Fact Check Posts – Page 7

Ivanka Trump
stated on May 1, 2017 her new book

Says John Quincy Adams said, "If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, you are a leader."

By Katie Sanders • May 5, 2017

Roy Blunt
stated on February 8, 2017 a speech

"Somebody observed this week that you have to go back to the very founding of the government to the first administration of George Washington to find a time when it’s taken longer to put a Cabinet in place."

By Grace Hase • March 25, 2017

Kellyanne Conway
stated on February 2, 2017 an interview on "Fox and Friends"

"This is longest that the nation has gone without a secretary of the Treasury, at least in modern times. If it's not the longest, it's darn close to it."

By Allison Graves • February 2, 2017

Reince Priebus
stated on November 14, 2016 an interview

Says Donald Trump's presidential victory was "an electoral landslide."

November 21, 2016

Ann Coulter
stated on November 9, 2016 a tweet

"1928 was last time Republicans had the White House, the House and the Senate."

By Miriam Valverde • November 11, 2016

Kai Degner
stated on October 17, 2016 a debate.

"The Declaration of Independence was written on paper made out of hemp."

By Sean Gorman • November 7, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on October 19, 2016 the third 2016 presidential debate

The stories from women saying he groped or forced himself on them "largely have been debunked."

By Jon Greenberg • October 20, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on September 26, 2016 a Presidential debate

Says to Hillary Clinton, "You heard what I said about (the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal), and all of a sudden you were against it."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • September 27, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on September 26, 2016 a presidential debate

"I did not support the war in Iraq … The record shows that I’m right."

By Lauren Carroll • September 27, 2016

NowThis
stated on August 10, 2016 a viral video

Says President Bill Clinton did not sign NAFTA.

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • August 11, 2016

Viral image
stated on August 5, 2016 a posting on various websites

Says in 2012 "Obama won in every state that did not require a photo ID and lost in every state that did require a photo ID in order to vote."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • August 9, 2016

Steve Adler
stated on June 14, 2016 an interview with Bob Cole on Austin's KOKE-FM

Austin was the "site of the first mass shooting in the country."

By W. Gardner Selby • June 23, 2016

Levar Stoney
stated on May 17, 2016 a radio interview.

Virginia’s banning of felons from voting is a "Jim Crow-era law."

By Warren Fiske • June 6, 2016

Wendy Davis
stated on March 14, 2016 an interview with Texas Monthly

"Texas is one of only a handful of states that does not have an equal pay law."

By Eleanor Dearman • May 27, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on April 11, 2016 a rally in Rome, N.Y.

"My numbers are better right now than Ronald Reagan's numbers were with Jimmy Carter."

By Louis Jacobson • April 14, 2016

New Day for America
stated on March 31, 2016 a television ad.

"Many just call him 'Lyin' Ted.' ... His TV ad about John Kasich? Lie! Stations had to pull it off the air."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • April 6, 2016

Paul Ryan
stated on February 23, 2016 an interview

"There is a precedent" for not nominating someone to the U.S. Supreme Court "in the middle of a presidential election."

March 4, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on March 3, 2016 a GOP debate hosted by Fox

The wives of the 9/11 hijackers "knew exactly what was happening" and went back to Saudi Arabia two days before the attacks to watch their husbands on television flying the planes.

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • March 4, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on February 28, 2016 an Instagram meme

Says Mahatma Gandhi once said, "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • March 4, 2016

Philip Van Cleave
stated on January 18, 2016 a speech

Martin Luther King Jr. "was a Republican."

By Sean Gorman • January 25, 2016

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