Would $50,000 of Student Debt Forgiveness Be a ‘Massive Tax Increase’ for Americans? Sen. Chuck Schumer called on President-Elect Joe Biden to cancel student debt in January 2021, prompting claims that the plan represented "a massive tax increase" for Americans.
Did SCOTUS Rule Trump Can Remove Chuck Schumer from the Senate? A fly-by-night "MAGA" site headline falsely claimed that the Supreme Court ruled that the President of the United States can "remove" the Minority Leader from the Senate.
Were 2019’s First Three House Bills for Impeachment, an Electoral College Ban, and Foreign Aid? On April 7 2019 the Facebook page “ForAmerica” shared the following meme (archived here), purportedly describing Democrats’ first three House bills in 2019: https://www.facebook.com/ForAmerica/photos/a.320952984629733/2475995602458783/?type=3&theater Atop a photograph of Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-New York) and Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-California), text read: THE FIRST THREE BILLS INTRODUCED IN THE HOUSE BY DEMOCRATS: IMPEACH THE PRESIDENT BAN THE […]
Chuck Schumer Border Wall 2013 vs. 2018 In January 2019, the Facebook page “McGroarty for Freedom” shared the following meme, which contrasted purported positions held by Sen. Chuck Schumer in 2013 and 2018 on the topic of a border wall to separate the United States from Mexico: It was composed of two photographs of Schumer, and the meme’s text stated: VOTES FOR […]
‘Democrat Government Shutdown’ Explained In mid-January 2019, the Facebook page “I Love My Country” shared a status update meme with the title, “Democrat Government Shutdown Explained”: Amid scattered images of United States President Donald Trump, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-New York) and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-California), the meme’s text read: DEMOCRAT GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN EXPLAINED PRESIDENT TRUMP IS ASKING FOR […]
The ‘Amy Schumer Is Actually Christine Blasey Ford’ Conspiracy Theory The days following a September 27th, 2018 hearing before the United States Senate Judiciary Committee, in which Palo Alto University professor and Stanford research psychologist Dr. Christine Blasey Ford testified that Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh violently assaulted her during a party more than three decades before, swirled with increasingly bizarre stories about a grand conspiracy. […]
Did Chuck Schumer Have an Affair With a High School Cheerleader? A prolific "satire" blog regurgitated its own joke about the New York senator.
