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Latest Fact-Checks By Louis Jacobson

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Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on May 4, 2016 a tweet
"Increasing the min. wage to $15 an hour would reduce spending on food stamps, public housing and other programs by over $7.6 billion a year."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • May 5, 2016
Donald Trump
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.
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson, Linda Qiu • May 3, 2016
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on May 2, 2016 an interview on CNN's "New Day"
"Frankly, (Hillary Clinton) doesn’t do very well with women."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • May 2, 2016
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on April 27, 2016 a foreign policy speech in Washington
"When President Obama landed in Cuba on Air Force One, no leader was there, nobody, to greet him -- perhaps an incident without precedent in the long and prestigious history of Air Force One."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • April 28, 2016
John Kirby
John Kirby
stated on April 25, 2016 a State Department news briefing
Says President Barack Obama never said, "No boots on the ground" in Syria.
False
By Louis Jacobson • April 27, 2016
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on April 25, 2016 remarks in Borden, Ind.
"I earned more votes in the state of Wisconsin than Donald Trump did in New York."
True
By Louis Jacobson • April 25, 2016
Robby Mook
Robby Mook
stated on April 19, 2016 a Medium post
"In last week’s debate, Bernie questioned Hillary’s commitment to fighting climate change because a whopping 0.2 percent of the money given to our campaign has come from employees of oil and gas companies. Not even 2 percent, mind you: 0.2 percent."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • April 22, 2016
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on April 21, 2016 a town hall on ABC's 'Good Morning America'
"When I withdrew in June of 2008, polls were showing that at least 40 percent of my supporters said, oh, they weren't going to support Sen. Obama."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • April 21, 2016
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on April 17, 2016 an interview on ABC's 'This Week'
Says that in her speech to the pro-Israel group AIPAC, Hillary Clinton "had one line on the Palestinian people."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • April 20, 2016
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on April 12, 2016 a speech in Syracuse, N.Y.
"We win when voter turnout is high, we lose when it is low."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • April 19, 2016
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on April 14, 2016 the Brooklyn presidential debate
The Republicans "still want to privatize (Social Security). In fact, their whole idea is to turn over the Social Security trust fund to Wall Street."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • April 15, 2016
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on April 14, 2016 the Brooklyn presidential debate
"I remain one of the poorer members of the United States Senate."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • April 15, 2016
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on April 11, 2016 a rally in Rome, N.Y.
"My numbers are better right now than Ronald Reagan's numbers were with Jimmy Carter."
False
By Louis Jacobson • April 14, 2016
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on April 11, 2016 an event in Port Washington, N.Y.
"The state that has the highest per capita number of … guns that end up committing crimes in New York come from Vermont."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • April 12, 2016
Tom Price
Tom Price
stated on March 28, 2016 a post on Medium
Says the Congressional Budget Office "is expecting a protracted economic malaise for at least the next decade under current policies."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • April 11, 2016
Tom Price
Tom Price
stated on March 28, 2016 a Medium post
A study "from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard, and Dartmouth concluded that Medicaid’s value to its beneficiaries is significantly lower than the actual cost of the program."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • April 8, 2016
Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on April 5, 2016 a confrontation with a customer at a Gainesville, Fla., Starbucks
"We got a million jobs."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • April 6, 2016
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on April 3, 2016 an interview with CNN's Jake Tapper
Says his campaign has released his past tax returns.
False
By Louis Jacobson • April 6, 2016
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on March 23, 2016 a Medium post
The "rate of uninsured Americans (is) 8.8 percent."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • April 5, 2016
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on March 21, 2016 a speech to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee
"During the last five years, Iran has perpetrated terror attacks in 25 different countries on five continents."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • March 22, 2016
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