Fact Check Posts – Page 12

Donald Trump
stated on August 26, 2019 in a post-G7 news conference:

"We made a ridiculous deal (with Iran). We gave them $150 billion. We gave them $1.8 billion, and we got nothing."

By Jon Greenberg • August 27, 2019

Donald Trump
stated on August 15, 2019 in a rally in Manchester, NH:

Says Pennsylvania chemical plant and Louisiana liquified natural gas plant "could never have happened" without his administration.

By Jon Greenberg • August 16, 2019

Donald Trump
stated on August 13, 2019 in a speech at a chemical plant in Pennsylvania:

Says the large trade deficit with Japan stems from them sending "millions of cars," while "we send them wheat," but the deficit is "changing rapidly."

By Jon Greenberg • August 15, 2019

Bloggers
stated on August 10, 2019 in multiple posts on Facebook:

Say Jeffrey Epstein is not dead.

By Jon Greenberg • August 12, 2019

Joe Biden
stated on August 7, 2019 in a campaign stop in Iowa:

Says Donald Trump "asserted that immigrants would quote, ‘carve you up with a knife’."

By Jon Greenberg • August 9, 2019

Donald Trump
stated on August 7, 2019 in a tweet:

Says U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown and Dayton Mayor Nan Whaley were "totally misrepresenting what took place inside of the hospital. Their news conference after I left for El Paso was a fraud. It bore no resemblance to what took place with those incredible people that I was so lucky to meet and spend time with."

By Jon Greenberg • August 9, 2019

Bill Clinton
stated on August 5, 2019 in a tweet:

"After (the assault weapon ban) passed in 1994, there was a big drop in mass shooting deaths. When the ban expired, they rose again."

By Jon Greenberg • August 7, 2019

Donald Trump
stated on August 1, 2019 in a rally in Cincinnati, Ohio:

Democrats "want virtual immunity for illegal aliens who have created horrible crimes and murder."

By Jon Greenberg • August 2, 2019

Elizabeth Warren
stated on July 22, 2019 in a post on Medium:

"The country is now in a manufacturing recession."

By Jon Greenberg • July 26, 2019

John Ratcliffe
stated on July 24, 2019 in a House hearing with Robert Mueller:

Says Robert Mueller "didn’t follow the special counsel regulations. It clearly says write a confidential report about decisions reached. Nowhere in here does it say write a report about decisions that were not reached."

By Jon Greenberg • July 24, 2019

Donald Trump
stated on July 23, 2019 in a speech to conservative high school students:

Says Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez "called our country and our people garbage."

By Jon Greenberg • July 23, 2019

Bernie Sanders
stated on July 17, 2019 in a speech at George Washington University:

With Medicare for All, "study after study has shown that ... the average middle-class families will save $3,000 each and every year on their health care bills."

By Jon Greenberg • July 22, 2019

Bernie Sanders
stated on July 10, 2019 in an op-ed in the Washington Post:

"42 percent of (Walmart’s) associates are black."

By Jon Greenberg • July 12, 2019

Rick Scott
stated on July 8, 2019 in a tweet:

"Americans are traveling to Canada to pay 12 times less for insulin than they would here in the US."

By Jon Greenberg • July 11, 2019

Donald Trump
stated on June 30, 2019 in remarks to South Korean business leaders:

"We hadn’t had a (car) plant built in years — in decades, actually. And now we have many plants being built all throughout the United States."

By Jon Greenberg • July 9, 2019

Donald Trump
stated on June 26, 2019 in a tweet from the Trump campaign:

Says Cory Booker has accepted over $400,000 from the pharmaceutical industry during his political career.

By Jon Greenberg • July 2, 2019

Donald Trump
stated on June 30, 2019 in a press conference in South Korea:

"The Obama administration was begging for a meeting" with Kim Jong Un.

By Jon Greenberg • July 1, 2019

Elizabeth Warren
stated on June 21, 2019 in a policy proposal to ban private prisons:

"Prison phone companies charge as much as $25 for a 15-minute call."

By Jon Greenberg • July 1, 2019

Donald Trump
stated on June 18, 2019 in remarks to reporters on the White House South Lawn.:

Says the Central Park Five "admitted their guilt."

By Jon Greenberg • June 24, 2019

Seth Moulton
stated on June 7, 2019 in a tweet:

Says Joe Biden hasn’t admitted he was wrong on the Iraq War, as he did with the Hyde Amendment.

By Jon Greenberg • June 20, 2019

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