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Search results for "Charlie Kirk was killed while speaking at a Utah university last year"

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X posts stated on September 11, 2025 in an X post:
A book on Amazon titled “The Shooting of Charlie Kirk” with a Sept. 9 publication date is evidence the event was staged.
By Samantha Putterman• September 12, 2025
JD Vance stated on October 15, 2025 in an episode of The Charlie Kirk Show:
"Political violence, it's just a statistical fact that it's a bigger problem on the left.”
By Amy Sherman• October 20, 2025
Facebook posts stated on February 05, 2020 in an image:
The widow and son of a deceased military veteran looked on in horror as Speaker Nancy Pelosi ripped up a copy of the State of the Union.
By Samantha Putterman• February 11, 2020
Charlie Kirk stated on February 04, 2020 in a tweet:
"Nancy Pelosi may have just committed a violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2071, Section 2071 (a) when she ripped up President Trump’s State of the Union address. This violation is punishable by up to three years in prison.”
By Bill McCarthy• February 5, 2020
X posts stated on February 06, 2022 in a tweet:
Turning Point USA is a white nationalist organization.
By Caleb McCullough• February 16, 2022
Donald Trump stated on February 07, 2020 in a comment to reporters:
"I thought it was a terrible thing when (Nancy Pelosi) ripped up the speech. First of all, it's an official document. You're not allowed. It's illegal what she did. She broke the law."
By Bill McCarthy• February 7, 2020
Social Media stated on September 12, 2025 in social media posts:
Former President Barack Obama eliminated a law that “held news corporations accountable for lying to the American people.”
By Loreben Tuquero• September 17, 2025
Charlie Kirk stated on June 01, 2023 in a post:
“Jamie Foxx left ‘paralyzed and blind’ from blood clot in his brain” after a COVID-19 vaccine injection.
By Gabrielle Settles• June 5, 2023
Charlie Kirk stated on March 04, 2021 in a radio show segment:
H.R. 1 “would allow the Boston bomber to have a right to vote.”
By Bill McCarthy• March 5, 2021
Charlie Kirk stated on August 16, 2021 in a radio show segment:
Joe Biden intentionally “let it fall apart” in Afghanistan because he “wants a couple hundred thousand more Ilhan Omars to come into America to change the body politic permanently.”
By Bill McCarthy• August 19, 2021
Charlie Kirk stated on December 08, 2024 in a post on X:
The 14th Amendment “has never been challenged at SCOTUS.”
By Madison Czopek• December 12, 2024
Charlie Kirk stated on October 03, 2022 in a video:
For climate change environmentalists, “not a single one of their predictions ever come true.”
By Kristin Hugo• October 25, 2022
Charlie Kirk stated on August 24, 2022 in a Tweet:
“Harvard is sitting on top of a $54 billion hedge fund they call an ‘endowment’ that they pay zero taxes on. Yale has $31 Billion. Stanford $29 Billion. Princeton $26 Billion.”
By Madison Czopek• August 31, 2022
Facebook posts stated on February 24, 2024 in Instagram post:
“7.2 million illegals entered the U.S. under Biden administration,” showing that “the ‘Great Replacement’ is not a theory, it’s a reality."
By Katelyn Ferral• March 1, 2024
Charlie Kirk stated on May 23, 2022 in a tweet:
The World Economic Forum has its own police force.
By Monique Curet• June 2, 2022
Susan Crawford stated on March 12, 2025 in TV debate:
"Brad Schimel said that he wanted to be part of Donald Trump's support network."
By D.L. Davis• March 28, 2025
Threads posts stated on August 27, 2024 in a Threads post:
Charlie Kirk X post about iPhone storage reveals his top app is Grindr.
By Jeff Cercone• August 29, 2024
Charlie Kirk stated on January 26, 2021 in an Instagram post:
"Joe Biden admits he is governing like a 'dictator.'"
By Daniel Funke• January 28, 2021
Social Media stated on February 18, 2025 in social media posts:
“An ICE minivan was reportedly set on fire in Philadelphia.”
By Sofia Ahmed• February 19, 2025
Charlie Kirk stated on August 06, 2024 in a Threads post:
“During Covid, Tim Walz rationed access to monoclonal antibody treatments based on skin color.”
By Jeff Cercone• August 14, 2024

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'Rough road ahead': Charlie Kirk’s assassination highlights the rise in US political violence

By Louis Jacobson, Amy Sherman• September 11, 2025

Charlie Kirk is dead after being shot at a Utah college event. What we know

By Grace Abels, Katie Sanders• September 10, 2025

Tyler Robinson: What's known about Charlie Kirk shooting suspect's politics, bullet casing etchings

By Louis Jacobson, Maria Ramirez Uribe, Amy Sherman• September 12, 2025

Fact-checking false claims about shooter’s identity in Charlie Kirk shooting

By Grace Abels, Maria Briceño, Loreben Tuquero• September 11, 2025

Trump's posts on Brown shooting, Reiner killing highlight a rush to post before facts are known

By Louis Jacobson, Amy Sherman• December 15, 2025

Does a bullet analysis clear Charlie Kirk’s suspected killer? What an ‘inconclusive’ result means

By Loreben Tuquero• April 2, 2026

‘How about a little less Trump?’ PolitiFact readers share feedback on our fact-checking

By Ellen Hine• October 21, 2025

What is the ‘great replacement theory’ linked to the Buffalo shooter?

By Bill McCarthy• May 16, 2022

Charlie Kirk tributes sounded like Adele and Bieber, but were AI. How to spot synthetic music

By Loreben Tuquero• October 1, 2025

Booker latest Democrat to exaggerate gun violence statistic

By Louis Jacobson• April 4, 2013

Key question in the Jimmy Kimmel case: Does the FCC have the power to regulate speech?

By Louis Jacobson, Samantha Putterman• September 18, 2025

Fact-checking the Gordon Sondland impeachment hearing about Trump, Ukraine

By Louis Jacobson, Bill McCarthy• November 20, 2019

A brief history of Senate illness and recovery, and what it means for John Fetterman

By Louis Jacobson• October 26, 2022

What to make of an abysmal year for truth? PolitiFact names 2025 the Year of the Lies

By Katie Sanders• December 15, 2025

Charlie Kirk’s comparison of migrant entries with US births lacks reliable data

By Maria Ramirez Uribe• October 11, 2022

PolitiFact's Fall TV Preview

By Bill Adair• September 6, 2010

Education attacks have played a key role in governor’s race

By Joshua Gillin, Katie Sanders, Amy Sherman• August 19, 2014

Can Trump designate antifa as a ‘major terrorist organization?’ Here’s what we know

By Maria Briceño• September 18, 2025

Why Clinton disinformation resurfaced during Trump’s impeachment trial

By Daniel Funke• February 17, 2020

Fact-checking the Reagan Library debate

By Bill Adair• September 8, 2011