Fact Check Posts – Page 55

Donald Trump
stated on February 9, 2016 a victory speech after the New Hampshire primary

"Don't believe those phony numbers when you hear 4.9 and 5 percent unemployment. The number's probably 28, 29, as high as 35. In fact, I even heard recently 42 percent."

By Louis Jacobson • February 11, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on February 1, 2016 a campaign rally in Iowa

"I'm self-funding my own campaign."

By Lauren Carroll • February 10, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on January 26, 2016 comments at the University of Iowa

"We’re spending tremendous amounts of money to educate our kids. In the world, we're No. 1 per pupil by a factor of four."

By Daniel Lathrop • February 9, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on February 6, 2016 an ABC Republican debate in New Hampshire

"Right now we’re the highest taxed country in the world."

By Joshua Gillin, Louis Jacobson • February 7, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on February 6, 2016 a Republican presidential debate in Manchester, N.H.

Regarding the Iraq War, "I was the one that said, ‘Don’t go, don’t do it, you’re going to destabilize the Middle East.’ "

By Lauren Carroll • February 7, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on January 28, 2016 an interview on CNN

"I never once asked that (Megyn Kelly) be removed" as a debate moderator.

By Linda Qiu • January 29, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on January 20, 2016 a town hall in Norwalk, Iowa

"When they say Mexico can't pay for the wall, I say of course they can. We have a trade deficit with Mexico that's unbelievably big. ... It's billions and billions of dollars -- far more than what we're talking about for the wall."

By Amy Sherman • January 26, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on January 24, 2016 an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press"

Says a Ted Cruz ad has "got me bull-dozing down a house. I never bulldozed it down. It's false advertising."

By Lauren Carroll • January 24, 2016

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

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

By Louis Jacobson • January 21, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on January 14, 2016 the South Carolina presidential debate

Among Syrian refugees and migrants coming into Europe, "there look like very few women. Very few children."

By Aaron Sharockman • January 15, 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

Donald Trump
stated on January 10, 2016 Ottumwa, Iowa, on NBC's "Meet the Press"

The five Guantanamo detainees swapped for Bowe Bergdahl are "back on the battlefield."

By Lauren Carroll • January 10, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on January 5, 2016 an interview with The Washington Post

Canadian-born Ted Cruz "has had a double passport."

By W. Gardner Selby • January 6, 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

Donald Trump
stated on December 20, 2015 an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press"

Says American polling shows Russian President Vladimir Putin has "an 80 percent approval rating."

By Lauren Carroll • December 20, 2015

Donald Trump
stated on December 15, 2015 the Republican debate in Las Vegas

The 9/11 terrorists' friends, family, girlfriends in the United States "were sent back for the most part to Saudi Arabia. They knew what was going on. They went home, and they wanted to watch their boyfriends on television."

By Jon Greenberg • December 17, 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

Donald Trump
stated on December 2, 2015 a speech.

In 2000, "I wrote about Osama bin Laden, ‘We’ve got to take him out.’"

By Warren Fiske • December 11, 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

Donald Trump
stated on November 14, 2015 a rally in Beaumont, Texas

President Barack Obama "wants to take in 250,000 (people) from Syria."

By Fauzeya Rahman • December 1, 2015

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