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Trump at CPAC sideways 2-28-21

Trump misleads about HR 1 and voter registration for welfare recipients

By Amy Sherman March 2, 2021

HR 1 “automatically registers every welfare recipient to vote.”

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Fact-checking claims that Al Gore said all Arctic ice will be gone in the summer by 2013

By Samantha Putterman March 2, 2021

Says Al Gore said in 2009 that “the North Pole will be ice-free in the summer by 2013 because of man-made global warming.”

Rick Scott CPAC

GOP treats Trump-era projects in pandemic bill as Democratic pork

By Jon Greenberg March 2, 2021

The $1.9 trillion relief package is “about a bridge for Chuck Schumer, a tunnel for Nancy Pelosi.”

Contrary to Pete Snyder, COVID studies don’t say opening school is ‘perfectly safe’

By Warren Fiske March 2, 2021

“All of the science and data say it’s perfectly safe to have teachers and students in the classroom.”

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Pelosi did not buy ‘foreign oil stock’ before executive order stopped Keystone XL construction

March 1, 2021

Says Nancy Pelosi bought $1.5 million “in foreign oil stock day before shut down of American line.”

Fitz on covid relief

Fitzgerald overstates claim on pork in COVID-19 relief bill

By Eric Litke March 1, 2021

“More than 91% of the spending in this $1.9 trillion package is not used for pandemic relief.”

Detroit voters Nov. 2

No, there weren’t more votes than registered voters in the 2020 election

March 1, 2021

“America has 133 million registered voters,” but “159 million votes” were cast in the 2020 presidential election.

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No, Kaleb from Shriners Hospitals commercials didn’t die

By Samantha Putterman March 1, 2021

Says Kaleb Torres, a young spokesperson for Shriners Hospitals for Children, has died.

Donald Trump at CPAC Feb 28 2021 CPAC sign in the back

In CPAC return, Trump falsely claims Biden halted ‘all deportations’

By Miriam Valverde March 1, 2021

Says Joe Biden “has effectively ordered a shutdown of ICE, halting virtually all deportations, everyone, murderers, everybody, no more.”

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No, ID isn’t required to visit DC

March 1, 2021

Identification is required “to get into Washington DC.”

RNC chair Ronna McDaniel 8-24-2020

Yes, the ACLU has criticized HR 1. Here’s why

By Amy Sherman March 1, 2021

Says the American Civil Liberties Union opposes H.R. 1 on grounds that “it threatens our freedom of speech.”

Asylum seekers

Sen. Ron Johnson overreaches with asylum-seeker claim

By D.L. Davis March 1, 2021

“Biden’s plan will immediately let in 25,000 asylum-seekers who’d been waiting in Mexico as their cases were judged.”

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