Fact Check Posts – Page 322

Donald Trump
stated on September 7, 2016 in a speech in Philadelphia:

"Our veterans, in many cases, are being treated worse than illegal immigrants."

By Louis Jacobson, Miriam Valverde • September 9, 2016

SEIU Healthcare Illinois & Indiana
stated on August 25, 2016 in a YouTube video :

"In an interview with the Chicago Tribune's Editorial Board, Comptroller Leslie Munger says that in order to balance a budget, the state would have to 'cut social services completely.'"

By Kevin Hoffman • September 8, 2016

National Republican Senatorial Committee
stated on September 7, 2016 in a campaign website:

Says Patrick Murphy advocated for "cuts to Social Security and Medicare."

By Joshua Gillin • September 8, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on September 7, 2016 in the NBC Commander-In-Chief Forum :

"I was totally against the war in Iraq."

By Jon Greenberg, Lauren Carroll • September 8, 2016

Rudy Giuliani
stated on September 4, 2016 in an interview on CNN's "State of the Union":

"Food stamps have gone up two-and-a-half times under Barack Obama."

By Louis Jacobson • September 7, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on September 6, 2016 in an interview with ABC News:

"I released the most extensive financial review of anybody in the history of politics. … You don't learn much in a tax return."

By Louis Jacobson • September 7, 2016

Mike Pence
stated on September 4, 2016 in an interview on "Meet the Press":

"Donald Trump’s been completely consistent" about his plan for nonviolent undocumented immigrants.

By Linda Qiu • September 4, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on August 27, 2016 in a speech:

"Hillary Clinton wants to shut down family farms" using "radical regulation," by raising business tax "rates as high as nearly 50 percent" and by taxing "family farms again at death by as much as 45 percent."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • August 31, 2016

Anna Throne-Holst
stated on August 9, 2016 in a tweet that linked to the claim in a Newsday article:

Lee Zeldin "missed 2/3rds of Veterans Affairs Hearings"

By Dan Clark • August 31, 2016

Viral image
stated on August 29, 2016 in an image shared on social media from NaturalNews.com:

As the number of vaccines administered to children has increased in the United States, so has the autism rate.

By Nadia Pflaum • August 29, 2016

Gary Johnson
stated on August 22, 2016 in media appearances:

"None of the polls being conducted right now have us on the top line. None of them. It's always Trump and Clinton and then second question, third question. ... If we were included in the top line, as Johnson/Trump/Clinton, we'd be at 20 percent."

By Adam Thorp • August 29, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on August 20, 2016 in a rally:

As governor, Tim Kaine "oversaw a huge increase in illegal immigration, a tremendous increase."

By Sean Gorman • August 29, 2016

Sean Hannity
stated on August 23, 2016 in while interviewing Donald Trump in Austin:

"All of Texas is conservative, except a little bit of Austin."

By W. Gardner Selby • August 26, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on August 25, 2016 in a speech in Manchester, N.H.:

Says Hillary Clinton "wants to raise taxes on African-American owned businesses to as much as nearly 50 percent more than they're paying now."

By Joshua Gillin • August 26, 2016

Robin Schimminger
stated on August 3, 2016 in a hearing on economic development in Albany, NY.:

On job creation numbers in the latest Start-Up NY report: "This is a significant number of overcounts in the compilation that I’ve looked at."

By Dan Clark • August 26, 2016

Russ Feingold
stated on June 14, 2016 in a TV ad:

Says Ron Johnson "voted five times for tax breaks that help companies ship Wisconsin jobs overseas."

By Alison Dirr • August 26, 2016

Reince Priebus
stated on August 23, 2016 in comments on "The Mike Gallagher Show":

"The fact is" the Clinton Foundation has "got about 80 percent in overhead and 20 percent of the money is actually getting into the places it should."

By Aaron Sharockman • August 25, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on August 16, 2016 in a speech:

Says Hillary Clinton is "proposing to print instant work permits for millions of illegal immigrants to come in and take everybody's jobs, including low-income African-Americans."

By Tom Kertscher • August 18, 2016

Rudy Giuliani
stated on August 15, 2016 in a speech in Youngstown, Ohio:

"Under those eight years before (Barack) Obama came along, we didn’t have any successful radical Islamic terrorist attack in the United States" since Sept. 11, 2001.

By Linda Qiu • August 16, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on August 15, 2016 in a speech on foreign policy in Youngstown, Ohio:

"I had previously said that NATO was obsolete because it failed to deal adequately with terrorism. Since my comments, they have changed their policy and now have a new division focused on terror threats."

By Louis Jacobson • August 16, 2016

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