Fact Check Posts – Page 117

Nancy Pelosi
stated on January 31, 2017 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in a tweet:

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

By Lauren Carroll • January 27, 2017

Donald Trump
stated on January 25, 2017 in 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

Donald Trump
stated on January 25, 2017 in remarks at Department of Homeland Security:

Says ICE and border patrol officers "unanimously endorsed me for president."

By Miriam Valverde • January 26, 2017

Claire McCaskill
stated on January 23, 2017 in an interview on MSNBC's "Morning Joe":

"Not one dime of the tax cut that they are going to enact with the repeal of Obamacare will go to people who make under $200,000."

By Louis Jacobson • January 26, 2017

Jerry Brown
stated on January 24, 2017 in his State of the State address:

"One hundred and ninety-four countries signed the Paris Agreement to control greenhouse gases. Our own voluntary agreement to accomplish the same goal — the Under2 MOU — has 165 signatories, representing a billion people."

By Linda Qiu • January 26, 2017

Bloggers
stated on January 24, 2017 in a blog post:

Say George Soros's money "went straight into the (Women’s March) protesters’ pockets."

By Jon Greenberg • January 25, 2017

Sean Spicer
stated on January 24, 2017 in the daily press briefing:

"There's one (study) that came out of Pew in 2008 that showed 14 percent of people who voted were noncitizens."

By Lauren Carroll • January 25, 2017

Sean Spicer
stated on January 23, 2017 in the daily press briefing:

There has been a "dramatic expansion of the federal workforce in recent years."

By Lauren Carroll • January 25, 2017

Donald Trump
stated on January 21, 2017 in a page on the White House website:

"In 2015, homicides increased by 17 percent in America’s 50 largest cities. That’s the largest increase in 25 years."

By Louis Jacobson • January 24, 2017

Donald Trump
stated on January 20, 2017 in a statement on the White House website :

"In our nation’s capital, killings have risen by 50 percent."

By Louis Jacobson • January 23, 2017

Donald Trump
stated on January 21, 2017 in remarks at the CIA:

"The media ... sort of made it sound like I had a feud with the intelligence community."

By Jon Greenberg • January 22, 2017

Sean Spicer
stated on January 21, 2017 in a press conference:

"That was the largest audience to witness an inauguration, period."

By Linda Qiu • January 22, 2017

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