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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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Mixed60% confidence7 sourcesOct 24, 2026Wedgwood Polling admits that they deliberately falsify poll results to boost far-left Democrats.Said by CThe sources strongly support that Wedgewood Polling admitted its polls were fabricated and deliberately so, but they do not establish the claimed purpose of boosting far-left Democrats. Wedgewood described its stated aim as a 'social experiment' to test poll oversight, and Politico lists whether it was meant to boost progressives as an open speculative question.Mixed60% confidence6 sourcesOct 24, 2026Chris Pappas was sleeping with a lobbyist from Amazon while voting on bills that provided giveaways to Amazon.Said by CSources confirm Pappas dated Amazon lobbyist Vann Bentley in 2019, while Bentley was lobbying Amazon, and that Pappas cast votes on bills Amazon lobbied on. But fact-checkers say the ads' framing that the relationship drove those votes as Amazon 'giveaways' omits context and misrepresents his position on one measure, so that framing is not supported.Mixed50% confidence12 sourcesOct 7, 2026Gavin Newsom, Karen Bass, and Todd Gloria have stated that President Trump wants Iran to nuke Los Angeles and San Diego.Said by CNewsom and Bass publicly characterized Trump's Oct. 5 remarks as encouraging or calling for attacks on Los Angeles and San Diego, so part of the claim is supported. However, the sources do not show Todd Gloria making any such statement, no source says anyone claimed Trump wants Iran to 'nuke' the cities, and fact-checkers (Snopes, FactCheck.org) and the White House say the characterization misread Trump's words. As of 2026-10-07, the claim's attribution is partly supported but its scope and wording are not fully confirmed.Disputed in the post.Mixed60% confidence11 sourcesOct 7, 2026ABC's Good Morning America, George Stephanopoulos, Martha Raddatz, Anderson Cooper, and Kaitlan Collins reported that Donald Trump said it is a small price to pay if Iran nukes Los Angeles and San Diego.Said by CTrump did say on 2026-10-06 at a Nebraska rally that it was 'a small price to pay' and that 'Let them take out Los Angeles, let them take out San Diego,' but the sources show the 'small price' remark referred to the war's economic cost (prices), not to Iran destroying the cities, so the claim's link is a context-stripped reversal. The sources do not show whether ABC's Good Morning America, Stephanopoulos, Raddatz, Anderson Cooper or Kaitlan Collins reported it that way, so that part is unverified.Disputed in the post.Mixed60% confidence9 sourcesOct 7, 2026President Trump sent the National Guard to Los Angeles because of a wildfire and riots in downtown Los Angeles.Said by CThe sources show Trump's stated justification for the Los Angeles Guard deployment was violent protests against immigration raids, including demonstrations downtown, but no source links the deployment to a wildfire, and the Ninth Circuit ruled the deployment unlawful because that justification did not meet the legal standard. The claim is partly supported (downtown violence was the stated rationale and some protesters threw rocks and a firebomb) but the wildfire element is unsupported and the 'burning building after building' picture is undercut by findings that most protesters were peaceful.Mixed60% confidence7 sourcesOct 7, 2026The term 'lockdown' for COVID-19 restrictions was adopted from Communist China.Said by CThe sources show English-language media adopted 'lockdown' to describe China's January 2020 Wuhan measures, and CNN notes the word was first used for these Chinese travel restrictions (fengcheng, 'sealing the city'), so the term's Chinese origin is partly supported. However, the claim's wording that the term was 'adopted from Communist China' for COVID-19 restrictions generally is only partly borne out: CNN describes the English usage as a translation-based adoption of a Chinese policy name, and the post's broader claim that the US government 'got the approach' from China is not addressed by sources, so the central origin claim is partly supported and partly unaddressed.Mixed60% confidence9 sourcesOct 7, 2026The President of the United States is calling for Iran to attack Los Angeles and San Diego.Said by CTrump's words were accurately quoted ('Let them take out Los Angeles, let them take out San Diego' at the Oct. 5 Nebraska rally), but the record splits on what he meant. Read literally, the words could suggest he was permitting an Iranian strike; FactCheck.org and the White House read them as saying Iran could threaten US cities and that higher gas prices were a small price to pay, and Trump said on Oct. 7 'we are not going to let that happen.' The claim's flat assertion that he is calling for an attack matches the literal wording but not the reading the fact-checkers found most plausible, and the post itself treats that assertion as a media lie.Disputed in the post.Mixed60% confidence7 sourcesOct 7, 2026Donald Trump's rallies are currently packed to the rafters.Said by CSources show Trump's rallies were packed at some venues (Corinth, Port Huron, Chillicothe's full gym) but Reuters and others report uneven turnout, capacity crowds without overflow, and empty sections at other rallies, including reporting before 2026-10-07 on empty upper sections in Alabama and Ohio. The sweeping 'currently packed to the rafters' claim is thus partly supported and partly contradicted, and it is the claimant's own characterization, not a verified fact.Mixed60% confidence4 sourcesOct 7, 2026The FCC has the authority to intervene in media broadcasts to stop propaganda.Said by CThe sources support the FCC having broad authority over broadcast content, including enforcing a news distortion rule and a public-interest mandate, so it can act against some broadcast content. But no source describes a power aimed at 'propaganda' as such, and the same sources limit that power: the news distortion rule covers only deliberate falsification, the statute bars censorship, First Amendment limits apply, and the FCC has no jurisdiction over websites. The claim's 'to stop propaganda' framing is therefore only partly supported. The claim also reads the poster's 'has to step in' call as a statement of existing authority, which is a reasonable paraphrase.Mixed60% confidence5 sourcesOct 7, 2026George Stephanopoulos paid $1 million out of his own pocket and cost ABC $15 million due to legal issues.Said by 4BThe sources confirm that ABC agreed to pay $15 million toward Trump's presidential library and $1 million in legal fees to settle the defamation suit over Stephanopoulos's on-air remarks, so the $15 million cost to ABC and the legal-issues cause are supported. However, the sources say the $1 million was owed jointly by ABC, ABC News and Stephanopoulos, not paid by him alone out of his own pocket, which contradicts that part of the claim.Mixed55% confidence7 sourcesOct 7, 2026California passed a law because of one citizen journalist.Said by 4BThe sources support the timing and the nickname but do not establish that Shirley was the reason the law passed. Sources say the bill was introduced in response to Shirley's investigations and was nicknamed after him, but the sponsor describes it as a privacy measure and Snopes reports the bill text never mentions Shirley. The extraction also drops the post's sarcastic 'one kid' framing, which does not change the grading.Mixed60% confidence8 sourcesOct 7, 2026Donald Trump stated he wanted Los Angeles and San Diego bombed.Trump did say "Let 'em take out Los Angeles, let 'em take out San Diego" at a Nebraska rally, so the words are accurately attributed. However, FactCheck.org, AP and the White House all reject the reading that he wanted the cities bombed, and Trump's own Truth Social post says he was comparing gas prices to a bombing. The literal words are supported, but the implication that he wanted the cities bombed is contradicted by the context.