
False claims spread about explosives at Trump NY rally
After two assassination attempts against former President Donald Trump this year, reports of a third purported attack at his Sept. 18 rally in Uniondale, New York, spread quickly online.
After two assassination attempts against former President Donald Trump this year, reports of a third purported attack at his Sept. 18 rally in Uniondale, New York, spread quickly online.
Springfield has become a focal point in the national debate over immigration because large numbers of Haitians who were granted legal status in the United States have settled in the city over the last several years.
Soon after U.S. Secret Service agents intervened to stop a second assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump on Sept. 15, social media users started spreading conspiracy theories about the incident, including that it was staged.
The video included two clips of Trump, one from a 2023 interview with former Fox News host Tucker Carlson, and the other from the presidential debate.
Dorsainvilâs fear started during ABCâs Sept. 10 presidential debate from Philadelphia, when former President Donald Trump repeated a debunked claim about migrants in this small city about 45 miles west of Columbus, the stateâs capital.
The New York Times wrote in 2020 about what it called âThe Long History of âHidden Earpieceâ Conspiracy Theories.â The report described unfounded claims that tend to recur every election cycle about hidden electronic devices used by presidential candidates, dating to 2000 when conservative commentator Rush Limbaugh said Democratic presidential nominee Al Gore used an earpiece to receive coaching on NBCâs âMeet the Pressâ in 2000.
While Full Fact normally sticks to checking claims made by or about UK politicians, weâve written about a flurry of misinformation involving the two presidential candidates circulating on social media over the last few months.
Trump is likely to mention Harrisâ more liberal positions from her 2019 Democratic presidential primary campaign, including her previous opposition to hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, a practice used to access hard-to-reach oil and gas in rock formations.
"The transgender thing is incredible," Trump told Moms of Liberty co-founder Tiffany Justice during the groupâs Aug. 30 gathering in Washington, D.C. "Think of it, your kid goes to school and comes home a few days later with an operation.
It showed clips of Trump visiting tombstones and meeting families while the adâs narration and text criticized how Bidenâs administration handled the U.S.â exit from Afghanistan, when the suicide bombing happened.
âItâs a well-constructed survey with weights that are carefully calculated to try to make the results as representative as possible of the types of employers in the United States by size and location,â Wilcox, a former director of the Federal Reserve Boardâs statistics division, told us.
On the campaign trail this summer, former President Donald Trump has routinely cast doubt on climate change by falsely claiming that the oceans will rise just âone-eighth of an inch over the next 400 years.â Heâs previously used the same measurement over a period of 250 years.