Fact Check Posts – Page 31

Heidi Heitkamp
stated on February 24, 2019 in 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 in a tweet:

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

By Louis Jacobson • February 25, 2019

Joe Biden
stated on February 15, 2019 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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

Donald Trump
stated on February 7, 2019 in a tweet:

"The Dems and their committees are going ‘nuts.’ The Republicans never did this to President Obama."

By Louis Jacobson • February 7, 2019

Joe Biden
stated on January 28, 2019 in remarks in Fort Lauderdale:

"There was virtually no new business investment" after the 2017 tax law. "The bulk was used to buy back their own stock."

By Louis Jacobson • February 4, 2019

Kamala Harris
stated on January 27, 2019 in a campaign launch event:

"The cost of living is going up, but paychecks aren't keeping up."

By Louis Jacobson • January 30, 2019

Maria Cantwell
stated on January 23, 2019 in a tweet:

"7 million more Americans are uninsured now than when President Trump was elected."

By Louis Jacobson • January 25, 2019

Jacob Wohl
stated on January 22, 2019 in a tweet:

"Kamala Harris is NOT eligible to be President."

By Louis Jacobson • January 22, 2019

Mike Pence
stated on January 16, 2019 in a speech:

"The caliphate has crumbled and ISIS has been defeated."

By Louis Jacobson • January 17, 2019

Viral image
stated on January 10, 2019 in a meme:

"Lettuce killed more Americans this year than undocumented immigrants."

By Louis Jacobson • January 15, 2019

Chris Murphy
stated on December 23, 2018 in a tweet:

"The 2017/2018 budgets gave (President Donald) Trump billions for border upgrades. He’s spent ALMOST NONE of it. 6%."

By Louis Jacobson • January 4, 2019

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
stated on December 2, 2018 in a tweet:

"$21T in Pentagon accounting errors. Medicare for All costs ~$32T. That means 66% of Medicare for All could have been funded already by the Pentagon."

By Louis Jacobson • December 3, 2018

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
stated on November 19, 2018 in a tweet:

In her defeat of Republican Rep. Karen Handel, Democratic challenger Lucy McBath "was outspent 5-1."

By Louis Jacobson • November 28, 2018

Donald Trump
stated on November 21, 2018 in a tweet:

Just before Thanksgiving, oil was $54 a barrel, down from $82. "Thank you to Saudi Arabia."

By Kyra Haas, Louis Jacobson • November 26, 2018

Tom Cotton
stated on November 16, 2018 in a tweet:

"There have been no hearings" on a criminal justice bill being considered in the Senate.

By Louis Jacobson • November 20, 2018

Donald Trump
stated on November 14, 2018 in an interview with the Daily Caller:

"If you buy, you know, a box of cereal, if you do anything, you have a voter ID. … The only thing you don’t is if you’re a voter of the United States."

By Louis Jacobson • November 16, 2018

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