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Latest Fact-Checks On Reince Priebus

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Reince Priebus
stated on July 9, 2017 in an interview:
“It’s an absolute fact” that China and North Korea “have consistently over many, many years” meddled in U.S. elections.  
False
By Tom Kertscher • July 13, 2017
Reince Priebus
stated on January 29, 2017 in an interview:
The seven nations identified in Donald Trump’s travel ban were “identified by the Obama administration as the seven most dangerous countries in the world in regard to harboring terrorists.”
Half-True
By Tom Kertscher • February 7, 2017
Reince Priebus
stated on January 8, 2017 in an interview:
Says Hillary Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta’s email password was “password.”
False
By Tom Kertscher • January 11, 2017
Reince Priebus
stated on December 11, 2016 in comments on "Meet the Press":
“There’s been no conclusive or specific report to say” Russia was trying to muddy the election.
False
By Jon Greenberg • December 11, 2016
Reince Priebus
stated on November 14, 2016 in an interview:
Says Donald Trump’s presidential victory was “an electoral landslide.”    
False
By Tom Kertscher • November 21, 2016
Reince Priebus
stated on November 14, 2016 in an MSNBC interview:
“President-elect Trump’s immigration policies are very similar to policies that are sitting right in the Senate and the House today to temporarily suspend immigration from countries that harbor terrorism, to temporarily suspend immigration from Syria until we get better vetting.”
Mostly True
By Miriam Valverde • November 18, 2016
Reince Priebus
stated on August 29, 2016 in an interview on NBC's Meet the Press:
“Her campaign and her supporters in her campaign were the ones that borne out the birther movement.”  
Half-True
By Allison Graves • August 29, 2016
Reince Priebus
stated on August 28, 2016 in an interview during NBC's Meet the Press:
Says Hillary Clinton “is the one that labeled African-American youth as ‘superpredators.’”
Mostly True
By Allison Graves • August 28, 2016
Reince Priebus
stated on August 23, 2016 in comments on "The Mike Gallagher Show":
“The fact is” the Clinton Foundation has “got about 80 percent in overhead and 20 percent of the money is actually getting into the places it should.”
False
By Aaron Sharockman • August 25, 2016
Reince Priebus
stated on July 21, 2016 in a speech:
Says Hillary Clinton’s Iran nuclear deal “lined the pockets of the world’s number one state sponsor of terrorism with your money.”
Mostly False
By Tom Kertscher • July 29, 2016
Reince Priebus
stated on July 17, 2016 in an interview on "Meet the Press":
Says no one from the Bush family attended the 2012 Republican National Convention and “there was no President Bush” at the 2008 convention.
False
By Allison Graves, Neelesh Moorthy • July 17, 2016
Reince Priebus
stated on July 17, 2016 in comments on "Meet the Press":
“What the facts say” is … “the best scenario for kids is a loving mom and dad.”
False
By Lauren Carroll • July 17, 2016
Reince Priebus
stated on April 12, 2015 in an interview:
In recent polling in battleground states, a “majority of the people” said Hillary Clinton “is untrustworthy.”
Half-True
By Tom Kertscher • April 21, 2015
Reince Priebus
stated on April 12, 2015 in an interview:
Says Hillary Clinton took “money from kings of Saudi Arabia and Morocco and Oman and Yemen.”  
Half-True
By Tom Kertscher • April 20, 2015
Reince Priebus
stated on December 2, 2014 in a speech:
Says Barack Obama has “the worst record of any president when it comes to putting America deeper in debt.”
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • December 4, 2014
Reince Priebus
stated on July 7, 2014 in a tweet:
“Thanks to #ObamaCare, average E.R. wait in California is 5 hours.”
False
By Louis Jacobson • July 8, 2014
Reince Priebus
stated on June 15, 2014 in interview on "Face the Nation.":
Says Hillary Clinton’s approval rating went from 70 percent to 52 percent in 18 months.
Half-True
By Steve Contorno • June 15, 2014
Reince Priebus
stated on August 26, 2012 in a TV interview:
Mitt Romney “gave away his father’s inheritance.”
True
By Becky Bowers • August 27, 2012
Reince Priebus
stated on June 26, 2012 in an interview:
Says President Barack Obama promised a “pathway to citizenship” to undocumented immigrants and “didn’t deliver jack squat on any of it.”
Mostly True
By Tom Kertscher • July 18, 2012
Reince Priebus
stated on June 5, 2012 in an interview:
Says President Barack Obama wants to raise “the lowest (income) tax rate from 10 to 15 percent.”
False
By Tom Kertscher • June 17, 2012
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