Fact Check Posts – Page 314

Tom Cotton
stated on April 4, 2017 in an interview on CNN:

"It is unusual" for a White House official like former National Security Adviser Susan Rice to make unmasking requests.

By Lauren Carroll • April 6, 2017

Rick Santorum
stated on March 31, 2017 in a conversation on HBO's "Real Time with Bill Maher":

"The EPA director under Obama said the Clean Power Initiative would have no effect on man-made CO2 emissions. That's what she said. Go look it up."

By Louis Jacobson • April 6, 2017

Volusia County Republican Party
stated on April 2, 2017 in in an email:

"The United States Department of Education has introduced an Islamic indoctrination program for the public schools, called ‘Access Islam.’ "

By Amy Sherman • April 5, 2017

Caitlyn Jenner
stated on March 31, 2017:

Says North Carolina's replacement for HB2 "orders NC cities to discriminate against LGBT people until at least 2020 and unfair ‘bathroom bans’ remain."

By Will Doran • April 4, 2017

Donald Trump
stated on April 4, 2017 in a CEO town hall:

"When you look for a job, you can't find it and you give up. You are now considered statistically employed."

By Louis Jacobson • April 4, 2017

Bloggers
stated on March 13, 2017 in a headline:

Says "Georgia becomes first state to ban Muslim culture in historic move to restore Western values."

By Joshua Gillin • April 2, 2017

Bloggers
stated on March 9, 2015 in a post shared on Facebook:

Government orders South African firm "to lay off 3,389 white employees."

By Jon Greenberg • April 2, 2017

Bloggers
stated on February 18, 2017 in In an article:

Says former Sen. Rick Santorum said, "Sometimes pregnancy is God’s way of comforting rape victims."

By Mark Dent • April 2, 2017

Scott Wagner
stated on March 28, 2017 in in a State Impact article.:

"...the earth moves closer to the sun every year – you know the rotation of the earth. We’re moving closer to the sun."

By Anna Orso • March 31, 2017

Tony Evers
stated on March 10, 2017 in an interview:

A study of where teachers apply to work found that "less than 5 percent wanted to work in rural Wisconsin."

By Dave Umhoefer • March 31, 2017

Ted Yoho
stated on March 14, 2017 in an interview on PBS:

"It’s been proven over and over again Medicaid has the worst outcomes in the industrialized world as far as the quality of health care."

By Amy Sherman • March 31, 2017

Jim Kenney
stated on March 27, 2017 in a tweet:

"Immigrants are responsible for 96 percent of our small biz growth since 2000."

By Cassie Owens • March 28, 2017

Hugh Hewitt
stated on March 26, 2017 in comments on "Meet the Press":

Obamacare "is in a death spiral."

By Allison Graves • March 26, 2017

Roy Blunt
stated on February 8, 2017 in a speech:

"Somebody observed this week that you have to go back to the very founding of the government to the first administration of George Washington to find a time when it’s taken longer to put a Cabinet in place."

By Grace Hase • March 25, 2017

Mike Pence
stated on March 19, 2017 in remarks in Coral Springs, Fla.:

Says President Donald Trump’s proposal to allow Americans to buy health insurance across state lines would make it the same as "the way you buy car insurance" today.

By Louis Jacobson • March 23, 2017

Sean Spicer
stated on March 20, 2017 in a press briefing:

Says Paul Manafort "played a very limited role" in the Trump presidential campaign.

By John Kruzel • March 22, 2017

Donald Trump
stated on March 20, 2017 in a tweet:

"The NSA and FBI tell Congress that Russia did not influence electoral process."

By Lauren Carroll • March 20, 2017

Jack Kingston
stated on March 12, 2017 in an interview on CNN:

"I remember years ago looking at a CBO report that in 1964 predicted that Medicare would cost $9 billion 10 years later. And I think it was already over $100 billion at that point."

By Sarah Waychoff • March 20, 2017

Donald Trump
stated on March 18, 2017 in a post on Twitter:

"Germany owes ... vast sums of money to NATO & the United States must be paid more for the powerful, and very expensive, defense it provides to Germany!"

By Allison Graves • March 19, 2017

Hannah Willard
stated on March 16, 2017 in a press conference in the Florida Capitol:

"Experts estimate that 40 percent of gun sales occur in no-questions-asked transactions that often take place at gun shows or on the Internet."

By Louis Jacobson • March 16, 2017

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