Did President Donald Trump order background checks on Democrats to be made public, showing cases of assault, domestic violence and insider trading? No, that's not true: The post spreading that Trump rumor and the false list of cases came from a Facebook page with a satire disclaimer and a warning that all the contents of the page are fabricated. The owner of the page is known for tricking conservatives into liking and sharing made-up content. The site includes a warning that reads: "nothing on this page is real."
The claim originated in a post (archived here) published by the America's Last Line Of Defense Facebook page on August 4, 2025. The caption on the video included the typo "accordancewith":
Trump ordered the background check on all of the Democrats be made public in accordancewith FOIA.
This is what the post looked like on Facebook at the time of writing:
(Source: Facebook screenshot taken by Lead Stories.)
The claim continued to spread on social media without a satire label, with one video posted on TikTok (archived here) that included the typo from the original satire post. The video included slides of Democratic elected officials, each captioned with a made-up charge, as listed here:
Representative Nancy Pelosi "3 counts of operating under the influence."
(Source: Facebook screenshot taken by Lead Stories.)
Representative Jerry Nadler "fined $6.9 million for insider trading."
Senator Bernie Sanders "plead guilty of tax evasion."
Representative Jasmine Crockett "2 counts of welfare fraud."
(Source: Facebook screenshot taken by Lead Stories.)
Representative Ilhan Omar "fined $10,000 for filing forged paperwork with US customs."
Senator Corey Booker "arrested twice for domestic violence."
Representative Maxine Waters "two counts of assaulting a police officer."
Senator Amy Klobuchar "fined $4.3 million for shorting stocks."
Senator Elizabeth Warren "possession of amphetamines and LSD."
(Source: Facebook screenshot taken by Lead Stories.)
Senator Adam Schiff "failed to pay $773,000 in child support."
Representative Ayanna Pressley "two counts of assaulting a parking attendant."
Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez "11 counts of public drinking at Boston University."
Representative Pramila Jayapal "four counts of disturbing the peace."
Senator Chuck Schumer "owed his ex-wife $14 million alimony when she died broke."
(Source: Facebook screenshot taken by Lead Stories.)
The America's Last Line of Defense account that shared the post is the creation of Christopher Blair, a self-professed liberal from Maine, who for years has run networks of websites set up to troll conservatives with made-up news items in order to get them to share his posts. He uses the nickname "Busta Troll." A 2018 BBC profile called Blair "the Godfather of fake news," describing him as "one of the world's most prolific writers of disinformation."
His websites usually have multiple satire disclaimers and the stories very often contain obvious hints they are not real, like category names indicating they are fiction, links to "sources" that instead go to funny or offensive images or an "S for Satire" logo added to the images used as illustration. Another telltale sign is the name "Art Tubolls" (anagram for "Busta Troll") for characters in the stories. Blair also frequently pays homage to two of his friends who passed away by using their names ("Joe Barron" and "Sandy Batt") in stories.
Blair's stories have been widely copied by foreign website networks trying to make money by spamming American conservatives with clickbait headlines.
