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Social Media stated on June 10, 2025 in an ad on Craigslist:

Companies called “T-Mellon Events” and “Fight Fite Fight LLC” are offering to pay “seat fillers” in Washington, D.C, on June 14.

By Gabrielle Lazor • June 13, 2025

Dane County Republican Party stated on August 25, 2017 in a news release:

"The KKK was founded as the military arm of the Democratic Party."

By D.L. Davis • October 23, 2017

Chain email stated on May 30, 2014 in messages on the Internet:

Says Barack Obama is the only American president who has not visited the D-Day Monument in Normandy on D-Day.

By Shannon Beckham • May 30, 2014

Donald Trump stated on August 3, 2026 in remarks in the Oval Office:

"There was vandalism" at the Reflecting Pool.

By Amy Sherman, Louis Jacobson • August 4, 2026

Donald Trump stated on August 19, 2025 in a Truth Social post:

The Smithsonian Institution includes “nothing about success, nothing about brightness, nothing about the future.”

By Grace Abels, Louis Jacobson • August 20, 2025

Donald Trump stated on August 8, 2024 in a press conference:

Says his Jan. 6, 2021, speech on the White House Ellipse drew the “same number of people,” as the 1963 March on Washington where Martin Luther King Jr. gave his “I Have a Dream” speech.

By Amy Sherman, Louis Jacobson, Samantha Putterman • August 9, 2024

Facebook posts stated on June 11, 2023 in a Facebook video:

Video showing someone in military gear outside a Georgia Waffle House proves that Donald Trump is president.

By Sofia Bliss-Carrascosa • June 28, 2023

Pearson Sharp stated on March 11, 2022 in a TV segment:

The Russian airstrike on a maternity hospital in Mariupol, Ukraine, had “the makings of yet another false flag operation” led by the U.S.

By Bill McCarthy • March 22, 2022

Rusty Hicks stated on January 12, 2021 in a press conference:

The effort to recall California Gov. Gavin Newsom is "a coup."

By Chris Nichols • January 14, 2021

Facebook posts stated on June 3, 2020 in an image:

Says a photo shows a memorial vandalized by Black Lives Matter protesters.

By Daniel Funke • June 4, 2020

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

Photos show cemeteries and war memorials damaged during George Floyd demonstrations.

By Ciara O'Rourke • June 4, 2020

Mike Pompeo stated on January 5, 2020 in an appearance on Fox News:

"President Trump didn't say he'd go after a cultural site."

By Bill McCarthy • January 6, 2020

Lloyd Doggett stated on September 3, 2015 in remarks in San Antonio:

As many as six federal department budget bills have been delayed because of opposition to amendments that would ban Confederate battle flag sales at federal building gift shops.

By W. Gardner Selby • September 11, 2015

James Clyburn stated on June 21, 2015 in comments on NBC's "Meet the Press":

The original compromise for the Confederate battle flag in South Carolina "was to put it on the back side of the statehouse, out of public view so it would not have any appearance of sovereignty."

By Jon Greenberg • June 21, 2015

Waco Tea Party stated on May 25, 2011 in an e-mail blast:

Says the federal government threatened to impose a no-fly zone in Texas if state legislators bar airport security officials from performing pat-downs.

June 8, 2011

Chain email stated on June 25, 2009 in an e-mail received by many people.:

"The ACLU has filed a suit to have all military cross-shaped headstones removed."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • July 2, 2009

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