Fact Check Posts – Page 107

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

Wages "haven’t gone up for a long time."

By Louis Jacobson • August 17, 2017

Roy Moore
stated on August 14, 2017 an interview with Vox.com:

"There are communities under Sharia law right now in our country. Up in Illinois. ... There’s Sharia law, as I understand it, in Illinois, Indiana -- up there. I don't know."

By Louis Jacobson • August 16, 2017

Sebastian Gorka
stated on August 8, 2017 an interview with MSNBC:

"There's no such thing as a lone wolf. ... That was a phrase invented by the last administration to make Americans stupid."

By Louis Jacobson • August 10, 2017

Donald Trump
stated on August 9, 2017 a tweet:

"My first order as president was to renovate and modernize our nuclear arsenal. It is now far stronger and more powerful than ever before."

By Louis Jacobson • August 9, 2017

Donald Trump
stated on August 7, 2017 a tweet:

Says his time away from Washington coincides with a "long planned renovation" for the White House.

By Manuela Tobias • August 8, 2017

Donald Trump
stated on August 5, 2017 a tweet:

"United Nations Resolution is the single largest economic sanctions package ever on North Korea. Over one billion dollars in cost to N.K."

By Miriam Valverde • August 6, 2017

Donald Trump
stated on July 25, 2017 an interview:

Untaxed corporate earnings used to be "$2.5 trillion … I guess it’s $5 trillion now. Whatever it is, it’s a lot more. So we have anywhere from 4 (trillion) to 5 or even more trillions of dollars sitting offshore."

By Manuela Tobias • August 3, 2017

Donald Trump
stated on July 28, 2017 a speech:

"The border is down 78 percent. Under past administrations, the border didn’t go down -- it went up."

By Miriam Valverde • August 3, 2017

Donald Trump
stated on August 1, 2017 a tweet:

"Corporations have NEVER made as much money as they are making now."

By Louis Jacobson • August 1, 2017

Donald Trump
stated on July 31, 2017 remarks in the Oval Office:

"Business spirit is the highest it's ever been, according to polls."

By Louis Jacobson • July 31, 2017

Anthony Scaramucci
stated on July 26, 2017 a tweet:

"In light of the leak of my financial disclosure info which is a felony I will be contacting @FBI and the @TheJusticeDept"

By Manuela Tobias • July 27, 2017

Donald Trump
stated on July 25, 2017 a speech:

"We've achieved a historic increase in defense spending to get our troops the support they so richly deserve."

By Jon Greenberg, Manuela Tobias • July 27, 2017

Ted Lieu
stated on July 26, 2017 comments on CNN:

"You've got thousands of people serving in the military who are transgender."

By Joshua Gillin • July 26, 2017

Donald Trump
stated on July 24, 2017 Twitter:

Amazon has a "no-tax monopoly."

By John Kruzel • July 26, 2017

Charles Schumer
stated on July 23, 2017 an interview on ABC's "This Week":

"When the price for oil goes up on the markets, it goes right up, but it never goes down."

By Louis Jacobson • July 25, 2017

Donald Trump
stated on July 24, 2017 a speech at the Boy Scout Jamboree:

"We had the best jobs report in 16 years."

By Louis Jacobson • July 25, 2017

Donald Trump
stated on July 25, 2017 a tweet:

"The person in charge of the Hillary investigation, Andrew McCabe, got $700,000 from (Hillary Clinton) for wife!"

By Louis Jacobson • July 25, 2017

Jeff Sessions
stated on July 12, 2017 a speech:

"According to a recent study from the University of California Riverside, (sanctuary) cities with these policies have more violent crime on average than those that don’t."

By Miriam Valverde • July 24, 2017

Kellyanne Conway
stated on July 22, 2017 Fox News interview:

Just 6 percent of Americans say Russia is the country’s most important issue, yet the story receives "75 percent of the coverage" in the media.

By Manuela Tobias • July 23, 2017

Donald Trump
stated on July 19, 2017 an interview with the New York Times:

During the Nixon Watergate investigation, "out of courtesy, the FBI started reporting to the Department of Justice. But there was nothing official."

By Jon Greenberg • July 21, 2017

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