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Nicholas Langworthy stated on February 10, 2023 in a tweet:

Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm met "with the radical green energy group behind the gas stove ban," which "has ties to the" Chinese Communist Party.

By Conor Amendola, Mary McNaughton • March 9, 2023

Cathy McMorris Rodgers stated on March 18, 2021 in a House hearing:

The Democratic clean energy plan is pro-China, because "90% of the solar panels, 80% of the wind machines, 90% of the rare earth minerals … are in Asia or in China.”

By Jon Greenberg • March 29, 2021

Viral image stated on December 1, 2020 in a Facebook post:

China recovered from COVID-19 “without a vaccine.”

By Ciara O'Rourke • December 4, 2020

Allen Frances stated on August 25, 2019 in remarks on CNN's "Reliable Sources":

"Trump is as destructive a person in this century as Hitler, Stalin, and Mao were in the last century. He may be responsible for many more million deaths than they were."

By Louis Jacobson • August 26, 2019

Ben Carson stated on November 10, 2015 in the fourth GOP debate.:

"The Chinese are there" in Syria.

By Linda Qiu • November 15, 2015

Donald Trump stated on November 10, 2015 in the fourth GOP primary debate.:

The Trans-Pacific Partnership "was designed for China to come in, as they always do, through the back door and totally take advantage of everyone."

By Clayton Youngman • November 12, 2015

Viral image stated on June 20, 2015 in a post shared on Facebook:

Says after leaving the White House, Hillary Clinton "was forced to return an estimated $200,000 in White House china, furniture and artwork that she had stolen."

By Jon Greenberg • October 1, 2015

Austin Scott stated on October 5, 2010 in a TV campaign commercial:

Said U.S. Rep. Jim Marshall, D-Macon, sent nearly $2 billion overseas to build wind turbines and create jobs, mostly in China

By Willoughby Mariano • October 19, 2010

Facebook posts stated on July 24, 2022 in a blog post shared on Facebook:

“‘Monkeypox’ is only circulating in countries where the Pfizer vaccine has been distributed and is being used to advance a Technocratic Great Reset."

By Madison Czopek • July 29, 2022

Facebook posts stated on May 18, 2022 in a Facebook post:

Baby boomers didn’t have autism, seizures, allergies and other ailments when they were kids.

By Ciara O'Rourke • June 9, 2022

Donald Trump Jr. stated on April 4, 2022 in a Facebook video:

The FBI lost Hunter Biden’s laptop.

By Samantha Putterman • April 6, 2022

Patrick Gaspard stated on February 13, 2022 in remarks on ABC's "This Week":

"Inflation has been caused by the global economies shutting down all at once, reopening all at once. And … the U.S. economy is recovering at a far faster pace than any other country in the OECD."

By Louis Jacobson • February 16, 2022

Facebook posts stated on November 27, 2021 in a Facebook post:

"Don’t be fooled by the next ‘Variant’! There are actually 1000’s of them. They just will pick the next one to keep the fear going."

By Bill McCarthy • December 1, 2021

Bloggers stated on March 8, 2021 in a post on Trending Politics:

“Schumer and Pelosi sneak funding into COVID bill.”

By Jon Greenberg • March 11, 2021

Donald Trump stated on October 10, 2020 in a campaign ad:

Says Dr. Anthony Fauci said of Trump’s pandemic response, “I can’t imagine that … anybody could be doing more.”

By Bill McCarthy • October 11, 2020

Joe Biden stated on July 20, 2020 in an interview with Joy Reid on MSNBC:

“I, all the way back in January, warned (President Trump that) this pandemic was coming. I talked about what we needed to do.”

By Louis Jacobson • July 22, 2020

Bloggers stated on April 22, 2020 in a post on Facebook:

“President Trump just announced that the ‘biological’ lab in Wuhan where the COVID-19 virus was created was ‘funded’ by President Barak (sp) Hussein Obama in 2015 to the tune of $3,800,000 American dollars!”

By Jon Greenberg • April 30, 2020

Louie Gohmert stated on April 7, 2020 in an interview:

Says a powder has been developed that, when mixed with water, “is being used in Germany as a mist. Health care workers go through a misting tent going into the hospital and it kills the coronavirus completely dead not only right then, but any time in the next 14 days that the virus touches anything that’s been sprayed, it is killed.”

By Madlin Mekelburg • April 9, 2020

John Bel Edwards stated on April 5, 2020 in a CNN interview:

Says of the coronavirus threat, “there was not a single suggestion by anyone, a doctor, a scientist, a political figure, that we needed to cancel Mardi Gras.”

By Miriam Valverde • April 8, 2020

Chain message stated on March 23, 2020 in a video:

"Slices of lemon in a cup of hot water can save your life. The hot lemon can kill the proliferation of" the novel coronavirus.

By Daniel Funke • March 24, 2020

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