“As Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton laundered money to Bill Clinton through Laureate Education, while Bill Clinton was an honorary chairman of the group. Clinton’s State Department provided $55.2 million in grants to Laureate Education from 2010-2012. Laureate thanked Bill for providing unbelievable access to the Secretary of State by paying him off $16.5 million. […]
Pro-Clinton ads quote Trump’s comments on women and nuclear weapons without context
“This is the Trump theory on war. I’m really good at war. I love war, in a certain way.” “Including with nukes, yes, including with nukes.” –Quotes by Donald Trump used in a political ad by pro-Hillary Clinton group Priorities USA Action Howard Stern: “So you treat women with respect?” Trump: “Uh, I can’t say […]
Fact-checking Donald Trump’s attack on Hillary Clinton
Republican Donald Trump gave a speech on June 22 attacking Democratic rival Hillary Clinton, in back-to-back speeches by the two presumptive presidential nominees aimed at undermining each other’s credentials. A large portion of his speech criticized Clinton’s record as secretary of state and donations given to the Clinton Foundation, as outlined in Peter Schweizer’s book, “Clinton […]
Fact checking Clinton’s speech on Trump’s business practices
Hillary Clinton, the Democratic presumptive presidential nominee, on June 21 gave a speech attacking Donald Trump and his business record. She made a lot of claims, all of which are impressively documented, with links, in a fact sheet issued by the Clinton campaign. Trump certainly has given opposition researchers a wealth of material to mine. […]
Does a known or suspected terrorist face ‘a long waiting period’ before buying a gun?
“It’s already the law right now. If someone is known or suspected as a terrorist, they cannot just walk in and buy a firearm. They have a long waiting period that actually kicks in that the system itself will kick them out. The FBI is pinged on that, and they get some options to be […]
Clinton’s claim of working with Democrats and Republicans to create a child health program
“It’s always been about kids. And when millions could not get health care, this first lady worked with Democrats and Republicans to fix it, creating the Children’s Health Insurance Program ‘so that every child gets the health care they deserve.’ Now 8 million kids are covered. That’s the kind of leader she is — and […]
Fact checking three Democratic claims on assault rifles and guns
“What we know is that in States that have imposed those reasonable limitations, there are less gun crimes. There are less homicides.” –Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), speaking on the Senate floor, June 15 Readers have asked for fact checks of some of the gun rhetoric used by Democrats in the wake of the mass shooting in […]
Trump’s bizarre claim that the administration actively ‘supported’ terror groups
“Media fell all over themselves criticizing what Donald Trump “may have insinuated about @POTUS.” But he’s right” –tweet by Donald Trump, June 15, 2016 On June 13, Donald Trump revoked the credentials of The Washington Post to cover his campaign events because of an article that said he suggested President Obama identified with radicalized Muslims […]
Donald Trump’s almost-true claim that the president has power to ban ‘any class of persons’
“The immigration laws of the United States give the president powers to suspend entry into the country of any class of persons. Now, any class — it really is determined and to be determined by the president for the interests of the United States. And it’s as he or she deems appropriate.” — Donald Trump, […]
Fact checking the Clinton and Trump speeches after Orlando
The presumptive presidential nominees — Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump —gave dueling speeches on June 13 in the aftermath of the Orlando mass shooting. We combed through the speeches to find factual assertions that were worthy of fact checking. There were many more such claims, of dubious provenance, in Trump’s speech, so his […]
Did the Clinton Foundation raise ‘hundreds of millions of dollars’ for a hospital in Haiti that was never built?
“Hillary Clinton…took in hundreds of millions of dollars for a hospital in Haiti that went to the Clinton Foundation, that was never built — that was years ago. Where is that money?” –Donald Trump surrogate Michael Cohen, interview on CNN, June 1, 2016 Cohen, the executive vice president of the Trump Organization and special counsel to […]
Fact Checker video: Donald Trump’s far-reaching but false claim about the Iraq War
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