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  • Fact Check: NO Reports Indicate George Stephanopoulos Is 'Expected To Be Fired' After Trump Settlement With ABC News -- In Variety Or Any Other Trusted Outlet

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    Does reporting by the entertainment weekly "Variety" suggest that ABC News anchor George Stephanopoulos is "expected to be fired" from the network after its settlement with President-elect Donald Trump? No, that's not true: ABC News told Lead Stories that he signed a new deal with the network after it settled a defamation case with Trump. No information about his supposed…

    • Dec 19, 2024
    • by: Christiana Dillard
    Fact Check: NO Reports Indicate George Stephanopoulos Is 'Expected To Be Fired' After Trump Settlement With ABC News -- In Variety Or Any Other Trusted Outlet Still Around

  • Fact Check: White House Will NOT Be On Sex Offender Registry -- $5 Million Sex Abuse Verdict Against Trump Was Civil, Not Criminal

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    Will the White House address appear on "the national registry of sex offenders" once President-elect Donald Trump takes office in January of 2025? No, that's not true: Trump was not convicted of a sex offense in a criminal case. He was found liable in a civil case that involved sexual abuse allegations. Only people who have been convicted in a…

    • Nov 12, 2024
    • by: Marlo Lee
    Fact Check: White House Will NOT Be On Sex Offender Registry -- $5 Million Sex Abuse Verdict Against Trump Was Civil, Not Criminal Civil Case

  • Fact Check: NO Evidence Trump Lawyer Alina Habba Said Judge Kaplan Took $5 Million Bribe To Convict Trump

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    Did Donald Trump's lawyer Alina Habba say that U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan took a $5 million bribe to convict Trump? No, that's not true: There is no proof that Habba ever accused Kaplan of taking a bribe to convict the former president. Kaplan did not "convict Trump" in the case in question -- a jury decided in January 2024…

    • Feb 5, 2024
    • by: Alexis Tereszcuk
    Fact Check: NO Evidence Trump Lawyer Alina Habba Said Judge Kaplan Took $5 Million Bribe To Convict Trump No Proof

  • Fact Check: E. Jean Carroll Was NOT Only Person To File Lawsuit Under NY's Adult Survivor Act

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    Was writer E. Jean Carroll the only person to file a lawsuit under New York's Adult Survivors Act? No, that's not true: There were thousands of lawsuits filed under the law, which allowed adult sexual assault survivors to sue in civil courts no matter how long ago the alleged incident occurred. There is no evidence that the bill was drafted…

    • Feb 1, 2024
    • by: Christiana Dillard
    Fact Check: E. Jean Carroll Was NOT Only Person To File Lawsuit Under NY's Adult Survivor Act Thousands Sued

  • Fact Check: Trump Did NOT Post About His Lawyer Alina Habba That 'She Stood Her Ground' -- It's Fake

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    Did Donald Trump post on Truth Social that his attorney in the E. Jean Carroll defamation case "may not have the experience that was needed in this very high profile case" but "she stood her ground"? No, that's not true: There is no evidence that this post about attorney Alina Habba originated on the real Truth Social account of former…

    • Jan 29, 2024
    • by: Sarah Thompson
    Fact Check: Trump Did NOT Post About His Lawyer Alina Habba That 'She Stood Her Ground' -- It's Fake Faked Post

  • Fact Check: Jeffrey Epstein And Other Famous White Men Accused Of Sex Crimes Did NOT 'Walk' Free From Jail While Bill Cosby And R. Kelly, Both Black, Were Locked Up

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    Did Jeffrey Epstein, Harvey Weinstein and other famous white men accused of sex crimes "walk" free from jail while Bill Cosby and R. Kelly were locked up? No, this is missing context. A meme from 2019 has gone viral in 2021, claiming Cosby and Kelly are in "jail" while Epstein, Weinstein, Kevin Spacey and Donald Trump were able to "walk"…

    • Feb 18, 2021
    • by: Alexis Tereszcuk
    Fact Check: Jeffrey Epstein And Other Famous White Men Accused Of Sex Crimes Did NOT 'Walk' Free From Jail While Bill Cosby And R. Kelly, Both Black, Were Locked Up Out Of Context

  • Fact Check: NO Proof That Trump Is 'A Rapist And A Pedophile'

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    Is Donald Trump a rapist and a pedophile? There's no proof this is true: The claims are based on allegations and lawsuits that have been recanted, dismissed or remain ongoing. They remain unproven in a court of law. The claims appeared in a tweet (archived here), posted by actress Debra Messing on Sept. 15, 2020. It read: Trump is a…

    • Sep 16, 2020
    • by: Dana Ford
    Fact Check: NO Proof That Trump Is 'A Rapist And A Pedophile' Unproven
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