Fact Check Posts – Page 74

Bernie Sanders
stated on July 10, 2019 an op-ed in the Washington Post

"42 percent of (Walmart’s) associates are black."

By Jon Greenberg • July 12, 2019

Weston Pagano
stated on June 24, 2019 an essay on Medium

Says Joe Biden "voted to expand deportations and indefinite detention for immigrants multiple times."

By Amy Sherman • July 12, 2019

Ken Cuccinelli
stated on July 7, 2019 a Fox News Sunday interview

"Last year, we were in the range of 850,000 and that was the most in five years. … We are letting more people become citizens than has happened in years."

By Miriam Valverde • July 11, 2019

Cory Booker
stated on July 5, 2019 an interview

"In 2017, we had more marijuana possession arrests in our country than all other violent crimes combined."

July 11, 2019

Pete Buttigieg
stated on July 4, 2019 an event in Carrol, Iowa

"A black person is four times as likely as a white person to be incarcerated for the exact same crime."

By Louis Jacobson • July 10, 2019

Donald Trump
stated on June 30, 2019 remarks to South Korean business leaders

"We hadn’t had a (car) plant built in years — in decades, actually. And now we have many plants being built all throughout the United States."

By Jon Greenberg • July 9, 2019

National Rifle Association
stated on June 17, 2019 a Facebook post

Says "Joe Biden calls for gun ban."

July 9, 2019

Tulsi Gabbard
stated on June 28, 2019 an interview

"There’s a hacking conference that’s held every year in Las Vegas, where I think a 14- or 15-year old-girl from Florida hacked into a replica of Florida’s election system in less than 15 minutes."

July 3, 2019

Bernie Sanders
stated on June 26, 2019 an opinion article

"The wealthiest three families now own more wealth than the bottom half of the country."

July 3, 2019

Donald Trump
stated on June 26, 2019 a tweet from the Trump campaign

Says Cory Booker has accepted over $400,000 from the pharmaceutical industry during his political career.

By Jon Greenberg • July 2, 2019

Donald Trump
stated on June 30, 2019 a press conference in South Korea

"The Obama administration was begging for a meeting" with Kim Jong Un.

By Jon Greenberg • July 1, 2019

Elizabeth Warren
stated on June 21, 2019 a policy proposal to ban private prisons

"Prison phone companies charge as much as $25 for a 15-minute call."

By Jon Greenberg • July 1, 2019

Joe Biden
stated on June 27, 2019 a democratic debate in Miami

"I did not oppose busing in America. What I opposed is busing ordered by the Department of Education."

By Amy Sherman • June 28, 2019

Donald Trump
stated on June 18, 2019 remarks to reporters on the White House South Lawn.

Says the Central Park Five "admitted their guilt."

By Jon Greenberg • June 24, 2019

Donald Trump
stated on June 20, 2019 a Telemundo interview

"When I became president, President Obama had a separation policy. I didn’t have it. He had it."

By Miriam Valverde • June 21, 2019

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
stated on June 17, 2019 a tweet

Says Amazon is "paying full-time employees so little that they require gov food assistance."

By Bill McCarthy • June 21, 2019

Donald Trump
stated on June 16, 2019 an ABC News interview

"Well, I got 52% (of women voters). And I will tell you — in my opinion I might have won women. ... Hey, Hillary Clinton focused on women, and I did phenomenally well."

By Stefanie Pousoulides • June 20, 2019

Seth Moulton
stated on June 7, 2019 a tweet

Says Joe Biden hasn’t admitted he was wrong on the Iraq War, as he did with the Hyde Amendment.

By Jon Greenberg • June 20, 2019

Joe Biden
stated on June 11, 2019 a speech in Iowa

"Why should you get a break for racehorses and not get a break for child care?"

By Amy Sherman • June 19, 2019

Joe Biden
stated on June 11, 2019 a campaign speech

"In the Obama-Biden administration, we got China to cut cyber-theft -- it's gotten significantly worse under this administration."

June 14, 2019

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