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Search results for "US authorities investigate huge '8647' marking on grounds of National Mall in Washington"

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Fact-checks (22294)

Bloggers stated on September 12, 2009 in conservative blogs:
Photo of "tea party" protests shows crowd sprawling from Capitol to Washington Monument
By Catharine Richert• September 14, 2009
Facebook posts stated on July 04, 2019 in a Facebook post:
Says the National Mall’s webcam was "abruptly shut down" and removed from the White House’s website to stop viewers from seeing the lack of attendees at president Trump’s Fourth of July event.
By Samantha Putterman• July 9, 2019
Oregon Citizens Lobby stated on February 06, 2014 in a legislative hearing tweet:
Kip Kinkel and Clackamas Town Center shootings "both where citizen with gun stopped the crime"
By Dana Tims• February 12, 2014
Bob Beckel stated on November 09, 2009 in Sean Hannity's show on Fox News:
"There were more people at the Air and Space Museum" than at a rally against the health care bills.
By Louis Jacobson• November 12, 2009
Sean Spicer stated on January 21, 2017 in a press conference:
"That was the largest audience to witness an inauguration, period."
By Linda Qiu• January 22, 2017
Robert Gibbs stated on February 02, 2009 in a comment at the daily White House press briefing.:
"There are no earmarks" in the stimulus bill.
By Bill Adair• February 4, 2009
Mark Udall stated on June 09, 2013 in a Senate speech rebroadcast on ABC's "This Week":
Currently, the intelligence community "can collect business records on law-abiding Americans who have no connection to terrorism."
By Jon Greenberg, Louis Jacobson• June 13, 2013
Eric Cantor stated on January 23, 2009 in an interview on the Fox News Channel.:
"For every dollar (in the stimulus package) that is spent to help small businesses, $4 is being spent to help upkeep the grass on the lawns of Washington."
By Robert Farley• January 27, 2009
Politicono.com stated on December 03, 2016 in an online article:
"Sarah Palin Calls To Boycott Mall Of America Because ‘Santa Was Always White In The Bible.’"
By Lauren Carroll• December 21, 2016
Mark Jewell stated on May 01, 2019 in a tweet:
Photo shows a sea of red-clad education advocates covering most of the Halifax Mall.
By Matthew Riley, Paul Specht• May 3, 2019
Facebook posts stated on July 20, 2022 in an image on Facebook:
“The gunman at Greenwood Park Mall was a CIA asset.”
By Madison Czopek• July 22, 2022
Donald Trump stated on August 08, 2024 in a press conference:
Says his Jan. 6, 2021, speech on the White House Ellipse drew the “same number of people,” as the 1963 March on Washington where Martin Luther King Jr. gave his “I Have a Dream” speech.
By Louis Jacobson, Samantha Putterman, Amy Sherman• August 9, 2024
Florida Education Association stated on February 05, 2018 in a Youtube video:
"Richard Corcoran has a plan to divert even more of our tax dollars to unaccountable private schools."
By Allison Graves• February 9, 2018
Facebook posts stated on April 15, 2021 in a Facebook post:
A serial killer is on the loose in Virginia.
By Ciara O'Rourke• April 19, 2021
Instagram posts stated on April 02, 2024 in an Instagram post:
“The National Guard in the HISTORY of its life, gets called in AFTER a disaster, not BEFORE something happens.”
By Madison Czopek• April 8, 2024
David Silverman stated on February 17, 2012 in a story on TV website:
"There are more atheists in the country right now than Jews, Muslims, Hindus and Buddhists combined and doubled."
By C. Eugene Emery Jr.• February 26, 2012
Viral image stated on June 06, 2020 in a Facebook post:
A photo shows “the Lincoln Memorial. His head damaged and defaced.”
By Ciara O'Rourke• June 8, 2020
Dan Patrick stated on January 03, 2016 in an interview on Meet the Press:
Every "one of the mass shootings except two in America since 1950 have been" in "gun-free zones."
By W. Gardner Selby• January 13, 2016
Unite Here Florida PAC stated on August 16, 2018 in a TV ad:
"Gwen Graham owns a $14 million stake in her family’s company that’s behind the American Dream Mall. ... While Graham and her family will make millions, Florida will be stuck with poverty wage jobs, endangered wildlife and massive traffic congestion."
By Amy Sherman• August 22, 2018
Instagram posts stated on April 13, 2024 in a video:
The Sydney mall attacker is a “Zionist” who targeted Jewish people so that people would think the attacker was Muslim.
By Maria Briceño• April 16, 2024

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By John Kruzel• April 24, 2018

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