Latest Fact-checks in National Clear Any Rating True Mostly True Half True Mostly False False Pants on Fire Full Flop Half Flip No Flip Any Speaker Any Date Range Last 3 Months Last 6 Months Last 12 Months 2025 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 Any Category Michele Bachmann stated on October 18, 2011 in a Republican presidential primary debate: President Obama’s uncle and aunt "are illegal aliens ... who've been allowed to stay in this country." Michele Bachmann stated on October 18, 2011 in a Republican presidential debate in Las Vegas: "Obamacare is so flat-out unpopular, that even the Obama administration chose to reject part of Obamacare last Friday, when they tried to throw out the CLASS Act, which is the long-term care function." Michele Bachmann stated on October 18, 2011 in a Republican presidential debate in Las Vegas: "We saw the president of the United States engage American troops in a fourth conflict in a foreign land. This is historic." Mitt Romney stated on October 18, 2011 in a Republican presidential debate in Las Vegas: "Over the last several years, 40 percent (of) the jobs created in Texas were created for illegal aliens." Herman Cain stated on October 18, 2011 in a debate in Las Vegas: The 9-9-9 plan "does not raise taxes on those that are making the least." Mitt Romney stated on October 18, 2011 in a Republican presidential primary debate: "I don't think I've ever hired an illegal in my life." Michele Bachmann stated on October 18, 2011 in a Republican presidential debate in Las Vegas: "When we got the income tax in 1913, the top rate was 7 percent. By 1980, the top rate was 70 percent." Rick Santorum stated on October 18, 2011 in a Republican presidential primary debate: Says Romney wrote in the first edition of his book that his health care plan should be expanded nationwide and then, "You took it out of your book." Mitt Romney stated on October 18, 2011 in a Republican presidential debate in Las Vegas: Between 2000 and 2010, the illegal immigrant population of Texas increased by 60 percent, while California and Florida had "no increase." Mitt Romney stated on October 18, 2011 in a Republican presidential debate in Hanover, N.H.: "The people in Massachusetts like (the state health care plan) by about a 3-1 margin." Fred Karger stated on October 15, 2011 in an interview with The Guardian: "If a President Romney got a call from the president of the (Mormon church), he has no choice but to obey. It is obedience over family and country." Mitt Romney stated on October 11, 2011 in a debate at Dartmouth College in Hanover, N.H.: Says Barack Obama "never worked in the private sector" before he was elected president. Joe Pitts stated on October 5, 2011 in a Capitol Hill press conference: The health care law was "a 2,733-page bill! . . . No amendments!" Occupy Wall Street stated on October 5, 2011 in a sign at an Occupy Wall Street protest: "94 percent of winning candidates in 2010 had more money than their opponents." David Axelrod stated on September 27, 2011 in a speech to the New Hampshire Institute of Politics: Says Republicans want to cut education by 25 percent. Mitt Romney stated on October 11, 2011 in a Republican presidential primary debate: Says the National Labor Relations Board told Boeing that it "can't build a factory in a non-union state." Rick Perry stated on October 10, 2011 in a campaign ad: "Romneycare has … killed 18,000 Massachusetts jobs." Mitt Romney stated on October 11, 2011 in a Republicam debate in Hanover, N.H.: When George W. Bush was governor of Texas, "the percentage uninsured went down." Under his successor, Rick Perry, "it's gone up." Rick Santorum stated on October 11, 2011 in a Republican presidental primary debate: The poverty rate for families in which a husband and a wife work is 5 percent, but in families headed by one person … "it's 30 percent today." Jon Huntsman stated on October 11, 2011 in a Republican presidential debate in Hanover, N.H.: "The IRS is already planning on 19,500 new employees to administer" Obama’s health care mandate. Herman Cain stated on October 12, 2011 in an interview on MSNBC: "Every worker pays 15.3 percent payroll tax." Mitt Romney stated on October 11, 2011 in a Republican presidential debate in Hanover, N.H.: Massachusetts has "less than 1 percent of our kids that are uninsured. You (Gov. Perry) have a million kids uninsured in Texas." Michele