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Search results for "I even warned Charlie Kirk 2 weeks before he was killed."

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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
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
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
X posts stated on February 06, 2022 in a tweet:
Turning Point USA is a white nationalist organization.
By Caleb McCullough• February 16, 2022
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
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
Brandon Morse stated on February 05, 2020 in a tweet:
Says a video proves Pelosi “was planning” to rip up President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address “from the start.”
By Amy Sherman• February 6, 2020
Mark Kelly stated on October 26, 2022 in a newspaper interview:
Blake Masters “wants to privatize” Social Security.
By Jon Greenberg• October 28, 2022
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
Sean Hannity stated on September 17, 2025 in an episode of "Hannity":
There was not “a single, prominent conservative voice in the country that even remotely wanted or hoped or was pushing to get Jimmy Kimmel taken off the air.”
By Madison Czopek, Amy Sherman• September 18, 2025
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 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
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 February 02, 2020 in a tweet:
Says "EIGHT Iowa counties have more adults registered to vote than voting-aged adults living there.”
By Daniel Funke• February 3, 2020
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
Charlie Kirk stated on April 03, 2020 in a tweet:
“The Chinese Communist Party is using Zoom as a way to spy on our citizens.”
By Bill McCarthy• April 7, 2020
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
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 June 01, 2021 in a tweet:
Says Anthony Fauci will make millions off new book.
By Samantha Putterman• June 15, 2021
Students for Trump stated on February 16, 2021 in a Tweet:
“Joe Biden is handing our power grid to the Chinese Communist Party.”
By Noah Y. Kim• February 23, 2021

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By Bill McCarthy• May 16, 2022

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

By Louis Jacobson, Amy Sherman• September 11, 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

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

By Grace Abels, Katie Sanders• September 10, 2025

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

By Loreben Tuquero• October 1, 2025

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

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

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

By Loreben Tuquero• April 2, 2026

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

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

By Louis Jacobson, Bill McCarthy• November 20, 2019

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

By Maria Ramirez Uribe• October 11, 2022

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

By Ellen Hine• October 21, 2025

Fact-checking the Gov. Rick Scott, Florida House feud over Enterprise Florida

By Amy Sherman• February 27, 2017

Who is John Solomon? Here’s what we know about the journalist whose stories shaped the Ukraine saga

By Bill McCarthy• November 19, 2019

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

By Katie Sanders• December 15, 2025

Which black people did David Clarke call uneducated, lazy and morally bankrupt?

By Tom Kertscher• November 17, 2015

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

By Louis Jacobson, Samantha Putterman• September 18, 2025

PolitiFact's Fall TV Preview

By Bill Adair• September 6, 2010

The State of the Union 'bump' -- in accuracy

By Louis Jacobson• January 27, 2011

What we know about the Politico story at the heart of a Ukraine conspiracy theory

By Daniel Funke, Jon Greenberg, Louis Jacobson• December 3, 2019

Tucker Carlson feigned ignorance over ‘great replacement theory,’ despite talking about it often

By Bill McCarthy• May 19, 2022