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Description: Media outlets have systematically vilified Donald Trump by taking his words grossly out of context in at least nine cases. SOURCES: CBS News report: https://archive.org/details/KPIX_20240319_101200_CBS_Overnight_News/start/2307/end/2367?q=florida NBC News report: https://archive.org/details/KNTV_20240318_230000_NBC_Nightly_News_With_Lester_Holt/start/185/end/319.9 MSNBC Report: https://archive.org/details/MSNBCW_20240316_040000_Alex_Wagner_Tonight/start/3180/end/3240 Trump’s words about murderous aliens like MS-13 gang members: https://www.youtube.com/live/bu5M7gtoa7I?si=fz30ijN6_h2V7wUb&t=12638 https://www.youtube.com/live/bu5M7gtoa7I?si=gE4JegMhkIM6ln9d&t=12790 The “very fine people” hoax: https://www.justfactsdaily.com/washington-post-publishes-historians-false-racism-accusation-against-trump The “inciting insurrection” hoax: https://www.justfactsdaily.com/colorado-supreme-court-repeatedly-quotes-trump-out-of-context-to-ban-people-from-voting-for-him The “quid pro quo” hoax: https://www.justfactsdaily.com/associated-press-twists-the-facts-about-democrats-impeachment-of-trump The “dominate peaceful protesters” hoax: https://www.justfactsdaily.com/media-outlets-stir-racial-strife-slander-trump The “hack Hillary’s emails” hoax: https://rumble.com/v2uoksw-full-context-of-trumps-remarks-about-hillary-clintons-emails-and-russia.html The “indicting political opponents” hoax: https://www.justfactsdaily.com/in-fact/n0000044 The “don’t fix the border” hoax: https://rumble.com/v4f8wmi-blame-for-the-border-crisis.html The “bloodbath” hoax: https://www.justfactsdaily.com/in-fact/n0000173 Footage from CBS News, NBC News, and MSNBC is reproduced under the fair use provision of U.S. copyright law for “purposes such as criticism” and “comment” (17 U.S.C. §107). https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/107

Journalists are blaming climate change for deadly increases in malaria and other insect-borne diseases, but this carnage doesn’t correlate with climate change but with bans of a highly effective pesticide. For thorough documentation of every fact in this video, go to https://www.justfactsdaily.com/ddt-ban-not-global-warming-outbreak-disease-carrying-insects/

Senator Elizabeth Warren blames “price gouging” by “giant grocery chains” for food inflation, but the real cause is trillions of dollars in federal deficit spending and money printing, enacted and supported by Warren & Co. SOURCES: Warren’s Claim https://twitter.com/SenWarren/status/1663601255724249090 Food Price Indexes https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=15FzY Inflation Drivers https://www.justfacts.com/monetarypolicy#inflation Federal Spending https://www.justfacts.com/nationaldebt#causes-spending_taxes $5.2 Trillion in Deficit Spending Voted for by Warren: • $192 billion: https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/6201 • $1,800 billion: https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/748 • $483 billion: https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/266/actions • $868 billion: https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/133 • $1,844 billion: https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/1319 Equip yourself with the latest facts about important issues by signing up for Just Facts’ weekly email at https://www.justfacts.com/notification

Transcript of Senate hearing for the nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the U.S. Supreme Court, March 22, 2022: U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn (R–TN): Do you interpret Justice Ginsburg’s meaning of “men” and “woman” as “male” and “female”? Jackson: Again, because I don’t know the case, I don’t know how I interpret it. I’d need to read the whole thing. Blackburn: Okay, Can you provide a definition for the word “woman”? Jackson: Can I provide a definition? No. Blackburn: Yeah. Jackson: I can’t. Blackburn: You can’t? Jackson: Not in this context, I’m not a biologist. Blackburn: The meaning of the word woman is so unclear and controversial that you can’t give me a definition? Jackson: Senator, in my work as a judge, what I do is I address disputes. If there’s a dispute about a definition, people make arguments, and I look at the law, and I decide. So I’m not. Blackburn: The fact that you can’t give me a straight answer about something as fundamental as what a woman is underscores the dangers of the kind of progressive education that we are hearing about.

