Here are 7 times GOP candidates told outrageous lies during the Fox Business debate
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Even with that cozy dynamic, the GOP candidates dropped some whoppers in Milwaukee. Here are seven of the wildest lies and distortions candidates offered during Tuesday’s presidential debate:
1. Carly Fiorina claimed she had met privately with Russian President Vladimir Putin, which she apparently has, but she said it was “not in a green room for a show.” Her statement was intended as a slap at Donald Trump, who had bragged that he had been “stablemates” with Putin when they appeared on the same episode of “60 Minutes.” Fiorina included a nifty dodge in her claim; she did, as she’s previously stated, meet the Russian leader in a green room — but it was before a 2001 conference they both spoke at, so not technically a show.
2. Marco Rubio claimed “welders make more money than philosophers” to promote vocational training over liberal arts education. However, according to the salary database PayScale.com, the average annual salary for graduates with a bachelor’s degree in philosophy is $97,000 — while graduates with an associates degree in welding technology earn just $58,500....
4. Mike Huckabee, also during the early debate, claimed that only one in five migrants who went to Europe from the Middle East was “actually Syrian.” However, the former Arkansas governor was citing data from a three-month period before Syrian refugees began pouring into Europe as they fled civil war. Those refugees whose motives Huckabee questioned did, in fact, come from other war-torn countries and did not actually claim to be Syrian. Overall, Syrian refugees make up half of those who have fled this year to Europe. Bizarrely, Huckabee also claimed that only the United States was being asked to take in Syrian refugees.
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