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The Michael Berry Show
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Politics and current events from the Czar of Talk Radio.
81 claims
True95% confidence7 sourcesSep 23, 2026J.D. Vance was the Republican nominee for vice president during the 2024 presidential election.Said by CMultiple reliable sources (AP, Reuters, BBC, Politico, NPR) confirm that Trump selected JD Vance as his running mate and the Republican National Convention formally nominated him as the Republican vice presidential nominee in July 2024, for the November 2024 election. The extracted claim matches the post's assertion that Vance was the Republican VP nominee in 2024; the post's further wording ('before JD Vance was vice president') is consistent with the sources showing he later became VP in 2025.True90% confidence6 sourcesSep 23, 2026Twitter and Facebook suspended the account of Donald Trump in early 2021.Said by CMultiple tier1 sources (AP, Reuters, BBC) confirm Twitter permanently suspended President Trump's account on January 8, 2021, and tier2/tier1 sources confirm Facebook suspended his accounts in early January 2021. The claim's extraction drops the 'sitting president... before he leaves office' framing from the post, but the core assertion about early 2021 suspensions by both platforms is supported; the post's 'just suspended' phrasing is a recent-tense detail that the sources date to Jan 6-8, 2021.True95% confidence8 sourcesSep 23, 2026The Iranian government released American hostages on the day of Ronald Reagan's inauguration.Said by CThe hostages held in Iran were released on January 20, 1981, the day Ronald Reagan was inaugurated, as multiple primary and tier1 sources confirm. The claim is a faithful extraction of the passage's date claim; the post's causal story that Reagan's inauguration caused the release is contested by the sources, but the extracted claim does not assert causation.True90% confidence5 sourcesSep 23, 2026Donald Trump was suspended from Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, and Snapchat.The claim is supported: multiple sources report that Trump's Twitter account was suspended and permanently banned in January 2021, that Facebook and Instagram suspended his accounts for the same period, and that Snapchat permanently banned him in January 2021. The extracted claim faithfully drops the post's word 'even' and does not add anything the post doesn't say.True85% confidence6 sourcesSep 23, 2026Google, Apple, and Amazon removed the Parler app from their platforms.Said by 2BMultiple tier1 sources confirm that Apple and Google removed the Parler app from their app stores in January 2021, and that Amazon removed Parler from its web-hosting service, which took the platform offline. The claim's core is supported; the nuance is that Amazon's action was to its cloud hosting service rather than an app store, and the post's 'Parlor' is the same app.True90% confidence7 sourcesSep 23, 2026CNN decided not to carry a speech by President Trump live because of his history of misleading and false statements regarding elections and election integrity.Said by CCNN did not carry Trump's July 16, 2026 election-security address live, and anchor John King stated on air that the reason was the president's history of misleading and, in some cases, false statements on elections and election integrity. The claim matches the on-air statement, though CNN also framed the decision as a coverage choice and offered a live stream.Reported in the post, not stated as its own.True95% confidence6 sourcesSep 15, 2026James Talarico stated that God is 'nonbinary'.Said by AMultiple tier1 sources confirm that Talarico said "God is nonbinary" during Oct. 14, 2021, Texas House floor remarks opposing HB 25, the transgender youth sports bill. The extraction's attribution to Talarico matches the post's own subject, so the claim is graded as stated.Reported in the post, not stated as its own.True80% confidence5 sourcesSep 15, 2026James Talarico campaigned at Black churches over the weekend.Said by ASources show Talarico spent the weekend of September 12-13, 2026 in Houston, including a Sunday rally at Wheeler Avenue Baptist Church and a Sunday morning visit to Church Without Walls, both predominantly Black churches. The extracted claim matches the post's wording and timeframe, and the post's own 'weekend' is the same weekend the sources describe.True55% confidence6 sourcesSep 15, 2026The study linking testosterone replacement therapy to prostate health issues has been debunked.Said by AThe sources consistently find no established link between testosterone replacement therapy and increased prostate cancer risk, and the FDA/HHS proposal says available data have not generally shown such an increase, which supports the claim that the concern has been refuted. No source names the single 'one study' the post refers to or uses the word 'debunked' about it, so the specific-study wording is inferred from the broader evidence.True88% confidence4 sourcesSep 15, 2026Jasmine Crockett stated she is not campaigning for James Talarico.Crockett publicly said she would not campaign with Talarico and would focus on down-ballot races instead, as reported by The Hill and CNN in August 2026. The claim's wording matches the post's paraphrase, and later coverage confirms she still had not campaigned with him.True90% confidence5 sourcesSep 15, 2026James Talarico is 37 years old.Said by AJames Talarico, the Texas Democratic Senate candidate, was born May 17, 1989, so he was 37 on the posted date of 2026-08-18. The WSJ and NYT, both published in late October 2026, describe him as 37, and the birth date is consistent across Britannica and Wikipedia. The claim matches the passage's wording, and the post's 'Tallarico' spelling refers to the same person.True80% confidence9 sourcesSep 15, 2026James Talarico shares a bank account with his mother.Said by ATalarico's personal financial disclosure, as quoted by multiple outlets, lists a single Wells Fargo checking account 'jointly held by the filer and the filer's mother,' and the claim held as of the September 2026 posting. The post's 'unmarried' and '37-year-old' details are not part of the extracted claim and do not change its core, and the August disclosure shows the account still existed though its balance had dropped.