Fact Check Posts – Page 98

National Republican Senatorial Committee
stated on January 31, 2018 a digital ad:

"Heitkamp has voted against Trump 68 percent of time."

By Manuela Tobias • February 9, 2018

Donald Trump
stated on February 5, 2018 a tweet:

"The Democrats are pushing for Universal HealthCare while thousands of people are marching in the UK because their U system is going broke and not working."

By Mica Soellner • February 8, 2018

Donald Trump
stated on January 30, 2018 State of the Union address:

Many gang members have taken advantage of "glaring loopholes and our laws to enter the country as illegal, unaccompanied, alien minors."

By Miriam Valverde • February 7, 2018

Donald Trump
stated on February 5, 2018 a speech near Cincinnati:

At the State of the Union address, Democrats, "even on positive news … were like death and un-American. Un-American. Somebody said, ‘treasonous.’ I mean, yeah, I guess, why not? Can we call that treason? Why not?"

By Louis Jacobson • February 6, 2018

Say Anything Blog
stated on January 29, 2018 a blog post:

"Heitkamp High-Fives Schumer After Voting Against 20-Week Abortion Ban."

By Manuela Tobias • February 6, 2018

Devin Nunes
stated on February 2, 2018 a staff-written memo from the House Intelligence Committee:

Says the Steele dossier "was—according to (James Comey's) June 2017 testimony—'salacious and unverified.' "

By Louis Jacobson • February 5, 2018

Donald Trump
stated on January 26, 2018 a speech:

"Instead of two for one, we have cut 22 burdensome regulations for everyone new rule."

By Manuela Tobias • February 2, 2018

Markwayne Mullin
stated on January 30, 2018 a post on Rep. Mullin's Facebook page:

Under President Barack Obama: 4 million jobs lost, unemployment rose from 7.8% to 9.9%, the S&P 500 was 1,115.1 and the GDP went down 2.8%.

By Jon Greenberg • February 2, 2018

Donald Trump
stated on January 26, 2018 a speech in Davos, Switzerland:

"Consumer confidence, business confidence, and manufacturing confidence are the highest they have been in many decades."

By Louis Jacobson • February 2, 2018

Donald Trump
stated on February 1, 2018 a Tweet:

"45.6 million people watched (the State of the Union), the highest number in history. @FoxNews beat every other Network, for the first time ever, with 11.7 million people tuning in."

By Manuela Tobias • February 1, 2018

John Calipari
stated on January 20, 2018 an interview:

"We have the highest graduation rate of basketball players in the history of the NCAA. We have the highest graduation rate of African-American basketball players in the history of the NCAA in basketball."

By John Kruzel • February 1, 2018

Donald Trump
stated on January 30, 2018 the 2018 State of the Union address:

"Apple has just announced it plans to invest a total of $350 billion in America, and hire another 20,000 workers."

By Jon Greenberg • January 31, 2018

Donald Trump
stated on January 31, 2018 State of the Union address:

"A single immigrant can bring in unlimited numbers of distant relatives."

By Miriam Valverde • January 31, 2018

Joe Kennedy
stated on January 30, 2018 response to State of the Union address:

"Top CEOs (are) making 300 times the average worker."

By John Kruzel • January 31, 2018

Donald Trump
stated on January 30, 2018 the 2018 State of the Union address:

"In the past, we have foolishly released hundreds and hundreds of dangerous terrorists, only to meet them again on the battlefield — including the ISIS leader, al-Baghdadi, who we captured, who we had, who we released."

By Allison Graves • January 31, 2018

Donald Trump
stated on January 30, 2018 the 2018 State of the Union address:

"We are now, very proudly, an exporter of energy to the world."

By Jon Greenberg, Louis Jacobson • January 31, 2018

Donald Trump
stated on January 30, 2018 the 2018 State of the Union address:

Says one year later, "the coalition to defeat ISIS has liberated very close to 100 percent of the territory just recently held by these killers in Iraq and Syria."

By Jon Greenberg • January 31, 2018

Donald Trump
stated on January 30, 2018 his State of the Union address:

"Small business confidence is at an all-time high."

By Louis Jacobson • January 31, 2018

Donald Trump
stated on January 30, 2018 the State of the Union address:

"America is a nation of builders. We built the Empire State Building in just one year. Isn’t it a disgrace that it can now take 10 years just to get a minor permit approved for the building of a simple road?"

By John Kruzel • January 31, 2018

Donald Trump
stated on January 30, 2018 his State of the Union address:

"After years of wage stagnation, we are finally seeing rising wages."

By Louis Jacobson • January 31, 2018

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