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Search results for "American YouTuber Johnny Somali jailed for public nuisance in South Korea"

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Hank Johnson stated on April 18, 2012 in a speech:
"The United States imprisons more than any nation in the world."
By Eric Stirgus• May 7, 2012
Donald Trump stated on February 02, 2026 in an interview with Dan Bongino:
Among Somalis in Minnesota, “92% of them don’t work.”
By Louis Jacobson, Amy Sherman• February 2, 2026
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
Facebook posts stated on August 01, 2019 in a Facebook post:
Says U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar has been "arrested 23 times" and is the "daughter of (a) Somali terrorist."
By Daniel Funke• August 14, 2019
VoteVets.org stated on February 25, 2008 in a television ad.:
"John McCain says it's okay with him if the U.S. spends the next thousand years in Iraq."
By Bill Adair• March 5, 2008
Facebook posts stated on August 29, 2020 in a Facebook post:
“South Korea sprays rioters with dye so they can be identified & arrested later.”
By Noah Y. Kim• September 8, 2020
Pam Bondi stated on December 29, 2025 in an X post:
The Justice Department has been investigating fraud in Minnesota “for months. So far, we have charged 98 individuals.”
By Amy Sherman• January 8, 2026
YouTube videos stated on April 22, 2020 in a YouTube video:
“Breaking news Kim Jong Un has pass(ed) away.”
By Ciara O'Rourke• April 22, 2020
Facebook posts stated on March 06, 2022 in a video:
Video shows Russian President Vladimir Putin meeting with South Korea’s president.
By Monique Curet• March 9, 2022
Viral image stated on October 22, 2023 in a Facebook post:
The media didn’t cover “new history” when North Korea and South Korea’s leaders crossed the border for the first time.
By Ciara O'Rourke• October 31, 2023
Bloggers stated on July 12, 2014 in a post on the blog "Outside the Beltway":
"North Korea is telling its people that their men’s national team is in the World Cup final."
By Jon Greenberg• July 17, 2014
Tim Walz stated on November 30, 2025 in an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press":
“I take responsibility for putting people in jail” in Minnesota fraud scandal.
By Amy Sherman• December 5, 2025
Barack Obama stated on February 26, 2008 in a debate in Cleveland, Ohio.:
"We are bogged down in a war that John McCain now suggests might go on for another 100 years."
By Bill Adair• March 5, 2008
X posts stated on January 28, 2024 in a video:
Rep. Ilhan Omar said her "top priority is to put Somalia first and expand its territory.”
By Kwasi Gyamfi Asiedu• February 1, 2024
Donald Trump stated on March 24, 2020 in Fox News town hall:
"We've done more tests in eight days than South Korea has done in eight weeks."
By Shefali Luthra• March 25, 2020
Viral image stated on February 28, 2019 in a post on the Internet:
"Obama settled 43,000 Somalian refugees in Minnesota. As of 2016, there were around 80,000. No wonder Ilhan Omar was elected. It was planned."
By Louis Jacobson• March 5, 2019
Barack Obama stated on June 29, 2011 in a press conference:
"You see a whole bunch of Korean cars here in the United States, and you don't see any American cars in Korea."
By Angie Drobnic Holan• July 4, 2011
Bloggers stated on March 11, 2018 in a Facebook post:
Say Sean Hannity said in 2008 that Obama’s willingness to meet with North Korea was "disturbing" while Trump’s "willingness to meet with North Korea is a huge foreign policy win."
By Jon Greenberg• March 14, 2018
Reince Priebus stated on July 09, 2017 in an interview:
"It's an absolute fact" that China and North Korea "have consistently over many, many years" meddled in U.S. elections.  
By Tom Kertscher• July 13, 2017
Brian Fitzpatrick stated on March 23, 2020 in comments he made on the radio:
“We’ve got to give the American public a rough estimate of how long we think this is going to take, based mostly on the South Korean model, which seems to be the trajectory that we are on, thankfully, and not the Italian model.”
By Jessica Calefati• April 1, 2020

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By Lauren Carroll, Louis Jacobson• January 11, 2016

Wolf corrects statement on missing soldiers from Korean War

By Sean Gorman• November 29, 2011

Is North Korea ready to scrap its nuclear weapons?

By Jon Greenberg• April 19, 2018

Fact-checking the Jan. 10 Sunday shows

By Lauren Carroll, Louis Jacobson• January 10, 2016

Fact-checking 22 claims from Donald Trump's Axios interview

By PolitiFact Staff • August 4, 2020

Trade agreements don't have all protections promised

By Angie Drobnic Holan• October 13, 2011

The big picture: The North Korea situation as Trump heads to the UN

By Miriam Valverde• September 17, 2017

The art of the oversell: 10 times Trump’s bombastic rhetoric didn’t match reality

By Ciara O'Rourke• September 29, 2020

PunditFact checks the Oct. 18 Sunday news shows

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Fact-checking Donald Trump in Singapore about North Korea

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The facts about FIFA

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Trump doing a little better lately on the Truth-O-Meter

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By Louis Jacobson, Linda Qiu• October 18, 2015

Who is Donald Trump’s State of the Union guest Ji Seong-ho, who defected from North Korea?

By Amy Sherman• January 31, 2018

Creative editing twists McCain's comments on Iraq

By Angie Drobnic Holan• July 11, 2008

Bergmann attacks EPA, says it arrests for infractions that make "no sense"

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