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Kevin McCarthy
stated on November 26, 2023 in a speech at the Oxford Union:

“In every single war that America has fought, we have never asked for land afterwards, except for enough to bury the Americans who gave the ultimate sacrifice for that freedom we went in for.”

By Louis Jacobson • November 28, 2023
Isabel Brown
stated on August 23, 2023 in a post on TikTok:

Americans “currently are making less than at the height of the Great Depression.”

By Louis Jacobson • September 7, 2023
Facebook posts
stated on January 18, 2023 in a post:

Black Americans are not descended from people who were taken from Africa to be enslaved.

By Gabrielle Settles • January 31, 2023
Instagram posts
stated on January 22, 2023 in an Instagram post:

The sinking of the Titanic was orchestrated by the Rothschilds and J.P. Morgan to kill prominent businessmen who opposed the creation of the Federal Reserve.

By Samantha Putterman • January 26, 2023
Instagram posts
stated on December 3, 2022 in an Instagram post:

Henry Kissinger’s “deathbed confession” shows “Adolf Hitler was buried in Spain” and lived to age 68.

By Jeff Cercone • December 6, 2022
Ron DeSantis
stated on October 24, 2022 in a gubernatorial debate:

It's not true that "the United States was built on stolen land."

By Yacob Reyes • November 3, 2022
Instagram posts
stated on July 7, 2022 in an Instagram post:

Antarctica has “an entrance to a different world” — a “mythic land” with green forests, giant animals, and “extraterrestrial technologies.”

By Luiz Romero • July 26, 2022
X posts
stated on July 9, 2022 in a Twitter post:

There are no artifacts to prove that slave ships existed.

By Gabrielle Settles • July 13, 2022
Monica Crowley
stated on June 12, 2022 in an interview with Fox News:

Soviet and Chinese communists have “grabbed control” of U.S. entertainment, movies, television, music, academia, K-12 education and the news media.

By Louis Jacobson • June 17, 2022
Dmitry Peskov
stated on February 20, 2022 in an interview with a Russian TV network:

“Russia has never attacked anyone throughout its history.”

By Louis Jacobson • February 21, 2022
Whoopi Goldberg
stated on January 31, 2022 in a TV segment:

"The Holocaust isn't about race. No, it's not about race."

By Bill McCarthy • February 1, 2022
Facebook posts
stated on April 6, 2021 in a Facebook post:

Schools stopped teaching children cursive so they wouldn’t be able to read the U.S. Constitution and other historical documents.

By Samantha Putterman • April 19, 2021
Facebook posts
stated on April 26, 2020 in a Facebook post:

“Joe Biden was involved in a plot to kidnap JFK Jr. according to the just declassified FBI files, and also made several threats."

By Bill McCarthy • April 27, 2020
Viral image
stated on February 9, 2020 in a Facebook post:

“This is a 1927 News Article showing America was sold to five Billionaires The Rothschild’s, Rockefellers, DuPont’s, Harriman’s and Warburg’s.”

By Tom Kertscher • February 11, 2020
Rick Range
stated on December 10, 2019 in a Facebook post:

"George P. Bush to place statue of (Mexican general) Santa Anna at the Alamo."

By Madlin Mekelburg • December 17, 2019
Facebook posts
stated on October 29, 2013 in a Facebook post:

Says former Democratic Sen. Harry Reid has an outlaw horse thief ancestor and Reid’s office offered a spin-job biography about the man.

By Samantha Putterman • December 9, 2019
Facebook posts
stated on October 23, 2019 in a Facebook post:

Says that in 1770 "British parliament banned lipstick, saying it had the power to seduce men into marriage, which was classified as witchcraft."

By Samantha Putterman • October 25, 2019
Facebook posts
stated on September 22, 2019 in a Facebook post:

Says the character Freddy Krueger was based on a real serial killer.

By Samantha Putterman • October 4, 2019
Tucker Carlson
stated on September 10, 2019 in a TV segment:

Says John Bolton "fundamentally was a man of the left."

By Bill McCarthy • September 13, 2019
Facebook posts
stated on August 17, 2019 in a Facebook post:

Quotes George Washington as saying "when any nation mistrusts its citizens with guns … It no longer trusts its citizens because such a government has evil plans."

By Samantha Putterman • September 3, 2019
Viral image
stated on May 21, 2019 in a Facebook post:

A photograph shows Barack Obama bowing to Ayatollah Khamenei.

By Ciara O'Rourke • May 23, 2019
Viral image
stated on May 21, 2019 in a Facebook post:

A photo shows a Trump rally in Pennsylvania, not the Woodstock music festival.

By Ciara O'Rourke • May 22, 2019
Viral image
stated on May 3, 2019 in a Facebook post:

Says Donald Trump scored a 73 on an IQ test administered to him while in high school at New York Military Academy.

By Samantha Putterman • May 14, 2019
Facebook posts
stated on April 22, 2019 in a Facebook post:

Says Hillary Clinton was to be indicted over the Whitewater scandal four days before documents related to the case were destroyed in the Oklahoma City bombing.

By Samantha Putterman • May 1, 2019
Viral image
stated on April 9, 2019 in a Facebook post:

"Shakespeare said: ‘I always feel happy. You know why? Because I don’t expect anything from anyone. Expectations always hurt. Life is short. So love your life. Be Happy. & Keep smiling."

By Ciara O'Rourke • April 26, 2019
Donald Trump
stated on April 23, 2019 in a tweet:

"In the ‘old days’ if you were president and you had a good economy, you were basically immune from criticism."

By Louis Jacobson • April 23, 2019
Facebook posts
stated on March 6, 2019 in a Facebook post:

Says Prince invested in Nike in 1971, recruited Michael Jordan to the company in 1983 and designed the first Air Jordans.

By Samantha Putterman • March 15, 2019
Facebook posts
stated on February 22, 2019 in a Facebook post:

"In 1963 Bernie Sanders was arrested for throwing eggs at black civil rights protestors."

By Amy Sherman • February 25, 2019
Viral image
stated on February 11, 2019 in a Facebook post:

Quotes Robert Mueller as saying, "We must move as quickly as possible to a one-world government; a one-world religion; under a one world leader."

By Ciara O'Rourke • February 14, 2019
Ann Coulter
stated on August 23, 2018 in a tweet:

"The Dutch (Afrikaners) were" in South Africa "first."

By Jon Greenberg • August 27, 2018

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