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stated on March 31, 2025 in a Facebook post:

Says Elon Musk wrote on X, “The DOGE team has discovered tens of millions of dollars spent on golf by a single government official.”

By Ciara O'Rourke • April 4, 2025
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stated on March 29, 2025 in a Facebook post:

Video shows “how Denmark reacted when Trump said he wanted to buy Greenland.”

By Ciara O'Rourke • April 4, 2025
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stated on April 1, 2025 in a Facebook post:

Says President Donald Trump wrote on Truth Social, “I am ending dual citizenship under the Espionage Act and all these traitors will be ‘denaturalized and deported.’”

By Ciara O'Rourke • April 4, 2025
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stated on February 12, 2025 in a Facebook post:

Photo shows National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard and President Donald Trump at her swearing-in.

By Ciara O'Rourke • February 14, 2025
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stated on February 9, 2025 in a Threads post:

Video shows President Donald Trump was “booed at the Super Bowl.”

By Ciara O'Rourke • February 11, 2025
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stated on February 9, 2025 in an Instagram post:

Photo shows someone raising two middle fingers at President Donald Trump at the 2025 Super Bowl.

By Ciara O'Rourke • February 11, 2025
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stated on January 31, 2025 in an Instagram post:

An image of a website error code shows the Trump administration “trolling” former Vice President Kamala Harris.

By Ciara O'Rourke • February 7, 2025
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stated on January 29, 2025 in a Threads post:

A Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol rioter pardoned by President Donald Trump was “killed when she used her 2A rights with a shotgun while being served for eviction.”

By Ciara O'Rourke • January 31, 2025
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stated on January 25, 2025 in a Facebook post:

Video shows “Donald Trump just announced that America will no longer give visas to Nigerians.”

By Ciara O'Rourke • January 31, 2025
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stated on January 24, 2025 in a Threads post:

Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Jamie Raskin “have filed articles of impeachment against President Trump for pardoning the J6 prisoners.”

By Ciara O'Rourke • January 29, 2025
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stated on January 25, 2025 in a Facebook post:

“President Trump just announced full nationwide concealed carry reciprocity.”

By Ciara O'Rourke • January 29, 2025
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stated on January 27, 2025 in a Facebook post:

Image shows President Donald Trump’s response “to Selena Gomez’ meltdown.”

By Ciara O'Rourke • January 28, 2025
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stated on January 23, 2025 in a Threads post:

“The Fraternal Order of Police, the largest police union in the country, just released a statement rescinding their endorsement of President Trump.”

By Ciara O'Rourke • January 28, 2025
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stated on January 21, 2025 in a Facebook post:

“FEMA has been directed back to North Carolina with $2 billion in emergency funds: ‘We transferred it from the programs that fund welfare for illegals. They don’t be needing it.’”

By Ciara O'Rourke • January 24, 2025
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stated on January 21, 2025 in a Threads post:

President Donald Trump declared “a state of emergency in Florida because of snow.”

By Ciara O'Rourke • January 24, 2025
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stated on January 20, 2025 in a Facebook post:

Image shows President Donald Trump responding to a picture rapper Ye drew of them.

By Ciara O'Rourke • January 23, 2025
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stated on January 23, 2025 in a Facebook post:

President Donald Trump "just reversed all the cost caps Biden negotiated for anyone on Medicare or Medicaid."

By Caleb McCullough • January 23, 2025
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stated on December 2, 2024 in a video:

Video shows Fox News host Jeanine Pirro criticizing President-elect Donald Trump.

By Ciara O'Rourke • December 10, 2024
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stated on November 27, 2024 in a Threads post:

Donald Trump ordered the “Dallas Police Department and Dallas Attorney General’s Office to begin the preparation for the arrest” of a suspect in John F. Kennedy’s assassination.

By Ciara O'Rourke • December 3, 2024
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stated on November 16, 2024 in a video:

Video shows President-elect Donald Trump announcing “free college education” in November 2024.

By Ciara O'Rourke • November 27, 2024
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stated on November 18, 2024 in a Threads post:

President-elect Donald Trump called Joe Scarborough “a scolded dog” on Truth Social.

By Ciara O'Rourke • November 21, 2024
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stated on November 16, 2024 in an Instagram post:

“Parents of trans-species kids no longer getting money every month” because of President-elect Donald Trump.

By Ciara O'Rourke • November 21, 2024
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stated on November 8, 2024 in a Threads post:

Photo shows Taylor Swift after she “broke down in tears on live television the moment the race was called for President Trump.”

By Ciara O'Rourke • November 14, 2024
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stated on November 7, 2024 in an Instagram post:

Video shows a “massive rally in the UK for President Trump” after Election Day 2024.

By Ciara O'Rourke • November 14, 2024
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stated on November 10, 2024 in a Threads post:

“NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte says that ‘if Trump surrenders Ukraine to Putin, he will personally expel the United States from the alliance.’”

By Ciara O'Rourke • November 13, 2024
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stated on November 10, 2024 in a Threads post:

Image shows U.S. Health and Human Services secretaries in the Biden administration and the incoming Trump administration as of Nov. 11, 2024.

By Ciara O'Rourke • November 12, 2024
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stated on November 5, 2024 in a Threads post:

Actor Sydney Sweeney “says she voted for Donald Trump.”

By Ciara O'Rourke • November 8, 2024
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stated on November 6, 2024 in a Threads post:

“Nancy Pelosi stated today that if the Democrats get the House the first thing they’re going to do is impeach Donald Trump before he gets elected.”

By Ciara O'Rourke • November 8, 2024
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stated on November 6, 2024 in an Instagram post:

President-elect Donald Trump “has been to Epstein’s island”

By Caleb McCullough • November 8, 2024
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stated on November 5, 2024 in an Instagram post:

Photo shows 2024 ballots cast for Republicans in North Carolina that a postal worker said he was going to make “disappear.”

By Ciara O'Rourke • November 6, 2024

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