Fact Check Posts – Page 54

Ted Cruz
stated on January 28, 2016 in a Fox News debate :

"Barack Obama, right now, No. 1, over seven years has dramatically degraded our military."

By Amy Sherman, Louis Jacobson • January 29, 2016

Hillary Clinton
stated on January 20, 2016 in a speech in Burlington, Iowa:

"I am the only candidate on either side who has laid out a specific plan about what I would do to defeat ISIS."

By Louis Jacobson • January 27, 2016

Martin O'Malley
stated on January 14, 2016 in a column posted on Medium.com:

"Fifty years ago, the average GM employee could pay for a year of a son or daughter’s college tuition on just two weeks wages."

By Louis Jacobson • January 25, 2016

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

Says Donald Trump "thinks that climate change is a hoax, invented by the Chinese."

By Louis Jacobson • January 24, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on January 14, 2016 in a Republican presidential debate in North Charleston, S.C.:

China has "total control, just about, of North Korea."

By Louis Jacobson • January 21, 2016

Carly Fiorina
stated on January 20, 2016 in an Iowa Right to Life event in Des Moines:

The United States has a "record number of abortions year after year after year."

By Louis Jacobson • January 20, 2016

Paul Ryan
stated on January 9, 2016 in a column posted on Medium.com:

"Today, if you were raised poor, you’re just as likely to stay poor as you were 50 years ago."

By Louis Jacobson • January 19, 2016

Bernie Sanders
stated on January 17, 2016 in comments during the South Carolina Democratic presidential debate:

"I helped write" the Affordable Care Act.

By Louis Jacobson • January 18, 2016

Hillary Clinton
stated on January 17, 2016 in comments during the South Carolina Democratic presidential debate:

Says Bernie Sanders "has reversed his position on immunity" for gun manufacturers and sellers.

By Louis Jacobson • January 18, 2016

Marco Rubio
stated on January 17, 2016 in an interview on "Meet the Press":

Hostages were released as soon as Ronald Reagan took office because Iran perceived that America was "no longer under the command of someone weak."

By Angie Drobnic Holan, Louis Jacobson • January 17, 2016

Ted Cruz
stated on January 15, 2016 in a Republican presidential debate in North Charleston, S.C.:

Says President Barack Obama "appointed Eric Holder as attorney general. Eric Holder said he viewed his mission as brainwashing the American people against guns."

By Louis Jacobson • January 15, 2016

Ted Cruz
stated on January 14, 2016 in the Fox Business Network debate:

"We have the lowest percentage of Americans working today of any year since 1977."

By Louis Jacobson • January 15, 2016

Barack Obama
stated on January 12, 2016 in the State of the Union address:

"The United States of America, right now, has the strongest, most durable economy in the world."

By Louis Jacobson • January 15, 2016

Jeb Bush
stated on January 4, 2016 in a column posted on Medium:

"As governor of Florida, I used a combination of strategies to help reduce heroin use among youth in Florida by approximately 50 percent."

By Louis Jacobson • January 13, 2016

Nikki Haley
stated on January 12, 2016 in the Republican response to the State of the Union address:

The economy is "too weak to raise income levels."

By Louis Jacobson • January 13, 2016

Barack Obama
stated on January 12, 2016 in the State of the Union address:

We have cut "our deficits by almost three-quarters."

By Louis Jacobson • January 13, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on January 10, 2016 in an interview with NBC's "Meet the Press" in Ottumwa, Iowa:

"We get practically nothing compared to the cost of" keeping U.S. military forces in South Korea.

By Louis Jacobson • January 10, 2016

Carly Fiorina
stated on December 17, 2015 in a column posted on Medium:

"When we held recent economic dialogues with China, we agreed on over 100 different things — including wildlife trafficking and volcano research. None of these 100-plus points of agreement addressed cybersecurity."

By Louis Jacobson • January 7, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on January 4, 2016 in a television ad:

A Trump television ad shows Mexicans swarming over "our southern border."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr., Louis Jacobson • January 4, 2016

Chris Christie
stated on December 15, 2015 in a Republican presidential debate in Las Vegas:

Says the Obama administration invited "Russia into Syria."

By Louis Jacobson • December 21, 2015

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