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Search results for "Emirati weapons and military vehicles smuggled to the genocidal RSF militia in Sudan"

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TikTok posts stated on October 22, 2023 in a TikTok video:
Israel bombed Palestinian children trying to get water.
By Jeff Cercone• November 6, 2023
Instagram posts stated on March 30, 2021 in Instagram post:
“56 million defenseless people ‘rounded up and exterminated’ in the 20th Century because of gun control.”
By Michael Majchrowicz• April 9, 2021
Saxby Chambliss stated on June 13, 2013 in an interview on CNN's "The Situation Room":
"The United States has never stood by and seen innocent people slaughtered to the extent that's happening in Syria."
By Louis Jacobson• June 18, 2013
Rand Paul stated on February 27, 2015 in a speech at CPAC:
U.S. military involvement in Libya "allowed thousands of surface-to-air missiles to fall into the hands of radical Islamists."
By Lauren Carroll• March 9, 2015
Hillary Clinton stated on April 11, 2010 in an interview on "This Week.":
"I don't answer hypotheticals."
By Angie Drobnic Holan• April 13, 2010
Charlie Crist stated on October 24, 2010 in a U.S. Senate debate on CNN’s “State of the Union.”:
"I am very proud, as governor of Florida, that we signed the first divestment act, as it relates to Iran, divesting any investments in companies that would invest in Iran."
By Becky Bowers• October 24, 2010
Louie Gohmert stated on December 16, 2012 in an interview on ‘Fox News Sunday’:
Says George Washington said a free people should be armed to guard against government tyranny.
By Sue Owen• January 3, 2013
Steve Stockman stated on August 19, 2013 in a letter forwarded to PolitiFact:
Says U.N. arms treaty will mandate a "new international gun registry."
By Sue Owen• August 28, 2013
Jon Stewart stated on July 21, 2015 in an interview on "The Daily Show":
The United States is "fighting with Iraqis to defeat ISIS along with Iran. But in Yemen we're fighting Iran with Iraqis and Saudis."
By Anna Bruzgulis• July 23, 2015
Donald Trump stated on October 16, 2019 in answering questions from reporters:
"The Kurds are much safer right now."
By Tom Kertscher• October 16, 2019
Viral image stated on April 01, 2019 in a Facebook post:
Photos related to gun violence in present-day United States and the Holocaust in Nazi Germany suggest that gun control laws created or exacerbated the genocide of Jews.
By Samantha Putterman• April 8, 2019
Donald Trump stated on July 11, 2021 in in an interview on Fox News:
“There were no guns whatsoever” at the Capitol riot on Jan. 6.
By Gabrielle Settles• July 13, 2021
Facebook posts stated on February 16, 2015 in a meme on social media:
Say George Washington said that "when government takes away citizens’ right to bear arms it becomes citizens’ duty to take away government’s right to govern."
By Audrey Bowler • February 20, 2015
Ross Douthat stated on January 30, 2011 in a newspaper column:
Under Hosni Mubarak's rule, "Egypt received more American dollars than any country besides Israel."
By Angie Drobnic Holan• February 4, 2011
Rick Saccone stated on July 13, 2016 in floor remarks during a House session:
"Illegal tobacco sales, price driven too high, has been connected to at least several cases of funding terrorism against us in multi-year investigations over the last decade and a half."
By Cassie Owens• July 18, 2016
Viral image stated on October 17, 2020 in a Facebook post:
In the plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, “the perps were ANTIFA and BLM anarchists.”
By Ciara O'Rourke• October 21, 2020
Martha McSally stated on August 23, 2018 in a campaign ad:
"While we were in harm’s way in uniform, Kyrsten Sinema was protesting us in a pink tutu and denigrating our service."
By Miriam Valverde• September 10, 2018
Marco Rubio stated on April 25, 2014 in a speech to the NRA:
"No other country has a constitutional right" like the Second Amendment.
By Amy Sherman• April 29, 2014
TikTok posts stated on April 26, 2023 in a TikTok post:
Fauci, DOD and CDC funded deadly pathogen research at Sudan lab
By Jill Terreri Ramos• May 8, 2023
Donald Trump stated on April 06, 2016 in as a candidate in 2016 and as a possible hopeful in 2000:
On banning assault weapons.
By W. Gardner Selby• April 12, 2016

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By Marta Campabadal Graus, Maria Ramirez Uribe• October 18, 2023

Were militia groups in Charlottesville better equipped than Virginia State Police?

By Miriam Valverde• August 18, 2017

Who decides when genocide has occurred? The long legal process hinges on proving intent

By Grace Abels, Madison Czopek• December 12, 2025

‘Everything we trained for’: How the far-right Oath Keepers militia planned for violence on Jan. 6

By Samantha Putterman• September 23, 2021

Russia, Ukraine, and the contested language of genocide

By Louis Jacobson• April 11, 2022

What we know about Jacob Blake's shooting in Kenosha, Wis.

By Daniel Funke, Ciara O'Rourke• August 27, 2020

Did Washington say firearms ensured freedom from government tyranny?

By Sue Owen• January 3, 2013

Dr. Oz holds dual citizenship with Turkey. That’s no bar to a Senate bid

By Jon Greenberg• December 3, 2021

GOP governors answer Texas’ call to send forces to the border. But what is their role?

By Amy Sherman• July 2, 2021

Experts say Ron DeSantis’ plan to send troops to the U.S.-Mexico border wouldn't lower fentanyl flow

By Marta Campabadal Graus, Maria Ramirez Uribe• August 25, 2023

Trump declares fentanyl a weapon of mass destruction. What does that mean?

By Louis Jacobson• December 17, 2025

War crime prosecutions in the Russia-Ukraine war: What to expect

By Louis Jacobson• April 26, 2022

Cluster munitions, Ukraine and President Joe Biden: What to know

By Nuria Diaz Muñoz, Louis Jacobson• July 11, 2023

Fact-checking claims on guns and gun violence

By Becky Bowers• January 24, 2013

Fact-checking claims on guns and gun violence

By Becky Bowers• January 24, 2013

Announcing PolitiFact Readers' Choice for the 2025 Lie of the Year

By Ellen Hine• December 15, 2025

PunditFact fact-checks the Feb. 8 Sunday shows

By Lauren Carroll, Katie Sanders, Aaron Sharockman• February 8, 2015

California Sen. Kamala Harris challenges AG nominee William Barr on border wall, drug trafficking

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