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Ron Paul stated on September 30, 2011 in remarks at Politics & Eggs forum in Manchester, N.H.:

Every month since 9/11, there have been as many suicide attacks against the United States and its allies as there were in all the years leading up to 9/11.

By Maryalice Gill• October 24, 2011

Michael McCaul stated on October 31, 2017 in an interview by Fox News:

Says the New York bike path assault "was the ninth vehicle assault used by ISIS."

By W. Gardner Selby• November 10, 2017

Mitt Romney stated on October 16, 2012 in the second presidential debate:

Says President Obama waited two weeks to call the attack in Libya "terror."

By Jon Greenberg• October 17, 2012

Frank Lautenberg stated on June 15, 2011 in an interview on ABC's "Top Line":

"Since 2004, there have been some 1,300 attacks (on rail targets). Four thousand people have died. Thousands of injuries."

By Bill Wichert• June 28, 2011

John Garamendi stated on May 05, 2014 in an interview on MSNBC's "The Ed Show":

"During the George W. Bush period, there were 13 attacks on various embassies and consulates around the world. Sixty people died."

By Louis Jacobson• May 12, 2014

Barack Obama stated on May 23, 2013 in a speech at the National Defense University in Washington, D.C.:

Says that since he took office, "there have been no large-scale attacks on the United States."

By Louis Jacobson• May 24, 2013

Facebook posts stated on June 28, 2022 in a Facebook video post:

Video claims Moscow turned into “sea of fire after being attacked by two mysterious missiles.”

By Andy Nguyen• June 30, 2022

X posts stated on March 22, 2024 in an X post:

A March 7 U.S. security alert … means the U.S. was “behind this gruesome terror attack on Russian civilians.”

By Kwasi Gyamfi Asiedu, Louis Jacobson• March 27, 2024

Ann Coulter stated on September 08, 2010 in a column:

"There have been more terrorist attacks on U.S. soil by ... Muslims in Obama's first 18 months in office than in the six years under Bush after he invaded Iraq."

By Louis Jacobson• September 10, 2010

Marco Rubio stated on October 29, 2015 in an interview on CNN:

"There was never a single shred of evidence presented to anyone" that the attacks in Benghazi, Libya, were "spontaneous, and in fact, the CIA themselves understood that early on."

By Amy Sherman, Clayton Youngman• November 4, 2015

Barack Obama stated on September 28, 2016 in a CNN town hall:

"If you look worldwide, the number of terrorist incidents have not substantially increased."

By Miriam Valverde• October 13, 2016

Rudy Giuliani stated on August 15, 2016 in a speech in Youngstown, Ohio:

"Under those eight years before (Barack) Obama came along, we didn’t have any successful radical Islamic terrorist attack in the United States" since Sept. 11, 2001.

By Linda Qiu• August 16, 2016

Joe Scarborough stated on December 04, 2015 in on MSNBC's "Morning Joe":

In the weekend after the terrorist attacks in Paris, the White House said "this couldn't happen in the United States. ISIS couldn't reach us here."

By Lauren Carroll• December 8, 2015

Rick Perry stated on February 11, 2015 in a statement:

"Obama has chosen to deny the vicious anti-Semitic motivation of the attack on a kosher Jewish grocery in Paris."

By Lauren Carroll• February 12, 2015

Instagram posts stated on December 05, 2022 in an Instagram post:

Paul Pelosi hasn’t been seen in public for months because he had mpox.

By Jeff Cercone• December 8, 2022

Ted Yoho stated on September 04, 2013 in an interview on Fox Business Network:

Chemical weapons have been used "probably 20 times" since the Persian Gulf War.

By Becky Bowers• September 10, 2013

Facebook posts stated on August 24, 2022 in an image shared on Facebook:

The FBI “spent more time investigating” the Jan. 6 Capitol attack than 9/11.

By Madison Czopek• August 30, 2022

Ron Bergeron stated on September 02, 2015 in a Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission meeting:

"There has never been a panther attack in the history of Florida."

By Joshua Gillin• September 8, 2015

David Dewhurst stated on October 14, 2013 in an interview with the Texas Observer:

The White House had a live video feed of the Benghazi attacks as they occurred.

By W. Gardner Selby• October 15, 2013

Rudy Giuliani stated on January 08, 2010 in an interview on 'Good Morning America':

"We had no domestic attacks under Bush."

By Aaron Sharockman• January 8, 2010

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