Fact Check Posts – Page 288

Rush Limbaugh
stated on February 17, 2019 in in an interview:

"Climate change is nothing but a bunch of computer models that attempt to tell us what's going to happen in 50 years or 30. Notice the predictions are never for next year or the next 10 years. They're always for way, way, way, way out there, when none of us are going to be around or alive to know whether or not they were true."

By John Kruzel • February 19, 2019

Matt Gaetz
stated on February 7, 2019 in a CNN interview:

"One out of every 5 people that the federal government charges with murder is an illegal alien."

By Miriam Valverde • February 19, 2019

Susana Mendoza
stated on February 13, 2019 in a campaign ad:

Says Bill Daley, as part of former Gov. Bruce Rauner’s transition team, wrote "the blueprint" for record Springfield gridlock.

By Kiannah Sepeda-Miller • February 17, 2019

Facebook posts
stated on February 12, 2019 in a Facebook post:

Says U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez took a "$10 million payout from Netflix."

By Samantha Putterman • February 15, 2019

Facebook posts
stated on January 31, 2019 in a Facebook post:

Says Mitch McConnell's "biggest donor" is a "Russian oligarch that the GOP just lifted sanctions on."

By Samantha Putterman • February 14, 2019

Donald Trump
stated on February 11, 2019 in a speech in El Paso, Texas:

Says that at Beto O’Rourke’s rally in El Paso, there were "200 people, 300 people."

By Louis Jacobson • February 12, 2019

Viral image
stated on February 3, 2019 in a Facebook post:

A photograph shows KKK members marching at the 1924 Democratic National Convention.

By Ciara O'Rourke • February 11, 2019

Viral image
stated on February 4, 2019 in a Facebook post:

Muslim immigrants were responsible for 11,000 of 13,000 knife attacks in London in the past 12 months.

By Ciara O'Rourke • February 8, 2019

Donald Trump
stated on February 5, 2019 in State of the Union address:

"The border city of El Paso, Texas, used to have extremely high rates of violent crime — one of the highest in the country, and considered one of our nation's most dangerous cities. Now, immediately upon its building, with a powerful barrier in place, El Paso is one of the safest cities in our country."

By Miriam Valverde • February 8, 2019

Cory Booker
stated on February 4, 2019 in an interview on CBS This Morning:

"Even the (Congressional Budget Office) says if you lower Medicare to allow 50 year olds to get into it, you can not only save the government money, but you can lower premiums for all Americans."

By Jon Greenberg • February 8, 2019

Facebook posts
stated on April 28, 2018 in a Facebook post:

Says Red Cross President and CEO Marsha J. Evans makes "$651,957 plus expenses" a year and "only 9 cents of every dollar" donated to the organization goes to helping people in need.

By Samantha Putterman • February 8, 2019

Kathy Tran
stated on January 29, 2019:

"Right now, women are able to access an abortion in the later stages of their pregnancy under certain conditions with approval of their medical doctors. I’ve done nothing to change that."

By Warren Fiske • February 6, 2019

Adam Smith
stated on January 29, 2019 in a committee hearing:

"Go back to 2005 until now, we have quadrupled the number of Border Patrol agents."

By Miriam Valverde • February 1, 2019

Viral image
stated on January 23, 2019 in a Facebook post:

A New York law makes it "now perfectly legal to murder" a baby a minute before it would be born.

By Ciara O'Rourke • February 1, 2019

Viral image
stated on January 30, 2019 in a Facebook post:

"15 homeless people have already been found frozen to death in Chicago."

By Samantha Putterman • February 1, 2019

Bloggers
stated on January 21, 2019 in a blog post:

"New research says drinking wine is more important than exercise for living past 90."

By Miriam Valverde • February 1, 2019

Dallas Woodhouse
stated on January 17, 2019 in a tweet:

Says the NC elections board received "no calls" after alerting Bladen County voters to possible absentee ballot fraud.

By Paul Specht • January 30, 2019

Donald Trump
stated on January 27, 2019 in a tweet:

"58,000 non-citizens voted in Texas, with 95,000 non-citizens registered to vote."

By Amy Sherman • January 28, 2019

Donald Trump
stated on January 27, 2019 in a tweet:

"We are not even into February and the cost of illegal immigration so far this year is $18,959,495,168. Cost Friday was $603,331,392. There are at least 25,772,342 illegal aliens, not the 11,000,000 that have been reported for years, in our Country."

By Miriam Valverde • January 28, 2019

Phil Scott
stated on January 24, 2019 in his budget address in the Statehouse.:

"Every county, including Chittenden, has fewer people available for work."

By Colin Meyn, Felippe Rodrigues • January 26, 2019

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