{"id":1502850,"date":"2022-06-03T17:04:42","date_gmt":"2022-06-03T21:04:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1502850"},"modified":"2022-06-03T17:04:53","modified_gmt":"2022-06-03T21:04:53","slug":"fact-check-did-the-us-military-arrest-white-house-deputy-chief-of-staff-jen-omalley-dillon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-did-the-us-military-arrest-white-house-deputy-chief-of-staff-jen-omalley-dillon\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: Did The US Military Arrest White House Deputy Chief Of Staff Jen O\u2019Malley Dillon?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffact-check-did-the-us-military-arrest-white-house-deputy-chief-of-staff-jen-omalley-dillon%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1502850&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/joseph.sogno\/posts\/pfbid02vJ9X7hWAZXztdufJk9GJ9SFPg8FwcRJWDFaPouqYufLq8V7cRZ4KjeFaepLwt32sl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shared on Facebook<\/a> claims the U.S. military arrested White House Deputy Chief of Staff Jennifer O\u2019Malley Dillon for illegal election-related activities.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7442668\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7442668\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Facebook\/Screenshot<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong><span>Verdict: False<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There is no evidence O\u2019Malley Dillon has been arrested or charged with any crime. The rumor stems from a website that states it publishes \u201chumor, parody, and satire.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><span>Fact Check:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>O\u2019Malley Dillon served as President Joe Biden\u2019s campaign manager in the 2020 presidential race before joining his administration as a deputy chief of staff in November 2020, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2020\/11\/16\/politics\/jen-o-malley-dillon-biden-administration\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CNN<\/a>. A post shared on Facebook claims she was recently arrested by the U.S. military for taking part in a ballot harvesting operation.<\/p>\n<p>The post claims she was arrested June 1 by Army Rangers at a hotel in Washington D.C. It goes on to claim the arrest was \u201cthe result of a military investigation into whether she took part in a ballot harvesting ring in which Democrat-liberal sympathizers, known as \u2018mules,\u2019 illegally collected and deposited ballots into drop boxes in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin during the 2020 presidential election.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There is no evidence to support this claim. Neither the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.army.mil\/news\/newsreleases\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">U.S. Army<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fec.gov\/updates\/?update_type=press-release\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Federal Elections Commission<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/news?keys=O%27Malley+Dillon&#038;items_per_page=25\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Justice Department<\/a> nor the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defense.gov\/News\/Releases\/?Search=O%27Malley+Dillon+arrested\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Defense Department<\/a> has issued press releases about O\u2019Malley Dillon being arrested or charged with any crime. There are likewise no <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=Jen+O%27Malley+Dillon+arrested&#038;oq=Jen+O%27Malley+Dillon+arrested&#038;aqs=chrome..69i57.7580j0j7&#038;sourceid=chrome&#038;ie=UTF-8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">credible news reports<\/a> about the alleged arrest.<\/p>\n<p>An internet search reveals the claim stems from a June 1 story published by <a href=\"https:\/\/realrawnews.com\/2022\/06\/military-arrests-white-house-deputy-chief-of-staff\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Real Raw News<\/a>.\u00a0A <a href=\"https:\/\/realrawnews.com\/about-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">separate page<\/a> on the website states, \u201cThis website contains humor, parody, and satire.\u201d <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2021\/03\/31\/fact-check-georgia-election-law-illegal-grandchild-drop-off-grandparent-absentee-ballot\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Does Georgia\u2019s New Election Law Make It Illegal For A Grandchild To Drop Off A Grandparent\u2019s Absentee Ballot?)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Check Your Fact <a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2021\/12\/27\/fact-check-george-bush-death-sentence\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">previously<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2021\/06\/28\/fact-check-bill-clinton-convicted-military-tribunal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">corrected<\/a> false rumors emanating from Real Raw News that alleged military officials sentenced former Presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton to death and life imprisonment, respectively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A post shared on Facebook claims the U.S. military arrested White House Deputy Chief of Staff Jennifer O\u2019Malley Dillon for illegal election-related activities.Facebook\/ScreenshotVerdict: False There is no evidence O\u2019Malley Dillon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1502850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1502850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1502850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1502850\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1502850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1502850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1502850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}