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@azizgul47576 жыл бұрын
#1 should have been Palpatine!!!
@InkAndPoet6 жыл бұрын
If you are talking about the guy in star wars, then I have one thing to say to you: DAMMIT MAN!!!! PALATINE DOESN'T EXIST IN REAL LIFE!!!!!! If not, then tell me which country he's from because I only know of the fictional one.
@bricebridges38146 жыл бұрын
Hayden Stevens You must not know what a joke is.
@InkAndPoet6 жыл бұрын
Then I am sorry I didn't get it.
@andrewc11996 жыл бұрын
World Is Doomed Or Hillary Clinton.
@azizgul47576 жыл бұрын
Hayden Stevens Well... Okkay
@reylightrey18636 жыл бұрын
Shit these comments will be nice *grabs Popcorn*
@bobbyshewan42296 жыл бұрын
Reylight Rey same
@TechNeo-di9ll6 жыл бұрын
Oh yeah.
@petrborodavkin41286 жыл бұрын
And political debates start in 3, 2, 1...
@alvarohernani66456 жыл бұрын
Petr Borodavkin It's the final countdown ninoniinooo......
@bobbyshewan42296 жыл бұрын
Petr Borodavkin lol
@bradleyberdan13906 жыл бұрын
I’ll start it.. Conservative: Trump is the best thing that ever happened to America Liberal: Trump is a white cys male nazi C: Move to Canada L: Stop mansplaining to me C: You’re ignoring the facts L: Rape
@ArkaeaFCL36 жыл бұрын
Petr Borodavkin (explosion)
@swapnadeepkapuri15896 жыл бұрын
Where is Kim Jung ill?
@kingnaga6196 жыл бұрын
Someone has to also like them
@kefiremery49356 жыл бұрын
Swapnadeep Kapuri. That's what I said.
@Vaineguardio6 жыл бұрын
He was not a political figure that was democratically elected, he was a tyrannical dictator. There is a difference.
@swapnadeepkapuri15896 жыл бұрын
Silas Greaves he is the best dictator ever.
@eifelitorn6 жыл бұрын
no controversy there, he is regarded as a whacko by everyone
@jamescarlisle40236 жыл бұрын
You know, I'm not a Trump guy in the slightest. I hate the man. But I do think that Putin and Castro EASILY top Trump. Those guys have actually had regimes that are actually brutal. Trump's rhetoric and personality is a complete and total disgrace, but he's never killed any of his own journalists (although he's tried to delegitimize them). I'd put Trump at #3. Putin and Castro are in a different category of controversial than Trump.
@OWBEAST6 жыл бұрын
JK C please help me hit 1k subs
@FunkyMonkey-ip4xy6 жыл бұрын
JK C As much as I also dislike Trump I agree. Putin or the Turkish dictator in waiting would be above him for me. If Trump stays in power much longer I'm sure he'll earn # 1 but not yet.
@ericnick44986 жыл бұрын
JK C Okay you have a point.
@stevenchoza63916 жыл бұрын
JK C But he’s far more CONTROVERSIAL than those two. That’s what the list is about. Brutal regimes aren’t horrid, not controversial.
@EricaShady101719726 жыл бұрын
JK C please listen to the intro before you comment.
@marissamay85272 жыл бұрын
Rudy Giuliani and Sarah Palin would also be considered controversial political figures.
@josephg123455 жыл бұрын
Come on you just got to love Bush. He’s not the smartest but he’s just so love able
@austinbennett25884 жыл бұрын
Bruh what
@christinagaller43743 жыл бұрын
delusional.
@chief88252 жыл бұрын
@@noahzmigrodski5735 while Biden and Obama funded Isis? Yeahhhh no
@TurbidTG16 жыл бұрын
1. Trump. Or better be.
@MrAntiFarLeft6 жыл бұрын
Turbid TG1 in 2018 truth= controversy MAGA or GTFO
@jammerthesignaldisruptor47676 жыл бұрын
Trump= supremacist fucker
@bigdundee123456 жыл бұрын
Trump pffff try kim jong un, hitler, stalin or magabe
@The-Almighty-Whitey6 жыл бұрын
MrAntiFarLeft haha HELL YEAH
@davidray31336 жыл бұрын
****** the Oscars Ben Carson is on his cabinet. 'Nuff said.
@TheNicestKoopa6 жыл бұрын
No hate or anything Watchmojo but, I just don't see how Kim Jun Un didn't make the list. I mean nuclear threats, the mistreatment of millions and yet there's still people who support him. Watchmojo you missed an opportunity.
