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I tried to track down where Charlie Kirk got these numbers.

You may not be shocked to learn that these shocked that these numbers did not in fact come from the "Department of Justice."

In fact, the "Under President Trump" numbers came from a QAnon conspiracy theorist.
The 2016 and 2015 arrest record numbers come from ICE. They only reflect arrests made by ICE, and not nationwide human trafficking arrests from all law enforcement. ice.gov/news/releases/…
As for the 2017 and 2018 numbers? Let's go to this meme, created two weeks ago, which helpfully provides a source.

But this source is NOT the DOJ, as Charlie Kirk claim. It's some dude's Tableau Public profile who goes by profile name "[412 Anon]" public.tableau.com/profile/neroth…
The data itself comes from [412 Anon]'s "Pedo Arrests" board. The board appears to compile news stories of trafficking arrests, charges, convictions, from all law enforcement organizations.

NOT just ICE, and NOT just arrests, like the pre-2017 data. public.tableau.com/profile/neroth…
So clearly, because of sloppy/inconsistent sourcing, Charlie's tweet doesn't show there has been a jump is human trafficking arrests.

The person who compiled the data from Charlie's tweet appears to have some fans on the qanon.news board. qanon.news/Archives/x/187…
The theory that Trump is busting human traffickers like crazy has been pushed by Roseanne Barr and other loonies. This is apparently based on the QAnon theory that the elites are running trafficking rings, and superhero Trump is putting an end to them. thedailybeast.com/roseanne-keeps…
The bottom line is that Charlie Kirk, a very much mainstream conservative personality who speaks on campuses regularly, appears on Fox News frequently, raises money for Republicans, and meets with Trump in the Oval Office, is pushing Pizzagate 2.0.
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A Twitter account claims that it will report on "future high profile trials and military tribunals ... in the coming months and years."

This is a reference to promised tribunals in QAnon. They're essentially saying they will report on a fictional element of the QAnon universe.
The "Tribunal Report" is fully endorsed by prominent QAnon promoter Praying Medic.

The QAnon community is enthused about the Tribunal Report, because it promises to report on a key (and baseless) promise by Q: that "Deep State" actors would soon face military tribunals.
Yo @TribunalReport.
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QAnon believers on /qresearch/ are not reacting well to projections that Democrats will take control of the House.
The QAnon believers on Voat's v/QRV board are also engaged in much wailing and gnashing of teeth over news that Democrats are projected to take the House.
Some QAnon believers on 8chan's /qresearch/ board have already reached the "depression" stage of grief over the midterm results.
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I have an incomplete fact check of a Matt Gaetz tweet. Spoiler: I dunno what's going on.
Congressman Gaetz tweeted a video depicting men handing out money to what appeared to be people in the Honduran caravan. This video came from the Facebook page of one Enrique Vitanza.
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Vitanza is a Honduran resident. But when I asked him via Facebook messenger about the source of the video, he claimed the video was sent to him by friends in Guatemala.

If that's true, then Gaetz's claim in his tweet the video is "Footage in Honduras" is false.
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On the more substantial point re: the content of the video, he did characterize it as footage of men giving money to people in the caravan.

He speculated on possible political sources of the money (that didn't include Soros or the U.S.), but had no clarifying information.
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