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The Partisan ‘Fact Checkers’ Let Barack Obama Smear the GOP As Much As He Wants
Quiz: How many times has Barack Obama been “fact checked” by PolitiFact since he left office in 2017?
Answer: Seven — in nine years. Only one was a “Mostly False.” There was one “True,” two “Mostly Trues,” and three “Half Trues.”
By contrast, PolitiFact dumped eleven “fact checks” on Donald Trump in the first 45 days of 2026 — and eight of them are “Mostly False” or worse. Three are “Half True,” and nothing is True at all.
So when Obama granted an interview to leftist YouTuber Brian Tyler Cohen, he can be fairly confident that the “fact checkers” won’t be poised to pounce. So he can say nasty things about the Republicans, and nobody finds a falsehood. Take this rant, where he supported ending the filibuster in the Senate because the Republicans don’t care about laws, or democracy, or truth:
OBAMA: “The Filibuster blocks us from making government effective, which makes people think it’s corrupt and not caring about them — giving folks like Trump an opening.”
Obama makes the case for ABOLISHING THE FILIBUSTER
Full @briantylercohen interview: https://t.co/dOI4pMNlCH pic.twitter.com/9lUIHjXCEx
— The Tennessee Holler (@TheTNHoller) February 14, 2026
BARACK OBAMA: I don’t want us to simply duplicate the behavior of the other side. I don’t want us to have a slash-and-burn strategy where we don’t care about rule of law. We don’t care about some of the guardrails around our democracy. We start lying and having no regard for the truth the way the other side seems to be comfortable with right now, because if that’s how we fight, then we lose what we’re fighting for. But that doesn’t mean we have to get punked or be saps. And I do, or to cling to traditions just for the sake of tradition.
Typically, Democrats can say pretty much anything they want about the Republicans, and it’s fair commentary. The “independent fact checkers” are there to help Democrats define Republicans as “having no regard for the truth.”
Obama fans can lie shamelessly, too, like this Facebook boast about Obama’s interview: “GREAT MORNING! Here’s a Video Mix of an Interview of Obama w/ Brian Tyler Cohen .. He Did Not Insult ANYONE !!”
The X account Western Lensman pulled out Obama spreading the hoax that ICE used a five-year-old as “bait” to catch an immigrant. Zero fear of fact checkers!
LEFT: Obama parrots the ‘ICE Used Kids As Bait’ Hoax.
RIGHT: Obama says he doesn’t want Democrats to start lying and having no regard for the truth the way Republicans do.
Same interview. https://t.co/520Cxvt3XY pic.twitter.com/sz3iez7D1c
— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) February 14, 2026
On February 13, Amy Sherman performed a typical check on Trump, taking on this quote: Crime in Minneapolis “is down 25, 30% because we’ve removed thousands of criminals from the area.” Their retort: “Trump credits immigration enforcement for Minneapolis crime drop. That’s wrong.” The rating was “Mostly False.”
The Trump White House provided data to PolitiFact, but they weren’t buying it:
Here’s what data from Jan. 1 through Feb. 4, the date of Trump’s interview, show:
134 burglaries in 2026, down from 219 in 2025, a decline of 39%
71 robberies in 2026, down from 95, a decline of 25%.
Two homicides in 2026, down from five, both numbers too small to be considered statistically significant.
However, the city homicide data the White House relied upon doesn’t capture the fatal shootings of two U.S. citizens by federal immigration agents….
We asked the White House what evidence it has that the declines it cited are because of its immigration enforcement arrests. They provided no evidence.
“Removing dangerous criminals from the streets obviously means less crime is being committed,” White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson said.
One can easily state that President Trump is prone to exaggerating the success of his policies. One can also easily state that Obama still calls his “signature achievement” the “Affordable Care Act,” which hasn’t turned out so well.
Overall at PolitiFact, Obama has 603 fact checks, and almost HALF of them — 48 percent — are “True” or “Mostly True.” Only 25 percent of them (151) are Mostly False or worse.
Trump is in a category all his own, with 1,143 fact checks — 888 of them (77.7 percent) are “Mostly False” or worse, with a staggering count of 221 “Pants on Fire” ratings. Only 122 of them (10.7 percent) are True or Mostly True, and PolitiFact probably puked a little each time.
WAYNE ROOT: The Worst Trade in World History Proves Democrats are “The Retarded Party.”
By Wayne Allyn Root
First, let’s tackle the word “retarded” before woke, liberal, mentally-ill, morons attempt to get me in trouble.
