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Rand Paul stated on October 19, 2025 in an interview “About 25% of the time the Coast Guard boards a ship, there are no drugs.” Donald Trump stated on October 19, 2025 in an interview “Fifty percent of the presidents, almost, have used (the Insurrection Act). And that's unquestioned power.” Donald Trump stated on October 15, 2025 in news conference Regarding boat strikes off the coast of Venezuela, “Every boat that we knock out we save 25,000 American lives.” Donald Trump stated on September 30, 2025 in a speech to military brass “You never heard Biden say” the U.S. has “the strongest military anywhere in the world.” Donald Trump stated on September 23, 2025 in a speech to the U.N. General Assembly “I have ended seven unendable wars.” JD Vance stated on August 24, 2025 in an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press" "If you go back to World War II, if you go back to World War I, if you go back to every major conflict in human history, they all end with some kind of negotiation." X posts stated on August 23, 2025 in an X post An Aug. 23 video shows “the military’s already showing up in Chicago” before a potential National Guard deployment. 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. Social Media stated on June 9, 2025 in social media posts California Gov. Gavin Newsom shared images taken in 2021 and said they showed National Guard troops sleeping on the floor in June 2025. Pete Hegseth stated on April 29, 2025 in an X post The federal government’s Women, Peace and Security program is a “Biden initiative.” Robert F. Kennedy Jr. stated on April 29, 2025 in a town hall event DARPA is spraying the skies with chemicals that are in jet fuel. Facebook posts stated on March 28, 2025 in una publicación en Facebook “Trump ordena ataques militares en los túneles del Vaticano - Laboratorios de (adrenocromo) dirigidos por la CIA cerrados por las fuerzas especiales de EE.UU”. Facebook posts stated on March 26, 2025 in a post President Donald Trump “just suggested replacing pride month with veterans month in honor of those who served.” Pete Hegseth stated on March 24, 2025 in an interview "Nobody was texting war plans" in the Trump administration Signal group text about bombing Yemen. X posts stated on March 20, 2025 in a post on X Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth “removed Colin Powell’s name from a list of notable Americans buried at Arlington National Cemetery.” Donald Trump stated on March 4, 2025 in a speech to Congress "All armed services are having among the best recruiting results ever” because of Trump policies, and “it was just a few months ago where the results were exactly the opposite.” Donald Trump stated on February 18, 2025 in remarks to reporters at Mar-a-Lago Volodymyr Zelenskyy “started” the war in Ukraine with Russia. Kristi Noem stated on February 2, 2025 in an interview At Guantánamo Bay, “we'll have the capacity to continue to do there what we've always done. We've always had a presence of illegal immigrants there that have been detained.” Facebook posts stated on January 30, 2025 in a video on Facebook Early reports of four survivors show “this DC plane crash story isn’t adding up.” Instagram posts stated on January 31, 2025 in a post on Instagram CNN reported on the Potomac River plane and helicopter crash “hours before it happened.” Load more
Rand Paul stated on October 19, 2025 in an interview “About 25% of the time the Coast Guard boards a ship, there are no drugs.”
Donald Trump stated on October 19, 2025 in an interview “Fifty percent of the presidents, almost, have used (the Insurrection Act). And that's unquestioned power.”
Donald Trump stated on October 15, 2025 in news conference Regarding boat strikes off the coast of Venezuela, “Every boat that we knock out we save 25,000 American lives.”
Donald Trump stated on September 30, 2025 in a speech to military brass “You never heard Biden say” the U.S. has “the strongest military anywhere in the world.”
Donald Trump stated on September 23, 2025 in a speech to the U.N. General Assembly “I have ended seven unendable wars.”
JD Vance stated on August 24, 2025 in an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press" "If you go back to World War II, if you go back to World War I, if you go back to every major conflict in human history, they all end with some kind of negotiation."
X posts stated on August 23, 2025 in an X post An Aug. 23 video shows “the military’s already showing up in Chicago” before a potential National Guard deployment.
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.
Social Media stated on June 9, 2025 in social media posts California Gov. Gavin Newsom shared images taken in 2021 and said they showed National Guard troops sleeping on the floor in June 2025.
Pete Hegseth stated on April 29, 2025 in an X post The federal government’s Women, Peace and Security program is a “Biden initiative.”
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. stated on April 29, 2025 in a town hall event DARPA is spraying the skies with chemicals that are in jet fuel.
Facebook posts stated on March 28, 2025 in una publicación en Facebook “Trump ordena ataques militares en los túneles del Vaticano - Laboratorios de (adrenocromo) dirigidos por la CIA cerrados por las fuerzas especiales de EE.UU”.
Facebook posts stated on March 26, 2025 in a post President Donald Trump “just suggested replacing pride month with veterans month in honor of those who served.”
Pete Hegseth stated on March 24, 2025 in an interview "Nobody was texting war plans" in the Trump administration Signal group text about bombing Yemen.
X posts stated on March 20, 2025 in a post on X Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth “removed Colin Powell’s name from a list of notable Americans buried at Arlington National Cemetery.”
Donald Trump stated on March 4, 2025 in a speech to Congress "All armed services are having among the best recruiting results ever” because of Trump policies, and “it was just a few months ago where the results were exactly the opposite.”
Donald Trump stated on February 18, 2025 in remarks to reporters at Mar-a-Lago Volodymyr Zelenskyy “started” the war in Ukraine with Russia.
Kristi Noem stated on February 2, 2025 in an interview At Guantánamo Bay, “we'll have the capacity to continue to do there what we've always done. We've always had a presence of illegal immigrants there that have been detained.”
Facebook posts stated on January 30, 2025 in a video on Facebook Early reports of four survivors show “this DC plane crash story isn’t adding up.”
Instagram posts stated on January 31, 2025 in a post on Instagram CNN reported on the Potomac River plane and helicopter crash “hours before it happened.”
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