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The Kuhner Report
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Jeffrey T. Kuhner, "Liberalism's Worst Nightmare," is a conservative nationalist, who champions God, country and family. His show deals with cutting-edge, hot-button political, social and foreign policy issues.
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False95% confidence7 sourcesOct 26, 2026The 2020 presidential election was stolen from Donald Trump.Said by BThe claim that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from Trump is contradicted by multiple authoritative sources, including AP, FactCheck.org, Reuters, and PolitiFact, which found no evidence of fraud that could have changed the outcome. The claim is a faithful extraction of the post's assertion, so the verdict grades it directly.False85% confidence5 sourcesOct 26, 2026Donald Trump has settled eight different wars during his second term.Said by BThe claim that Trump settled eight wars during his second term is contradicted by multiple fact-checkers (AP, Snopes, CNN, Reuters-style FACT FOCUS) who found the figure highly exaggerated: at least two listed 'wars' (Egypt-Ethiopia dam dispute, Serbia-Kosovo) were never wars, and others such as Rwanda-Congo and Cambodia-Thailand saw fresh fighting. The extraction faithfully reflects the post's 'settling eight different wars, which is nice'; the post's own rhetorical framing is the claimant's, and the fact-checkers' dismissal is the decisive independent record.False70% confidence5 sourcesOct 26, 2026The Biden administration brought 15 to 20 million illegal aliens into the United States.Said by BThe claim that Biden brought in 15 to 20 million illegal aliens is not supported by the sources. The best available measures show roughly 7 to 11 million border encounters (which count events, not unique entries) and a population increase of about 4 to 10 million, both well short of 15 to 20 million.False65% confidence7 sourcesOct 26, 2026There are 30 to 40 million illegal aliens in the United States.Said by BAs of 2026-10-26, the sources' current estimates put the illegal alien population far below 30 to 40 million: about 13.5 million (CIS, July 2026), 15.8 million (MPI, mid-2024), and 18.6 million (FAIR, March 2025), with PolitiFact noting that the highest research estimate it found was 16.8 million. The claim's figure is roughly double the highest estimate, and the sources explicitly reject much higher numbers. The one range that could be read as reaching that level, DHS's 11-22 million pre-crisis population plus at least 10 million entrants in a congressional letter, is a sum of older, unreconciled figures rather than a current estimate.False72% confidence6 sourcesOct 26, 2026Donald Trump ended DACA earlier in 2026.Said by BThe claim that Trump ended DACA earlier in 2026 is contradicted by the sources, which describe the program as still in effect despite administration efforts to undermine it. Reporting describes renewal delays, halted approvals for new applicants, and enforcement against recipients, but no formal termination. The claim is a faithful extraction of the post's 'Trump ended, thankfully, DACA earlier this year.'False60% confidence9 sourcesOct 26, 2026Violent communist Islamist insurrectionists are targeting symbols in France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, and Belgium to show contempt for those countries.The claim that violent communist Islamist insurrectionists deliberately target national symbols to show contempt is not supported. AP's fact check (Oct 20, 2026) found that no group had been singled out for the French riots and that authorities had not linked immigrants to the rioting, and the sources that name Islamist or communist actors are opinion or low-credibility pieces that do not address deliberate symbol-targeting. The extraction is faithful to the passage, and the claim was made on 2026-10-26, before the later Reuters coverage of the Trappes shooting, which is unrelated.False70% confidence12 sourcesOct 26, 2026The Democratic Party in the United States has formed an alliance between communists, socialists, and Islamists.Said by BThe claim that the Democratic Party has formed an alliance with communists, socialists and Islamists repeats a broad allegation that AP and PolitiFact fact-checks, dated July 2026, found inaccurate. The sources show only a small DSA-aligned faction, no openly communist candidate ever elected, and most Democratic candidates not running as socialists; none document a party-level alliance with Islamists, and the claim as posted (October 26) is not contradicted by any later development.False55% confidence3 sourcesOct 26, 2026In the Middle East, desecrating a memorial or testament to Islam or a holy warrior results in punishments such as having a hand cut off, torture, or 20 to 25 years in jail.Said by BThe sources do not support the claimed Middle East penalties of hand amputation, torture, or 20 to 25 years for desecrating Islamic memorials. The Middle Eastern desecration and blasphemy laws they cover (Algeria, UAE) set far lower prison terms, such as 3 months to 3 years for grave destruction in Algeria, while the only 30-year penalty found is Brunei's, which is not in the Middle East. The claim also departs from the passage's wording on scope, since the sources concern graves and places of worship rather than memorials to 'holy warriors'.Mixed55% confidence6 sourcesOct 26, 2026John Thune and Mitch McConnell blocked Donald Trump's legislative agenda.Said by BSources support that Thune blocked Trump's SAVE America Act by refusing to end the filibuster, but they contradict the broader claim that he blocked the president's legislative agenda, since the Senate under Thune passed much of it. No source shows McConnell, who is no longer majority leader and was largely absent, blocking Trump's agenda in 2026. The post's claim is that Thune blocked Trump and that McConnell did too; the extraction's wording matches that.True85% confidence7 sourcesOct 26, 2026Charlie Kirk was murdered.Multiple tier1 sources report that Charlie Kirk was shot and killed at a Utah Valley University event on September 10, 2025, and Utah's governor called it a 'political assassination,' so the claim that he was murdered is supported as of the posting date. The sources describe a killing by gunshot and an assassination rather than using the legal term 'murder,' and the post itself said 'killed,' so the wording is a fair paraphrase.True85% confidence6 sourcesOct 26, 2026Donald Trump served two terms as President of the United States.Said by BMultiple tier-1 sources confirm Trump served a first term (2017-2021) and began a second, non-consecutive term on January 20, 2025, so the claim that he served two terms is supported. The second term was still in progress as of the 2026 reporting, which the claim does not address, and one low-credibility page wrongly lists a single term.True90% confidence8 sourcesOct 26, 2026The National Symphony Orchestra is performing Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker and Prokofiev's Cinderella in November.Said by AThe NSO's 2026-27 schedule lists a November concert program of Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker and Prokofiev's Cinderella, with dates of Nov. 20-22, 2026, so the claim was true as of 2026-10-26. The sources describe the works as the Nutcracker Suite and Cinderella Suite, which is a standard reading of the same program.