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Donald Trump
stated on November 4, 2025 a Truth Social post

By Amy Sherman, Grace Abels • November 5, 2025

Social Media
stated on June 9, 2025 social media posts

California Gov. Gavin Newsom shared images taken in 2021 and said they showed National Guard troops sleeping on the floor in June 2025.

By Loreben Tuquero • June 10, 2025

Facebook posts
stated on February 23, 2025 a Facebook post

Elon Musk “contracted a helicopter and the first DOGE payments are being” dispersed in California.

February 24, 2025

Facebook posts
stated on January 9, 2025 a Facebook post

Video shows “The Simpsons” predicted the Los Angeles wildfires.

January 21, 2025

Instagram posts
stated on January 10, 2025 a post

Los Angeles wildfires are part of a Hollywood conspiracy to cover up evidence related to Sean “Diddy” Combs.

By Sara Swann • January 16, 2025

Instagram posts
stated on January 9, 2025 an Instagram post

Video shows people in Los Angeles looting from homes during wildfires.

January 13, 2025

X posts
stated on January 8, 2025 a post

“FEMA spent billions on illegal immigrants and now has no money for California!”

By Kwasi Gyamfi Asiedu • January 10, 2025

Instagram posts
stated on August 22, 2024 an Instagram post

Maxine Waters told her followers on X not to follow Omar Navarro because he is a “Hispanic Republican.”

August 23, 2024

Donald Trump
stated on August 8, 2024 a press conference

“I went down in a helicopter with (Willie Brown). We thought maybe this is the end. We were in a helicopter going to a certain location together and there was an emergency landing.”

By Maria Ramirez Uribe • August 9, 2024

Facebook posts
stated on May 9, 2024 a Facebook post

“Colin Kaepernick was fired from his new high school coaching job after just one season” because "the kids couldn't stand him."

May 17, 2024

Instagram posts
stated on October 2, 2023 an Instagram post

California Gov. Gavin Newsom is “not human.”

October 5, 2023

Viral image
stated on December 15, 2022 a Facebook post

Says U.S. Rep. Katie Porter, D-Calif., “says pedophilia isn’t a crime — it’s an identity.”

December 16, 2022

Viral image
stated on December 6, 2022 an Instagram post

Photo shows Rep. Adam Schiff and a “little boy he killed.”

December 6, 2022

Viral image
stated on November 10, 2022 an Instagram post

Photos shows 2022 “midterm ballots in trash.”

November 11, 2022

Viral image
stated on November 30, 2022 an Instagram post

“Two far-right websites attributed to David DePape to smear conservatives were fabricated — they were created Friday.”

November 2, 2022

Viral image
stated on October 31, 2022 an Instagram post

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi “doesn’t even have surveillance cameras around her house.”

November 2, 2022

Instagram posts
stated on November 29, 2022 an Instagram post

Police dispatch audio from Paul Pelosi’s attack was recorded in a Moscow studio.

November 1, 2022

Viral image
stated on October 30, 2022 an Instagram post

Security cameras at Nancy Pelosi’s San Francisco home malfunctioned “for the duration of the break-in, so officials have ended their investigation.”

November 1, 2022

Viral image
stated on October 18, 2022 an Instagram post

There are “100,000 kids in cages” under the Getty art museum.

October 20, 2022

Bloggers
stated on November 7, 2021 a blog post

The military arrested “bedridden Gavin Newsom.”

By Gabrielle Settles • November 11, 2021

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