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  • Fact Check: Trump Advisor Alina Habba Did NOT Discover A Hidden 'Fake Oval Office' Used By Biden

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    Did President Donald Trump's adviser Alina Habba discover a hidden "fake Oval Office" used by former President Joe Biden? No, that's not true: There is nothing secret or hidden about the constructed Oval Office set. It is the South Court Auditorium in the Eisenhower building and has been used by multiple presidents, including Trump. Habba implied she discovered the "fake…

    • Mar 12, 2025
    • by: Alexis Tereszcuk
    Fact Check: Trump Advisor Alina Habba Did NOT Discover A Hidden 'Fake Oval Office' Used By Biden Public Knows
  • Fact Check: Biden Did NOT Call NATO Secretary-General An 'Intellectual Wigger' At July 2024 Summit

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    Did President Joe Biden call NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg an "intellectual wigger" at the NATO summit in Washington in July 2024? No, that's not true: Listening to recordings confirms the official transcript of the president's remarks at the summit, in which Biden said "intellectual rigor," not "intellectual wigger." No credible evidence or verified report supports this claim. The claim appeared…

    • Jul 10, 2024
    • by: Ed Payne
    Fact Check: Biden Did NOT Call NATO Secretary-General An 'Intellectual Wigger' At July 2024 Summit Misheard
  • Fact Check: Biden Did NOT Say It Was His First 'In Person' Picket While Meeting With Striking Autoworkers -- He Was Misquoted In Online Post

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    Did President Joe Biden misspeak while addressing a picket line of striking United Auto Workers (UAW) in Michigan on September 26, 2023, saying that while he had marched in other UAW picket lines it was the "first time I've ever done it in person"? No, that's not true: Biden was misquoted in a social media post. He was speaking into…

    • Sep 26, 2023
    • by: Sarah Thompson
    Fact Check: Biden Did NOT Say It Was His First 'In Person' Picket While Meeting With Striking Autoworkers -- He Was Misquoted In Online Post As President
  • Fact Check: Biden Administration Did NOT Blame Kamala Harris For Cocaine Found In White House

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    Did the Biden administration blame Vice President Kamala Harris for the cocaine found in the White House on July 2, 2023? No, that's not true: There's no information or evidence to support that claim. The White House has never said or suggested that the vice president was responsible for a small plastic baggie with the powdered substance found in a…

    • Jul 27, 2023
    • by: Ed Payne
    Fact Check: Biden Administration Did NOT Blame Kamala Harris For Cocaine Found In White House Slyly Edited
  • Fact Check: VP Kamala Harris Did NOT Laugh At Question About Ukrainian Refugees -- Awkward Pause With Polish President Was Over Who Should Answer First

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    Did U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris laugh at a question about Ukrainian refugees at a press conference with Polish President Andrzej Duda in Warsaw on May 10, 2022? No, that's not true: Harris did laugh following questions about Ukrainian refugees, but she wasn't laughing at them or their plight. The laughter followed an awkward pause as the U.S. vice president…

    • Jul 19, 2023
    • by: Ed Payne
    Fact Check: VP Kamala Harris Did NOT Laugh At Question About Ukrainian Refugees -- Awkward Pause With Polish President Was Over Who Should Answer First Comms Error
  • Fact Check: Twitter Community Note Falsely Claims Video In Benny Johnson Tweet Shows Paris Gas Explosion Aftermath

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    Does this video actually show damage to a Paris building from a gas explosion last month, as a Twitter Community Note suggests? No, that's not true: This video shows the collapse of a pharmacy building in the town of Montargis, France. The fire had been set by vandals and looters in the night, and the smoldering building finally collapsed on…

    • Jul 7, 2023
    • by: Sarah Thompson
    Fact Check: Twitter Community Note Falsely Claims Video In Benny Johnson Tweet Shows Paris Gas Explosion Aftermath Miscorrected
  • Fact Check: Biden Did NOT Withhold '1,850 Boxes Of Classified' Documents From Time As Vice President

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    Did President Joe Biden withhold 1,850 boxes of classified documents from his time as vice president between 2009 and 2017? No, that's not true: Though the University of Delaware Library has stated that it holds over 1,850 boxes of Biden's "archival records," these documents are from the president's decadeslong career as a Delaware senator. Senatorial papers, in general, are not…

    • Jun 16, 2023
    • by: Ed Payne
    Fact Check: Biden Did NOT Withhold '1,850 Boxes Of Classified' Documents From Time As Vice President Not Classified
  • Fact Check: Democrats Did NOT Dress Up 'Black Guy As A White Supremacist' -- It Was Demonstration by Anti-Trump Republicans

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    Did Democrats dress "a black guy as a white supremacist" to cast a bad light on supporters of former President Donald Trump? No, that's not true: The picture, which shows five people standing side by side with tiki torches, is a 2021 demonstration by a group of anti-Trump Republicans mimicking a 2017 rally of white nationalists in Charlottesville, Virginia, that…

    • Mar 30, 2023
    • by: Ed Payne
    Fact Check: Democrats Did NOT Dress Up 'Black Guy As A White Supremacist' -- It Was Demonstration by Anti-Trump Republicans GOP People
  • Fact Check: Pictures of Fauci Arrest Are NOT Real Photos But AI-Generated Images

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    Do images circulating on social media show press photos of Anthony Fauci under arrest and in police custody? No, that's not true: Fauci, the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, has not been arrested. These are not photos of a real incident but are images generated by an artificial intelligence program. Jack Posobiec posted the…

    • Mar 24, 2023
    • by: Sarah Thompson
    Fact Check: Pictures of Fauci Arrest Are NOT Real Photos But AI-Generated Images AI Generated
  • Fact Check: Silicon Valley Bank Failure NOT 'First Massive Bank Collapse This Century'

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    Was the $209 billion Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) failure in March 2023 the "first massive bank collapse this century"? No, that's not true: "Washington Mutual is still larger, but SVB was the largest since the Great Recession," Julianne Breitbeil, a senior media relations officer at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, told Lead Stories in a March 14, 2023, email. The…

    • Mar 14, 2023
    • by: Ed Payne
    Fact Check: Silicon Valley Bank Failure NOT 'First Massive Bank Collapse This Century' See 2008
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