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  • TorontoStar
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  • WR Record
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Past articles by Daniel:

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Fact check: Big differences between Hunter Biden gun case and rapper Kodak Black's

Many Republicans have criticized Hunter Biden’s plea deal. Some of them have focused on how the prosecutor who negotiated the deal, an appointee of President Donald Trump, agreed not only to endorse a sentence of probation on two misdemeanor tax crimes to which Biden pleaded guilty but to also permit the president’s son to avoid a conviction on a felony charge of being a drug user or addict in… → Read More

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Fact check: Biden makes 5 false claims about guns, plus some about other subjects

President Joe Biden made false claims about a variety of topics, notably including gun policy, during a series of official speeches and campaign remarks over the last two weeks. → Read More

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Fact check: Multiple non-spies have received prison sentences under Espionage Act provision Trump is charged with violating

Former President Donald Trump argued in a Tuesday speech that it is “outrageous” for him to be charged under the Espionage Act for having classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago club and residence. → Read More

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Fact check: Trump makes numerous false claims in speech after court appearance

Former President Donald Trump made numerous false and misleading claims in a speech he delivered Tuesday night following his afternoon arraignment in Miami federal court to face charges of illegally retaining classified documents and obstructing the federal investigation into his conduct. → Read More

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Fact check: Debunking Trump’s blizzard of dishonesty about his federal indictment

Former President Donald Trump has responded to his federal indictment the way he has responded to various other crises – with a blizzard of dishonesty. → Read More

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Fact check: Trump's baseless '1,850 boxes' attacks on Biden's legal and normal University of Delaware documents collection

In the weeks before Donald Trump was indicted over his alleged mishandling of classified defense documents and alleged attempt to cover it up, the former president kept arguing that it would be unfair to prosecute him given that President Joe Biden took “1,850 boxes” of documents to the University of Delaware. → Read More

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Fact check: Seven of Trump's false or unsupported claims on the documents investigation

Former President Donald Trump has made numerous false and unsupported claims about the federal investigation into his handling of government documents, a probe he announced Thursday has resulted in his indictment. → Read More

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Fact check: Trump boasts about a massive oil purchase that never happened

Former President Donald Trump, now a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, claimed in a television interview on Thursday that he not only purchased 75 million barrels of oil for the national Strategic Petroleum Reserve but did so for a remarkably low price. → Read More

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Fact check: Trump’s own campaign can’t find proof for his ‘mental institutions’ immigration story

On at least three occasions over the last two months, former President Donald Trump has claimed that the leaders of unnamed South American countries are deliberately emptying their "insane asylums" and "mental institutions" to send the patients to the United States as migrants. → Read More

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Fact check: Trump, in 2023, tells a new lie about the 2020 election

Add another election lie to the long, long list. → Read More

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Fact check: Biden's claim that 'you're not allowed' to own a flamethrower or machine gun isn't true in most states

President Joe Biden claimed Tuesday that Americans aren't allowed to own a machine gun or a flamethrower. But that's not true in most of the country. → Read More

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Fact-checking Trump's barrage of attacks against Ron DeSantis

Former president and current presidential candidate Donald Trump has gone on the attack against Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a potential rival for the Republican nomination in 2024 -- bashing the governor over everything from pandemic policy to Social Security. → Read More

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Fact check: Trump repeats false claims during rally in Waco, Texas

Former President and current presidential candidate Donald Trump returned to the campaign trail Saturday with a rally speech in Waco, Texas, that was littered with false claims -- many of which he has made before. → Read More

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Fact check: Trump delivers wildly dishonest speech at CPAC

As president, Donald Trump made some of his most thoroughly dishonest speeches at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference. → Read More

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Fact check: George Santos tells new lies in interview about his old lies

Rep. George Santos, the New York Republican who fabricated a large portion of his biography, sat down for an extended interview with Piers Morgan -- and lied about his lies. → Read More

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Fact check: Trump and viral meme remove key words from Biden’s quote about Ukraine and ‘World War III’

Former President Donald Trump, who is now running for president again, made an inaccurate claim on Wednesday about his successor's response to the Russian war in Ukraine. Trump said in an online video that President Joe Biden is "now doing what he said 10 months ago would lead to World War III: he is sending in American tanks." → Read More

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Fact check: Trump's latest baseless claims about the documents investigation

Former President Donald Trump made a variety of false or unsupported claims in his initial response to the FBI search of his Mar-a-Lago residence and resort in August. Five months later, Trump is now trying to use President Joe Biden's newly revealed document-handling controversy to bolster his public defense -- but he is still littering his commentary with baseless assertions. → Read More

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Fact check: Trump responds to special counsel news with debunked claim about Obama and the Bushes

In former President Donald Trump's first extended response to Attorney General Merrick Garland's Friday announcement that he had appointed a special counsel to oversee the criminal investigation into Trump's retention of government documents after he left office, Trump defended himself with dishonesty -- repeating his false and thoroughly debunked claims about how other ex-presidents handled… → Read More

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Fact check: 20 false and misleading claims Trump made in his announcement speech

Former President Donald Trump began his 2024 presidential campaign just as he ended his presidency in 2021: with a whole lot of inaccuracy. → Read More

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Fact check: 20 false and misleading claims Trump made in his announcement speech

Former President Donald Trump began his 2024 presidential campaign just as he ended his presidency in 2021: with a whole lot of inaccuracy. → Read More