Without reporting opposing views or any evidence, the Associated Press claims that transgender “advocates say expanded gender-affirming care is vital to the safety and mental health of transgender people.” In fact, a 2023 paper about transgender drugs and surgeries in the scientific journal “Current Sexual Health Reports” documents that: • “Results of long-term studies of adult transgender populations failed to demonstrate convincing improvements in mental health, and some studies suggest that there are treatment-associated harms.” • “Systematic reviews” have found that “the risk/benefit ratio of youth gender transition ranges from unknown to unfavorable.” • “Three recent papers examined the studies that underpin the practice of youth gender transition and found the research to be deeply flawed.” This is corroborated by nine studies on the physical impacts of puberty blockers and a British Medical Journal analysis of transgender drugs and surgeries. Associated Press’ Claim https://twitter.com/AP/status/1651579496586199042 Current Sexual Health Reports https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11930-023-00358-x 9 Studies on the Physical Impacts of Puberty Blockers https://www.justfactsdaily.com/question-of-the-day/291971 British Medical Journal Analysis of Transgender Drugs and Surgeries https://www.bmj.com/content/380/bmj.p382 Equip yourself with the latest facts about important issues by signing up for Just Facts’ weekly email at https://www.justfacts.com/notification

Do states with higher gun ownership rates generally have higher homicide rates? See if you know the correct answer by watching this video. For thorough documentation of the facts in the video, go to: https://www.justfacts.com/guncontrol.fourexamples.asp Here’s an online quiz to test your friends on this question: https://www.justfactsdaily.com/question-of-the-day/292046 In the wake of mass shootings, politicians and journalists are quick to make sweeping statements about gun violence. But as with many other issues, these influential people tend to oversimplify or are flat-out wrong. So no matter where you stand on the gun control debate, there are numerous claims that deserve a closer look. Take this popular one, for example: “States with weak gun violence prevention laws and higher rates of gun ownership have the highest overall gun death rates in the nation.” That was a mouth full. Let’s break this core claim down. Because we’re about JUST FACTS, let’s replace the subjective phrase “weak gun violence prevention laws” with some more concrete, like gun ownership rates. Also, measuring only gun deaths accounts for murders committed with guns but fails to account for lives saved with guns. So let’s focus on the primary issue, which is the overall rate of violent deaths. Now for Just Facts’ Question of the Week: Do states with higher gun ownership rates generally have higher homicide rates? Yes or No? Take your best shot. The answer is no. Data from the FBI and the journal Injury Prevention show that state gun ownership rates and homicide rates are disparate and poorly correlated. This is very important because, as the chart shows, many states with higher gun ownership rates also have the lowest murder rates, and vice versa. As you can see, there is no clear association between gun ownership rates and murder rates. To examine the documentation for this and many other facts that debunk common talking points on both sides of the gun control debate, go to: https://www.justfacts.com/guncontrol.fourexamples.asp

Security footage from Covenant School in Nashville, TN showing Audrey Elizabeth Hale shooting out glass doors to enter the building on March 27, 2023. For an article documenting how this could have been prevented, go to: https://www.justfactsdaily.com/four-underused-tools-to-stop-school-shootings Video from the Metro Nashville Police Department.

Description: People who take Food Stamps are 79% more likely to suffer from hunger than people with equivalent incomes who don’t take Food Stamps. SOURCES: In a recent episode of CBS News, anchor Anne-Marie Green claimed, “So, you know, people should sort of understand that this, the SNAP benefits, were sort of in place to help during the pandemic, but here’s what happened since then, since then. The price of food has gone through the roof, even when, you know, other prices have sort of stabilized or gone down, it’s still super expensive to buy food, particularly healthy food.” https://www.cbsnews.com/news/food-stamps-snap-benefits-cuts-march-2023/ SNAP benefits (previously called Food Stamps) are automatically indexed every year to the prices of food: https://www.fns.usda.gov/snap/allotment/COLA SNAP benefits rose by 12.5% at the start of the 2023 federal fiscal year: • In the 2022 fiscal year, “maximum allotments” for a family of four “will increase” to “$835.” https://www.fns.usda.gov/snap/fy-2022-cost-living-adjustments • In the 2023 federal fiscal year, “maximum allotments” for a family of four “will increase” to “$939.” https://www.fns.usda.gov/snap/fy-2023-cola • CALCULATION: ($939 – $835) / $835 = 12.5% At the start of the 2022 federal fiscal year, the Biden administration raised Food Stamp benefits by 21%, well above the rate of food inflation: https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-23-105450 In the same CBS News episode, anchor Vlad Duthiers claimed, “So, as you are aware, economists have drawn parallels between this policy and reductions in poverty, real reductions.” https://www.cbsnews.com/news/food-stamps-snap-benefits-cuts-march-2023/ The federal government doesn’t include SNAP benefits in its the official federal poverty measure: “The income and poverty estimates shown in this report are based solely on money income before taxes and do not include the value of noncash benefits such as those provided by the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, Medicare, Medicaid, public housing, or employer-provided fringe benefits.” https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publications/2020/demo/p60-270.pdf A USDA measure called “very low food security” roughly corresponds to “food insecure with hunger”: https://www.ers.usda.gov/amber-waves/2007/june/struggling-to-feed-the-family-what-does-it-mean-to-be-food-insecure/ Among households who are poor enough to receive Food Stamps, the rate of hunger is 79% higher for people who take Food Stamps than those who don’t: • “Table 8. Percentage of households by food security status and participation in selected Federal nutrition assistance programs, 2021 … “With very low food security … Received SNAP benefits [=] 17.0 … Did not receive SNAP benefits [=] 9.5” https://www.ers.usda.gov/webdocs/publications/104656/err-309.pdf • CALCULATION: (17.0 – 9.5) / 9.5 = 79% Scholars have attempted to explain why “the prevalence of very low food security among households participating in SNAP was double that of nonparticipating households in the same low-income range” by theorizing that those who take SNAP benefits have “greater difficulty meeting their food needs” than those who don’t take SNAP benefits. https://www.ers.usda.gov/webdocs/publications/79761/err-215.pdf Scholars assume the theory above must be true because there’s no reason why giving people Food Stamps could increase hunger: “Using a multivariate logit regression framework, for example, Wilde and Nord (2005) estimate a negative impact of food stamp participation on food security even after controlling for unobserved fixed effects. Given no plausible mechanism through which food stamps would diminish food security, they conclude that their estimated coefficient is biased due to unobserved time-varying household characteristics.” https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/212843728.pdf “Moral hazard” is “the risk that an individual or organization will behave recklessly or immorally when protected from the consequences.” https://www.thefreedictionary.com/Moral+Hazard CBS News footage is reproduced under the fair use provision of U.S. copyright law for “purposes such as criticism” and “comment” (17 U.S.C. §107). https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/107

Does the U.S. Constitution require that all people born in the U.S. have a right to U.S. citizenship? Rigorous documentation of all facts in this video is available at https://www.justfactsdaily.com/birthright-citizenship-debate/ TRANSCRIPT How much do you really know about birthright citizenship? A major point of controversy is whether US born children of illegal immigrants and temporary visitors should automatically be granted US citizenship. Is this a Constitutional right or not? Let’s take a closer look with Just Facts’ question of the week. Does the 14th Amendment award U.S. citizenship to all people born in the U.S.? Yes or No? The correct answer is “No.” In addition to being born in the United States, the 14th Amendment requires people to be subject to the jurisdiction of the United States in order to become citizens. The congressional record brings even more clarity. Jacob Howard, the U.S. Senator who proposed this language, stated, “This will not, of course, include persons born in the United States who are foreigners, aliens, who belong to the families of ambassadors or foreign ministers accredited to the Government of the United States, but will include every other class of persons.” Howard also said, “the word ‘jurisdiction,’ as here employed, ought to be construed as to imply a full and complete jurisdiction on the part of the United States …. that is to say, the same jurisdiction in extent and quality as applies to every citizen of the United States now.” The 14th Amendment was adopted to guarantee that the Civil Rights Act of 1866 was constitutional. This law gave citizenship to people of every race and color “without regard to any previous condition of slavery or involuntary servitude….” It’s important to note, that This Civil Rights Act also explicitly excludes people who are “subject to any foreign power….” You can verify the primary sources by clicking the link in the description. Did you get the answer right? Share this question with your friends. See if they know as much as they think they do. Subscribe to Just Facts today to make sure you stay ahead of the spin from the media and politicians.

While showing heartbreaking footage of children starving in Somalia, CBS News blamed their plight on climate change, but the facts reveal an entirely different story. SOURCES: CBS News segment by host Norah O’Donnell and correspondent Debora Patta: https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/kevin-tober/2022/11/14/cbs-blames-climate-change-starving-dying-children-poor-somalia Somalia has a long and terrible history of droughts, experiencing 10 severe droughts from 1964 to 2011: http://www.faoswalim.org/water-resources/drought/drought-monitoring Somalia contains 1/1,000th of the earth’s surface area: “Somalia … Area total: 637,657 sq km” https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/somalia/ “The surface area around the globe is 510,072,000 square kilometers.” https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/the-largest-countries-in-the-world-the-biggest-nations-as-determined-by-total-land-area.html Rigorous studies show that earth’s rainfall patterns haven’t significantly changed over the past century: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9588423/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9588423/ https://www.nature.com/articles/nature11575 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0022169415008744 The earth’s natural vegetation productivity has actually increased over the past several decades: https://www.nature.com/articles/nclimate3004 https://www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1126/science.1082750 The portion of the world’s population that is undernourished declined from 13% in 2001 to 9% in 2020: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SN.ITK.DEFC.ZS The average number of daily calories needed to lift the undernourished people of the world out of that condition declined from 172 in 1992 to 88 in 2016: https://www.justfacts.com/globalwarming#assertions-famine Somalia has a problematic climate and is experiencing a severe drought: http://www.faoswalim.org/water-resources/drought/drought-monitoring https://somalia.un.org/en/208004-somalia-hope-fades-famine-looms As a scholar explained in 2011, “Famine stops at the Somali border,” and “Rainfall is not the controlling variable for this differential outcome, because rainfall is not really variable across these borders where Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia meet: http://web.archive.org/web/20111120101837/http:/www.edwardrcarr.com/opentheechochamber/2011/07/21/drought-does-not-equal-famine/ https://edwardrcarr.com/downloads/Carr%20Vitae%2028%20February%202022.pdf Somalia is wracked by civil war and Islamic extremism that imposes Sharia law on large parts of the nation: https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/somalia/ Somalia has one of the most corrupt governments in the world: https://www.transparency.org/en/cpi/2021 The UN Food and Agriculture Organization complains that Somalia has “very high humanitarian access constraints” due to “armed hostilities, bureaucratic impediments and inference, and impassable roads during the rainy season.” https://docs.wfp.org/api/documents/WFP-0000136243/download/ Covid-19 lockdowns have caused food shortages and prices to increase, hurting the world’s poorest people the most: https://www.theigc.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Teachout-and-Zipfel-2020-policy-brief-.pdf https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7790064/ https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/00368504211019854 Note that in the very first month of the Covid-19 pandemic, Just Facts warned about the effects of lockdowns on food and other necessities by writing this: “If certain industries adopted the social distancing extremes that many people have embraced, this would shut down food production and distribution, health care, utilities, and other life-sustaining services. Even under far more moderate scenarios where people who are not in these industries shun work, all of those necessities and many more aspects of modern life depend on the general strength of the economy. Thus, overreacting can ultimately kill more people than are saved.” https://www.justfactsdaily.com/vital-facts-about-covid-19 In 1989, William H. Mansfield III, the deputy executive director of the United Nations Environment Programme, wrote that “concern about climate change impacts has sent storm warning flags aloft in the United Nations” because global warming would “disrupt agriculture” and “adversely” affect “food supplies”: https://nepis.epa.gov/Exe/ZyPDF.cgi/93000F7Z.PDF?Dockey=93000F7Z.PDF#page=39 In 2007, Newsweek reported that China was undergoing “serious food shortages due to global warming”: https://www.newsweek.com/growth-not-enough-98033 In 2008, Newsweek reported that “the potential nightmares of global warming” include “starvation due to drought”: https://www.newsweek.com/mckinsey-cutting-carbon-wont-cost-much-85391 CBS News footage reproduced under the “fair use” provision of U.S. copyright law for “purposes such as criticism” and “comment” (17 U.S.C. §107). https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/107

This week on “60 Minutes,” President Biden swore “there’s not a single thing that I’ve observed at all that would affect me or the United States relative to my son Hunter.” That claim is exploded by newly uncovered emails which prove Joe Biden obstructed justice to enrich Hunter: https://www.justfactsdaily.com/smoking-gun-newly-discovered-emails-confirm-joe-biden-obstructed-justice-for-his-sons-foreign-business-deal “60 Minutes” footage reproduced under the “fair use” provision of U.S. copyright law for “purposes such as criticism” and “comment” (17 U.S.C. §107). https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/107

Media outlets and governments are telling people to wear N95 masks without warning them of the serious dangers documented in scientific journals. SOURCES: N95 masks are commonly worn in medical facilities: https://europepmc.org/article/pmc/pmc4670234 OSHA requires employers to conduct a medical evaluation of each employee who wears N95s because they “may place a burden on an employee’s health”: https://www.osha.gov/sites/default/files/publications/3384small-entity-for-respiratory-protection-standard-rev.pdf The CO2 concentration of the air we exhale is 4–5%, or 40,000–50,000 parts per million (ppm): https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/ina.12286 The CO2 concentration of fresh air is about 400 ppm: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0013935121008549 A study published in 2013 found that CO2 levels in the breathing zones of 30 different models of N95 masks ranged from 13,000–35,000 ppm: https://academic.oup.com/annweh/article/57/3/384/230992 OSHA’s work shift limit for CO2 is 5,000 ppm: https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/topics/flavorings/limits.html The indoor (classroom) limit for CO2 in “many countries” is 0.1%, or 1,000 ppm: https://aaqr.org/articles/aaqr-20-07-covid-0403 Studies have found that CO2 levels of 2,500 ppm cause “large and statistically significant reductions” in complex decision-making ability: https://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/doi/full/10.1289/ehp.1104789 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41370-018-0055-8 Based on a systematic literature review published by the Journal of Patient Safety in 2013, “there are at least 210,000 lethal” errors in U.S. hospitals each year, and “the true number” is “estimated at more than 400,000 per year”: http://www.patientsafetyamerica.com/wp-content/uploads/A_New_Evidence_based_Estimate_of_Patient_Harms.2.pdf Deaths in the U.S. from fatal hospital errors are roughly in the range of the number of C-19 deaths that occurred in the U.S. during the first year of the pandemic: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/covid-19.htm Studies published in scientific journals have found that N95s cause: • headaches: https://headachejournal.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/head.13811?af=R • cardio-pulmonary stress: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00392-020-01704-y • possible fatal cardiac events among people with heart disease and those who are vigorously exercising: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0306987720324671 The data above and many more facts about masks are documented in Just Facts’ article, “Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Masks, and the Deadly Falsehoods Surrounding Them”: https://www.justfacts.com/news_face_masks_deadly_falsehoods