Bachmann stated on October 11, 2011 in a debate in New Hampshire: "These 15 political appointees (on the IPAB) will make all the major health care decisions for over 300 million Americans." Jon Huntsman stated on October 11, 2011 in a Republican presidential debate in Hanover, N.H.: "I created a flat tax in the state of Utah. It took that state to the number-one position in terms of job creation." Rick Perry stated on October 11, 2011 in Republican presidential primary debate: Says he "came to the Republican Party sooner in age" than Ronald Reagan. Michele Bachmann stated on October 11, 2011 in Republican presidential primary debate: "Our government right now. . . (is) spending 40 percent more than what we take in." Mitt Romney stated on October 11, 2011 in a Republican presidential debate in Hanover, N.H.: In the early 1960s, all levels of government were "consuming about 27 percent of the U.S. economy," a number that has risen to 37 percent today. With that trendline, "we cease at some point to be a free economy." Occupied Wall Street Journal stated on October 5, 2011 in an article: "More than 25 million Americans are unemployed. More than 50 million live without health insurance. Perhaps 100 million live in poverty." Facebook posts stated on October 10, 2011 in postings on Facebook, blogs, and social-media sites: Say the ratio of CEO pay to average worker pay in the U.S. is 475 to 1. Barack Obama stated on October 6, 2011 in a press conference at the White House: The Arab Spring … "drove up gas prices."
Clear Any Rating True Mostly True Half True Mostly False False Pants on Fire Full Flop Half Flip No Flip Any Speaker Any Date Range Last 3 Months Last 6 Months Last 12 Months 2025 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 Any Category
Michele Bachmann stated on October 18, 2011 in a Republican presidential primary debate: President Obama’s uncle and aunt "are illegal aliens ... who've been allowed to stay in this country." Michele Bachmann stated on October 18, 2011 in a Republican presidential debate in Las Vegas: "Obamacare is so flat-out unpopular, that even the Obama administration chose to reject part of Obamacare last Friday, when they tried to throw out the CLASS Act, which is the long-term care function." Michele Bachmann stated on October 18, 2011 in a Republican presidential debate in Las Vegas: "We saw the president of the United States engage American troops in a fourth conflict in a foreign land. This is historic." Mitt Romney stated on October 18, 2011 in a Republican presidential debate in Las Vegas: "Over the last several years, 40 percent (of) the jobs created in Texas were created for illegal aliens." Herman Cain stated on October 18, 2011 in a debate in Las Vegas: The 9-9-9 plan "does not raise taxes on those that are making the least." Mitt Romney stated on October 18, 2011 in a Republican presidential primary debate: "I don't think I've ever hired an illegal in my life." Michele Bachmann stated on October 18, 2011 in a Republican presidential debate in Las Vegas: "When we got the income tax in 1913, the top rate was 7 percent. By 1980, the top rate was 70 percent." Rick Santorum stated on October 18, 2011 in a Republican presidential primary debate: Says Romney wrote in the first edition of his book that his health care plan should be expanded nationwide and then, "You took it out of your book." Mitt Romney stated on October 18, 2011 in a Republican presidential debate in Las Vegas: Between 2000 and 2010, the illegal immigrant population of Texas increased by 60 percent, while California and Florida had "no increase." Mitt Romney stated on October 18, 2011 in a Republican presidential debate in Hanover, N.H.: "The people in Massachusetts like (the state health care plan) by about a 3-1 margin." Fred Karger stated on October 15, 2011 in an interview with The Guardian: "If a President Romney got a call from the president of the (Mormon church), he has no choice but to obey. It is obedience over family and country." Mitt Romney stated on October 11, 2011 in a debate at Dartmouth College in Hanover, N.H.: Says Barack Obama "never worked in the private sector" before he was elected president. Joe Pitts stated on October 5, 2011 in a Capitol Hill press conference: The health care law was "a 2,733-page bill! . . . No amendments!" Occupy Wall Street stated on October 5, 2011 in a sign at an Occupy Wall Street