Fact Check Posts – Page 129

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

Tom Harkin
stated on July 26, 2016 in a speech at the Democratic National Convention:

Says "employers are still allowed to pay people with disabilities below the minimum wage."

By Taylor Leighton • August 12, 2016

Hillary Clinton
stated on August 2, 2016 a campaign ad:

Says Donald Trump "has been talking about the option of using a nuclear weapon against our Western European allies."

By Allison Graves • August 12, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on August 10, 2016 a speech in Sunrise, Fla.:

Says Barack Obama "founded ISIS. I would say the co-founder would be crooked Hillary Clinton."

By Amy Sherman, Louis Jacobson • August 11, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on August 8, 2016 a speech:

Says Hillary Clinton's plan "would tax many small businesses by almost 50 percent."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • August 10, 2016

Hillary Clinton
stated on August 5, 2016 remarks at journalists' convention:

Undocumented immigrants "pay $12 billion a year into Social Security."

By Miriam Valverde • August 10, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on August 8, 2016 an economic address in Detroit:

"The Obama-Clinton war on coal has cost Michigan over 50,000 jobs."

By Louis Jacobson • August 9, 2016

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