Fact Check Posts – Page 4

Ted Cruz
stated on September 21, 2018 a debate at Southern Methodist University

Says Beto O’Rourke described police as "modern-day Jim Crow."

By W. Gardner Selby • September 25, 2018

Gavin Newsom
stated on August 17, 2018 a TV interview

Says John Cox "parroted, parroted Trump — almost verbatim — on the children’s separation issues at the border."

By Chris Nichols • September 12, 2018

Donald Trump
stated on August 22, 2018 a tweet

Says the "South African Government is now seizing land from white farmers" and alleges a "large scale killing of farmers" in the country.

By Katie Akin • August 24, 2018

Bloggers
stated on July 13, 2018 a blog post

"An elderly British politician has been savagely beaten to a bloody pulp by a gang of anti-Trump protestors because he ‘welcomed’ the U.S. president to the United Kingdom."

By Katie Akin • July 17, 2018

Bloggers
stated on July 5, 2018 a blog post

"US representatives promise implement of UN gun-control plans"

By Bill McCarthy • July 10, 2018

Donald Trump
stated on June 23, 2018 a campaign speech

"We’ve already started (the border wall). We started it in San Diego."

By Chris Nichols • June 26, 2018

Ted Cruz
stated on June 11, 2018 an interview aired on "Think," produced by KERA radio in Dallas

"There’s actually a court order that prevents keeping the kids with the parents when you put the parents in jail."

By W. Gardner Selby • June 18, 2018

Nancy Pelosi
stated on May 23, 2018 a CNN town hall

A recent spending bill had at least "$1.6 billion in there ... for schools to give them an opportunity to secure them."

By Louis Jacobson • May 24, 2018

Jeff Sessions
stated on May 8, 2018 remarks to a conference

A legal settlement that reined in Chicago police "resulted in approximately 236 additional victims killed and over 1,100 additional shootings in 2016 alone."

By Casey Toner • May 15, 2018

Donald Trump
stated on May 15, 2018 a speech

Says of MS-13 gang members, "We are getting them out of our country by the thousands."

By Miriam Valverde • May 15, 2018

Jeff Sessions
stated on March 7, 2018 a speech in Sacramento

"California won’t let law enforcement officers like you and your people transfer prisoners to ICE custody or even to communicate with ICE that you’re about to release them from your custody — people that ICE is looking for."

By Chris Nichols • March 7, 2018

Ted Deutch
stated on February 21, 2018 a CNN town hall

"Mass shootings went up 200 percent in the decade after the assault weapons ban expired."

By Miriam Valverde • February 23, 2018

Jeff Greenfield
stated on February 14, 2018 a tweet

"In the rest of the world, there have been 18 school shootings in the last twenty years. In the U.S., there have been 18 school shootings since January 1."

February 15, 2018

Scott Walker
stated on January 11, 2018 a tweet

Says Paul Soglin took Madison backward -- "businesses have left and murders have gone up."

January 31, 2018

Donald Trump
stated on January 18, 2018 a tweet

Mexico is "now rated the number one most dangerous country in the world."

By Manuela Tobias • January 24, 2018

Jeff Sessions
stated on December 18, 2017 a news conference

In Milwaukee, "murder is up an astonishing 57 percent."

January 3, 2018

Gordon Hintz
stated on November 21, 2017 an interview

Wisconsin's Lincoln Hills youth prison has a "66 percent recidivism rate," while "states like Missouri, that have more of a regional model -- 8 percent."

December 6, 2017

Donald Trump
stated on October 30, 2017 a tweet

Says Paul Manafort’s alleged crimes were "years ago, before Paul Manafort was part of the Trump campaign."

By Jon Greenberg • October 30, 2017

Michael Moore
stated on October 4, 2017 a Facebook post

"People who die from a home invasion make up a sad but minuscule .04% of all gun murders in the U.S. And over a third of them are killed by their own gun that the criminal has either stolen or wrestled from them."

By Joshua Gillin • October 25, 2017

Matt Gaetz
stated on August 18, 2017 a newsletter

"As of 2014, illegal aliens made up roughly 3.5 percent of our population, and committed over 10 percent of all murders."

By Miriam Valverde • August 30, 2017

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