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Friday, March 4, 2016

"... wrap-up of false and misleading claims in the 11th debate ..." In other words, lies, lies, and more lies.

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COMMENTS:
*  It's too bad that ALL candidates, regardless of party affiliation, cannot be held accountable for the accuracy of their claims. Of course mistakes will be made but the obvious deviation from the truth is unacceptable.
*  The facts are trump tells lies 73% of every claim.
*  All politicians lie. It's the only way to stay alive in that business. But Trump's entire platform is built on nothing BUT lies (and slogans). And his lies aren't even calculated--they roll off his tongue without even a thought. It's quite remarkable.
*  Fact, the GOP is scheming to construct a brokered convention for the purpose of denying the American people democracy. Perhap the Department of Justice should look into this?
*  This has become a complete and total joke. We (America) has become a joke everywhere. We have Republicans trying to get the nomination and we hear very little about the hows and why this will happen. All we get a short sentences, and from Trump it is usually 2 or 3 words and not real information on how. The debates, if you call it that, are nasty and rude to each other and they constantly interrupt each other. ANd last night it hit a new low when it got into discussions of personal body parts. As BTW, Trump is wrong when he says that the military will do whatever he says as he says it as a threat! This is not how we are supposed to select nominees.
    *  Republicans lip and leap before they look .When they get caught they think more lips and more lies will save them. How dumb are you ?
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Fact check: The Detroit Republican debate
By Eugene Kiely, Brooks Jackson, Lori Robertson, D’Angelo Gore and Vanessa Schipani, March 4, 2016

Our wrap-up of false and misleading claims in the 11th debate includes:

• Sen. Marco Rubio said businessman Donald Trump inherited $100 million from his father for his business, while Trump said he started with only $1 million. Both are stretching the facts.

Trump claimed the government could save “hundreds of billions of dollars in waste” through negotiating prescription drug prices. But that’s well above the entire yearly spending for Medicare Part D.

Trump grossly exaggerated the U.S. trade deficit with China, and falsely claimed that the U.S. runs a trade deficit with “every country.”

• Sen. Ted Cruz claimed that a study showed the 1994 assault weapons ban “did nothing to reduce violent crime.” Not true. The study reported “mixed” results.

Trump repeated a bogus claim that the wife of a 9/11 terrorist left the U.S. two days prior to the 2001 attacks and that she “knew exactly what was happening.”

Trump said he was “always against going into Iraq.” He was an early critic of the war, but there is no record of him speaking against the war before it started.

Trump claimed that Trump University has an “A” rating from the Better Business Bureau, but the last rating we could find was a “D-.”

Rubio and Trump disagreed on whether Trump had “expressed admiration” for Russian President Putin. Trump had said it was “a great honor” to be complimented by the “highly respected” Putin.

Trump falsely claimed that Rubio was the first person who ever disparaged the size of Trump’s hands. Vanity Fair‘s editor did so more than 25 years ago.

And Trump, Cruz and Ohio Gov. John Kasich all repeated claims we’ve fact-checked before.

Fox News hosted the March 3 debate in Detroit between Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio and John Kasich.

Rubio/Trump on Trump’s Inheritance

[snipped]

Trump on Medicare Drug Savings

[snippped]

Trump on Trade

[snipped]

Cruz on Assault Weapons Ban

[snipped]

Trump on 9/11 Terrorist’s Wife

[snipped]

Trump’s Position on Iraq

[snippped]

Trump on Trump University

[snipped]

Admiration for Putin?

[snipped]

Trump’s Hands

[snipped]

Repeats Repeated Again

Trump, Cruz and Kasich repeated these claims that we have heard before:

Trump falsely claimed he is beating Clinton “very, very easily” in a “recent” Fox News poll, when in fact the most recent poll released Feb. 18 showed Clinton ahead, 47%-42%. He also said he is beating her in “many polls,” as he has done before, citing the USA Today/Suffolk University poll and the Quinnipiac University poll. Trump is ahead 45%-43% in the USA TODAY poll, but that is the only one of the 10 most recent polls that shows Trump beating Clinton — and it is within the margin of error. He is trailing Clinton in the last Quinnipiac poll, 44%-43%, which is also within the margin of error.

Kasich said that in Ohio, “We’re up over 400,000 jobs.” As we wrote when he made a similar claim in both the seventh and ninth GOP debatesas well as the 10th — Ohio has gained 400,700 private-sector jobs under Kasich. But the job growth rate in Ohio was 9.3%, lower than the national private-sector growth rate of 11.7%.

Cruz claimed that the Affordable Care Act was “the biggest job-killer in America.” In the last debate, he said the law had “killed millions of jobs,” as he also said in the seventh debate. But the economy has actually gained millions of jobs since Obama signed the ACA into law, and it has added 2.4 million since January 2015 when the employer mandate went into effect.

For a full list of sources, see FactCheck.org.
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