Barely a week after winning the presidency, President-elect Donald Trump made his surprise announcement that he would nominate Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., for attorney general A few hours later, House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., praised the pick. “Everyone who’s served with him will tell you he’s one of the most intelligent members of Congress,” Johnson […]
Many scientists at the federal health agencies await the second Donald Trump administration with dread and uncertainty over how the president-elect will reconcile starkly different philosophies among the leaders of his team. Trump announced Nov. 14 he’ll nominate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to be secretary of the Health and Human Services Department, after saying during […]
El presidente electo Donald Trump dedicó gran parte de su campaña a atacar a la vicepresidenta Kamala Harris por su rol en un cargo que ni ella ni nadie de la administración Biden ocupó: “zar de la frontera”. Ahora, Trump creó ese puesto para su nueva administración. En una publicación el 10 de noviembre en […]
Until President-elect Donald Trump announced Tom Homan as his incoming “border czar,” Homan was perhaps best known for his association with a controversial policy that led to children’s separation from their families. Homan was Trump’s acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement in 2017 and 2018, when the administration enacted the zero-tolerance policy that resulted […]
President-elect Donald Trump campaigned on the simple message that he will fix what he sees as the country’s problems: the border, inflation, housing prices, health care. After Trump won the 2024 election, we asked PolitiFact readers to send us their questions about his campaign promises. Most were about taxes, immigration, abortion, the Affordable Care Act, […]
President-elect Donald Trump spent a large part of his campaign attacking Vice President Kamala Harris for her performance in a role neither she nor anyone in the Biden administration held: “border czar.” Now, Trump has created and filled the position for his new administration. In a Nov. 10 Truth Social post, Trump announced that Tom […]
Al final, no tomó mucho tiempo declarar que Donald Trump volvía a la Casa Blanca. En 2020, la pandemia de COVID-19 y una cantidad inusual de votos por correo complicaron el proceso de conteo. Joe Biden fue declarado ganador por The Associated Press y otros medios poco antes del mediodía del sábado 7 de noviembre […]
A hit-and-run cover-up. Sexual abuse allegations from 27 years ago. An election worker ripping up ballots. Haitian immigrants admitting to voter fraud. These were some of the stories featured in a series of videos from a Russia-linked disinformation network that laid out serious allegations of fraud and other misdeeds in the 2024 U.S. presidential election’s […]
President-elect Donald Trump’s incoming administration could try to remove fluoride from drinking water, according to Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Kennedy, who campaigned with Trump after dropping his own presidential bid in August, called fluoride an “industrial waste” and linked it to cancer and other diseases and disorders. “On January 20, the Trump White House will […]
Some of President-elect Donald Trump’s supporters took to social media to note, or mock, President Joe Biden for blowing a kiss at the end of his White House remarks following Vice President Kamala Harris’ loss in the presidential election. “Joe Biden was smiling and blowing kisses today… TWO days after Kamala lost the election,” one […]
Former Republican President Donald Trump won back the White House on Nov. 5, after he fought his 2020 election loss with baseless claims of widespread fraud. Some social media users have claimed efforts by Trump, now the president-elect, to overturn the 2020 election results and remain in power disqualify him from holding office again under […]
Leading up to Nov. 5, President-elect Donald Trump hammered home this message: The cheat was on in Pennsylvania. And by Election Day, Philadelphia was ground zero. Police were coming to stop it, he said. “A lot of talk about massive CHEATING in Philadelphia,” Trump said about three hours before the polls closed in a one-sentence […]