Whew... what a year. From rap beefs to a historic presidential election, 2024 has kept us on our toes, and The Root can speak for everybody when we say it’s time for 2025 to roll on in!
With all the drama and consistent misinformation out there, it’s time we check the facts and remember the truth. As we wrap up this crazy year, let’s recap some of the most outrageous lies of 2024 and dispel them all.
When the president’s son was found guilty on federal tax and gun convictions charges, Biden famously said he wouldn’t interfere with the justice system. “I’m not going to do anything. I said I’d abide by the jury decision, and I will do that, Biden said. “And I will not pardon him.” Less than six months later, Biden pardoned his son of his crimes.
Maybe the New York rapper is taking a page out of Rihanna’s book with this one. He’s been teasing his highly anticipated album, “Don’t Be Dumb,” for the entire year. Now, the rapper says it’s coming in 2025.
Yeah, remember when everybody thought the Queen was going to make a special appearance at the Democratic National Convention for Vice President Kamala Harris? Well, that didn’t happen. Beyoncé did, however, make her way alongside Kelly Rowland to Harris’ Houston rally.
Right after Sean “Diddy” Combs was arrested and indicted on federal charges, a memoir from the late Kim Porter quickly became an Amazon best-selling book. Here’s the thing.... some believe it was all fake. Erica Wolf, an attorney for Diddy, issued a statement calling the project a “fake” and condemned co-author Chris Todd’s disrespect of Porter. Even Porter’s kids came out calling the memoir a lie.
We know Trump’s favorite thing to say is his 2020 election loss was rigged. But more than ever, his VP, Ohio Sen. JD Vance, took on the duty of spreading Trump’s lie that lawmakers should have fought the results. “If I had been vice president, I would have told the states, like Pennsylvania, Georgia and so many others, that we needed to have multiple slates of electors, and I think the U.S. Congress should have fought over it from there,” Vance said to ABC News this year.
Before Young Thug took a plea deal in the biggest criminal case in Georgia history, many online had been speculating since last year that Thug and his YSL label mate, Gunna, were on bad terms. All the rumors were put to rest when as part of his deal, Thug insisted on still being able to make music with Gunna.
After Trump won the 2024 election, his campaign has the victory a “landslide” and even marketed merchandise like the “Official Trump Victory Glass.” However, that was far from the truth. In fact, a report by the New York Times, said Trump defeated Harris with one of the smallest victory margins in the popular vote since the 19th century.
Back in April 2022, the two sat down for an interview on “CBS Mornings,” and during the conversation, Megan lied to King and said she never slept with Tory Lanez. In her recent documentary, the rapper revealed that she actually had during one or two drunk occasions with Lanez.
“Nobody’s spoken to crowds bigger than me,” Trump said during his press conference at Mar-a-Lago. “If you look at Martin Luther King, when he did his speech, his great speech, and you look at ours, same real estate, same everything, same number of people. If not, we had more,” he insisted. According to Business Insider, MLK’s 1963 “I Have A Dream” speech drew an estimated 250,000 people to Washington, D.C. Trump’s “Stop the Steal” speech, according to USA Today, garnered about 53,000 in the crowd.
