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Newt Gingrich

Newt Gingrich

Newt Gingrich is a political adviser and author. A former Georgia congressman, Gingrich served as Speaker of the House of Representatives from 1995 to 1999. Gingrich sought the GOP nomination for president in 2012.

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Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on September 29, 2022 in On Fox News:
Pennsylvania Senate candidate John Fetterman’s tattoo references ‘heroin use’ and the Crips
Mostly False
By Michael Majchrowicz • October 5, 2022
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on July 23, 2017 in an interview on Fox News:
In economic growth, "Obama's best year was slower than Bill Clinton's worst year."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • July 27, 2017
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on June 27, 2017 in an appearance on 'Fox & Friends':
Under the House health care bill, Medicaid spending "actually goes up 20 percent over the next 10 years."
Half-True
By Joshua Gillin • June 28, 2017
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on May 21, 2017 in an episode of "Fox and Friends":
Democratic National Committee staffer Seth Rich "apparently was assassinated at 4 in the morning, having given WikiLeaks something like 53,000 emails and 17,000 attachments. ... It turns out, it wasn’t the Russians."
Pants on Fire!
By Lauren Carroll • May 23, 2017
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on December 2, 2016 in a radio interview.:
"We adopted the modern Social Security system at a time when the average person died before they were old enough to get Social Security."
True
By Warren Fiske • December 12, 2016
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on November 6, 2016 in comments on "Meet the Press":
"There’s a section in the Constitution called the Emoluments Clause that says no one, nor their spouses, can take money from foreigners. (Hillary Clinton) has to be guilty of 70 or 100 counts just on that one charge."
Mostly False
By Lauren Carroll, Tyler Adkisson • November 6, 2016
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on October 25, 2016 in an interview with Fox News' Megyn Kelly:
In the Paula Jones case, Bill Clinton paid an "$850,000 penalty."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • October 27, 2016
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on September 19, 2016 in in a Facebook post and video:
Hillary Clinton said, "with a straight face, that the terrorist attacks this weekend were caused by Donald J. Trump"
Half-True
By Jim Tharpe • September 23, 2016
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on July 20, 2016 in a speech at the Republican convention:
Says "Hillary (Clinton) wants to increase the number (of Syrian refugees) by 500 percent."
Mostly True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr., Miriam Valverde • July 21, 2016
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on July 20, 2016 in a speech at the Republican National Convention:
"Just 9 percent of Muslims in Pakistan view ISIS favorably. Unfortunately, that 9 percent is 16 million people. And that’s just one country."
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • July 21, 2016
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on May 27, 2016 in a post on Twitter:
"No one in American history has moved from a June 16 announcement to a May 26 winning of a majority. Trump's achievement is remarkable."
Pants on Fire!
By Aaron Sharockman • May 27, 2016
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on May 15, 2016 in an interview on "Fox News Sunday":
"The Chinese last year probably stole $360 billion in intellectual property from the United States."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • May 17, 2016
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on June 28, 2015 in comments on NBC's "Meet the Press":
Says Amazon has removed "an educational game about Gettysburg." 
Half-True
By Anna Bruzgulis • June 30, 2015
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on April 26, 2015 in comments on ABC's "This Week":
The money the Clinton Foundation took from from foreign governments while Hillary Clinton was secretary of state "is clearly illegal. … The Constitution says you can’t take this stuff."
Mostly False
By Katie Sanders • April 26, 2015
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on January 4, 2015 in an interview on CBS's "Face the Nation":
Says President Barack Obama got "a pass" over controversal remarks by Rev. Jeremiah Wright, while a 12-year-old speech by House Majority Whip Steve Scalise has blown up into a national story.
False
By Jon Greenberg • January 6, 2015
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on July 6, 2014 in interview on ABC's "This Week":
Says Hillary Clinton's health care plan from the 1990s "had a broader provision in favor of corporate right to back out" of providing contraceptive coverage than the one created by the Hobby Lobby Supreme Court decision.
False
By Lauren Carroll • July 8, 2014
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on December 15, 2013 in comments on ABC's "This Week":
"Every major city which has a center of poverty is run by Democrats. Every major city."
Mostly False
By Julie Kliegman • December 15, 2013
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on September 30, 2013 in a comment on CNN's "Crossfire":
Shutdowns are "a normal part of the constitutional process," with 12 shutdowns under Democratic House Speaker Tip O’Neill and two during his own speakership.
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • October 4, 2013
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on September 24, 2013 in on CNN's "Crossfire":
"(Obamacare) is a bill which has never once had a majority of Americans favor it."
Mostly True
By Julie Kliegman • September 26, 2013
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on September 18, 2013 in a discussion on CNN's "Crossfire":
Since 2007, "Texas has gained 440,000 people" while "Maryland has lost 20,000."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • September 20, 2013
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Latest Fact-Checks About Newt Gingrich

