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Jul 22 2022
News
Video shows Trump insisting, ‘I don’t want to say the election is over’ day after riot
Then-President Donald Trump objected to scripted remarks prepared by his staff one day after last year’s Capitol riot, saying, “I don’t want to say the election is over.”
In the deleted scenes shown Thursday night by the House select committee investigating the riot, Trump quibbled with a duplicative condemnation of rioters who disrupted certification of President-elect Joe Biden’s
New York Post (News)
Jul 08 2022
Fact Check
Did Video Show Capitol Police Waving in Rioters on Jan. 6?
Claim
A video shot from the east side of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, shows a police officer waving in Trump supporters, signaling them to disregard barricades.
Shortly after the deadly U.S. Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021, social media users shared a number of striking videos. One of those videos purportedly showed a police officer waving in protesters to move past barricades
Snopes
Jul 20 2022
Fact Check
No, video of rioters discussing Capitol ‘floor plan’ doesn’t prove Jan. 6 was antifa setup
False claims blaming antifa activists for the violence at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, took off as soon as former President Donald Trump’s supporters stormed the building.
More than a year and a half later, those claims continue to spread online — despite having been thoroughly debunked. "Antifa was already inside the Capitol with floor plans dressed as Trump supporters," said the
PolitiFact
Aug 27 2020
Opinion
Now that Pelosi wants to cancel the presidential debates, can we stop saying it's just a right-wing meme?
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday said there should not be any 2020 presidential debates.
And just like that, she has made the idea of canceling the election-year showdowns between President Trump and Democratic nominee Joe Biden into something far more than just chatter among news and political commentators.
“I don't think there should be any debates,” Pelosi told reporters
Washington Examiner
Jul 07 2022
News
John Fetterman accuses Mehmet Oz of recording a Pennsylvania campaign video at his home in New Jersey
Since announcing his run for the US Senate seat representing Pennsylvania, Dr. Mehmet Oz, the celebrity doctor turned Republican politician, has been dogged by criticism that he doesn't actually live in the state he wants to represent.
As The Philadelphia Inquirer reported, Oz, in December 2020, registered to vote using his in-laws' address in Bryn Athyn. And according to his campaign,
Insider
Jan 03 2020
News
The Threat Of World War III Has Become A Meme And No One Knows How To Feel About It
An airstrike ordered by President Donald Trump killed Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani early Friday, escalating a simmering conflict between the US and Iran that had flared up after an American contractor was killed in Iraq in late December.
The decision to kill Soleimani, who was one of the most powerful people in Iran and directed bloody conflicts around the Middle East, followed a New
BuzzFeed News
Oct 14 2019
News
Macabre Video of Fake Trump Shooting Media and Critics Is Shown at His Resort
A video depicting a macabre scene of a fake President Trump shooting, stabbing and brutally assaulting members of the news media and his political opponents was shown at a conference for his supporters at his Miami resort last week, according to footage obtained by The New York Times.
Several of Mr. Trump’s top surrogates — including his son Donald Trump Jr., his former spokeswoman
New York Times (News)
Aug 09 2022
News
Was the FBI's Raid on Mar-a-Lago the Biggest In-Kind Contribution to Trump's 2024 Bid?
After all that, the safe at Mar-a-Lago was empty. It was pried open by FBI agents who swarmed the premises under the pretense that they were looking for documents marked for preservation by the National Archives. Does anyone believe that? The FBI’s raid on the former president’s home was not over boxes of documents. If you think that, please, get some crack cocaine, White Claws, and wallow in
Townhall
Mar 01 2019
News
Video: Cohen vs. Trump
Our latest collaboration with CNN’s Jake Tapper is on Michael Cohen’s congressional testimony and instances where he contradicted past statements made by President Donald Trump.
Cohen, Trump’s former personal attorney, said he was in Trump’s office in July 2016 when Roger Stone was on speaker phone talking about WikiLeaks and its plan to publicly release hacked emails damaging to
FactCheck.org
Oct 14 2019
Headline Roundup
Fake Video Of Trump Shooting Media and Critics Shown At Doral Resort
A fake video showing President Trump shooting media and critics was shown at Trump's Doral Resort.
The White House Correspondents Association condemned the video, and American Priority, which organized the event, said the video was made by an outside organization. Event organizer Alex Phillips denounced it. A Trump campaign spokesman said he did not know anything about the video, and
Washington Times
New York Times (News)
USA TODAY