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Search results for "Trump evacuated after gunshots heard at White House Correspondents' Dinner"

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Daily World Update stated on April 29, 2018 in a headline:
"CNN shocks America, fires ‘journalist’ who made fun of Sarah Sanders’ face"
By Amy Sherman• May 1, 2018
The Liberty Raise stated on May 02, 2018 in a headline:
"Breaking: Michelle Wolf fired -- Comedy Central apologizes to Sarah Sanders."
By Amy Sherman• May 4, 2018
Instagram posts stated on February 02, 2022 in an Instagram post:
“Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau pays mainstream media $600 million to report in favor of him.”
By Ciara O'Rourke• February 3, 2022
Jeb Bush stated on November 11, 2015 in Atlantic, Iowa, during a campaign event.:
Says President Barack Obama did not invite a Republican senator to dine at the White House until his fifth year in office. 
By Jason Noble• November 23, 2015
Snooki stated on June 07, 2010 in a video promo for "Jersey Shore":
"Obama put a 10 percent tax on tanning."
By Robert Farley• June 21, 2010
Facebook posts stated on September 01, 2021 in Facebook posts:
News cameras “shut off” just as Biden was asked if he gave the Taliban a “hit list” of evacuating American and Afghan officials.
By Noah Y. Kim• September 28, 2021
Bloggers stated on September 10, 2017 in a blog post:
"Mar-A-Lago (was) destroyed by (Hurricane) Irma (and) Jared Kushner (is) still missing." 
By John Kruzel• September 11, 2017
Instagram posts stated on October 10, 2023 in an Instagram post:
“There isn't a single video or photo suggesting that 250 people were killed (by Hamas) at a concert or that a mass shooting took place” on Oct. 7 in Israel.
By Loreben Tuquero• October 13, 2023
Kevin McCarthy stated on November 29, 2022 in remarks to reporters outside the White House:
"I think President Trump came out four times and condemned” Nick Fuentes.
By Louis Jacobson• November 30, 2022
Hillary Clinton stated on October 02, 2017 in a tweet:
"The crowd (in Las Vegas) fled at the sound of gunshots. Imagine the deaths if the shooter had a silencer ..."
By Manuela Tobias• October 4, 2017
Derrick Van Orden stated on December 07, 2021 in Twitter:
Actions by Joe Biden left "10,000 to 15,000 American citizens abandoned to terrorists in Afghanistan."
By Alan Hovorka• January 4, 2022
Donald Trump stated on February 28, 2018 in in a meeting:
"You take Pulse nightclub. If you had one person in that room that could carry a gun and knew how to use it, it wouldn’t have happened, or certainly to the extent that it did."  
By John Kruzel• March 1, 2018
American Leadership Action stated on September 01, 2022 in an ad:
As a mayor, "John Fetterman chased down an innocent, unarmed Black man," wielded a shotgun and "falsely accused the man, triggering a confrontation with police."
By Tom Kertscher• September 12, 2022
Leo Berman stated on April 27, 2011 in a Texas Tribune article:
Says the hospital listed on Barack Obama’s just-publicized long-form birth certificate denies the president was born there.
By Meghan Ashford-Grooms, Ciara O'Rourke• April 27, 2011
Rachel Maddow stated on June 03, 2014 in comments on "The Rachel Maddow Show":
"The Pentagon made up" the since-debunked heroics of POW Jessica Lynch as she tried to avoid capture in Iraq.  
By Aaron Sharockman• June 5, 2014
Facebook posts stated on October 26, 2021 in a Facebook post:
A White House photographer took a picture of Donald Trump at the White House on Oct. 24.
By Ciara O'Rourke• October 27, 2021
Michelle Wolf stated on April 29, 2018 in a speech at the White House Correspondents Dinner:
"Flint still doesn’t have clean water."
By Louis Jacobson• May 1, 2018
YouTube videos stated on January 19, 2021 in a YouTube post:
“Military brass band plays ‘Hit the Road Jack’ as Trump leaves office.”
By Ciara O'Rourke• January 20, 2021
Facebook posts stated on June 28, 2020 in Facebook post:
Says Milwaukee police were protecting a sex offender's house and snuck children out of it after a mother tracked her missing daughter to that address.
By Lawrence Andrea• August 3, 2020
Drudge Report stated on March 20, 2014 in a post on their website:
"Reporters rehearse questions with White House press (secretary)."
By Jon Greenberg• March 20, 2014

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Column: Why a correspondents’ dinner at a White House ballroom could endanger press freedom

By Louis Jacobson• April 26, 2026

Fact-checking falsehoods after shooting in hotel hosting correspondents’ dinner Trump attended

By Amy Sherman• April 26, 2026

Hakeem Jeffries ‘maximum warfare’ comment was about redistricting, not a call to violence

By Amy Sherman• April 27, 2026

Ask PolitiFact: Where was Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez during the Capitol riot?

By Bill McCarthy• February 4, 2021

Fact-checking President Trump’s attorney after Comey's testimony

By Jon Greenberg, Miriam Valverde• June 9, 2017

Three times James Comey’s testimony contradicted Donald Trump

By Lauren Carroll• June 8, 2017

8 times the Mueller report shows Trump, White House spread false or misleading claims

By Miriam Valverde• April 19, 2019

Read James Comey's opening remarks for the June 8 Senate hearing

By Lauren Carroll• June 7, 2017

Fact-checking Trump’s falsehoods about Hurricane Dorian

By Amy Sherman• September 3, 2019

In Context: Tirade against Reince Priebus

By Tom Kertscher• July 28, 2017

Does Mike Pence call his wife ‘Mother’?

By John Kruzel• March 27, 2018

Ask PolitiFact: Are the White House press briefings ‘staged?’

By Daniel Funke• February 17, 2021

What was the Contingency and Crisis Response bureau? Examining the Trump-era proposal

By Bill McCarthy• August 25, 2021

Black Lives Matter protests and the Capitol assault: Comparing the police response

By Jon Greenberg, Noah Y. Kim• January 8, 2021

The 3 things Comey’s advance testimony corroborates from press reports, Trump

By Lauren Carroll, John Kruzel• June 7, 2017

From whispers to the White House briefing room: the tale of the birth certificate

By Bill Adair• April 27, 2011

Transcript of Devon Archer testimony doesn’t back key claims about Joe and Hunter Biden

By Maria Briceño, Jeff Cercone, Louis Jacobson, Amy Sherman• August 4, 2023

How Donald Trump’s untimely and untrue ‘death’ unfolded on social media

By Maria Ramirez Uribe, Loreben Tuquero• September 2, 2025

Obama releases birth certificate

By Bill Adair• April 27, 2011

Families of fallen US service members’ emotional moment at RNC, accusations against Joe Biden

By Samantha Putterman• July 18, 2024