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Latest Fact-Checks By Tom Kertscher

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Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on April 2, 2019 remarks to reporters
Says his father, Fred Trump, was "born in a very wonderful place in Germany."
Pants on Fire!
By Tom Kertscher • April 4, 2019
Andrew Yang
Andrew Yang
stated on March 22, 2019 an interview
"America’s life expectancy has declined for the last three years in a row, the first time in a hundred years, because of surges in suicides and drug overdoses."
Mostly True
By Tom Kertscher • April 3, 2019
Tulsi Gabbard
Tulsi Gabbard
stated on March 10, 2019 a town hall
"We pay far more for health care than any other country in the world, yet we have far worse outcomes than any other country in the world."
Mostly True
By Tom Kertscher • March 18, 2019
Joni Ernst
Joni Ernst
stated on March 6, 2019 a speech
"At $93 trillion, the Green New Deal would cost more than the entire recorded spending of the U.S. since the Constitution went into effect in 1789."  
False
By Tom Kertscher • March 12, 2019
Jay Inslee
Jay Inslee
stated on February 20, 2019 an interview
"The forest fires were so grotesque last year that we had the worst air in the world in Washington."  
Mostly True
By Tom Kertscher • March 8, 2019
Sherrod Brown
Sherrod Brown
stated on February 18, 2019 an interview
With the Trump tax law, "70 percent of the benefits went to the wealthiest 1 percent."  
Half-True
By Tom Kertscher • March 5, 2019
Amy Klobuchar
Amy Klobuchar
stated on February 18, 2019 a town hall
Prescription drugs "are nearly 20 percent of our health care costs now when you include hospital prescription drugs."
Mostly True
By Tom Kertscher • February 22, 2019
Cory Gardner
Cory Gardner
stated on February 14, 2019 an interview
Says Kamala Harris said, "We will take their (health) insurance away."  
Half-True
By Tom Kertscher • February 21, 2019
Pete Buttigieg
Pete Buttigieg
stated on January 31, 2019 an interview
"I have more military experience than anybody who’s arrived behind that desk since George H.W. Bush."
True
By Tom Kertscher • February 12, 2019
Michael Moore
Michael Moore
stated on February 1, 2019 an interview
"Seventy percent of the American public agree with" Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez "on having the top marginal (tax) rate for the rich" at 70 percent, and "that's a Fox News Poll saying that."  
Mostly False
By Tom Kertscher • February 6, 2019
Howard Schultz
Howard Schultz
stated on January 27, 2019 an interview on CBS
"Over 40 percent of the American people don't have $400 in the bank."
Mostly True
By Tom Kertscher • January 29, 2019
Alberta Darling
Alberta Darling
stated on December 5, 2018 a news release
"Democrats flip flop on pre-existing conditions."
False
By Tom Kertscher • December 18, 2018
Tony Evers
Tony Evers
stated on December 9, 2018 an interview
"At least three or four of the pieces that are in" in the Republican lame-duck legislation, Scott Walker "has vetoed previously."  
Mostly True
By Tom Kertscher • December 13, 2018
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on October 23, 2018 a campaign ad
Says Tony Evers wants to give in-state tuition and drivers licenses to "illegal aliens."
Mostly True
By Eric Litke, Tom Kertscher • November 2, 2018
Tammy Baldwin
Tammy Baldwin
stated on October 22, 2018 a speech
Under the Republican tax reform law, "83 percent of the benefits go to the top 1 percent of individuals and large multinational corporations."  
Half-True
By Tom Kertscher • October 26, 2018
Leah Vukmir
Leah Vukmir
stated on October 19, 2018 a debate
Says Tammy Baldwin’s "Medicare for All" plan means senior citizens would "no longer have" Medicare.  
Mostly False
By Tom Kertscher • October 26, 2018
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on October 9, 2018 a video
Says Tony Evers will "raise the gas tax by as much as a dollar a gallon."
Mostly False
By Tom Kertscher • October 24, 2018
Tony Evers
Tony Evers
stated on October 9, 2018 a TV ad
"Wisconsin pays 50% more than Minnesota for the same health care."  
Mostly False
By Tom Kertscher • October 22, 2018
Tony Evers
Tony Evers
stated on October 10, 2018 a campaign video
Says Scott Walker supports "a health care plan that would gut protections for pre-existing conditions."  
Mostly True
By Tom Kertscher • October 18, 2018
Kanye West
Kanye West
stated on October 11, 2018 remarks at the White House
In Wisconsin, Foxconn has "4,000 jobs, people making $53,000 a year."  
Half-True
By Tom Kertscher • October 12, 2018
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