In July 2022, an online post surfaced with claims about a supposed deal between House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Hunter Biden, son of President Joe Biden.
The post, a 15-minute Facebook video, said it would show Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, publicly disclosing documents about the supposed deal.
"Sen. Ted Cruz REVEALS Shocking Documents EXPOSING Documents Nancy Pelosi And Hunter Biden Secret Deals (sic)," the video's title and caption read.
The same claim and video also appear in a YouTube post from June 19.
However, Cruz didn't mention Hunter Biden in the video at all, and he hasn't made any public claims about a secret deal between Pelosi and Biden's son.
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USA TODAY reached out to the Facebook page that posted the claim, Conal Anatole, for comment.
The video doesn't expose any alleged collusion between Pelosi and Hunter Biden, as Lead Stories also reported. Instead, it combines two clips of Sen. Cruz speaking about unrelated topics.
The first eight-and-a-half minutes of the Facebook video show a meeting of the Senate Judiciary Committee on June 10, 2021, Cruz spokesman Steve Guest told USA TODAY. In the clip, Cruz speaks at length about potential changes to the First Step Act, a criminal justice reform law that passed on Dec. 18, 2018, before Sen. Dick Durbin, the...
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