Tribe. The article pointed to a "report" from a tweet sent by a user with 257 followers. In response to Tribe sharing the Palmer Reports article, political scientist Brendan Nyhan wrote: "Is this a joke? This is tinfoil hat conspiracy stuff". A few years later, Tribe acknowledged he made "a mistake" and did not realize the Palmer Report "was as unreliable as it is." In May 2017, Senator Ed Markey was forced to backtrack a false claim that a grand jury had been impaneled in New York in relation to the Special Counsel investigation; the source for the claim was the Palmer Report and Mensch's blog, according to one of his aides. In the same month, the Palmer Report reported that Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts had ordered Neil Gorsuch to recuse himself from all Trump-related Russia hearings, with his only source being a "single tweet from an anonymous Twitter account under the name 'Puesto Loco. During the 2017 Niger ambush, where four US soldiers were killed by militants from the Islamic State in the Greater Sahara, the Palmer Report speculated that US troops in Niger were involved in a "secret Russian-controlled military operation" approved by Trump. The Palmer Report also pushed a conspiracy theory that the Trump administration's travel ban against Chad was connected to the Niger ambush. In October 2017, the Palmer Report published a story claiming that Jared Kushner had "secretly" flown to Saudi Arabia "ahead of his possible arrest", citing a Politico article. The cited Politico article debunks the Palmer Reports own story since it stated that Kushner had actually departed on a diplomatic trip two days prior to the announcement that Robert Mueller's team would begin issuing indictments in relation to the Special Counsel investigation and that Kushner returned to Washington, D.C. to celebrate his wife Ivanka Trump's birthday before anyone had been taken into custody. Snopes rated the Palmer Reports story as false. A few days after the story was published, Palmer acknowledged that Kushner returned home and was not arrested. 2018–present During the 2018 Kavanaugh hearings, the Palmer Report and others falsely claimed that Zina Bash, who is of Mexican and Jewish descent, flashed a "white-power" symbol. David Harsanyi said the Palmer Report and others were "conspiracy-mongering in much the same way Alex Jones is conspiracy-mongering." Following a speech Trump delivered on January 8, 2020 concerning an Iranian missile strike at American