Latest Fact-Checks By Linda Qiu

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Ted Cruz says he’s engaged civilly with protesters at his campaign events

March 13, 2016

"More than once, I've actually had a conversation with the protesters on substance."

No, GDP growth was not zero, as Donald Trump said in Miami GOP debate

March 11, 2016

"GDP was zero essentially for the last two quarters."

Hillary Clinton wrongly says Bernie Sanders wants to delay the Clean Power Plan

March 10, 2016

"The Clean Power Plan is something that Sen. Sanders has said he would delay implementing."

Hillary Clinton: Cleveland has higher rates of lead poisoning than Flint

March 7, 2016

"We have a higher rate of tested lead in people in Cleveland than in Flint."

David Brooks is right: Primary turnout doesn’t predict general election outcomes

March 6, 2016

"There’s no correlation between primary turnout and wins in the fall in the last 11 elections."

Donald Trump’s absurd claim that he knows nothing about former KKK leader David Duke

March 2, 2016

"I don't know anything about David Duke."

Yes, Donald Trump has been linked to the mob

March 2, 2016

"There have been multiple media reports about (Donald Trump's) business dealings with the mob, with the mafia."

Bernie Sanders, Chuck Todd debate crime bill vote, assault weapons ban

February 28, 2016

Says he supported the 1994 crime bill because "there is a ban on assault weapons in that bill."

We Googled ‘Trump Polish workers.’ Here’s what we found

February 26, 2016

Says Donald Trump hired illegal workers "from Poland and he had to pay a million dollars or so in a judgment."

No, arthritic goat milk cannot cure HIV

February 23, 2016

Says he cured Charlie Sheen and the island of Comoros of HIV with "milk from goats, which had arthritis."

Do Republicans think Donald Trump is the right candidate to beat Hillary Clinton?

February 21, 2016

"About 70 percent of Republicans nationwide ... don't think Donald Trump is the right guy" to take on Hillary Clinton in November.

Colbert: Scalia ‘told more jokes and got more laughs than any of the other justices’

February 17, 2016

"People have actually broken down the transcripts for oral arguments and (Antonin Scalia) told more jokes and got more laughs than any of the other…

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