Fact Check Posts – Page 40

Luther Strange
stated on September 21, 2017 in a debate:

Alabama is "the most generous state in the union in terms of what we give to charities."

By Louis Jacobson • September 22, 2017

Bill Cassidy
stated on September 20, 2017 in an interview on CNN:

Under the Graham-Cassidy health insurance bill, in "states like Maine, Virginia, Florida, Missouri, there will be billions more dollars to provide health insurance coverage for those in those states who have been passed by by Obamacare."

By Louis Jacobson • September 20, 2017

Donald Trump
stated on September 19, 2017 in a speech to the United Nations General Assembly:

"Companies are moving back, creating job growth the likes of which our country has not seen in a very long time."

By Louis Jacobson • September 20, 2017

Donald Trump
stated on September 17, 2017 in a tweet:

"Long gas lines forming in North Korea."

By Louis Jacobson • September 19, 2017

Young Conservatives
stated on September 8, 2017 in an Internet post:

"Mass voter fraud just discovered, to the amount that could void Hillary’s victory In New Hampshire."

By Louis Jacobson, Manuela Tobias • September 15, 2017

Babylon Bee
stated on May 24, 2017 in a web post:

"ISIS Lays Down Arms After Katy Perry’s Impassioned Plea To ‘Like, Just Co-Exist’"

By Louis Jacobson • September 8, 2017

Bloggers
stated on September 6, 2017 in a web post:

"Hurricane Irma could be a Category 6 by the time it hits East Coast."

By Louis Jacobson • September 6, 2017

Jeff Sessions
stated on September 5, 2017 in 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

Viral image
stated on August 22, 2017 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in remarks in the Oval Office:

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

By Louis Jacobson • July 31, 2017

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