Fact Check Posts – Page 11

Ted Cruz
stated on March 28, 2016 a campaign email

"The Obama administration has even joined Islamist governments in sponsoring a U.N. resolution that would shred our First Amendment by threatening to make discussion of radical Islamism potentially illegal."

By Emma Hinchliffe • May 9, 2016

Hillary Clinton
stated on May 3, 2016 a Clinton campaign tweet

Says Donald Trump promised to repeal Obamacare, build a wall, ban Muslims, and more.

By Jon Greenberg • May 5, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on April 27, 2016 a foreign policy speech

"ISIS is making millions of dollars a week selling Libyan oil."

By Chris Nichols • April 27, 2016

Bob Graham
stated on April 24, 2016 an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press"

"We know that Saudi Arabia started al-Qaida."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • April 24, 2016

Great America PAC
stated on March 31, 2016 a TV ad

Says Ted Cruz "wanted to let in more Syrian refugees and give amnesty to illegal immigrants."

April 22, 2016

Ron DeSantis
stated on March 23, 2016 a House Oversight Committee National Security Subcommittee hearing

"Recent reports state that the U.S. Customs and Border Protection has apprehended several members of known Islamist terrorist organizations crossing the southern border in recent years."

By Joshua Gillin • April 4, 2016

Hillary Clinton
stated on March 22, 2016 a speech at Stanford University.

When it comes to fighting terrorism, "Another thing we know that does not work, based on lots of empirical evidence, is torture."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • March 30, 2016

Hillary Clinton
stated on March 23, 2016 remarks at Stanford University

"It’s actually easier for the United States to get flight manifests from E.U. nations than it is for E.U. nations to get them from their own neighbors, thanks to an agreement the U.S. negotiated when I was secretary of state."

By Lauren Carroll • March 29, 2016

Sid Miller
stated on March 22, 2016 a Facebook post

Says Barack Obama was happily photographed holding a T-shirt with revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara’s face on it.

By Fauzeya Rahman • March 25, 2016

Paul Ryan
stated on March 17, 2016 a news conference

"To this day, (the Cuban government) is a regime that provides safe harbor to terrorists and fugitives."

By Lauren Carroll • March 24, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on March 21, 2016 a speech to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee

"During the last five years, Iran has perpetrated terror attacks in 25 different countries on five continents."

By Louis Jacobson • March 22, 2016

Joe Pitts
stated on February 25, 2016 in a Medium post.

"More people were killed by terrorists in 2015 than in any other year ever, after an 80 percent increase from 2014."

By Anna Orso • March 22, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on March 13, 2016 an interview on "Meet the Press"

Says the man who rushed the stage at him in Dayton, Ohio, "had chatter about ISIS, or with ISIS" in his social media posts.

By Louis Jacobson • March 13, 2016

Ron Johnson
stated on February 5, 2016 a public forum

Says Barack Obama "has the legal authority to let in really however many refugees he wants, from whatever country."

March 11, 2016

Jeff DeWit
stated on February 22, 2016 an interview with CNN's Carol Costello.

"Now we have ISIS coming over the (U.S.-Mexico) border."

By Anthony Cave • March 10, 2016

Jon Keyser
stated on February 11, 2016 a candidate forum

Says Michael Bennet wants to close Guantanamo Bay prison and bring terrorists "right here to Colorado."

By Alan Gathright • March 8, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on March 3, 2016 a GOP debate hosted by Fox

The wives of the 9/11 hijackers "knew exactly what was happening" and went back to Saudi Arabia two days before the attacks to watch their husbands on television flying the planes.

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • March 4, 2016

Joe Heck
stated on February 23, 2016 a press release

"There is no evidence to support the claim that Guantanamo is used as a recruiting tool" for terrorists.

By Riley Snyder • February 29, 2016

Glenn Grothman
stated on November 20, 2015 a radio interview

Says "Barack Obama is apparently not for vetting people and saying just anybody can come" to the United States.

By Sarah Hauer • February 26, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on February 19, 2016 a rally in North Charleston, S.C.

Says that in the Philippines more than a century ago, Gen. John Pershing "took 50 bullets, and he dipped them in pigs’ blood," and shot 49 Muslim rebels. "The 50th person, he said, ‘You go back to your people, and you tell them what happened.’ And for 25 years, there wasn’t a problem."

By Louis Jacobson • February 23, 2016

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