Fact Check Posts – Page 16

Ted Cruz
stated on November 27, 2016 an interview on ABC's This Week

"In 2015 roughly 10,000 political arrests occurred in Cuba. That is five times as many as occurred in 2010, when there were only about 2,000."

By Amy Sherman • November 29, 2016

Rand Paul
stated on November 15, 2016 a column on rare.us

Says John Bolton supported the Iraq War and said last year that "I still think the decision to overthrow Saddam was correct."

By Louis Jacobson • November 17, 2016

John Kerry
stated on October 26, 2016 a speech at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs

"Surveys show that many of our citizens think we devote a full quarter or even a third of our federal budget to foreign aid."

By Jon Greenberg • November 9, 2016

Newt Gingrich
stated on November 6, 2016 comments on "Meet the Press"

"There’s a section in the Constitution called the Emoluments Clause that says no one, nor their spouses, can take money from foreigners. (Hillary Clinton) has to be guilty of 70 or 100 counts just on that one charge."

By Lauren Carroll, Tyler Adkisson • November 6, 2016

Marco Rubio
stated on October 26, 2016 a U.S. Senate debate

Says President Obama "was proposing pinprick strikes" for military intervention in Syria.

By Joshua Gillin • October 27, 2016

Hillary Clinton
stated on October 25, 2016 a rally in Florida

Says Donald Trump "was asked if he would defend our allies. He said well, first he'd want to know if they made any payments to us to defend them."

By Miriam Valverde • October 26, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on October 19, 2016 a presidential debate

"ISIS is in 32 countries."

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

Kellyanne Conway
stated on October 23, 2016 comments on "Meet the Press"

Says Hillary Clinton takes "tens of millions of dollars from countries that hate women, that disrespect women, that throw gays off of buildings."

By Linda Qiu • October 23, 2016

Jill Stein
stated on October 17, 2016 a Green Party rally at Huston-Tillotson University in Austin

"We’re already bombing seven countries."

By W. Gardner Selby • October 21, 2016

Russ Feingold
stated on October 7, 2016 an interview

Says Saudi Arabia, a U.S. ally, has "paid to export throughout the world" Wahhabism -- "an extreme form of Islam" that basically teaches "Americans are the devil."

October 21, 2016

Rob Portman
stated on October 20, 2016 an Ohio Senate debate in Cleveland

"The director of the FBI said that we cannot figure out who (Syrian refugees) are, what their intentions are, because we have no information on them, because we don’t have any contact with the Syrian government or any people on the ground to be able to determine that."

By Louis Jacobson • October 21, 2016

Ted Strickland
stated on October 20, 2016 the U.S. Senate debate in Cleveland

Says Rob Portman was a registered foreign agent whose "client was Haiti, at a time when the Baby Doc, Duvalier, who was a despot, was killing people."

By Linda Qiu • October 21, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on October 19, 2016 the third presidential debate

Russia has "tremendous numbers of nuclear warheads — 1,800, by the way — where they expanded, and we didn't."

By Lauren Carroll • October 20, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on October 19, 2016 the third presidential debate

When Hillary Clinton "ran the State Department, $6 billion was missing. How do you miss $6 billion? You ran the State Department, $6 billion was either stolen — they don't know."

By Lauren Carroll • October 20, 2016

Hillary Clinton
stated on October 19, 2016 the third 2016 presidential debate

"We have 17 intelligence agencies, civilian and military, who have all concluded that these espionage attacks, these cyberattacks, come from the highest levels of the Kremlin, and they are designed to influence our election."

By Lauren Carroll • October 20, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on October 19, 2016 the third 2016 presidential debate

Says Hillary Clinton "wants to have open borders."

By Amy Sherman • October 20, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on October 13, 2016 a speech

Says Hillary Clinton was "let off the hook" for her email scandal while Gen. David Petraeus had his life "destroyed for doing far, far less."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • October 18, 2016

Mike Pence
stated on October 16, 2016 comments on "Meet the Press"

"In exchange for five minutes with Bill Clinton, the government of Qatar was going to give $1 million to the Clinton Foundation."

By Linda Qiu • October 16, 2016

Mike Pence
stated on October 16, 2016 comments on "Meet the Press"

"We know that more than half of Hillary Clinton's meetings while she was secretary of state were given to major contributors to the Clinton Foundation."

By Lauren Carroll • October 16, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on October 9, 2016 the second 2016 presidential debate

Says Libya "Ambassador (Christopher) Stevens sent 600 requests for help" in Benghazi.

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • October 14, 2016

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