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Jan 20, 2026
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how many illegal immigrants have we deported

Official tallies and media analyses disagree, but publicly cited figures place the number of people formally removed (deported) from the United States in the first year of the current administration r...

Jan 13, 2026
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What were the final popular vote totals and percentages in the 2024 presidential election?

Donald J. Trump won the 2024 national popular vote with roughly 77.3 million votes (about 49.8–49.9%), while Kamala Harris received roughly 75.0 million votes (about 48.3–48.4%), a margin of roughly 1...

Nov 30, 2025
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Who won the 2024 U.S. presidential popular vote and what were the totals?

The available sources report that Donald Trump won the 2024 presidential election and carried the Electoral College with 312 electoral votes to Kamala Harris’s 226 (National Archives; BBC) . Multiple ...

Nov 27, 2025

How many illegals were allowed in during trumps first term

Available sources do not provide a single, definitive tally of how many people "were allowed in" during Donald Trump’s first term; reporting and government releases instead focus on enforcement action...

Dec 21, 2025

did trump sell weapons to Russia

There is no credible reporting in the provided sources that President Trump personally sold U.S. weapons to Russia; the mainstream record instead shows the Trump administration approving and accelerat...

Dec 5, 2025

How much illegal fentanyl in the US originates from China versus Mexico?

Law enforcement and analysts say the U.S. illicit-fentanyl supply chain is a two-country system: Chinese chemical manufacturers and brokers supply most precursor chemicals, while Mexican cartels have ...

Dec 6, 2025

Are democrats going to take over in the 2026 elections?

Polls and forecasters currently show Democrats favored to make gains in 2026 but not an inevitable “takeover”: several models and polling snapshots project Democrats can win the House (some forecastin...

Jan 27, 2026

Will democrats take majority in congress in 2026

are in position to retake the House in 2026 according to polls and multiple independent forecasters, but control of the Senate is much less certain; a House majority is plausible and even likely in ma...

Dec 12, 2025

The bad things that Trump has done this year

This year the Trump administration pursued a sweeping agenda that critics say includes aggressive immigration enforcement, expansive executive orders (218 EOs in 2025), military actions in the Caribbe...

Jan 19, 2026

What are the current US deportation statistics for 2025, and how do they compare to previous years?

Official and independent sources offer three competing pictures of 2025 deportations: Department of Homeland Security releases claim roughly half a million to more than 600,000 removals tied to the ad...

Jan 26, 2026

what was the final popular vote count of the 2024 presidential election

The certified national popular vote in the gave more votes than , with multiple reputable trackers reporting Trump roughly between 76.9 million and 77.3 million votes and Harris between about 74.4 mil...

Jan 18, 2026

Has trump been invoked with the 25th amendment

No—there has never been a successful invocation of the 25th Amendment to remove or permanently displace Donald J. Trump from the presidency; what occurred instead were urgent discussions, public calls...

Nov 15, 2025

Jews control the USA government

Claims that “Jews control the U.S. government” are a longstanding antisemitic trope; available reporting shows active Jewish participation in American politics and influential pro-Israel lobbying but ...

Dec 12, 2025

How many deportations occurred under the Trump administration compared to other administrations?

Available sources report widely different counts and definitions for removals under President Trump’s second term: DHS statements claim as many as “more than 605,000” deportations and “more than 2.5 m...

Jan 25, 2026

What do americans think of ICE

Americans’ views of ) are sharply polarized but tilting negative: multiple polls in January 2026 show pluralities or majorities disapproving of ICE’s conduct and a surge in support for major reforms o...

Dec 14, 2025

How many drone strikes occurred during the Obama administration

Sources differ but cluster around roughly 1,800–1,900 total U.S. “drone strikes” during Barack Obama’s eight years: the Bureau of Investigative Journalism’s compiled figure cited by BBC is 1,878 strik...

Nov 8, 2025

Why is Donald Trump allowed to break the law and violate the Constitution?

Donald Trump is not formally "allowed" to break the law, but a mix of recent legal doctrines, prosecutorial choices, and political dynamics explains why enforcement has been uneven. are the Supreme Co...

Dec 3, 2025

How many overseas military conflicts occurred under Barack Obama and how are they defined as wars?

Barack Obama inherited two large-scale U.S. wars (Iraq and Afghanistan) and during his presidency the United States was engaged militarily in at least five overseas conflicts — Afghanistan, Iraq (incl...

Dec 11, 2025

Did Trump win the popular vote in the U.S. 2024 Presidential Election?

Donald Trump won the 2024 national popular vote by a narrow plurality — roughly 77.3 million votes (about 49.8%) to Kamala Harris’s roughly 75 million (about 48.3%) — a margin of about 1.5 percentage ...

Nov 26, 2025

Which party has been associated with the most violent incidents in 2024?

Available reporting and analyses indicate that most sources identify right-wing or far-right actors as responsible for the bulk of politically motivated, extremist violence in and around 2024; multipl...