Google is as liberal and left-wing biased as they come. I dare you to type “definition of retarded” into Google’s search engine. Guess what comes back? The very definition of liberal Democrats…
And I quote, “characterized by a slowness or limitation in intellectual understanding and awareness…”
And…
“To retard is to hold back in terms of progress, development, or accomplishment.”
Well, that is liberals to a T.
Liberal Democrats retard progress. They retard the US economy. They retard jobs for American citizens. They certainly retarded the quality of life for middle class Americans with massive hyper-inflation.
Liberal teachers’ unions retard your children’s education every day. Liberals retarded girls sports. They absolutely retarded the border. Now they’re doing everything they can to retard the progress of ICE.
And insane liberal Democrat policies retard your personal achievement every minute of every day.
So, there is no debate. Based on the definition of “retarded” and/or “to retard,” liberal Democrats are not only retarded, they’re now officially, “The Retarded Party.”
Now to the thing that proves they are truly retarded…
“The Worst Trade in World History.”
In the past week, I’ve seen a dozen articles in the media reporting on the mass exodus of American citizens out of liberal Democrat deep blue states. Everyone who can afford it, is running for their lives. In particular, everyone is running away from California and New York.
Data proves who is running away from these radical, woke, Marxist, big government, third world crapholes…
It’s the richest, smartest, hardest-working, most productive citizens. They are getting “out of Dodge” as fast as they can.
And where are they running? To red states like Texas, Florida, Nevada, Arizona, Idaho, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Tennessee. Places where the taxes are low.
So, really think about this….
Blue states like California and New York have chased out all the productive people who have high incomes, and big assets, and create all the jobs, and most importantly, pay all the bills (ie the taxes).
Even worse, up until recently, the citizens leaving California were mostly middle cflass and upper middle-class with high income jobs, or their own businesses, and million-dollar homes.
But in the past 90 days something huge happened. California is close to passing a disastrous “wealth tax” on billionaires. So, in a matter of weeks, almost every billionaire in California moved out. Even the liberal founders of Google and Facebook left the state.
I guarantee you any billionaires still left inside California are busy plotting their escape right now.
The problem is those few billionaires pay a huge portion of all the taxes in California.
The exact same thing is happening in New York- based on the election of a communist, radical Muslim as the new mayor of New York City. Zohran Mamdani is busy right now trying to copy California’s “wealth tax.” Don’t forget Mamdani wants to tax whites at higher rates than blacks. And he hates Jews.
Mamdani just hit the rare “The Triple Crown.”
It’s the “perfect storm” that will result in everyone with means leaving the state. Trust me, every high-income earner, every investor, every business owner, every home owner, every landlord in New York City- they’re all either making plans to escape to Florida as soon as they can, or thinking about it.
But this story is not just about who these crazy, radical, liberal states have chased away. It’s who has replaced these productive citizens. I’m talking about…
“THE WORST TRADE IN WORLD HISTORY.”
These blue states have traded high-income, productive taxpayers and job creators for millions of pathetic, unskilled, uneducated, illegal alien criminals & freeloaders.
These are people who produce nothing; pay little in the way of taxes into the system; but desperately need to take out of the system billions of dollars in welfare, food stamps, free housing, free lawyers, free public schools, and free healthcare, from cradle to grave.
They need all these handouts at the exact same time there is no one left to pay the bills.
This is “One Flew over the Cuckoos Nest” level of insanity. This is padded room with a straight jacket level of crazy. Who would make this trade? Who would want this trade? Who would allow this to happen?
This trade is worse than when the Indians traded Manhattan for some beads.
Proof that liberals are literally suicide bombers. They’re destroying their own cities and states. They’re chasing away their only tax base. They’re welcoming in people who will destroy their quality of life, eat up their entire budgets, and leave themselves drowning in debt.
I haven’t even mentioned the overwhelming crime wave these illegal alien criminals bring.
Democrat politicians and judges are welcoming in people who stand a good chance of murdering, raping, assaulting, kidnapping, carjacking, home invading, or killing someone you love with fentanyl.
I haven’t even mentioned how many American citizens these illegal foreign invaders kill in DUI accidents. Or the domestic assaults- studies prove foreign migrants commit domestic violence at far higher rates than Americans.
What a trade. Aren’t you proud of yourselves?
Who in their right mind would make this trade, except someone who is mentally deranged & RETARDED?
End of story. Case closed. There is no longer any debate. I’ve proven my point.
Democrats are self-hating, self-destructive, mentally deranged, suicide bombers. And they’re retarding our society, economy and quality of life.
Democrats are officially “The Retarded Party.”
