Fact Check Posts – Page 30

Pete Buttigieg
stated on April 7, 2019 an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press":

"We cut unemployment by more than half" in South Bend, Ind.

By Louis Jacobson • April 10, 2019

Pete Buttigieg
stated on April 1, 2019 a podcast interview:

"Since 1973, the income of the bottom 90 percent, so pretty much all of us, didn’t budge, or even retreated a little bit."

By Louis Jacobson • April 5, 2019

Kamala Harris
stated on March 26, 2019 a tweet:

"In 30 states, average teacher pay is less than the living wage for a family of four."

By Louis Jacobson • April 1, 2019

John Hickenlooper
stated on March 20, 2019 a CNN town hall:

After legalizing marijuana in Colorado, "we haven't seen a spike in consumption."

By Louis Jacobson • March 25, 2019

Amy Klobuchar
stated on March 17, 2019 an interview on CNN's "State of the Union":

During her tenure as county attorney in Minnesota, "there was a 65 percent decrease in incarceration of African-Americans."

By Louis Jacobson • March 22, 2019

Kevin Downing
stated on March 13, 2019 remarks to reporters:

Says Paul Manafort’s sentencing judge, Amy Berman Jackson, "conceded that there was absolutely no evidence of any Russian collusion in this case. So that makes two courts. Two courts have ruled no evidence of any collusion with any Russians."

By Louis Jacobson • March 14, 2019

Matthew Dowd
stated on March 8, 2019 a tweet:

"Job growth and stock growth for the first two years of Trump are down from where they were (during the) last two years of Obama."

By Louis Jacobson • March 13, 2019

Turning Point USA
stated on March 11, 2019 a post on Facebook:

Says Michelle Obama "had a staff of 23" while Melania Trump "has a staff of 4."

By Louis Jacobson • March 12, 2019

Donald Trump
stated on March 5, 2019 remarks at the White House:

When Congress sought documents from President Barack Obama, the White House "didn’t do anything. They didn’t give one letter of the request. Many requests were made. They didn’t give a letter."

By Louis Jacobson • March 8, 2019

James Lankford
stated on March 6, 2019 an interview on MSNBC's "Morning Joe":

"Tax revenue went up, actually, $14 billion last year after the tax cut actually occurred. We had greater revenue."

By Louis Jacobson • March 7, 2019

Viral image
stated on February 28, 2019 a post on the Internet:

"Obama settled 43,000 Somalian refugees in Minnesota. As of 2016, there were around 80,000. No wonder Ilhan Omar was elected. It was planned."

By Louis Jacobson • March 5, 2019

Bernie Sanders
stated on February 26, 2019 a tweet:

Raising the federal minimum wage to $15 "would give more than 40 million low-wage workers a raise, more than 25 percent of the U.S. workforce."

By Louis Jacobson • March 1, 2019

Donald Trump
stated on February 25, 2019 a tweet:

"The Democrat(ic) position on abortion is now so extreme that they don’t mind executing babies AFTER birth."

By Louis Jacobson • February 28, 2019

Heidi Heitkamp
stated on February 24, 2019 a roundtable on ABC's "This Week":

"We have record bankruptcies in farming country."

By Louis Jacobson • February 26, 2019

Donald Trump
stated on February 25, 2019 a tweet:

Says former Sen. Harry Reid "got thrown out."

By Louis Jacobson • February 25, 2019

Joe Biden
stated on February 15, 2019 a tweet:

"Since the passage of (the Violence Against Women Act), annual rates of domestic violence have dropped by 63 percent."

By Louis Jacobson • February 22, 2019

Amy Klobuchar
stated on February 18, 2019 a CNN town hall:

"Comprehensive immigration reform, the bill we had back in 2013 ... brought the debt down $158 billion."

By Louis Jacobson • February 20, 2019

Donald Trump
stated on February 13, 2019 a speech:

"Violent crime is now going down for the first time in a long while."

By Louis Jacobson • February 14, 2019

Kamala Harris
stated on February 11, 2019 a tweet:

"The average tax refund is down about $170 compared to last year. Let’s call the President’s tax cut what it is: a middle-class tax hike to line the pockets of already wealthy corporations and the 1%."

By Louis Jacobson • February 13, 2019

Donald Trump
stated on February 11, 2019 a speech in El Paso, Texas:

Says that at Beto O’Rourke’s rally in El Paso, there were "200 people, 300 people."

By Louis Jacobson • February 12, 2019

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