protest: "94 percent of winning candidates in 2010 had more money than their opponents." David Axelrod stated on September 27, 2011 in a speech to the New Hampshire Institute of Politics: Says Republicans want to cut education by 25 percent. Mitt Romney stated on October 11, 2011 in a Republican presidential primary debate: Says the National Labor Relations Board told Boeing that it "can't build a factory in a non-union state." Rick Perry stated on October 10, 2011 in a campaign ad: "Romneycare has … killed 18,000 Massachusetts jobs." Mitt Romney stated on October 11, 2011 in a Republicam debate in Hanover, N.H.: When George W. Bush was governor of Texas, "the percentage uninsured went down." Under his successor, Rick Perry, "it's gone up." Rick Santorum stated on October 11, 2011 in a Republican presidental primary debate: The poverty rate for families in which a husband and a wife work is 5 percent, but in families headed by one person … "it's 30 percent today." Jon Huntsman stated on October 11, 2011 in a Republican presidential debate in Hanover, N.H.: "The IRS is already planning on 19,500 new employees to administer" Obama’s health care mandate. Herman Cain stated on October 12, 2011 in an interview on MSNBC: "Every worker pays 15.3 percent payroll tax." Mitt Romney stated on October 11, 2011 in a Republican presidential debate in Hanover, N.H.: Massachusetts has "less than 1 percent of our kids that are uninsured. You (Gov. Perry) have a million kids uninsured in Texas." Michele Bachmann stated on October 11, 2011 in a debate in New Hampshire: "These 15 political appointees (on the IPAB) will make all the major health care decisions for over 300 million Americans." Jon Huntsman stated on October 11, 2011 in a Republican presidential debate in Hanover, N.H.: "I created a flat tax in the state of Utah. It took that state to the number-one position in terms of job creation." Rick Perry stated on October 11, 2011 in Republican presidential primary debate: Says he "came to the Republican Party sooner in age" than Ronald Reagan. Michele Bachmann stated on October 11, 2011 in Republican presidential primary debate: "Our government right now. . . (is) spending 40 percent more than what we take in." Mitt Romney stated on October 11, 2011 in a Republican presidential debate in Hanover, N.H.: In the early 1960s, all levels of government were "consuming about 27 percent of the U.S. economy," a number that has risen to 37 percent today. With that trendline, "we cease at some point to be a free economy." Occupied Wall Street Journal stated on October 5, 2011 in an article: "More than 25 million Americans are unemployed. More than 50 million live without health insurance. Perhaps 100 million live in poverty." Facebook posts stated on October 10, 2011 in postings on Facebook, blogs, and social-media sites: Say the ratio of CEO pay to average worker pay in the U.S. is 475 to 1. Barack Obama stated on October 6, 2011 in a press conference at the White House: The Arab Spring … "drove up gas prices."
Michele Bachmann stated on October 18, 2011 in a Republican presidential primary debate: President Obama’s uncle and aunt "are illegal aliens ... who've been allowed to stay in this country."
Michele Bachmann stated on October 18, 2011 in a Republican presidential debate in Las Vegas: "Obamacare is so flat-out unpopular, that even the Obama administration chose to reject part of Obamacare last Friday, when they tried to throw out the CLASS Act, which is the long-term care function."
Michele Bachmann stated on October 18, 2011 in a Republican presidential debate in Las Vegas: "We saw the president of the United States engage American troops in a fourth conflict in a foreign land. This is historic."
Mitt Romney stated on October 18, 2011 in a Republican presidential debate in Las Vegas: "Over the last several years, 40 percent (of) the jobs created in Texas were created for illegal aliens."
Herman Cain stated on October 18, 2011 in a debate in Las Vegas: The 9-9-9 plan "does not raise taxes on those that are making the least."
Mitt Romney stated on October 18, 2011 in a Republican presidential primary debate: "I don't think I've ever hired an illegal in my life."
Michele Bachmann stated on October 18, 2011 in a Republican presidential debate in Las Vegas: "When we got the income tax in 1913, the top rate was 7 percent. By 1980, the top rate was 70 percent."
