“A video shows French President Emmanuel Macron, United Kingdom Prime Minister Keir Starmer, and German Chancellor Freidrich Merz with a bag of cocaine after visiting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.”
What PolitiFact found
High-resolution professional photos of a meeting among three European leaders do not show a bag of powder on the table in front of them. The official X account for the French presidency said the item was a tissue.
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In short
Alex Jones made this claim around 11 May 2025. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 13 May 2025, 2 days later. Its rating was “Pants on Fire”.
Alex Jones has 8 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 6 of them false or fake, 2 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
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