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Former Vice President Joe Biden blamed President Donald Trump for antisemitic violence, using misquotes from Charlottesville and false statistical claims.

CNN political commentator Ana Navarro-Cárdenas mocked polls that showed significant black support for President Donald Trump, tweeting Monday that the polls “have only been conducted in the homes of Ben Carson, Kanye, that sheriff guy with the hat and those two Cubic Zirconia & Polyester-Spandex ladies.”

Former federal prosecutor Andrew C. McCarthy noted at National Review on Thursday that then-President Barack Obama’s administration asked Ukraine to investigate Donald Trump’s campaign manager, Paul Manafort, in 2016.

Jerry Falwell, Jr. will continue building a remarkable legacy of faith and freedom, one capable of standing up against the prevailing winds of mainstream culture.

Conservative commentator Paris Dennard is suing the Arizona Board of Regents, which governs Arizona State University’s McCain Institute for International Leadership, for a misleading leak of confidential information from his personnel file that the Washington Post used in a hit piece that cost him his job as a CNN contributor, where he had been singularly effective.

Rachel Maddow is guilty of smearing Steven Menashi as a racist based on distortions of his writing that are so egregious that it is clear she either never read the articles she cites, or — worse — did not understand them. 

Elizabeth Warren: “Look, Trump has a message. He says if there’s something that’s bad in your life … blame people who aren’t the same color as you.”

CLAIM: President Donald Trump “has talked about white supremacists as fine people.”

VERDICT: FALSE — President Trump said non-violent protesters on both right and left were “very fine people,” but neo-Nazis and white supremacists “should be condemned totally.”

Former vice preisdent Joe Biden relied on the discredited Charlottesville hoax — also known as the “very fine people” hoax — in blaming President Donald Trump in a speech in Iowa on Wednesday  for recent mass shootings.

Former Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D-TX) used the occasion of the mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, this weekend to spread fake news Sunday about President Donald Trump’s policies and blame him for the violence.

The truth is that Joe Biden had a horrendous debate. He cannot walk away from his record, so he is trying to distract by lying about Trump. 

“I have not been raped,” Trump rape accuser E. Jean Carroll said in an interview the New York Times posted Thursday morning.

That’s the logical consequence of her claim that detention facilities at the southern border are “concentration camps.”

CNN anchor Jake Tapper admitted Friday that President Donald Trump did not refer to neo-Nazis or white supremacists as “very fine people” in his remarks about the Charlottesville, Virginia, riots in 2017.

Former Obama administration official Joel Martin Rubin appeared on Fox News on Saturday and accused President Donald Trump of encouraging the shooter who attacked a Poway, California, synagogue earlier that day.

Former Vice Preisdent Joe Biden launched his third presidential campaign on Thursday by referring to a debunked claim that President Donald Trump referred to neo-Nazis in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017 as “very fine people.”

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) called newly re-elected Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government “racist” during a CNN town hall in Manchester, New Hampshire, on Monday night — and Republicans are pointing on the claim.

Democrat presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a “racist” on Sunday, telling an audience in Iowa that the U.S.-Israel relationship must “transcend a prime minister who is racist.”

The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), long used to accusing other organizations of “hate” — sometimes falsely — now faces accusations of racism, corruption, and sexual harassment and the departure of several senior leaders.

Jussie Smollett’s community service consisted of 18 hours’ volunteering for Jesse Jackson’s Rainbow PUSH Coalition on Saturday and Monday.

Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) lied to thousands of people at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) annual policy conference on Monday, telling them in a speech that President Donald Trump had referred to neo-Nazis in Charlottesville, Virginia, as “very fine people” when the president had never done so.

Noted criminal defense lawyer Alan Dershowitz is asking the FBI for a criminal investigation of himself — to clear his name.

CNN, whose motto is “Facts First,” has thus far, refused to correct or retract its repeatedly false reporting about what Trump said in Charlottesville.

Contrary to Cory Booker’s claims, Trump condemned Nazis several times, and also disavowed David Duke several times.

MOSTLY FALSE. Trump gave a speech addressing white supremacy on August 14, 2017, and denounced bigotry of all kinds.

The New York Times’ subtitle declares, “All those who have helped to spread the worldwide myth that Muslims are a threat have blood on their hands.”

On Tuesday, CNN linked to its own report at the time that reported, accurately, that Trump had used “very fine people” to refer to protesters for and against the removal of a historic statue, not to neo-Nazis.

CNN’s New Day co-anchor Alisyn Camerota attempted Thursday morning to encourage Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MN) to undo her apology to Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC) the day before, when she suggested he was a racist.

Michael Cohen, the convicted liar and disbarred former lawyer to President Donald Trump, will accuse Trump of being a “racist,” a “conman,” and a “cheat” when he testifies before the House Oversight Committee Wednesday.

Democratic presidential contender Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) says that the fact that Hollywood actor Jussie Smollet’s “hate crime” story turned out to be a hoax should not distract from the larger truth of rising hate crimes.

The department launched an urgent investigation into Jussie Smollett’s allegations in January, including a search through footage from surveillance cameras from an entire neighborhood over several weeks.

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) used her “apology” for antisemitic rhetoric Monday to attack House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) — barely an hour after she had issued a statement acknowledging her offensive remarks.

Last week, Amnesty International came out with a viciously antisemitic report demanding that online tourism websites boycott Jewish sites in the Holy Land.

Los Angeles Times left-wing columnist Robin Abcarian has written that wearing President Donald Trump’s famous “Make America Great Again” (MAGA) campaign hats should be the moral equivalent of wearing racist blackface.

The New England Patriots are “the preferred team of white nationalists,” according to the Daily Beast, because “[t]heir star quarterback, coach, and owner all supported Trump,” and because Boston, Massachusetts, is a racist city.

Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO of the Anti-Defamation League, confirmed to the Los Angeles Times in an interview published Friday his view that President Donald Trump is racist.