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Cited in 62 reruns
Migrant caravan coverage timed to election season
The recurring talk of a Trump third term
The recurring promise that Mexico will pay for the wall
The recurring drug-laced Halloween candy scare
- Oct 2025 – Nov 2025: The recurring drug-laced Halloween candy scare
- Oct 2018 – Nov 2018: Meth that "looked just like SweeTARTs," a DEA St. Louis advisory, and the Aloha, Oregon, Sour Patch Kids case
- Oct 2017 – Nov 2017: Oct. 2017, marijuana-candy warnings in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, and the Wisconsin meth find
The recurring Trump remarks about acing his cognitive test
The recurring claim that Ilhan Omar married her brother
The recurring promise to end the Ukraine war "in 24 hours" / "on day one"
Election-season "ballots found in a ditch" stories
The recurring claim that Somali immigrants are living lavishly on public benefits
The recurring promise that prices will come down "on day one"
The recurring promise of a healthcare plan "in two weeks"
The recurring claim that mass-shooting victims and witnesses are "crisis actors"
Pre-election "assassination attempt thwarted" amplification
The recurring Republican and MAGA figures charged with child sex crimes
The recurring claim that vaccines cause autism
The recurring promise to release the Epstein files
- Apr 2026 – May 2026: Bondi fired; later testimony
- Jan 2026 – Feb 2026: The 3-million-page release, which the DOJ called the end of its review
- Dec 2025: Deadline release, redactions and "over a million more" documents
- Nov 2025: Trump reverses position; the Epstein Files Transparency Act becomes law
- Sep 2025: House Oversight releases DOJ Epstein records; survivors rally at the Capitol
- Feb 2025 – Mar 2025: "Sitting on my desk" and the "Phase 1" binders
- Jun 2024: Trump says he would declassify the Epstein files (2024 campaign)
The recurring promises of a new Iran nuclear deal
The recurring claim that George Soros is paying the protesters
The recurring "welfare queen" claim that recipients are gaming public benefits
- Mar 2026 – Sep 2026: Trump's benefits fraud task force: executive order, Rollins's SNAP claim and ACA removals
- Feb 2025: DOGE / Trump claims that dead people are getting Social Security
- Dec 2021: Manchin and the child tax credit "drugs" report
- May 2018 – Jun 2018: House farm bill fight over SNAP work requirements
The recurring claims that wind power is bad, doesn't work, and "doesn't work at night"
The recurring pardons of political allies and donors
- Oct 2025: George Santos commutation and Changpeng Zhao pardon
- Jan 2025 – ongoing: Biden's preemptive pardons of family members and officials
- Jan 2021: Paid pardon lobbying reports, then the final-night batch (Bannon, Broidy)
- Feb 2020: Trump's February 2020 clemency batch: Blagojevich, Kerik, Milken, DeBartolo and Pogue
- May 2018 – Jun 2018: Pardon of Dinesh D'Souza
The annual "War on Christmas" coverage
The recurring promise to jail or prosecute political opponents
- Jul 2025: Trump reposts AI video of Obama's arrest, then says Obama is "guilty" of "treason" and "it's time to go after people"
- Dec 2024: Jan. 6 committee members "should go to jail"
- Mar 2023: "I am your retribution" at CPAC
- Nov 2018: Report that Trump wanted to order prosecutions of Clinton and Comey
- Oct 2016: "You'd be in jail" at the second debate
- Jul 2016: "Lock her up" chants at the Republican convention