Former President Donald Trump attacked Judge Juan Merchan, the jurist overseeing his Manhattan hush money trial, by claiming that his daughter posted a picture of him behind bars on social media.The problem, according to The Spectator's Jacqueline Sweet, is that that almost certainly didn't happen."The account’s veracity is dubious at best, with a creation date of April 2023. Analysis of the Twitter ID associated with the account shows that Judge Juan Merchan’s daughter Loren’s known Twitter...
Fox News host Eric Shawn fact-checked former President Donald Trump's claim that the $454 million bond he has to pay by Monday is "unprecedented," saying it is "actually not true."In February, Judge Arthur Engoron ordered Trump to pay $355 million, plus interest, and barred him from doing business in New York for three years after finding him liable for financial fraud in September 2023 in a lawsuit brought on by New York Attorney General Letitia James' office. Trump, the presumed GOP...
Donald Trump may enjoy jabbing 81-year-old Joe Biden for his frail state, but he appears to have forgotten the times that he's targeted his successor's stutter. A Washington Post story suggested former President Donald Trump's mockery of Biden might backfire as the duo close in on a potential rematch to become the 47th president. The story claims that in recent weeks Trump, 77, has been "falsely claiming that the president is stuttering during his speeches, and he has parodied the...
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MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (WBTW) -- A South Carolina Congressman is alleging reports of "illegal migrants" on the Grand Strand. Seventh Congressional District Rep. Russell Fry sent a letter to the Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas requesting information regarding reports of migrants being "deposited" in the Myrtle Beach area. News13 checked with Myrtles Beach, []
It was always asinine for President Joe Biden’s administration to claim that they “nearly” added 15 million jobs since the pandemic, and it apparently stank so much that even leftist fact-checker Snopes didn’t let it pass the smell test. In a shocking twist, Snopes analyzed that the Biden administration’s propagandized claim on how star-spangled awesome its job creation numbers were was “misleading” in a March 21 fact check. According to Snopes, “About 9 million of those jobs were lost during...
It was always asinine for President Joe Biden’s administration to claim that they “nearly” added 15 million jobs since the pandemic, and it apparently stank so much that even leftist fact-checker Snopes didn’t let it pass the smell test. In a shocking twist, Snopes analyzed that the Biden administration’s propagandized claim on how star-spangled awesome its job creation numbers were was “misleading” in a March 21 fact check. According to Snopes, “About 9 million of those jobs were lost during...
The government on Wednesday notified the Press Information Bureau’s fact-check unit (FCU) as the nodal agency to flag fake news or misinformation related to the central government on social media and the internet.The move – coming weeks ahead of the general elections – gives “legal backing” to the PIB fact-check unit, established in November 2019, a senior government official said.“If they (FCU) flag any news related to the central government as false, intermediaries are now bound to take it...
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Tech companies in Northern Ireland received investment totalling £143m in 2023 – the highest ever level – according to new data. Research from Catalyst, a non-profit science and tech hub, found that Northern Ireland tech funding grew by less than 3% compared to the £139m raised in 2022. While the growth rate for Northern Ireland tech […]
The Babylon Bee lives rent-free in the minds of too many journalists. How else do you describe constant fact checks on a site that churns out satirical news stories a la The Onion? USA Today once fact-checked a Bee piece saying President Joe Biden sold Alaska to Russia. PolitiFact ran to the scene after a Bee article claimed, “ISIS Lays Down Arms After Katy Perry’s Impassioned Plea To ‘Like, Just Co-Exist’” Great work USA Today. Nothing like wasting your time. The Left has no sense of...
The Babylon Bee lives rent-free in the minds of too many journalists. How else do you describe constant fact checks on a site that churns out satirical news stories a la The Onion? USA Today once fact-checked a Bee piece saying President Joe Biden sold Alaska to Russia. PolitiFact ran to the scene after a Bee article claimed, “ISIS Lays Down Arms After Katy Perry’s Impassioned Plea To ‘Like, Just Co-Exist’” Great work USA Today. Nothing like wasting your time. The Left has no sense of...