Fact Check Posts – Page 22

Donald Trump
stated on April 27, 2016 a foreign policy speech in Washington:

"When President Obama landed in Cuba on Air Force One, no leader was there, nobody, to greet him -- perhaps an incident without precedent in the long and prestigious history of Air Force One."

By Louis Jacobson • April 28, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on April 27, 2016 a foreign policy speech:

"ISIS is making millions of dollars a week selling Libyan oil."

By Chris Nichols • April 27, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on April 27, 2016 a major foreign policy speech:

"I was totally against the war in Iraq, saying for many years that it would destabilize the Middle East."

By Jon Greenberg • April 27, 2016

John Kirby
stated on April 25, 2016 a State Department news briefing:

Says President Barack Obama never said, "No boots on the ground" in Syria.

By Louis Jacobson • April 27, 2016

Ban Ki-moon
stated on April 22, 2016 comments:

The Paris Agreement "is by far the largest number of countries ever to sign an international agreement on a single day."

By Liepa Zelniene • April 26, 2016

Tim Ziemer
stated on January 20, 2016 an article posted on Medium:

"In Africa, a child dies every minute because of (malaria)."

By Jon Greenberg • April 25, 2016

Great America PAC
stated on March 31, 2016 a TV ad:

Says Ted Cruz "wanted to let in more Syrian refugees and give amnesty to illegal immigrants."

By Tom Kertscher • April 22, 2016

Lee Camp
stated on April 17, 2016 an episode of "Redacted Tonight":

"In 2009 … Hillary Clinton was at the State Department working with U.S. corporations to pressure Haiti not to raise the minimum wage to 61 cents an hour from 24 cents."

By Linda Qiu • April 21, 2016

Bernie Sanders
stated on April 17, 2016 an interview on ABC's 'This Week':

Says that in her speech to the pro-Israel group AIPAC, Hillary Clinton "had one line on the Palestinian people."

By Louis Jacobson • April 20, 2016

Bernie Sanders
stated on April 14, 2016 the Democratic debate in Brooklyn, N.Y.:

"We spend about 75 percent of the entire cost of the military aspect of NATO."

By Jon Greenberg • April 19, 2016

Bernie Sanders
stated on April 4, 2016 an interview with the New York Daily News:

"In Malaysia … many of the workers are indentured servants because their passports are taken away when they come into this country and are working in slave-like conditions."

By Linda Qiu • April 12, 2016

Marcus Low
stated on March 19, 2016 an interview with a South African journalist:

"Most funding for tuberculosis research (is) provided by the U.S. National Institutes for Health."

By Jon Greenberg • April 5, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on April 4, 2016 an interview with the New York Times:

China is "in the South China Sea and (building) a military fortress the likes of which perhaps the world has not seen."

By Linda Qiu • April 4, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on March 27, 2016 an interview with the New York Times:

"We’ve rebuilt China."

By Linda Qiu • April 4, 2016

Hillary Clinton
stated on March 21, 2016 a campaign speech:

Says Donald Trump "wants us to pull out of NATO."

By Tom Kertscher • April 1, 2016

Hillary Clinton
stated on March 22, 2016 a speech at Stanford University.:

When it comes to fighting terrorism, "Another thing we know that does not work, based on lots of empirical evidence, is torture."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • March 30, 2016

Hillary Clinton
stated on March 23, 2016 remarks at Stanford University:

"It’s actually easier for the United States to get flight manifests from E.U. nations than it is for E.U. nations to get them from their own neighbors, thanks to an agreement the U.S. negotiated when I was secretary of state."

By Lauren Carroll • March 29, 2016

Grover Norquist
stated on March 24, 2016 a Fox Business interview:

Under Hillary Clinton, State Department "officials were sending official thank-yous to people who gave to the Clinton Foundation."

By Jon Greenberg • March 28, 2016

Paul Ryan
stated on March 17, 2016 a news conference:

"To this day, (the Cuban government) is a regime that provides safe harbor to terrorists and fugitives."

By Lauren Carroll • March 24, 2016

Gayle Smith
stated on March 9, 2016 a speech on Capitol Hill:

(Since 1990) "every continent has seen substantial gains, with individual incomes growing by more than a third in every region of the developing world."

By Jon Greenberg • March 24, 2016

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