Fact Check Posts – Page 128

Reince Priebus
stated on August 23, 2016 comments on "The Mike Gallagher Show"

"The fact is" the Clinton Foundation has "got about 80 percent in overhead and 20 percent of the money is actually getting into the places it should."

By Aaron Sharockman • August 25, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on August 19, 2016 a campaign ad

Says Hillary Clinton wants illegal immigrants "collecting Social Security benefits."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • August 24, 2016

Jennifer Granholm
stated on August 10, 2016 an interview on CNN

Says Hillary Clinton "abided by the ethics agreement" between the Clinton Foundation and the Obama administration.

By Linda Qiu • August 24, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on August 21, 2016 remarks in Michigan

The Obama administration gave Iran "$400 million in ransom payment cash."

By Lauren Carroll • August 24, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on August 23, 2016 a fundraising email

Says a CNN anchor said that Hillary Clinton has gotten "a free ride so far from the media. We're the biggest ones supporting her campaign."

By Louis Jacobson • August 23, 2016

Hillary Clinton
stated on August 15, 2016 a post on Medium

"Almost half a million people are still eligible (for DACA), particularly in the Asian-American and Pacific Islander community."

By Miriam Valverde • August 22, 2016

Tim Kaine
stated on August 16, 2016 a campaign event

"In Congress right now, we're doing the best job we have ever done in women in the federal legislature," but it’s still only "19 percent."

By Louis Jacobson • August 22, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on August 15, 2016 a speech in Youngstown, Ohio

"We admit about 100,000 permanent immigrants from the Middle East every year."

By Miriam Valverde • August 19, 2016

Joe Biden
stated on August 15, 2016 a speech in Scranton, Pa.

Says military commanders have said that if Donald Trump were elected, "they would not follow his orders."

By Louis Jacobson • August 17, 2016

Hillary Clinton
stated on August 17, 2016 a campaign rally in Cleveland

"I am the only candidate who ran in either the Democratic or the Republican primary who said from the very beginning (that) I will not raise taxes on the middle class."

By Lauren Carroll, Warren Fiske • August 17, 2016

Hillary Clinton
stated on August 15, 2016 a campaign speech in Scranton, Pa.

Says her campaign platform includes the "biggest investment in new, good-paying jobs since World War II."

By Lauren Carroll • August 17, 2016

Gary Johnson
stated on August 5, 2016 a Medium post

"Most Americans support" the legalization of marijuana.

By Louis Jacobson • August 17, 2016

Paul Manafort
stated on August 14, 2016 an interview on "State of the Union"

Says there was a "NATO base in Turkey being under attack by terrorists."

By Linda Qiu • August 16, 2016

Rudy Giuliani
stated on August 15, 2016 a speech in Youngstown, Ohio

"Under those eight years before (Barack) Obama came along, we didn’t have any successful radical Islamic terrorist attack in the United States" since Sept. 11, 2001.

By Linda Qiu • August 16, 2016

Gary Johnson
stated on August 3, 2016 a town hall meeting

Legal prescription drugs "statistically kill 100,000 people a year, (but) there are no documented deaths due to marijuana."

By Joseph Cariz • August 16, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on August 15, 2016 a speech on foreign policy in Youngstown, Ohio

"I had previously said that NATO was obsolete because it failed to deal adequately with terrorism. Since my comments, they have changed their policy and now have a new division focused on terror threats."

By Louis Jacobson • August 16, 2016

Gary Johnson
stated on August 11, 2016 an interview on Fox News

"The Pentagon itself says that we could eliminate 20 percent of U.S. bases."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • August 15, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on August 1, 2016 multiple speeches and interviews

Says the U.S. election system is "rigged."

By Linda Qiu • August 15, 2016

Paul Manafort
stated on August 14, 2016 an interview on "State of the Union"

In Hillary Clinton's tax returns, "you saw a lot of income coming from donors to the Clinton Foundation and people who benefitted from her State Department term as well."

By Linda Qiu • August 14, 2016

Hillary Clinton
stated on August 11, 2016 an economic speech in Warren, Mich.

"I opposed the only multilateral trade deal that came before the Senate while I was there."

By Louis Jacobson • August 12, 2016

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