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Donald Trump stated on September 22, 2017 in a rally:

"So now they take drugs, literally, and they throw it, a hundred pounds of drugs. They throw it over the wall, they have catapults, but they throw it over the wall, and it lands and it hits somebody on the head."

By Miriam Valverde• September 27, 2017

Bloggers stated on November 02, 2018 in a post on Facebook:

Refugees are throwing rocks and trying "to kill you."

By Ciara O'Rourke• November 5, 2018

Bob Marshall stated on February 02, 2012 in a legislative hearing.:

"You're supposed to throw away your shoes" if mercury from a broken CFL light bulb gets on them.

By Sean Gorman• February 13, 2012

Doug Pederson stated on December 18, 2016 in In a press conference:

"Your chances of throwing it are actually a little bit better in that situation."

By Mark Dent• December 20, 2016

Social Media stated on July 24, 2025 in social media posts:

Images show “Egyptian youth who put some food, baby formula, rice, and flour in bottles and threw them into the sea, hoping it would reach Gaza.”

By Loreben Tuquero• July 28, 2025

Facebook posts stated on September 08, 2022 in a Facebook post:

Video shows Queen Elizabeth II “feeding Africans like chickens.”

By Ciara O'Rourke• September 9, 2022

Kellyanne Conway stated on October 23, 2016 in comments on "Meet the Press":

Says Hillary Clinton takes "tens of millions of dollars from countries that hate women, that disrespect women, that throw gays off of buildings."

By Linda Qiu• October 23, 2016

Facebook posts stated on February 26, 2022 in a Facebook post:

Photos show Ukrainian citizens destroying two Russian tanks with Molotov cocktails in Kyiv.

By Madison Czopek• March 2, 2022

Facebook posts stated on February 22, 2019 in a Facebook post:

"In 1963 Bernie Sanders was arrested for throwing eggs at black civil rights protestors."

By Amy Sherman• February 25, 2019

Viral image stated on February 13, 2019 in a Facebook post:

Quotes Beto O’Rourke as saying, "If I could throw two kinds of people in the garbage it would be the elderly and wounded veterans. When a tool breaks you don’t fix it, you throw it in the damn trash."

By Ciara O'Rourke• February 14, 2019

Facebook posts stated on November 05, 2020 in an Instagram post:

An election worker in Georgia threw away a ballot.

By Tom Kertscher• November 7, 2020

Instagram posts stated on December 05, 2021 in a post:

“SHOCKING: In the wake of Austria’s drastic lockdown of unvaccinated people, EU chief calls for throwing out Nuremberg Code.”

By Monique Curet• December 7, 2021

David Holmes stated on October 17, 2016 in a Facebook post and video:

Says Gerald Daugherty advocated lowering the penalty for crimes like strangulation in domestic violence cases because "they just ‘throw more people into the’" jail "‘system."

By Rachel Rice• October 24, 2016

Beto O'Rourke stated on February 24, 2018 in a Waco campaign stop:

Says "PTA meetings are now being conducted to help parents tell their kids" that if a guy with an AR-15 walks into their classroom, "you are supposed to create as much chaos as you possibly can. They want you to scream and yell and dance around and throw books and just keep moving."

By W. Gardner Selby• March 15, 2018

Bloggers stated on February 08, 2018 in a blog post:

"ALERT: Massive Easter Egg Recall Leaves MILLIONS Of Children In Danger- THROW THEM AWAY- They WILL Kill Your Kids."

By Miriam Valverde• March 6, 2018

Michele Bachmann stated on October 18, 2011 in a Republican presidential debate in Las Vegas:

"Obamacare is so flat-out unpopular, that even the Obama administration chose to reject part of Obamacare last Friday, when they tried to throw out the CLASS Act, which is the long-term care function."

By Angie Drobnic Holan• October 19, 2011

National Republican Senatorial Committee stated on May 03, 2022 in a memo to Republican senate candidates and lawmakers:

“Republicans DO NOT want to throw doctors” in jail.

By Jon Greenberg• May 5, 2022

Threads posts stated on November 05, 2024 in a post:

“In Nevada, the GOP is succeeding in throwing out the votes of thousands of young people.”

By Sara Swann• November 8, 2024

Facebook posts stated on September 06, 2024 in a Facebook post:

“Gordon Ramsay calls Tim Walz a ‘woke creep,’ throws him out of Hell’s Kitchen.”

By Ciara O'Rourke• September 12, 2024

Michael Steele stated on May 23, 2010 in an interview on ABC's 'This Week.':

In Hawaii, "they don't have a history of throwing incumbents out of office."

By Aaron Sharockman• May 23, 2010

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