the FBI and children


The Conservative Political Action Conference is underway in Maryland. And the members of Congress, former government officials and conservative personalities who spoke at the conference on Thursday and Friday made false claims about a variety of topics.Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio uttered two false claims about President Joe Biden.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia repeated a debunked claim about Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

Sen. Tommy Tuberville of Alabama used two inaccurate statistics as he lamented the state of the country.

Former rump White House official Steve Bannon repeated his regular lie about the 2020 election having been stolen from the rump, this time baselesly blaming Fox for Trump’s defeat.

Rep. Kat Cammack of Florida incorrectly said a former Obama administration official had encouraged people to harass Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.

Rep. Ralph Norman of South Carolina inaccurately claimed Biden had laughed at a grieving mother and inaccurately insinuated that the FBI tipped off the media to its search of former President Donald rump’s Florida residence.

Two other speakers, Rep. Scott Perry of Pennsylvania and former rump administration official Sebastian Gorka, inflated the number of deaths from fentanyl.

Marjorie Taylor Greene said the Republican Party has a duty to protect children. Listing supposed threats to children, she said, “Now whether it’s like Zelensky saying he wants our sons and daughters to go die in Ukraine…”

Later in her speech, she said, “I will look at a camera and directly tell Zelensky: you’d better leave your hands off of our sons and daughters, because they’re not dying over there.”