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The Gateway Pundit stated on August 29, 2021 in an Instagram post:

“New Israeli study finds fully vaccinated people are at ‘greater risk of hospitalization’ and 13 times more likely to catch COVID-19 than those who have recovered and have natural immunity.”

By Tom Kertscher • September 1, 2021

Facebook posts stated on April 19, 2021 in social media posts:

“For #Covid vaccines, shingles and even more dangerous and painful skin conditions may be the new thrombocytopenia."

By Julie Appleby • April 29, 2021

Marco Rubio stated on January 27, 2021 in remarks:

"Only in the Third World do you see this habitual use of prosecutions of former leaders.”

By Miriam Valverde • January 29, 2021

Donald Trump stated on August 5, 2020 in a Fox and Friends interview:

Children are “almost immune from this disease.”

By Amy Sherman • August 6, 2020

Bobby Scott stated on April 2, 2020 in a radio interview.:

”If you line up all the countries that have done (Covid-19) testing on a per-capita basis, we’re at the bottom of the list.”

By Warren Fiske • April 15, 2020

Conor Lamb stated on March 13, 2018 in an election night speech:

Says he didn't take "corporate PAC money."

By Colin Deppen • March 17, 2018

Pamela Geller stated on February 14, 2018 in a story:

In Parkland, Fla. "the mass murderer was immersed in Islamic and leftwing hate."

By Amy Sherman • February 19, 2018

Sebastian Gorka stated on August 8, 2017 in an interview with MSNBC:

"There's no such thing as a lone wolf. ... That was a phrase invented by the last administration to make Americans stupid."

By Louis Jacobson • August 10, 2017

Ted Lieu stated on January 27, 2017 in in a press release:

"The chances of being killed by a refugee committing a terrorist act is 1 in 3.6 billion."

By Chris Nichols • February 1, 2017

John Burton stated on August 16, 2016 in in a press release:

"While introducing Donald Trump, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani omitted the September 11, 2001, strikes as a ‘successful’ terrorist attack during the eight years before President Obama’s 2008 election."

By Chris Nichols • August 18, 2016

Rudy Giuliani stated on August 15, 2016 in a speech in Youngstown, Ohio:

"Under those eight years before (Barack) Obama came along, we didn’t have any successful radical Islamic terrorist attack in the United States" since Sept. 11, 2001.

By Linda Qiu • August 16, 2016

Donald Trump stated on June 16, 2016 in Dallas fundraiser:

The U.S. has to go to "plane graveyards" and museums to get parts for its 20-year-old jet fighters while it sells new jets to other countries.

By Filipa Ioannou • July 23, 2016

Donald Trump stated on March 21, 2016 in a speech at the 2016 American Israel Public Affairs Committee conference in Washington.:

"When those restrictions expire (in the Iran nuclear deal), Iran will have an industrial-size military nuclear capability ready to go."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • March 24, 2016

Bernie Sanders stated on February 23, 2016 in a speech.:

"We work longer hours than any people in the industrialized world, including the Japanese."

By Sean Gorman • February 29, 2016

Barack Obama stated on January 12, 2016 in the State of the Union address:

"The United States of America, right now, has the strongest, most durable economy in the world."

By Louis Jacobson • January 15, 2016

Tom Cotton stated on March 9, 2015 in an interview on Fox News:

Says that "Susan Rice, the president's national security adviser, has already conceded that Iran will have a robust uranium enrichment capability."

By Louis Jacobson • March 16, 2015

Donna Brazile stated on June 22, 2014 in comments on CNN's "State of the Union":

The IRS "also investigated liberal groups, groups that had progressive in their name. ... The IRS was basically looking at everybody."

By Steve Contorno • June 22, 2014

Dick Cheney stated on May 18, 2014 in an interview on "Fox News Sunday":

"At the mere request from Putin, President Obama withdrew the plans for a missile defense program based in Poland and the Czech Republic."

By Jon Greenberg • May 19, 2014

Steve Israel stated on November 6, 2013 in an interview on MSNBC:

"Things went wrong with the Medicare prescription D plan that George Bush rolled out."

By Steve Contorno • November 13, 2013

Jack Reed stated on April 7, 2013 in a television interview:

North Korea has a "substantial standing army, one of the largest, certainly the largest per capita, in the world."

By Michael McKinney • May 10, 2013

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