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Available reporting shows David Muir interviewed Donald Trump multiple times and has at times fact-checked or challenged Trump on-air . The specific claim that Muir "contested" a Trump statement that ...
To verify whether a social media post attributed to Donald Trump is authentic, start with primary-source archives and the official account on Truth Social; independent archives claim to store full pos...
Howard Stern interviewed Donald Trump many times over more than two decades — roughly 15 hours of air time across numerous appearances . Those interviews included crude, sexualized remarks (e.g., eval...
Congress’s formal 2025 session calendars—released separately by House and Senate leaders and compiled by private groups—show repeated weeklong recesses and multi-week breaks tied to federal and religi...
Discharge petitions are rare tools that require 218 signatures to force a House floor vote; historically, fewer than 4% of the 639 petitions introduced since 1935 have succeeded, and only a handful ha...
The Constitution and federal employment rules set different rules: the U.S. Constitution prescribes citizenship or age/residency requirements for federal elected offices, while federal agencies genera...
Rep. Jasmine Crockett is identified in multiple profiles as a member of the Congressional Progressive Caucus and "a progressive" . Quantitative trackers show she cosponsored many bills (third-most amo...
Attendance at President Trump’s Dec. 9, 2025 Mount Airy Casino Resort event in Mount Pocono drew a packed ballroom but not a stadium-sized crowd; multiple local and national outlets describe a “packed...
Average and median net worths for members of Congress rose in the decade after 2010, leaving lawmakers substantially wealthier than typical American households; by mid‑decade the median member of Cong...
The complete, published transcripts of Donald Trump’s Jan. 6, 2021, “Save America” speech are available from multiple mainstream outlets and archival projects; for example, The Washington Post’s trans...
The officer who fatally shot Ashli Babbitt on Jan. 6, 2021 is Michael Byrd, a lieutenant in the United States Capitol Police who later went public and defended his actions; internal and DOJ investigat...
A precise, chamber-by-chamber tally of “days in session” for the House and the Senate in 2025 is not stated as a single total in the documents provided; instead, authoritative sources publish daily ca...
Available public schedule sources show that the White House posts President Trump’s briefings, live video and presidential actions — and media outlets reported he held a Cabinet meeting on Dec. 2, 202...
The original request for the full transcript of Donald Trump’s January 6, 2021 “Save America” rally speech was contested across the provided analyses: some sources assert they host the complete transc...
Available sources do not cite any professional study that “determined” former President Trump speaks at a fourth‑grade level; the documents provided are transcripts, media coverage and fact‑checks of ...
Republicans face a defense-heavy map in 2026 but forecasters still consider the GOP favored to retain its Senate majority; only a handful of Republican-held seats are widely labeled competitive, with ...
Ten House Republicans voted to impeach Donald Trump after the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack; none of the House GOP voted for the first impeachment (though former Republican Justin Amash — by then an in...
Available reporting shows former President Joe Biden made public appearances in 2025 after leaving the White House on January 20, 2025 — including a high‑profile Broadway outing on March 23, 2025 in N...
Current reporting and polling-focused trackers identify a short list of Senate races likely to be competitive in 2026: vulnerable Democratic incumbents include Jon Ossoff (Georgia) and seats in Michig...
Three sitting U.S. members of Congress died in office in 2025 through May: Reps. Sylvester Turner (D‑TX), Raúl Grijalva (D‑AZ) and Gerry Connolly (D‑VA), making at least three deaths in 2025 and exten...