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Donald Trump isn’t commander in chief anymore; he’s not preparing U.S. Marines to stop ‘coup’

February 28, 2023

“BREAKING Trump preps Marines to stop presidential coup.”

Biden at CNN town hall with hand up on stage alone 10-21-21

That video of President Joe Biden discussing aliens is so far out it’s fake

February 28, 2023

Video shows President Joe Biden recalling an alien encounter.

Nothing to back up claim that constipation killed seven times more people than rifles in US

February 28, 2023

Rifles “were involved in 297 deaths” in the U.S. in 2022 and “constipation killed 2,167.”

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Governments regulate chlorine levels in water to keep it safe for consumers to drink

February 28, 2023

Drinking or using tap water treated with chlorine is dangerous because “chlorine is a poison.”

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Video misleads on the ‘single word’ President Joe Biden used to describe the United States

February 28, 2023

Joe Biden described America as “the foothills of the Himalayas with Xi Jinping.”

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Kid Rock didn’t tweet this about tyranny and face masks

February 27, 2023

Kid Rock tweeted, “Some people wouldn’t recognize tyranny if it slapped a mask on their face, made them stand 6 feet apart, and forced them…

Ohio train tank cars Feb 21

Derailed Ohio train carried vinyl chloride, which is banned in aerosols, but not other products

February 27, 2023

The train that derailed in Ohio was carrying “over 300,000 gallons of a chemical that was banned in 1974.”

Shelling in Ukraine

The war in Ukraine isn’t ‘fake,’ and these photos don’t prove that it is

February 27, 2023

Photos of an apartment building in Kyiv are evidence the war in Ukraine “is fake.”

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Social media posts distort Trump, Biden child sex trafficking records

February 27, 2023

Former President Donald Trump “was the 1st president in U.S. history to acknowledge that children are being sold for sex in the U.S.” while President…

Elizabeth Warren March 2020

Sen. Elizabeth Warren didn’t say Republicans shouldn’t vote. A viral video was altered.

February 27, 2023

Says Elizabeth Warren said, “Allowing Republicans to vote could threaten the integrity of an election.”

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Reaching net-zero emissions by 2050 would require major increase in mined materials

February 27, 2023

“The whole green energy agenda involves more than doubling 10 types of mining.”

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Poll on voters’ opinion of Biden laptop story doesn’t tell whole story

February 25, 2023

53% of Americans made aware of the Hunter Biden laptop story would have changed their vote in 2020.

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