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 […]
Editor’s note, Aug. 4: The House Oversight Committee released the transcript of Devon Archer’s testimony on Aug. 3, after this story was published. We published this story to explain how his testimony compared with Republican and Democratic lawmakers’ earlier descriptions. In response to former President Donald Trump’s third indictment, Trump and his allies argued the timing […]
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 […]
After a grand jury voted Aug. 1 to indict former President Donald Trump — his third indictment, this one related to efforts to overturn the 2020 election — he and his team shifted into defense mode. In a campaign statement, fundraising email and Truth Social posts, Trump downplayed his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, […]
When people in the orbit of famous politicians die — such as Tafari Campbell, a former White House sous chef and a personal chef hired by Barack and Michelle Obama — it often sparks baseless theories about the politicians’ involvement. As these theories go, the deceased allegedly knew too much about a supposed crime, or […]
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 […]
Jack Smith, the special counsel overseeing classified documents and 2020 election cases against former President Donald Trump, has a decadeslong prosecution record, including high profile public corruption cases. On Aug. 1, a grand jury in Washington, D.C., returned a four-count indictment charging Trump with attempting to subvert the 2020 presidential election. His first court appearance is […]
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 […]
LAST UPDATED: July 16, 2024 PolitiFact has been fact-checking and monitoring the indictments of former President Donald Trump. A unanimous Manhattan jury on May 30 found former President Donald Trump guilty of all 34 felony counts of falsifying business records. It’s unclear how this conviction could affect the presidential race but, no matter what happens, Trump is still […]
Former President Donald Trump has been charged four times in a federal indictment by a grand jury investigating efforts to overturn the 2020 election results leading up to Jan. 6, 2021. The charges are: one count conspiracy to defraud the United States; one count conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding; one count obstruction of and […]
If you’ve been listening to the political rhetoric about inflation, you might assume that Democrats and Republicans are on different planets — and that one of the sides isn’t telling the truth. Consider dueling comments in recent days by President Joe Biden and former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who is running for the Republican […]
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