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Public records and multiple profiles consistently say Donald Trump attended Fordham University for two years (1964–1966) and graduated from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania with a ...
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...
Ronald Reagan used an explicitly racist slur in a 1971 taped phone call with President Richard Nixon—calling African U.N. delegates “monkeys”—a passage restored to public release in 2019 and documente...
Public records and widely cited biographies consistently list Donald John Trump’s full name as Donald John Trump and his birthdate as June 14, 1946; most sources place his birthplace in Queens, New Yo...
Available reporting shows substantial disagreement over how to count “military operations” Obama authorized and how many civilians died; narrow tallies exist for specific programs (e.g., drone strikes...
Pete Hegseth served in the U.S. Army National Guard and rose to the rank of major; his public biographies and reference outlets record multiple deployments to Guantánamo Bay, Iraq and Afghanistan and ...
Yes — the man now known as Vice President JD Vance has legally and publicly used several different names over his life, moving from his birth name through at least two family surnames and altering his...
Donald Trump has five children spanning a 29-year range from his eldest, Donald Trump Jr. (born 1977), to his youngest, Barron (born 2006), with three different mothers: Ivana Trump, Marla Maples, and...
, signed a swath of high-profile legislation spanning and tax relief, and child-nutrition reforms, , student‑loan and trade laws; official records and contemporary timelines record dozens of such laws...
Available reporting and biographical materials state that Pete Hegseth received combat-related awards including two Bronze Star Medals and the Combat Infantryman Badge; several profiles and an officia...
Pete Hegseth’s public biography and interviews present him as an Army National Guard infantry officer who served in Guantánamo Bay, Iraq and Afghanistan, rose to the rank of major, and received combat...
using a racial slur to describe African diplomats during a 1971 phone call with , and historians and commentators have linked that episode to a wider pattern of rhetoric and policies critics say harme...
Donald J. Trump’s presidency produced a mix of durable policy changes and high-profile controversies: his administration pushed large tax cuts, aggressive deregulation, reshaped the federal judiciary,...
Donald Trump’s rhetoric and conduct mark a clear break from many modern presidential norms: scholars and institutions say he routinely violated traditions and used confrontational, populist language, ...
, as attorney general from 2011 to 2019, led and joined several nationally prominent legal fights—most notably Florida’s role as the lead state in and —while also defending controversial state laws on...
The question of whether Donald Trump has been a net negative for the United States requires weighing measurable policy outcomes against broader institutional and social effects; evidence in the record...
Barack Obama’s domestic record is most often criticized on five broad fronts: use of executive power when Congress resisted, the scale and distributional effects of his economic response to the Great ...
Presidential constitutional violations cluster into recurring categories: , , , and . Major historical examples cited across the provided analyses include Nixon’s Watergate abuses, Andrew Johnson’s Te...
Public reporting and official biographical materials repeatedly state that Pete Hegseth was awarded two Bronze Star Medals and the Combat Infantryman’s Badge (CIB), but the documents provided in the r...
Most mainstream accounts say Melania Knauss and Donald Trump first met at a New York Fashion Week party in September 1998 — frequently identified as a Kit Kat Club event hosted by Paolo Zampolli — aft...