Fact Check Posts – Page 3

Pat Robertson
stated on November 8, 2016 a TV broadcast.

Margaret Sanger "wanted a black Christian leader to be like a Judas goat and lead the blacks to genocide. Remember that? And they picked Martin Luther King as their spokesman."

By Warren Fiske • November 14, 2016

Conservative Daily Post
stated on November 1, 2016 a posting on the Internet

"FBI confirms evidence of huge underground Clinton sex network."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • November 4, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on September 20, 2016 a speech in Kenansville, N.C.

"Our African-American communities are absolutely in the worst shape they've ever been in before. Ever. Ever. Ever."

By Louis Jacobson • September 22, 2016

Occupy Democrats
stated on August 20, 2016 a posting on Facebook

Says President Barack Obama "has taken less vacation days than any other president in a generation," while Congress "has taken more vacation days than any other Congress in history."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • September 9, 2016

Donald Trump Jr.
stated on July 24, 2016 an interview on CNN

Unemployment numbers "are artificial numbers. These are numbers that are massaged to make the existing economy look good, to make this administration look good when, in fact, it's a total disaster."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • July 25, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on June 22, 2016 a campaign rally in Cleveland

Says Ted Cruz "never denied" his father was photographed with Lee Harvey Oswald.

By Dylan Baddour • July 22, 2016

Viral image
stated on July 6, 2016 a posting on Twitter

Says Attorney General Loretta Lynch "was a member of Bill Clinton's defense team during the 1992 Whitewater corruption probe."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • July 8, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on June 22, 2016 a speech

Says Hillary Clinton "has even deleted this record of total support (for the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement) from her book."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • June 23, 2016

Newt Gingrich
stated on May 27, 2016 a post on Twitter

"No one in American history has moved from a June 16 announcement to a May 26 winning of a majority. Trump's achievement is remarkable."

By Aaron Sharockman • May 27, 2016

Steve Adler
stated on May 17, 2016 a panel discussion in Austin

"The first tweet was sent from Austin."

By W. Gardner Selby • May 20, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on May 3, 2016 an interview on Fox News

Says Ted Cruz’s father "was with Lee Harvey Oswald" before the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

By Louis Jacobson, Linda Qiu • May 3, 2016

Facebook posts
stated on April 26, 2016 a multitude of Facebook posts

"Today President Obama said there will NOT be a National Day of Prayer in May."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • April 29, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on February 19, 2016 a rally in North Charleston, S.C.

Says that in the Philippines more than a century ago, Gen. John Pershing "took 50 bullets, and he dipped them in pigs’ blood," and shot 49 Muslim rebels. "The 50th person, he said, ‘You go back to your people, and you tell them what happened.’ And for 25 years, there wasn’t a problem."

By Louis Jacobson • February 23, 2016

Nancy Pelosi
stated on January 13, 2016 an interview on CNN

Until the new Iran deal, China and Russia "have never voted with us at the U.N. on any sanctions on Iran in the past."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • January 13, 2016

Ben Carson
stated on November 4, 2015 an edited Facebook post

"Every signer of the Declaration of Independence had no federal elected office experience."

By Louis Jacobson • November 8, 2015

Jason Villalba
stated on October 13, 2015 a tweet

"Bernie Sanders admits he is a Democratic Socialist. … Nazis were Democratic Socialists."

By W. Gardner Selby • October 16, 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

Chuck Baldwin
stated on July 9, 2015 a blog post

When President Abraham Lincoln signed his Emancipation Proclamation, "there were over 300,000 slaveholders who were fighting in the Union army."

By Jon Greenberg • July 27, 2015

Bloggers
stated on July 9, 2015 a website post

"Jay-Z and Beyonce Attempt to Buy Rights to Confederate Flag to Prevent Further Use."

By Anna Bruzgulis, Will Cabaniss • July 9, 2015

Dinesh D'Souza
stated on July 7, 2015 a tweet

A photograph of 21-year-old Hillary Clinton featured a Confederate battle flag in the background.

By Louis Jacobson • July 7, 2015

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