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stated on February 8, 2026 posts
During the Super Bowl halftime show, “Bad Bunny brought Liam Conejo Ramos onto the stage,” the 5-year-old detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Minneapolis.
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By Samantha Putterman • February 9, 2026
JD Vance
JD Vance
stated on January 22, 2026 a press conference
"Right now we're focused on Minneapolis because that's where we have the highest concentration of people who have violated our immigration laws."
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By Amy Sherman • January 28, 2026
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Social Media
stated on January 11, 2026 social media posts
A letter sent to postal service employees about working during emergencies such as civil unrest is a sign that President Donald Trump will impose martial law.
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By Amy Sherman • January 15, 2026
Mehmet Oz
Mehmet Oz
stated on January 6, 2026 an interview on Fox News
“By federal law, if you sign someone up for Medicaid, you also give them the right to vote. … This is political patronage at the expense of Medicaid.”
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By Amy Sherman • January 14, 2026
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Social Media
stated on December 15, 2025 in social media posts
Brown University student Mustapha Karbouch was a suspect in school shooting.
False
December 19, 2025
Laura Loomer
Laura Loomer
stated on December 15, 2025 an X post
Image shows Rob Reiner tweeted in 2023 that he would stop posting until “Trump goes to prison.”
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By Maria Briceño • December 17, 2025
Tim Walz
Tim Walz
stated on November 30, 2025 an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press"
“I take responsibility for putting people in jail” in Minnesota fraud scandal.
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By Amy Sherman • December 5, 2025
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stated on November 6, 2025 an X post
“RFK Jr. flees the scene after Novo Nordisk Executive Gordon Findlay collapsed in the Oval Office.”
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By Maria Briceño • November 7, 2025
JB Pritzker
JB Pritzker
stated on October 30, 2025 a press conference
The federal government “decided to shut down the SNAP machines, so that they can’t be used.”
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By Amy Sherman • November 3, 2025
Hakeem Jeffries
Hakeem Jeffries
stated on October 23, 2025 an X post
“The Trump administration just declared that erecting a ballroom is the president’s main priority,” rather than issues such as the cost of living and health care.
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By Louis Jacobson • October 24, 2025
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on October 19, 2025 an X post
Democrats are “dishonestly sending around a video from 2017” claiming it was an Oct. 18 ‘No Kings’ rally in Boston.
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By Louis Jacobson, Loreben Tuquero • October 20, 2025
stated on October 12, 2025 una publicación en X
Un video muestra un “arresto por robo que la policía de Chicago realizó hace más de un año”.
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By Maria Briceño • October 16, 2025
stated on October 12, 2025 an X post
A video shows a “burglary arrest Chicago Police made over a year ago.”
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By Maria Briceño • October 15, 2025
Mike Johnson
Mike Johnson
stated on October 5, 2025 an X post
“As a condition for ending the Democrat shutdown, Democrats want hospitals (to be) paid MORE to treat illegal aliens than American citizens.”
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By Maria Ramirez Uribe • October 9, 2025
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on October 5, 2025 a statement to the media
“Portland is burning to the ground.”
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By Amy Sherman, Maria Briceño • October 7, 2025
JD Vance
JD Vance
stated on September 28, 2025 en una entrevista
“Los demócratas están amenazando con cerrar todo el gobierno porque quieren dar cientos de miles de millones de dólares en beneficios de cuidado de salud a los inmigrantes ilegales”.
False
By Maria Ramirez Uribe • October 2, 2025
JD Vance
JD Vance
stated on September 28, 2025 an interview
“Democrats are threatening to shut down the entire government because they want to give hundreds of billions of dollars of health care benefits to illegal aliens.”
False
By Maria Ramirez Uribe • October 1, 2025
Sean Hannity
Sean Hannity
stated on September 17, 2025 an episode of "Hannity"
There was not “a single, prominent conservative voice in the country that even remotely wanted or hoped or was pushing to get Jimmy Kimmel taken off the air.”
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By Amy Sherman, Madison Czopek • September 18, 2025
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X posts
stated on September 11, 2025 an X post
A book on Amazon titled “The Shooting of Charlie Kirk” with a Sept. 9 publication date is evidence the event was staged.
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By Samantha Putterman • September 12, 2025
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X posts
stated on September 1, 2025 an X post
President Donald Trump’s “official schedule was suddenly suspended.”
False
By Maria Briceño • September 2, 2025
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