copenlu/druid huggingface dataset:
Claim: A Secret Service agent named Jonathan Willis said he “had the assassin in his sights for 3 minutes, but he was told not to engage by the head of the (Secret Service) unit.” (Instagram posts, 2024-07-14)
Evidence (2015-12-23): John Wills (PDF, 187KB) [...] Expanded essay by John Willis (PDF, 45KB) [...] Interview with John Landis (PDF, 2MB)
Claim: A Secret Service agent named Jonathan Willis said he “had the assassin in his sights for 3 minutes, but he was told not to engage by the head of the (Secret Service) unit.” (Instagram posts, 2024-07-14)
Evidence (2024-08-13): Instagram posts stated on July 21, 2024 in a post on Instagram: "The state of Washington has already sent out their ballots" for the 2024 presidential election. Instagram posts stated on July 10, 2024 in an Instagram post: Switzerland banned mammograms. Instagram posts stated on July 14, 2024 in an Instagram post: A Secret Service agent named Jonathan Willis said he "had the assassin in his sights for 3 minutes, but he was told not to engage by the head of the (Secret Service) unit." Instagram posts stated on July 9, 2024 in an Instagram video: CNN producer "caught on hot mic" commenting on Maxine Waters’ "wig problem." Instagram posts stated on July 5, 2024 in an Instagram post: President Joe Biden had a "medical emergency on Air Force One" on July 5. Instagram posts stated on July 1, 2024 in an Instagram post: "President Zelenskyy’s wife orders 4 million dollar Bugatti" in Paris with U.S. tax money. Instagram posts stated on July 1, 2024 in an Instagram post: "R. Kelly has been released from United States of America Federal Prison, Chicago." [...] Instagram posts stated on July 14, 2024 in an Instagram post: A Secret Service agent named Jonathan Willis said he "had the assassin in his sights for 3 minutes, but he was told not to engage by the head of the (Secret Service) unit."
Claim: A Secret Service agent named Jonathan Willis said he “had the assassin in his sights for 3 minutes, but he was told not to engage by the head of the (Secret Service) unit.” (Instagram posts, 2024-07-14)
Evidence (2018-09-02): Harlem store owner are targeted by German terrorist Simon in New York City, where he plans to rob the Federal Reserve Building.8,6/10 - DirectorLen WisemanStarsBruce WillisJustin LongTimothy OlyphantJohn McClane and a young hacker join forces to take down master cyber-terrorist Thomas Gabriel in Washington D.C.7,3/10 - DirectorDoug LimanStarsFranka PotenteMatt DamonChris CooperA man is picked up by a fishing boat, bullet-riddled and suffering from amnesia, before racing to elude assassins and attempting to regain his memory.8,2/10 - DirectorPaul GreengrassStarsMatt DamonFranka PotenteJoan AllenWhen Jason Bourne is framed for a CIA operation gone awry, he is forced to resume his former life as a trained assassin to survive.8,3/10 - DirectorPaul GreengrassStarsMatt DamonEdgar RamírezJoan AllenJason Bourne dodges a ruthless C.I.A. official and his Agents from a new assassination program while searching for the origins of his life as a trained killer.8,8/10 - DirectorMartin CampbellStarsDaniel CraigEva GreenJudi DenchAfter earning a licence to kill, secret agent James Bond sets out on his first mission as 007. Bond must defeat a private banker funding terrorists in a high-stakes game of poker at Casino Royale, in Montenegro.8,1/10 - DirectorSam MendesStarsDaniel CraigJavier BardemNaomie HarrisJames Bond's loyalty to M is tested when her past comes back to haunt her.
Claim: “The idea that there’s political violence or violence in America like this is just unheard of.” (Joe Biden, 2024-07-13)
Evidence (2024-07-13): Examples of political violence against U.S. presidents date back to Abraham Lincoln in 1865. Lawmakers, presidents and political candidates have also been targeted. U.S. Rep. Gabby Giffords, D-Ariz., was injured in a 2011 shooting and Rep. Steve Scalise, R-La., was injured in a 2017 shooting. The Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the U.S. Capitol is an example of political violence on a wider scale. Some rioters chanted to "hang" Vice President Mike Pence.
