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Donald Trump
stated on November 16, 2015 in an interview on MSNBC:

The New York Police Department used to have "surveillance going on in and around mosques in New York City. ... Our mayor totally cut that out."

Half-True

By Clayton Youngman • November 20, 2015

Viral image
stated on November 17, 2015 in a viral meme on social media:

While Americans pray for Paris, the government has acted on mandatory national vaccinations.

Pants on Fire!

By April Hunt • November 20, 2015

Ben Carson
stated on November 16, 2015 in an official statement posted on Facebook.:

"There is currently no ability to vet these people," referring to Syrian refugees.

Mostly False

By Linda Qiu • November 19, 2015

Barack Obama
stated on November 15, 2015 in a joint statement with the president of Turkey.:

"The United States (is) the largest provider of humanitarian assistance to displaced persons and refugees."

Mostly True

By Jon Greenberg • November 17, 2015

Bernie Sanders
stated on November 14, 2015 in a Democratic presidential debate in Des Moines, Iowa.:

Climate change is "directly related" to the growth of terrorism.

Mostly False

By Linda Qiu • November 16, 2015

Ben Rhodes
stated on November 15, 2015 in comments on ABC's "This Week":

When President Barack Obama said ISIS, or ISIL, was contained, he "was responding very specifically to the geographic expansion of ISIL in Iraq and Syria."

True

By Lauren Carroll • November 15, 2015

Jeb Bush
stated on November 15, 2015 in comments on CNN's "State of the Union":

"It takes almost a year for a refugee to be processed in the United States."

Mostly True

By Linda Qiu • November 15, 2015

Bernie Sanders
stated on November 14, 2015 in the Democratic debate in Iowa:

Out of the total U.S. military budget, "significantly less than 10 percent of that money is used to fight international terrorism."

Mostly False

By Jon Greenberg • November 15, 2015

Ben Carson
stated on November 10, 2015 in the Fox Business Network debate:

Says Hillary Clinton told her daughter and a government official that Benghazi "was a terrorist attack, and then tells everybody else that it was a video."

Mostly False

By Amy Sherman • November 11, 2015

Marco Rubio
stated on October 29, 2015 in an interview on CNN:

"There was never a single shred of evidence presented to anyone" that the attacks in Benghazi, Libya, were "spontaneous, and in fact, the CIA themselves understood that early on."

Half-True

By Amy Sherman, Clayton Youngman • November 4, 2015

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

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

Pants on Fire!

By Aaron Sharockman, Jon Greenberg • October 26, 2015

Donald Trump
stated on October 20, 2015 in an interview on CNN's "New Day":

Says CIA Director George Tenet told the Bush administration that the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attack "was coming. So they did have advanced notice."

False

By Jon Greenberg • October 21, 2015

Hillary Clinton
stated on October 5, 2015 in on NBC's Today Show:

"There have been seven investigations (of Benghazi) led mostly by Republicans in the Congress" that concluded "nobody did anything wrong, but there were changes we could make."

Mostly True

By Clayton Youngman • October 12, 2015

Viral image
stated on October 1, 2015 in a Facebook post:

Number of Americans killed by terrorism in the last decade: 24. Number of Americans killed by guns in the last decade: 280,024.

Mostly True

By Linda Qiu • October 5, 2015

Michael McCaul
stated on September 12, 2015 in the Republican weekly radio/TV address:

Iran’s "regime is responsible for more than 1,000 American casualties during the Iraq war" and "has plotted a terrorist attack here in our nation's capital."

Mostly True

By W. Gardner Selby • October 5, 2015

Hillary Clinton
stated on September 30, 2015 in a campaign Tweet:

The Benghazi probe is "the longest-running congressional investigation ever."

False

By Lauren Carroll • October 2, 2015

Scott Walker
stated on August 15, 2015 in a radio interview:

Israel has seen a "90 percent reduction in terrorist attacks" that it attributes to building a 500-mile fence.

Half-True

By Sarah Hauer • October 2, 2015

Martin O'Malley
stated on September 10, 2015 in interview with Democracy Now!:

Says "the cascading effects" of climate change contributed to the rise of ISIS.

Mostly True

By Linda Qiu • September 23, 2015

Town hall audience member
stated on September 17, 2015 in 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."

Pants on Fire!

By Lauren Carroll • September 18, 2015

Curt Schilling
stated on August 25, 2015 in a tweet:

"In 1940, only 7 percent of Germans were Nazis."

Mostly False

By Jon Greenberg • August 28, 2015

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