Fact Check Posts – Page 46

Sarah Huckabee Sanders
stated on March 5, 2017 an interview on ABC's "This Week"

"Everybody acts like President Trump is the one that came up with this idea. ... There are multiple news outlets that have reported" former President Barack Obama ordered wiretapping on Trump.

By Allison Graves • March 5, 2017

Claire McCaskill
stated on March 2, 2017 a tweet

"I’ve been on the Armed Services (Committee) for 10 years. No call or meeting w/ Russian ambassador. Ever."

By Lauren Carroll • March 2, 2017

Louie Gohmert
stated on February 21, 2017 a press release

Political activists are "being paid" to protest members of Congress.

By Joshua Gillin • February 27, 2017

Donald Trump
stated on February 18, 2017 a campaign rally

"Look at what’s happening last night in Sweden. Sweden, who would believe this? Sweden. They took in large numbers. They’re having problems like they never thought possible."

By Allison Graves • February 19, 2017

Donald Trump
stated on February 12, 2017 a tweet

"While on FAKE NEWS @CNN, Bernie Sanders was cut off for using the term fake news to describe the network. They said technical difficulties!"

By Allison Graves • February 12, 2017

Donald Trump
stated on February 9, 2017 a tweet

Says CNN’s Chris Cuomo "never asked" Sen. Richard Blumenthal about Blumenthal's misstatements on his own service in Vietnam.

By Jon Greenberg • February 9, 2017

Donald Trump
stated on February 7, 2017 a meeting with sheriffs in the White House

"The murder rate in our country is the highest it’s been in 47 years."

By Louis Jacobson • February 8, 2017

Donald Trump
stated on February 5, 2017 an interview with Bill O'Reilly

Says "109 people out of hundreds of thousands of travelers" were affected by the immigration executive order.

By Linda Qiu • February 6, 2017

Kellyanne Conway
stated on February 2, 2017 There was no massacre

"Two Iraqis came here to this country, were radicalized and they were the masterminds behind the Bowling Green massacre. … It didn't get covered"

By Louis Jacobson, Steve Contorno • February 3, 2017

Kellyanne Conway
stated on February 2, 2017 an interview on "Fox and Friends"

"This is longest that the nation has gone without a secretary of the Treasury, at least in modern times. If it's not the longest, it's darn close to it."

By Allison Graves • February 2, 2017

Kellyanne Conway
stated on January 27, 2017 an interview with "CBS This Morning"

"Here's the fact: The No. 1 source of income into Mexico are Mexicans working here and sending the money back."

By Louis Jacobson • January 30, 2017

Donald Trump
stated on January 27, 2017 an interview with CBN

"If you were a Muslim, you could come in, if you were a Christian, it was impossible."

By Linda Qiu • January 29, 2017

Sean Spicer
stated on January 24, 2017 the daily press briefing

"There's one (study) that came out of Pew in 2008 that showed 14 percent of people who voted were noncitizens."

By Lauren Carroll • January 25, 2017

Donald Trump
stated on January 21, 2017 remarks at the CIA

"The media ... sort of made it sound like I had a feud with the intelligence community."

By Jon Greenberg • January 22, 2017

Betsy DeVos
stated on January 17, 2017 her Senate confirmation hearing

"I would imagine that there's probably a gun in the school (in Wapiti, Wyo.) to protect from potential grizzlies."

By Lauren Carroll • January 18, 2017

Keith Ellison
stated on January 5, 2017 a tweet

"House GOP rules package bars CBO from counting spikes in deficit spending spurred by an ACA repeal."

By Louis Jacobson • January 12, 2017

Donald Trump
stated on January 11, 2017 a press conference

Americans don't "care at all" about Donald Trump's tax returns.

By Joshua Gillin • January 11, 2017

Donald Trump
stated on December 11, 2016 an interview on "Fox News Sunday"

"We had a massive landslide victory, as you know, in the Electoral College."

By Louis Jacobson • December 12, 2016

Reince Priebus
stated on December 11, 2016 comments on "Meet the Press"

"There's been no conclusive or specific report to say" Russia was trying to muddy the election.

By Jon Greenberg • December 11, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on November 13, 2016 a tweet

"The @nytimes sent a letter to their subscribers apologizing for their BAD coverage of me."

By Lauren Carroll • November 15, 2016

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