Fact Check Posts – Page 6

Donald Trump
stated on March 27, 2016 an interview with the New York Times

By Linda Qiu • April 4, 2016

Hillary Clinton
stated on April 3, 2016 comments on Meet the Press

"I'm the only candidate in the Democratic primary, or actually on either side, who Wall Street financiers and hedge fund managers are actually running ads against."

By Linda Qiu • April 3, 2016

Bernie Sanders
stated on February 13, 2016 an a television ad

"Bernie Sanders passed more roll call amendments in a Republican Congress than any other member."

By Linda Qiu • March 24, 2016

Gayle Smith
stated on March 9, 2016 a speech on Capitol Hill

"Over the last 30 years, extreme poverty has been cut in half."

By Linda Qiu • March 23, 2016

Raúl Castro
stated on March 21, 2016 a press conference in Havana

Says there are no political prisoners in Cuba.

By Linda Qiu • March 22, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on March 15, 2016 a speech at Mar-a-Lago

Under the Iran nuclear deal, "we give them $150 billion, we get nothing."

By Linda Qiu • March 17, 2016

Emma Watson
stated on February 24, 2016 an interview with Gloria Steinem

"More lives are lost from violence against women, sex-selective abortion, female infanticide, suicide, egregious maternal mortality, and other sex-linked causes than were lost during all of the wars and civil strife of the 20th century."

By Linda Qiu • March 15, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on February 23, 2016 a campaign speech

The U.S. "doesn’t make television sets anymore."

By Linda Qiu, Warren Fiske • March 14, 2016

Ted Cruz
stated on March 13, 2016 an interview on "Meet the Press"

"More than once, I've actually had a conversation with the protesters on substance."

By Linda Qiu • March 13, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on March 10, 2016 the Miami GOP debate.

"GDP was zero essentially for the last two quarters."

By Linda Qiu • March 11, 2016

Hillary Clinton
stated on March 9, 2016 in the Democratic debate in Florida

"The Clean Power Plan is something that Sen. Sanders has said he would delay implementing."

By Linda Qiu • March 10, 2016

Hillary Clinton
stated on March 6, 2016 the Democratic debate in Flint

"We have a higher rate of tested lead in people in Cleveland than in Flint."

By Linda Qiu • March 7, 2016

stated on March 6, 2016 comments on "Meet the Press"

"There’s no correlation between primary turnout and wins in the fall in the last 11 elections."

By Linda Qiu • March 6, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on February 28, 2016 comments on CNN's State of the Union

"I don't know anything about David Duke."

By Linda Qiu • March 2, 2016

Ted Cruz
stated on February 28, 2016 comments on Meet the Press

"There have been multiple media reports about (Donald Trump's) business dealings with the mob, with the mafia."

By Linda Qiu • March 2, 2016

Bernie Sanders
stated on February 28, 2016 comments on "Meet the Press"

Says he supported the 1994 crime bill because "there is a ban on assault weapons in that bill."

By Linda Qiu • February 28, 2016

Marco Rubio
stated on February 25, 2016 the GOP primary debate in Texas

Says Donald Trump hired illegal workers "from Poland and he had to pay a million dollars or so in a judgment."

By Linda Qiu • February 26, 2016

Samir Chachoua
stated on January 29, 2016 comments on "Real Time with Bill Maher"

Says he cured Charlie Sheen and the island of Comoros of HIV with "milk from goats, which had arthritis."

By Linda Qiu • February 23, 2016

Ted Cruz
stated on February 21, 2016 an interview on "Meet the Press"

"About 70 percent of Republicans nationwide ... don't think Donald Trump is the right guy" to take on Hillary Clinton in November.

By Linda Qiu • February 21, 2016

Stephen Colbert
stated on February 15, 2016 comments on the "Late Show"

"People have actually broken down the transcripts for oral arguments and (Antonin Scalia) told more jokes and got more laughs than any of the other justices."

By Linda Qiu • February 17, 2016

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