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Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush
stated on August 31, 2015 comments on Twitter.:
"I cut state spending more than anybody (in the 2016 GOP field)."
Half-True
By Linda Qiu • September 9, 2015
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on September 1, 2015 an op-ed in the New Hampshire Union-Leader:
"Twenty-three million Americans suffer from addiction, but only 1 in 10 get treatment."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • September 4, 2015
John Kerry
John Kerry
stated on September 2, 2015 an interview on MSNBC's "Morning Joe":
The nuclear agreement with Iran "never sunsets. There's no sunset in this agreement."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • September 3, 2015
Rick Santorum
Rick Santorum
stated on August 28, 2015 an interview with Bill Maher:
The claim that 97 percent of scientists believe humans are causing climate change has been debunked by the "head" of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. "That number was pulled out of thin air."
False
By Linda Qiu • September 2, 2015
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on September 25, 2015 posts on the Internet:
Democratic Sens. Ed Markey, Al Franken and Jeanne Shaheen "took Bribes From Iran … They Back Insane NUKE Deal."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • September 1, 2015
Rick Santorum
Rick Santorum
stated on August 28, 2015 an interview with Bill Maher.:
"The most recent survey of climate scientists said about 57 percent don’t agree with the idea that 95 percent of the change in the climate is caused by CO2."
False
By Linda Qiu • September 1, 2015
Credo Action
Credo Action
stated on August 27, 2015 a YouTube video:
The Obama administration is "proposing to mine another 10 billion tons of Wyoming coal, which would unleash three times more carbon pollution than Obama's Clean Power Plan would even save through 2030."
Mostly False
By Lauren Carroll • September 1, 2015
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on August 28, 2015 an interview with Sarah Palin:
"We have 93 million people out of work. They look for jobs, they give up, and all of a sudden, statistically, they're considered employed."
False
By Louis Jacobson • August 31, 2015
Bobby Jindal
Bobby Jindal
stated on August 30, 2015 comments on ABC's "This Week":
"I'm the only (Republican) candidate that has actually reduced the size of government."
Half-True
By Linda Qiu • August 30, 2015
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on August 30, 2015 comments on ABC's "This Week":
"Saudi Arabia has the third-largest military budget in the entire world."
True
By Will Cabaniss • August 30, 2015
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on August 24, 2015 an interview on "Fox & Friends":
"We’re the most highly taxed nation in the world."
False
By Louis Jacobson • August 28, 2015
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on August 19, 2015 an interview on CNN.:
"Our companies are moving into Mexico more than almost any other place right now."
Half-True
By Linda Qiu • August 27, 2015
Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush
stated on August 25, 2015 remarks at a town hall in Colorado:
Planned Parenthood is "not actually doing women’s health issues."
Pants on Fire!
By Lauren Carroll • August 26, 2015
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on August 19, 2015 a town hall in Derry, N.H.:
"Many of the great scholars say that anchor babies are not covered" by the 14th Amendment.
Half-True
By Lauren Carroll • August 25, 2015
Corey Lewandowski
Corey Lewandowski
stated on August 23, 2015 an interview on CNN's "State of the Union":
Says "there’s 400,000" anchor babies born in the United States a year, which are "individuals coming to our country and having their children so their children can be U.S. citizens."
Mostly False
By Linda Qiu • August 23, 2015
Ben Carson
Ben Carson
stated on August 23, 2015 an interview on "State of the Union":
Says "56 percent of (the U.S.-Mexico) border is not under our control."
Half-True
By Joshua Gillin • August 23, 2015
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on August 17, 2015 an interview with Iowa Public Radio:
"If I had not asked for my emails all to be made public, none of this would have been in the public arena."
Mostly False
By Lauren Carroll • August 20, 2015
Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton
stated on August 11, 2015 an interview with Inc. magazine:
"There's not a single, solitary example that" signing the bill to end Glass-Steagall "had anything to do with the financial crash."
Mostly True
By Lauren Carroll • August 19, 2015
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on August 16, 2015 a policy plan on immigration.:
"The annual cost of free tax credits alone paid to illegal immigrants quadrupled to $4.2 billion in 2011."
Half-True
By Linda Qiu • August 18, 2015
Cory Booker
Cory Booker
stated on August 9, 2015 an interview on ABC's "This Week.":
"You’re more likely to get struck by lightning in Texas" than find in-person voter fraud.
True
By Christian Belanger • August 18, 2015
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