Fact Check Posts – Page 5

Hillary Clinton
stated on May 22, 2016 an interview on "Meet the Press":

"Let me say that I don't think (Bernie Sanders has) had a single negative ad ever run against him."

By Linda Qiu • May 22, 2016

Usain Bolt
stated on May 18, 2016 an interview on NBC:

Zika mosquitoes "can’t catch me."

By Linda Qiu • May 19, 2016

Bernie Sanders
stated on May 16, 2016 a town hall in San Juan:

"Puerto Rico’s $70 billion debt is unsustainable and it is unpayable. And the reason why it is unsustainable has everything to do with the greed of Wall Street vulture funds."

By Linda Qiu • May 19, 2016

Minka Kelly
stated on May 10, 2016 a post on Instagram:

"By the time you drink your coffee, an elephant is killed for its ivory tusks."

By Linda Qiu • May 17, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on May 7, 2016 a rally in Washington:

Says Hillary Clinton "wants to abolish the Second Amendment."

By Linda Qiu • May 11, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on May 8, 2016 an interview on 'Meet the Press':

"We're the highest taxed nation in the world."

By Louis Jacobson, Linda Qiu • May 8, 2016

Enterprise Florida
stated on April 27, 2016 Enterprise Florida radio ads in California:

"Seven hundred thousand. That’s how many California jobs will be lost thanks to the politicians raising the minimum wage….Now Florida is adding one million jobs, not losing them."

By Linda Qiu • May 4, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on May 3, 2016 an interview on Fox News:

Says Ted Cruz’s father "was with Lee Harvey Oswald" before the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

By Louis Jacobson, Linda Qiu • May 3, 2016

Ted Cruz
stated on May 1, 2016 an interview on "Meet the Press":

Says Donald Trump’s "only economic agenda is imposing massive taxes on the American people with a 40 percent tax hike of a giant tariff."

By Linda Qiu • May 1, 2016

Bernie Sanders
stated on April 24, 2016 a speech:

Says an array of statistics show that conditions in some parts of Baltimore rival that of "the West Bank in Palestine," "North Korea," and "distressed cities in Nigeria, India, China and South Africa."

By Linda Qiu • April 28, 2016

Ted Cruz
stated on April 22, 2016 an attack ad:

Says Donald Trump thinks "a grown man pretending to be a woman (should) be allowed to use the women's restroom."

By Linda Qiu • April 25, 2016

Bernie Sanders
stated on April 24, 2016 an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press":

In the 2014 election, "80 percent of poor people did not vote."

By Linda Qiu • April 24, 2016

Lee Camp
stated on April 17, 2016 an episode of "Redacted Tonight":

"In 2009 … Hillary Clinton was at the State Department working with U.S. corporations to pressure Haiti not to raise the minimum wage to 61 cents an hour from 24 cents."

By Linda Qiu • April 21, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on April 20, 2016 a tweet:

"Ted Cruz is mathematically out of winning the race."

By Linda Qiu • April 20, 2016

Pat McCrory
stated on April 17, 2016 an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press":

"The city of Charlotte passed a bathroom ordinance mandate on every private-sector employer in Charlotte."

By Linda Qiu • April 17, 2016

Hillary Clinton
stated on April 14, 2016 the Democratic debate in New York:

Says Bernie Sanders "has been largely a very reliable supporter of the NRA."

By Linda Qiu • April 15, 2016

Bernie Sanders
stated on April 10, 2016 in an interview on NBC's Meet the Press:

Says Hillary Clinton supported and continues to "support fracking."

By Linda Qiu • April 13, 2016

Bernie Sanders
stated on April 4, 2016 an interview with the New York Daily News:

"In Malaysia … many of the workers are indentured servants because their passports are taken away when they come into this country and are working in slave-like conditions."

By Linda Qiu • April 12, 2016

Bernie Sanders
stated on April 10, 2016 an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press":

Says Hillary Clinton voted "for virtually every trade agreement that has cost the workers of this country millions of jobs."

By Linda Qiu • April 10, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on April 4, 2016 an interview with the New York Times:

China is "in the South China Sea and (building) a military fortress the likes of which perhaps the world has not seen."

By Linda Qiu • April 4, 2016

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