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Facebook posts
stated on May 1, 2023 in a Facebook post:

Video shows Ukraine was “nuked.”

By Luiz Romero • May 4, 2023
Instagram posts
stated on October 20, 2022 in a post:

“Ukraine has a nuclear bomb primed in Mykolaiv.”

By Luiz Romero • October 27, 2022
Facebook posts
stated on August 7, 2022 in una publicación en Facebook:

"Urgente! China prepara un ataque nuclear desde el espacio! Nueva York en alerta roja!"

By Nuria Diaz Muñoz • August 9, 2022
Facebook posts
stated on March 1, 2022 in a Facebook post:

“NEW: Biden Admin. instructs Americans to social distance and wear masks in the event of a Nuclear Fallout.”

By Madison Czopek • March 3, 2022
Facebook posts
stated on February 25, 2022 in a post:

Russia unveiled a nuclear weapon, "Satan 2," that is "capable of destroying everything breathing in the world."

By Monique Curet • March 1, 2022
Facebook posts
stated on March 9, 2020 in a Facebook post:

“Sen. Bernie Sanders led the effort to dump Vermont's nuclear waste on a poor Latino community in Texas.”

By Tom Kertscher • March 13, 2020
Viral image
stated on December 29, 2019 in a Facebook post:

Says Bill Clinton "gave nukes to North Korea," Barack Obama "gave nukes to Iran," and Hillary Clinton "gave uranium to Russia."

By Ciara O'Rourke • January 9, 2020
Facebook posts
stated on January 1, 2020 in a Facebook post:

"Iran will be shooting at our soldiers with bullets, etc., purchased with the $150 billion Obama gave them."

By Tom Kertscher • January 7, 2020
William Taylor
stated on November 13, 2019 in impeachment inquiry testimony:

"The Russians are violating all of the rules, treaties, understandings that they committed to that actually kept the peace in Europe for nearly 70 years."

By Tom Kertscher • November 14, 2019
Donald Trump
stated on June 30, 2019 in a press conference in South Korea:

"The Obama administration was begging for a meeting" with Kim Jong Un.

By Jon Greenberg • July 1, 2019
Rachel Siegel
stated on April 8, 2019 in an email to supporters:

"The F-35 bombers, scheduled to arrive in Burlington this fall, have been designated with a nuclear mission."

By Colin Meyn • April 10, 2019
Bloggers
stated on December 5, 2018 in a Facebook post:

Says Hillary Clinton sold 20 percent of America’s uranium to Russia and then "the Russian government gave $145 million to the Clinton Foundation." Former FBI Director and special counsel Robert Mueller "delivered it."

By Samantha Putterman • December 7, 2018
Kevin Nicholson
stated on May 30, 2018 in an interview:

The Iran deal "handed billions of dollars of cash on cargo planes, sent it to a state sponsor of terror, and Tammy Baldwin was one of the first U.S. senators to get on board and support that."

By Tom Kertscher • June 29, 2018
Donald Trump
stated on June 12, 2018 in Singapore press conference:

Says Bill Clinton "spent $3 billion and got nothing. And (North Korea) started making nuclear weapons a day later."

By Manuela Tobias • June 13, 2018
Juan Williams
stated on June 3, 2018 in on a panel:

North Korea's history of international negotiations shows "they'll take the concessions, they'll keep them in their pocket and then they won't deliver."

By John Kruzel • June 7, 2018
Donald Trump
stated on May 10, 2018 in a tweet:

"Senator Cryin’ Chuck Schumer fought hard against the Bad Iran Deal, even going at it with President Obama, & then Voted AGAINST it! Now he says I should not have terminated the deal"

By Dan Clark • May 24, 2018
David Rouzer
stated on May 8, 2018 in a tweet:

"The #irandeal ultimately would have guaranteed Iran a nuclear bomb capable of reaching the US."

By Paul Specht • May 22, 2018
Donald Trump
stated on April 30, 2018 in a press conference:

"In seven years that (nuclear) deal will have expired, and Iran is free to go ahead and create nuclear weapons."

By Jon Greenberg • May 2, 2018
Donald Trump
stated on April 26, 2018 in an interview on "Fox & Friends":

The nuclear deal gave Iran "$150 billion, giving $1.8 billion in cash — in actual cash carried out in barrels and in boxes from airplanes."

By Jon Greenberg • April 27, 2018
Bloggers
stated on March 11, 2018 in a Facebook post:

Say Sean Hannity said in 2008 that Obama’s willingness to meet with North Korea was "disturbing" while Trump’s "willingness to meet with North Korea is a huge foreign policy win."

By Jon Greenberg • March 14, 2018
Viral image
stated on August 9, 2017 in a Twitter post:

"Bill Clinton gave North Korea $5 billion and two nuclear reactors in 1994, essentially giving them nukes."

By Joshua Gillin • August 9, 2017
Donald Trump
stated on August 9, 2017 in a tweet:

"My first order as president was to renovate and modernize our nuclear arsenal. It is now far stronger and more powerful than ever before."

By Louis Jacobson • August 9, 2017
Rick Perry
stated on June 27, 2017 in a White House briefing:

France "wouldn’t buy Texas beef for some reason, yet 76 percent of their energy comes from nuclear power."

By W. Gardner Selby • June 30, 2017
Karen Handel
stated on June 8, 2017 in a debate:

Says Iran has "violated the terms of the (nuclear) deal."

By John Kruzel • June 14, 2017
Karen Handel
stated on June 6, 2017 in a debate:

"Nearly $2 billion in cash was flown over to Iran, money that the Obama administration has admitted is being used for terrorists and to support further activities there."

By Jon Greenberg • June 6, 2017
Richard Burr
stated on April 18, 2017 in a speech in Youngsville, NC:

"The pace of missile development between (Kim Jong Il and Kim Jong Un) has increased the testing about twenty-fold."

By Will Doran • April 24, 2017
Benjamin Netanyahu
stated on February 15, 2017 in a joint press conference with President Donald Trump:

In the "past few weeks," President Donald Trump pointed out "Iranian violations on ballistic missile tests. By the way, these ballistic missiles are inscribed in Hebrew, ‘Israel must be destroyed.’ "

By Louis Jacobson • February 15, 2017
Donald Trump
stated on November 13, 2016 in a tweet:

"The @nytimes states today that DJT believes ‘more countries should acquire nuclear weapons.’ How dishonest are they. I never said this!"

By Lauren Carroll • November 14, 2016
Donald Trump
stated on October 19, 2016 in the third presidential debate:

Russia has "tremendous numbers of nuclear warheads — 1,800, by the way — where they expanded, and we didn't."

By Lauren Carroll • October 20, 2016
John Bolton SuperPAC
stated on September 27, 2016 in a TV ad:

Says Deborah Ross "supports the Iran nuclear deal and the ransom it paid for hostages."

By Will Doran • October 12, 2016

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