Fact Check Posts – Page 40

Jeff Sessions
stated on September 5, 2017 remarks at the Justice Department:

Says President Barack Obama’s policy known as DACA "contributed to a surge of minors at the southern border."

By Louis Jacobson • September 5, 2017

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stated on August 22, 2017 social media feeds:

"At the PEAK of slavery in 1860, only 1.4% of Americans owned slaves. What your history books (don't) tell you is that 3,000 blacks owned a total of 20,000 slaves the same year."

By Louis Jacobson • August 24, 2017

Donald Trump
stated on August 22, 2017 a rally in Phoenix:

"We have become an energy exporter for the first time ever just recently."

By Louis Jacobson • August 23, 2017

Donald Trump
stated on August 15, 2017 a question-and-answer session with reporters:

White nationalist protesters in Charlottesville "had a permit. The other group didn’t have a permit."

By Louis Jacobson • August 17, 2017

Donald Trump
stated on August 17, 2017 a tweet:

"Study what General Pershing of the United States did to terrorists when caught. There was no more Radical Islamic Terror for 35 years!"

By Aaron Sharockman, Louis Jacobson • August 17, 2017

Donald Trump
stated on August 15, 2017 a question-and-answer session with reporters:

Wages "haven’t gone up for a long time."

By Louis Jacobson • August 17, 2017

Roy Moore
stated on August 14, 2017 an interview with Vox.com:

"There are communities under Sharia law right now in our country. Up in Illinois. ... There’s Sharia law, as I understand it, in Illinois, Indiana -- up there. I don't know."

By Louis Jacobson • August 16, 2017

Rearfront.com
stated on August 9, 2017 a web post:

"Dwayne 'The Rock' (Johnson) Has Officially Filed For The 2020 Presidential Campaign"

By Louis Jacobson • August 14, 2017

Sebastian Gorka
stated on August 8, 2017 an interview with MSNBC:

"There's no such thing as a lone wolf. ... That was a phrase invented by the last administration to make Americans stupid."

By Louis Jacobson • August 10, 2017

Donald Trump
stated on August 9, 2017 a tweet:

"My first order as president was to renovate and modernize our nuclear arsenal. It is now far stronger and more powerful than ever before."

By Louis Jacobson • August 9, 2017

David Perdue
stated on July 28, 2017 a statement:

Because of the failure to pass a repeal bill, "Obamacare remains the law of the land ... This means more than 300,000 Georgians below the poverty line will still not have access to the insurance Obamacare promised."

By Louis Jacobson • August 3, 2017

Donald Trump
stated on August 1, 2017 a tweet:

"Corporations have NEVER made as much money as they are making now."

By Louis Jacobson • August 1, 2017

Donald Trump
stated on July 31, 2017 remarks in the Oval Office:

"Business spirit is the highest it's ever been, according to polls."

By Louis Jacobson • July 31, 2017

Newt Gingrich
stated on July 23, 2017 an interview on Fox News:

In economic growth, "Obama's best year was slower than Bill Clinton's worst year."

By Louis Jacobson • July 27, 2017

Charles Schumer
stated on July 23, 2017 an interview on ABC's "This Week":

"When the price for oil goes up on the markets, it goes right up, but it never goes down."

By Louis Jacobson • July 25, 2017

Donald Trump
stated on July 24, 2017 a speech at the Boy Scout Jamboree:

"We had the best jobs report in 16 years."

By Louis Jacobson • July 25, 2017

Donald Trump
stated on July 25, 2017 a tweet:

"The person in charge of the Hillary investigation, Andrew McCabe, got $700,000 from (Hillary Clinton) for wife!"

By Louis Jacobson • July 25, 2017

Bloggers
stated on June 15, 2017 a web post:

Say Gretchen Carlson said, "The 2nd Amendment Was Written Before Guns Were Invented."

By Louis Jacobson • July 24, 2017

Casey Cagle
stated on June 22, 2017 a meeting with small business owners:

Says of Georgia, "for four years in a row, we are the No. 1 state to do business in."

By Lauren Carroll, Louis Jacobson • July 19, 2017

Pat Robertson
stated on July 12, 2017 an interview with President Donald Trump:

Russian natural gas company "Gazprom held Europe by the throat -- they were a monopoly, and now the U.S. is breaking into that monopoly with our exports of (liquefied natural gas)."

By Louis Jacobson • July 17, 2017

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