Fact Check Posts – Page 139

Ted Cruz
stated on May 1, 2016 an interview on "Meet the Press":

Says Donald Trump’s "only economic agenda is imposing massive taxes on the American people with a 40 percent tax hike of a giant tariff."

By Linda Qiu • May 1, 2016

Ted Cruz
stated on May 1, 2016 an interview on "Meet the Press":

Says both Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton say Planned Parenthood is "terrific and that it should keep taxpayer funding."

By Lauren Carroll • May 1, 2016

Facebook posts
stated on April 26, 2016 a multitude of Facebook posts:

"Today President Obama said there will NOT be a National Day of Prayer in May."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • April 29, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on April 27, 2016 a foreign policy speech in Washington:

"When President Obama landed in Cuba on Air Force One, no leader was there, nobody, to greet him -- perhaps an incident without precedent in the long and prestigious history of Air Force One."

By Louis Jacobson • April 28, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on April 27, 2016 a foreign policy speech:

"ISIS is making millions of dollars a week selling Libyan oil."

By Chris Nichols • April 27, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on April 27, 2016 a major foreign policy speech:

"I was totally against the war in Iraq, saying for many years that it would destabilize the Middle East."

By Jon Greenberg • April 27, 2016

John Kirby
stated on April 25, 2016 a State Department news briefing:

Says President Barack Obama never said, "No boots on the ground" in Syria.

By Louis Jacobson • April 27, 2016

New Day for America
stated on April 25, 2016 a robocall:

Says "Hillary Clinton has promised to raise taxes by $1 trillion dollars."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • April 27, 2016

Hillary Clinton
stated on April 21, 2016 a "Good Morning America" town hall:

Marijuana is a Schedule I drug, "which you understand means that you can’t do any research about it."

By Lauren Carroll • April 26, 2016

Ted Cruz
stated on April 22, 2016 an attack ad:

Says Donald Trump thinks "a grown man pretending to be a woman (should) be allowed to use the women's restroom."

By Linda Qiu • April 25, 2016

Ted Cruz
stated on April 25, 2016 remarks in Borden, Ind.:

"I earned more votes in the state of Wisconsin than Donald Trump did in New York."

By Louis Jacobson • April 25, 2016

Bob Graham
stated on April 24, 2016 an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press":

"We know that Saudi Arabia started al-Qaida."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • April 24, 2016

Bernie Sanders
stated on April 24, 2016 an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press":

In the 2014 election, "80 percent of poor people did not vote."

By Linda Qiu • April 24, 2016

Robby Mook
stated on April 19, 2016 a Medium post:

"In last week’s debate, Bernie questioned Hillary’s commitment to fighting climate change because a whopping 0.2 percent of the money given to our campaign has come from employees of oil and gas companies. Not even 2 percent, mind you: 0.2 percent."

By Louis Jacobson • April 22, 2016

Ben Carson
stated on April 20, 2016 a Fox Business interview:

"Andrew Jackson was the last president who actually balanced the federal budget, where we had no national debt."

By Lauren Carroll • April 21, 2016

Hillary Clinton
stated on April 21, 2016 a town hall on ABC's 'Good Morning America':

"When I withdrew in June of 2008, polls were showing that at least 40 percent of my supporters said, oh, they weren't going to support Sen. Obama."

By Louis Jacobson • April 21, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on April 20, 2016 a tweet:

"Ted Cruz is mathematically out of winning the race."

By Linda Qiu • April 20, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on April 18, 2016 in a speech:

Says professional football coach Rex Ryan "won championships in New York. The AFC, I think, twice."

By Aaron Sharockman • April 20, 2016

Bernie Sanders
stated on April 17, 2016 an interview on ABC's 'This Week':

Says that in her speech to the pro-Israel group AIPAC, Hillary Clinton "had one line on the Palestinian people."

By Louis Jacobson • April 20, 2016

Bernie Sanders
stated on April 15, 2016 a television ad:

"Washington politicians are paid over $200,000 an hour for speeches."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • April 20, 2016

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