Days after his fourth indictment, former President Donald Trump released a video on a very different topic: the economy. In his Aug. 16 video, released on the conservative video site Rumble and mass emailed to supporters, Trump touted his economic record and suggested it outperformed that of his successor and potential 2024 presidential rival, Joe […]
President Donald Trump’s allies are reframing Trump’s Georgia indictment as the work of overzealous prosecutors who are pursuing defendants for mundane — and legal — activities. “Things that are apparently illegal in America,” wrote Libs of TikTok, a conservative social media account with 2.4 million followers on the platform X. “1. Tweeting that you’re watching TV “2. […]
A grand jury in Fulton County, Georgia, handed up an indictment against former President Donald Trump and 18 alleged co-conspirators, charging them with efforts to overturn his 2020 loss in the battleground state. The Aug. 14 indictment in Georgia was Trump’s fourth in less than five months, following indictments in a New York state hush […]
In a rarity for the Sunday morning shows, former President Donald Trump’s lawyer, John Lauro, appeared on each of the five weekly political talkfests. Lauro’s Aug. 6 appearances on ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN and Fox News came just days after Trump was indicted for the third time in recent months, this one a federal indictment […]
Mientras el presidente Joe Biden se prepara para lanzarse a otro término presidencial, él ha estado promocionando una economía que se está levantando de los efectos de la pandemia del COVID-19. Pero un lector de PolitiFact preguntó si la administración estaba engañando a los estadounidenses sobre las cifras de desempleo. PolitiFact ahora publica verificaciones en […]
Republicans on the House Oversight Committee released a transcript of closed-door testimony from Devon Archer, a former business partner of Hunter Biden, three days after they and Democrats gave different accounts about what Archer said about Joe Biden’s involvement with his son’s business dealings. Republicans released the transcript, along with documents discussed in the interview, […]
As he prepares to run for another term in office, President Joe Biden has been touting a strong economy that’s rebounding from the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. But a PolitiFact reader wondered whether the administration is misleading Americans about unemployment data. PolitiFact is now publishing fact-checks in Spanish, and in July launched a WhatsApp […]
Former President Donald Trump and his fiercest critics agree on this: It took a long time to bring charges against Trump related to his efforts to hold onto the presidency after the 2020 election. Democrats who felt the charges were long overdue questioned why a congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol attack […]
A key premise of the federal prosecution’s case against former President Donald Trump for the events leading up to Jan. 6, 2021, is that Trump knowingly repeated false information, then leveraged those lies into actions aimed at overturning the 2020 election. The Aug. 1 indictment says Trump was not misinformed, or delusional. Rather, it says […]
El expresidente Donald Trump ha sido acusado por un gran jurado que investiga los sucesos del 6 de enero de 2021. Es la tercera acusación contra Trump, el candidato favorito para la nominación presidencial republicana de 2024. La acusación, presentada en Washington el 1 de agosto, incluye cuatro cargos bajo los siguientes estatutos: Conspiración por […]
The third indictment of former President Donald Trump — for his actions leading up to and on Jan. 6, 2021 — examines a broad swirl of Trump’s post-2020 election activities and consolidates it into four charges. The indictment casts Trump, aided by a half-dozen co-conspirators, as knowingly making false claims in a bid to keep […]
Former President Donald Trump has been indicted by a grand jury investigating the events of Jan. 6, 2021. It is the third indictment for Trump, who is the front-runner for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination. The indictment, handed up in Washington on Aug. 1, includes four counts under the following statutes: • Conspiracy to defraud […]