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Latest Fact-Checks By Jon Greenberg

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Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on February 28, 2019 a Facebook post
Says Thai police found bodies of children with their organs removed.
Pants on Fire!
By Jon Greenberg • March 4, 2019
Ilhan Omar
Ilhan Omar
stated on February 27, 2019 a tweet
"#MichaelCohen: Convicted of lying to Congress re: Russia investigation … #ElliottAbrams: Convicted of lying to Congress re: arming Contra death squads"
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • March 1, 2019
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on February 25, 2019 a CNN town hall event
"We have a president who wanted to throw 32 million people off of the health care they had."
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • February 28, 2019
Elizabeth Warren
Elizabeth Warren
stated on February 19, 2019 a policy announcement on Medium
"The high cost of child care is the No. 1 reason people give for having fewer children than they’d like."  
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • February 25, 2019
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on February 19, 2019 an interview on CBS This Morning
"In Canada, for a number of decades, they have provided quality care to all people without out-of-pocket expenses. You go in for cancer therapy, you don't take out your wallet."  
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • February 22, 2019
Elizabeth Warren
Elizabeth Warren
stated on February 4, 2019 a Facebook post
"By rubber-stamping the Bayer-Monsanto merger, the Justice Department is handing control over one quarter of the world's seeds and pesticides market to one ginormous agribusiness."  
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • February 14, 2019
Ilhan Omar
Ilhan Omar
stated on February 7, 2019 a congressional hearing
"In 2017, the CEO of McDonalds got paid $21.8 million. The median pay for a McDonald's worker that year was $7,000. This is a moral outrage. We need a $15 minimum wage so that no one is paid a poverty wage."
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • February 12, 2019
Cory Booker
Cory Booker
stated on February 4, 2019 an interview on CBS This Morning
"Even the (Congressional Budget Office) says if you lower Medicare to allow 50 year olds to get into it, you can not only save the government money, but you can lower premiums for all Americans."  
False
By Jon Greenberg • February 8, 2019
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
stated on February 5, 2019 an interview on MSNBC
"70 percent of Americans believe in improved and expanded Medicare for All."
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • February 6, 2019
Elizabeth Warren
Elizabeth Warren
stated on January 29, 2019 a tweet
"The top 0.1 percent ... own about the same wealth as 90 percent of America."  
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • January 31, 2019
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on January 13, 2019 a Facebook post
Quotes President Donald Trump as saying, "You tell people a lie three times, they will believe anything. You tell people what they want to hear, play to their fantasies, and then you close the deal."
False
By Jon Greenberg • January 15, 2019
Elizabeth Warren
Elizabeth Warren
stated on January 2, 2019 an interview on MSNBC's Rachel Maddow Show
With the Republican tax law, "the rich folks got $1.5 trillion."  
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • January 9, 2019
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on December 22, 2018 a Facebook post
"October 2013, Obama shut down the government for 16 days to force Obamacare."  
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • January 2, 2019
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on December 13, 2018 a Facebook post
Uses a picture of a mansion to say that Rep. Nancy Pelosi lives surrounded by "a high perimeter wall with gun toting security."  
Pants on Fire!
By Jon Greenberg • December 13, 2018
Christine Lagarde
Christine Lagarde
stated on December 9, 2018 an interview with CBS News' Face the Nation
"In the United States, if there was equal participation of women in the labor market, GDP would be up by 5 percent."  
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • December 12, 2018
Amy Klobuchar
Amy Klobuchar
stated on December 3, 2018 a tweet
"After a decade of progress, the rate of uninsured children is now rising."  
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • December 5, 2018
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on November 6, 2018 a post on Right Wing News
"Black Panthers Just Took Over City (Atlanta) – All Out War On Election Day"  
Pants on Fire!
By Jon Greenberg • November 6, 2018
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on October 31, 2018 a tweet
"Democrats let him (cop killer Luis Bracamontes) into our country," and "Democrats let him stay."
Pants on Fire!
By Jon Greenberg, Miriam Valverde • November 1, 2018
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on October 10, 2018 a rally in Erie, Pa.
Says "Bob Casey voted in favor of deadly sanctuary cities that released thousands upon thousands of illegal alien criminals and vicious gang members to prey on Pennsylvania streets, to prey all over this country."
False
By Jon Greenberg • October 31, 2018
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on October 25, 2018 a Facebook post
"‘MAGA bomber’ identified as former CNN employee who donated to heavily to Hillary Clinton."  
Pants on Fire!
By Jon Greenberg • October 26, 2018
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