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Wayne Allyn Root is a CEO, businessman, best-selling author, and national conservative TV and radio host, who has interviewed President Trump 16 times. Watch Wayne’s TV show “America’s Top Ten Countdown” on Real America’s Voice TV Saturdays at Noon ET and his video podcast “WAR Zone presented by The Gateway Pundit” daily from 6 PM to 8 PM ET at TheGatewayPundit.com. His website is ROOTforAmerica.com. Read Wayne’s latest fun book, “How Democrats Have Made America Great.” It’s 140 blank pages. The joke is on Democrats!
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UK Government Launches Investigation Into Alleged Smear Campaign Targeting Journalists
LONDON — Since the dawn of modern government, power has often intertwined with narrative control. In every political era — whether monarchies, parliaments, or modern democracies — institutions have wrestled with criticism from the press and public alike. In an age that champions transparency and free expression, questions surrounding political influence over journalists continue to surface.
The UK Cabinet Office has reportedly launched an investigation into allegations that a Labour-linked group commissioned research dossiers targeting British journalists. The inquiry follows reporting from multiple outlets examining whether opposition research efforts crossed into coordinated reputational attacks.
According to coverage from Breitbart, The Independent, and The Guardian, officials are reviewing how the research was commissioned and whether any formal political structures were involved. No formal findings have been announced, and the situation remains under review.
This is a developing story.
Schumer Moves to FEDERALIZE the Pride Flag After Rainbow Banner Removed from Stonewall Monument — Plans Bill to Make It a Congressionally Authorized U.S. Flag
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer is reportedly preparing to introduce radical legislation that would effectively federalize the Pride Flag.
The uproar began when a large Pride flag was taken down from the federal monument in Greenwich Village that honors the 1969 Stonewall riots, the event widely recognized as the birthplace of the modern LGBTQ civil-rights movement.
Federal officials said the removal of the rainbow banner was to enforce longstanding rules limiting flags on National Park Service flagpoles to those officially authorized, namely the U.S. flag and certain others.
Outrage among Democrats was immediate. New York officials and activists re-raised the Pride flag days later in defiance of federal policy. The episode has now been seized upon by Schumer and allies in Congress as justification for a sweeping legislative grab.
Schumer, joined by Rep. Dan Goldman in the House, says he will introduce a bill to make the Pride flag a congressionally authorized national symbol that cannot be removed from federal monuments or properties.
Under the draft language reported in local outlets, the legislation would designate the rainbow banner as protected under federal flag law, giving it the same status as other flags sanctioned by Congress.
Schumer: “So, folks, we’re here, of course, at Stonewall, which is the birthplace of the LGBTQ+ movement. This sacred ground represents courage, resiliency, and the fight for equality, which always goes on in America.
This sacred ground is so important. In 1969, as everybody knows, brave New Yorkers stood up here in an act of resistance against discrimination. It sparked the beginning of a movement that changed America and the world forever. And we’re not going back. We’re not going back.
The Trump administration’s removal of the Pride rainbow flag from the Stonewall National Monument is a deeply outrageous action that must be reversed. It’s an effing disgrace. It’s just awful.
When the Trump administration ripped the Pride flag down, it was a direct attack on this community—an attempt to chip away at hard-won civil rights. So today, we’re fighting back and taking action. I am introducing legislation to designate the Pride flag as a congressionally authorized flag in America, and that means it can be flown here and everywhere else. No one can take it down.”
After the National Park Service removed the rainbow flag from Stonewall National Monument in NYC, Sen. Chuck Schumer announced Sunday afternoon that he plans to introduce legislation “to designate the pride flag as a congressionally authorized flag.” https://t.co/DNgH6sHFEw pic.twitter.com/ITOinUJUrp
— ABC News (@ABC) February 15, 2026
The Senate Democrats released the following statement:
The Trump administration continued its assault on the LGBTQ community earlier this week with the removal of the historic pride flag from the Stonewall Monument in New York, citing a directive that it is not a congressionally authorized flag. Today, Leader Schumer moved to right that wrong by introducing legislation that would give the pride flag the designation of a congressional authorized flag, as well as express a sense of the Senate that the pride flag should fly at the Stonewall Monument.
“Stonewall has stood as a beacon of hope for the LGBTQ community – a reminder of the resilience and perseverance of those before us who fought for the rights they deserve. Stonewall is sacred ground and Congress must act now to permanently protect the pride flag and what it stands for,” said Leader Schumer.
