claim: "the so-called defense minister of the people's republic of donetsk ... actually posted a bragging social media posting of having shot down a military transport. and then when it became apparent it was civilian, they pulled it down from social media."
author: john kerry
evidence_1: jul 17, 2015 ... remarkably, russian media reported that this aircraft was shot down by a buk  that had been captured weeks earlier from the ukrainian military. ... aware that a  civilian airliner had vanished from the sky—a group on the russian social- networking site vkontakte called strelkov's dispatches posted the boast ...
evidence_2: jul 23, 2014 ... "we know that the so-called defense minister of the people's republic of donetsk , mr. igor strelkov, actually posted a bragging social media posting of having shot  down a military transport. and then when it became apparent it was civilian, they  pulled it down from social media." the internet archives ...
evidence_3: jul 20, 2014 ... the defense minister, so-called, self-appointed, of the people's republic of  donetsk, mr. igor strelkov, actually posted a bragging statement on the social  media about having shot down a transport. and then, when it became apparent it  was civilian, they quickly removed that particular posting.
evidence_4: the post is there but hard to verify. john kerry · "the so-called defense minister  of the people's republic of donetsk ... actually posted a bragging social media  posting of having shot down a military transport. and then when it became  apparent it was civilian, they pulled it down from social media." — politifact  national on ...
evidence_5: the president's doubling down comes after he shifted his story saturday on why  he fired flynn, lumping in the retired army lieutenant general's lies to the fbi  along ... the first trump white house official to face criminal charges and admit  guilt so far in the wide-ranging election investigation by special counsel robert  mueller.