Claim MS-13 gang members are being deported by the thousands (hundreds)
At a rally speech in Iowa on June 21, President Trump said of MS-13, “They don’t like to shoot people. They like to cut people. They do things that nobody can believe. These are true animals. country by the thousands, by the thousands. We’re getting them out, MS-13.”
Michelle Ye Hee Lee reported for the Washington Post’s Fact Checker that while the Trump administration has increased enforcement against gang activity, deportations “are in the hundreds, not the thousands, under Trump.” The reporters at FactCheck concurred, and quoted Danielle Bennett, a spokesperson for U.S. Immigration and whatsapp lead Customs Enforcement, who said the agency “does not track gang removals by specific gang.”
Claim: People hired for independent Russia investigations are all Hillary supporters (mostly false)
In a recent TV interview, President Trump said “I can say that the people that have been hired (for the independent Russia investigation) are all Hillary Clinton supporters, some of them worked for Hillary Clinton.”
For PolitiFact, Manuela Tobias reported “Three of the eight available Mueller hires made campaign contributions to Clinton, which undermines Trump’s statement that all are Clinton supporters. Furthermore, none of them have worked for Clinton directly. Two represented either the Clinton Foundation or an aide, never her, and working for WilmerHale, which has also represented key members of Trump’s White House.”
You’re grandfathered in if you became a Medicaid recipient under Obamacare (mostly false)
White House adviser Kellyanne Conway said on Sunday about the proposed GOP health care legislation, “If you became a Medicaid recipient through the Obamacare expansion, you are grandfathered in.”