Fact Check Posts – Page 62

Donald Trump
stated on June 16, 2016 in Dallas fundraiser:

The U.S. has to go to "plane graveyards" and museums to get parts for its 20-year-old jet fighters while it sells new jets to other countries.

By Filipa Ioannou • July 23, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on July 21, 2016 in in a speech at the Republican convention:

"Nearly 180,000 illegal immigrants with criminal records, ordered deported from our country, are tonight roaming free to threaten peaceful citizens."

By Miriam Valverde • July 22, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on July 21, 2016 in his acceptance speech at the Republican Natiional Convention in Cleveland:

"Household incomes are down more than $4,000 since the year 2000."

By Louis Jacobson • July 22, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on July 21, 2016 in a speech at the Republican national convention:

Says Hillary Clinton "supported North American Free Trade Agreement), and she supported China’s entrance into the World Trade Organization…. She supported the job-killing trade deal with South Korea. She supported the Trans-Pacific Partnership."

By Linda Qiu • July 22, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on July 21, 2016 in his acceptance speech at the Republican Natiional Convention in Cleveland:

"While Hillary Clinton plans a massive, and I mean massive, tax increase, I have proposed the largest tax reduction of any candidate who has run for president this year, Democrat or Republican."

By Louis Jacobson • July 22, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on July 21, 2016 in a speech at the Republican convention:

Says Hillary Clinton "wants sanctuary cities."

By Amy Sherman • July 22, 2016

North Carolina Republican Party
stated on July 19, 2016 in a roll call at the Republican National Convention:

Says North Carolina is "home of the largest military installations in the world."

By Will Doran • July 21, 2016

Mike Pence
stated on July 20, 2016 in a speech at the Republican convention:

"We in Indiana have . . . the highest credit rating in the nation."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • July 21, 2016

Newt Gingrich
stated on July 20, 2016 in a speech at the Republican convention:

Says "Hillary (Clinton) wants to increase the number (of Syrian refugees) by 500 percent."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr., Miriam Valverde • July 21, 2016

Newt Gingrich
stated on July 20, 2016 in a speech at the Republican National Convention:

"Just 9 percent of Muslims in Pakistan view ISIS favorably. Unfortunately, that 9 percent is 16 million people. And that’s just one country."

By Jon Greenberg • July 21, 2016

Scott Peters
stated on July 12, 2016 in a media conference call.:

Donald Trump "rooted for the housing crisis, because he knew he could make money off of it."

By Chris Nichols • July 20, 2016

Ron Johnson
stated on July 19, 2016 in the GOP convention in Cleveland:

" ‘What difference, at this point, does it make?' I am the guy that got under her skin and provoked that infamous response from Hillary Clinton by asking a pretty simple question, 'Why didn't you just pick up the phone and call the survivors’ (of the Benghazi attack)?"

By Linda Qiu • July 20, 2016

Harry Reid
stated on July 11, 2016 in remarks on the Senate floor:

"(Koch Industries) is among the worst in toxic air pollution in the entire United States ... and churns out more climate-changing greenhouse gases than oil giants Chevron, Shell and Valero."

By Riley Snyder • July 19, 2016

Jeff Sessions
stated on July 18, 2016 in a speech at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland:

"We have the lowest percentage of Americans actually holding a job in 40 years."

By Louis Jacobson • July 19, 2016

Rick Saccone
stated on July 13, 2016 in floor remarks during a House session:

"Illegal tobacco sales, price driven too high, has been connected to at least several cases of funding terrorism against us in multi-year investigations over the last decade and a half."

By Cassie Owens • July 18, 2016

Andrew Cuomo
stated on June 22, 2016 in a press conference and several other recent public appearances.:

Says middle-class New York State residents will have the "lowest tax rate in 70 years."

By Dan Clark • July 15, 2016

Moms Rising
stated on July 13, 2016:

"In North Carolina, paid family leave is more popular than college basketball."

By Will Doran • July 15, 2016

Gary Johnson
stated on July 3, 2016 in an interview on CNN:

"(Mexican immigrants) are more law-abiding than U.S. citizens and that is a statistic."

By Miriam Valverde • July 14, 2016

Van Jones
stated on July 7, 2016 in a panel discussion on CNN:

African-Americans don't use drugs at a higher level than whites but "wind up going to prison six times more."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • July 13, 2016

Mark Warner
stated on June 21, 2016 in a TV interview.:

Says Donald Trump has "bankrupt four separate businesses."

By Linda Qiu, Sean Gorman • July 11, 2016

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