All Mostly False statements involving Newt Gingrich

Not a slam dunk

"There’s a section in the Constitution called the Emoluments Clause that says no one, nor their spouses, can take money from foreigners. (Hillary Clinton) has to be guilty of 70 or 100 counts just on that one charge."

— PunditFact on Sunday, November 6th, 2016

What's clear is it's not that clear

Newt Gingrich

The money the Clinton Foundation took from from foreign governments while Hillary Clinton was secretary of state "is clearly illegal. … The Constitution says you can’t take this stuff."

— PunditFact on Sunday, April 26th, 2015

Republicans run 3 of the top 20

Newt Gingrich

"Every major city which has a center of poverty is run by Democrats. Every major city."

— PunditFact on Sunday, December 15th, 2013

Not an apples-to-apples comparison

Newt Gingrich

One estimate says there may be "three times as much oil in the United States as there is in Saudi Arabia."

— PolitiFact National on Friday, February 24th, 2012

Nursing home residents kept kosher

Newt Gingrich

"Gov. Romney cut off kosher meals for Jewish senior citizens who were on Medicaid to save $5 a day."

— PolitiFact National on Wednesday, February 1st, 2012

Rule he's speaking of has religious exemption

Newt Gingrich

"The Obama administration ... would impose on every Catholic institution, every Jewish institution, every Protestant institution the Obamacare standard of what you have to buy as insurance."

— PolitiFact National on Tuesday, January 31st, 2012

Actually, four-year completion rates have risen steadily in recent years

Newt Gingrich

Students today "take more years to get through" college.

— PolitiFact National on Monday, January 30th, 2012

It wasn't in the law

Newt Gingrich

"Romney signed government-mandated health care with taxpayer-funded abortions."

— PolitiFact National on Thursday, January 19th, 2012

Not anytime recently

Newt Gingrich

Says Mitt Romney "runs away from Ronald Reagan."

— PolitiFact National on Friday, January 13th, 2012

Ignores long line of precedents and details of case in question

Newt Gingrich

In a watershed 1958 decision, "the Warren court asserted by itself that the Supreme Court was supreme over the president and the Congress."

— PolitiFact National on Tuesday, December 20th, 2011

Gingrich overplays an otherwise fair point

Newt Gingrich

"The only reason the unemployment rate is going down is because … twice as many people dropped out of the employment pool as the number of jobs were created."

— PolitiFact National on Tuesday, December 6th, 2011

Two sectors that have actually done pretty well under Obama

Newt Gingrich

President Barack Obama "has now spent three years proving that he kills jobs in energy, he kills jobs in manufacturing."

— PolitiFact National on Tuesday, December 6th, 2011

Gingrich claim on Bernanke largely inflated

Newt Gingrich

Ben Bernanke has been the most "inflationary" chairman in the history of the Federal Reserve.

— PolitiFact Georgia on Monday, September 12th, 2011

Many tweeps not real peeps

Newt Gingrich

Says his Twitter account has 1.3 million followers.

— PolitiFact Georgia on Tuesday, August 9th, 2011

He wishes

Newt Gingrich

Newt Gingrich’s presidential campaign has "exactly the same" challenges as Ronald Reagan’s successful 1980 bid.

— PolitiFact Georgia on Friday, July 8th, 2011

Bush vetoed the law Dems passed

Newt Gingrich

Democrats in Congress "had control since January of 2007. They haven't passed a law making waterboarding illegal. They haven't gone into any of these things and changed law."

— PolitiFact National on Wednesday, May 13th, 2009

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