Fact Check Posts – Page 5

Jeff Bridges
stated on March 28, 2016 in a Facebook video:

"Every bit of plastic that has ever been created still exists."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • April 14, 2016

Ted Cruz
stated on April 7, 2016 in an interview on CNN:

"Poll after poll after poll shows me beating Hillary."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • April 11, 2016

Glenn Beck
stated on April 10, 2016 in an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press":

Polls show "Hillary Clinton wins every time with Donald Trump" as her opponent.

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • April 10, 2016

Bernie Sanders
stated on April 6, 2016 in a speech at Temple University:

Says Hillary Clinton "has been saying lately that she thinks that I am, 'not qualified to be president.' "

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • April 7, 2016

New Day for America
stated on March 31, 2016 in a television ad.:

"Many just call him 'Lyin' Ted.' ... His TV ad about John Kasich? Lie! Stations had to pull it off the air."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • April 6, 2016

Hillary Clinton
stated on April 3, 2016 in comments on Meet the Press:

"I have now put out all of my emails."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • April 3, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on March 29, 2016 in an interview on CNN:

Says Ted Cruz distributed the ad showing a nude Melania Trump on a rug.

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • March 31, 2016

Hillary Clinton
stated on March 22, 2016 in a speech at Stanford University.:

When it comes to fighting terrorism, "Another thing we know that does not work, based on lots of empirical evidence, is torture."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • March 30, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on March 21, 2016 in a speech at the 2016 American Israel Public Affairs Committee conference in Washington.:

"When those restrictions expire (in the Iran nuclear deal), Iran will have an industrial-size military nuclear capability ready to go."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • March 24, 2016

Club for Growth
stated on March 17, 2016 in a political ad:

Says Donald Trump promised "to take care of everybody (through government-run healthcare and) the government's going to pay for it."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • March 21, 2016

Roy Zimmerman
stated on March 13, 2016 in a YouTube video:

"Republicans control the U.S. Senate with 54 seats, but those 54 senators were elected by only two-thirds the number of voters who elected the Democrats. In the Senate, the majority party represents a minority of the people."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • March 17, 2016

Everytown for Gun Safety
stated on March 8, 2016 in a Facebook meme:

The rate of U.S. female homicide victims outnumbers 24 other developed countries by more than 2½ to 1.

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • March 14, 2016

Marco Rubio
stated on March 11, 2016 in a GOP debate at the University of Miami:

Foreign aid "is less than 1 percent of our federal budget."

By Amy Sherman, C. Eugene Emery Jr. • March 11, 2016

Right to Rise
stated on March 1, 2016 in a television ad.:

Like Marco Rubio, Sen. Barack Obama had "one of the worst attendance records in the Senate."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • March 8, 2016

Hillary Clinton
stated on March 6, 2016 in a Democratic debate in Flint, Mich.:

"President Obama took more money from Wall Street in the 2008 campaign than anybody ever had."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • March 7, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on March 3, 2016 in a GOP debate hosted by Fox:

The wives of the 9/11 hijackers "knew exactly what was happening" and went back to Saudi Arabia two days before the attacks to watch their husbands on television flying the planes.

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • March 4, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on February 28, 2016 in an Instagram meme:

Says Mahatma Gandhi once said, "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • March 4, 2016

Hillary Clinton
stated on February 23, 2016 in a TV ad:

"African-Americans are more likely to be arrested by police and sentenced to longer prison terms for doing the same thing that whites do."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • February 26, 2016

Bill Maher
stated on February 10, 2016 in an essay in The Hollywood Reporter:

"Why are Muslim armies so useless against ISIS? ... There are 20,000 or 30,000 (ISIS fighters). The countries surrounding ISIS have armies totaling 5 million people."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • February 22, 2016

Richard Blumenthal
stated on February 15, 2016 in an appearance on MSNBC's Hardball:

"There's never been a (U.S. Supreme Court) vacancy in the last, I think, 30 years, lasting longer than 237 days."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • February 18, 2016

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