@davidray31336 жыл бұрын
Just a wild guess here. Donald Trump is #1, right?
@netflixmaster64276 жыл бұрын
Dave All yes, I'm only surprised if he wasn't on this list
@bullreeves11096 жыл бұрын
At least it’s not too 10 Worst leaders... It is true that a lot of people hate him while more love him though.
@davidray31336 жыл бұрын
Admiral Reeves well, I like him. I don't love him all that much, but I do like his policies. I'd prefer him over Hillary any day, though he was one of my last picks in the GOP primary.
@223Drone6 жыл бұрын
@Admiral Reeves "hate him while more love him though." Too bad your wrong Trump is largely unpopular in both the US and across the world. You also have no evidence to back your claim.
@223Drone6 жыл бұрын
@Dave all Trump's policies are terrible and he has a tendency to exaggerate his achievements considering he's frequently lies.
@jewlztreasch66173 жыл бұрын
Political figures should have included: . Boris Johnson . Scott Morrison . Tony Abbott . Jair Bolsonaro . Bill Clinton . Dick Cheney . Viktor Orban
@NisarKhan-jm1uh3 жыл бұрын
I dislike all of those figures except Bill clinton
@JuliaTheTransPeacock6 жыл бұрын
"Dammit, Sheldon! I told you no more political lists, people get too crazy over the shit!"
@willyp21246 жыл бұрын
No Bill Clinton or Kim Jong Un. But who else guessed watchmojo would choose trump as number 1?
@OWBEAST6 жыл бұрын
Guy Parmeter please help me hit 1k subs
@sixersjt11286 жыл бұрын
Guy Parmeter Kim Jong Un has brainwashed his citizens to the point where they worship him. NK people have nothing controversial to say about him
@jegge53365 жыл бұрын
Trump deserves #1
@superpan2184 жыл бұрын
I consider Nixon to be the worst president in American history because of one reason: Watergate. For shame.
@politicsnerd03114 жыл бұрын
I did
@chrystianbradstreet41706 жыл бұрын
I’m not surprised about Hilary Clinton being on this
@davidray31336 жыл бұрын
roman torchwick she should've been #2 at least. She's as corrupt as it's possible to be.
@SilortheBlade6 жыл бұрын
I'm curious Dave. legitimate question. What specifically has she done that makes her more corrupt than others?
@animalanger6 жыл бұрын
How
@KingKalevi6 жыл бұрын
SilortheBlade the emails, dude. The emails.
@noahgreene88726 жыл бұрын
King Kalevi I could be wrong but hasn’t trump staff members been fired over corrupt things like that?
@BungleGrindClown4 жыл бұрын
Nixon was controversial after Watergate but he was a very underrated president. He was actually popular winning both the 1968 and 1972 elections in a landslide and had a good approval rating as V.P.
@Paige-pk8dr6 жыл бұрын
Am i the only one who watched this to read the comments and see all the arguing?
@anthonyberloco56246 жыл бұрын
Um... Kim Jong Un?? Shouldn’t be be #1?
@omgstudios63966 жыл бұрын
Anthony Berloco no it ain't controversial he just sucks
@junioralcala66066 жыл бұрын
He isn’t controversial everyone hate him but his staff
@redrockseven91146 жыл бұрын
You forgot the evil exclusion in the beginning.
@jegge53365 жыл бұрын
Not t contrevortial cuz he brainwash citizens so they have no option
@gnarwhal75626 жыл бұрын
This just shows which countries are the most corrupt
@vanessarickford62604 жыл бұрын
10. *Oof* didn't expected her on the list 😂 9. Okay...? 8. Ugh glad he's not president anymore 🙄 7. Yikes 6. Man I wonder how Italians feel about him? 5. Oof Watergate 😬 4. No surprise 😂 he scary as hell 3. Oof 2. No liberties 1. Man... it's the media who bite him but he bites the whole country
@SaxandRelax6 жыл бұрын
If Donald Trump isn’t on this list I am unsubscribing
@weyantonio265 жыл бұрын
Where's Indira Ghandi? She's loved and hated by a lot of people.
