After the Sept. 10 debate between Vice President Kamala Harris and Donald Trump, the former president criticized ABC News’ debate moderators, and his supporters piled on about the network’s supposed bias. Two days after the debate, an X account called The Black Insurrectionist — whose profile says, “I am #MAGA,” shorthand for Trump’s “Make America […]
Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee, warned in an ad that Project 2025, a conservative guidebook of presidential policy recommendations, would harm Black Americans, including at the voting booth. “Trump’s Project 2025 Agenda will give him unchecked political power with no guardrails,” said the TV ad that began airing in early September, targeting […]
When authorities identify shooters in incidents of national interest, some people scour social media for those shooters’ digital footprints, conjuring theories for their ideologies and motives. That occurred when former President Donald Trump was targeted Sept. 15 in another assassination attempt that followed one in July. The suspect, Ryan Wesley Routh, allegedly pointed an AK-style […]
During her interview with the National Association of Black Journalists, Vice President Kamala Harris criticized former President Donald Trump and his running mate, Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, for spreading misinformation about Haitian migrants in Springfield, Ohio. “When you have that kind of microphone in front of you, you really ought to understand how much your […]
After law enforcement said it was investigating an apparent attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump, social media users quickly declared they knew the suspect’s registered voter party affiliation. “Ryan Wesley Routh, the second Trump shooter. He looks like a MAGA republican but is a registered democrat,” stated a Sept. 15 Facebook post. The phrase […]
SPRINGFIELD, Ohio — Vilbrun Dorsainvil dijo que huyó de su país natal, Haití, después de que intentaron secuestrarlo. Tres años después, dice que teme por su seguridad y la de su comunidad en Estados Unidos. “Antes no temía, pero ahora puedo decir que tengo miedo”, dijo Dorsainvil. “Ahora, temo que pueda haber un tiroteo masivo […]
PolitiFact is live fact-checking Vice President Kamala Harris’ panel interview in Philadelphia hosted by the National Association of Black Journalists. TheGrio’s Gerren Keith Gaynor, Politico’s Eugene Daniels and WHYY’s Tonya Mosley will interview the Democratic presidential nominee at 2:30 p.m. ET, Sept. 17, 2024. The interview will be streamed on the NABJ’s social media and WHYY’s platforms. […]
In the days since President Donald Trump repeated a baseless rumor about Springfield, Ohio, pets during a Sept. 10 debate viewed by 67 million people, the city’s authorities have responded to multiple threats of violence. They evacuated city hall, several K-12 schools and a state motor vehicle agency and canceled activities at two Springfield college […]
Ryan Wesley Routh, the man suspected in a Sept. 15 apparent assassination attempt against Donald Trump at the former president’s Florida golf club, has spent much of the past few years focused on Ukraine after Russia invaded in February 2022. Routh appeared Sept. 16 in a West Palm Beach, Florida, federal court, charged with two […]
An unsealed Justice Department indictment alleged that six content creators who worked for Tennessee-based Tenet Media were, unknown to them, financed by Russian nationals in a scheme to distribute Russian government messaging to U.S. audiences. Tenet Media and its content creators — three of whom each have more than a million followers on at least […]
An August call to a nonemergency number in Ohio is fanning a false narrative spread by former President Donald Trump that Haitians in Springfield, Ohio, are harming animals. In an audio recording published by conservative outlet The Federalist, a person is heard talking to the Clark County Communications Center, which covers Springfield. “I see a […]
SPRINGFIELD, Ohio — Vilbrun Dorsainvil said he fled his home country, Haiti, after someone tried to kidnap him. Three years later, he says he’s afraid for his and his community’s safety in the U.S. “Before I was not, but right now I can say I am afraid,” Dorsainvil said. “Right now, I’m afraid there may […]