The Speaker of the United States House of Representatives repeated debunked lies at a college in Manhattan, New York City.
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The Pete Quiñones ShowOct 1, 2026
The sources show Speaker Mike Johnson visited Columbia University, on Manhattan's Upper West Side, in February 2025 to denounce campus protests, but none of them report him repeating debunked claims there. The claim's central assertion therefore goes unaddressed rather than being contradicted, and the post itself is a general remark that does not name a specific event.
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… I said in my, in a little Sub stack yesterday, but, you know, when I was growing up, there was this term that was applied to quote unquote neo nazis and, and white supremacists and these patriot groups, and now, with everything that we've seen, where you can get the Speaker of the House of the Representatives of the United States to go to some college on the Upper West Side of, of New York City, of Manhattan, and repeat lies, repeat hasbara that's been debunked, that was debunked, you know, three, four months ago, that we, ah, we live in that term that was so demonized back then. We are a Zionist occupied government, and there is to argue against that is just foolishness at this point. …
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Context. The New Republic reports that Johnson rushed to Columbia University's Low Library in February 2025 to denounce protests over Israel's war in Gaza and called for National Guard deployment and funding threats against universities.[2]
Context. Snopes has examined multiple rumors about Johnson, but its coverage in the provided sources does not address anything he said at a Manhattan college.[1]
Context. No provided source states that Johnson repeated debunked claims at a college in Manhattan, so the claim is neither substantiated nor disputed by the sources.
Sources
2 sources: 1 fact-checker, 1 not rated
- 19 rumors we've examined about Mike Johnsonsnopes.com · fact-checker · cited for: context
- 2Mike Johnson Is Stoking the Culture War to Save His Jobnewrepublic.com · not rated · cited for: context
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