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“You’re not safe in Joe Biden’s America.” — tagline of Trump campaign ad posted on social media Donald Trump’s presidential campaign moved quickly to tie the killing of a Georgia nursing student, allegedly by a Venezuelan migrant who entered the country illegally in 2022, to the surge of undocumented immigrants at the southern border under the Biden administration. His campaign posted a video that, with pounding music, combines news clips about the case with clips of Biden administration officials assuring people that the border was secure. It ends with the blunt message above. Never mind that violent crime rates, especially...

**SNIP** "Bobby Crimo aka 'Awake The Rapper' the Highland Park shooter was an Antifa Far Left extremist," says a July 4, 2022 tweet with hundreds of likes and shares. The post includes two photos. One appears to depict 21-year-old Robert Crimo wearing a hat sporting the letter "A," while the other purportedly shows his Instagram profile featuring an anti-fascist logo. Screenshot of a tweet taken July 6, 2022 "Antifa" is short for anti-fascist, a term that describes a broad, loosely affiliated coalition of left-wing activists. AFP has previously reported on how the movement has been falsely blamed for everything from...