Latest Fact-Checks By Jon Greenberg

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Tim Kaine
stated on June 15, 2016 in a senate hearing:

"For every extra year that a girl stays in secondary school, her chance of getting infected with HIV/AIDS decreases by half."

Mostly True

By Jon Greenberg • June 24, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on June 22, 2016 in a speech in New York attacking Hillary Clinton:

"For the amount of money Hillary Clinton would like to spend on refugees, we could rebuild every inner city in America."

Pants on Fire!

By Jon Greenberg • June 22, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on June 22, 2016 in a speech in New York City:

Says Hillary Clinton "said she was under attack (in Bosnia) but the attack turned out to be young girls handing her flowers."

True

By Angie Drobnic Holan, Jon Greenberg • June 22, 2016

David Beckham
stated on June 10, 2016 in a UNICEF video:

"Swaziland has the highest rate of HIV infection in the world."

True

By Jon Greenberg • June 17, 2016

Hillary Clinton
stated on June 8, 2016 in an interview on CNN:

"Nine million people have lower-cost HIV/AIDS medicine because of the work of the Clinton Foundation and my husband."

True

By Jon Greenberg • June 15, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on June 5, 2016 in an interview on CBS News' "Face the Nation":

Says Judge Gonzalo Curiel "is a member of a club or society, very strongly pro-Mexican."

Mostly False

By Jon Greenberg • June 7, 2016

David Perdue
stated on June 2, 2016 in an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press Daily":

"More businesses went out of business last year than were started for the first time in our history."

False

By Jon Greenberg • June 3, 2016

Alcee Hastings
stated on May 16, 2016 in a House resolution:

The Dog Meat Festival in Yulin, China, "threatens global public health."

Pants on Fire!

By Jon Greenberg • June 3, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on May 26, 2016 in a speech on energy policy:

In California, "the windmills are killing hundreds and hundreds of eagles."

Mostly False

By Jon Greenberg • May 31, 2016

Barack Obama
stated on May 13, 2016 in a press conference:

"The Nordic countries are some of the few countries" that meet development aid goals.

Mostly True

By Jon Greenberg • May 26, 2016

David Miliband
stated on May 17, 2016 in a panel discussion:

"The geography of poverty has changed fundamentally in the last 15 years," with more of it concentrated in fragile and conflict states.

Mostly True

By Jon Greenberg • May 23, 2016

U.S. Dairy Export Council
stated on May 9, 2016 in a press release:

Says a WHO proposal "portrays milk and dairy products as an obstacle to a healthy start in life."

Mostly False

By Jon Greenberg • May 20, 2016

Gwen Moore
stated on April 27, 2016 in a congressional hearing:

Water rates in Manila, Philippines, "were raised up to 845 percent" when a subsidiary of the World Bank became a partial owner.

Half-True

By Jon Greenberg • May 12, 2016

Loretta Sanchez
stated on May 11, 2016 in a debate:

"The Brady Campaign has given me a 100 percent, not 99, 100 percent rating."

Half-True

By Jon Greenberg • May 11, 2016

Hillary Clinton
stated on May 3, 2016 in a Clinton campaign tweet:

Says Donald Trump promised to repeal Obamacare, build a wall, ban Muslims, and more.

Mostly True

By Jon Greenberg • May 5, 2016

Joe Biden
stated on May 2, 2016 in a post on Medium:

Cervical cancer in Africa is "fully preventable with basic education, screening and vaccines."

Mostly True

By Jon Greenberg • May 5, 2016

Bernie Sanders
stated on May 1, 2016 in an interview on CBS News' "Face the Nation":

Winning enough pledged delegates is "not impossible."

Mostly True

By Jon Greenberg • May 2, 2016

Michelle Obama
stated on March 21, 2016 in an interview posted on Medium:

"Research even shows that sending more girls to school can boost an entire country’s GDP."

Mostly True

By Jon Greenberg • April 29, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on April 27, 2016 in a major foreign policy speech:

"I was totally against the war in Iraq, saying for many years that it would destabilize the Middle East."

False

By Jon Greenberg • April 27, 2016

John Oliver
stated on April 24, 2016 in a broadcast of HBO's "Last Week Tonight":

"We knew Strom Thurmond had proposed" the amendment that blocked Puerto Rico’s use of Chapter 9 bankruptcy protection.

Mostly True

By Jon Greenberg • April 27, 2016

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