Fact Check Posts – Page 25

Jeb Bush
stated on November 29, 2015 an interview on "Face the Nation":

"It is already in the law that there is a requirement to screen (refugees) for religion."

By Jon Greenberg • December 1, 2015

Jeb Bush
stated on November 24, 2015 a radio interview in New Hampshire:

Says there are "ample means" to "tell when someone is a Christian in the Middle East ... by name, by where they’re born, their birth certificates."

By Jon Greenberg • December 1, 2015

Jeb Bush
stated on November 18, 2015 a speech at the Citadel:

For NATO exercises, "we don’t have enough of our own hardware and equipment even for training purposes. So the Brits are spotting us choppers."

By Amy Sherman • November 25, 2015

Bernie Sanders
stated on November 19, 2015 a speech at Georgetown University:

"Instead of fighting ISIS, (the Saudis) have focused more on a campaign to oust Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen."

By Linda Qiu • November 24, 2015

Hillary Clinton
stated on November 19, 2015 a speech to the Council on Foreign Relations:

"The Libyan people have voted twice in free and fair elections for the kind of leadership they want."

By Louis Jacobson • November 23, 2015

Hillary Clinton
stated on November 6, 2015 a Democratic primary forum:

"I spent 18 months putting together the sanctions against Iran so that we could force them to the negotiating table."

By Lauren Carroll • November 23, 2015

Michael Needham
stated on November 22, 2015 comments on "Fox News Sunday":

In 2013, the United States "accepted 67 percent of the world’s refugees."

By Linda Qiu • November 22, 2015

Carly Fiorina
stated on November 17, 2015 a campaign stop in Concord, N.H. :

"The vast majority of (Syrian) refugees are young, able-bodied men looking for work."

By Nick Reid • November 20, 2015

Ben Carson
stated on November 16, 2015 an official statement posted on Facebook.:

"There is currently no ability to vet these people," referring to Syrian refugees.

By Linda Qiu • November 19, 2015

Barack Obama
stated on November 15, 2015 a joint statement with the president of Turkey.:

"The United States (is) the largest provider of humanitarian assistance to displaced persons and refugees."

By Jon Greenberg • November 17, 2015

Bernie Sanders
stated on November 14, 2015 comments at the Iowa Democratic debate:

500,000 U.S. troops came home from Iraq and Afghanistan "with PTSD and traumatic brain injury."

By Jason Noble • November 15, 2015

Ben Carson
stated on November 10, 2015 the fourth GOP debate.:

"The Chinese are there" in Syria.

By Linda Qiu • November 15, 2015

Marco Rubio
stated on October 30, 2015 remarks during a campaign event in Sioux City, Iowa:

North Korea "has over two-dozen nuclear warheads."

By Jason Noble • November 14, 2015

Ben Carson
stated on November 10, 2015 the Fox Business Network debate:

Says Hillary Clinton told her daughter and a government official that Benghazi "was a terrorist attack, and then tells everybody else that it was a video."

By Amy Sherman • November 11, 2015

Mike Huckabee
stated on November 10, 2015 the fourth undercard GOP debate. :

"Only one out of five of the so-called ‘Syrian refugees’ who went into Europe were actually Syrian."

By Linda Qiu • November 11, 2015

Donald Trump
stated on November 10, 2015 a debate in Milwaukee, Wis.:

"We’re losing now over $500 billion a year in terms of imbalance with China."

By Anna Bruzgulis • November 11, 2015

Marco Rubio
stated on October 29, 2015 an interview on CNN:

"There was never a single shred of evidence presented to anyone" that the attacks in Benghazi, Libya, were "spontaneous, and in fact, the CIA themselves understood that early on."

By Amy Sherman, Clayton Youngman • November 4, 2015

Viral image
stated on October 23, 2015 posts on the Internet:

Unlike Benghazi, there were no investigations of the 1983 Beirut barracks bombing, none about key aspects of the 9/11 attacks and the Iraq War, and none about embassy attacks under George W. Bush.

By Louis Jacobson • October 27, 2015

Sean Hannity
stated on October 19, 2015 a segment of Fox News' "Hannity":

"The president said he’s going to bring in 250,000 (Syrian and Iraqi) refugees into this country."

By Aaron Sharockman, Jon Greenberg • October 26, 2015

Hillary Clinton
stated on October 22, 2015 a House hearing on Benghazi:

Says John Kerry "is the first secretary of state to rely primarily on a government account."

By Jon Greenberg • October 23, 2015

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