Fact Check Posts – Page 9

Donald Trump
stated on December 7, 2015 in a campaign statement:

Says 25 percent of U.S. Muslims "agreed that violence against Americans here in the United States is justified as a part of the global jihad."

By Lauren Carroll, Louis Jacobson • December 9, 2015

Joe Scarborough
stated on December 4, 2015 in on MSNBC's "Morning Joe":

In the weekend after the terrorist attacks in Paris, the White House said "this couldn't happen in the United States. ISIS couldn't reach us here."

By Lauren Carroll • December 8, 2015

Marco Rubio
stated on December 6, 2015 in an interview on CNN's "State of the Union":

"There are over 700,000 Americans on some watch list or another that would all be captured" in a Democratic amendment intended to stop suspected terrorists from buying guns.

By Lauren Carroll • December 6, 2015

Bill Maher
stated on October 2, 2015 in an episode of HBO's "Real Time with Bill Maher":

"15 years ago, cancer drugs cost an average of $10,000 a year. Now it’s $10,000 a month."

By Lauren Carroll • December 2, 2015

Hillary Clinton
stated on November 6, 2015 in a Democratic primary forum:

"I spent 18 months putting together the sanctions against Iran so that we could force them to the negotiating table."

By Lauren Carroll • November 23, 2015

Donald Trump
stated on November 21, 2015 in comments during a speech:

"I watched in Jersey City, N.J., where thousands and thousands of people were cheering" as the World Trade Center collapsed.

By Lauren Carroll • November 22, 2015

Hillary Clinton
stated on November 14, 2015 in a debate in Iowa:

"Since we last debated in Las Vegas, nearly 3,000 people have been killed by guns."

By Lauren Carroll • November 17, 2015

Ben Rhodes
stated on November 15, 2015 in comments on ABC's "This Week":

When President Barack Obama said ISIS, or ISIL, was contained, he "was responding very specifically to the geographic expansion of ISIL in Iraq and Syria."

By Lauren Carroll • November 15, 2015

Martin O'Malley
stated on November 14, 2015 in a Democratic debate in Des Moines:

"Net immigration from Mexico last year was zero. Fact-check me."

By Jon Greenberg, Lauren Carroll • November 15, 2015

Donald Trump
stated on November 10, 2015 in the Fox Business Network debate:

Says President Dwight Eisenhower "moved 1.5 million illegal immigrants out of this country."

By Lauren Carroll • November 11, 2015

Rand Paul
stated on November 10, 2015 in a Republican presidential debate:

Income inequality "seems to be worst in cities run by Democrats."

By Lauren Carroll, Louis Jacobson • November 11, 2015

Donald Trump
stated on November 8, 2015 in comments on "State of the Union":

Says that in polls about 2016 candidate leadership skills, he comes out "two and three and four times higher than anybody else."

By Lauren Carroll • November 8, 2015

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

The CNBC debate was supposed to be three hours, and he "renegotiated it down to two hours."

By Lauren Carroll • November 2, 2015

Jeb Bush
stated on November 1, 2015 in comments on "Meet the Press":

"If you look at the three people on the (debate) stage from the United States Senate, all three of them have a combined two bills that became law that they've sponsored."

By Lauren Carroll • November 1, 2015

Ben Carson
stated on October 29, 2015 in a Republican presidential debate:

Among manufacturers with fewer than 50 employees, "the average cost in terms of regulations is $34,000 per employee."

By Lauren Carroll • October 30, 2015

Ben Carson
stated on October 28, 2015 in a Republican presidential debate in Boulder, Colo.:

Says he "didn’t have an involvement with" nutritional supplement company Mannatech.

By Lauren Carroll • October 29, 2015

Hillary Clinton
stated on October 7, 2015 in a town hall-style campaign event in Iowa:

The gun industry is "the only business in America that is wholly protected from any kind of liability."

By Lauren Carroll • October 16, 2015

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

On the Keystone XL pipeline

By Lauren Carroll • October 14, 2015

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

Says as secretary of state she was reserving judgment about the Trans-Pacific Partnership and "hoped it would be the gold standard."

By Lauren Carroll • October 14, 2015

Hillary Clinton
stated on October 7, 2015 in an interview on PBS Newshour:

On the Trans-Pacific Partnership.

By Lauren Carroll • October 8, 2015

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