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TikTok posts
TikTok posts
stated on September 18, 2024 a TikTok video
“Attorney General Merrick Garland just vetoed charging Ryan Routh with attempted assassination” of Donald Trump.
False
September 20, 2024
Debbie Mucarsel-Powell
Debbie Mucarsel-Powell
stated on August 7, 2024 an ad
Sen. Rick Scott does not support abortion exceptions.
False
By Samantha Putterman • August 14, 2024
X posts
X posts
stated on July 8, 2024 X, formerly Twitter
“Deadlines have passed in … Wisconsin” to replace President Joe Biden on the ballot.
False
By Hope Karnopp • July 11, 2024
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
stated on June 12, 2024 a post on Facebook
The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals “just ruled Covid vax mandates unconstitutional.”
False
By Madison Czopek • June 18, 2024
Threads posts
Threads posts
stated on June 8, 2024 a Threads post
“Trump can’t be on the Texas ballot because of our state constitution.”
False
By Amy Sherman • June 14, 2024
TikTok posts
TikTok posts
stated on June 5, 2024 a TikTok video
Audio of President Joe Biden’s interview with Special Counsel Robert Hur leaked.
False
June 7, 2024
X posts
X posts
stated on May 30, 2024 posts on X
Photo shows the judges who will hear the appeal of former President Donald Trump’s criminal conviction.
False
By Madison Czopek • May 31, 2024
Jesse Watters
Jesse Watters
stated on May 28, 2024 a segment of "Jesse Watters Primetime" on Fox News
Judge Juan Merchan “overrules every objection from the defense and sustains every objection from the prosecution” during former President Donald Trump’s New York trial.
False
By Madison Czopek • May 31, 2024
X posts
X posts
stated on May 30, 2024 an X post
“Trump is no longer eligible to run for president and must drop out of the race immediately.”
False
May 30, 2024
Social Media
Social Media
stated on May 29, 2024 social media posts
Judge Juan Merchan told New York jurors the verdict in Donald Trump’s trial does not need to be unanimous.
False
By Amy Sherman, Louis Jacobson • May 29, 2024
Ron Johnson
Ron Johnson
stated on April 15, 2024 Podcast
"Every Senate Democrat has voted to support unlimited abortions up to the moment of birth.”
False
By D.L. Davis • May 17, 2024
Lila Rose
Lila Rose
stated on May 14, 2024 an Instagram post
Anti-abortion activist sentenced to 57 months in prison for “handing roses and resources to women at an abortion facility.”
False
May 17, 2024
X posts
X posts
stated on May 13, 2024 an X post
“Alvin Bragg’s office deleted 3 pages of phone call records of Michael Cohen with Stormy Daniels’ lawyer,” which is evidence tampering.
False
May 15, 2024
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on May 2, 2024 remarks to reporters
“I’m not allowed to testify” because of a gag order.
False
By Amy Sherman • May 3, 2024
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on April 16, 2024 statement to the media in New York City
“This trial that I have now, that’s a Biden trial.”
False
By Amy Sherman • April 19, 2024
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on April 14, 2024 a Facebook post
Document shows “Stormy Daniels exonerated Trump herself!”
False
By Sara Swann • April 17, 2024
X posts
X posts
stated on April 14, 2024 an X post
Donald Trump violated the Logan Act by resharing 2018 Iran tweet on Truth Social.
False
April 16, 2024
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on April 8, 2024 a video posted on Truth Social
"All legal scholars, both sides, wanted, and in fact demanded” that Roe v. Wade be overturned.
False
By Louis Jacobson, Samantha Putterman • April 10, 2024
TikTok posts
TikTok posts
stated on March 19, 2024 a TikTok video
Alina Habba said New York Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron took a “$10 million bribe from Joe Biden’s shell companies to convict Donald Trump.”
False
By Sara Swann • April 8, 2024
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on March 26, 2024 a post
"Trump takes out a loan and pays it back with interest, it is a crime."
False
By Kwasi Gyamfi Asiedu • April 5, 2024
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