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Latest Fact-Checks In Terrorism

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Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on July 5, 2016 a rally in Raleigh, N.C.:
"You know what (Saddam Hussein) did well? He killed terrorists."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • July 7, 2016
Sean Hannity
Sean Hannity
stated on June 28, 2016 comments on his Fox News program:
"During the (Benghazi) attack, a stand-down order was given, and our troops were told to change their clothes four times."
Mostly False
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • June 30, 2016
John Garamendi
John Garamendi
stated on June 22, 2016 a speech.:
"You can’t get on an airplane, but more than 2,000 people on that list have been able to buy a gun."
Mostly False
By Chris Nichols • June 25, 2016
Ron Johnson
Ron Johnson
stated on June 13, 2016 an interview:
"Assault rifles already are banned."
Mostly False
By Tom Kertscher • June 20, 2016
Pat Toomey
Pat Toomey
stated on April 15, 2016:
Says Merrick Garland "authored an opinion that resulted in the release of 17 Guantanamo Bay prisoners who were part of a group of violent Islamist extremists the State Department had designated as terrorists."
Mostly False
By Cassie Owens • June 7, 2016
Greg Abbott
Greg Abbott
stated on December 8, 2015 a press conference with Sen. Ted Cruz:
Says President Barack Obama "himself has granted waivers allowing into the United States refugees who provided material support to terrorists."
Mostly False
By W. Gardner Selby • December 18, 2015
Sean Duffy
Sean Duffy
stated on December 9, 2015 an interview:
Says President Barack Obama’s homeland security budget had "$16 million to fight climate change" but "didn't have a line item to fight violent extremism."  
Mostly False
By Tom Kertscher • December 18, 2015
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on December 2, 2015 a speech.:
 In 2000, "I wrote about Osama bin Laden, ‘We’ve got to take him out.’"
Mostly False
By Warren Fiske • December 11, 2015
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on December 7, 2015 a campaign statement:
Says 25 percent of U.S. Muslims "agreed that violence against Americans here in the United States is justified as a part of the global jihad."
Mostly False
By Lauren Carroll, Louis Jacobson • December 9, 2015
Martha McSally
Martha McSally
stated on November 17, 2015 a news conference:
The United States has "10,000 IRS agents making sure that you don't take an improper charity deduction," but to fight terrorism, it has "less than two dozen people focusing on countering violent extremism at home."    
Mostly False
By Tom Kertscher • November 25, 2015
Michael Needham
Michael Needham
stated on November 22, 2015 comments on "Fox News Sunday":
In 2013, the United States "accepted 67 percent of the world’s refugees."
Mostly False
By Linda Qiu • November 22, 2015
Ben Carson
Ben Carson
stated on November 16, 2015 an official statement posted on Facebook.:
"There is currently no ability to vet these people," referring to Syrian refugees.
Mostly False
By Linda Qiu • November 19, 2015
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on November 14, 2015 a Democratic presidential debate in Des Moines, Iowa.:
Climate change is "directly related" to the growth of terrorism.
Mostly False
By Linda Qiu • November 16, 2015
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on November 14, 2015 the Democratic debate in Iowa:
Out of the total U.S. military budget, "significantly less than 10 percent of that money is used to fight international terrorism."  
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • November 15, 2015
Ben Carson
Ben Carson
stated on November 10, 2015 the Fox Business Network debate:
Says Hillary Clinton told her daughter and a government official that Benghazi "was a terrorist attack, and then tells everybody else that it was a video."  
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • November 11, 2015
Curt Schilling
Curt Schilling
stated on August 25, 2015 a tweet:
"In 1940, only 7 percent of Germans were Nazis."  
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • August 28, 2015
Chris Christie
Chris Christie
stated on August 6, 2015 comments in a GOP debate in Cleveland:
"I was appointed U.S. attorney by President Bush on Sept. 10, 2001."
Mostly False
By Nick Reid • August 7, 2015
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on June 20, 2015 a speech:
Says Barack Obama told the U.S. Coast Guard Academy "that the number one threat to the military and the world today is global warming."
Mostly False
By Tom Kertscher • June 25, 2015
Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush
stated on May 20, 2015 a roundtable in New Hampshire:
"ISIS didn't exist when my brother was president. Al-Qaida in Iraq was wiped out when my brother was president."
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • May 28, 2015
Trey Gowdy
Trey Gowdy
stated on May 15, 2015 an interview on Fox News:
Says the State Department has "had half a year" to respond to a Benghazi document request, yet "I have not gotten a single, solitary scrap of paper."
Mostly False
By Lauren Carroll • May 21, 2015
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