John Sexton

John Sexton

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John Lewis Gives Misleading Statement on Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton

Rep. John Lewis issued a statement Thursday downplaying Bernie Sanders’s role in the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s. Speaking on Capitol Hill Thursday, Rep. Lewis said, “I never saw him. I never met him.” Lewis then added, “But I met Hillary Clinton.”

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Fact Check: Daily Express Publishes Fake Cologne Assault Video

The Daily Express posted a video Thursday which purports to show a woman screaming as she is attacked in Cologne, Germany, on New Year’s Eve. In fact, the video in question was shot in Cairo in 2013, and the audio comes from a completely different clip of an assault that also took place in Cairo’s Tahrir Square in 2013.

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Hillary Clinton’s Staff Kept Her Private Server Secret, Despite FOIA Request

Senior staff for Secretary of State Hillary Clinton were aware of a FOIA request for information on the email accounts used by the Secretary but said nothing to staff tasked with providing a response about her private email server. The Department’s response to the group seeking the information stated, “no records responsive to your request were located.”

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44% of Democrats Welcome Refugees from Agrabah, Home of Disney’s Aladdin

Just last week, Democrats in the media were guffawing over a poll which showed 30% of Republican primary voters would bomb the fictional city from Disney’s Aladdin. This week a Republican polling group asked a similar question of Democrats, and the results were even more embarrassing, with 44% of Democrats saying they’d support taking in refugees from Agrabah.

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