Fact Check Posts – Page 3

Donald Trump
stated on July 5, 2016 a rally in Raleigh, N.C.

"You know what (Saddam Hussein) did well? He killed terrorists."

By Louis Jacobson • July 7, 2016

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."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • June 30, 2016

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."

By Chris Nichols • June 25, 2016

Ron Johnson
stated on June 13, 2016 an interview

"Assault rifles already are banned."

June 20, 2016

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."

By Cassie Owens • June 7, 2016

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."

By W. Gardner Selby • December 18, 2015

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."

December 18, 2015

Donald Trump
stated on December 2, 2015 a speech.

In 2000, "I wrote about Osama bin Laden, ‘We’ve got to take him out.’"

By Warren Fiske • December 11, 2015

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."

By Lauren Carroll, Louis Jacobson • December 9, 2015

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."

November 25, 2015

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."

By Linda Qiu • November 22, 2015

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.

By Linda Qiu • November 19, 2015

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.

By Linda Qiu • November 16, 2015

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."

By Jon Greenberg • November 15, 2015

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."

By Amy Sherman • November 11, 2015

Curt Schilling
stated on August 25, 2015 a tweet

"In 1940, only 7 percent of Germans were Nazis."

By Jon Greenberg • August 28, 2015

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."

By Nick Reid • August 7, 2015

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."

June 25, 2015

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."

By Amy Sherman • May 28, 2015

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."

By Lauren Carroll • May 21, 2015

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