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Latest Fact-Checks In Foreign Policy

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Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on September 17, 2017 a tweet:
"Long gas lines forming in North Korea."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • September 19, 2017
National Republican Senatorial Committee
National Republican Senatorial Committee
stated on August 14, 2017 a Spanish-language radio ad:
Says Sen. Bill Nelson "has aligned himself with communists and dictators," "went to Venezuela to admire Chávez’s revolution" and "supports murderers."
Pants on Fire!
By Amy Sherman • August 17, 2017
Viral image
Viral image
stated on August 9, 2017 a Twitter post:
"Bill Clinton gave North Korea $5 billion and two nuclear reactors in 1994, essentially giving them nukes."
False
By Joshua Gillin • August 9, 2017
Kellyanne Conway
Kellyanne Conway
stated on July 22, 2017 Fox News interview:
Just 6 percent of Americans say Russia is the country’s most important issue, yet the story receives "75 percent of the coverage" in the media.
Mostly False
By Manuela Tobias • July 23, 2017
Ian Bremmer
Ian Bremmer
stated on July 18, 2017 comments on 'The Rachel Maddow Show':
Says President Richard Nixon held meetings with heads of state without an American interpreter.
True
By Joshua Gillin • July 21, 2017
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on July 6, 2017 a blog post:
"Kim Jong Un dead: North Koreans calling Trump an assassin"
Pants on Fire!
By Miriam Valverde • July 20, 2017
Greg Gutfeld
Greg Gutfeld
stated on July 15, 2017 a broadcast of the "Greg Gutfeld Show":
Says Ted Kennedy met "with the KGB in order to beat Ronald Reagan in 1984."  
False
By Jon Greenberg • July 18, 2017
Pat Robertson
Pat Robertson
stated on July 12, 2017 an interview with President Donald Trump:
Russian natural gas company "Gazprom held Europe by the throat -- they were a monopoly, and now the U.S. is breaking into that monopoly with our exports of (liquefied natural gas)."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • July 17, 2017
Reince Priebus
Reince Priebus
stated on July 9, 2017 an interview:
"It's an absolute fact" that China and North Korea "have consistently over many, many years" meddled in U.S. elections.  
False
By Tom Kertscher • July 13, 2017
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on July 6, 2017 a press conference in Poland:
Says Barack Obama found out about Russia "in August. Now, the election was in November. That's a lot of time. He did nothing about it."
Mostly False
By Lauren Carroll • July 10, 2017
Hagar Chemali
Hagar Chemali
stated on July 6, 2017 an interview on MSNBC:
"Cuba is far more sanctioned than North Korea."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • July 7, 2017
Richard Burr
Richard Burr
stated on June 8, 2017 an interview:
"This is not the first time (the Russians) have been involved in our elections."
Half-True
By Will Doran • June 20, 2017
Karl Racine
Karl Racine
stated on June 12, 2017 a press conference:
"The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, whose government has important business and policy before the president of the United States, has already spent hundreds of thousands of dollars at the Trump International Hotel."
Mostly True
By Smitha Rajan • June 19, 2017
Richard Burr
Richard Burr
stated on June 13, 2017 his opening statement before Jeff Session's testimony:
Says the Senate Intelligence Committee has held 10 public hearings this year, "more than double that held by the committee in any recent year."
True
By Will Doran • June 14, 2017
Karen Handel
Karen Handel
stated on June 6, 2017 a debate:
"Nearly $2 billion in cash was flown over to Iran, money that the Obama administration has admitted is being used for terrorists and to support further activities there."  
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • June 7, 2017
Kimberley Strassel
Kimberley Strassel
stated on May 28, 2017 "Meet the Press" on NBC:
In 2008, "candidate Obama, he's not even president-elect, sends William Miller over to Iran to establish a back channel and let the Iranians know that should he win the election, they will have friendlier terms."
False
By Lauren Carroll • June 2, 2017
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on May 26, 2017 a tweet:
Deals struck on his first foreign trip as president made and saved "millions of jobs."
False
By Louis Jacobson • May 26, 2017
Rex Tillerson
Rex Tillerson
stated on April 28, 2017 comments to the UN Security Council:
"China account(s) for 90 percent of North Korean trade."
True
By John Kruzel • May 1, 2017
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on April 24, 2017 an interview wth the Associated Press:
"Back when they did NATO, there was no such thing as terrorism."
Mostly False
By John Kruzel • April 25, 2017
Claire McCaskill
Claire McCaskill
stated on January 31, 2017 a Senate hearing for Rex Tillerson’s nomination for U.S. Secretary of State:
"Nobody applies to the United States for refugee status. They apply to the United Nations."
False
By Aleissa Bleyl • April 24, 2017
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