Fact Check Posts – Page 36

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."

By Louis Jacobson • April 4, 2018

Donald Trump
stated on April 2, 2018 a tweet:

Mexico has "very strong border laws -- ours are pathetic."

By Louis Jacobson • April 2, 2018

Joe Manchin
stated on March 21, 2018 a tweet:

Small businesses in West Virginia "make up about 96 percent of our state's economy."

By Louis Jacobson • March 26, 2018

Evan Jenkins
stated on March 20, 2018 a press release:

West Virginia "has the highest overdose death rate in the nation."

By Louis Jacobson • March 23, 2018

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."

By Louis Jacobson • March 21, 2018

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."

By Louis Jacobson • March 19, 2018

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)."

By Louis Jacobson • March 15, 2018

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."

By Louis Jacobson • March 9, 2018

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."

By Louis Jacobson • March 9, 2018

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."

By Louis Jacobson • March 8, 2018

Donald Trump
stated on March 6, 2018 a tweet:

The 2018 Academy Awards show was the "lowest rated Oscars in HISTORY."

By Louis Jacobson • March 6, 2018

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."

By Louis Jacobson • March 6, 2018

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."

By Louis Jacobson • February 26, 2018

Patrick Morrisey
stated on February 21, 2018 a tweet:

"The impending work stoppage is unlawful."

By Louis Jacobson • February 26, 2018

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.

By Louis Jacobson • February 22, 2018

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!"

By John Kruzel, Louis Jacobson • February 20, 2018

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."

By Allison Graves, Louis Jacobson • February 20, 2018

Rand Paul
stated on February 8, 2018 a Senate floor speech:

"George W. Bush doubled the debt from $5 trillion to $10 trillion. President Obama doubled the debt from $10 trillion to $20 trillion. Now we're on course to exceed $30 trillion in the next seven years or so."

By Louis Jacobson • February 9, 2018

Donald Trump
stated on February 5, 2018 a speech near Cincinnati:

At the State of the Union address, Democrats, "even on positive news … were like death and un-American. Un-American. Somebody said, ‘treasonous.’ I mean, yeah, I guess, why not? Can we call that treason? Why not?"

By Louis Jacobson • February 6, 2018

Devin Nunes
stated on February 2, 2018 a staff-written memo from the House Intelligence Committee:

Says the Steele dossier "was—according to (James Comey's) June 2017 testimony—'salacious and unverified.' "

By Louis Jacobson • February 5, 2018

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