Claim: “The idea that there’s political violence or violence in America like this is just unheard of.” (Joe Biden, 2024-07-13)
Evidence (2021-01-06): These actions might fall into the category of self-coups, in which the leader strong-arms other branches of government to entrench power. [...] Speaking to CNN as the Capitol was being breached, Rep. Adam Kinziger, R-Ill., said, "Anywhere else in the world, we would call this a coup attempt, and that's what I think it is." NBC News’ Lester Holt said, "There have been some elements of a coup attempt." Are they right? Let’s start by noting that while violence is part of many coups, being violent is not a necessary condition. (At least one person reportedly died after being shot inside the Capitol.)
Claim: “The idea that there’s political violence or violence in America like this is just unheard of.” (Joe Biden, 2024-07-13)
Evidence (2024-07-14): Biden and Trump had brief ‘respectful’ phone call after assassination attempt at rally ‘We cannot be like this. We cannot condone this,’ Biden said [...] The president said every American must condemn political violence after the shooting. "It’s sick," Biden said. "It’s sick." [...] "The bottom line is that the Trump rally was a rally that he should have been able to be conducted peacefully, without any problem ... the idea that there's political violence or violence in America like this is just unheard of. It's just not appropriate. And we, everybody, everybody must condemn it," the president said.
Claim: “The idea that there’s political violence or violence in America like this is just unheard of.” (Joe Biden, 2024-07-13)
Evidence (2024-07-15): Political violence is a core strand of the national story. It is as American as apple pie. What we witnessed on Saturday evening, when the shots rang out in Pennsylvania, was not some freak event. Deadly violence has been a recurring feature of presidential politics. [...] President Lyndon Johnson wanted to explore why America was plagued by so much political violence. The panel of scholars he appointed to undertake this quest for understanding concluded racism was a primary cause. So, too, the "frontier experience" of suppressing Native Americans and Mexicans, which created a tradition of vigilante justice. The manner of America’s founding, through glorious revolution, also made it prone to violence. But memory loss added to the problem. Like all nations, their report concluded, the US suffered from "a kind of historical amnesia or selective recollection that masks unpleasant traumas of the past, but Americans have probably magnified this process of selective recollection, owing to a historic vision of ourselves as a latter-day chosen people, a new Jerusalem".
Claim: “The idea that there’s political violence or violence in America like this is just unheard of.” (Joe Biden, 2024-07-13)
Evidence (2023-04-28): This past February, Biden sought to dispel that shadow as he stood before Congress to deliver his State of the Union address. "There’s no place for political violence in America," he said. "And we must give hate and extremism in any form no safe harbor." Biden’s speech was punctuated by jeers and name-calling by Republicans. [...] A generation later, political violence in America unfolds with little organized guidance and is fed by a mishmash of extremist right-wing views. It predates the emergence of Donald Trump, but Trump served as an accelerant. He also made tolerance of political violence a defining trait of his party, whereas in the past, both political parties condemned it. At the height of the Patriot movement, "there was this fire wall" between extremist groups and elected officials that protected democratic norms, according to Gallaher. Today, "the fire wall between these guys and formal politics has melted away." Gallaher does not anticipate an outbreak of civil strife in America in a "classic sense"—with Blue and Red armies or militias fighting for territory. "Our extremist groups are nowhere near as organized as they are in other countries." [...] Three realities mark the current era of political violence in America as different from what has come before, and make dealing with it much harder. The first—obvious—is the universal access to weaponry, including military-grade weapons.
Claim: “The idea that there’s political violence or violence in America like this is just unheard of.” (Joe Biden, 2024-07-13)
Evidence (2024-09-16): The Long Simmer of Political Violence in America [...] For the past several years, American politics have heated to a rolling boil. Members of Congress have been shot, an intruder attacked the House speaker’s husband in their home with a hammer, and a mob stormed the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. Political violence is not new. Yet this weekend, when former President Donald Trump was shot at during a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania—an apparent assassination attempt that left one person dead and two others injured—it felt as if the kettle had boiled over. [...] Harris: Adrienne, you’ve reported recently on the sort of rise of political violence in America.
