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Social media posts

“Norm Macdonald tweeted in 2016: "What terrifies me is if a tranny were to shoot up a school full of children and kill a bunch of innocent kids.”

FactCheck.org rated this: False

FactCheck.org says: A 2016 tweet from the late comedian Norm Macdonald has been altered to falsely claim that he’d commented on the possibility of a transgender school shooter. A search of Macdonald’s account shows he didn't write that.

Checked by PolitiFact30 Mar 2023United States
Hakeem Jeffries, House Democratic Leader

“Extreme MAGA Republicans want to ban books” on the Holocaust, Martin Luther King Jr., the LGBTQ journey, “Roberto Clemente and baseball" and the Native American experience.”

PolitiFact rated this: GOP votes provide evidence

PolitiFact says: House Republicans unanimously rejected an amendment to a parents’ rights bill that would have added language preventing the “banning or censorship of books in public elementary or public secondary schools.”