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Latest Fact-Checks By Lauren Carroll

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Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on December 7, 2015 a campaign statement
Says 25 percent of U.S. Muslims "agreed that violence against Americans here in the United States is justified as a part of the global jihad."
Mostly False
By Lauren Carroll, Louis Jacobson • December 9, 2015
Joe Scarborough
Joe Scarborough
stated on December 4, 2015 on MSNBC's "Morning Joe"
In the weekend after the terrorist attacks in Paris, the White House said "this couldn't happen in the United States. ISIS couldn't reach us here."
False
By Lauren Carroll • December 8, 2015
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on December 6, 2015 an interview on CNN's "State of the Union"
"There are over 700,000 Americans on some watch list or another that would all be captured" in a Democratic amendment intended to stop suspected terrorists from buying guns.
Mostly False
By Lauren Carroll • December 6, 2015
Bill Maher
Bill Maher
stated on October 2, 2015 an episode of HBO's "Real Time with Bill Maher"
"15 years ago, cancer drugs cost an average of $10,000 a year. Now it’s $10,000 a month."
Mostly True
By Lauren Carroll • December 2, 2015
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on November 6, 2015 a Democratic primary forum
"I spent 18 months putting together the sanctions against Iran so that we could force them to the negotiating table."
Mostly True
By Lauren Carroll • November 23, 2015
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on November 21, 2015 comments during a speech
"I watched in Jersey City, N.J., where thousands and thousands of people were cheering" as the World Trade Center collapsed.    
Pants on Fire!
By Lauren Carroll • November 22, 2015
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on November 14, 2015 a debate in Iowa
"Since we last debated in Las Vegas, nearly 3,000 people have been killed by guns."
Half-True
By Lauren Carroll • November 17, 2015
Ben Rhodes
Ben Rhodes
stated on November 15, 2015 comments on ABC's "This Week"
When President Barack Obama said ISIS, or ISIL, was contained, he "was responding very specifically to the geographic expansion of ISIL in Iraq and Syria."
True
By Lauren Carroll • November 15, 2015
Martin O'Malley
Martin O'Malley
stated on November 14, 2015 a Democratic debate in Des Moines
"Net immigration from Mexico last year was zero. Fact-check me."
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg, Lauren Carroll • November 15, 2015
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on November 10, 2015 the Fox Business Network debate
Says President Dwight Eisenhower "moved 1.5 million illegal immigrants out of this country."
Half-True
By Lauren Carroll • November 11, 2015
Rand Paul
Rand Paul
stated on November 10, 2015 a Republican presidential debate
 Income inequality "seems to be worst in cities run by Democrats."
Half-True
By Lauren Carroll, Louis Jacobson • November 11, 2015
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on November 8, 2015 comments on "State of the Union"
Says that in polls about 2016 candidate leadership skills, he comes out "two and three and four times higher than anybody else."
Half-True
By Lauren Carroll • November 8, 2015
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on October 28, 2015 the CNBC debate
The CNBC debate was supposed to be three hours, and he "renegotiated it down to two hours."
Mostly False
By Lauren Carroll • November 2, 2015
Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush
stated on November 1, 2015 comments on "Meet the Press"
"If you look at the three people on the (debate) stage from the United States Senate, all three of them have a combined two bills that became law that they've sponsored."  
Mostly True
By Lauren Carroll • November 1, 2015
Ben Carson
Ben Carson
stated on October 29, 2015 a Republican presidential debate
Among manufacturers with fewer than 50 employees, "the average cost in terms of regulations is $34,000 per employee."  
Half-True
By Lauren Carroll • October 30, 2015
Ben Carson
Ben Carson
stated on October 28, 2015 a Republican presidential debate in Boulder, Colo.
Says he "didn’t have an involvement with" nutritional supplement company Mannatech.
False
By Lauren Carroll • October 29, 2015
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on October 7, 2015 a town hall-style campaign event in Iowa
The gun industry is "the only business in America that is wholly protected from any kind of liability."
False
By Lauren Carroll • October 16, 2015
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on October 13, 2015 in the first Democratic debate
On the Keystone XL pipeline
No Flip
By Lauren Carroll • October 14, 2015
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on October 13, 2015 the first Democratic debate
Says as secretary of state she was reserving judgment about the Trans-Pacific Partnership and "hoped it would be the gold standard."
Half-True
By Lauren Carroll • October 14, 2015
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on October 7, 2015 an interview on PBS Newshour
On the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
Full Flop
By Lauren Carroll • October 8, 2015
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