Fact Check Posts – Page 6

Charles Schumer
stated on May 18, 2017 in a Senate floor speech:

"President Obama became the first president since Carter to leave the White House with a smaller federal prison population than when he took office."

By Louis Jacobson • May 18, 2017

Donald Trump
stated on May 11, 2017 in an interview with 'The Economist':

The federal tax code includes "deductions for birds flying across America."

By Louis Jacobson • May 15, 2017

Donald Trump
stated on April 30, 2017 in an interview on CBS:

"General Flynn got his clearance from the Obama administration."

By Lauren Carroll • May 2, 2017

Rex Tillerson
stated on April 28, 2017 in comments to the UN Security Council:

"China account(s) for 90 percent of North Korean trade."

By John Kruzel • May 1, 2017

Donald Trump
stated on April 21, 2017 in an interview with the Associated Press:

Illegal immigration on the U.S.-Mexico border is "the lowest in 17 years."

By Miriam Valverde • April 25, 2017

Carolyn Maloney
stated on March 16, 2017 in remarks on the House floor:

"More than half of Planned Parenthood facilities are in rural or medically underserved areas."

By Sarah Waychoff • March 24, 2017

Donald Trump
stated on March 13, 2017 in a listening session on health care:

"One-third of the counties — think of it, one-third — only have one insurer left" on the Affordable Care Act exchanges.

By Lauren Carroll • March 13, 2017

Nancy Pelosi
stated on March 5, 2017 in an interview with CNN's "State of the Union":

Says 70 percent of benefits in Donald Trump’s proposal for child care "go to the people making over $100,000 a year."

By Gabrielle Healy • March 8, 2017

Keith Ellison
stated on January 29, 2017 in a CBS 'Face The Nation' interview:

"About three-quarters of (Syrian refugees) are women and children. A full third of them are kids under 12 years old."

By Miriam Valverde • February 2, 2017

Luke Messer
stated on January 5, 2017 in a CNN story:

"By funding the authorization that’s already happened a decade ago (in the Secure Fence Act of 2006), we could start the process of meeting Mr. Trump’s campaign pledge to secure the border."

By Miriam Valverde • January 17, 2017

John Podesta
stated on December 18, 2016 in an interview on "Meet the Press":

"On Oct. 7, the Access Hollywood tape comes out. One hour later, WikiLeaks starts dropping my emails."

By Aaron Sharockman • December 18, 2016

Rand Paul
stated on November 15, 2016 in a column on rare.us:

Says John Bolton supported the Iraq War and said last year that "I still think the decision to overthrow Saddam was correct."

By Louis Jacobson • November 17, 2016

Rudy Giuliani
stated on November 13, 2016 in CNN's "State of the Union":

Financial conflict-of-interest "laws don't apply to the president, right? So, the president doesn't have to have a blind trust."

By Lauren Carroll • November 16, 2016

Tim Kaine
stated on November 3, 2016 in a speech in Phoenix:

"Spanish was the first European language spoken in this country."

By Miriam Valverde • November 7, 2016

Hillary Clinton
stated on November 4, 2016 in a campaign rally:

Under Donald Trump's tax plan, "51 percent of single parents would see their taxes go up."

By Linda Qiu • November 6, 2016

Hillary Clinton
stated on November 2, 2016 in a campaign speech:

Says Donald Trump "wants to undo marriage equality."

By Joshua Gillin • November 3, 2016

Hillary Clinton
stated on October 31, 2016 in a rally in Cincinnati:

Says of Donald Trump, "He even said, on his very first day in office, he would require every school in America to let people carry guns into our classrooms."

By Lauren Carroll • November 1, 2016

Hillary Clinton
stated on October 25, 2016 in a rally in Florida:

Says Donald Trump "was asked if he would defend our allies. He said well, first he'd want to know if they made any payments to us to defend them."

By Miriam Valverde • October 26, 2016

Hillary Clinton
stated on October 20, 2016 in in a debate:

Says Donald Trump "used undocumented labor to build the Trump Tower."

By Linda Qiu, Riley Snyder • October 20, 2016

Hillary Clinton
stated on October 19, 2016 in the third 2016 presidential debate:

"We have 17 intelligence agencies, civilian and military, who have all concluded that these espionage attacks, these cyberattacks, come from the highest levels of the Kremlin, and they are designed to influence our election."

By Lauren Carroll • October 20, 2016

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