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FalseA Polymarket bettor accurately wagered U.S. President Donald Trump would praise Allah on Easter 2026.SnopesApr 8, 2026TrueU.S. President Donald Trump said former Vice President Kamala Harris is "a low IQ person," said "Biden would use an autopen; he was incapable of signing his name," and stood next to the Easter Bunny talking about the rescue of fighter pilots downed in Iran to families attending the White House for its 2026 Easter Egg Roll.SnopesApr 8, 2026FalseOn July 19, 2024, an authentic post on X by Donald Trump stated: "[The bullet] took my entire ear off. The whole ear. But I went to the doctor, and he said, and this is true, he said, you heal faster than anyone I’ve ever seen. Nobody is healthier than you. And the next day, my ear was growing back, and the doctor said, nobody regrows ears like that [...]"SnopesApr 8, 2026TruePope Leo XIV said that "no one can use [God] to justify war. He does not listen to the prayers of those who wage war."SnopesApr 8, 2026FalseVideo shows a US soldier crying and saying she misses home and her family.Said by Social MediaPolitiFactApr 8, 2026Can’t tellA class-action settlement for high ATM surcharges began paying claimants on April 6, 2026.SnopesApr 8, 2026Can’t tellA video authentically features audio of U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth farting at the beginning of a Pentagon news conference.SnopesApr 7, 2026TrueU.S. President Donald Trump said, "After I'm finished with this, I can go to Venezuela — I will quickly learn Spanish, it won't take too long, I'm good at language — and I will go to Venezuela, I'm going to run for president."SnopesApr 7, 2026TrueA screenshot authentically shows an April 7, 2026, Truth Social post by U.S. President Donald Trump threatening Iran by saying, "A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again."SnopesApr 7, 2026Can’t tellIn June 2025, an authentic North Korean news segment made fun of U.S. President Donald Trump and the military parade that took place on his birthday, June 14.SnopesApr 7, 2026TrueU.S. President Donald Trump pardoned former nursing home owner Joseph Schwartz, who was convicted of a $39 million fraud scheme.SnopesApr 7, 2026Can’t tellIn April 2026, former U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi released nude images of President Donald Trump as revenge for Trump firing her.SnopesApr 7, 2026FalseLate-night host Stephen Colbert and his wife, Evelyn McGee-Colbert, opened a free hospital for the homeless in early 2026.SnopesApr 7, 2026FalsePhotos show rescues of U.S. F-15 airmen from Iran in April 2026.Said by Social MediaPolitiFactApr 7, 2026Can’t tellIn April 2026, a televangelist in Texas who predicted Iran would surrender to the U.S. on Easter accidentally emailed his account information for Grindr, a gay dating app, to his congregation.SnopesApr 6, 2026TrueA screenshot authentically shows an April 5, 2026, Truth Social post by U.S. President Donald Trump threatening Iran to open the Strait of Hormuz or the country would be "living in hell."SnopesApr 6, 2026FalseFootage recirculating online authentically shows House Speaker Mike Johnson being caught on a "hot mic" telling Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry it would be "huge" for the Republican Party if the SAVE America Act decreased voter turnout to between 12% and 18%.SnopesApr 6, 2026FalseDocuments released on Jan. 30, 2026, relating to the case of sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, revealed that actor Leonardo DiCaprio ate more than 70 pounds of "child meat" and discussed a cannibalism diet in emails with filmmaker Woody Allen.SnopesApr 6, 2026TrueScott Yenor, chairman of a Heritage Foundation initiative, said in 2021: "Every effort must be made not to recruit women into engineering but rather to recruit and demand more of men who become engineers. Ditto for med school and the law and every trade. If every Nobel Prize winner is a man, that's not a failure."SnopesApr 6, 2026TrueJackie Mitchell, a 17-year-old girl, struck out baseball legends Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig back-to-back in a 1931 game between the Chattanooga Lookouts and the New York Yankees.SnopesApr 6, 2026Can’t tellU.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer's wife, Iris Weinshall, owns a cleaning company where a Department of Labor investigation found that nearly 80% of employees used fake work papers.SnopesApr 5, 2026MixedEvery year, an Italian town punishes the politician behind the year's worst decision by locking them in a cage and plunging them into a freezing river.SnopesApr 5, 2026FalseIn March 2026, Republican U.S. Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky exposed senior White House adviser Stephen Miller for funneling $890 million into offshore accounts through the Cayman Islands.SnopesApr 4, 2026FalseSocial Security checks have officially been renamed "federal benefit payments."SnopesApr 4, 2026