Latest Fact-Checks By Lauren Carroll

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Cruz wrongly says Trump’s only Supreme Court pick is his sister, a ‘hardcore pro-abortion liberal’

February 16, 2016

Says "the one person (Donald Trump) has suggested that would make a good justice is his sister, who is a court of appeals judge appointed by…

Ben Carson repeats dubious Stalin quote about bringing down America in CBS debate

February 14, 2016

Says "Joseph Stalin said if you want to bring America down you, have to undermine three things: our spiritual life, our patriotism and our morality."

Donald Trump was not ‘loud and clear’ in Iraq War opposition

February 14, 2016

On the Iraq war, "I said it loud and clear, 'You'll destabilize the Middle East.' "

Facebook post incorrectly quotes Mark Cuban on millennials, Democrats and Republicans

February 12, 2016

Quotes Mark Cuban as saying, "I worry that millions of millennials are voting Democrat this year because they fact-check everything."

Is Donald Trump self-funding his campaign? Sort of

February 10, 2016

"I'm self-funding my own campaign."

Donald Trump overstates his early opposition to the Iraq War

February 7, 2016

Regarding the Iraq War, "I was the one that said, ‘Don’t go, don’t do it, you’re going to destabilize the Middle East.’ "

Flat-out wrong: Rapper B.o.B. duels with Neil deGrasse Tyson over whether Earth is round

February 1, 2016

"You've been tremendously deceived" by people who say the Earth is not flat.

Hillary Clinton compares Benghazi to 1983 attack on Marines in Beirut

February 1, 2016

When terrorists killed more than 250 Americans in Lebanon under Ronald Reagan, "the Democrats didn’t make that a partisan issue."

Marco Rubio incorrectly says illegal immigrant population is higher than 5 years ago

January 31, 2016

"We have more illegal immigrants here" than we did five years ago.

Ben Carson: Stacked up, total pages of regulations from 2015 are 3 stories high

January 29, 2016

"Last year, there were an additional 81,000 pages of government regulations. If you stack that up, it would be a three-story building."

Donald Trump calls out Ted Cruz ad about Trump bulldozing a widow’s home as ‘false advertising’

January 24, 2016

Says a Ted Cruz ad has "got me bull-dozing down a house. I never bulldozed it down. It's false advertising."

Sanders: Obama was right, Clinton was wrong on Iran

January 17, 2016

Says Hillary Clinton called Barack Obama "naive" for saying he was would "sit down and talk to the Iranians" during the 2008 Democratic primary.  

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