Fact Check Posts – Page 6

Jerry Falwell Jr.
stated on January 1, 2019 in a newspaper interview.:

"This midterm (election), the president did better than the average president does in his first midterms."

By Warren Fiske • January 8, 2019

Bloggers
stated on December 11, 2018 in a Facebook post:

Says Hillary Clinton in 2013 said: "I would like to see people like Donald Trump run for office; They’re honest and can’t be bought."

By Miriam Valverde • January 2, 2019

Bloggers
stated on November 29, 2018 in a meme:

"Red trees are significant to the early Christian church. In eastern Europe, the church would dye the trees red to symbolize the blood of Jesus & the resurrection."

By Miriam Valverde • December 3, 2018

Donald Trump
stated on November 7, 2018 in a press conference:

"In the House, Republicans dramatically outperformed historical precedents."

By Louis Jacobson • November 8, 2018

Donald Trump
stated on October 27, 2018 in a rally in Murphysboro, Ill.:

Says he didn't cancel a political rally because after Sept. 11, "the New York Stock Exchange was open the following day."

By Louis Jacobson • October 29, 2018

Donald Trump
stated on October 24, 2018 in a rally in Mosinee, Wis.:

"Many presidents don’t get the chance to put a Supreme Court justice on."

By Louis Jacobson • October 25, 2018

Greg Abbott
stated on August 7, 2018 in a since-deleted tweet:

Says Winston Churchill said, "The fascists of the future will call themselves anti-fascists."

By W. Gardner Selby • August 7, 2018

Donald Trump
stated on July 29, 2018 in a tweet:

"Wow, highest Poll Numbers in the history of the Republican Party. That includes Honest Abe Lincoln and Ronald Reagan."

By Louis Jacobson • July 30, 2018

Ivanka Trump
stated on June 11, 2018 in a tweet:

A Chinese proverb says, "Those who say it can not be done, should not interrupt those doing it."

By Lucia Geng • June 22, 2018

Beto O'Rourke
stated on January 3, 2018 in remarks at a stop in Greenville, Texas:

Says "precisely zero terrorists, terrorist groups or terror plots have ever been connected with the U.S.-Mexico border to do harm to people within the United States."

By Johnathan Silver • May 3, 2018

Breitbart
stated on January 30, 2018 in a headline:

"Fall River, Massachusetts was not 'built by immigrants.' "

By Amy Sherman • February 1, 2018

Donald Trump
stated on January 3, 2018 in a statement released by the White House:

The Senate seat won in a special election by a Democrat had been "held for more than thirty years by Republicans."

By Louis Jacobson • January 3, 2018

Dane County Republican Party
stated on August 25, 2017 in a news release:

"The KKK was founded as the military arm of the Democratic Party."

By D.L. Davis • October 23, 2017

John Kelly
stated on October 19, 2017 in a White House briefing:

At a 2015 dedication of an FBI building in Florida, Rep. Frederica Wilson "stood up there ... and talked about how she was instrumental in getting the funding for that building, and how she took care of her constituents because she got the money, and she just called up President Obama, and on that phone call he gave the money -- the $20 million -- to build the building. And she sat down."

By Louis Jacobson • October 20, 2017

Colin Kaepernick
stated on October 8, 2017 in a tweet:

Says Winston Churchill said, "A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on."

By Joshua Gillin • October 9, 2017

Mike Pence
stated on September 21, 2017 in comments on 'Fox & Friends':

"Thomas Jefferson said, ‘Government that governs least governs best.’ "

By Joshua Gillin • September 21, 2017

Viral image
stated on August 22, 2017 in social media feeds:

"At the PEAK of slavery in 1860, only 1.4% of Americans owned slaves. What your history books (don't) tell you is that 3,000 blacks owned a total of 20,000 slaves the same year."

By Louis Jacobson • August 24, 2017

Viral image
stated on August 9, 2017 in a Twitter post:

"Bill Clinton gave North Korea $5 billion and two nuclear reactors in 1994, essentially giving them nukes."

By Joshua Gillin • August 9, 2017

Donald Trump
stated on July 17, 2017 in a speech:

"We’ve signed more bills -- and I’m talking about through the legislature -- than any president ever."

By Tom Kertscher • July 20, 2017

Evan Smith
stated on July 10, 2017 in as quoted in a story in The New Yorker:

"The last majority-Anglo high school class in Texas graduated in 2014."

By W. Gardner Selby • July 19, 2017

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