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Latest Fact-Checks On Barack Obama

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Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on July 2, 2015 a speech
"We've cut the deficit by two-thirds."
Mostly True
July 8, 2015
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on June 25, 2015 a speech about the Affordable Care Act.
"By one leading measure, what business owners pay out in wages and salaries is now finally growing faster than what they spend on health insurance" for the first time in 17 years.
Mostly True
By Linda Qiu • June 30, 2015
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on June 20, 2015 a tweet
"Here are the stats: Per population, we kill each other with guns at a rate 297x more than Japan, 49x more than France, 33x more than Israel."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • June 22, 2015
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on June 18, 2015 remarks at the White House
"This type of mass violence does not happen in other advanced countries. It doesn’t happen in other places with this kind of frequency."
Mostly False
By Keely Herring, Louis Jacobson • June 22, 2015
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on June 1, 2015 remarks at the White House
Today, "the United States is the most respected country on Earth."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • June 3, 2015
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on April 17, 2015 a press conference
Says Loretta Lynch’s nomination "has been now sitting there longer than the previous seven attorney general nominees combined."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • April 20, 2015
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on April 5, 2015 an interview with the 'New York Times.'
"Iran’s defense budget is $30 billion. Our defense budget is closer to $600 billion."
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • April 9, 2015
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on March 25, 2015 a speech
The Affordable Care Act is "a major reason why we’ve seen 50,000 fewer preventable patient deaths in hospitals."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • March 31, 2015
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on February 8, 2015 a public-service video during the Grammys
"Nearly one in five women in America has been a victim of rape or attempted rape."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • February 16, 2015
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on January 22, 2015 an interview with YouTube celebrity Bethany Mota
"The reason we even have colleges is that at some point there were politicians who said, ‘You know what? We should start colleges.’ "
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • February 3, 2015
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on January 20, 2015 the State of the Union address
"In Iraq and Syria, American leadership, including our military power, is stopping (the Islamic State’s) advance."
Half-True
By Steve Contorno • January 27, 2015
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on January 7, 2015 a speech in Detroit
"The auto companies have now repaid taxpayers every dime and more of what my administration invested in."
Mostly False
By Steve Contorno • January 22, 2015
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on January 20, 2015 the State of the Union address
"America is No. 1 in wind power."
Mostly True
By Joshua Gillin • January 21, 2015
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on January 20, 2015 the State of the Union address
The economy is "creating jobs at the fastest pace since 1999."
True
By Louis Jacobson • January 21, 2015
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on January 20, 2015 the State of the Union address
"Our unemployment rate is now lower than it was before the financial crisis."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • January 21, 2015
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on January 20, 2015 his 2015 State of the Union address
"America is No. 1 one in oil and gas."  
True
By Lauren Carroll • January 21, 2015
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on January 20, 2015 his 2015 State of the Union address
"Since 2010, America has put more people back to work than Europe, Japan, and all advanced economies combined."
Half-True
By Lauren Carroll • January 21, 2015
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on January 20, 2015 the State of the Union address
The United States is "the only advanced country on Earth" that doesn’t guarantee "paid maternity leave to our workers."
Mostly True
By Steve Contorno • January 21, 2015
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on January 20, 2015 his 2015 State of the Union address
We've seen "our deficits cut by two-thirds."
Mostly True
By Katie Sanders • January 21, 2015
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on January 8, 2015 a speech in Phoenix, Ariz.
"Today, home sales are up nearly 50 percent from where they were in the worst of the crisis."
Mostly True
By Joshua Gillin • January 21, 2015
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