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Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg at press conference 10-11-22

Trump’s attacks on Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg’s backing by George Soros: What to know

March 23, 2023

Facing a potential indictment over hush money payment to Stormy Daniels, part of Donald Trump’s strategy is to portray the prosecutor, Manhattan District attorney Alvin Bragg, as being driven by partisan intent. News reports Bragg’s office could soon charge Trump with falsifying business records related to the $130,000 hush payment to Stormy Daniels. Trump has […]

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Fact-checking Trump on the Stormy Daniels case: The statute of limitations and the FEC’s role

March 21, 2023

As Donald Trump looks ahead to possible charges related to hush payments to adult entertainment star Stormy Daniels, the former president has preemptively arguing his innocence. Reporting initially published by The New York Times suggested that Manhattan District Attorney Alvin L. Bragg is close to filing charges for the alleged concealment of a $130,000 hush […]

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How Bill Clinton’s settlement with Paula Jones differs from Donald Trump’s Stormy Daniels payment

March 21, 2023

After former President Donald Trump claimed his arrest in connection with a hush money case involving adult film star Stormy Daniels would be imminent, his supporters took to social media to draw comparisons with another scandal from a past president: Bill Clinton.    Although Trump’s legal team said it hadn’t received any specific notice from prosecutors, […]

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Timeline: What Donald Trump has said about Stormy Daniels and $130,000 payment

March 21, 2023

In the years since news broke of Donald Trump allegedly directing a hush money payment to adult film actress Stormy Daniels, his lawyer went to jail for his role, Trump lost the 2020 election and entered the race for 2024, and a new Manhattan district attorney picked up the Daniels case. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin […]

Q&A: Can Trump run for president if indicted in Stormy Daniels case? What happens if he’s arrested?

March 20, 2023

Former President Donald Trump recently warned his followers that he “will be arrested” in the coming days. Although nothing has yet been confirmed, he referred to the Manhattan district attorney’s office, which has been investigating crimes related to hush payments to adult entertainment star Stormy Daniels.  Reporting initially published by The New York Times suggested […]

Ask PolitiFact: Do rising fentanyl seizures at the border signal better detection or more drugs?

March 20, 2023

Republicans and Democrats seem to agree on this key fact about fentanyl: lots of it is being interdicted at the southern U.S. border. Beyond that, there’s disagreement on how exactly the drug is getting into the United States and what this says about President Joe Biden’s policies. “Joe Biden’s open border policies have allowed criminal […]

US frets about TikTok feeding data to China; banning app won’t end the threat, experts say

March 17, 2023

The idea of the U.S. government banning TikTok, the popular video app with more than 100 million American users, might sound implausible.  But federal legislation that would pave the way for such a ban has rare bipartisan support. And President Joe Biden signaled in early March that his administration would consider banning the app because […]

President Biden signs Respect for Marriage Act, December 2022

Tracking the shift after Joe Biden’s same-sex marriage ‘epiphany’

March 17, 2023

On Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show,” President Joe Biden told host Kal Penn, a onetime Obama administration White House staff member, about having a same-sex love “epiphany.”  Biden recalled being a high school senior in Wilmington, Delaware, his hometown, and heading with his father to City Hall in Rodney Square to apply to work as […]

Did Ron DeSantis change his stance on Ukraine? If so, how much?

March 15, 2023

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, considered a likely candidate to join the Republican presidential primary field, drew criticism from Democrats and some members of his party for taking a skeptical position on Russia’s war in Ukraine and the U.S. response. In comments shared with Fox News’ Tucker Carlson, DeSantis criticized the Biden administration’s “blank check’” in […]

Ask PolitiFact: Does the Chinese Communist Party own U.S. land?

March 15, 2023

Chinese investors’ ramped-up purchases of U.S. land in the past decade are drawing concerns among U.S. politicians who say this poses a national security threat. Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis in his March 7 State of the State address said the Chinese Communist Party “represents the greatest economic strategic and security threat that our country […]

Was Silicon Valley Bank demise caused by Trump easing regulation, ‘woke’ efforts, or something else?

March 13, 2023

The spectacular implosion of Silicon Valley Bank, a top lender to technology companies and startups until a few days ago, has prompted finger-pointing from the political left and right about why it happened and who is at fault.  Silicon Valley Bank, now the second-largest bank to collapse in U.S. history and the largest since the […]

For New York counties, a lot of money at stake in Hochul’s Medicaid move

March 11, 2023

Rep. Marc Molinaro, a first-term Republican congressman and a former county executive, claims Gov. Kathy Hochul’s proposed budget for the next year would steal $1 billion from counties and put safety net programs in jeopardy. In a speech on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives, Molinaro said: “Each year, Congress directs billions of Medicaid dollars […]

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