Fact Check Posts – Page 116

Donald Trump
stated on February 7, 2017 a meeting with sheriffs in the White House:

"The murder rate in our country is the highest it’s been in 47 years."

By Louis Jacobson • February 8, 2017

Donald Trump
stated on February 2, 2017 a Facebook post:

"Smart! 'Kuwait issues its own Trump-esque visa ban for five Muslim-majority countries.' "

By Louis Jacobson • February 7, 2017

Seth Moulton
stated on January 31, 2017 a CNN interview:

"ISIS is already using the rhetoric from the Trump administration, the text of this executive order, to incite attacks against us and to recruit more terrorists to their side."

By Miriam Valverde • February 7, 2017

Donald Trump
stated on February 6, 2017 a speech in Tampa, Fla.:

Terrorism and terrorist attacks in the United States and Europe have "gotten to a point where it's not even being reported."

By Louis Jacobson • February 6, 2017

Donald Trump
stated on February 5, 2017 an interview with Bill O'Reilly:

Says "109 people out of hundreds of thousands of travelers" were affected by the immigration executive order.

By Linda Qiu • February 6, 2017

Kellyanne Conway
stated on February 2, 2017 There was no massacre:

"Two Iraqis came here to this country, were radicalized and they were the masterminds behind the Bowling Green massacre. … It didn't get covered"

By Louis Jacobson, Steve Contorno • February 3, 2017

Kellyanne Conway
stated on February 2, 2017 an interview on "Fox and Friends":

"This is longest that the nation has gone without a secretary of the Treasury, at least in modern times. If it's not the longest, it's darn close to it."

By Allison Graves • February 2, 2017

Keith Ellison
stated on January 29, 2017 a CBS 'Face The Nation' interview:

"About three-quarters of (Syrian refugees) are women and children. A full third of them are kids under 12 years old."

By Miriam Valverde • February 2, 2017

Donald Trump
stated on February 1, 2017 a tweet:

"The Obama Administration agreed to take thousands of illegal immigrants from Australia."

By Linda Qiu, Miriam Valverde • February 2, 2017

Nancy Pelosi
stated on January 31, 2017 a CNN town hall:

Says Neil Gorsuch "comes down on the side of felons over gun safety."

By Lauren Carroll • February 2, 2017

Nancy Pelosi
stated on January 31, 2017 a town hall on CNN:

"Wall Street comes out en masse with its money against House Democrats every election."

By Louis Jacobson • February 1, 2017

John McCain
stated on January 18, 2017 an interview on Fox News:

"The Taliban went after and murdered" people identified in the Chelsea Manning leaks.

By Lauren Carroll • February 1, 2017

Joni Ernst
stated on January 27, 2017 a speech at the March for Life:

The Obama administration issued an "11th-hour rule that entrenches federal family planning funding for Planned Parenthood."

By Louis Jacobson • February 1, 2017

Sean Spicer
stated on January 30, 2017 a daily press briefing:

The language that's part of the president's National Security Council memo "is identical to the language" used by President George W. Bush in 2001 and President Barack Obama in 2009.

By Linda Qiu • January 31, 2017

Kellyanne Conway
stated on January 27, 2017 an interview with "CBS This Morning":

"Here's the fact: The No. 1 source of income into Mexico are Mexicans working here and sending the money back."

By Louis Jacobson • January 30, 2017

Donald Trump
stated on January 29, 2017 a statement:

"My policy is similar to what President Obama did in 2011 when he banned visas for refugees from Iraq for six months."

By Linda Qiu • January 30, 2017

Jerrold Nadler
stated on January 28, 2017 a CNN interview:

"The various people who have, in fact, committed terrorist acts in this country, from 9/11 on, none of them came from any of the seven countries that are the subject of the president's executive order."

By Miriam Valverde • January 29, 2017

Donald Trump
stated on January 27, 2017 an interview with CBN:

"If you were a Muslim, you could come in, if you were a Christian, it was impossible."

By Linda Qiu • January 29, 2017

Charles Schumer
stated on January 27, 2017 a tweet:

Says Rex "Tillerson won't divest from Exxon."

By Lauren Carroll • January 27, 2017

Donald Trump
stated on January 25, 2017 an interview with ABC News' David Muir:

"A poll just came out on my inauguration speech. … People loved it. Loved and liked."

By Louis Jacobson • January 26, 2017

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