From the ‘Maryland man’ to that ‘misleading edit,’ liberals flooded the zone with falsities aimed again at stopping Trump. They failed.
If it felt like 2025 was just one big psyop orchestrated by the Democrat Party and its accomplice media stooges, that’s because in many ways, it was.
Learning nothing from the political and ratings beatings they took in 2024, the left and its corporate media allies doubled down on twisting the truth during the first year of Trump 2.0. Here are the top 25 lies of 2025:
1. The ‘Maryland Man’
Illegal immigrant Kilmar Abrego Garcia has allegedly made a career out of smuggling fellow illegal aliens. Law enforcement officials in 2019 found him with “rolls of cash and drugs,” hanging out with members of the vicious MS-13 gang, as the Department of Homeland Security detailed. Abrego Garcia’s wife sought a protective order against him and said he physically abused her.
But when the Trump administration deported the criminal illegal immigrant, Abrego Garcia was transformed into a “Maryland man” by shameless liars like Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen. The Democrat, assisted by a shameless corporate media, painted a picture of a gentle migrant “wrongly” caught in the Department of Homeland Security’s cruel campaign to round up the “undocumented” and remove them from their adopted country. DHS rightly called out the twisted narrative for what it was — one of the biggest lies of ’25.
“Kilmar Abrego Garcia is not and will never be a Maryland Man—he is a criminal illegal alien from El Salvador and public safety threat,” a senior DHS official said in August. Democrats and liberal activist federal judges have chosen to stand by their phony “Maryland man” in defiance of the separation of powers and in the pursuit of paralyzing President Trump’s campaign promise to clean up the illegal immigration mess Democrats left him.
2. Lies About ICE
Liberals and their corporate media water-carriers have been caught in myriad lies about Immigration & Customs Enforcement operations. As The Federalist’s Jordan Boyd reported in tracking the lies Dems and the media are peddling to demonize ICE, CBS News did some serious spinning. The network news outlet reported a U.S. citizen was “forcibly removed from her car” and temporarily held in custody. CBS had to acknowledge that the woman was detained after she “refused to present her driver’s license and roll down her window when stopped.” And DHS clarified that she “was driving her illegal alien boyfriend’s car (who had been arrested prior)” and “refused to comply with law enforcement’s repeated lawful orders to identify herself.”
3. ‘Kidnapping People’
Sadly, law enforcement in sanctuary cities have gotten in on the ICE lies. As Boyd reported, Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara urged residents to call 911 on “masked” people who “may be kidnapping people.” In other words, call the cops on ICE agents who are enforcing federal law.
“The community should know that if you see something like that that is legitimate, you don’t know if someone is law enforcement, you should call 911, and you should provide as much information as possible,” the chief said.
4. ‘Shipwrecked Sailors’
Democrats have had a hard time with meanings. And they sure have struggled of late understanding the difference between “shipwrecked sailors” and enemy combatants climbing back into their burning drug-running boat to fight for control of their poisonous cargo. The Dems scream, “War Crimes!” and call for Secretary of War Pete Hegseth’s head. But their latest political sortie against Trump and company can’t escape a bombardment of the truth. Just ask the Washington Post and its egregiously bad hit piece that collapsed under the weight of shoddy reporting.
full story at https://thefederalist.com/2025/12/29/the-lefts-top-25-lies-of-2025/