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Search results for "German Chancellor Merz said the Americans have absolutely no coherent strategy whatsoever"

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Alex Jones stated on May 11, 2025 in a post on X:
A video shows French President Emmanuel Macron, United Kingdom Prime Minister Keir Starmer and German Chancellor Freidrich Merz with a bag of cocaine after visiting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
By Maria Briceño, Madison Czopek• May 13, 2025
Donald Trump stated on March 03, 2026 in remarks at the White House:
The 2015 Iran nuclear agreement “gave (Iran) the right to have top-of-the-line nuclear weapons.”
By Louis Jacobson• March 5, 2026
Instagram posts stated on June 14, 2020 in an image:
Nazi Germany’s Hermann Göring worked to "defund and eliminate the police departments so that they would not interfere with his Brown Shirts."
By Daniel Funke• June 18, 2020
Blaine Wilhour stated on February 09, 2022 in a press conference:
"There is absolutely no observed or clinical data that indicates any benefit whatsoever to masking K-12 students in schools."
By Analisa Trofimuk• February 20, 2022
Donald Trump stated on March 18, 2017 in a post on Twitter:
"Germany owes ... vast sums of money to NATO & the United States must be paid more for the powerful, and very expensive, defense it provides to Germany!"
By Allison Graves• March 19, 2017
Facebook posts stated on March 21, 2019 in a Facebook post:
Quotes Adolf Hitler as saying the best way to control a people is "to take a little of their freedom at a time."
By Samantha Putterman• April 1, 2019
Joe Biden stated on August 20, 2021 in a press conference:
There has been “no question of our credibility from our allies around the world” regarding how the U.S. is withdrawing from Afghanistan.
By Miriam Valverde• August 26, 2021
Viral image stated on August 03, 2020 in a Facebook post:
Photo shows Angela Merkel, Theresa May and Dalia Grybauskaitė as teenagers.
By Ciara O'Rourke• August 5, 2020
Viral image stated on August 03, 2020 in a Facebook post:
Says Angela Merkel is the daughter of Adolf Hitler, Justin Trudeau is the son of Fidel Castro and Barbara Bush is the daughter of Aleister Crowley.
By Ciara O'Rourke• August 6, 2020
Paul Wolfowitz stated on September 11, 2016 in an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press":
"The Germans, the French, countries that opposed us in the (Iraq) war, all believed (Saddam Hussein) had weapons of mass destruction."  
By Allison Graves, Jon Greenberg• September 13, 2016
Threads posts stated on August 04, 2024 in a post:
Image shows Hitler in similar scene as Trump.
By Kwasi Gyamfi Asiedu• August 9, 2024
Ben Carson stated on October 09, 2015 in his book "A More Perfect Union":
"German citizens were disarmed by their government in the late 1930s," which allowed the Nazis to "carry out their evil intentions with relatively little resistance."    
By Jon Greenberg• October 26, 2015
Joe Biden stated on June 23, 2021 in a White House announcement:
"The Second Amendment, from the day it was passed, limited the type of people who could own a gun and what type of weapon you could own.”
By Jon Greenberg• June 25, 2021
Kayleigh McEnany stated on February 08, 2022 in a Facebook post:
“President Trump sanctioned Russia. President Biden gave them a pipeline.”
By Louis Jacobson• February 9, 2022
Candace Owens stated on February 22, 2022 in a tweet:
“NATO (under direction from the United States) is violating previous agreements and expanding eastward.”
By Bill McCarthy• February 28, 2022
Instagram posts stated on January 30, 2024 in an Instagram post:
“George Soros worked for Hitler. Klaus Schwab’s father also worked for Hitler.”
By Loreben Tuquero• February 8, 2024
Jon Stewart stated on October 30, 2013 in in comments on Comedy Central's "The Daily Show":
Congress "is bewildered at the scope and reach of our spying apparatus" but in 2008 and 2012 "explicitly rejected an amendment calling for more disclosure."
By Jon Greenberg• November 5, 2013
Alex Jones stated on May 11, 2025 in en una publicación en X:
Un vídeo muestra al presidente francés, Emmanuel Macron, al primer ministro del Reino Unido, Keir Starmer, y al canciller alemán, Friedrich Merz, con una bolsa de cocaína tras visitar al presidente ucraniano, Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
By Maria Briceño, Madison Czopek• May 16, 2025
Hillary Clinton stated on September 26, 2016 in a Presidential debate:
Says Donald Trump once suggested that he "would try to negotiate down the national debt."
By Amy Sherman• September 27, 2016
Newt Gingrich stated on December 12, 2011 in a foreign policy debate with Jon Huntsman in Manchester, N.H., Dec. 12, 2011:
"The Obama administration just issued instructions that terrorism training should not involve any reference to Islam."
By John Gregg• December 14, 2011

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