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Scandals, failed assassinations and political rhetoric: Both sides go high and low

It's a bizarre campaign full of bullets and finger-pointing. This campaign is also full of rumors, unproven accusations, exaggerations and lies. Just ask your dog or cat. Trump blames Kamala for second assassination attempt, Democrats blame Trump for Haitians in Ohio Two assassination attempts on a presidential candidate within six weeks is truly frightening. There's […]

FACT CHECK: Tweet From British MP Discussing Presidential Assassinations Is Not Recent

Tweet screenshot Share on Facebook Following the shooting at a campaign rally for 2024 Republican presidential candidate and former president Donald Trump on July 13, British Member of Parliament David Lammy claims to have posted on X about assassinating the president. Verdict: False This claim is false – Lamy posted the tweet about X in […]

Why political assassinations will become more common

It is like a news item from the early 20th century: an autocratic prime minister shot by a poet in some remote Mitteleuropean town. But the more we consider the assassination attempt on Robert Fico, Slovakia’s strongman, the more contemporary it looks. Fico himself is a creature of the modern age, a former communist apparatchik […]