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Facebook posts stated on January 30, 2025 in a video on Facebook Early reports of four survivors show “this DC plane crash story isn’t adding up.” Instagram posts stated on January 31, 2025 in a post on Instagram CNN reported on the Potomac River plane and helicopter crash “hours before it happened.” Threads posts stated on January 31, 2025 in a Threads post The Black Hawk helicopter involved in the American Airlines crash “was being controlled remotely.” X posts stated on January 30, 2025 in an X post “The VIP on the Black Hawk helicopter that crashed was Barack Obama.” Threads posts stated on October 23, 2024 in a Threads post Kamala Harris’ statements about Trump invoking Adolf Hitler were based on a “debunked hoax from The Atlantic.” Social Media stated on October 15, 2024 in in social media posts "The Defense Department, with the stroke of a pen, has quietly codified its right to deploy lethal force against its own citizens.” Instagram posts stated on October 1, 2024 in an Instagram post Video shows a missile strike on Israel. X posts stated on October 1, 2024 in X posts Video shows an Iranian missile attack. Donald Trump stated on September 13, 2024 in a rally in Las Vegas Vice President Kamala Harris is “talking about bringing back the draft.” Kamala Harris stated on September 10, 2024 in a debate “As of today, there is not one member of the United States military who is in active duty in a combat zone, in any war zone around the world, for the first time this century.” JD Vance stated on August 7, 2024 in a news conference Says Tim Walz said he carried weapons in war, but “he has not spent a day in a combat zone.” JD Vance stated on August 7, 2024 in a speech “When Tim Walz was asked by his country to go to Iraq, do you know what he did? He dropped out of the Army and allowed his unit to go without him.” Donald Trump stated on July 27, 2024 in a rally in St. Cloud, Minnesota During the 2020 Minnesota riots after George Floyd’s murder, Gov. Tim Walz didn’t call in the National Guard, “so, I sent in the National Guard to save Minneapolis.” Joe Biden stated on July 9, 2024 in a speech in Washington D.C. In 2020, “only nine NATO allies were spending 2%” of their GDP on defense. “This year, 23 will spend at least 2%.” Instagram posts stated on April 2, 2024 in an Instagram post “The National Guard in the HISTORY of its life, gets called in AFTER a disaster, not BEFORE something happens.” Facebook posts stated on April 1, 2024 in a Facebook post It’s a sign of war that the U.S. Navy is assisting the U.S. Coast Guard in cleaning up Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge site. Facebook posts stated on March 16, 2024 in a video posted on Facebook. The Oklahoma National Guard’s assistance for the April 8 eclipse signals something “bigger.” TikTok posts stated on January 9, 2024 in en una publicación enTikTok "Ecuador firma acuerdo con los Estados Unidos para obtener presencia militar debido a los recientes acontecimientos por parte de delicuentes." Donald Trump stated on December 16, 2023 in a rally in New Hampshire “They want to make our Army tanks all electric.” Nikki Haley stated on December 14, 2023 in a town hall in Atkinson, New Hampshire “We’ve had more Americans die of fentanyl than the Iraq, Afghanistan, and Vietnam wars, combined.” Load more
Facebook posts stated on January 30, 2025 in a video on Facebook Early reports of four survivors show “this DC plane crash story isn’t adding up.”
Instagram posts stated on January 31, 2025 in a post on Instagram CNN reported on the Potomac River plane and helicopter crash “hours before it happened.”
Threads posts stated on January 31, 2025 in a Threads post The Black Hawk helicopter involved in the American Airlines crash “was being controlled remotely.”
X posts stated on January 30, 2025 in an X post “The VIP on the Black Hawk helicopter that crashed was Barack Obama.”
Threads posts stated on October 23, 2024 in a Threads post Kamala Harris’ statements about Trump invoking Adolf Hitler were based on a “debunked hoax from The Atlantic.”
Social Media stated on October 15, 2024 in in social media posts "The Defense Department, with the stroke of a pen, has quietly codified its right to deploy lethal force against its own citizens.”
Instagram posts stated on October 1, 2024 in an Instagram post Video shows a missile strike on Israel.
Donald Trump stated on September 13, 2024 in a rally in Las Vegas Vice President Kamala Harris is “talking about bringing back the draft.”
Kamala Harris stated on September 10, 2024 in a debate “As of today, there is not one member of the United States military who is in active duty in a combat zone, in any war zone around the world, for the first time this century.”
JD Vance stated on August 7, 2024 in a news conference Says Tim Walz said he carried weapons in war, but “he has not spent a day in a combat zone.”
JD Vance stated on August 7, 2024 in a speech “When Tim Walz was asked by his country to go to Iraq, do you know what he did? He dropped out of the Army and allowed his unit to go without him.”
Donald Trump stated on July 27, 2024 in a rally in St. Cloud, Minnesota During the 2020 Minnesota riots after George Floyd’s murder, Gov. Tim Walz didn’t call in the National Guard, “so, I sent in the National Guard to save Minneapolis.”
Joe Biden stated on July 9, 2024 in a speech in Washington D.C. In 2020, “only nine NATO allies were spending 2%” of their GDP on defense. “This year, 23 will spend at least 2%.”
Instagram posts stated on April 2, 2024 in an Instagram post “The National Guard in the HISTORY of its life, gets called in AFTER a disaster, not BEFORE something happens.”
Facebook posts stated on April 1, 2024 in a Facebook post It’s a sign of war that the U.S. Navy is assisting the U.S. Coast Guard in cleaning up Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge site.
Facebook posts stated on March 16, 2024 in a video posted on Facebook. The Oklahoma National Guard’s assistance for the April 8 eclipse signals something “bigger.”
TikTok posts stated on January 9, 2024 in en una publicación enTikTok "Ecuador firma acuerdo con los Estados Unidos para obtener presencia militar debido a los recientes acontecimientos por parte de delicuentes."
Donald Trump stated on December 16, 2023 in a rally in New Hampshire “They want to make our Army tanks all electric.”
Nikki Haley stated on December 14, 2023 in a town hall in Atkinson, New Hampshire “We’ve had more Americans die of fentanyl than the Iraq, Afghanistan, and Vietnam wars, combined.”
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