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Various media reports 2
stated on November 10, 2016 in news media reports:
Newt Gingrich has been a proponent of selecting a president by popular vote instead of the Electoral College.
True
By Ariella Phillips, Jim Tharpe • November 16, 2016
Red, White and Blue Fund
Red, White and Blue Fund
stated on February 24, 2012 in a campaign ad:
"Gingrich supported individual health insurance mandates."
True
By Molly Moorhead • March 2, 2012
Restore Our Future
Restore Our Future
stated on February 15, 2012 in a television ad:
Newt Gingrich "co-sponsored a bill with Nancy Pelosi that would have given $60 million a year to a U.N. program supporting China’s brutal one-child policy."
Pants on Fire!
By Eric Stirgus • February 15, 2012
Restore Our Future
Restore Our Future
stated on December 14, 2011 in a television ad:
Newt Gingrich "was fined $300,000 for ethics violations."
Mostly True
By Angie Drobnic Holan, Louis Jacobson • February 7, 2012
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on January 25, 2012 in a Spanish-language radio ad:
Says Newt Gingrich said "Spanish is the language of the ghetto."
Mostly True
By Aaron Sharockman • January 25, 2012
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on January 23, 2012 in comments to reporters in Tampa, Fla.:
"(Newt Gingrich) voted in favor of establishing the Department of Education, and yet he gets in a debate and says we should get rid of the Department of Education and send all the education issues back to the states."
Half-True
By Becky Bowers • January 25, 2012
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on January 23, 2012 in a debate in Tampa, Fla.:
"When I was fighting against cap and trade, the speaker was sitting down with Nancy Pelosi on a sofa encouraging it."
Half-True
By Katie Sanders • January 24, 2012
Restore Our Future
Restore Our Future
stated on January 12, 2012 in a television ad:
Says Newt Gingrich "co-sponsored a bill with Nancy Pelosi that would have given $60 million a year to a U.N. program supporting China’s brutal one-child policy."
Pants on Fire!
By Angie Drobnic Holan • January 12, 2012
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on December 20, 2011 in a conference call by a campaign spokesman with New Hampshire reporters.:
"Fifty percent of Speaker Gingrich’s tax plan goes to the top 1 percent."
Mostly True
By Jake Berry • December 28, 2011
Restore Our Future
Restore Our Future
stated on December 20, 2011 in a video ad:
"As speaker, Gingrich even supported taxpayer funding of some abortions."
Half-True
By Molly Moorhead • December 27, 2011
Restore Our Future
Restore Our Future
stated on December 14, 2011 in a video ad:
Newt Gingrich "teamed with Nancy Pelosi and Al Gore on global warming."
True
By Molly Moorhead • December 21, 2011
Michele Bachmann
Michele Bachmann
stated on December 15, 2011 in a Republican presidential primary debate:
Says Newt Gingrich "made an affirmative statement that he would not only support but he would campaign for Republicans who were in support of the barbaric procedure known as partial-birth abortion."
Mostly True
By Molly Moorhead • December 16, 2011
Michele Bachmann
Michele Bachmann
stated on December 15, 2011 in a Republican presidential debate in Sioux City, Iowa:
"After the debate that we had last week, PolitiFact came out and said that everything I said was true."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • December 16, 2011
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on December 7, 2011 in an interview on Fox News:
"Speaker Gingrich has said that we ought to get rid of our child labor laws."
Mostly False
By Molly Moorhead • December 14, 2011
stated on December 9, 2011 in a column in the New York Times:
Newt Gingrich "has suggested" building "a mirror system in space" could improve the Earth’s habitability.
True
By Louis Jacobson • December 12, 2011
Michele Bachmann
Michele Bachmann
stated on December 10, 2011 in a Republican presidential debate in Des Moines, Iowa:
In 1993, Newt Gingrich "first advocated for the individual mandate in health care. And as recently as May of this year, he was still advocating" for it.
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • December 11, 2011
David Axelrod
David Axelrod
stated on December 5, 2011 in an interview on NBC's "The Daily Rundown":
Says Newt Gingrich is responsible for the gridlocked politics of Washington.
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • December 5, 2011
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on November 23, 2011 in a press conference:
Newt Gingrich’s immigration plan offers "a new doorway to amnesty."
Mostly True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • December 2, 2011
Michele Bachmann
Michele Bachmann
stated on November 23, 2011 in an interview:
Says Newt Gingrich "has said that we should make the 11 million illegal workers that are in this country legal."
False
By Eric Stirgus • November 29, 2011
Esquire magazine
Esquire magazine
stated on August 10, 2010 in a magazine profile:
This year, Newt Gingrich "has raised as much money as Mitt Romney, Tim Pawlenty, Sarah Palin, and Mike Huckabee combined."
True
By Willoughby Mariano • August 15, 2010
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