Fact Check Posts – Page 26

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stated on October 22, 2015 a shareable graphic on the Web:

Says Denmark’s suicide rate has been about twice as high as the United States’ over the past five decades.

By Clayton Youngman • October 23, 2015

Marco Rubio
stated on October 22, 2015 an op-ed in Breitbart:

"Even after Syrian troops began to shoot protesters in the streets with live ammunition in 2011, Clinton labeled Bashar al-Assad a ‘reformer.' "

By Amy Sherman, Katie Sanders • October 23, 2015

Ron Johnson
stated on October 7, 2015 an interview:

Some 8.1 million of the estimated 11 million to 12 million people "in this country illegally are working."

By Tom Kertscher • October 23, 2015

Jim Webb
stated on October 13, 2015 a Democratic presidential debate in Las Vegas:

"Fifteen out of the 20 most polluted cities in the world" are in India and China.

By Louis Jacobson • October 15, 2015

Hillary Clinton
stated on October 13, 2015 the first Democratic presidential debate:

Says Edward Snowden "could have gotten all of the protections of being a whistleblower."

By Jon Greenberg • October 14, 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

Michael McCaul
stated on September 12, 2015 the Republican weekly radio/TV address:

Iran’s "regime is responsible for more than 1,000 American casualties during the Iraq war" and "has plotted a terrorist attack here in our nation's capital."

By W. Gardner Selby • October 5, 2015

Donald Trump
stated on October 4, 2015 an interview on ABC "This Week":

Among Syrian refugees, "there aren't that many women, there aren't that many children."

By Joshua Gillin • October 4, 2015

Scott Walker
stated on August 15, 2015 a radio interview:

Israel has seen a "90 percent reduction in terrorist attacks" that it attributes to building a 500-mile fence.

By Sarah Hauer • October 2, 2015

Martin O'Malley
stated on September 10, 2015 interview with Democracy Now!:

Says "the cascading effects" of climate change contributed to the rise of ISIS.

By Linda Qiu • September 23, 2015

Marco Rubio
stated on September 16, 2015 the CNN GOP presidential debate:

Says that President Barack Obama said an attack on Syria "was going to be a pinprick."

By Joshua Gillin • September 18, 2015

Ted Cruz
stated on September 1, 2015 a speech to the Greater Houston Partnership:

The Iran deal "trusts the Iranians to inspect themselves."

By W. Gardner Selby • September 18, 2015

Mike Huckabee
stated on September 16, 2015 comments on the CNN debate:

"We've just now given over $100 billion" to Iran, "the equivalent in U.S. terms is $5 trillion."

By Lauren Carroll • September 17, 2015

Ted Cruz
stated on September 9, 2015 a tweet:

"The Iran Deal will facilitate and accelerate the nation of Iran acquiring nuclear weapons."

By Louis Jacobson • September 10, 2015

Donald Trump
stated on September 3, 2015 an interview:

Under the Iran deal: "If Israel attacks Iran … we’re supposed to be on Iran’s side."

By Amy Sherman, Warren Fiske • September 4, 2015

Dick Cheney
stated on September 2, 2015 an interview on MSNBC's "Morning Joe":

Under the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty "enrichment has been limited to basically the weapons states."

By Jon Greenberg • September 3, 2015

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."

By Louis Jacobson • September 3, 2015

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."

By Louis Jacobson • September 1, 2015

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."

By Linda Qiu • August 27, 2015

Donald Trump
stated on August 16, 2015 an interview on "Meet the Press":

Says "if the (Iran nuclear) deal gets rejected, they still get" $150 billion.

By Lauren Carroll • August 16, 2015

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