Fact Check Posts – Page 58

John Kasich
stated on August 6, 2015 in comments at a GOP debate in Cleveland:

"I took the state of Ohio from an $8 billion hole … to a $2 billion surplus."

By Louis Jacobson • August 7, 2015

Donald Trump
stated on August 6, 2015 in comments at a GOP debate in Cleveland:

"The Mexican government ... they send the bad ones over."

By Louis Jacobson • August 7, 2015

Hillary Clinton
stated on July 28, 2015 in a town hall in Nashua, N.H.:

"The stock market does better when you have a Democratic president in the White House."

By Louis Jacobson • August 4, 2015

Donald Trump
stated on August 2, 2015 in an interview on ABC "This Week":

Under President Barack Obama, income levels and unemployment numbers "are worse now than just about ever" for African-Americans.

By Louis Jacobson • August 2, 2015

Harry Reid
stated on July 29, 2015 in a Senate floor speech:

Planned Parenthood is "the only health care that a significant number of women get. About 30 percent of women, that's their health care."

By Louis Jacobson • July 31, 2015

Facebook posts
stated on July 26, 2015 in a meme on social media:

Says Hillary Clinton "refuses to testify before Congress" about the 2012 attack in Benghazi.

By Louis Jacobson • July 31, 2015

Barack Obama
stated on July 21, 2015 in an interview with Jon Stewart of "The Daily Show":

"The economy, by every metric, is better than when I came into office."

By Louis Jacobson • July 28, 2015

Donald Trump
stated on July 11, 2015 in a speech in Las Vegas:

"If you're from Syria and you're a Christian, you cannot come into this country" as a refugee.

By Louis Jacobson • July 20, 2015

Marco Rubio
stated on July 19, 2015 in comments on CNN's "State of the Union":

The Iran deal "violates promises the president made to the American people." ... "It is not an anytime, anywhere inspection process."

By Louis Jacobson • July 19, 2015

Don Beyer
stated on July 14, 2015 in an op-ed:

"Thanks to the Obama administration’s negotiations, Iran’s nuclear program will be under lock, key and camera 24 hours a day, 365 days a year."

By Louis Jacobson • July 16, 2015

Donald Trump
stated on July 11, 2015 in a speech in Phoenix:

"The $5 billion website for Obamacare … never worked. Still doesn't work."

By Louis Jacobson • July 14, 2015

Bernie Sanders
stated on July 6, 2015 in a rally in Portland, Maine:

For African-Americans between the ages of 17 and 20, "the real unemployment rate … is 51 percent."

By Louis Jacobson • July 13, 2015

Donald Trump
stated on July 8, 2015 in an interview with NBC's Katy Tur:

"The Mexican government forces many bad people into our country."

By Louis Jacobson • July 9, 2015

Dinesh D'Souza
stated on July 7, 2015 in a tweet:

A photograph of 21-year-old Hillary Clinton featured a Confederate battle flag in the background.

By Louis Jacobson • July 7, 2015

Facebook posts
stated on July 6, 2015 in a meme on social media:

Says Hillary Clinton’s top 10 donors are mainly "banks, corporations and media," while Bernie Sanders’ top 10 donors are labor unions.

By Louis Jacobson • July 7, 2015

Bloggers
stated on June 25, 2015 in posts on the Internet:

"Lincoln was fervently making plans to send all freed slaves to the jungles of Central America once the (Civil War) was over. … The only thing that kept this from happening was his assassination."

By Louis Jacobson • June 26, 2015

Chain email
stated on June 24, 2015 in a chain email:

"Under the Affordable Care Act, anyone on Medicare who is admitted to a hospital for observation will be responsible for the bill. Medicare won't pay a cent."

By Louis Jacobson • June 25, 2015

Barack Obama
stated on June 20, 2015 in a tweet:

"Here are the stats: Per population, we kill each other with guns at a rate 297x more than Japan, 49x more than France, 33x more than Israel."

By Louis Jacobson • June 22, 2015

Barack Obama
stated on June 18, 2015 in remarks at the White House:

"This type of mass violence does not happen in other advanced countries. It doesn’t happen in other places with this kind of frequency."

By Keely Herring, Louis Jacobson • June 22, 2015

Jeb Bush
stated on June 15, 2015 in his presidential announcement speech:

The Democrats are "responsible" for "the swift, mindless drawdown of a military that was generations in the making."

By Louis Jacobson • June 22, 2015

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