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Threads posts
stated on January 31, 2025 a Threads post:

The Black Hawk helicopter involved in the American Airlines crash “was being controlled remotely.”

By Sofia Ahmed • February 3, 2025

Instagram posts
stated on February 2, 2025 an Instagram post:

Photo shows Black Hawk helicopter pilot in fatal crash worked for years with President Joe Biden at the White House.

By Jeff Cercone • February 3, 2025

Threads posts
stated on January 31, 2025 a Threads post:

“Donald Trump is reportedly furious with Elon Musk for convincing him to push out the head of the FAA because Musk was mad SpaceX got fined last September by the FAA for license violations.”

By Sofia Ahmed • January 31, 2025

Donald Trump
stated on January 30, 2025 a press briefing:

“I changed the Obama policy (on hiring air traffic controllers) ... And then Biden came in and he changed it.”

By Caleb McCullough, Maria Ramirez Uribe • January 31, 2025

Facebook posts
stated on January 31, 2025 a Facebook post:

“Pilot of Blackhawk helicopter that crashed into passenger jet at Reagan National was a transgender woman named Jo Ellis.”

By Loreben Tuquero • January 31, 2025

Adam Schiff
stated on January 26, 2025 an interview on NBC's Meet the Press:

“As a Californian, we have given more to the recovery of other states than any other state in the union.”

By Amy Sherman, Louis Jacobson • January 31, 2025

Karoline Leavitt
stated on January 28, 2025 White House press briefing:

The U.S. has an egg shortage because the “Biden administration and the Department of Agriculture directed the mass killing of more than 100 million chickens.”

By Jeff Cercone • January 30, 2025

Instagram posts
stated on January 28, 2025 an Instagram post:

A video shows “people around the world” who are “protesting because Donald Trump is the president.”

By Sofia Ahmed • January 30, 2025

X posts
stated on January 30, 2025 an X post:

“The VIP on the Black Hawk helicopter that crashed was Barack Obama.”

By Sofia Ahmed • January 30, 2025

Elizabeth Warren
stated on January 29, 2025 a Senate confirmation hearing:

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. “made $2.5 million off suing one of the entities that (he would be regulating) and plans to keep getting a take of every lawsuit in the future.”

By Sara Swann • January 30, 2025

Donald Trump
stated on January 24, 2025 remarks in North Carolina:

"The Biden administration kicked 2,000 displaced North Carolinians out of their temporary housing into freezing 20-degree weather," earlier in January.

By Amy Sherman, Paul Specht • January 29, 2025

Threads posts
stated on January 20, 2025 a post:

President Donald Trump’s birthright citizenship executive order would affect former Vice President Kamala Harris’ citizenship status.

By Kwasi Gyamfi Asiedu • January 24, 2025

X posts
stated on January 23, 2025 X posts:

Video shows “roads heading to Mexico are jam packed as mass deportations have started.”

By Loreben Tuquero • January 24, 2025

Donald Trump
stated on January 22, 2025 an interview:

The U.S. House Select Committee that investigated the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol “deleted and destroyed all of the information that they collected over two years.”

By Amy Sherman, Samantha Putterman • January 24, 2025

Instagram posts
stated on January 22, 2025 an Instagram post:

“Fani Willis has just confessed to collusion with J6 committee.”

By Sofia Ahmed • January 24, 2025

Lisa Murkowski
stated on January 20, 2025 an X post:

"Our nation’s tallest mountain … has been called Denali for thousands of years."

By Kwasi Gyamfi Asiedu • January 23, 2025

Social Media
stated on January 19, 2025 social media posts:

Videos show that President Donald Trump admitted to rigging the 2024 election during his preinauguration day rally.

By Loreben Tuquero • January 21, 2025

Donald Trump
stated on January 20, 2025 remarks:

The United States is the only country with unrestricted birthright citizenship.

By Samantha Putterman • January 21, 2025

Donald Trump
stated on December 27, 2024 a U.S. Supreme Court brief:

On banning TikTok

By Amy Sherman, Kwasi Gyamfi Asiedu, Samantha Putterman • January 16, 2025

Instagram posts
stated on January 11, 2025 a video:

Says President-elect Donald Trump posted on X that he will “be giving Staten Island to New Jersey.”

By Kwasi Gyamfi Asiedu • January 14, 2025

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