Latest Mostly False Fact-checks on Ben Carson 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 Ben Carson stated on May 21, 2019 in a tweet: More than 100,000 people are waiting for public housing in Houston and people who are in the country illegally are taking their spaces. Ben Carson stated on January 28, 2016 in a Republican debate: "Last year, there were an additional 81,000 pages of government regulations. If you stack that up, it would be a three-story building." Ben Carson stated on November 16, 2015 in an official statement posted on Facebook.: "There is currently no ability to vet these people," referring to Syrian refugees. Ben Carson stated on November 10, 2015 in the Fox Business Network debate: Says Hillary Clinton told her daughter and a government official that Benghazi "was a terrorist attack, and then tells everybody else that it was a video." Ben Carson stated on September 25, 2015 in Values Voter Summit: When ICE releases illegal immigrants, "a lot of those people are not from Honduras and Mexico. They’re from Iraq and Somalia and Russia." Ben Carson stated on September 27, 2015 in an interview on ABC's "This Week": "We've had examples like in Yuma County, where we've been able to stop 97 percent of the illegal (immigration) flow, and those programs, they abolish." Ben Carson stated on September 22, 2015 in an interview with Fox's "The Kelly File": There is not "one of the Muslim nations" that doesn't have "discrimination against women, discrimination against gays, subjugation of other religious beliefs." Ben Carson stated on April 6, 2015 in a speech in Manchester N.H.: "We spent twice as much per capita for health care in this country as the next closest nation."
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Ben Carson stated on May 21, 2019 in a tweet: More than 100,000 people are waiting for public housing in Houston and people who are in the country illegally are taking their spaces. Ben Carson stated on January 28, 2016 in a Republican debate: "Last year, there were an additional 81,000 pages of government regulations. If you stack that up, it would be a three-story building." Ben Carson stated on November 16, 2015 in an official statement posted on Facebook.: "There is currently no ability to vet these people," referring to Syrian refugees. Ben Carson stated on November 10, 2015 in the Fox Business Network debate: Says Hillary Clinton told her daughter and a government official that Benghazi "was a terrorist attack, and then tells everybody else that it was a video." Ben Carson stated on September 25, 2015 in Values Voter Summit: When ICE releases illegal immigrants, "a lot of those people are not from Honduras and Mexico. They’re from Iraq and Somalia and Russia." Ben Carson stated on September 27, 2015 in an interview on ABC's "This Week": "We've had examples like in Yuma County, where we've been able to stop 97 percent of the illegal (immigration) flow, and those programs, they abolish." Ben Carson stated on September 22, 2015 in an interview with Fox's "The Kelly File": There is not "one of the Muslim nations" that doesn't have "discrimination against women, discrimination against gays, subjugation of other religious beliefs." Ben Carson stated on April 6, 2015 in a speech in Manchester N.H.: "We spent twice as much per capita for health care in this country as the next closest nation."
Ben Carson stated on May 21, 2019 in a tweet: More than 100,000 people are waiting for public housing in Houston and people who are in the country illegally are taking their spaces.
Ben Carson stated on January 28, 2016 in a Republican debate: "Last year, there were an additional 81,000 pages of government regulations. If you stack that up, it would be a three-story building."
Ben Carson stated on November 16, 2015 in an official statement posted on Facebook.: "There is currently no ability to vet these people," referring to Syrian refugees.
Ben Carson stated on November 10, 2015 in the Fox Business Network debate: Says Hillary Clinton told her daughter and a government official that Benghazi "was a terrorist attack, and then tells everybody else that it was a video."
Ben Carson stated on September 25, 2015 in Values Voter Summit: When ICE releases illegal immigrants, "a lot of those people are not from Honduras and Mexico. They’re from Iraq and Somalia and Russia."
Ben Carson stated on September 27, 2015 in an interview on ABC's "This Week": "We've had examples like in Yuma County, where we've been able to stop 97 percent of the illegal (immigration) flow, and those programs, they abolish."
Ben Carson stated on September 22, 2015 in an interview with Fox's "The Kelly File": There is not "one of the Muslim nations" that doesn't have "discrimination against women, discrimination against gays, subjugation of other religious beliefs."
Ben Carson stated on April 6, 2015 in a speech in Manchester N.H.: "We spent twice as much per capita for health care in this country as the next closest nation."