Claim: “The idea that there’s political violence or violence in America like this is just unheard of.” (Joe Biden, 2024-07-13)
Evidence (2024-07-14): As the gravity of the situation sank in Saturday night, over-the-top rhetoric was on hold, replaced by bipartisan condemnation of political violence and calls to cool things down. In a statement, Biden condemned political violence and called the attack on Trump "sick," while his advisers halted television advertising and put active campaigning on hold. [...] The presidential historian Tim Naftali said on CNN that there have been other cycles of violence against presidential candidates in US politics — frequently at times of social change, including 1968, when Robert F. Kennedy and Marin Luther King, Jr., were shot. He said political violence is "bred in the bone" of the country.
Claim: “The idea that there’s political violence or violence in America like this is just unheard of.” (Joe Biden, 2024-07-13)
Evidence (2022-09-02): In a prime-time speech in front of Philadelphia’s Independence Hall, President Joe Biden called on Americans to "stop the assault on American democracy" by Republicans who deny the results of the 2020 election. In an unusual pattern for his presidency, Biden mentioned the name of his predecessor, Donald Trump, several times in the speech, warning that Trump’s brand of politics was dangerous for the country. [...] The stated goal of Biden’s speech, which came about two months before the midterm elections, was to encourage Americans to protect democracy and to do their civic duty by voting.
Claim: “The idea that there’s political violence or violence in America like this is just unheard of.” (Joe Biden, 2024-07-13)
Evidence (2024-07-16): Neither the White House nor Biden’s campaign provided evidence to back Biden’s statement that this kind of violence is "unheard of" in the U.S. The comment ignores that U.S. history shows numerous occasions during which political leaders were targeted by politically-motivated violence, including in recent years. [...] "America has a long history of episodic political violence, from violence against Catholics and immigrants by the Know Nothing party in the early 1800s, to the blood-soaked Kansas-Missouri borderlands in the abolitionist and slave fights of the 1850s, the Civil War, and then the fight against civil rights 1950s to 1960s," Kleinfeld said. She added that from 1963 to 1968 alone, assassins killed Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr., and both John F. and Robert Kennedy. [...] Sam Oliker-Friedland, executive director at the Institute for Responsive Government, a group that works to make government and elections more accessible, said, "Political violence has been a troubling, consistent issue, less driven by idealogues executing a strategy than troubled people with access to guns who read the news. And from the reporting I’m reading today, this fits that pattern."
Claim: “The idea that there’s political violence or violence in America like this is just unheard of.” (Joe Biden, 2024-07-13)
Evidence (2024-07-14): "The idea that there’s political violence … in America like this, is just unheard of, it’s just not appropriate," said President Joe Biden, the backer of Israel’s genocidal war against Palestine, with a death toll that researchers believe could reach 186,000 Palestinians. Biden’s narrower point was correct, though: Deadly attacks on the American ruling class are vanishingly rare these days. Political violence that is not "like this" — the political violence of organized abandonment, poverty, militarized borders, police brutality, incarceration, and deportation — is commonplace. [...] And condemn it, most everyone in the Democratic political establishment has: "Political violence is absolutely unacceptable," wrote Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., on X. "There is absolutely no place for political violence in our democracy," tweeted former President Barack Obama, who oversaw war efforts and military strikes against Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Yemen, Somalia, and Pakistan with massive civilian death tolls; Obama added that we should "use this moment to recommit ourselves to civility and respect in our politics." "There is no place for political violence, including the horrific incident we just witnessed in Pennsylvania," wrote Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y. [...] As author Ben Ehrenreich noted on X, "There is no place for political violence against rich, white men. It is antithetical to everything America stands for."
