Fact Check Posts – Page 133

Donald Trump
stated on October 28, 2015 a Republican presidential debate in Boulder, Colo.:

"I never said that" Marco Rubio was Mark Zuckerberg’s personal senator.

By Louis Jacobson • October 29, 2015

Chris Christie
stated on October 28, 2015 a Republican presidential debate in Boulder, Colo.:

Bernie Sanders’s plan is "to raise your taxes to 90 percent."

By Louis Jacobson • October 29, 2015

Reader
stated on October 24, 2015 a Tweet to PolitiFact Georgia:

"How is a misogynist bigot of epic proportions (like U.S. Rep. Steven Smith) allowed to serve?"

By April Hunt • October 28, 2015

Sean Hannity
stated on October 19, 2015 a segment of Fox News' "Hannity":

"The president said he’s going to bring in 250,000 (Syrian and Iraqi) refugees into this country."

By Aaron Sharockman, Jon Greenberg • October 26, 2015

Dan Patrick
stated on October 19, 2015 an interview with Neil Cavuto of Fox News:

Planned Parenthood is "nothing more than a referral service. … They don’t do anything except profit from killing babies and then selling body parts of those aborted babies."

By W. Gardner Selby • October 22, 2015

Viral image
stated on October 21, 2015 an image on the Internet:

"CNN's Crap Polling" is so bad that it shows that "no one under the age of 50 has an opinion of Hillary Clinton."

By Louis Jacobson • October 21, 2015

Donald Trump
stated on October 14, 2015 comments at a rally.:

Says Bernie Sanders is going to "tax you people at 90 percent."

By Linda Qiu • October 20, 2015

NowThis
stated on October 15, 2015 a video shared on social media:

Says CNN deleted an online poll showing Bernie Sanders won the first Democratic presidential debate to help out Hillary Clinton.

By Katie Sanders • October 19, 2015

Viral image
stated on October 15, 2015 a graphic circulating on the Internet:

Says Bernie Sanders once said, "Instead of removing the conditions that make people depressed, modern society gives them antidepressant drugs."

By Louis Jacobson • October 16, 2015

Jason Villalba
stated on October 13, 2015 a tweet:

"Bernie Sanders admits he is a Democratic Socialist. … Nazis were Democratic Socialists."

By W. Gardner Selby • October 16, 2015

Ben Carson
stated on October 8, 2015 an interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer:

"In the class of 1968 at Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow, Mahmoud Abbas was one of the members of that class, and so was Ali Khamenei. And that's where they first established relationships with the young Vladimir Putin."

By Louis Jacobson • October 9, 2015

X posts
stated on October 4, 2015 tweets:

Says Donald Trump’s "Make America Great Again" hats were made in China.

By Katie Sanders • October 7, 2015

Viral image
stated on October 1, 2015 Facebook posts:

Pope Francis uses a modest compact car to get around, while Creflo Dollar drives an expensive sports car.

By April Hunt • October 7, 2015

Dan Patrick
stated on September 3, 2015 an interview by David Brown, host of the Texas Standard:

"100 percent of the crime is committed, in estimate, by about 15 percent of the population."

By W. Gardner Selby • October 6, 2015

Jason Chaffetz
stated on September 29, 2015 a Congressional hearing.:

In 2006, Planned Parenthood performed more prevention services and cancer screenings than abortions, but in 2013, there were more abortions.

By Linda Qiu • October 1, 2015

Viral image
stated on September 25, 2015 a viral Internet post:

Honduras "bans citizens from owning guns" and has the "highest homicide rate in the entire world." Switzerland, with a similar population, "requires citizens to own guns" and has the "lowest homicide rate in the entire world."

By Katie Sanders • September 30, 2015

Donald Trump
stated on September 28, 2015 a press conference:

The unemployment rate may be as high as "42 percent."

By Louis Jacobson • September 30, 2015

Town hall audience member
stated on September 17, 2015 a town hall held by Donald Trump in Rochester, N.H.:

"You know our current president is (Muslim). You know he's not even an American."

By Lauren Carroll • September 18, 2015

Ben Carson
stated on September 16, 2015 the CNN GOP presidential debate :

Pediatricians have cut down on the number and proximity of vaccines because they recognize there have been "too many in too short a period of time."

By Amy Sherman • September 17, 2015

Facebook posts
stated on September 5, 2015 a Facebook post:

Says Scott Walker said "Labor unions don’t deserve to have a national holiday" due to their damage to the economy. And the holiday "should be replaced by Patriots Day, celebrated every year on 9/11."

By James B. Nelson • September 10, 2015

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