Fact Check Posts – Page 56

Ted Cruz
stated on November 10, 2015 in the Republican presidential debate in Milwaukee, Wis.:

"There are more words in the IRS code than there are in the Bible."

By Louis Jacobson • November 11, 2015

Rand Paul
stated on November 10, 2015 in a Republican presidential debate:

Income inequality "seems to be worst in cities run by Democrats."

By Lauren Carroll, Louis Jacobson • November 11, 2015

Ben Carson
stated on November 10, 2015 in the Republican debate in Milwaukee, Wis.:

"Every time we raise the minimum wage, the number of jobless people increases."

By Louis Jacobson • November 11, 2015

Ben Carson
stated on November 4, 2015 in an edited Facebook post:

"Every signer of the Declaration of Independence had no federal elected office experience."

By Louis Jacobson • November 8, 2015

Marco Rubio
stated on October 28, 2015 in a Republican presidential debate in Boulder, Colo.:

Under his tax plan, "the greatest gains, percentage-wise," will be "at the lower end of our plan."

By Louis Jacobson • November 4, 2015

Rand Paul
stated on October 28, 2015 in a Republican presidential debate in Boulder, Colo.:

The debt limit deal "allows President Obama to borrow unlimited amounts of money."

By Louis Jacobson • November 2, 2015

Ted Cruz
stated on October 28, 2015 in a Republican presidential debate in Boulder, Colo.:

"Under Barack Obama and the big government economy, the median wage for women has dropped $733."

By Louis Jacobson • October 29, 2015

Donald Trump
stated on October 28, 2015 in 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 in 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

Viral image
stated on October 23, 2015 in 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

Viral image
stated on October 21, 2015 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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

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