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JD Vance
stated on October 15, 2025 in an episode of The Charlie Kirk Show:

"Political violence, it's just a statistical fact that it's a bigger problem on the left.”

By Amy Sherman • October 20, 2025

Facebook posts
stated on February 4, 2025 in a Facebook post:

“Elon Musk officially cancelled USAID and fired all the staff. In his words, ‘we just toppled one of the biggest globalist terror organizations in history.’”

By Sofia Ahmed • February 7, 2025

National Republican Senatorial Committee
stated on November 8, 2023 in an ad:

Says U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin “voted to send hundreds of millions to Iran” to bankroll “radicals like Hezbollah and Hamas.”

By Tyler Katzenberger • November 24, 2023

Vivek Ramaswamy
stated on October 28, 2023 in an address to the Republican Jewish Coalition:

“Gen Z is divided 50-50 on whether they support Hamas or Israel.”

By Louis Jacobson • November 2, 2023

Tim Scott
stated on October 7, 2023 in a post on X:

The Biden administration “wanted Israel to stand down after the attack" by Hamas.

By Louis Jacobson • October 10, 2023

Alabama's Future
stated on March 11, 2022 in an ad:

Mo Brooks "voted to cut off funding to destroy ISIS terrorists in the middle of the fight."

By Tom Kertscher • March 22, 2022

Facebook posts
stated on March 29, 2021 in a Facebook post:

“Joe Biden puts pro-life groups on domestic extremist list, calls pro-life people ‘violent.’”

By Tom Kertscher • March 31, 2021

Facebook posts
stated on January 6, 2020 in a Facebook post:

"Saudi terrorists has killed more Americans on our soil than any other nation. They rent the entire 45th floor of Trump Tower, And pay him in cash."

By Tom Kertscher • January 10, 2020

Joe Biden
stated on January 3, 2020 in a brief interview:

Says he did not tell former President Barack Obama "don’t go" after Osama bin Laden

By Amy Sherman • January 6, 2020

Facebook posts
stated on September 16, 2019 in a Facebook post:

The United States paid for a 274-mile wall between Jordan and Syria, "approved by the Dems in the house and senate," in order "to keep ISIS out."

By Tom Kertscher • November 1, 2019

Donald Trump
stated on October 27, 2019 in a press conference:

Says in his 2000 book "I was talking about Osama bin Laden. I said, ‘You have to kill him. You have to take him out.’"

By Amy Sherman, Warren Fiske • October 28, 2019

Greg Steube
stated on July 12, 2019 in a tweet:

"Terrorists who are currently being held at Guantanamo Bay can be transferred to a neighborhood near you" as a result of House Democrats’ actions on the National Defense Authorization Act.

By Amy Sherman • July 19, 2019

Cory Booker
stated on March 27, 2019 in a CNN town hall in South Carolina:

Says President Donald Trump "cut funding from the Justice Department to investigate these domestic terrorist groups, these white supremacist groups."

By Amy Sherman • April 11, 2019

Kirsten Gillibrand
stated on February 25, 2019 in in a news conference:

"Almost every day another 9/11 survivor or responder dies from a 9/11-related cancer."

By Jill Terreri Ramos • March 9, 2019

Mike Pence
stated on January 16, 2019 in a speech:

"The caliphate has crumbled and ISIS has been defeated."

By Louis Jacobson • January 17, 2019

Bloggers
stated on January 8, 2019 in in a story:

Says new U.S. Democratic Rep. Rashida Tlaib has been linked to an "unindicted terrorist."

By Samantha Putterman • January 14, 2019

Defend Arizona
stated on August 11, 2018 in an ad:

Says Kelli Ward "called for restraint in fighting terrorism."

By Miriam Valverde • August 21, 2018

Dana Loesch
stated on February 25, 2018 in an interview on ABC's "This Week":

In comparing mass shootings, "France had a higher casualty rate in one year than the entire two administrations of Barack Obama."

By Jon Greenberg • February 27, 2018

Donald Trump
stated on January 30, 2018 in the 2018 State of the Union address:

"In the past, we have foolishly released hundreds and hundreds of dangerous terrorists, only to meet them again on the battlefield — including the ISIS leader, al-Baghdadi, who we captured, who we had, who we released."

By Allison Graves • January 31, 2018

Donald Trump
stated on November 1, 2017 in a tweet:

Says the diversity visa lottery program is "a Chuck Schumer beauty."

By Louis Jacobson, Miriam Valverde • November 1, 2017

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