Fact Check Posts – Page 44

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 22, 2017 a rally

"There aren't too many people outside protesting" his speech at the Phoenix Convention Center.

By Miriam Valverde • August 23, 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

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

Donald Trump
stated on July 25, 2017 an interview

Untaxed corporate earnings used to be "$2.5 trillion … I guess it’s $5 trillion now. Whatever it is, it’s a lot more. So we have anywhere from 4 (trillion) to 5 or even more trillions of dollars sitting offshore."

By Manuela Tobias • August 3, 2017

Donald Trump
stated on July 28, 2017 a speech

"The border is down 78 percent. Under past administrations, the border didn’t go down -- it went up."

By Miriam Valverde • August 3, 2017

Anthony Scaramucci
stated on July 26, 2017 a tweet

"In light of the leak of my financial disclosure info which is a felony I will be contacting @FBI and the @TheJusticeDept"

By Manuela Tobias • July 27, 2017

Donald Trump
stated on July 25, 2017 a speech

"We've achieved a historic increase in defense spending to get our troops the support they so richly deserve."

By Jon Greenberg, Manuela Tobias • 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 19, 2017 an interview with the New York Times

During the Nixon Watergate investigation, "out of courtesy, the FBI started reporting to the Department of Justice. But there was nothing official."

By Jon Greenberg • July 21, 2017

Donald Trump
stated on July 16, 2017 a tweet

Says his job approval poll numbers are "not bad" relative to other presidents at this point in his presidency.

By John Kruzel • July 17, 2017

Mike Pence
stated on July 14, 2017 a speech to the National Governors Association

In Ohio, due to Medicaid expansion, "nearly 60,000 disabled citizens are stuck on waiting lists ... leaving them without the care they need for months or even years."

By Jon Greenberg • July 17, 2017

Donald Trump
stated on July 7, 2017 a tweet

Says John Podesta "refused to give the DNC server to the FBI and the CIA. Disgraceful!"

By Manuela Tobias • July 11, 2017

Sarah Huckabee Sanders
stated on June 29, 2017 a White House press briefing

"The president in no way, form or fashion has ever promoted or encouraged violence."

By Louis Jacobson, Manuela Tobias • July 5, 2017

Donald Trump
stated on June 28, 2017 an immigration roundtable discussion

"We're pretty much at the 50 percent mark" on deportations of MS-13 gang members.

By Miriam Valverde • June 30, 2017

Bloggers
stated on June 17, 2017 a blog post

"U.N. official John Ashe set to testify against the Clintons may not have died by accident."

By Jon Greenberg • June 30, 2017

Rick Perry
stated on June 19, 2017 an interview

"Most likely the primary control knob (for the earth’s temperature) is the ocean waters and this environment that we live in."

By John Kruzel • June 22, 2017

Donald Trump
stated on June 1, 2017 a speech at the White House

"China will be allowed to build hundreds of additional coal plants. So we can’t build the plants, but they can, according to this (Paris) agreement."

By Jon Greenberg • June 5, 2017

Donald Trump
stated on June 4, 2017 a tweet

"At least 7 dead and 48 wounded in terror attack and Mayor of London says there is ‘no reason to be alarmed!’ "

By Katie Sanders • June 4, 2017

Donald Trump
stated on May 26, 2017 a tweet

Deals struck on his first foreign trip as president made and saved "millions of jobs."

By Louis Jacobson • May 26, 2017

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