Claim: “The idea that there’s political violence or violence in America like this is just unheard of.” (Joe Biden, 2024-07-13)
Evidence (2024-07-14): President Joe Biden, who is facing calls from some Democratic leaders, various pundits, and much of the electorate to step aside, did the decent thing. In a statement, he expressed relief that Trump was safe and in good health: "I’m praying for him and his family and for all those who were at the rally." Later, he appeared before reporters in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, and insisted that "everybody must condemn" the "sick" attack on his opponent, adding that he hoped to reach "Donald" later by phone. Biden momentarily set aside his profound differences with Trump, and his firm belief that the election would decide fundamental questions about the future of the country and its essence. "We cannot allow for this to be happening," he said. Biden’s sole misstep was to add, "The idea that there’s political violence or violence in America like this is just unheard of." If only that were true.
Claim: “The idea that there’s political violence or violence in America like this is just unheard of.” (Joe Biden, 2024-07-13)
Evidence (2024-07-13): "Look, there’s no place in America for this kind of violence. It’s sick. It’s sick," Biden said in comments to reporters. He called for "unit[ing] this country," adding that "we cannot allow for this to be happening. We cannot be like this. We cannot condone this." He said that the Trump rally "should’ve been able to be conducted peacefully without any problem," and "the idea that there’s political violence or violence in America like this is just unheard of. It’s just not appropriate." [...] Several prominent Democrats came out to denounce political violence, including former President Barack Obama and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, who posted statements on X within an hour of the incident.
Claim: “The idea that there’s political violence or violence in America like this is just unheard of.” (Joe Biden, 2024-07-13)
Evidence (2024-07-13): Look, there is no place in America for this kind of violence. It’s sick. It’s sick. It’s one of the reasons why we have to unite this country. We cannot allow for this to be happening. We cannot be like this. We cannot condone this. And so — and I want to thank the Secret Service and all the agencies, including the state agencies, that have been engaged in making sure that the people who — and we have more detail to come relative to the other injured — other people who may be injured in the audience. I don’t have all that detail, but we’ll make that available to you. [...] But the bottom line is that the ra- — the Trump rally was a rally that he should have been able to con- — be conducted peacefully without any problem. It was just not appropriate. And we — everybody — everybody must condemn it. Everybody.
Claim: “The idea that there’s political violence or violence in America like this is just unheard of.” (Joe Biden, 2024-07-13)
Evidence (2024-07-14): US President Joe Biden condemned an apparent assassination attempt on Donald Trump, at a Pennsylvania rally on Saturday. Leaders from both political parties swiftly denounced the attack, while some Republicans accused the Biden campaign of inciting violence. [...] "There's no place in America for this kind of violence. It's sick. It's sick. It's one of the reasons why we have to unite this country... We cannot be like this, we cannot condone this," Biden told reporters in an emergency briefing at his house in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware. [...] Biden's former boss, Barack Obama, echoed his words in a statement, saying there was "absolutely no place for political violence in our democracy."
Claim: “The idea that there’s political violence or violence in America like this is just unheard of.” (Joe Biden, 2024-07-13)
Evidence (2024-07-14): "Political violence is terrifying. I know," said former U.S. Rep. Gabby Giffords, a Democrat, who suffered a severe brain injury after being shot in an act of political violence in January 2011 during an event with constituents in Tucson, Arizona. "I’m holding former President Trump, and all those affected by today’s indefensible act of violence in my heart. Political violence is un-American and is never acceptable—never." [...] Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, who was the target of a foiled kidnapping and murder plot in 2020, also released a statement: "There is no place for political violence in this country, period. This is not how we solve our differences. [...] It wasn’t just Democratic women who responded to the news condemning political violence. Rep. Steve Scalise, a Louisiana Republican, was shot during a practice ahead of the annual Congressional Baseball Game in 2017. Scalise issued an initial statement following the early reports of the shooting, saying, "Praying for President Donald Trump. There is never any place for political violence."
Claim: “The idea that there’s political violence or violence in America like this is just unheard of.” (Joe Biden, 2024-07-13)
Evidence (2024-07-14): And he said he had ordered an independent review of how security was handled at the political rally in Pennsylvania and would be speaking to the nation Sunday night. The White House said his address from the Oval Office would be at 8 p.m. ET. [...] "There's no place in America for this kind of violence. It's sick. It's sick. It's one of the reasons why we have to unite this country," he said. "... the idea that there's political violence or violence in America like this, is just unheard of, it's just not appropriate. We - everybody, everybody must condemn it," he said.