@JayBenjamin92145 жыл бұрын
Reagan and Blair should definitely have appeared on the top 10 list (maybe as B sides to Bush/Thatcher?)
@harryprice89766 жыл бұрын
Just to clarify, Thatcher is pretty much hated by all members of the lower classes within Britain and lots of the middle classes aswell
@MTSpears Жыл бұрын
But she’s still controversial. She was cruel in her social structure but excellent in her political economics
@danielmillea11756 жыл бұрын
some of these people kill and strip liberties but trumps the most controversial because he uses twitter?
@MrNemo7216 жыл бұрын
Daniel Millea That's why he is on the top most controversial list and not on the top evil dictators list..YET.
@ftjm696 жыл бұрын
Trump is one of the most controversial figures in recent memory
@aaronettinger11656 жыл бұрын
Aaron Burgess wow...he said a couple of words...bush had an affair in the White House...please
@ftjm696 жыл бұрын
Aaron Ettinger Bush was a better Republican than Donald Trump and I have facts to support that. Trump is a racist shithole who does nothing but eye up North Korea and eat fried chicken all day everyday. He called Mexicans rapists, he fired the best in the administration and his wall is going up. Also he shut down the government as well as the media when they asked him if he was a racist person.
@unitedstatesofamerica47374 жыл бұрын
Where is narendra modi?
@ThomasTHEONEANDONLY3 жыл бұрын
Where’s Huey Long?
@lilbigmick20042 жыл бұрын
#1 on the list should have been Lotso Huggin Bear
@llorllale6 жыл бұрын
Fidel Castro isolated cuba from the world? I believe it was the embargo and US policy that did that
@doncorleone15533 жыл бұрын
He brought it on
@jackfronz25156 жыл бұрын
How the hell is Hillary Clinton only Number 10?! Oh right, that's because WatchMojo is incredibly biased.
@pseudoschnitzel35056 жыл бұрын
Or because in your obsession over Hillary Clinton everything that doesn't declare her to be the devil in person seems biased
@jackfronz25156 жыл бұрын
Pseudo Schnitzel I'm not calling her the devil, but in pretty much anything I've seen that's unbiased puts her as just as, more than, or just less controversial than Donald Trump. And for the record, I am not a big Donald Trump supporter, both 2016 candidates were controversial as hell and just downright bad.
@animalanger6 жыл бұрын
False
@Dimetropteryx6 жыл бұрын
"in pretty much anything I've seen that's unbiased" :DDDDDDD
@jegge53365 жыл бұрын
Hillary Clinton shouldn't even be on the list
@HarryWessex6 жыл бұрын
6:53 Massive understatement. many people tried to get "Ding Dong to Witch is dead" to number 1 when she died, it made it to number 2.
@urbandude8236 жыл бұрын
On Hillary Clinton: "...and particularly loved by the left" Who tf told you this lie?!?
@caiuscosades64236 жыл бұрын
B.A. Rogers no leftist that i know likes hillary clinton. I mean not some american liberal poser i mean stalinists,hoxhahist maoists.
@britishrebel2605 жыл бұрын
The left
@claudiax2336 жыл бұрын
I already know Trump is #1
@bl4ckuchiha6 жыл бұрын
Claudia Nikano Of Course WatchMojo would put him as #1
@ArkaeaFCL36 жыл бұрын
Claudia Nikano good for you. Do you want a trophy?
@claudiax2336 жыл бұрын
ArkaeaFCL3 Damn, why so salty?
@ArkaeaFCL36 жыл бұрын
Claudia Nikano I'm not. Just asking a question
@claudiax2336 жыл бұрын
ArkaeaFCL3 Okay whatever
@greywolf1876 жыл бұрын
Love or hate trump You can't denie he is controversial
@boonski6 жыл бұрын
Former Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper should have been at least an (dis)honorable Mention. And what a shocker at number 1. smh.
@kenanbajric456 жыл бұрын
I liked Erdogan way more when he was the prime minister because he was progressive and much more tolerant or secular but today i think he really is a dictator because of his limited power and the massive arrest on his political opponents.
