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Latest Fact-Checks By Louis Jacobson

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Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on April 5, 2018 an event in West Virginia
"This will be the last time — April — that you’re going to (fill out) that old-fashioned, big, lots of pages, complicated tax form. Because next April you’re going to, in many cases, (file) one page, one card. It’s going to be very, very different. Very, very different."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • April 9, 2018
Snapple
Snapple
stated on April 5, 2018 a bottle cap
"There are only 18 minutes of total action in an average baseball game."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • April 6, 2018
Ron Wyden
Ron Wyden
stated on March 29, 2018 a tweet
"Republicans in Congress are plotting to take away Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security."
False
By Louis Jacobson • April 5, 2018
Alex Mooney
Alex Mooney
stated on March 25, 2018 a Wall Street Journal op-ed
"From 2000-10, U.S. manufacturing employment shrank by a third after holding steady for 30 years."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • April 4, 2018
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on April 2, 2018 a tweet
Mexico has "very strong border laws -- ours are pathetic."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • April 2, 2018
Joe Manchin
Joe Manchin
stated on March 21, 2018 a tweet
Small businesses in West Virginia "make up about 96 percent of our state's economy."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • March 26, 2018
Evan Jenkins
Evan Jenkins
stated on March 20, 2018 a press release
West Virginia "has the highest overdose death rate in the nation."
True
By Louis Jacobson • March 23, 2018
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on March 18, 2018 a tweet
Robert Mueller’s investigative team has "13 hardened Democrats, some big Crooked Hillary supporters, and Zero Republicans."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • March 21, 2018
Ryan Zinke
Ryan Zinke
stated on March 13, 2018 testimony before a Senate committee
A Trump administration proposal for the Interior Department "is the largest investment in our public lands infrastructure in our nation's history."
False
By Louis Jacobson • March 19, 2018
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on March 15, 2018 a tweet
"We do have a Trade Deficit with Canada, as we do with almost all countries (some of them massive)."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • March 15, 2018
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on March 8, 2018 remarks before a Cabinet meeting
American aluminum and steel "are vital to our national security. ... They are the bedrock of our defense industrial base."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • March 9, 2018
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on March 8, 2018 remarks before a Cabinet meeting
"When I was campaigning, I was talking about 18 and 20 years (when) wages effectively went down. Now, for the first time in a long time, they're starting to go up for people."
False
By Louis Jacobson • March 9, 2018
Noah Smith
Noah Smith
stated on March 7, 2018 a Bloomberg View column
"Since 1990, production of metals in the U.S. has held roughly constant, but the number of people employed in the industry has fallen steadily."
True
By Louis Jacobson • March 8, 2018
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on March 6, 2018 a tweet
The 2018 Academy Awards show was the "lowest rated Oscars in HISTORY."
True
By Louis Jacobson • March 6, 2018
Laurence Tribe
Laurence Tribe
stated on March 2, 2018 a tweet
President Donald "Trump’s latest set of sanctions against companies and countries benefiting North Korea includes every nation but one making shipments to (North Korea). The one nation Trump exempted from his punitive ban was . . . wait for it . . . drumroll: Russia."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • March 6, 2018
Ryan Zinke
Ryan Zinke
stated on February 23, 2018 a panel at the conservative CPAC conference
"Under the previous administration it was … $100 to fill a car. American energy has delivered. Now it's $60. That’s $40 you have in your pocket … that you wouldn’t have."
False
By Louis Jacobson • February 26, 2018
Patrick Morrisey
Patrick Morrisey
stated on February 21, 2018 a tweet
"The impending work stoppage is unlawful."
True
By Louis Jacobson • February 26, 2018
Viral image
Viral image
stated on February 18, 2018 on the Internet
In most states, you can buy an assault rifle with no proof of ID, but in every state, you need proof of ID to vote.
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • February 22, 2018
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on February 20, 2018 a tweet
"I have been much tougher on Russia than Obama, just look at the facts. Total Fake News!"
Mostly False
By John Kruzel, Louis Jacobson • February 20, 2018
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on February 18, 2018 a statement on NBC's "Meet the Press"
"Forty percent of the guns in this country are sold without any background checks."
False
By Allison Graves, Louis Jacobson • February 20, 2018
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