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Marco Rubio stated on May 20, 2026 in an X post:

“The reason (people in Cuba) are forced to survive 22 hours a day without electricity is not due to an oil ‘blockade’ by the US.”

By Maria Briceño, Samantha Putterman• May 22, 2026

Katie Pavlich stated on June 18, 2014 in an article on Townhall.com:

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau "passed a rule giving the agency unprecedented power to shut down businesses, no matter what the reason, at any time it wishes."

By Katie Sanders• August 5, 2014

Republican National Committee stated on July 22, 2024 in a video:

President Joe Biden appointed "Kamala Harris to be his border czar to deal with illegal immigration … Harris was put in charge of stopping illegal immigration."

By Maria Ramirez Uribe• July 24, 2024

Jeff Flake stated on January 17, 2018 in the U.S. Senate:

Says Donald Trump's use of the term "fake news" to undermine journalism "seems (to have) inspired dictators and authoritarians."

By John Kruzel• January 22, 2018

Barack Obama stated on April 02, 2012 in a Rose Garden press conference:

If the Supreme Court throws out the federal health care law, it "would be an unprecedented, extraordinary step of overturning a law that was passed by a strong majority of a democratically elected Congress."

By Molly Moorhead• April 4, 2012

Ana Navarro stated on December 17, 2014 in an interview on CNN's "Anderson Cooper":

"A lot of what (Cuba’s) survival depends on is Venezuelan oil money, which is drying up."

By Jon Greenberg• December 18, 2014

National Republican Senatorial Committee stated on August 14, 2017 in a Spanish-language radio ad:

Says Sen. Bill Nelson "has aligned himself with communists and dictators," "went to Venezuela to admire Chávez’s revolution" and "supports murderers."

By Amy Sherman• August 17, 2017

Donald Trump stated on March 04, 2025 in an address to a joint session of Congress:

The Trump administration identified $1.9 billion in federal dollars going to a “decarbonization of homes” group Stacey Abrams “headed up.”

By Madison Czopek• March 5, 2025

Viral image stated on January 24, 2022 in a Facebook post:

Quotes show Joseph Stalin and Joe Biden expressed similar views about counting votes.

By Ciara O'Rourke• January 27, 2022

Ron DeSantis stated on January 05, 2026 in a press conference:

Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro “was releasing people from his prisons and sending them to our southern border under the Biden administration.”

By Samantha Putterman• January 7, 2026

Donald Trump stated on April 02, 2024 in a speech:

"Crime is down in Venezuela by 67% because they're taking their gangs and their criminals and depositing them very nicely into the United States.”

By Maria Ramirez Uribe• April 10, 2024

Jody Hice stated on May 05, 2022 in a TV interview:

Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger used "$50 million of Zuckerberg money" in 2020 to "tip the scales."

By Amy Sherman• May 19, 2022

Donald Trump stated on February 28, 2026 in a video:

On the US seeking regime change

By Amy Sherman• March 3, 2026

Donald Trump Jr. stated on September 09, 2024 in a post:

“Less than three months ago, Kamala Harris and her administration blocked 300,000 unvetted Haitian migrants from being deported out of our country."

By Kwasi Gyamfi Asiedu• September 30, 2024

Donald Trump stated on January 05, 2026 in an X post:

Maduro was “flooding America with deadly fentanyl.”

By Maria Ramirez Uribe• January 7, 2026

X posts stated on July 28, 2024 in an X post:

Video shows “several masked men stormed a local voting station and stole the ballot boxes” in Venezuela’s 2024 election.

By Maria Briceño• July 30, 2024

Al Franken stated on September 05, 2017 in an interview:

"President (Ronald) Reagan did a similar thing. George H.W. Bush did a similar order" as former President Barack Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA.

By John Kruzel• September 8, 2017

MAGA Inc stated on April 25, 2024 in an ad:

President Joe Biden is paying rent for immigrants illegally in the country.

By Maria Ramirez Uribe• May 9, 2024

Kellyanne Conway stated on February 02, 2017 in an interview on "Fox and Friends":

"This is longest that the nation has gone without a secretary of the Treasury, at least in modern times. If it's not the longest, it's darn close to it."

By Allison Graves• February 2, 2017

Barack Obama stated on April 19, 2009 in a news conference.:

"Venezuela is a country whose defense budget is probably 1/600th of the United States."

By Robert Farley• April 21, 2009

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