@KhaleelUlRahman19886 жыл бұрын
Narendra Modi should have atleast got an honourable mention
@NisarKhan-jm1uh3 жыл бұрын
I agree
@JackH6756 жыл бұрын
Surely Hillary and Trump should've been equal first. They're just as controversial as each other, and just as unfit as each other to have even been in the conversation of presidency. Also, where is Kim Jong Un and Hugo Chavez?
@SchmergDergen6 жыл бұрын
Hillary should be way higher. One of the only things she's good at is being controversial.
@이동연-c6d6 жыл бұрын
And his older brother of prime minister of Israel was killed by IdI Amin’s men during operation entebbe.
@austinjenkins68333 жыл бұрын
I don't care what your political views are, Donald Trump is not worse than Fidel Castro in any capacity.
@willback85133 жыл бұрын
They’re not saying he’s the worst of them, they’re just saying he’s the most divisive figure out of all of them.
@madisonlongley50823 жыл бұрын
...So I’m here after the Capitol siege of January 6th, 2021. Now saying that he’s controversial is an understatement. Trump is actually very dangerous and volitale when things don’t ho his way.
@NisarKhan-jm1uh3 жыл бұрын
That is so true. His influence spreads like a cancer. Even republicans and the supreme Court dose not know what he is truly planning. He must be stopped Madison.
@Charlie-uz8vb3 жыл бұрын
'Siege'. C'mon you gotta try better.
@Melchiorblade76 жыл бұрын
*Makes a political video* *Tells us not to get political in the comments*
@itsrectimemedia6 жыл бұрын
Only one hero. Has the strength to battle it.
@novalux44526 жыл бұрын
Also Hugo chavez Jacob zuma Ferdinand Marcos Deserves a mention.
@jairehedselvillapando21105 жыл бұрын
Ferdinand Marcos should be one of the most ruthless dictators
@simiankleurde15446 жыл бұрын
WatchMojo. Thanks for making Donald Trump number 1.
@briellevalyntin32336 жыл бұрын
Where's Kim Jong Un?!
@joseemmanuelosegueracamare40446 жыл бұрын
#1 Emperor Lelouch Vi Britannia
@clydeallen78525 жыл бұрын
Let me get this straight: Obama referred to Putin as our friend and told Romney to give the 1980s back it’s foreign policy. Nothing controversial about that, no big deal about Putin’s disregard for human rights. 🤷♂️ Obama makes a deal with Iran which concerns Bibi, making Bibi controversial. No worries about Iran’s disregard for human rights. No empathy for Bibi attempting to defend his Israel from a country that has declared death to Israel. This channel is looking more like pure propaganda every day.
@markatcapilisashfactory89554 жыл бұрын
Sorry mojo, you cannot destroy president Trump.
@notoriouscasual50044 жыл бұрын
Yet biden fucking destroyed him today
@markatcapilisashfactory89554 жыл бұрын
He didn’t destroy him, the media, democrats and big tech manipulated the people and the election.
@notoriouscasual50044 жыл бұрын
@@markatcapilisashfactory8955 lmao what have you got to prove that point? Nothing
@markatcapilisashfactory89554 жыл бұрын
I just don’t wanna explain. So shut up I’m working
@notoriouscasual50044 жыл бұрын
@@markatcapilisashfactory8955 lmao ok. Lesson for next time: dont make accusations without evidence
@Richman40666 жыл бұрын
I already knew who #1 would be before I even clicked on the video :P
@andrewmurray66466 жыл бұрын
Tony Blair should have been number 2 or 3
@comicbookninja52686 жыл бұрын
What about Caligula? I'm pretty sure he did worse than the "you're fired " guy.
@HangPotato6 жыл бұрын
They acting like our boi Donald isn’t sitting on 45% approval rn
@Cartman15176 жыл бұрын
Oh got let’s see what’s going to happen to that like/dislike ratio
@Reggaetonaldo6 жыл бұрын
Hey look, mostly Republicans.
@joelcruz96066 жыл бұрын
Vladimir Putin better be on this list
@LLlap6 жыл бұрын
She was first lady for 8 years - wow, what an accomplishment, every politician shoulder feel ashamed.
@zockerrebell49506 жыл бұрын
The Rock 4 President
@dr.manhattan62786 жыл бұрын
Zocker Rebell I'll take the rock over Oprah 👎🏿
@danachappell97836 жыл бұрын
SCSA as VP Rock/Austin 2020, baby!
@starryeyed276 жыл бұрын
I miss W Bush now
@Renegade27866 жыл бұрын
No guessing who's going to be number one. The Orange Guy.
@ferdielaudumiey76436 жыл бұрын
They're so far left that they can't say one good thing about trump
@animalanger6 жыл бұрын
Troll
@Dimetropteryx6 жыл бұрын
There is nothing good about trump.
@MrNemo7216 жыл бұрын
One good thing about Trump is that he exposed all the racists in America by identifying those who voted for him
@jag929494 жыл бұрын
Not a supporter, but he got to investigate the lackluster performance of MSNBC and CNN. I agree that they suck, but not for the same reasons. Actually, their petty PC outrage towards Trump helps him.
@TomGreen996 жыл бұрын
We're not gonna mention the little Asian man with the big hair?
@ReynaReactsandReviews Жыл бұрын
Love the background music
@Evil_Narwhal6 жыл бұрын
Lowest approval rating since they started tracking the approval rating that is. This started with Harry S. Truman.
@rwwilson216 жыл бұрын
Why is Hillary Clinton only at 10!?!?
@simiankleurde15446 жыл бұрын
Because there are worse than her...
@rwwilson216 жыл бұрын
blahblahson: so Benghazi, Fast and Furious, Her pay to play through The Clinton Foundation, Her server and emails exposing USA top secret information for the world to see, her lying to the American people, the false Trump dossier that she paid to have created, and no doubt there is some shit on that FISA memo that is directly related to her all makes her only number 10 on this list? But having Trump who has NO political history is at number 1. All because he doesn't conform with political correctness and says what's on his mind like saying Hati is a "shithole." which is true by the way because Hati is a shithole. makes no fucking sense. All this shows is how liberal and anti-trump WatchMojo is.
@simiankleurde15446 жыл бұрын
Ryan The FBI investigated her e-mails and there was nothing wrong about it. The Benghazi thing was bad but hundreds of politicians has no much worse scandals.
@rwwilson216 жыл бұрын
Blahblahron: have you been watching the news lately!?!? Obama, Lynch, and comey knew they weren’t gonna indite Clinton with any charge from the very beginning. Why do you think comey got fired. And what about the Strzok-page “missing texts”
@rwwilson216 жыл бұрын
Blahblahron: and as for there was nothing wrong with her server and emails, just look at what US code title 18 part 1 chapter 101 section 2071 has to say about that: "Whoever willfully and unlawfully conceals, removes, mutilates, obliterates, or destroys, or attempts to do so, or, with intent to do so takes and carries away any record, proceeding, map, book, paper, document, or other thing, filed or deposited with any clerk or officer of any court of the United States, or in any public office, or with any judicial or public officer of the United States, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both" "Whoever, having the custody of any such record, proceeding, map, book, document, paper, or other thing, willfully and unlawfully conceals, removes, mutilates, obliterates, falsifies, or destroys the same, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both; and shall forfeit his office and be disqualified from holding any office under the United States. As used in this subsection, the term “office” does not include the office held by any person as a retired officer of the Armed Forces of the United States."
@mrping64956 жыл бұрын
Kim joun un is the best where the fuck is he!?
@davidray31336 жыл бұрын
Mr Ping 😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃 Most evil, you mean.
@levigoldberg23506 жыл бұрын
Mr Ping I guess he's in Hitlers group
@crazyboy-sl7uz6 жыл бұрын
They said they weren't putting people who were hated by everyone
@faxslaps57756 жыл бұрын
Oh yeah! Obama isn’t on this list because he is like hitler and Kim lol
@omgstudios63966 жыл бұрын
Richard Gomez lol
@cheesy124entertainment76 жыл бұрын
This was a good ass list!
@bobbyshewan42296 жыл бұрын
I'm not even surprised by #1
@ildemaromeroVB6 жыл бұрын
Where the heck are Chavez and Maduro? They are definitely more controversial than Hillary Clinton
@clydeallen78525 жыл бұрын
The Supreme Court did not choose W. It ruled the handling of the votes in Florida unconstitutional.
@Bennysol6 жыл бұрын
I work for a multibillion dollar corporation and all I know is ever since Trump got in our company a few months later set a policy that any new construction materials have to be made in America. Before, especially steel made materials, we were always buying from China. Now we are getting it from steel mills in Pittsburgh, Detroit, Ohio, and Kentucky. We also went almost 3 years without hiring a single extra person. At best they would sometimes hire someone to take over for someone who left. But now in the past year they created 6 new positions just at the location I work at. Definitely not a Obama/democrat policy because he/they are too busy chasing businesses away to go foreign with nafta, tpp, and God knows what othet sellout policies. Obama also caused 5 million fulltime workers to be laid off or cut to part time with his obamapimpcare within its first year of implementation. So now not only do they still not have insurance they also have no job and on top of that have to come up with money to pay a fine for not having insurance and still have no insurance. And every single thing they use to bash Trump is always circumstantial ad hominem attacks at best or flatout bold faced lies at worst. My only issue with Trump is he'd make a good drinking buddy. So I will agree he doesn't have the best presidential character like a John Kennedy, George Washington, or Abraham Lincoln. But the majority of his policies and what he stands for are spot on. And he's filling in the void and making up for all the no balls presidents for the past 30 years
@HolyCross96 жыл бұрын
Then you can BURN in Hades with Trump!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@Kaneko25186 жыл бұрын
I think you should make another list and include Stephen Harper in it somewhere.
@speedydog456 жыл бұрын
I have a political opinion.
@ciaranokeeffe86076 жыл бұрын
Charlie Haughty is very controversial over here in Ireland
@1290Li6 жыл бұрын
Trump can be seen as the American equivalent of Berlusconi
@jasoncoomer12266 жыл бұрын
This video approved by the powers that be.......
@mukesh.r1616 жыл бұрын
Who else noticed Shane Smith from vice? @4:11
@fraan34176 жыл бұрын
8:18 to 8:33 is proff that anything is possible
@simiankleurde15446 жыл бұрын
An Italian politician involved with the mafia. How stereotypical can this get.
@Omega1726 жыл бұрын
Did anyone really have any doubt what the number 1 pick would be?
@maxstoaks14956 жыл бұрын
Wow, Trump at #1? Totally didn’t see that coming!
@legaciestr6 жыл бұрын
Where is Bill Cliton? Sorry I mean Bill Clinton
@shadowslayer19856 жыл бұрын
Seriously? Where the heck is Nicolas Maduro, Hugo Chaves, Kim jong un, Bill Clinton, Sadam Hussein, Joseph Kony this list lacks lots of controversial political figures
@simiankleurde15446 жыл бұрын
If the prime minister is like the president of England. Than what's the purpose of the monarch?
@gabepickup1916 жыл бұрын
I'm sorry, but there is absolutely no way that trump is more controversial than Putin.
@harshdhillon62634 жыл бұрын
#1 when India made nuclear in 1999
@superpennyable6 жыл бұрын
Finally WatchMojo got a list right for once.
@nightwingel23466 жыл бұрын
Please, do Top 10 Bob Ross quotes, or paintings. Thanks!
@vazelokiller98486 жыл бұрын
Where is Alexis Tsipras ? 😂😂😂
@jag929494 жыл бұрын
Is it amazing that Donald Trump is more controversial than Vladimir Putin according to Watchmojo?
@greendragonopa6 жыл бұрын
I WONDER WHO NUMBER ONE'S GONNA BE
@kadenginnis39494 жыл бұрын
Where was Obama?
@AydanG20026 жыл бұрын
I knew when I saw the notification that number one was going to be Donald Trump
@caioabreu46886 жыл бұрын
Man I was pretty sure that Luis Inácio Lula da Silva (that was president of Brasil and now is a criminal) would be on the list
@chriram976 жыл бұрын
Watchmojo went too soft on Berlusconi
@GlaszVegasz6 жыл бұрын
Viktor Orban should be here somewhere...He is hated all around Europe now, yet still has a cult following in Hungary...
@J0rdan9126 жыл бұрын
Usually Watchmojo avoids everything Russian on their list cause they too lazy to find sources on foreign languages, but since Putin must be on this list they just got some stereotypes and alleged accusations from western mainstream media, but not actual research of controversial facts from his past and present.