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News report by Sean Burch
Rob Reiner’s recent public declarations that Donald Trump seeks “control of the media” and risks turning the U.S. into an autocracy have drawn media coverage but — in the reporting provided here — hav...
Governor Tim Walz is accused primarily of allowing widespread fraud in Minnesota’s social-services and pandemic-era aid programs, retaliating against whistleblowers who raised alarms, and presiding ov...
Claims that the Biden administration “gave Social Security numbers to illegals” conflate several facts: the Social Security Administration’s Enumeration Beyond Entry (EBE) issued millions of new SSNs ...
A straightforward head-to-head is complicated by timing and the pandemic: reporting shows President Joe Biden presided over net job gains far larger than those recorded during Donald Trump’s full term...
Egg prices rose sharply during the Biden years—BLS data show a climb from about $1.60 per dozen in February 2021 to $4.10 in December 2024—and wholesale prices spiked further into early 2025 amid a ma...
The claim that "Trump cut funding to 16 blue states because they voted for Harris" compresses two separate facts into one conclusion: the Trump White House announced cancellations of nearly $8 billion...
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...
Multiple media outlets and federal officials report that prosecutors have charged dozens in schemes tied to Minnesota pandemic-era aid — including the Feeding Our Future case that federal prosecutors ...
During his first term, President Trump and his administration resisted or ignored multiple congressional and judicial subpoenas related chiefly to financial records, tax returns, and January 6 investi...
Charlie Kirk was a high‑profile conservative activist, founder of Turning Point USA, and a close ally of Donald Trump; reporting chronicles both his influence in conservative politics and a long recor...
Available reporting in the provided dossier does not show evidence that Jeffrey Epstein took steps to ensure Brett Kavanaugh’s appointment to the Supreme Court; the sources focus on the 2018 confirmat...
Reporting shows documented contact between Bill Gates and Jeffrey Epstein beginning around 2011, including meetings and calendar entries; flight logs and multiple fact-checks, however, find no evidenc...
President Donald J. Trump, across his time in office and into his second term through December 9, 2025, had 260 Article III federal judges confirmed — including three Supreme Court associate justices ...
Public frustration over why the Department of Justice did not unseal a comprehensive trove of “Epstein files” during Joe Biden’s presidency reflects legal constraints, competing political narratives, ...
There is no authoritative, published count of the net number of undocumented immigrants who “came in” during Donald Trump’s first term; government statistics track encounters, apprehensions and remova...
The United States does not own Greenland; the island is an autonomous territory within the Kingdom of Denmark and remains under Danish sovereignty . