![]() ![]() 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.”įacts First: Greene’s claim is false. ![]() Marjorie Taylor Greene said the Republican Party has a duty to protect children. Zelensky’s remark about American ‘sons and daughters’ Here is a fact check of 13 false claims from the conference, which continues on Saturday. Scott Perry of Pennsylvania and former Trump administration official Sebastian Gorka, inflated the number of deaths from fentanyl.Īnd that’s not all. 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 Trump’s Florida residence. Kat Cammack of Florida incorrectly said a former Obama administration official had encouraged people to harass Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. Former Trump White House official Steve Bannon repeated his regular lie about the 2020 election having been stolen from Trump, this time baselesly blaming Fox for Trump’s defeat. Tommy Tuberville of Alabama used two inaccurate statistics as he lamented the state of the country. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia repeated a debunked claim about Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Jim Jordan of Ohio uttered two false claims about President Joe Biden. 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. The Conservative Political Action Conference is underway in Maryland. ![]()
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