“With Ebola, we were talking about it before, you disintegrated. If you got Ebola, that was it. [Coronavirus] is like a flu, and this is a much different situation than Ebola.”
Washington Post rated this: False
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“First of all, what we’re doing is immoral. I know that’s not a phrase they often use in politics, but it’s immoral. Look what he’s doing right — look what this president’s doing right now. Look what people have done before. They’re going to fingerprint food stamp recipients.”
Washington Post rated this: False
“We have a criminal justice system today that is not only broken, it is racist, got more people in jail than any other country on Earth, including China.”
Washington Post rated this: Not the Whole Story
“After he [Mandela] got free and became president, he came to Washington and came to my office. He threw his arms around me and said, ‘I want to say thank you.’ I said, ‘What are you thanking me for, Mr. President?’ He said: ‘You tried to see me. You got arrested trying to see me.’”
Washington Post rated this: Four Pinocchios
“In 1988, I probably lost a race for Congress … because in 1988, I said that we should ban the sale and distribution of assault weapons in this country. That was 30 years ago. Furthermore, I am very proud that today I have a D-minus voting record from the NRA.”
Washington Post rated this: Not the Whole Story
“America has now gained 12,000 new factories under my administration, with thousands upon thousands of plants and factories being planned or built.”
Washington Post rated this: Misleading
“In eight years under the last administration, over 300,000 working-age people dropped out of the workforce. In just three years of my administration, 3.5 million people, working-age people, have joined the workforce.”
Washington Post rated this: Two Pinocchios
“It was a mistake to trust that they weren’t going to go to war. They said they were not going to go to war.”
Washington Post rated this: False
“I was the person who saved preexisting Conditions in your Healthcare, you have it now....I will always protect your Pre-Existing Conditions, the Dems will not!”
Washington Post rated this: Four Pinocchios
“We’re actually taking in more revenue now than we did when we had the higher taxes because the economy’s doing so well.”
Washington Post rated this: Four Pinocchios
“So long as we have a filibuster, nothing gets through the Senate unless it has 60 votes. I was in the Senate back in 2013 when an immigration bill passed, but it only had 54 votes, I think it was, and even though that’s a majority, it wasn’t enough to beat the filibuster.”
Washington Post rated this: Four Pinocchios
“No, I didn’t. I didn’t." [tell Obama not to attack bin Laden]”
Washington Post rated this: Three Pinocchios
“The American military has been completely rebuilt under my administration, at a cost of $2.5 trillion.”
Washington Post rated this: Misleading
“Five hundred thousand Americans, including 30,000 veterans, are sleeping out on the streets today in America.”
Washington Post rated this: False
“Ambassador Sondland testified that I told him: ‘No quid pro quo. I want nothing. I want nothing. I want President Zelensky to do the right thing, do what he ran on.’”
Washington Post rated this: Out of context
“In the 266 days since we sent this bill, about 25,000 people have died from gun violence in our country, 47 percent of them teenagers or children younger than that.”
Washington Post rated this: Four Pinocchios
“The report, actually — and especially when you look into it, and the details of the report — are far worse than anything I would have even imagined. … This was an overthrow of government. This was an attempted overthrow. And a lot of people who were in on it, and they got caught. They got caught red-handed.”
Washington Post rated this: False
“I got NATO countries to pay 530 Billion Dollars a year more, and the U.S. less, and came home to a Fake News Media that mocked me.”
Washington Post rated this: Four Pinocchios
“You actually can impeach a former President.”
Washington Post rated this: Not the whole story
“We cut the black poverty rate by more than half.”
Washington Post rated this: Three Pinocchios