Fact Check Posts – Page 40

Hillary Clinton
stated on February 17, 2016 a speech posted on Medium:

"Gun violence is by far the leading cause of death for young African American men, outstripping the next nine causes of death combined."

By Louis Jacobson • March 15, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on February 23, 2016 a campaign speech:

The U.S. "doesn’t make television sets anymore."

By Linda Qiu, Warren Fiske • March 14, 2016

Jeff Flake
stated on February 22, 2016 a statement:

"One would have to go back more than a century to find a scenario where a president’s nominee for the Supreme Court was confirmed by the opposition party in the Senate when the vacancy occurred during an election year."

By Anthony Cave • March 14, 2016

Rob Portman
stated on March 8, 2016 Department of Homeland Security hearing:

"We understand that this heroin is primarily coming from Mexico, over the border."

By Nadia Pflaum • March 14, 2016

Bernie Sanders
stated on February 23, 2016 a campaign rally.:

"The Walton family of Walmart ... This one family owns more wealth than the bottom 40 percent of the American people."

By Sean Gorman • March 14, 2016

Ted Cruz
stated on March 13, 2016 an interview on "Meet the Press":

"More than once, I've actually had a conversation with the protesters on substance."

By Linda Qiu • March 13, 2016

Marco Rubio
stated on March 11, 2016 a GOP debate at the University of Miami:

Foreign aid "is less than 1 percent of our federal budget."

By Amy Sherman, C. Eugene Emery Jr. • March 11, 2016

Jim Kenney
stated on March 10, 2016 a budget address to City Council:

"When the City and the Fairmount Park Conservancy invested $5 million in Hunting Park, crime went down 89 percent within a half mile radius of the park over the next three years."

By Anna Orso • March 10, 2016

Right to Rise
stated on March 1, 2016 a television ad.:

Like Marco Rubio, Sen. Barack Obama had "one of the worst attendance records in the Senate."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • March 8, 2016

stated on March 6, 2016 comments on "Meet the Press":

"There’s no correlation between primary turnout and wins in the fall in the last 11 elections."

By Linda Qiu • March 6, 2016

Ted Cruz
stated on February 28, 2016 comments on Meet the Press:

"There have been multiple media reports about (Donald Trump's) business dealings with the mob, with the mafia."

By Linda Qiu • March 2, 2016

Stephanie Schriock
stated on February 1, 2016 as quoted by the Texas Tribune:

"Texas is home to millions of Latinas, but the state has never elected a Latina to Congress."

By Emma Hinchliffe • February 29, 2016

Rick Perry
stated on January 15, 2016 Radio interview:

"Building a wall" on the U.S.-Mexico border "will take literally years."

By Eleanor Dearman • February 27, 2016

Hillary Clinton
stated on February 23, 2016 a TV ad:

"African-Americans are more likely to be arrested by police and sentenced to longer prison terms for doing the same thing that whites do."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • February 26, 2016

Richard Blumenthal
stated on February 15, 2016 an appearance on MSNBC's Hardball:

"There's never been a (U.S. Supreme Court) vacancy in the last, I think, 30 years, lasting longer than 237 days."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • February 18, 2016

Stephen Colbert
stated on February 15, 2016 comments on the "Late Show":

"People have actually broken down the transcripts for oral arguments and (Antonin Scalia) told more jokes and got more laughs than any of the other justices."

By Linda Qiu • February 17, 2016

Tim McGinty
stated on February 17, 2016 his campaign website:

"We are almost halfway to our goal of 1,000 rapes prosecuted!"

By Nadia Pflaum • February 17, 2016

Our Principles PAC
stated on February 14, 2016 a web ad:

Says Donald "Trump supported impeachment of President (George W.) Bush."

By Jon Greenberg • February 16, 2016

John McCain
stated on February 8, 2016 remarks made on the Fox News segment, Outnumbered:

North Korea’s missiles are "not going to have a capability to reach the United States anytime real soon."

By Anthony Cave • February 16, 2016

Bernie Sanders
stated on February 11, 2016 comments during the PBS Democratic debate:

"The African-American community lost half of their wealth as a result of the Wall Street collapse."

By Linda Qiu • February 12, 2016

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