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No, the Taliban did not seize $83 billion of U.S. weapons

Former president Donald Trump and right-leaning social media accounts keep wrongly claiming that the Taliban seized more than $80 billion in U.S. military equipment.

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The false claim that the fully-approved Pfizer vaccine lacks liability protection

Dr. Robert Malone and others have suggested that the Pfizer vaccine known as Comirnaty will never be used in the United States because it lacks a liability shield. Not so.

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How the number of Americans in Afghanistan went from 15,000 to 6,000

There have been two figures for the number of Americans in Afghanistan, but they represent different data sets.

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Youngkin’s claims about Virginia crime rates under McAuliffe

The Republican nominee says crime went up when Terry McAuliffe was governor, but that's not the whole story.

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Mike Pompeo on the Taliban: A timeline

The former Secretary of State has changed his position on the Taliban as the peace deal he once touted has led to a sweeping victory by the militant group.

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Jake Sullivan bungles a line about visa processing for Afghans

The White House national security adviser claimed the Trump administration did not process any special visas for Afghans after March 2020. Not so.

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Biden’s claim that nation-building in Afghanistan ‘never made any sense to me’

Biden's position has evolved over two decades in ways that he does not easily acknowledge.

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Four dubious claims from Biden’s ABC interview on Afghanistan

The president inflated troop numbers in Afghanistan — and deflated troop numbers in Syria.

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Biden’s bogus claim that Afghanistan’s military was larger than those of many of our NATO allies

Biden keeps saying Afghanistan had 300,000 people in its military, but but a large percentage of that figure were police.

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Biden, Trump and Afghanistan: Statements that haven’t aged well

As events have unfolded in Afghanistan, former president Donald Trump, President Biden and members of the Biden administration have made statements that were wildly off in light of recent events.

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