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Latest Fact-Checks By Louis Jacobson

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Marianne Williamson
Marianne Williamson
stated on April 14, 2019 a CNN town hall
Says Jimmy Carter was the last "U.S. president to say flat out those (Israeli) settlements are illegal."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • April 22, 2019
Joyce Krawiec
Joyce Krawiec
stated on April 15, 2019 in a speech on the state Senate floor
"No, we do not have laws in place protecting babies who are born alive as the result of an abortion."
False
By Louis Jacobson, Paul Specht • April 19, 2019
Howard Schultz
Howard Schultz
stated on April 4, 2019 a Fox News town hall
Says presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama each tried to get immigration bills passed, but "it did not work because the other party was unwilling to provide the president and his party a victory."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • April 15, 2019
Pete Buttigieg
Pete Buttigieg
stated on April 7, 2019 an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press"
"We cut unemployment by more than half" in South Bend, Ind.
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • April 10, 2019
Pete Buttigieg
Pete Buttigieg
stated on April 1, 2019 a podcast interview
"Since 1973, the income of the bottom 90 percent, so pretty much all of us, didn’t budge, or even retreated a little bit."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • April 5, 2019
Kamala Harris
Kamala Harris
stated on March 26, 2019 a tweet
"In 30 states, average teacher pay is less than the living wage for a family of four."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • April 1, 2019
John Hickenlooper
John Hickenlooper
stated on March 20, 2019 a CNN town hall
After legalizing marijuana in Colorado, "we haven't seen a spike in consumption."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • March 25, 2019
Amy Klobuchar
Amy Klobuchar
stated on March 17, 2019 an interview on CNN's "State of the Union"
During her tenure as county attorney in Minnesota, "there was a 65 percent decrease in incarceration of African-Americans."
False
By Louis Jacobson • March 22, 2019
Kevin Downing
Kevin Downing
stated on March 13, 2019 remarks to reporters
Says Paul Manafort’s sentencing judge, Amy Berman Jackson, "conceded that there was absolutely no evidence of any Russian collusion in this case. So that makes two courts. Two courts have ruled no evidence of any collusion with any Russians."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • March 14, 2019
Matthew Dowd
Matthew Dowd
stated on March 8, 2019 a tweet
"Job growth and stock growth for the first two years of Trump are down from where they were (during the) last two years of Obama."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • March 13, 2019
Turning Point USA
Turning Point USA
stated on March 11, 2019 a post on Facebook
Says Michelle Obama "had a staff of 23" while Melania Trump "has a staff of 4."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • March 12, 2019
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on March 5, 2019 remarks at the White House
When Congress sought documents from President Barack Obama, the White House "didn’t do anything. They didn’t give one letter of the request. Many requests were made. They didn’t give a letter."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • March 8, 2019
James Lankford
James Lankford
stated on March 6, 2019 an interview on MSNBC's "Morning Joe"
"Tax revenue went up, actually, $14 billion last year after the tax cut actually occurred. We had greater revenue."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • March 7, 2019
Viral image
Viral image
stated on February 28, 2019 a post on the Internet
"Obama settled 43,000 Somalian refugees in Minnesota. As of 2016, there were around 80,000. No wonder Ilhan Omar was elected. It was planned."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • March 5, 2019
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on February 26, 2019 a tweet
Raising the federal minimum wage to $15 "would give more than 40 million low-wage workers a raise, more than 25 percent of the U.S. workforce."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • March 1, 2019
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on February 25, 2019 a tweet
"The Democrat(ic) position on abortion is now so extreme that they don’t mind executing babies AFTER birth."
False
By Louis Jacobson • February 28, 2019
Heidi Heitkamp
Heidi Heitkamp
stated on February 24, 2019 a roundtable on ABC's "This Week"
"We have record bankruptcies in farming country."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • February 26, 2019
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on February 25, 2019 a tweet
Says former Sen. Harry Reid "got thrown out."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • February 25, 2019
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on February 15, 2019 a tweet
"Since the passage of (the Violence Against Women Act), annual rates of domestic violence have dropped by 63 percent."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • February 22, 2019
Amy Klobuchar
Amy Klobuchar
stated on February 18, 2019 a CNN town hall
"Comprehensive immigration reform, the bill we had back in 2013 ... brought the debt down $158 billion."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • February 20, 2019
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