Fact Check Posts – Page 67

Bernie Sanders
stated on April 24, 2016 in a speech:

Says an array of statistics show that conditions in some parts of Baltimore rival that of "the West Bank in Palestine," "North Korea," and "distressed cities in Nigeria, India, China and South Africa."

By Linda Qiu • April 28, 2016

Alan Grayson
stated on April 25, 2016 in an Orlando debate:

Says LeBron James "stops paying his Social Security taxes at the beginning of the second quarter of the first game of the season."

By Joshua Gillin • April 28, 2016

John Oliver
stated on April 24, 2016 in a broadcast of HBO's "Last Week Tonight":

"We knew Strom Thurmond had proposed" the amendment that blocked Puerto Rico’s use of Chapter 9 bankruptcy protection.

By Jon Greenberg • April 27, 2016

Ban Ki-moon
stated on April 22, 2016 in comments:

The Paris Agreement "is by far the largest number of countries ever to sign an international agreement on a single day."

By Liepa Zelniene • April 26, 2016

Rick Scott
stated on April 13, 2016 in a press release:

"Over the past two years, Florida has cut more than $1 billion in taxes."

By Joshua Gillin • April 25, 2016

Tim Ziemer
stated on January 20, 2016 in an article posted on Medium:

"In Africa, a child dies every minute because of (malaria)."

By Jon Greenberg • April 25, 2016

Bob Goodlatte
stated on April 18, 2016 in a website post.:

"Before taking executive action on immigration, President Obama stated 22 times that he does not have the authority to change immigration laws on his own."

By Warren Fiske • April 25, 2016

Bernie Sanders
stated on April 24, 2016 in an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press":

In the 2014 election, "80 percent of poor people did not vote."

By Linda Qiu • April 24, 2016

Tom "Smitty" Smith
stated on April 14, 2016 in a commentary published in the Austin American-Statesman:

"Texas has 600,000 registered voters who don’t have the kind of photo ID needed to vote."

By W. Gardner Selby • April 22, 2016

Robby Mook
stated on April 19, 2016 in a Medium post:

"In last week’s debate, Bernie questioned Hillary’s commitment to fighting climate change because a whopping 0.2 percent of the money given to our campaign has come from employees of oil and gas companies. Not even 2 percent, mind you: 0.2 percent."

By Louis Jacobson • April 22, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on April 21, 2016 in a campaign rally speech:

"Pennsylvania has lost 35 percent of its manufacturing jobs since 2001" and "Harrisburg has lost 40 percent of its manufacturing jobs since 2001."

By Anna Orso • April 22, 2016

Kofi Annan
stated on April 19, 2016 in an op-ed in the Huffington Post:

"Studies have consistently failed to establish the existence of a link between the harshness of a country’s drug laws and its levels of drug use."

By Jon Greenberg • April 22, 2016

Bernie Sanders
stated on March 26, 2016 in a speech:

"Under the federal Controlled Substance Act, marijuana is listed in the same Schedule I as heroin," even though "marijuana is not a killer drug like heroin."

By Tom Kertscher • April 22, 2016

Ben Carson
stated on April 20, 2016 in a Fox Business interview:

"Andrew Jackson was the last president who actually balanced the federal budget, where we had no national debt."

By Lauren Carroll • April 21, 2016

Hillary Clinton
stated on April 21, 2016 in a town hall on ABC's 'Good Morning America':

"When I withdrew in June of 2008, polls were showing that at least 40 percent of my supporters said, oh, they weren't going to support Sen. Obama."

By Louis Jacobson • April 21, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on April 20, 2016 in a tweet:

"Ted Cruz is mathematically out of winning the race."

By Linda Qiu • April 20, 2016

Jerome Buting
stated on April 11, 2016 in an interview:

Wisconsin pays criminal defense lawyers who represent the indigent $40 per hour, "the lowest in the country."

By Tom Kertscher • April 20, 2016

John Kasich
stated on March 29, 2016 in an interview:

Ten times, no Republican candidate for president had enough delegates to claim the nomination before the party’s convention, and seven of those times "somebody who was not the leader of delegates was selected as the nominee of the party."

By Tom Kertscher • April 15, 2016

Bernie Sanders
stated on April 15, 2016 in a Democratic debate in New York:

"When this campaign began, I said that we’ve got to end the starvation minimum wage of $7.25, raise it to $15. Secretary Clinton said let's raise it to $12."

By Lauren Carroll • April 15, 2016

Bernie Sanders
stated on April 14, 2016 in the Brooklyn presidential debate:

"I remain one of the poorer members of the United States Senate."

By Louis Jacobson • April 15, 2016

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