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Threads posts
stated on December 2, 2024 in a post:

Former presidents George H.W. Bush and Jimmy Carter issued pardons to a son and brother, respectively.

By Gideon Hess • December 5, 2024
Threads posts
stated on October 24, 2024 in a Threads post:

“Feds RAID Jay Z & Beyonce Mansion After Diddy LINKS,” arrest couple.

By Jeff Cercone • October 30, 2024
Instagram posts
stated on October 28, 2024 in social media posts:

Photos show federal authorities arrested and charged a clone instead of the real Sean “Diddy” Combs.

By Gideon Hess • October 29, 2024
Eric Hovde
stated on October 8, 2024 in Public appearance:

“Milwaukee is one of the sex trafficking capitals in our country.”

By Ricardo Torres • October 29, 2024
Kari Lake
stated on October 23, 2024 in a press conference:

"Ruben Gallego wanted to defund the police. He actually co-sponsored legislation to defund the police.”

By Mia Osmonbekov • October 25, 2024
Donald Trump
stated on September 20, 2024 in a 2024 campaign ad:

Kamala Harris “supports taxpayer-funded sex changes for prisoners and illegal aliens.”

By Grace Abels • October 18, 2024
TikTok posts
stated on September 18, 2024 in a TikTok video:

“Attorney General Merrick Garland just vetoed charging Ryan Routh with attempted assassination” of Donald Trump.

By Jeff Cercone • September 20, 2024
Donald Trump
stated on July 24, 2024 in a rally in Charlotte, North Carolina:

Kamala Harris “wants to defund the police.”

By Amy Sherman • July 30, 2024
Threads posts
stated on July 14, 2024 in a post on Threads:

Trump campaign rally gunman Thomas Matthew Crooks was “arrested more than once.”

By Ranjan Jindal • July 16, 2024
Viral image
stated on May 30, 2024 in Instagram post:

Video shows a crowd celebrating former President Donald Trump’s conviction.

By Ciara O'Rourke • June 3, 2024
X posts
stated on May 30, 2024 in posts on X:

Photo shows the judges who will hear the appeal of former President Donald Trump’s criminal conviction.

By Madison Czopek • May 31, 2024
Jesse Watters
stated on May 28, 2024 in a segment of "Jesse Watters Primetime" on Fox News:

Judge Juan Merchan “overrules every objection from the defense and sustains every objection from the prosecution” during former President Donald Trump’s New York trial.

By Madison Czopek • May 31, 2024
Facebook posts
stated on April 30, 2024 in a Facebook post:

Hacker Hamza Bendelladj was executed.

By Ciara O'Rourke • May 3, 2024
Viral image
stated on April 22, 2024 in a Threads post:

“Judge Merchan says Trump will be arrested if he misses any day of the trial, even for Barron’s graduation.”

By Ciara O'Rourke • April 29, 2024
Facebook posts
stated on April 17, 2024 in a post on Facebook:

Hunter Biden, “BLM rioters” and “COVID criminals” have “0 indictments”

By Madison Czopek • April 24, 2024
Nancy Mace
stated on March 30, 2024 in a post on X:

“Since Joe Biden took office, crime has skyrocketed across our country.”

By Louis Jacobson • April 3, 2024
Tammy Baldwin
stated on March 7, 2024 in Public appearance:

“We’re facing situations these days where you have to have two officers in the evidence room in case there’s an accidental (fentanyl) exposure.”

By Laura Schulte • March 29, 2024
Cavalier Johnson
stated on February 25, 2024 in X, formerly Twitter:

In Milwaukee, we “never defunded the police.”

By Ricardo Torres • March 15, 2024
Tony Evers
stated on February 11, 2024 in TV interview:

“We're having the largest classes of correctional officers we've ever had before.”

By Sophia Voight • March 6, 2024
Linda Rosenthal
stated on February 6, 2024 in a quote in a news article:

“Each year, more than $1 billion is stolen from” workers in New York state through wage theft.

By Jefrey Canova • February 21, 2024
Kelda Helen Roys
stated on February 1, 2024 in Public appearance:

Minnesota incarcerates “about a third of what Wisconsin does.”

By Laura Schulte • February 14, 2024
TikTok posts
stated on February 5, 2024 in a TikTok video:

Killer Mike arrested at Grammy Awards for not endorsing Joe Biden on “Real Time with Bill Maher.”

By Jeff Cercone • February 5, 2024
TikTok posts
stated on January 4, 2024 in una publicación en TikTok:

"El papa Juan Pablo II aparece varias veces en los vuelos hacia la isla Epstein".

By Marta Campabadal Graus • January 11, 2024
X posts
stated on January 3, 2024 in an X post:

Jimmy Kimmel was on the Jeffrey Epstein list, documents show.

By Jeff Cercone • January 4, 2024
Nick LaLota
stated on November 18, 2023 in a social media post:

Under New York’s Clean Slate Act “violent crimes … will now be automatically sealed after a set time - like they never happened.”

By Jill Terreri Ramos • January 1, 2024
Instagram posts
stated on December 10, 2023 in an Instagram post:

Photo shows a woman named Araceli Hernandez who “was kidnapped by George Floyd and brutally beaten during a home invasion.”

By Loreben Tuquero • December 11, 2023
Facebook posts
stated on November 26, 2023 in a video:

U.S. manual for courts-martial has been recently amended to include civilians.

By Kwasi Gyamfi Asiedu • December 7, 2023
Megyn Kelly
stated on November 15, 2023 in a Facebook post:

“New police bodycam footage” of George Floyd’s arrest “changes the narrative”

By Maria Ramirez Uribe • November 21, 2023
Instagram posts
stated on October 27, 2023 in a video shared on Instagram:

“New court documents reveal that George Floyd died of a fentanyl overdose.”

By Madison Czopek • November 3, 2023
TikTok posts
stated on October 26, 2023 in un video enTikTok:

“Fallecimiento del exmandatario de la presidencia de Honduras" en incendio de cárcel en Nueva York.

By Maria Briceño • November 2, 2023

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