Fact Check Posts – Page 54

Bernie Sanders
stated on January 17, 2016 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 a Republican presidential debate in Las Vegas:

Says the Obama administration invited "Russia into Syria."

By Louis Jacobson • December 21, 2015

Hillary Clinton
stated on December 19, 2015 the Dec. 19 Democratic presidential debate:

ISIS is "going to people showing videos of Donald Trump insulting Islam and Muslims in order to recruit more radical jihadists."

By Louis Jacobson • December 20, 2015

Rand Paul
stated on December 15, 2015 a Republican presidential debate in Las Vegas:

"If you are going to kill the families of terrorists, realize that there's something called the Geneva Convention we're going to have to pull out of."

By Louis Jacobson • December 17, 2015

Ted Cruz
stated on December 15, 2015 a Republican presidential debate in Las Vegas:

Says carpet bombing means bombing "not a city, but the location of the troops," with "embedded special forces to direct the air power."

By Louis Jacobson • December 16, 2015

Jeb Bush
stated on December 15, 2015 a GOP debate on CNN:

"Two months ago, Donald Trump said that ISIS was not our fight."

By Louis Jacobson • December 16, 2015

Donald Trump
stated on November 30, 2015 an interview on MSNBC's "Morning Joe":

"We're practically not allowed to use coal any more. What do we do with our coal? We ship it to China and they spew it in the air."

By Louis Jacobson • December 16, 2015

Marco Rubio
stated on December 13, 2015 an interview with NBC's "Meet the Press":

"Three or four countries" out of roughly 60 in the anti-ISIS coalition "are providing military force."

By Louis Jacobson • December 13, 2015

Donald Trump
stated on December 7, 2015 a campaign statement:

Says 25 percent of U.S. Muslims "agreed that violence against Americans here in the United States is justified as a part of the global jihad."

By Lauren Carroll, Louis Jacobson • December 9, 2015

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