Fact Check Posts – Page 149

Donald Trump
stated on January 10, 2016 Ottumwa, Iowa, on NBC's "Meet the Press":

The five Guantanamo detainees swapped for Bowe Bergdahl are "back on the battlefield."

By Lauren Carroll • January 10, 2016

Carly Fiorina
stated on December 17, 2015 a column posted on Medium:

"When we held recent economic dialogues with China, we agreed on over 100 different things — including wildlife trafficking and volcano research. None of these 100-plus points of agreement addressed cybersecurity."

By Louis Jacobson • January 7, 2016

Hillary Clinton
stated on January 4, 2016 a posting on the Clinton website:

"Marco Rubio voted against authorizing President Obama to strike Syria after Assad used chemical weapons on his own people."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • January 7, 2016

Barack Obama
stated on January 5, 2016 a speech proposing executive action on gun regulations:

"A violent felon can buy (a gun) over the Internet with no background check, no questions asked."

By Lauren Carroll • January 5, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on January 4, 2016 a television ad:

A Trump television ad shows Mexicans swarming over "our southern border."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr., Louis Jacobson • January 4, 2016

Dan Patrick
stated on January 3, 2016 an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press":

"Everywhere that we have more citizens carrying guns, crime is less. There's a study showing that where states have open carry or concealed carry, but particularly open carry, the crime is down 25 percent."

By Linda Qiu • January 3, 2016

Rand Paul
stated on January 3, 2016 an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press":

"Both Cruz and Rubio are missing the vast majority of their votes."

By Lauren Carroll • January 3, 2016

Bernie Sanders
stated on December 20, 2015 an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press".:

"We didn't go out and take" information from the Hillary Clinton campaign.

By Jon Greenberg • December 22, 2015

Hillary Clinton
stated on December 19, 2015 a Democratic debate in New Hampshire:

Says Bernie Sanders "voted for regime change with respect to Libya."

By Lauren Carroll • December 22, 2015

Chris Christie
stated on December 15, 2015 a Republican presidential debate in Las Vegas:

Says the Obama administration invited "Russia into Syria."

By Louis Jacobson • December 21, 2015

Donald Trump
stated on December 20, 2015 an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press":

Says American polling shows Russian President Vladimir Putin has "an 80 percent approval rating."

By Lauren Carroll • December 20, 2015

Paul Ryan
stated on December 20, 2015 comments on 'Meet the Press':

The Affordable Care Act is "making families pay double-digit premium increases."

By Linda Qiu • December 20, 2015

Bernie Sanders
stated on December 19, 2015 the Dec. 19 Democratic presidential debate:

The United States spends "almost three times per capita what they spend in the U.K." on health care and "50 percent more than they pay in France."

By Jon Greenberg • December 20, 2015

Martin O'Malley
stated on December 19, 2015 the Dec. 19 Democratic presidential debate:

"Secretary Clinton changes her position on (gun issues) every election year, it seems, having one position in 2000 and then campaigning against President Obama and saying we don't need federal standards."

By Lauren Carroll • December 20, 2015

Hillary Clinton
stated on December 19, 2015 the Dec. 19 Democratic presidential debate:

ISIS is "going to people showing videos of Donald Trump insulting Islam and Muslims in order to recruit more radical jihadists."

By Louis Jacobson • December 20, 2015

Ted Cruz
stated on December 15, 2015 a Republican presidential debate in Las Vegas:

"One of the most troubling aspects of the Rubio-Schumer Gang of Eight bill was that it gave President Obama blanket authority to admit refugees, including Syrian refugees, without mandating any background checks whatsoever."

By Joshua Gillin • December 18, 2015

André Carson
stated on December 13, 2015 an interview on ABC News' "This Week":

"Our larger domestic threat is from racial supremacist groups."

By Jon Greenberg • December 18, 2015

Donald Trump
stated on December 15, 2015 the Republican debate in Las Vegas:

The 9/11 terrorists' friends, family, girlfriends in the United States "were sent back for the most part to Saudi Arabia. They knew what was going on. They went home, and they wanted to watch their boyfriends on television."

By Jon Greenberg • December 17, 2015

Rand Paul
stated on December 15, 2015 a Republican presidential debate in Las Vegas:

"If you are going to kill the families of terrorists, realize that there's something called the Geneva Convention we're going to have to pull out of."

By Louis Jacobson • December 17, 2015

Marco Rubio
stated on December 15, 2015 a Republican presidential debate in Las Vegas:

Regarding the USA Freedom Act, "There is nothing we are allowed to do under this bill that we could not do before."

By Lauren Carroll • December 16, 2015

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