Rogers attributed a Twitch streamer's 2019 comment to Abdul El-Sayed, who had said the opposite on Fox News. PolitiFact gave it their worst rating and noted the attack evokes anti-Muslim tropes.
The day after Kelly learned the Butler steel plant would be saved, his wife bought 5,000 shares of the company. Eight months later she cashed out for a $64,476 profit. The House Ethics Committee voted unanimously to reprove him — not for the trade, but for how he answered questions about it.
At a county GOP dinner in March 2017, Pennsylvania's Mike Kelly said Barack Obama stayed in Washington for one reason: to secretly sabotage Donald Trump. He gave the real reason in the same breath. Then his office walked it back twice in one day.
In July 2022 Meuser said protecting same-sex and interracial marriage was an easy call that hurt nobody's religious rights. In December he voted no, saying the bill threatened religious freedom. The only thing that changed was that the bill added religious freedom protections.
Nine days after announcing a blind trust, Bresnahan sold up to $130,000 in Medicaid company stock. A week later he voted to cut Medicaid. In July he voted for a trading ban that wouldn't have stopped him.
Mackenzie told women he was 29. He was 37. More than 100 women in his own district asked him to own it — and he told a national TV audience most of them were Democrat operatives. A reporter checked. They weren't.
"It's a transsexual leftist illegal alien named Salvatore Ramos." He had the name wrong, the shooter was a U.S. citizen, and there was no evidence for the rest. The theory started on 4chan, and the photos being passed around included a 20-year-old woman in Georgia who spent the next days proving she was alive.
In the same statement, the Green Beret congressman said Joe Biden's pardons undermined "trust and integrity in leadership." The difference between the two: many of the people Trump freed had attacked police officers.
"I own that. I said I would serve only five terms." Then Palmer said he prayed for clarity and got a different answer. Alabama's 6th District votes August 11 — and his campaign didn't respond to more than a dozen interview requests.