“Soon after, I went down to Ground Zero with men who worked for me to try to help in any little way that we could.”
Washington Post rated this: No evidence
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“Dick Cheney’s chief of staff took revenge against my husband and leaked my identity. His name: Scooter Libby.”
Washington Post rated this: Three Pinocchios
“Immediately, the moment it started, I came out against the war at that moment.”
Washington Post rated this: False
“More suicides per month in the U.S. military, returning vets, than people killed in action, by a long shot.”
Washington Post rated this: Not the whole story
“500,000 people go bankrupt every year because they cannot pay their outrageous medical bills.”
Washington Post rated this: Three Pinocchios
“I ran one election, and I won. Happened to be for president.”
Washington Post rated this: False
“We are looking at the USMCA, NAFTA 2.0 trade deal. That would be very important and would add a half a point of GDP and 180,000 new jobs per year if we get that through.”
Washington Post rated this: Three Pinocchios
“You know, watching the debate the other night, with all the Democrat candidates standing so far on the left, I thought that debate stage was going to flip over. … In fact, if you add up every budget-busting proposal they offer — from Medicare-for-all and the Green New Deal — it would actually cost every household in America over $900,000 over the next 10 years.”
Washington Post rated this: Four Pinocchios
“For most of the time, it was the G8, it included Russia, and President Obama didn’t want Russia in because he got outsmarted.”
Washington Post rated this: False
“The biggest middle-class tax cut in a generation, another $500 in your pocket every month, paid for by repealing Donald Trump’s tax breaks for the top 1 percent and the richest corporations in America.”
Washington Post rated this: Three Pinocchios
“I need Medicare to get by. But Senator Collins voted for tax bill that puts Social Security and Medicare in jeopardy, but gives large corporations a big tax break. And then I heard the same corporations gave her over $5 million.”
Washington Post rated this: Three Pinocchios
“In the 40, 50 years of the Endangered Species Act, we’ve recovered very few species. … The act itself hasn’t really been successful in saving very many species.”
Washington Post rated this: Two Pinocchios
“We’ve eliminated a record number of job-killing regulations, giving the average American household $3,000 more to spend every single year.”
Washington Post rated this: Three Pinocchios
“The [criminal justice reform] bill he talks about is a bill that in my — our administration, we passed. We passed that bill that you added onto. That’s the bill, in fact, you passed.”
Washington Post rated this: Two Pinocchios
“5 years ago Michael Brown was murdered by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri.”
Washington Post rated this: Four Pinocchios
“After they [assault weapons ban] passed in 1994, there was a big drop in mass shooting deaths. When the ban expired, they rose again. We must act now.”
Washington Post rated this: Two Pinocchios
“Nationally, the average training for cosmetologists is 11 times longer than the training for emergency medical technicians.”
Washington Post rated this: Two Pinocchios
“Last year, we prosecuted a record number of firearms offenses.”
Washington Post rated this: Depends on Who's Counting
“We lost the state of Michigan because everybody from Republicans to Russians were targeting the suppression of African American voters.”
Washington Post rated this: Four Pinocchios
“Scientists are very clear we don’t have more than 10 years to get this right.”
Washington Post rated this: In dispute