Donald Trump made several false and misleading statements in an hour-long press conference — on Bernie Sanders, Vladimir Putin, Hillary Clinton’s emails and more.
Trump’s Press Conference
Issues: minimum wage
FactChecking the Ninth Democratic Debate
Clinton and Sanders sparred over the minimum wage, campaign contributions, guns and more.
FactChecking the Third Democratic Debate
The Saturday night showdown featured misleading claims on guns, the minimum wage and Wall Street.
Obama and Executive Overreach
The issue of executive overreach from President Obama was debated on “Fox News Sunday,” but on two issues, the rhetoric outpaced the facts.
FlackCheck.org Video: Minimum Wage Hike
What would happen if the federal minimum wage were raised to $10.10 per hour?
Perry Misleads on Jobs
Texas Gov. Rick Perry used grossly misleading statistics to criticize the unemployment picture under President Obama. Perry said there are “90 million people that are out of work” and “more women out of the workforce now than at any time in our history.”
Fast-Food Fortune Teller
You don’t need a fortune teller to know that a business-backed group is twisting its cherry-picked facts in its latest ad attacking any increase in the federal minimum wage. Listen for the tip-off phrase: “up to.”
Eric Cantor, the Fry Cook and the Whopper
Did you hear the story about President Obama and the fry cook? House Majority Leader Eric Cantor did, but he got it wrong.
FactChecking Obama’s SOTU
President Obama put a rosy spin on several accomplishments of his administration in his 2013 State of the Union address. The president claimed that “both parties have worked together to reduce the deficit by more than $2.5 trillion.” But that’s only an estimate of deficit reduction through fiscal year 2022, and it would be lower …
Flipping Through DNC Playbook on Romney
The Democratic National Committee casts Mitt Romney as an untrustworthy flip-flopper in a lengthy Web video, but pads a long list of examples with some falsehoods and distortions. It’s true that Romney has changed or modified his position on some major issues — including abortion, a federal assault weapons ban and Reaganomics, as the DNC says. But the video strains the truth …