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Clayton Youngman is a fall 2015 intern with PolitiFact.

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Facebook posts
stated on November 13, 2013 in multiple posts:

Barack Obama’s Columbia University ID says he was a foreign student and went by "Barry Soetoro."

By Clayton Youngman • December 9, 2015
Chain email
stated on August 26, 2014 in In a viral YouTube video:

A Muslim immigrant in Michigan can list his second, third or fourth wives as "extended family" and qualify for welfare.

By Clayton Youngman • December 7, 2015
Donald Trump
stated on November 16, 2015 in an interview on MSNBC:

The New York Police Department used to have "surveillance going on in and around mosques in New York City. ... Our mayor totally cut that out."

By Clayton Youngman • November 20, 2015
Donald Trump
stated on November 10, 2015 in the fourth GOP primary debate.:

The Trans-Pacific Partnership "was designed for China to come in, as they always do, through the back door and totally take advantage of everyone."

By Clayton Youngman • November 12, 2015
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."

By Amy Sherman • November 11, 2015
Marco Rubio
stated on November 10, 2015 in the fourth GOP primary debate.:

"Welders make more money than philosophers."

By Clayton Youngman • November 11, 2015
Marco Rubio
stated on October 29, 2015 in an interview on CNN:

"There was never a single shred of evidence presented to anyone" that the attacks in Benghazi, Libya, were "spontaneous, and in fact, the CIA themselves understood that early on."

By Amy Sherman • November 4, 2015
Viral image
stated on October 22, 2015 in a shareable graphic on the Web:

Says Denmark’s suicide rate has been about twice as high as the United States’ over the past five decades.

By Clayton Youngman • October 23, 2015
Hillary Clinton
stated on October 5, 2015 in on NBC's Today Show:

"There have been seven investigations (of Benghazi) led mostly by Republicans in the Congress" that concluded "nobody did anything wrong, but there were changes we could make."

By Clayton Youngman • October 12, 2015
Bernie Sanders
stated on September 22, 2015 in a tweet:

The largest low-wage employer "is not McDonalds or Walmart but the U.S. government."

By Clayton Youngman • September 29, 2015