Fact Check Posts – Page 3

Donald Trump
stated on August 26, 2019 a post-G7 news conference

"We made a ridiculous deal (with Iran). We gave them $150 billion. We gave them $1.8 billion, and we got nothing."

By Jon Greenberg • August 27, 2019

Matt Gaetz
stated on August 10, 2019 an interview on Fox News

In Australia "they went and confiscated all the guns. You know who did what Australia did? Venezuela."

By Amy Sherman • August 19, 2019

Richard Hudson
stated on January 8, 2019 a tweet

Says Democrats want to give $54 billion in foreign aid, and Trump is only asking for 10 percent of that "to secure our border and build a wall.

By Paul Specht • January 24, 2019

Mike Pence
stated on January 16, 2019 a speech

"The caliphate has crumbled and ISIS has been defeated."

By Louis Jacobson • January 17, 2019

Donald Trump
stated on August 22, 2018 a tweet

Says the "South African Government is now seizing land from white farmers" and alleges a "large scale killing of farmers" in the country.

By Katie Akin • August 24, 2018

Donald Trump
stated on July 12, 2018 a press conference after the NATO summit

"The United States was paying for anywhere from 70 to 90 percent of (NATO), depending on the way you calculate."

By Heaven Taylor-Wynn • July 12, 2018

Kevin Nicholson
stated on May 30, 2018 an interview

The Iran deal "handed billions of dollars of cash on cargo planes, sent it to a state sponsor of terror, and Tammy Baldwin was one of the first U.S. senators to get on board and support that."

June 29, 2018

Donald Trump
stated on June 12, 2018 Singapore press conference

Says Bill Clinton "spent $3 billion and got nothing. And (North Korea) started making nuclear weapons a day later."

By Manuela Tobias • June 13, 2018

President Trump's lawyers
stated on January 29, 2018 a memo

Say President Donald Trump "dictated a short but accurate response to the New York Times article" about the Trump Tower meeting with Russians.

By Louis Jacobson • June 7, 2018

Donald Trump
stated on April 2, 2018 a tweet

Mexico has "very strong border laws -- ours are pathetic."

By Louis Jacobson • April 2, 2018

Donald Trump
stated on March 15, 2018 a tweet

"We do have a Trade Deficit with Canada, as we do with almost all countries (some of them massive)."

By Louis Jacobson • March 15, 2018

Laurence Tribe
stated on March 2, 2018 a tweet

President Donald "Trump’s latest set of sanctions against companies and countries benefiting North Korea includes every nation but one making shipments to (North Korea). The one nation Trump exempted from his punitive ban was . . . wait for it . . . drumroll: Russia."

By Louis Jacobson • March 6, 2018

Donald Trump
stated on February 20, 2018 a tweet

"I have been much tougher on Russia than Obama, just look at the facts. Total Fake News!"

By John Kruzel, Louis Jacobson • February 20, 2018

Donald Trump
stated on January 11, 2018 a tweet

Says the Obama administration "sold perhaps the best located and finest embassy in London ... only to build a new one in an off location for 1.2 billion dollars."

By Jon Greenberg • January 12, 2018

Elizabeth Foley
stated on January 2, 2018 during a CNN panel discussion

Says James Comey suggested and CNN reported that the basis of the wiretapping warrant for Trump adviser Carter Page was "all based on a dossier."

By Allison Graves • January 5, 2018

PuppetStringNews.com
stated on November 26, 2017 a headline

"Obama released 10 Russian agents from U.S. custody in 2010 during Hillary’s uranium deal."

By Amy Sherman • December 6, 2017

Nikki Haley
stated on October 15, 2017 comments on ABC

"And I think that his engagement with Congress is something that never happened under President Obama. They were never allowed to debate it. They were never allowed to discuss it. So, now Congress is going to be fully engaged on the threats of Iran."

By Allison Colburn • October 19, 2017

Kellyanne Conway
stated on July 22, 2017 Fox News interview

Just 6 percent of Americans say Russia is the country’s most important issue, yet the story receives "75 percent of the coverage" in the media.

By Manuela Tobias • July 23, 2017

Donald Trump
stated on July 6, 2017 a press conference in Poland

Says Barack Obama found out about Russia "in August. Now, the election was in November. That's a lot of time. He did nothing about it."

By Lauren Carroll • July 10, 2017

Donald Trump
stated on April 24, 2017 an interview wth the Associated Press

"Back when they did NATO, there was no such thing as terrorism."

By John Kruzel • April 25, 2017

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