Fact Check Posts – Page 8

Ben Carson
stated on November 10, 2015 in the fourth GOP debate.:

"The Chinese are there" in Syria.

By Linda Qiu • November 15, 2015

Chris Christie
stated on November 10, 2015 in the fourth GOP undercard debate.:

The Democrats plan "to raise your tax rates to 70 or 80 percent."

By Linda Qiu • November 12, 2015

Mike Huckabee
stated on November 10, 2015 in the fourth undercard GOP debate. :

"Only one out of five of the so-called ‘Syrian refugees’ who went into Europe were actually Syrian."

By Linda Qiu • November 11, 2015

Bobby Jindal
stated on November 10, 2015 in the fourth GOP undercard debate.:

"There’s only one of us who’s actually cut government spending -- not two, there’s one and you’re looking at him."

By Linda Qiu • November 11, 2015

Martin O'Malley
stated on November 6, 2015 in the First in the South Democratic Presidential forum.:

"When President Obama was running for re-election … Senator Sanders was trying to find someone to primary him."

By Linda Qiu • November 10, 2015

Ben Carson
stated on November 8, 2015 in comments on ABC's "This Week":

"Go look on the West Point website and you’ll see those specific words, ‘full scholarship to West Point.’ So even though it is, you know, given as a grant for anybody who gets in, those words are used."

By Linda Qiu • November 8, 2015

Donald Trump
stated on October 28, 2015 in the third GOP primary debate.:

Says his plan would cut taxes without increasing the deficit.

By Linda Qiu • November 5, 2015

Ben Carson
stated on October 28, 2015 in the third GOP primary debate.:

Says his tax plan wouldn't leave the federal government with a $1.1 trillion hole.

By Linda Qiu • November 4, 2015

Donald Trump
stated on October 28, 2015 in comments during the CNBC debate.:

Says Ohio Gov. John Kasich "got lucky with a thing called fracking," which "is why Ohio is doing well."

By Linda Qiu • November 2, 2015

Carly Fiorina
stated on November 1, 2015 in comments on "Fox News Sunday":

"We have record numbers of people living in poverty."

By Linda Qiu • November 1, 2015

Marco Rubio
stated on October 28, 2015 in the CNBC GOP presidential debate:

In 2008, then-Sen. Barack Obama "missed 60 or 70 percent of his votes." In 2004, John Kerry missed "close to 60 to 70 percent" and Bob Graham missed "over 30 percent of his votes."

By Amy Sherman, Linda Qiu • October 29, 2015

Donald Trump
stated on October 25, 2015 in comments on ABC's "This Week":

Because of Obamacare "people’s premiums ... are going up 35, 45, 55 percent."

By Linda Qiu • October 25, 2015

Martin O'Malley
stated on October 19, 2015 in comments on the Daily Show:

Says Hillary Clinton "couldn't bring herself to say we need to separate commercial banking and speculative banking, namely reinstating Glass-Steagall."

By Linda Qiu • October 22, 2015

Donald Trump
stated on October 14, 2015 in comments at a rally.:

Says Bernie Sanders is going to "tax you people at 90 percent."

By Linda Qiu • October 20, 2015

Hillary Clinton
stated on October 13, 2015 in the first Democratic debate:

"Sen. Sanders did vote five times against the Brady bill."

By Linda Qiu • October 14, 2015

Dave Brat
stated on October 11, 2015 in comments on "Meet the Press":

Says Republican Rep. Charlie Dent wants to kick the Freedom Caucus out of the Republican conference "for voting our conscience."

By Linda Qiu • October 11, 2015

Hillary Clinton
stated on October 5, 2015 in her gun policy platform.:

"While 38 percent of (firearms) dealers that were inspected in 2011 were noncompliant with federal law, only 0.05 percent of inspected dealers had their licenses revoked."

By Linda Qiu • October 8, 2015

Viral image
stated on October 1, 2015 in a Facebook post:

Number of Americans killed by terrorism in the last decade: 24. Number of Americans killed by guns in the last decade: 280,024.

By Linda Qiu • October 5, 2015

Mark Kelly
stated on October 4, 2015 in an interview on "State of the Union":

"We sell 40 percent of our guns without a background check."

By Linda Qiu • October 4, 2015

Jason Chaffetz
stated on September 29, 2015 in a Congressional hearing.:

In 2006, Planned Parenthood performed more prevention services and cancer screenings than abortions, but in 2013, there were more abortions.

By Linda Qiu • October 1, 2015

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