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Barely-True: George Soros is banned in Russia, Pakistan, Turkey, Hungary, Poland and the Philippines. A spokesperson for George Soros said the philanthropist has received no official communication from any government that would limit his ability to travel to any of the six countries mentioned.The Open Society Foundations, which Soros founded, is banned in Russia. (Source: PolitiFact)

Pants-Fire: Video shows Nancy Pelosi saying, “I’ve given a shoot-to-kill order for any breach of the speaker’s lobby,” on Jan. 6, 2021. This video of former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is manipulated. She did not give a shoot-to-kill order on Jan. 6, 2021.The real video shows Pelosi talking on the phone with former Vice President Mike Pence about his safety and how to proceed with electoral counts. (Source: PolitiFact)

False: Oklahoma City bombing stopped Hillary Clinton indictment in Whitewater scandal (Feb. 17) APThe claim: Oklahoma City bombing stopped Hillary Clinton indictment in Whitewater scandalA March 31 Instagram post (direct link, archived link) shows an image of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. "Hillary Clinton was to be indicted over the Whitewater scandal four days before documents related to the case were destroyed in the Oklahoma City bombing," reads the post's text. There is no connection between the Whitewater probe and the Oklahoma City bombing, according to Anne Mattina, a political communication professor at Stonehill College in Massachusetts. Fact check: Hillary Clinton has not been indicted, despite viral post to the contraryBut there were no public records of plans to indict Hillary Clinton, Mattina said. The 1995 Oklahoma City bombing was an act of domestic terrorism carried out by former U.S. soldier Timothy McVeigh, who drove a truck filled with explosives to the Alfred P. Murrah federal building in Oklahoma City and left it to explode, Mattina said. (Source: USA Today)