Fact Check Posts – Page 50

Bernie Sanders
stated on May 4, 2016 in a tweet:

"Increasing the min. wage to $15 an hour would reduce spending on food stamps, public housing and other programs by over $7.6 billion a year."

By Louis Jacobson • May 5, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on May 3, 2016 in an interview on Fox News:

Says Ted Cruz’s father "was with Lee Harvey Oswald" before the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

By Louis Jacobson, Linda Qiu • May 3, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on May 2, 2016 in an interview on CNN's "New Day":

"Frankly, (Hillary Clinton) doesn’t do very well with women."

By Louis Jacobson • May 2, 2016

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

"When President Obama landed in Cuba on Air Force One, no leader was there, nobody, to greet him -- perhaps an incident without precedent in the long and prestigious history of Air Force One."

By Louis Jacobson • April 28, 2016

John Kirby
stated on April 25, 2016 in a State Department news briefing:

Says President Barack Obama never said, "No boots on the ground" in Syria.

By Louis Jacobson • April 27, 2016

Ted Cruz
stated on April 25, 2016 in remarks in Borden, Ind.:

"I earned more votes in the state of Wisconsin than Donald Trump did in New York."

By Louis Jacobson • April 25, 2016

Robby Mook
stated on April 19, 2016 in a Medium post:

"In last week’s debate, Bernie questioned Hillary’s commitment to fighting climate change because a whopping 0.2 percent of the money given to our campaign has come from employees of oil and gas companies. Not even 2 percent, mind you: 0.2 percent."

By Louis Jacobson • April 22, 2016

Hillary Clinton
stated on April 21, 2016 in a town hall on ABC's 'Good Morning America':

"When I withdrew in June of 2008, polls were showing that at least 40 percent of my supporters said, oh, they weren't going to support Sen. Obama."

By Louis Jacobson • April 21, 2016

Bernie Sanders
stated on April 17, 2016 in an interview on ABC's 'This Week':

Says that in her speech to the pro-Israel group AIPAC, Hillary Clinton "had one line on the Palestinian people."

By Louis Jacobson • April 20, 2016

Bernie Sanders
stated on April 12, 2016 in a speech in Syracuse, N.Y.:

"We win when voter turnout is high, we lose when it is low."

By Louis Jacobson • April 19, 2016

Hillary Clinton
stated on April 14, 2016 in the Brooklyn presidential debate:

The Republicans "still want to privatize (Social Security). In fact, their whole idea is to turn over the Social Security trust fund to Wall Street."

By Louis Jacobson • April 15, 2016

Bernie Sanders
stated on April 14, 2016 in the Brooklyn presidential debate:

"I remain one of the poorer members of the United States Senate."

By Louis Jacobson • April 15, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on April 11, 2016 in a rally in Rome, N.Y.:

"My numbers are better right now than Ronald Reagan's numbers were with Jimmy Carter."

By Louis Jacobson • April 14, 2016

Hillary Clinton
stated on April 11, 2016 in an event in Port Washington, N.Y.:

"The state that has the highest per capita number of … guns that end up committing crimes in New York come from Vermont."

By Louis Jacobson • April 12, 2016

Tom Price
stated on March 28, 2016 in a post on Medium:

Says the Congressional Budget Office "is expecting a protracted economic malaise for at least the next decade under current policies."

By Louis Jacobson • April 11, 2016

Tom Price
stated on March 28, 2016 in a Medium post:

A study "from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard, and Dartmouth concluded that Medicaid’s value to its beneficiaries is significantly lower than the actual cost of the program."

By Louis Jacobson • April 8, 2016

Rick Scott
stated on April 5, 2016 in a confrontation with a customer at a Gainesville, Fla., Starbucks:

"We got a million jobs."

By Louis Jacobson • April 6, 2016

Bernie Sanders
stated on April 3, 2016 in an interview with CNN's Jake Tapper:

Says his campaign has released his past tax returns.

By Louis Jacobson • April 6, 2016

Barack Obama
stated on March 23, 2016 in a Medium post:

The "rate of uninsured Americans (is) 8.8 percent."

By Louis Jacobson • April 5, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on March 21, 2016 in a speech to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee:

"During the last five years, Iran has perpetrated terror attacks in 25 different countries on five continents."

By Louis Jacobson • March 22, 2016

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