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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
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
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
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
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
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
Instagram posts
stated on August 6, 2023 in a viral image:

California passed a law “reducing penalties for oral, anal sex with willing children.”

By Tom Kertscher • August 9, 2023
Jack Posobiec
stated on August 1, 2023 in a tweet:

Judge Tanya Chutkan “is the only federal judge in Washington, D.C., who has sentenced Jan. 6 defendants to sentences longer than the government had requested.”

By Madison Czopek • August 2, 2023
TikTok posts
stated on July 15, 2023 in un video en TikTok:

"Biden elimina ‘tráfico sexual de menores’ como una de las prioridades del Departamento de Justicia de su gobierno”.

By Maria Briceño • July 25, 2023
TikTok posts
stated on July 17, 2023 in una publicación en TikTok:

A las personas que van a ver ‘Sound of Freedom’ “en medio de la película se les va la luz, les hacen unas alarmas de bomberos o simplemente dicen que tienen que evacuar”.

By Jeff Cercone • July 25, 2023
David Harris Jr.
stated on July 13, 2023 in an Instagram post:

The U.S. Justice Department removed international child sex trafficking from its "list of offenses that deserve a high degree of attention."

By Tom Kertscher • July 17, 2023
Tim Scott
stated on June 18, 2023 in a TV interview:

“Think about parents who show up at school board meetings. By this DOJ, they’re called domestic terrorists.”

By Sevana Wenn • June 22, 2023
Facebook posts
stated on April 4, 2023 in una publicación en Facebook:

“Joe Biden liberará a reos tras visita de Marco Rubio a El Salvador”.

By Maria Briceño • April 12, 2023
Tim Moore
stated on February 8, 2023 in presentations about his bill:

“One man was actually killed” during 2020 protests of police brutality in Raleigh

By Paul Specht • February 21, 2023
Facebook posts
stated on January 27, 2023 in a Facebook post:

U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar is "facing 40 years in prison and deportation after seven new crimes uncovered."

By Tom Kertscher • February 2, 2023
Facebook posts
stated on February 26, 2023 in a post:

The officers who beat Tyre Nichols targeted him because he was “allegedly dating” one of their wives.

By Madison Czopek • February 2, 2023
John Rich
stated on January 5, 2023 in a Facebook post:

Cellphone data used to arrest the Idaho quadruple-murder suspect proves that criticism of the “2000 Mules” movie’s use of cell data is unfounded.

By Tom Kertscher • January 12, 2023
Tim Michels
stated on October 24, 2022 in News conference:

Tony Evers “wants to let out between 9,000 and 10,000 more” Wisconsin prisoners

By Madeline Heim • November 4, 2022
Ted Budd
stated on October 7, 2022 in a debate:

Cheri Beasley was “encouraging (riots) all across our state and all across our country in 2020.”

By Paul Specht • October 25, 2022

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