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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
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
"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
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
"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
"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
Students today "take more years to get through" college.
— PolitiFact National on Monday, January 30th, 2012
It wasn't in the law
"Romney signed government-mandated health care with taxpayer-funded abortions."
— PolitiFact National on Thursday, January 19th, 2012
Not anytime recently
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
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
"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
President Barack Obama "has now spent three years proving that he kills jobs in energy, he kills jobs in manufacturing."
Gingrich claim on Bernanke largely inflated
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
Says his Twitter account has 1.3 million followers.
— PolitiFact Georgia on Tuesday, August 9th, 2011
He wishes
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
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