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Latest Fact-Checks By Jon Greenberg

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Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on August 26, 2019 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."
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • August 27, 2019
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on August 15, 2019 a rally in Manchester, NH
Says Pennsylvania chemical plant and Louisiana liquified natural gas plant "could never have happened" without his administration.
False
By Jon Greenberg • August 16, 2019
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on August 13, 2019 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."  
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • August 15, 2019
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on August 10, 2019 multiple posts on Facebook
Say Jeffrey Epstein is not dead.
Pants on Fire!
By Jon Greenberg • August 12, 2019
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on August 7, 2019 a campaign stop in Iowa
Says Donald Trump "asserted that immigrants would quote, ‘carve you up with a knife’."  
False
By Jon Greenberg • August 9, 2019
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on August 7, 2019 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."  
False
By Jon Greenberg • August 9, 2019
Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton
stated on August 5, 2019 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."  
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • August 7, 2019
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on August 1, 2019 a rally in Cincinnati, Ohio
Democrats "want virtual immunity for illegal aliens who have created horrible crimes and murder."  
False
By Jon Greenberg • August 2, 2019
Elizabeth Warren
Elizabeth Warren
stated on July 22, 2019 a post on Medium
"The country is now in a manufacturing recession."  
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • July 26, 2019
John Ratcliffe
John Ratcliffe
stated on July 24, 2019 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."
False
By Jon Greenberg • July 24, 2019
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on July 23, 2019 a speech to conservative high school students
Says Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez "called our country and our people garbage."
False
By Jon Greenberg • July 23, 2019
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on July 17, 2019 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."  
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • July 22, 2019
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on July 10, 2019 an op-ed in the Washington Post
"42 percent of (Walmart’s) associates are black."
False
By Jon Greenberg • July 12, 2019
Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on July 8, 2019 a tweet
"Americans are traveling to Canada to pay 12 times less for insulin than they would here in the US."  
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • July 11, 2019
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on June 30, 2019 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."
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • July 9, 2019
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on June 26, 2019 a tweet from the Trump campaign
Says Cory Booker has accepted over $400,000 from the pharmaceutical industry during his political career.  
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • July 2, 2019
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on June 30, 2019 a press conference in South Korea
"The Obama administration was begging for a meeting" with Kim Jong Un.  
False
By Jon Greenberg • July 1, 2019
Elizabeth Warren
Elizabeth Warren
stated on June 21, 2019 a policy proposal to ban private prisons
"Prison phone companies charge as much as $25 for a 15-minute call."  
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • July 1, 2019
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on June 18, 2019 remarks to reporters on the White House South Lawn.
Says the Central Park Five "admitted their guilt."  
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • June 24, 2019
Seth Moulton
Seth Moulton
stated on June 7, 2019 a tweet
Says Joe Biden hasn’t admitted he was wrong on the Iraq War, as he did with the Hyde Amendment.  
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • June 20, 2019
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