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Donald Trump
stated on August 19, 2025 a Truth Social post:

The Smithsonian Institution includes “nothing about success, nothing about brightness, nothing about the future.”

By Grace Abels, Louis Jacobson • August 20, 2025

Kevin McCarthy
stated on November 26, 2023 a speech at the Oxford Union:

“In every single war that America has fought, we have never asked for land afterwards, except for enough to bury the Americans who gave the ultimate sacrifice for that freedom we went in for.”

By Louis Jacobson • November 28, 2023

Isabel Brown
stated on August 23, 2023 a post on TikTok:

Americans “currently are making less than at the height of the Great Depression.”

By Louis Jacobson • September 7, 2023

Facebook posts
stated on January 18, 2023 a post:

Black Americans are not descended from people who were taken from Africa to be enslaved.

By Gabrielle Settles • January 31, 2023

Instagram posts
stated on January 22, 2023 an Instagram post:

The sinking of the Titanic was orchestrated by the Rothschilds and J.P. Morgan to kill prominent businessmen who opposed the creation of the Federal Reserve.

By Samantha Putterman • January 26, 2023

Instagram posts
stated on December 3, 2022 an Instagram post:

Henry Kissinger’s “deathbed confession” shows “Adolf Hitler was buried in Spain” and lived to age 68.

By Jeff Cercone • December 6, 2022

Ron DeSantis
stated on October 24, 2022 a gubernatorial debate:

It's not true that "the United States was built on stolen land."

By Yacob Reyes • November 3, 2022

Instagram posts
stated on July 7, 2022 an Instagram post:

Antarctica has “an entrance to a different world” — a “mythic land” with green forests, giant animals, and “extraterrestrial technologies.”

By Luiz Romero • July 26, 2022

X posts
stated on July 9, 2022 a Twitter post:

There are no artifacts to prove that slave ships existed.

By Gabrielle Settles • July 13, 2022

Monica Crowley
stated on June 12, 2022 an interview with Fox News:

Soviet and Chinese communists have “grabbed control” of U.S. entertainment, movies, television, music, academia, K-12 education and the news media.

By Louis Jacobson • June 17, 2022

Dmitry Peskov
stated on February 20, 2022 an interview with a Russian TV network:

“Russia has never attacked anyone throughout its history.”

By Louis Jacobson • February 21, 2022

Whoopi Goldberg
stated on January 31, 2022 a TV segment:

"The Holocaust isn't about race. No, it's not about race."

By Bill McCarthy • February 1, 2022

Facebook posts
stated on April 6, 2021 a Facebook post:

Schools stopped teaching children cursive so they wouldn’t be able to read the U.S. Constitution and other historical documents.

By Samantha Putterman • April 19, 2021

Facebook posts
stated on April 26, 2020 a Facebook post:

“Joe Biden was involved in a plot to kidnap JFK Jr. according to the just declassified FBI files, and also made several threats."

By Bill McCarthy • April 27, 2020

Viral image
stated on February 9, 2020 a Facebook post:

“This is a 1927 News Article showing America was sold to five Billionaires The Rothschild’s, Rockefellers, DuPont’s, Harriman’s and Warburg’s.”

By Tom Kertscher • February 11, 2020

Rick Range
stated on December 10, 2019 a Facebook post:

"George P. Bush to place statue of (Mexican general) Santa Anna at the Alamo."

By Madlin Mekelburg • December 17, 2019

Facebook posts
stated on October 29, 2013 a Facebook post:

Says former Democratic Sen. Harry Reid has an outlaw horse thief ancestor and Reid’s office offered a spin-job biography about the man.

By Samantha Putterman • December 9, 2019

Facebook posts
stated on October 23, 2019 a Facebook post:

Says that in 1770 "British parliament banned lipstick, saying it had the power to seduce men into marriage, which was classified as witchcraft."

By Samantha Putterman • October 25, 2019

Facebook posts
stated on September 22, 2019 a Facebook post:

Says the character Freddy Krueger was based on a real serial killer.

By Samantha Putterman • October 4, 2019

Tucker Carlson
stated on September 10, 2019 a TV segment:

Says John Bolton "fundamentally was a man of the left."

By Bill McCarthy • September 13, 2019

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