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A local journalist swiftly fact-checked a Piers Morgan interview with a MAGA gubernatorial candidate known for making bizarre claims.

On Tuesday, Colorado GOP gubernatorial candidate Victor Marx was featured in an hour-long interview on "Piers Morgan Uncensored," where he defended his claim that he was forced to kill a man, behead a cat, and has a demon-sniffing dog.

However, veteran Colorado journalist Kyle Clark quickly stepped in to fact-check the interview a few hours after it was published on YouTube. Clark was the journalist whose interview with Marx was featured nationally because he pressed Marx's claim about killing a man and asked how many people Marx had killed, to which he responded: "Does it matter?"...

A controversial MAGA gubernatorial candidate had to defend his contentious and wild story during a heated interview with Piers Morgan.

During an interview on "Piers Morgan Uncensored" that was posted on Tuesday, Colorado GOP candidate Victor Marx found himself detailing what Morgan called "probably the most contentious story" from Marx, which was that he was forced to kill a man at the age of seven. Morgan insisted that the story didn't make much sense and asked if Marx would open an investigation if he became Colorado's next governor.

According to Marx, his abusive stepfather forced him to kill a man at the age of seven, but Morgan noted, "Local law enforcement and sheriffs in the [Louisiana] area where this event apparently took place have said there are no records, police reports, or unsolved homicides matching your account."...

A MAGA candidate already nationally known for making wild, dubious claims was caught faking an endorsement, according to local reporting.

Colorado GOP nominee Victor Marx went on a conservative radio show on Wednesday and claimed that he had the endorsement of the state's last Republican governor, Bill Owens, according to the Colorado Sun.

Marx won the Republican nomination for governor despite being mocked on national television for bizarre claims, in particular that he was forced to kill a man when he was a child. ...

The GOP fears the "absolute destruction" their nominee for a gubernatorial race will cause, a New York Times columnist wrote.

NY Times columnist Michelle Goldberg detailed the concerns of the GOP after self-described "high-risk humanitarian" Victor Marx won his party's nomination for governor last week.

Marx has been in the national spotlight for claiming that he killed a man when he was 7 years old. Goldberg also highlights his series of bizarre and dubious claims, such as that he saved over 40,000 women and girls from sex trafficking, that he can perform exorcisms by phone, and that he has a black belt in "Cajun karate," which was invented by his father, Karl Marx....

The Republican gubernatorial candidate who claimed to have killed people as a child won his primary, according to the Denver Post.

Victor Marx, whom veteran journalist Kyle Clark once described as a "cross between Rambo and Billy Graham," won the GOP primary for Colorado's gubernatorial race after a close race against state Sen. Barbara Kirkmeyer, who was briefly in the lead.

During an interview with Clark, Marx claimed that his stepfather had him kill a man, that he called in an airstrike as a civilian that killed 70 ISIS fighters, and that he killed others as a "high-risk missionary," as he's described his role. When Clark pressed him to reveal how many people he had killed, Marx retorted, "Does it matter?" which was widely mocked....