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Primary documentary evidence and official biographies show Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama was born in Chicago (official long-form and short-form birth records archived by the Obama White House) and ...
President Barack Obama did not build a new indoor basketball arena at the White House; he adapted the existing South Lawn tennis court so it could be used for full‑court basketball by adding hoops and...
The claim that President Obama “deported” people through a process that lacked due process reflects a mix of documented enforcement policies and sharp critiques of expedited procedures; the administra...
The short answer is no: claims that former President Barack Obama received recurring “royalties” or direct payments from the Affordable Care Act (often called “Obamacare”) are false and trace back to ...
Official, contemporaneous records and authoritative institutional biographies identify Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama as born January 17, 1964, in Chicago, Illinois; the Obama White House archives a...
The central fact is that the key legal agreements that limited federal prosecution of Jeffrey Epstein—most notably the non-prosecution agreement (NPA) and the 2008 state plea—were negotiated and signe...
Available reporting and document dumps from November 2025 do not show that “Barack Hussein Obama’s name was removed from the Epstein list”; rather, public releases so far focus on emails and documents...
Available reporting and document releases do not show Barack Obama visiting properties owned by Jeffrey Epstein; the clearest connections in public records involve Epstein correspondence with people w...
The Obama administration responded to criticism of civilian casualties from drone strikes by releasing official casualty estimates and some policy explanations while continuing contested practices lik...
Documents released by the House Oversight Committee and reporting show Jeffrey Epstein exchanged emails with at least one Obama White House official — former White House counsel Kathryn Ruemmler — and...
A widely circulated figure — that the Obama White House spent roughly in 2009 — mixes two separate facts and is therefore misleading: Congress approved a roughly in 2008 that was carried out as the bu...
Yes — the Obama administration used and expanded U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) as its principal interior immigration-enforcement agency, directing it to arrest, detain and remove nonc...
The Obama administration justified most overseas drone strikes by leaning on two domestic legal threads: the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF) as congressional authorization for acti...
Public reporting does not support a claim that the Obama White House compiled a unique, hidden “Epstein file”; available sources show the principal federal investigations into Jeffrey Epstein predated...
Available reporting shows no authoritative source in the provided set saying the Obama White House spent taxpayer funds specifically on a new basketball court or similar small recreational upgrades; m...
Federal ethics rules did apply to private funding and outside interactions during the Obama years: the Administration issued an Executive Order—the “Ethics Commitments by Executive Branch Personnel”—t...
Barack Obama issued roughly 1,927 acts of clemency during his presidency — including about 1,715 commutations (many of them for lengthy drug sentences) and 212 pardons — and used commutations far more...
There are public visitor-record disclosures from the Obama White House that were posted online as part of a transparency effort , and multiple reporting threads note that the existing White House tenn...
Presidents have used the South Lawn for recurring public ceremonies (notably the annual Easter Egg Roll since 1878) and for special one‑day festivals and celebrations such as “South by South Lawn” (Oc...
The Supreme Court in United States v. Texas ended in an equally divided 4–4 tie on June 23, 2016, which left the lower-court injunction blocking President Obama’s DAPA program and the planned DACA exp...