Fact Check Posts – Page 133

Tim Kaine
stated on July 11, 2016 in an interview on MSNBC:

Says "Donald Trump is a guy who has called for privatization" of the Veterans Administration.

By Linda Qiu • July 25, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on July 24, 2016 in a tweet:

"An analysis showed that Bernie Sanders would have won the Democratic nomination if it were not for the Super Delegates."

By Linda Qiu • July 25, 2016

Donald Trump Jr.
stated on July 24, 2016 in an interview on CNN:

Unemployment numbers "are artificial numbers. These are numbers that are massaged to make the existing economy look good, to make this administration look good when, in fact, it's a total disaster."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • July 25, 2016

Hillary Clinton
stated on July 23, 2016 in a campaign rally in Miami, Fla.:

Says unlike Tim Kaine, who "invested" in education, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence "slashed education funding."

By Lauren Carroll • July 24, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on July 21, 2016 in in a speech at the Republican convention:

"Nearly 180,000 illegal immigrants with criminal records, ordered deported from our country, are tonight roaming free to threaten peaceful citizens."

By Miriam Valverde • July 22, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on July 21, 2016 in a speech at the Republican convention:

"An amendment, pushed by Lyndon Johnson many years ago, threatens religious institutions with a loss of their tax-exempt status if they openly advocate their political views."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • July 22, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on July 21, 2016 in the 2016 Republican National Convention:

"America is one of the highest-taxed nations in the world."

By Louis Jacobson, Nadia Pflaum • July 22, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on July 21, 2016 in his acceptance speech at the Republican Natiional Convention in Cleveland:

"Household incomes are down more than $4,000 since the year 2000."

By Louis Jacobson • July 22, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on July 21, 2016 in a speech at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland:

"Our trade deficit in goods reached nearly … $800 billion last year alone."

By Lauren Carroll • July 22, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on July 21, 2016 in a speech at the Republican national convention:

Says Hillary Clinton "supported North American Free Trade Agreement), and she supported China’s entrance into the World Trade Organization…. She supported the job-killing trade deal with South Korea. She supported the Trans-Pacific Partnership."

By Linda Qiu • July 22, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on July 21, 2016 in a speech at the Republican national convention:

Says Hillary Clinton "wants to essentially abolish the Second Amendment."

By Linda Qiu • July 22, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on July 21, 2016 in his acceptance speech at the Republican Natiional Convention in Cleveland:

"While Hillary Clinton plans a massive, and I mean massive, tax increase, I have proposed the largest tax reduction of any candidate who has run for president this year, Democrat or Republican."

By Louis Jacobson • July 22, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on July 21, 2016 in a speech at the Republican National Convention:

"America has lost nearly one third of its manufacturing jobs since 1997, following the enactment of disastrous trade deals supported by Bill and Hillary Clinton."

By Jon Greenberg • July 22, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on July 21, 2016 in a speech at the Republican convention:

Says Hillary Clinton "has called for a radical 550 percent increase in Syrian ... refugees . . . despite the fact that there’s no way to screen these refugees in order to find out who they are or where they come from."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • July 22, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on July 21, 2016 in the 2016 Republican National Convention:

"Forty-three million Americans are on food stamps."

By Nadia Pflaum • July 22, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on July 21, 2016 in In a speech at the Republican convention:

"The number of new illegal immigrant families who have crossed the border so far this year already exceeds the entire total from 2015."

By Miriam Valverde • July 22, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on July 21, 2016 in his acceptance speech at the Republican Natiional Convention in Cleveland:

"Homicides last year increased by 17 percent in America’s 50 largest cities. That’s the largest increase in 25 years."

By Louis Jacobson • July 22, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on July 21, 2016 in a speech at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland:

"Two million more Latinos are in poverty today than when President Obama took his oath of office less than eight years ago."

By Lauren Carroll • July 22, 2016

Mike Pence
stated on July 20, 2016 in a speech at the Republican National Convention:

Says as Indiana governor, he has made "record investments in education."

By Lauren Carroll • July 21, 2016

Mike Pence
stated on July 20, 2016 in a speech at the Republican convention:

"We in Indiana have . . . the highest credit rating in the nation."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • July 21, 2016

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