&Quot;Mark Milley&Quot;

Fact Check: Retired Gen. Mark Milley Did NOT Tell Troops Being Deployed To U.S. Cities 'We Do Not Report To A Dictator' -- He Said It Two Years Before Trump Sent National Guard To Los Angeles, D.C.

Fact Check

Did retired Gen. Mark Milley tell troops being deployed to U.S. cities in August of 2025 that they "do not report to a dictator", as posts on social media claim? No, that's not true: Milley's remarks were made in September of 2023, almost two years before President Donald Trump sent the National Guard to Los Angeles and Washington, D.C. Milley,…
Aug 25, 2025

by: Dean Miller
2023 Speech
Fact Check: JAG Did NOT Convict, Sentence Gen. Mark Milley To Hang

Fact Check

Did the Army Judge Advocate General's Corps (JAG) convict and sentence U.S. Army Gen. Mark Milley to "hang"? No, that's not true: The website where this claim was made has a disclaimer that states it publishes satirical content. Fictional stories from the site are often copied by other sites that falsely present them as news. The claim appeared in an…
Oct 13, 2023

by: Kaiyah Clarke
Satirical Site
Fact Check: NOT Accurate That Joint Chiefs Of Staff Chairman Gen. Mark Milley 'Never Served In Combat' -- Pentagon Provides Proof

Fact Check

Has U.S. Army Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, "never served in combat"? No, that's not true: A publicly available profile of Milley lists his numerous operational deployments over the past several decades. The claim appeared in a post on Instagram on February 8, 2023. The caption read: Anyone?? The text above a photo of Milley…
Feb 10, 2023

by: Kaiyah Clarke
Pentagon Bio
Fact Check: Chairman Of Joint Chiefs Of Staff Gen. Mark Milley Was NOT Arrested

Fact Check

Was Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley recently arrested? No, that's not true: Milley attended a press briefing after a video making this and other false claims appeared on a Facebook account that pretends to be from two QAnon influencers. The claim appeared in a video published on Facebook (archived here) by a "MEL K Charlie…
Jul 22, 2021

by: Kaiyah Clarke
Not Arrested
Fact Check: Claims Biden Inauguration Was Cancelled, Trump Remains in Office, ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox, CNN, MSNBC to Lose Licenses Have NO Merit

Fact Check

Was the inauguration cancelled; will Donald Trump remain in office; and will ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox, CNN, MSNBC all lose their licenses? No, none of that is true: A made-up story containing those claims and predictions was written by a discredited conspiracy writer and published by 'Before It's News', a news platform that lets anyone write and publish what they…
Jan 15, 2021

by: Sarah Thompson
Fan Fiction

About Us

Lead Stories is a fact checking website that is always looking for the latest false, misleading, deceptive or inaccurate stories, videos or images going viral on the internet.
Spotted something? Let us know!.

Fact Check: Retired Gen. Mark Milley Did NOT Tell Troops Being Deployed To U.S. Cities 'We Do Not Report To A Dictator' -- He Said It Two Years Before Trump Sent National Guard To Los Angeles, D.C.

Fact Check

Fact Check: JAG Did NOT Convict, Sentence Gen. Mark Milley To Hang

Fact Check

Fact Check: NOT Accurate That Joint Chiefs Of Staff Chairman Gen. Mark Milley 'Never Served In Combat' -- Pentagon Provides Proof

Fact Check

Fact Check: Chairman Of Joint Chiefs Of Staff Gen. Mark Milley Was NOT Arrested

Fact Check

Fact Check: Claims Biden Inauguration Was Cancelled, Trump Remains in Office, ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox, CNN, MSNBC to Lose Licenses Have NO Merit

Fact Check

Lead Stories is a:

Subscribe to our newsletter

Fact Check: Nancy Guthrie's Son-In-Law Tommaso Cioni Is NOT 'Blockaded' In Home Surrounded By Police -- It's Viet Spam

Fact Check

Fact Check: AI Image Of Bad Bunny Burning Flag Preparing For Super Bowl Halftime Show Is NOT Real -- From Satire Account

Fact Check

Fact Check: House Democrats Did NOT Release Never-Before-Seen Photos Of Jeffrey Epstein With Little Girl In Green Skirt Also Photographed Bound And Gagged-- Images Are Edited Fakes

Fact Check

Fact Check: AI Image Of Zuckerberg, Hoffman, Epstein Eating Sushi Is NOT Real -- Published By Parody Account

Fact Check

Fact Check: Streisand, Bon Jovi, Stevie Nicks, 'Mr. Bean' Did NOT All Say 'You Are Not Creating Change, You Are Creating Noise' To Elites -- Copy-Paste Posts From Vietnam Fake News Factory

Fact Check

Fact Check: No Evidence Erika Kirk's 'Romanian Angels' Evangelical Ministry Was Accused Of Trafficking Children Or Banned From Romania

Fact Check

Fact Check: FAKE Photo Shows Donald Trump And Jeffrey Epstein With Young Girls And Boys

Fact Check

Fact Check: Swift and Kelce Did NOT Announce On Livestream They Are Spending $250 Million To Uncover Truth In Giuffre Case -- Foreign Clickbait

Fact Check

Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show President Trump Kissing Nicki Minaj

Fact Check

Fact Check: There's NO Proof LifeTouch School Photos Put "You And Every Other American Kid ... In The Epstein Files" -- Mathematically Impossible, Since LifeTouch Only Accounts For 25% Of School Photos

Fact Check

Fact Check: Elon Musk DID Tweet 'I Agree With The Teachings Of Jesus'

Fact Check

Fact Check: NO TMZ Story About Zelensky Buying Diddy's Mansion For $61 Million -- Nothing On Their Site

Fact Check

Fact Check: Thitikul, De Niro, Hanks, Penrod Did NOT Say 'Don't Touch My Family Or My Country' To Karoline Leavitt Or Whoopi Goldberg -- It's Vietspam

Fact Check

Fact Check: Rep. Ted Lieu Did NOT Say Unreleased Epstein Files Show Donald Trump Raping Children -- He Referenced 'Allegations'

Fact Check