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Donald Trump’s presidency is the subject of extensive allegations and watchdog reports asserting an unprecedented scale of self-enrichment and transactional politics; multiple recent analyses claim hi...
Yes — a small rare‑earths startup called Vulcan Elements secured a conditional $620 million loan from the Pentagon’s Office of Strategic Capital as part of a larger $1.4 billion package; Vulcan had ta...
The evidence assembled by election experts, courts, and multiple fact‑checking analyses shows ; isolated incidents were investigated but were too few to affect the outcome . Major institutions includi...
Media and watchdog reporting since 2000 shows numerous allegations and ethics probes into members of Congress for suspiciously timed trades, but available sources say prosecutions are vanishingly rare...
Available reporting does not show that Speaker Mike Johnson donates his entire congressional salary to charity. Public coverage says he earns the standard member and speaker pay (about $174,000 as a r...
Evidence compiled by multiple watchdog groups, scholars and news organizations portrays the Trump administrations — both 2017–2021 and the second term beginning in 2025 — as marked by repeated ethics ...
Multiple reporting and campaign-finance databases show Speaker Mike Johnson has received substantial PAC and large-donor support, including at least $625,000 from AIPAC in the first half of 2025 and m...
Members of Congress must disclose securities transactions over $1,000 in a periodic transaction report generally within 45 days of the trade under the STOCK Act; some summaries add a 30‑day requiremen...
Legal challenges and watchdog reports say many of President Trump’s 2025-era executive actions and policy moves are being litigated as unlawful or unconstitutional — including attempts to limit birthr...
Available reporting and advocacy materials catalog dozens of actions by President Trump that critics call unlawful or unconstitutional—ranging from mass firings of inspectors general and alleged impro...
Multiple watchdogs, congressional Democrats, ethics groups and major news outlets document a wide range of actions by President Trump that critics call unprecedented corruption: House Judiciary Democr...
Recent reporting and official records show at least one former member of Congress convicted of insider trading in the 21st century: former Rep. Stephen Buyer was convicted and sentenced to 22 months i...
A multipronged strategy led by voters, state and local officials, civil-society groups, and the courts is the clearest path for Americans to blunt executive overreach when Congress fails to act; litig...
Available reporting does not show that Speaker Mike Johnson donates his full congressional salary to charity; instead, coverage points to ordinary congressional pay and financial pressures, and a spec...
Available public reporting and filings show no comprehensive list of charities that Rep. Mike Johnson has personally supported; investigative and fact‑checking outlets found no evidence he donated his...
Mike Johnson has not been shown in the available reporting and filings to have publicly announced a program of donating his congressional salary to veterans, and multiple recent analyses find for clai...
The materials show multiple, separate legal claims tied to House Speaker Mike Johnson: a federal campaign-finance complaint alleging conversion of campaign funds to pay for his Washington, D.C., housi...
There is no authoritative single count of how many times President Trump has “acted unlawfully” in his current term because unlawfulness is a legal determination made case-by-case by courts, and many ...
Mike Johnson has not been shown to have personally donated large sums to his own campaign; instead, his political operation raised and spent substantial amounts through his leadership PAC and joint fu...
The Steele dossier was produced for Fusion GPS, which was paid first by a conservative site during the GOP primary and later by the Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee (DNC) via the...