Democrats are running a coordinated campaign to terrorize voters with a false claim about Trump.
Posted by The Kuhner Report, Checked
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The Kuhner ReportOct 7, 2026
The sources do not address whether Democrats coordinated statements about Trump's Iran/Los Angeles remarks to terrorize voters. The closest coverage is about a Russian influence operation (Storm-1516) and Democratic election-preparation task forces, which are different matters, so the claim cannot be graded either way.
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What was said
… That's what the president said? Because what we're now seeing is the Democrats are using this against him a couple of weeks before the midterms. California Governor Gavin Newsom came out with a statement he was ready. I believe this was coordinated. I'm actually positive. It came out ABC went first, CNN went quickly afterwards, MS now went almost as quickly as CNN, and then the Democrats had all their statements coming out, uh, like, as I, as I like to say, planes on a tarmac, and then everybody …
The Kuhner Report · · from the transcriptPost →What we found
Contradicts. The Politifact piece on Storm-1516 concerns a Russian operation spreading false sexual-misconduct allegations against Democratic Senate candidates, which is a different event and not evidence about Democratic coordination.[1]
Context. FactCheck.org describes Democrats' criticism of Trump's 'take out' Los Angeles and San Diego remarks as a firestorm, but does not report any coordination among Democrats or any claim that the criticism was false.[2]
Context. NPR and IBTimes report that Democratic lawmakers and lawyers formed a task force to prepare legal briefs against possible fraud claims by the administration; this is coordination, but about legal responses to election claims rather than a campaign to terrorize voters with a false claim about Trump.[4][5]
Context. Multiple sources document Trump's own false or inflammatory election-fraud claims, but none address the Democratic statements on the Iran remarks that the post describes as coordinated.[3][6][7]
Sources
7 sources: 2 fact-checkers, 1 primary, 4 not rated
- 1Russian influence operation linked to attacks targeting ...politifact.com · fact-checker · cited for: contradicts
- 2FactCheck.org Author: Paul Cuno-Boothfactcheck.org · fact-checker · cited for: context
- 3Ranking Member Raskin Presses Big Tech to Enforce Its Rules ...democrats-judiciary.house.gov · primary source · cited for: context
- 4Democrats Prewrite Legal Briefs for Possible Midterm ...ibtimes.co.uk · not rated · cited for: context
- 5Here's how Democrats in Congress are preparing for election fraud claimswgcu.org · not rated · cited for: context
- 6Throwing everything at the wall: Inside Trump's wild 24-hour planalternet.org · not rated · cited for: context
- 7How Trump and his allies are sowing doubt ahead of the ...spokesman.com · not rated · cited for: context
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