Fact Check Posts – Page 19

Sheri Gallo
stated on January 28, 2016 an Austin City Council meeting

Since January 2015, the "majority of our" Austin City Council "meetings have extended past 10 p.m." and "many of our meetings have gone past midnight."

By Mary Huber • February 15, 2016

A.J. Jacobs
stated on February 6, 2016 an interview

Says President John F. Kennedy released a star Green Bay Packer from military reserve duty so that he could play in the 1961 NFL Championship Game.

February 9, 2016

Bernie Sanders
stated on February 4, 2016 a Democratic debate in New Hampshire

"Making public colleges and universities tuition-free, that exists in countries all over the world, used to exist in the United States."

By Amy Sherman • February 9, 2016

Hillary Clinton
stated on February 4, 2016 comments during the New Hampshire Democratic debate

"I waited until (the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement) had actually been negotiated" before deciding whether to endorse it.

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • February 5, 2016

Hillary Clinton
stated on January 25, 2016 a CNN town hall

When terrorists killed more than 250 Americans in Lebanon under Ronald Reagan, "the Democrats didn’t make that a partisan issue."

By Lauren Carroll • February 1, 2016

Jennifer Granholm
stated on January 24, 2016 an appearance on ABC's 'This Week'

When a Gallup poll asked about presidential candidate characteristics, "When they get to the question on, 'Would you vote for a socialist,' it is even less popular than voting for atheists."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • January 29, 2016

Glenn Beck
stated on January 23, 2016 an appearance in Ankeny, Iowa

"In 40 years of broadcast, I have never endorsed any candidate."

By W. Gardner Selby • January 26, 2016

Philip Van Cleave
stated on January 18, 2016 a speech

Martin Luther King Jr. "was a Republican."

By Sean Gorman • January 25, 2016

Hillary Clinton
stated on January 18, 2016 comments at a campaign organizing event

"Every piece of legislation, just about, that I ever introduced (in the U.S. Senate) had a Republican co-sponsor."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • January 20, 2016

Nancy Pelosi
stated on January 13, 2016 an interview on CNN

Until the new Iran deal, China and Russia "have never voted with us at the U.N. on any sanctions on Iran in the past."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • January 13, 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

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

Says carpet bombing means bombing "not a city, but the location of the troops," with "embedded special forces to direct the air power."

By Louis Jacobson • December 16, 2015

Ben Carson
stated on November 22, 2015 a TV interview.

Says Thomas Jefferson helped "craft" the Constitution.

By Warren Fiske • November 27, 2015

Donald Trump
stated on November 10, 2015 the Fox Business Network debate

Says President Dwight Eisenhower "moved 1.5 million illegal immigrants out of this country."

By Lauren Carroll • November 11, 2015

Ben Carson
stated on November 4, 2015 an edited Facebook post

"Every signer of the Declaration of Independence had no federal elected office experience."

By Louis Jacobson • November 8, 2015

Trevor Noah
stated on November 3, 2015 a broadcast of "The Daily Show"

"Iowa's Republican caucus stopped mattering years ago. It in no way determines the party nominee."

By Jon Greenberg • November 4, 2015

Ben Carson
stated on October 9, 2015 his book "A More Perfect Union"

"German citizens were disarmed by their government in the late 1930s," which allowed the Nazis to "carry out their evil intentions with relatively little resistance."

By Jon Greenberg • October 26, 2015

Jon Voight
stated on October 20, 2015 an interview with "Cigar Aficianado"

"The word progressive ... was created as a substitute for ‘communist’."

By Jon Greenberg • October 22, 2015

Jason Villalba
stated on October 13, 2015 a tweet

"Bernie Sanders admits he is a Democratic Socialist. … Nazis were Democratic Socialists."

By W. Gardner Selby • October 16, 2015

Ben Carson
stated on October 8, 2015 an interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer

"In the class of 1968 at Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow, Mahmoud Abbas was one of the members of that class, and so was Ali Khamenei. And that's where they first established relationships with the young Vladimir Putin."

By Louis Jacobson • October 9, 2015

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