“Trump’s hateful crusade must end. The very core of American identity is liberty and justice for all – and that is what this legislation would protect: each national park’s ability to make their own decision about what flag can be flown. Attempts to hurt New York and the LGTBQ community simply won’t fly, but the Stonewall Pride flag always will.”
As a Senator, Leader Schumer has been a strong voice for the LGBTQ community. Just last week, Leader Schumer, along with Senator Gillibrand (D-NY) and Representative Goldman (D-NY), wrote to Secretary Burgum slamming the Trump administration’s decision to remove the Pride flag from the Stonewall National Monument and calling for its immediate restoration.
During Pride month this year, Leader Schumer slammed the Trump administration for targeting LGBTQ Americans for their cruel cuts to programs used to diagnose, treat and prevent HIV/AIDS prevention cuts, calling on RFK Jr. to reverse billions in cuts and stand down from making LGBTQ community a target of his extreme agenda.
Additionally, when Leader Schumer was the Majority Leader, he fought hard to pass the bipartisan Respect for Marriage Act, which provided federal protections for same-sex marriage in the case that the Supreme Court ever overturns Obergefell v. Hodges. The legislation was signed into Law by President Biden in 2022.
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Maryland Gov Moore Scoots Around O’Donnell Questions About His Honesty On CBS Town Hall
Last Sunday CBS’s Things That Matter welcomed Maryland Governor and possible Presidential candidate, Democrat Wes Moore to their Town Hall. Aside from expecting, and hearing the usual questions tossed at a Democrat, there was a waiting game involved as well. Waiting to see if Host Norah O’Donnell would confront Moore about recent revelations made in the Free Beacon, which call into question details of his life story which he has told over and over again.
It wasn’t until some 49 minutes into the hour session that O’Donnell got around to addressing the accusations. This came right after she asked Moore if he would run for President, and he said no. She began by calling the publication a “conservative outlet”, as if to diminish the stories, something Moore would pick up on, and her fist question concerned doubts about his alleged Oxford thesis.
O’DONNELL: You are a rising star in the Democratic Party, and if you run for president, there’s gonna be a lot of questions about your biography and your resume. And that has already started. The conservative outlet The Washington Free Beacon has published a number of stories. We want to give you an opportunity to respond to some claims. First, you were selected a Rhodes scholar and attended Oxford University. That’s a big deal, congratulations. Oxford says it is not have a copy of your thesis. Did you submit it, any idea why it is missing?
MOORE: I think Oxford has said that I have completed my degree. There is no denying that. And that I received a Master’s Degree at Oxford University in International Relations after being the first African American Rhodes Scholar in the history of Johns Hopkins University. So there is no denying that….If there’s a couple things that the people of this state know about me, it’s that I am a person of honor and integrity, I take that very seriously. I was raised right by my family, and I was trained right by the army. So when I am watching this game of politics, frankly this is what I think people hate about politics so much, it’s the politics of personal destruction. Where as a person who has nothing to be ashamed of or nothing to exaggerate about my life, that this is the thing that conservative right-wing blogs want to attack, particularly when it is something that Oxford University has verified already…Because the people know that if I said I meant it. And there’s never a question about my integrity.
He never answered the question. There was no follow-up from O’Donnell. There should have been. What the Free Beacon piece reported is that Moore claimed that his thesis, The Rise and Ramifications of Radical Islam in the Western Hemisphere, had made him an expert, and led to a White House Fellowship in 2006, where he was a special assistant to Secretary Of State Condoleezza Rice, which led eventually to his becoming Governor.
From there she moved on to another report by the Free Beacon.
O’DONNELL: They are also raising questions.. it’s something you wrote about in your book and you’ve about talked on the campaign stump, that your great-grandfather was run out of South Carolina in the 1920s by the KKK. The Free Beacon is casting doubt on that with church records, can you address that?
MOORE: The same right-wing blog? I can. I can address the fact that I’m the grandson of someone who was born in South Carolina, and when he was just a child, the Ku Klux Klan… ran my family out. And not out of South Carolina, they ran them out of the United States of America and they went to Jamaica. And much of my family has always said they would never come back to this country… My grandfather came back to this country, he got his degree from Lincoln University, an HBCU in Pennsylvania. He became a minister, just like his father, and he became the first black Minister in the history of the Dutch Reformed Church. I know my family’s history. So if some blog has a question about the clans history, maybe they should ask the Ku Klux Klan.
Nothing about his great-grandfather at all. Again, Moore did not answer the question. No wonder he says he won’t run for President. And the best O’Donnell could do was muster, “Alright.” I’m not kidding, and unfortunately neither was she.
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