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Donald Trump, Former President

“The Department of Justice indictment of former President Trump is "one of the most outrageous and vicious legal theories ever put forward in an American court of law.”

FactCheck.org rated this: The charges aren't unusual

FactCheck.org says: Numerous other individuals who weren’t alleged to be spies have been convicted of violating the same section of that federal law concerning the willful retention of national defense information.

Robinhood Padilla

“Neophyte Sen. Robinhood Padilla said on June 16 that “the ‘new’ Senate is not taking its job lightly” and “not in the business of comedy” amid the serious problems facing the country, refuting former senator Franklin Drilon’s statement about the lack of proper decorum which could inadvertently erode the chambers’ credibility and prestige.”

Vera Files rated this: Inaccurate

Vera Files says: Video recordings of committee hearings in the Senate show Padilla and other senators engaging in unparliamentary behavior such as bantering and berating resource persons with expletives and other obscene words and threa…

Social media posts

“A Congress MLA misbehaved with the police when he was stopped by the police while chanting ‘Pakistan Zindabad’ slogans as part of a Rahul Gandhi’s program in Madhya Pradesh”

FACTLY rated this: FALSE

FACTLY says: This incident took place in Shaheen Bhag, Delhi, in November 2022 and not in Madhya Pradesh during a program of Rahul Gandhi. The police arrested former Congress MLA Asif Mohammad Khan for misbehaving with police office…