Latest Stories By Amy Sherman

Former President Donald Trump was indicted by a Fulton County grand jury for a criminal conspiracy to overturn the results of the 2020 election in Georgia. The Aug. 14 indictment highlights falsehoods uttered by Trump and his allies after he lost to President Joe Biden — including that he won Georgia when he had lost. […]

Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed U.S. Attorney David Weiss as a special counsel to oversee the investigation into Hunter Biden, President Joe Biden’s son. Garland’s Aug. 11 announcement brings the number of special counsel investigations involving the current president, his son and the former president to four. Garland said Weiss asked for the change of […]

As Donald Trump braces for an indictment from a Fulton County grand jury, his campaign rolled out an attack against District Attorney Fani Willis, the official leading the investigation into Trump’s actions in Georgia after the 2020 election. The ad makes multiple attacks against the “fraud squad” of prosecutors who have charged Trump from New […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

So much for the summer being slow for political news! At PolitiFact, we have been fact-checking statements related to the 2024 presidential contest, the indictments of former President Donald Trump and Florida’s classroom controversies. Here’s a selection of reader reactions to our recent fact-checks, edited for length, style and clarity. Readers can email us fact-check […]

It was an attempted heist right out in the open: a plan by Donald Trump’s allies to get “alternate” slates of electors to sign certificates declaring that Trump won key battleground states in 2020. The plan, which would come to be known as the “fake elector” scheme, failed, as Vice President Mike Pence refused to […]

Weeks before he failed to persuade Georgia’s secretary of state to “find” enough votes to swing the election in his favor, Donald Trump called up two other Georgia officials with some different ideas.  His separate December 2020 phone calls with election investigator Frances Watson and then-House Speaker David Ralston, who died in 2022, have also […]

Former President Donald Trump has described his January 2021 phone call with Georgia election officials as “perfect.”  Prosecutors may use another phrase: evidence of a crime. Trump, who refused to accept his loss in Georgia and other states after the 2020 presidential election, repeatedly pushed back against the Georgia officials’ assurances that the state’s election […]