Rick Santorum stated on October 18, 2011 in a Republican presidential primary debate: Says Romney wrote in the first edition of his book that his health care plan should be expanded nationwide and then, "You took it out of your book."
Mitt Romney stated on October 18, 2011 in a Republican presidential debate in Las Vegas: Between 2000 and 2010, the illegal immigrant population of Texas increased by 60 percent, while California and Florida had "no increase."
Mitt Romney stated on October 18, 2011 in a Republican presidential debate in Hanover, N.H.: "The people in Massachusetts like (the state health care plan) by about a 3-1 margin."
Fred Karger stated on October 15, 2011 in an interview with The Guardian: "If a President Romney got a call from the president of the (Mormon church), he has no choice but to obey. It is obedience over family and country."
Mitt Romney stated on October 11, 2011 in a debate at Dartmouth College in Hanover, N.H.: Says Barack Obama "never worked in the private sector" before he was elected president.
Joe Pitts stated on October 5, 2011 in a Capitol Hill press conference: The health care law was "a 2,733-page bill! . . . No amendments!"
Occupy Wall Street stated on October 5, 2011 in a sign at an Occupy Wall Street protest: "94 percent of winning candidates in 2010 had more money than their opponents."
David Axelrod stated on September 27, 2011 in a speech to the New Hampshire Institute of Politics: Says Republicans want to cut education by 25 percent.
Mitt Romney stated on October 11, 2011 in a Republican presidential primary debate: Says the National Labor Relations Board told Boeing that it "can't build a factory in a non-union state."
Rick Perry stated on October 10, 2011 in a campaign ad: "Romneycare has … killed 18,000 Massachusetts jobs."
Mitt Romney stated on October 11, 2011 in a Republicam debate in Hanover, N.H.: When George W. Bush was governor of Texas, "the percentage uninsured went down." Under his successor, Rick Perry, "it's gone up."
Rick Santorum stated on October 11, 2011 in a Republican presidental primary debate: The poverty rate for families in which a husband and a wife work is 5 percent, but in families headed by one person … "it's 30 percent today."
Jon Huntsman stated on October 11, 2011 in a Republican presidential debate in Hanover, N.H.: "The IRS is already planning on 19,500 new employees to administer" Obama’s health care mandate.
Herman Cain stated on October 12, 2011 in an interview on MSNBC: "Every worker pays 15.3 percent payroll tax."
Mitt Romney stated on October 11, 2011 in a Republican presidential debate in Hanover, N.H.: Massachusetts has "less than 1 percent of our kids that are uninsured. You (Gov. Perry) have a million kids uninsured in Texas."
Michele Bachmann stated on October 11, 2011 in a debate in New Hampshire: "These 15 political appointees (on the IPAB) will make all the major health care decisions for over 300 million Americans."
Jon Huntsman stated on October 11, 2011 in a Republican presidential debate in Hanover, N.H.: "I created a flat tax in the state of Utah. It took that state to the number-one position in terms of job creation."
Rick Perry stated on October 11, 2011 in Republican presidential primary debate: Says he "came to the Republican Party sooner in age" than Ronald Reagan.
Michele Bachmann stated on October 11, 2011 in Republican presidential primary debate: "Our government right now. . . (is) spending 40 percent more than what we take in."
Mitt Romney stated on October 11, 2011 in a Republican presidential debate in Hanover, N.H.: In the early 1960s, all levels of government were "consuming about 27 percent of the U.S. economy," a number that has risen to 37 percent today. With that trendline, "we cease at some point to be a free economy."
Occupied Wall Street Journal stated on October 5, 2011 in an article: "More than 25 million Americans are unemployed. More than 50 million live without health insurance. Perhaps 100 million live in poverty."
Facebook posts stated on October 10, 2011 in postings on Facebook, blogs, and social-media sites: Say the ratio of CEO pay to average worker pay in the U.S. is 475 to 1.
Barack Obama stated on October 6, 2011 in a press conference at the White House: The Arab Spring … "drove up gas prices."
