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Gov. Newsom’s office provided a screenshot taken Wednesday night showing that the phony claim shared by President Trump about Walmart supposedly shutting 250 California stores appears to have come from a YouTube account devoted to churning out sensational fake videos about
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President Donald Trump did another social media posting spree on Wednesday night and Thursday morning. As with Trump’s previous posting blitzes, this one was filled with wildly inaccurate and often...
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No, Walmart isn’t shutting 250 of its 303 California stores. No, Wisconsin doesn’t have millions more registered voters than voting-age people. On President Trump’s latest nonsense-posting social media spree:
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President Donald Trump did another social media posting spree on Wednesday night and Thursday morning. As with Trump’s previous posting blitzes, this one was filled with wildly inaccurate and often...
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Yes, the president shared a social media post last night in 2026 asserting that the 2020 election was stolen by a vote-flipping conspiracy involving Barack Obama, the CIA, the FBI, China, military satellites, and, why not, some Italians.
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After the assault on Ilhan Omar, President Trump returned to his familiar response to violence against his political opponents: conspiracy theories blaming those opponents for the attacks on them.
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President Donald Trump did it after the 2021 attack on the US Capitol. He did it after the 2022 attack on the husband of then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. He did it after the murder last month of...
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During his nonsense-posting blitz last night, President Trump shared a social media post that falsely claimed Wisconsin has 7.4 million registered voters, millions higher than the number of actual adults in the state. In reality, Wisconsin has 3.6 million registered voters.
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During a late-night nonsense-posting spree, President Trump shared two posts and a video that falsely claimed Walmart is about to shut 250 of its 303 California stores because of the state’s “$22 per hour minimum wage.” The minimum wage is $16.90, not $22, and Walmart tells me
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In an unusual moment, President Trump was fact-checked by a woman in the crowd at his Iowa speech yesterday, reports @scontorno, who was on scene. When he claimed gas is $1.95 or $1.85 in Iowa, the woman shouted, "No, $2.63!” It was $2.69 at the station right outside the venue;
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President Donald Trump tried Tuesday to concoct an alternative reality on the subject of “affordability” – piling lie on top of lie to try to convince Americans that the issue has vanished.
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President Trump is trying to concoct an alternative reality on affordability, piling lie upon lie. In the span of a few sentences to Fox News yesterday, he claimed... - Inflation is "done." (It continues.) - "You look at groceries, it's all down." (No. Grocery prices are up
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President Donald Trump tried Tuesday to concoct an alternative reality on the subject of “affordability” – piling lie on top of lie to try to convince Americans that the issue has vanished.
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The government collected $264 billion of tariff revenues in 2025, and that included old tariffs too. He is tripling how much revenue they’ve taken in, and forgetting he and Congress have already promised all those revenues to partially pay for the new tax cuts.
Trump: We’ve taken in $600 billion in tariffs. I gave the farmers $12 billion last week. I took them out of tariff money.
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The Trump administration almost never retreats from its false claims. This past week, on Trump's insult of NATO allies and his top officials' disparagement of Alex Pretti, it's felt the need to back down twice (although not with explicit apologies):
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From the start, this has been a say-anything presidential administration.
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Noem and others have claimed Pretti didn't have ID while carrying the gun. Even if that were proven, there's no indication it played a role in the incident...and in Minnesota it's a "petty misdemeanor," not a crime, subject to a refundable fine of $25.
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Pretti had a permit to carry a concealed gun. Minneapolis' police chief says it was entirely legal for Pretti to carry in the public place where he was killed. Even if the situation was considered a protest, Minnesota has no ban on carrying at a protest.
Reporter: Do you agree with the assessment from some of your own officials that Alex Pretti is a domestic terrorist? Trump: I haven't heard that. He certainly shouldn't have been carrying a gun. I don't like that he had a gun. I don't like that he had two fully loaded magazines.
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The DHS’s response to Alex Pretti’s killing was par for its course. It’s spent a year making questionable and false claims about such scenes, including ones that didn’t hold up in court. But after Alex Pretti’s death, that suddenly became a problem.
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The Trump administration has signaled a new approach to its controversial immigration crackdown in Minneapolis, including the elevation of border czar Tom Homan and the sidelining of Border Patrol...
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A veteran whom Alex Pretti cared for in the ICU earlier this month: "It was heartbreaking to see the video. It was heartbreaking to know when I found out it was him. What was worse was listening to Kristi Noem talk about him the way she did."
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On Sunday, Trump administration officials noticeably declined to repeat some of the most incendiary of their Saturday claims about Alex Pretti — but made additional claims contradicted by video footage or unsupported by evidence:
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Top officials in President Donald Trump’s administration have responded to the killing of Alex Pretti by the Border Patrol in Minneapolis on Saturday with a torrent of claims that are either contra...
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Top Trump officials have responded to the killing of Alex Pretti with a torrent of incendiary claims about him that are either false or unsupported by any presently available evidence. A reality check: https://t.co/e1l5wq6Jxy
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The White House has confirmed its official X account posted a fake image of a woman arrested in Minnesota after interrupting a service at a church where an ICE official appears to be a pastor. The White House image altered the actual photo to wrongly make it seem like the
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More than 850 non-US NATO troops died in Afghanistan after their countries signed up to respond to the 9/11 attack on the US, many of them while deployed to especially tough provinces like Helmand and Kandahar.
Trump on NATO: "I've always said, will they be there if we ever needed them? That's really the ultimate test. I'm not sure of that. We've never needed them. They'll say they sent some troops to Afghanistan and this or that. And they did. They stayed a little back, off the front
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We…watched the speech. He called Greenland “Iceland” four times. In addition to the other moments in which he belittled Greenland as a “piece of ice.”
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