Fact Check Posts – Page 14

Bloggers
stated on February 28, 2019 in a Facebook post:

Says Thai police found bodies of children with their organs removed.

By Jon Greenberg • March 4, 2019

Ilhan Omar
stated on February 27, 2019 in a tweet:

"#MichaelCohen: Convicted of lying to Congress re: Russia investigation … #ElliottAbrams: Convicted of lying to Congress re: arming Contra death squads"

By Jon Greenberg • March 1, 2019

Bernie Sanders
stated on February 25, 2019 in a CNN town hall event:

"We have a president who wanted to throw 32 million people off of the health care they had."

By Jon Greenberg • February 28, 2019

Elizabeth Warren
stated on February 19, 2019 in a policy announcement on Medium:

"The high cost of child care is the No. 1 reason people give for having fewer children than they’d like."

By Jon Greenberg • February 25, 2019

Bernie Sanders
stated on February 19, 2019 in an interview on CBS This Morning:

"In Canada, for a number of decades, they have provided quality care to all people without out-of-pocket expenses. You go in for cancer therapy, you don't take out your wallet."

By Jon Greenberg • February 22, 2019

Elizabeth Warren
stated on February 4, 2019 in a Facebook post:

"By rubber-stamping the Bayer-Monsanto merger, the Justice Department is handing control over one quarter of the world's seeds and pesticides market to one ginormous agribusiness."

By Jon Greenberg • February 14, 2019

Ilhan Omar
stated on February 7, 2019 in a congressional hearing:

"In 2017, the CEO of McDonalds got paid $21.8 million. The median pay for a McDonald's worker that year was $7,000. This is a moral outrage. We need a $15 minimum wage so that no one is paid a poverty wage."

By Jon Greenberg • February 12, 2019

Cory Booker
stated on February 4, 2019 in an interview on CBS This Morning:

"Even the (Congressional Budget Office) says if you lower Medicare to allow 50 year olds to get into it, you can not only save the government money, but you can lower premiums for all Americans."

By Jon Greenberg • February 8, 2019

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
stated on February 5, 2019 in an interview on MSNBC:

"70 percent of Americans believe in improved and expanded Medicare for All."

By Jon Greenberg • February 6, 2019

Elizabeth Warren
stated on January 29, 2019 in a tweet:

"The top 0.1 percent ... own about the same wealth as 90 percent of America."

By Jon Greenberg • January 31, 2019

Bloggers
stated on January 13, 2019 in a Facebook post:

Quotes President Donald Trump as saying, "You tell people a lie three times, they will believe anything. You tell people what they want to hear, play to their fantasies, and then you close the deal."

By Jon Greenberg • January 15, 2019

Elizabeth Warren
stated on January 2, 2019 in an interview on MSNBC's Rachel Maddow Show:

With the Republican tax law, "the rich folks got $1.5 trillion."

By Jon Greenberg • January 9, 2019

Bloggers
stated on December 22, 2018 in a Facebook post:

"October 2013, Obama shut down the government for 16 days to force Obamacare."

By Jon Greenberg • January 2, 2019

Bloggers
stated on December 13, 2018 in a Facebook post:

Uses a picture of a mansion to say that Rep. Nancy Pelosi lives surrounded by "a high perimeter wall with gun toting security."

By Jon Greenberg • December 13, 2018

Christine Lagarde
stated on December 9, 2018 in an interview with CBS News' Face the Nation:

"In the United States, if there was equal participation of women in the labor market, GDP would be up by 5 percent."

By Jon Greenberg • December 12, 2018

Amy Klobuchar
stated on December 3, 2018 in a tweet:

"After a decade of progress, the rate of uninsured children is now rising."

By Jon Greenberg • December 5, 2018

Bloggers
stated on November 6, 2018 in a post on Right Wing News:

"Black Panthers Just Took Over City (Atlanta) – All Out War On Election Day"

By Jon Greenberg • November 6, 2018

Donald Trump
stated on October 31, 2018 in a tweet:

"Democrats let him (cop killer Luis Bracamontes) into our country," and "Democrats let him stay."

By Jon Greenberg, Miriam Valverde • November 1, 2018

Donald Trump
stated on October 10, 2018 in a rally in Erie, Pa.:

Says "Bob Casey voted in favor of deadly sanctuary cities that released thousands upon thousands of illegal alien criminals and vicious gang members to prey on Pennsylvania streets, to prey all over this country."

By Jon Greenberg • October 31, 2018

Bloggers
stated on October 25, 2018 in a Facebook post:

"‘MAGA bomber’ identified as former CNN employee who donated to heavily to Hillary Clinton."

By Jon Greenberg • October 26, 2018

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