Fact Check Posts – Page 137

Donald Trump
stated on June 7, 2016 a speech after several primaries concluded:

"Crime is rising."

By Louis Jacobson • June 9, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on June 5, 2016 an interview on CBS News' "Face the Nation":

Says Judge Gonzalo Curiel "is a member of a club or society, very strongly pro-Mexican."

By Jon Greenberg • June 7, 2016

Mitch McConnell
stated on May 31, 2016 an interview on MSNBC's "Morning Joe":

Says Obama "called Kagan a moderate. He called Sotomayor a moderate."

By Allison Graves • June 7, 2016

Hillary Clinton
stated on June 2, 2016 a foreign policy speech:

"A trade war is something very different (than curbing new trade agreements). We went down that road in the 1930s. It made the Great Depression longer and more painful."

By Louis Jacobson • June 6, 2016

Hillary Clinton
stated on June 2, 2016 a foreign policy speech:

Says Donald Trump said the U.S. should "encourage" Japan to get nuclear weapons.

By Louis Jacobson • June 6, 2016

Hillary Clinton
stated on June 2, 2016 a national security speech in California:

Says Donald Trump "has the gall to say that prisoners of war like John McCain aren’t heroes."

By Neelesh Moorthy • June 3, 2016

Hillary Clinton
stated on June 2, 2016 a foreign policy speech :

Says Donald Trump "says he has foreign policy experience because he ran the Miss Universe pageant in Russia."

By Louis Jacobson • June 3, 2016

Hillary Clinton
stated on June 2, 2016 a foreign policy speech :

Says "Donald Trump says climate change is a hoax invented by the Chinese."

By Louis Jacobson • June 3, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on June 1, 2016 a rally in Sacramento, Calif.:

Says Hillary Clinton has spoken "such lies about my foreign policy. They said I want Japan to … get nuclear weapons. Give me a break."

By Louis Jacobson • June 2, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on May 31, 2016 a news conference:

"We're losing thousands of (veterans) waiting on line" because they can't get speedy health care from the Veterans Administration.

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • June 1, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on May 31, 2016 a press conference in New York :

"I wanted to keep it private, because I don't think it's anybody's business if I want to send money to the vets."

By Louis Jacobson • May 31, 2016

Hillary Clinton
stated on May 26, 2016 an interview on ABC:

"It was allowed," referring to her email practices.

By Lauren Carroll • May 31, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on May 26, 2016 a speech on energy policy:

In California, "the windmills are killing hundreds and hundreds of eagles."

By Jon Greenberg • May 31, 2016

Bernie Sanders
stated on May 29, 2016 an interview on "Meet the Press":

"I believe we should have tax on carbon and deal aggressively with climate change. That is not (Hillary Clinton's) position."

By Linda Qiu • May 29, 2016

Bernie Sanders
stated on May 29, 2016 an interview on NBC's 'Meet the Press':

"Right now, in every major poll, national poll and statewide poll done in the last month, six weeks, we are defeating Trump, often by big numbers and always at a larger margin than Secretary Clinton is."

By Louis Jacobson • May 29, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on May 24, 2016 an Instagram post:

"Hypocrisy at the Clinton Foundation: Top male staff made on average $218,029 while top female staff made $153,014 from 2010-2014."

By Louis Jacobson • May 27, 2016

Hillary Clinton
stated on May 24, 2016 an advertisement:

"In 2006, Donald Trump was hoping for a real estate crash."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • May 26, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on May 20, 2016 a speech to the National Rifle Association:

It "is Hillary Clinton's agenda" to "release the violent criminals from jail. She wants them all released."

By Louis Jacobson • May 26, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on May 18, 2016 an interview with the New York Times Magazine:

"There are places in America that are among the most dangerous in the world. You go to places like Oakland. Or Ferguson. The crime numbers are worse. Seriously."

By Linda Qiu • May 25, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on May 23, 2016 an interview with Fox News' Bill O'Reilly:

"Look, we are at war with these people and they don't wear uniforms. … This is a war against people that are vicious, violent people, that we have no idea who they are, where they come from. We are allowing tens of thousands of them into our country now."

By Louis Jacobson • May 25, 2016

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