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  • Fact Check: White House Posted AI Generated Image Of President Trump Wielding Lightsaber On May 4, 2025

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    Did the official X account of The White House post an AI generated picture of President Trump wielding a red lightsaber in front of a backdrop of American flags and eagles? Yes, that's true: The image was published on May 4, 2025, a day informally celebrated as "Star Wars Day" by fans of the franchise. According to an AI detection…

    • May 4, 2025
    • by: Maarten Schenk
    Fact Check: White House Posted AI Generated Image Of President Trump Wielding Lightsaber On May 4, 2025 Real WH Post
  • Fact Check: Pam Bondi Did NOT Promise To Send People To El Salvador For 15 Years For Saying 'Fuck Trump'

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    Did U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi threaten that anyone saying "Fuck Trump" may get "15 years in El Salvador" for doing that? No, that's not true: The viral image with the supposed quote was not an authentic screenshot of Bondi's interview. In the picture circulating on social media, the contents of the lower banner were digitally replaced with a made-up…

    • Apr 24, 2025
    • by: Uliana Malashenko
    Fact Check: Pam Bondi Did NOT Promise To Send People To El Salvador For 15 Years For Saying 'Fuck Trump' Fake Banner
  • Fact Check: Donald Trump DID Post an Easter Message to 'Radical Left Lunatics', Judges, Biden in 2025

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    Did President Donald Trump post a "Happy Easter" message to social media in which he attacked "Radical Left Lunatics," "WEAK and INEFFECTIVE judges", and former president Joe Biden? Yes, that's true: Widely shared screenshots of the post were authentic, and taken from Trump's April 20, 2025 post on Truth Social. Trump mentioned MS-13 gang members, and described Biden as a…

    • Apr 21, 2025
    • by: Lead Stories Staff
    Fact Check: Donald Trump DID Post an Easter Message to 'Radical Left Lunatics', Judges, Biden in 2025 Authentic Post
  • Fact Check: 'MS13' Letters And Numbers Added To Photo Of Kilmar Abrego Garcia Knuckle Tattoos Held Up By Trump

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    Does a printout of a photo held up by President Trump in a picture on social media authentically show the characters "MS13" on the hand of Kilmar Abrego Garcia? No, that's not true: The letters and numbers appear to have been added to the picture. Other pictures of Abrego Garcia's hand only show what looks like a marijuana leaf, a…

    • Apr 19, 2025
    • by: Maarten Schenk
    Fact Check: 'MS13' Letters And Numbers Added To Photo Of Kilmar Abrego Garcia Knuckle Tattoos Held Up By Trump MS13 Added
  • Fact Check: Navy SEAL Team Did NOT 'Hunt' MS-13 Members In Los Angeles -- Navy Denied

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    Did a Navy SEAL team based in California start "hunting MS-13 members in the greater Los Angeles area" and have they already "eliminated" 50 members of MS-13? No, that's not true: The U.S. Navy told Lead Stories that there was "no truth" to this claim. Neither the latest Navy press releases nor a Google News search contained any evidence these…

    • Nov 26, 2024
    • by: Marlo Lee
    Fact Check: Navy SEAL Team Did NOT 'Hunt' MS-13 Members In Los Angeles -- Navy Denied 'No Truth'
  • Fact Check: NO Evidence That Texas School Shooter Was 'Illegal Immigrant'

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    Was Salvador Ramos, the shooter who killed children and faculty members at a Texas elementary school on May 24, 2022, an illegal immigrant? No, that's not true: Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said Ramos was a U.S. citizen and a state legislator said Ramos was born in the United States. The claim appeared in a tweet (archived here) on May 24,…

    • May 25, 2022
    • by: Christiana Dillard
    Fact Check: NO Evidence That Texas School Shooter Was 'Illegal Immigrant' U.S. Citizen
  • Fake News: 13-Year-Old Boy Was NOT Attacked For Being White And An @RealDonaldTrump Supporter

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    Was a 13-year-old California boy attacked by older Hispanic teens for being white and a supporter of President Donald Trump? No, that's not true: Corning, California, police concluded the boy suffered a broken nose during a "pre-arranged fight," and after the boy "brandished" a knife and used racial slurs. Police recommended that the district attorney consider criminal charges against the…

    • Dec 27, 2019
    • by: Alan Duke
    Fake News: 13-Year-Old Boy Was NOT Attacked For Being White And An @RealDonaldTrump Supporter
  • Fake News: Illegal Immigrants Do NOT Get 43% Of All Food Stamps, 95% of Los Angeles Murder Warrants, 66% Of California Births, 60% Of HUD Housing

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    Do illegal immigrants get 43 percent of all food stamp benefits and are they suspects in 95 percent of all Los Angeles murders? Are 41 percent of them on welfare and are 66 percent of all births in California to undocumented mothers who get free healthcare? Is 60 percent of the housing subsidized by HUD occupied by illegal immigrants? Are…

    • Sep 19, 2019
    • by: Alan Duke
    Fake News:  Illegal Immigrants Do NOT Get 43% Of All Food Stamps, 95% of Los Angeles Murder Warrants, 66% Of California Births, 60% Of HUD Housing
  • Fake News: Bernie Sanders NOT Elected Governor of Virginia

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    Was Bernie Sanders just elected Governor of Virginia during the U.S. midterm elections? No, that's not true: he did get elected but it was as Senator for Vermont. The "news" that he got the governorship of Virginia came from a left-wing satire site that likes to poke fun at conservatives and Trump supporters by tricking them into liking and sharing…

    • Nov 6, 2018
    • by: Maarten Schenk
    Fake News: Bernie Sanders NOT Elected Governor of Virginia
  • Fake News: Santa Fe Killer Did NOT Confess His Love For Obama

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    Did the shooter at the Santa Fe highschool who recently killed ten people confess his love for Obama? No, that's not true: an article that claims he did originated on a website known to publish false stories designed to get conservatives and Trump supporters to share them so they can subsequently be mocked by fans of the site. The story…

    • May 19, 2018
    • by: Maarten Schenk
    Fake News: Santa Fe Killer Did NOT Confess His Love For Obama
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