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Viral image stated on December 03, 2021 in a Facebook post:

Photo shows “the jabbed and the unjabbed … separated with a fence in a supermarket” in Germany.

By Ciara O'Rourke• December 17, 2021

Rick Santorum stated on July 18, 2011 in a house party in Henniker, N.H.:

In Europe, "church attendance rates (are) in the single digits" because churches are supported by taxes.

By Josh Rogers• July 27, 2011

Viral image stated on December 03, 2021 in a Facebook post:

Photo shows “a German mall separating the vaccinated and unvaccinated.”

By Ciara O'Rourke• December 8, 2021

Donald Trump stated on April 02, 2019 in remarks to reporters:

Says his father, Fred Trump, was "born in a very wonderful place in Germany."

By Tom Kertscher• April 4, 2019

Donald Trump stated on May 11, 2020 in comments in the Rose Garden:

“Germany and the United States are the two best in deaths per 100,000 people, which, frankly, to me, that's perhaps the most important number there is.”

By Shefali Luthra• May 13, 2020

Donald Trump stated on April 27, 2020 in comments made during a White House briefing:

“We’ve tested more than every country combined.”

By Shefali Luthra• April 30, 2020

Sherrod Brown stated on March 03, 2011 in a speech in the Senate:

"Hitler didn't want unions. Stalin didn't want unions. Mubarak didn't want independent unions. These autocrats in history don't want independent unions."

By Tom Feran• March 8, 2011

Ted Cruz stated on September 24, 2013 in speech advocating repeal of Obamacare law:

"Neville Chamberlain told the British people: ‘Accept the Nazis. Yes, they will dominate the continent of Europe, but that is not our problem. Let's appease them. Why? Because it can't be done. We cannot possibly stand against them.’"

By W. Gardner Selby• October 16, 2013

Bernie Sanders stated on February 04, 2016 in a Democratic debate in New Hampshire:

"Making public colleges and universities tuition-free, that exists in countries all over the world, used to exist in the United States."

By Amy Sherman• February 9, 2016

Facebook posts stated on April 06, 2021 in a Facebook post:

Schools stopped teaching children cursive so they wouldn’t be able to read the U.S. Constitution and other historical documents.

By Samantha Putterman• April 19, 2021

Bob Donovan stated on July 29, 2014 in a speech:

"There has never been an alderman who has defeated an incumbent mayor in the history of this great city."

By Dave Umhoefer• August 6, 2014

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

Barack Obama stated on June 18, 2015 in remarks at the White House:

"This type of mass violence does not happen in other advanced countries. It doesn’t happen in other places with this kind of frequency."

By Keely Herring, Louis Jacobson• June 22, 2015

Jason Villalba stated on October 13, 2015 in a tweet:

"Bernie Sanders admits he is a Democratic Socialist. … Nazis were Democratic Socialists."

By W. Gardner Selby• October 16, 2015

John Cornyn stated on July 09, 2020 in an interview:

Says “no one under the age of 20 has died of the coronavirus. We still don’t know whether children can get it and transmit it to others.”

By Madlin Mekelburg• July 10, 2020

Donald Trump stated on December 15, 2015 in the Republican debate in Las Vegas:

The 9/11 terrorists' friends, family, girlfriends in the United States "were sent back for the most part to Saudi Arabia. They knew what was going on. They went home, and they wanted to watch their boyfriends on television."

By Jon Greenberg• December 17, 2015

Louie Gohmert stated on April 07, 2020 in an interview:

Says a powder has been developed that, when mixed with water, “is being used in Germany as a mist. Health care workers go through a misting tent going into the hospital and it kills the coronavirus completely dead not only right then, but any time in the next 14 days that the virus touches anything that’s been sprayed, it is killed.”

By Madlin Mekelburg• April 9, 2020

Wawa Welcome America stated on April 13, 2017 in in a press release:

"The Wawa Welcome America festival (features) . . . America's largest free concert."

By Jordan Gunselman• April 21, 2017

Bloggers stated on August 27, 2021 in a blog post:

“Germany halts all Covid-19 vaccines, says they are unsafe and no longer recommended!!”

By Ciara O'Rourke• September 9, 2021

Facebook posts stated on December 06, 2021 in a video:

"COVID-19 vaccines do not stop transmission of COVID, but instead increase it.”

By Jeff Cercone• December 9, 2021

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