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Latest Fact-Checks In Foreign Policy

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Tim Kaine
Tim Kaine
stated on October 4, 2016 the vice presidential debate in Farmville, Va.:
Says Hillary Clinton "went toe-to-toe with Russia as secretary of state to do the New START agreement to reduce Russia's nuclear stockpile."
Half-True
By Lauren Carroll • October 6, 2016
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on September 26, 2016 a Presidential debate:
Says Donald Trump "publicly invited Putin to hack into Americans’ (emails)."
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • September 27, 2016
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on September 9, 2016 a television ad:
Says New START, passed while Clinton was secretary of state, is a "treaty cutting Russia’s nuclear arms."
Half-True
By Lauren Carroll • September 21, 2016
Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton
stated on July 26, 2016 a speech at the Democratic national convention:
Says Hillary Clinton "negotiated the first agreement — ever — where China and India officially committed to reduce their emissions."
Half-True
By Linda Qiu • July 29, 2016
Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton
stated on July 26, 2016 a speech at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia:
"The approval of the United States was 20 points higher when (Hillary Clinton) left the secretary of state's office than when she took it."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • July 27, 2016
Ron Johnson
Ron Johnson
stated on July 19, 2016 a speech at the Republican convention:
Says that as a U.S. senator, Russ Feingold "voted against authorizing our military 11 separate times."
Half-True
By Tom Kertscher • July 22, 2016
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on July 21, 2016 a speech at the Republican convention:
Says Hillary Clinton "has called for a radical 550 percent increase in Syrian  ... refugees . . .  despite the fact that there’s no way to screen these refugees in order to find out who they are or where they come from."  
Half-True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • July 22, 2016
Chris Christie
Chris Christie
stated on July 19, 2016 a speech at the Republican National Convention:
Says "(Clinton) called President Assad a ‘reformer.’ She called Assad a ‘different kind of leader.’ "  
Half-True
By Nadia Pflaum • July 20, 2016
Priorities USA Action
Priorities USA Action
stated on June 19, 2016 an ad discussed on "Meet the Press":
Says Donald Trump has said he loves war, "including with nukes."
Half-True
By Lauren Carroll • June 19, 2016
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on June 2, 2016 a foreign policy speech :
Says Donald Trump "says he has foreign policy experience because he ran the Miss Universe pageant in Russia."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • June 3, 2016
Gwen Moore
Gwen Moore
stated on April 27, 2016 a congressional hearing:
Water rates in Manila, Philippines, "were raised up to 845 percent" when a subsidiary of the World Bank became a partial owner.  
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • May 12, 2016
Donald Trump
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."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • April 28, 2016
Great America PAC
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."  
Half-True
By Tom Kertscher • April 22, 2016
Lee Camp
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."
Half-True
By Linda Qiu • April 21, 2016
Bernie Sanders
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."
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • April 19, 2016
Donald Trump
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."
Half-True
By Linda Qiu • April 4, 2016
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on March 27, 2016 an interview with the New York Times:
"We’ve rebuilt China."
Half-True
By Linda Qiu • April 4, 2016
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on March 21, 2016 a speech to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee:
"During the last five years, Iran has perpetrated terror attacks in 25 different countries on five continents."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • March 22, 2016
Gayle Smith
Gayle Smith
stated on March 9, 2016 a speech on Capitol Hill:
As a sign of "extraordinary progress," "there are half as many (primary-age) children out of school today as there were 15 years ago."
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • March 17, 2016
Ron Johnson
Ron Johnson
stated on February 5, 2016 a public forum:
Says Barack Obama "has the legal authority to let in really however many refugees he wants, from whatever country."
Half-True
By Tom Kertscher • March 11, 2016
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