Fact Check Posts – Page 56

Donald Trump
stated on October 28, 2015 a Republican presidential debate in Boulder, Colo.:

"I never said that" Marco Rubio was Mark Zuckerberg’s personal senator.

By Louis Jacobson • October 29, 2015

Chris Christie
stated on October 28, 2015 a Republican presidential debate in Boulder, Colo.:

Bernie Sanders’s plan is "to raise your taxes to 90 percent."

By Louis Jacobson • October 29, 2015

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stated on October 23, 2015 posts on the Internet:

Unlike Benghazi, there were no investigations of the 1983 Beirut barracks bombing, none about key aspects of the 9/11 attacks and the Iraq War, and none about embassy attacks under George W. Bush.

By Louis Jacobson • October 27, 2015

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stated on October 21, 2015 an image on the Internet:

"CNN's Crap Polling" is so bad that it shows that "no one under the age of 50 has an opinion of Hillary Clinton."

By Louis Jacobson • October 21, 2015

Donald Trump
stated on October 14, 2015 a speech.:

"We have the highest tax rate anywhere in the world."

By Louis Jacobson, Warren Fiske • October 20, 2015

Ted Cruz
stated on October 18, 2015 an interview on NBC's 'Meet the Press':

"Republican leadership took the lead confirming Loretta Lynch as attorney general."

By Louis Jacobson • October 18, 2015

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stated on October 15, 2015 a graphic circulating on the Internet:

Says Bernie Sanders once said, "Instead of removing the conditions that make people depressed, modern society gives them antidepressant drugs."

By Louis Jacobson • October 16, 2015

Jim Webb
stated on October 13, 2015 a Democratic presidential debate in Las Vegas:

"Fifteen out of the 20 most polluted cities in the world" are in India and China.

By Louis Jacobson • October 15, 2015

Bernie Sanders
stated on October 13, 2015 a Democratic presidential debate in Las Vegas:

"We are imprisoning or giving jail sentences to young people who are smoking marijuana."

By Louis Jacobson • October 14, 2015

Bernie Sanders
stated on October 13, 2015 a Democratic presidential debate in Las Vegas:

"African-American youth unemployment is 51 percent. Hispanic youth unemployment is 36 percent."

By Louis Jacobson • October 14, 2015

Ben Carson
stated on October 8, 2015 an interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer:

"In the class of 1968 at Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow, Mahmoud Abbas was one of the members of that class, and so was Ali Khamenei. And that's where they first established relationships with the young Vladimir Putin."

By Louis Jacobson • October 9, 2015

Barack Obama
stated on October 2, 2015 a press conference:

Today, the deficit is "below the average deficits over the past 40 years."

By Louis Jacobson • October 6, 2015

Carly Fiorina
stated on September 30, 2015 an interview on Fox News' "Hannity":

Planned Parenthood "is an organization that funnels millions of dollars in political contributions to pro-abortion candidates."

By Louis Jacobson • October 5, 2015

Donald Trump
stated on September 28, 2015 a press conference:

The unemployment rate may be as high as "42 percent."

By Louis Jacobson • September 30, 2015

John Kasich
stated on September 27, 2015 an interview on CBS' "Face the Nation":

"When I left Washington, we had a $5 trillion surplus."

By Louis Jacobson • September 29, 2015

Jeb Bush
stated on September 27, 2015 an interview on "Fox News Sunday":

The tax policies of George W. Bush "created a dynamic effect of high growth."

By Louis Jacobson • September 27, 2015

Ted Cruz
stated on September 21, 2015 an interview with CBS' Stephen Colbert:

"When (Ronald) Reagan came in, from 1978 to 1982, economic growth averaged less than 1 percent a year. There’s only one other four-year period where that’s true. That’s true from 2008 to 2012."

By Louis Jacobson • September 25, 2015

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stated on September 8, 2015 a shareable graphic on the Web:

Says Bernie Sanders opposes "requiring all children to have a K-12 education."

By Louis Jacobson • September 21, 2015

Rand Paul
stated on September 16, 2015 a presidential debate:

"There's never been a direct Supreme Court case on people who were here illegally, whether or not their kids are citizens."

By Louis Jacobson • September 18, 2015

Ted Cruz
stated on September 16, 2015 comments during the CNN debate:

"A majority of the men and women on this stage have previously and publicly embraced amnesty. I am the only candidate on this stage who has never supported amnesty."

By Louis Jacobson • September 17, 2015

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