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Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on October 27, 2016 a rally in Springfield, Ohio
"Nearly half of African-American children under the age of 6 are living in abject poverty."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • October 28, 2016
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on October 26, 2016 a rally in Tampa, Fla.
"One-half of undocumented workers pay federal income taxes, which means they are paying more federal income taxes than Donald Trump pays."
Half-True
By Lauren Carroll • October 27, 2016
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on October 25, 2016 an interview with Fox News' Megyn Kelly
In the Paula Jones case, Bill Clinton paid an "$850,000 penalty."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • October 27, 2016
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on October 26, 2016 a rally in Charlotte, N.C.
"We’ve spent $6 trillion" on the wars in the Middle East.
Half-True
By Linda Qiu • October 27, 2016
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on October 25, 2016 a speech
"The man who was in charge of the investigation of Hillary Clinton accepted essentially from Hillary Clinton $675,000 that went to his wife."
Mostly False
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • October 26, 2016
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on October 25, 2016 a rally in Florida
Says Donald Trump "was asked if he would defend our allies. He said well, first he'd want to know if they made any payments to us to defend them."
True
By Miriam Valverde • October 26, 2016
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on October 24, 2016 a rally in Florida
"Wikileaks also shows how John Podesta rigged the polls by oversampling Democrats, a voter suppression technique."
Pants on Fire!
By Linda Qiu • October 25, 2016
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on October 24, 2016 a rally in New Hampshire
Says Donald Trump is "the first person running for president, Republican or Democrat, who refused to say that he would respect the results of this election."
Mostly True
By Lauren Carroll • October 25, 2016
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on October 23, 2016 a tweet from her campaign
"Donald Trump says he'd deport 16 million people."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • October 25, 2016
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on October 22, 2016 a rally in Cleveland, Ohio
"14 percent of noncitizens are registered to vote."  
False
By Allison Graves • October 24, 2016
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on October 22, 2016 a press conference
"400 bills have my name on them either as a sponsor or a co-sponsor. You don’t get that done unless you work with folks on the other side."
Half-True
By Joshua Gillin • October 24, 2016
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on October 20, 2016 a speech at the Alfred E. Smith Memorial Dinner
In 1928 "school boards sent home letters with children saying that if Al Smith is elected president, you will not be allowed to have or read a Bible."
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • October 24, 2016
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on October 19, 2016 a presidential debate
"ISIS is in 32 countries."
Half-True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • October 24, 2016
Kellyanne Conway
Kellyanne Conway
stated on October 23, 2016 comments on "Meet the Press"
Says Hillary Clinton takes "tens of millions of dollars from countries that hate women, that disrespect women, that throw gays off of buildings."
Mostly False
By Linda Qiu • October 23, 2016
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on October 20, 2016 a rally in Delaware, Ohio
"Ford is moving all of their small-car production to Mexico."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • October 23, 2016
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on October 19, 2016 the third presidential debate
"Nobody knows about it, nobody talks about it, but under Obama, millions of people have been moved out of this country, they've been deported."
Half-True
By Miriam Valverde • October 21, 2016
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on October 19, 2016 the third presidential debate
Russia has "tremendous numbers of nuclear warheads — 1,800, by the way — where they expanded, and we didn't."
Half-True
By Lauren Carroll • October 20, 2016
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on October 19, 2016 in the third presidential debate.
"What I have put forward does not add a penny to the debt."  
Half-True
By Aaron Sharockman • October 20, 2016
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on October 19, 2016 the third 2016 presidential debate
The stories from women saying he groped or forced himself on them "largely have been debunked."
False
By Jon Greenberg • October 20, 2016
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on October 19, 2016 the third 2016 presidential debate
"There was even a time when (Donald Trump) didn't get an Emmy for his TV program three years in a row and he started tweeting that the Emmys were rigged."
Half-True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • October 20, 2016
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