Joe Arpaio
stated on August 25, 2017 a tweet:

Says his conviction is "a political witch hunt by holdovers in the Obama justice department."

By Jon Greenberg • August 29, 2017

Bloggers
stated on August 28, 2017 tweets:

Photo shows a shark swimming on a freeway in Houston.

By Joshua Gillin • August 28, 2017

Senate Leadership Fund
stated on August 22, 2017 in an ad:

Says Kelli Ward hosted a town hall on "chemtrail conspiracy theories" and is open to sponsoring chemtrails legislation.

By Manuela Tobias • August 25, 2017

Paul Ryan
stated on August 21, 2017 a CNN town hall broadcast:

"We’ve got dozens of counties around America that have zero insurers left."

By Jon Greenberg • August 24, 2017

Donald Trump
stated on August 22, 2017 a rally in Phoenix:

"We have become an energy exporter for the first time ever just recently."

By Louis Jacobson • August 23, 2017

Donald Trump
stated on August 22, 2017 a rally:

"There aren't too many people outside protesting" his speech at the Phoenix Convention Center.

By Miriam Valverde • August 23, 2017

Matthew Rosendale
stated on July 31, 2017 Voices of Montana radio show:

Says Sen. Jon Tester "believes that we should have a national registration so that the people of Montana should have to ask permission before they purchase a gun, ask permission from the federal government."

By John Kruzel • August 21, 2017

Donald Trump
stated on August 15, 2017 a question-and-answer session with reporters:

White nationalist protesters in Charlottesville "had a permit. The other group didn’t have a permit."

By Louis Jacobson • August 17, 2017

Donald Trump
stated on August 17, 2017 a tweet:

"Study what General Pershing of the United States did to terrorists when caught. There was no more Radical Islamic Terror for 35 years!"

By Aaron Sharockman, Louis Jacobson • August 17, 2017

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