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And the facts underpinning that implication are wrong: The Homeland Security department isnât running a cybersecurity drill on Election Day, and by the time this claim was published on social media, the AFCEA chapter hosting this event in Atlanta had already canceled its conference and accompanying tabletop exercise.
Michael Alvarez, political and computational social science at Caltech and co-director of the Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, said he has recently enabled webinar conversations with numerous election officials whoâve discussed mail ballots and the Postal Service.
A joint Nov. 1 statement by the FBI, Office of the Director of National Intelligence, and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency said "Russian influence actors" had "manufactured a video falsely accusing an individual associated with the Democratic presidential ticket of taking a bribe from a U.S.
Trump, who skipped a Republican debate to speak in Michigan that day, gave what the Detroit Free Press described as a ârollicking, bellicose speech to workers against automakersâ and the President Joe Biden administrationâs efforts to push a transition to electric vehicles.â
The designation enables the U.S. government to block the groupâs assets in the U.S. That same day, the State and Justice departments announced a reward of up to $12 million for information leading to the arrests or convictions of three Tren de Aragua leaders.
One of the more contentious moments came when WMUR moderator Steve Bottari twice asked Ayotte about her support for former President Donald Trump despite his convictions on 34 felony charges and other legal issues, including being found liable of sexual abuse in a civil case.
Ocasio-Cortezâs office did not immediately return a request for comment, but her most recent financial disclosure report â filed Aug. 13 and covering 2023 â shows the representative is nowhere close to being worth $29 million.
Economists have told PolitiFact that although some Biden policies exacerbated inflation, the primary drivers were the supply chainâs inability to meet demand during the pandemic and Russiaâs 2022 invasion of Ukraine, which caused global energy prices to spike.
Trumpâs Madison Square Garden campaign rally drew thousands and filled the 19,500-seat venue, with people lining up for blocks hours before the eventâs scheduled start.
As part of its preventive services coverage requirement, the Affordable Care Act mandates that health plans cover vaccines recommended by the CDCâs Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices with no cost-sharing, as long as they are provided in-network.
The New York Times also cited a 2021 article in The Guardian about a book by Michael Bender, then a Wall Street Journal reporter, who wrote that during a 2018 visit to Europe to mark the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I, Trump said to Kelly: "Well, Hitler did a lot of good things."
Searching The Atlanticâs site for the phrase "Trump is literally Hilter" returned only the publicationâs statement rebutting the fabricated image.