Claim: “The idea that there’s political violence or violence in America like this is just unheard of.” (Joe Biden, 2024-07-13)
Evidence (2024-07-16): In the heart of the American political landscape, a shocking event has unfolded, sending tremors through the very core of the nation's identity. On July 13, former President and presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump was shot while speaking at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania. The attempted assassination on the former President, a figure both prominent and polarizing, has left a visible mark not only on the man himself but also on the collective consciousness of a society already grappling with deep divisions. [...] Immediately after the incident, the incumbent President Biden said, "The idea that there's violence in America like this is just unheard of." Well, no. The United States was born out of violence and has been shaped by it. From the brutal slaughtering of Native Americans, to the senseless deprivation and displacement of them during the Westward Movement, and to the ruthless accumulation of wealth based on the evil of slavery, violence has been a constant undercurrent. From Lincoln to Kennedy, the specter of political violence has loomed over America's highest office for more than two centuries since its founding, claiming the lives of four presidents and injuring three. Of the 45 individuals who have served as president, 13 were subject to actual or attempted assassinations. Each time, indignant condemnations followed and resolute vows against political violence were renewed, but to no avail.
Claim: “The idea that there’s political violence or violence in America like this is just unheard of.” (Joe Biden, 2024-07-13)
Evidence (2024-07-13): "Violence targeted at any political party or political leader is absolutely unacceptable. It has no place in Pennsylvania or the United States," Shapiro said. [...] "I’m praying for our country today. My own family sought refuge in the United States to escape political violence. There is no place for that type of violence in America," Spilka said. "We must come together to condemn it, to see the humanity in each other, and to remember that we are all Americans who can disagree in our political discourse without wishing harm on each other." "For now, we emphasize that as Americans, we must not become so entrenched in division that we forget we are all brothers and sisters under the American flag. Whether Democrat or Republican, despite our differences, we all desire peace and prosperity for our nation. Political violence is intolerable, and we must unify as a nation to condemn this horrible incident," state GOP Chairperson Amy Carnevale, and Republican National Committee members Ron Kaufman and Janet Fogarty, said.
Claim: “The idea that there’s political violence or violence in America like this is just unheard of.” (Joe Biden, 2024-07-13)
Evidence (2024-08-05): In response to the shooting incident on Saturday at Donald Trump's rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, President Joe Biden delivered remarks condemning the act of violence. Here is the full transcript of Biden's initial statement: "I've been thoroughly briefed by all the agencies in the federal government as the situation based on what we know now. I have tried to get a hold of the Donald. He's with his doctors. apparently, he is doing well. I plan on talking to him shortly, I hope, when I get back to the telephone. Look, there is no place in America for this kind of violence. It's sick, it's sick. It's one of the reasons why we have to unite this country. We cannot allow for this to be happening. We cannot be like this. We cannot condone this. [...] The President also indicated that federal agencies are actively investigating the situation and promised to keep the public informed of any developments.
Claim: “The idea that there’s political violence or violence in America like this is just unheard of.” (Joe Biden, 2024-07-13)
Evidence (2024-07-26): We’re already amidst political violence. You can define it in different ways, but I include threats and intimidation as acts of political violence. I don’t just think actual physical political violence is the only way to look at this. There’s a whole range of behaviors online that function as political violence, including doxxing and swatting. If past is prologue, then they would increase under a new Trump administration. [...] One of the things I’ve observed about political violence in the U.S. is that you don’t need a lot of physical political violence to make the threats seem credible. Threats can do a vast amount of damage. They’re actually very hard to prosecute and curtail — and when there are occasional acts of political violence that are physical, people fear the threats even more. So, I imagine threats would skyrocket. I imagine there being heightened physical political violence. But the point is: Even if the physical political violence only rises a bit, combined with the threats, that’s enough to do vast damage anyway.