All Mostly True statements involving John McCain

Number could change, but correct

John McCain

"30,000 Arizonans may have no choice" on Affordable Care Act coverage.

— PolitiFact Arizona on Friday, June 10th, 2016

From Russia with love

John McCain

"Today Russia holds many of our most precious national security satellites at risk before they ever get off the ground."

— PolitiFact Arizona on Friday, January 29th, 2016

Obama publicly wanted the full withrawal

John McCain

Says President Obama "has never made a statement ... that he wanted a residual force left (in Iraq)."

— PolitiFact National on Friday, September 12th, 2014

Some big names were for it

John McCain

"(Obama's) entire national security team, including his secretary of state, said we want to arm and train and equip (Syrian rebel forces), and he made the unilateral decision to turn them down."

— PolitiFact National on Thursday, September 11th, 2014

Meet the McCain

John McCain

Says he holds the record for "most appearances on 'Meet the Press'."

— PolitiFact National on Wednesday, August 27th, 2014

All five were rated as "high" risks by U.S. officials

John McCain

The five Taliban detainees being released from Guantanamo in exchange for captured Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl "are the hardest of the hard-core. These are the highest high-risk people."

— PolitiFact National on Monday, June 2nd, 2014

Projects were tucked in massive appropriations bills

John McCain

As a Congressman, J.D. Hayworth was an avid earmarker who supported such pork as "$220,000 to renovate a Maine Blueberry farm" and "$5.8 million for a Vermont snowmobile trail."

— PolitiFact National on Friday, July 16th, 2010

Yes, but Obama voted for overall package

John McCain

As a senator, Barack Obama supported "an amendment that basically gutted the legal temporary worker program."

— PolitiFact National on Wednesday, July 7th, 2010

Based on cost to taxpayers, he's right

John McCain

A new presidential helicopter "is now going to cost as much as Air Force One."

— PolitiFact National on Friday, February 27th, 2009

Different statements, different numbers

John McCain

Barack Obama said "people making less than $250,000 would benefit from his plan" then said "if you're a family making less than $200,000, you'll benefit."

— PolitiFact National on Wednesday, October 29th, 2008

Closer to 40 percent than 50 percent

John McCain

Between 40 and 50 percent of tax filers do not owe any income tax.

— PolitiFact National on Monday, October 20th, 2008

Obama's been critical of NAFTA

John McCain

"Obama said he would unilaterally renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement."

— PolitiFact National on Wednesday, October 15th, 2008

The idea is old, but the plan is McCain's

John McCain

A mortgage buyback plan is "my proposal, it's not Sen. Obama's proposal, it's not President Bush's proposal."

— PolitiFact National on Thursday, October 9th, 2008

McCain right on amount of Obama's pork requests

John McCain

"He has asked for $932-million of earmark pork-barrel spending, nearly a million dollars for every day that he’s been in the United States Senate."

— PolitiFact National on Friday, September 26th, 2008

Bear study funding actually undersold

John McCain

"You know, we spent $3-million to study the DNA of bears in Montana."

— PolitiFact National on Friday, September 26th, 2008

Their employees have donated

John McCain

Barack Obama got more campaign contributions from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac "than any other member of Congress, except for the Democratic chairmen of the committee that oversees them."

— PolitiFact National on Friday, September 19th, 2008

McCain's got Obama over a pork barrel

John McCain

"Obama has asked for $932-million in earmarks, literally $1-million for every day that he’s been in Congress."

— PolitiFact National on Tuesday, September 16th, 2008

He butted heads with Big Pharma

John McCain

John McCain "took on the drug industry."

— PolitiFact National on Tuesday, September 9th, 2008

McCain's bear story is no bull

John McCain

"We spent $3-million of your money to study the DNA of bears."

— PolitiFact National on Monday, August 25th, 2008

McCain hits the mark on Georgian history, more or less

John McCain

"It (Georgia) was one of the earliest Christian nations. The king of then-Georgia in the third century converted to Christianity."

— PolitiFact National on Tuesday, August 19th, 2008

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