Fact Check Posts – Page 9

Newt Gingrich
stated on May 15, 2016 in an interview on "Fox News Sunday":

"The Chinese last year probably stole $360 billion in intellectual property from the United States."

By Louis Jacobson • May 17, 2016

Minka Kelly
stated on May 10, 2016 in a post on Instagram:

"By the time you drink your coffee, an elephant is killed for its ivory tusks."

By Linda Qiu • May 17, 2016

Pat Toomey
stated on April 27, 2016 in Pennsylvania:

Says Katie McGinty "actually agrees with Hillary Clinton and the most liberal wing of the Democrats on everything."

By Cassie Owens, Dávid Tvrdoň, Loghan Thain • May 16, 2016

Bernie Sanders
stated on April 4, 2016 in an interview with the New York Daily News:

"In Malaysia … many of the workers are indentured servants because their passports are taken away when they come into this country and are working in slave-like conditions."

By Linda Qiu • April 12, 2016

Bernie Sanders
stated on April 10, 2016 in an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press":

Says Hillary Clinton voted "for virtually every trade agreement that has cost the workers of this country millions of jobs."

By Linda Qiu • April 10, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on March 27, 2016 in an interview with the New York Times:

"We’ve rebuilt China."

By Linda Qiu • April 4, 2016

Ted Strickland
stated on March 17, 2016 in campaign ad, "Beltway Rob":

"It was (Rob Portman’s) job to stop China’s illegal dumping of steel. He failed, looked the other way, did nothing."

By Nadia Pflaum • April 1, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on March 26, 2016 in an interview with the New York Times:

"There’s a tremendous tax that we pay when we (American businesses) go into China, whereas when China sells to us there’s no tax."

By Jon Greenberg • March 30, 2016

Terry McAuliffe
stated on March 21, 2016 in an interview:

"Virginia now is the number one exporter of (agricultural) products to Cuba. We have now jumped to number one."

By Sean Gorman • March 24, 2016

Bernie Sanders
stated on March 15, 2016 in a political ad for Bernie 2016:

"The Trans-Pacific trade deal could cost America 448,000 more jobs."

By Nadia Pflaum • March 24, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on March 8, 2016 in a news conference:

The Trump Winery near Charlottesville, Va. is the "largest winery on the East Coast."

By Sean Gorman • March 21, 2016

Ted Cruz
stated on March 13, 2016 in an interview with NBC's "Meet the Press":

Says President Barack Obama has "been presiding over our jobs going overseas for seven years."

By Louis Jacobson • March 16, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on February 23, 2016 in a campaign speech:

The U.S. "doesn’t make television sets anymore."

By Linda Qiu, Warren Fiske • March 14, 2016

Ted Cruz
stated on March 10, 2016 in the Republican debate in Miami:

"I opposed TPP (Trans-Pacific Partnership) and have always opposed TPP."

By Jon Greenberg • March 11, 2016

Bernie Sanders
stated on March 6, 2016 in the Democratic debate in Flint, Mich.:

"NAFTA, supported by the Secretary (Clinton), cost us 800,000 jobs nationwide."

By Jon Greenberg • March 7, 2016

Ted Strickland
stated on December 10, 2016 in a Facebook post:

"With 320,000 net Ohio manufacturing jobs lost, (Sen. Rob) Portman calls NAFTA a ‘proven success’."

By Nadia Pflaum • February 5, 2016

Hillary Clinton
stated on February 4, 2016 in comments during the New Hampshire Democratic debate:

"I waited until (the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement) had actually been negotiated" before deciding whether to endorse it.

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • February 5, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on January 20, 2016 in a town hall in Norwalk, Iowa:

"When they say Mexico can't pay for the wall, I say of course they can. We have a trade deficit with Mexico that's unbelievably big. ... It's billions and billions of dollars -- far more than what we're talking about for the wall."

By Amy Sherman • January 26, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on November 10, 2015 in the fourth GOP primary debate.:

The Trans-Pacific Partnership "was designed for China to come in, as they always do, through the back door and totally take advantage of everyone."

By Clayton Youngman • November 12, 2015

Donald Trump
stated on November 10, 2015 in a debate in Milwaukee, Wis.:

"We’re losing now over $500 billion a year in terms of imbalance with China."

By Anna Bruzgulis • November 11, 2015

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