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Facebook posts stated on February 26, 2024 in an Instagram post:

“The Rothschilds were behind the Federal Reserve, and they now control the global financial system.”

By Katelyn Ferral• March 1, 2024

Viral image stated on April 01, 2019 in a Facebook post:

By Samantha Putterman• April 8, 2019

Viral image stated on April 12, 2022 in a Facebook post:

Says Adolf Hitler said, “The day mankind finds out what I was trying to defend this nation, Germany, from, then that’s the day World War III starts.”

By Ciara O'Rourke• April 18, 2022

Instagram posts stated on February 08, 2023 in an Instagram post:

Winston Churchill didn’t mention the Holocaust in his memoirs because it didn’t happen.

By Ciara O'Rourke• February 23, 2023

Critics of water fluoridation stated on October 04, 2011 in a Pinellas County Commission meeting and web comments:

Say water fluoridation started in Nazi Germany ghettos and death camps to pacify the Jews.

By Becky Bowers• October 6, 2011

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

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

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

Dean Phillips stated on November 13, 2023 in a speech at Dartmouth College:

"Half of American high school students are not familiar with the Holocaust."

By Louis Jacobson• November 20, 2023

Instagram posts stated on January 22, 2023 in an Instagram post:

The sinking of the Titanic was orchestrated by the Rothschilds and J.P. Morgan to kill prominent businessmen who opposed the creation of the Federal Reserve.

By Samantha Putterman• January 26, 2023

Whoopi Goldberg stated on January 31, 2022 in a TV segment:

"The Holocaust isn't about race. No, it's not about race."

By Bill McCarthy• February 1, 2022

Donald Trump stated on May 23, 2016 in an interview with Fox News' Bill O'Reilly:

"Look, we are at war with these people and they don't wear uniforms. … This is a war against people that are vicious, violent people, that we have no idea who they are, where they come from. We are allowing tens of thousands of them into our country now."

By Louis Jacobson• May 25, 2016

Viral image stated on January 05, 2019 in a meme:

Says "the Rothschild family holds about 80 percent of the world’s total wealth" and has the ability to "literally feed, clothe and settle every man, woman and child on the planet if they wanted to."

By Samantha Putterman• January 9, 2019

Donald Trump Jr. stated on August 01, 2018 in an interview with One America News Network:

"You see the Nazi platform from the early 1930s ... look at it compared to the (Democratic Party) platform of today, you're saying, 'Man, those things are awfully similar.'"

By Louis Jacobson• August 3, 2018

Viral image stated on August 08, 2019 in a Facebook post:

Says Hitler said, "This year will go down in history. For the first time, a civilized nation has full gun registration! Our streets will be safer, our police more efficient, and the world will follow our lead into the future!"

By Ciara O'Rourke• August 21, 2019

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

David Simmons stated on March 03, 2018 in a vote in the Florida senate:

"Adolf Hitler confiscated all the weapons — took all the weapons, had a registry of everybody — and then on the night of June 30, 1934, sent out his secret police and murdered all of his political opponents."

By Jon Greenberg• March 6, 2018

Michael Chippendale stated on December 16, 2011 in a public forum:

"Hydrogen sulfide . . . [was] used in the genocide of Jews in Germany. "

By Alex Kuffner• December 21, 2011

Viral image stated on January 24, 2019 in a Facebook post:

Says Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger said, "Slav, Latin and Hebrew immigrants are human weeds . . . a deadweight of human waste. Blacks, soldiers and Jews are a menace to race."

By Samantha Putterman• January 25, 2019

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

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