Fact Check Posts – Page 8

Barack Obama
stated on September 20, 2016 a speech to the Leader's Summit on Refugees:

"Refugees are subject to more rigorous screening than the average tourist in the U.S."

By Joseph Cariz • October 13, 2016

Pat McCrory
stated on October 11, 2016 a North Carolina governor's race debate:

Says Syrian refugees are not being vetted, and "the FBI is not even being told where they are."

By Will Doran • October 12, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on October 10, 2016 a rally in Wilkes-Barre, Pa.:

Says Sidney Blumenthal wrote that the Benghazi attack was "almost certainly preventable. Clinton was in charge of the State Department, and it failed to protect U.S. personnel and an American consulate in Libya."

By Louis Jacobson • October 11, 2016

Hillary Clinton
stated on October 9, 2016 the second 2016 presidential debate:

"You can look at the propaganda on a lot of the terrorists' sites and what Donald Trump says about Muslims is used to recruit fighters."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr., Miriam Valverde • October 10, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on October 9, 2016 the second presidential debate:

"These are radical Islamic terrorists, and (Hillary Clinton) won't even mention the word."

By Amy Sherman • October 10, 2016

Paul Ryan
stated on September 26, 2016 a tweet:

"Repeated requests for additional security in Benghazi were routinely denied" by Hillary "Clinton’s State Department."

By Tom Kertscher • October 7, 2016

Mike Pence
stated on October 4, 2016 the 2016 Vice Presidential debate:

Says "Iraq has been overrun by ISIS because Hillary Clinton failed to renegotiate . . . a status of forces agreement."

By Jon Greenberg • October 5, 2016

Ted Strickland
stated on September 21, 2016 a campaign ad:

Says Rob Portman "even voted to allow people on the terrorism watch list to buy guns."

By Nadia Pflaum • September 29, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on September 26, 2016 a presidential debate at Hofstra University:

"NATO is opening up a major terror division. ... I'm sure I'm not going to get credit for it, but that was largely because of what I was saying and my criticism of NATO."

By Louis Jacobson • September 27, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on September 19, 2016 an interview on Fox News:

Says Israel profiles based on ethnicity and "does it very successfully."

By Linda Qiu • September 23, 2016

Newt Gingrich
stated on September 19, 2016 in a Facebook post and video:

Hillary Clinton said, "with a straight face, that the terrorist attacks this weekend were caused by Donald J. Trump"

By Jim Tharpe • September 23, 2016

Patrick Murphy
stated on September 15, 2016 a campaign statement:

Says Marco Rubio voted "against every bill that would have helped keep our families safe. He even voted against a bipartisan measure, introduced by a Republican, to prevent people on the no-fly list from purchasing guns."

By Amy Sherman • September 22, 2016

Tom Tancredo
stated on September 19, 2016 a fundraising email :

Says eight Americans died in a knife attack at a Minnesota mall.

By Alan Gathright • September 20, 2016

Sean Duffy
stated on August 23, 2016 an interview:

Says Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin has "ties to the Muslim Brotherhood."

By Tom Kertscher • September 14, 2016

Mike Pence
stated on September 4, 2016 an interview on "Meet the Press":

Says Hillary Clinton "wants to increase Syrian refugees to this country by 550 percent."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 4, 2016

Paul Ryan
stated on June 19, 2016 a TV interview:

Under the current procedure, if someone "on a terror watch list" tries to buy a gun, authorities are notified.

By Jonathan Anderson • September 2, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on August 21, 2016 remarks in Michigan:

The Obama administration gave Iran "$400 million in ransom payment cash."

By Lauren Carroll • August 24, 2016

John Burton
stated on August 16, 2016 in a press release:

"While introducing Donald Trump, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani omitted the September 11, 2001, strikes as a ‘successful’ terrorist attack during the eight years before President Obama’s 2008 election."

By Chris Nichols • August 18, 2016

Paul Manafort
stated on August 14, 2016 an interview on "State of the Union":

Says there was a "NATO base in Turkey being under attack by terrorists."

By Linda Qiu • August 16, 2016

Rudy Giuliani
stated on August 15, 2016 a speech in Youngstown, Ohio:

"Under those eight years before (Barack) Obama came along, we didn’t have any successful radical Islamic terrorist attack in the United States" since Sept. 11, 2001.

By Linda Qiu • August 16, 2016

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