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¿Qué implica el fallo de inmunidad para Donald Trump y, potencialmente, futuros presidentes?

July 2, 2024

El 1 de julio, la Corte Suprema de Estados Unidos dictaminó en una sentencia histórica, que los presidentes — incluido el expresidente Donald Trump — tienen inmunidad judicial cuando llevan a cabo “actos oficiales”. Esta sentencia podría tener repercusiones importantes no solo en la campaña presidencial de 2024, sino en futuras presidencias. “Bajo nuestra estructura […]

Supreme Court building in Washington, 5-4-2022

What Supreme Court’s immunity ruling means for Trump’s cases and, potentially, future presidents

July 2, 2024

Editor’s note: This story has been updated with developments in the New York case. In a landmark ruling with potentially major impact on the 2024 presidential campaign, a U.S. Supreme Court majority ruled that presidents — including former President Donald Trump — have immunity from prosecution when carrying out “official acts.”  “Under our constitutional structure of […]

On the Biden-Trump debate stage, fact-checks were hard to find

July 2, 2024

President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump — both of whom are running on the records of their first terms in office — tried, but mostly struggled, to fact-check each other in real time during CNN’s 2024 presidential debate.  The network said before the June 27 debate that the moderators would not challenge the […]

What would happen if Joe Biden or Donald Trump leaves his party’s ticket?

June 28, 2024

President Joe Biden’s debate performance, which was widely panned including by some Democrats,  led to a spike in online searches on whether the 81-year-old incumbent can be replaced on his party’s ticket amid some worries over whether he can defeat the expected Republican nominee, former President Donald Trump, in November. Meanwhile, though Trump’s own status as presumptive nominee […]

2024 presidential debate fact-check: How accurate were Joe Biden, Donald Trump?

June 28, 2024

President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump, the presumptive Democratic and Republican presidential nominees, shared a debate stage June 27 for the first time since 2020, in a feisty confrontation that — thanks to debate rules — managed to avoid the near-constant interruptions that marred their previous meetings. Biden, who spoke in a raspy voice […]

Debate presidencial entre Joe Biden y Donald Trump: PolitiFact verificó lo que dijeron

June 28, 2024

El presidente de Estados Unidos, Joe Biden y el expresidente Donald Trump, se encontraron de nuevo en el primer debate presidencial de esta campaña 2024, organizado por CNN. La última vez que ambos se vieron cara a cara fue en el 2020, pero las circunstancias de este enfrentamiento han sido diferentes a las de entonces. […]

Live: Fact-checking Joe Biden and Donald Trump’s first 2024 presidential debate

June 27, 2024

PolitiFact live fact-checked the first 2024 presidential debate between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump on June 27 with CNN moderators Jake Tapper and Dana Bash. See Figure 1 on PolitiFact.com Find us on Facebook, Instagram, Threads, TikTok and X (formerly Twitter).

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Biden debate prep fuels false and misleading claims about body doubles and drugs

June 26, 2024

President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump will take the stage June 27 for the first presidential debate of the 2024 election. But some conservative politicians, pundits and social media users are pushing unfounded claims it won’t actually be Biden behind the lectern — or if it is, it’ll be Biden in an altered […]

Comparing economic performance for Black Americans under Trump, Biden

June 25, 2024

As they face off in this year’s election, both President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump have aggressively courted Black Americans’ votes.  Historically, Black voters have overwhelmingly backed Democrats, but polling so far this year shows some openness among Black voters, especially Black men, to support Trump. In May, the Pew Research Center reported […]

Donald Trump and Joe Biden on Israel and Gaza: Comparing their positions

June 25, 2024

For decades, American politicians of both parties have tended to coalesce around support for Israel. That support has shifted as Israel wages its war in Gaza following Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attack that left more than 1,000 Israelis dead and several hundred taken hostage. The United Nations estimates more than 35,000 people — including many […]

8 ejemplos de las consecuencias de la difusión de información errónea sobre las elecciones de 2020

June 21, 2024

Una película y un libro de 2022 llamados “2,000 Mules” describieron lo que, según ellos, era evidencia creíble de un esfuerzo generalizado por parte de personas (“mulas”) que depositaban ilegalmente papeletas en las urnas para influir en las elecciones de 2020.  La película causó sensación en los círculos conservadores, donde clips del creador de la […]

Joe Biden (seated) and Emmanuel Macron at US cemetery in Colleville-sur-Mer, Normandy 06-06-2024

‘Cheap fake’ videos, and the phrase itself, take 2024 election’s center stage

June 21, 2024

President Joe Biden sitting in an “invisible” chair in France. Biden wandering off from an event in Italy. Biden freezing on stage at a Los Angeles fundraiser. These misleading claims and others, based on videos that are deceptively edited or taken out of context, have flooded voters’ social media platforms in the last two weeks. […]

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