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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
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
- Oct 2024: Fake video of Bucks County ballots being destroyed
- Nov 2022: Midterm "ballots in the trash" and the Santa Cruz Mountains ravine
- Mar 2021: "Shredded ballots" in a Maricopa County dumpster
- Nov 2020: Dumpster rumors after Election Day (Georgia, Arizona)
- Sep 2020 – Oct 2020: Discarded military ballots in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, and the first presidential debate
- Sep 2016 – Oct 2016: The made-up "Ohio warehouse" Clinton ballots story
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"
- Jun 2019: About two months. Maybe less.
- Mar 2019 – Apr 2019: Trump says GOP will be "the party of health care" and promises a plan with a vote after the 2020 election
- Feb 2017: "Maybe into next year," then "a couple of weeks"
- Mar 2016: Trump campaign releases seven-point health care plan, "Healthcare Reform to Make America Great Again"
The recurring claim that mass-shooting victims and witnesses are "crisis actors"
Pre-election "assassination attempt thwarted" amplification
The recurring claim that vaccines cause autism
The recurring promise to release the Epstein files
The recurring Trump insults about men's weight and size
The recurring "in two weeks"
The recurring claim that George Soros is paying the protesters
The recurring "welfare queen" claim that recipients are gaming public benefits
The recurring claim that foreign countries pay the tariffs
The recurring claims that wind power is bad, doesn't work, and "doesn't work at night"
The recurring claim that undocumented immigrants get free health care
- Sep 2025 – ongoing: 2025 government shutdown – "Democrats shut down the government for health care for illegal aliens"
- Mar 2025 – Jun 2025: States cut back
- Jul 2024 – Nov 2024: Claims about Kamala Harris (2024)
- Feb 2020: Trump's State of the Union attack on free health care for undocumented immigrants, and California's young-adult Medi-Cal expansion
- Jul 2019 – Aug 2019: Trump campaign ad during Detroit Democratic debates claims Democrats support "free health care" for illegal immigrants
- Jun 2019 – Aug 2019: Democratic debate show of hands
The recurring threats of tariffs and sanctions against longtime allies
The recurring claim that illegal voting decided an election
- May 2022 – Jun 2022: The "2000 Mules" film
- Sep 2021: Cyber Ninjas review of Maricopa County's 2020 ballots is released
- Nov 2020 – Jan 2021: Fraud claims after the 2020 election
- Jan 2019 – Feb 2019: Texas "95,000 noncitizens" on voter rolls
- Jan 2017 – Feb 2017: "3 to 5 million illegal votes" and the New Hampshire "busing" claim
- Nov 2016 – Dec 2016: Millions of people who voted illegally
- Oct 2016: "Rigged election" claims before Election Day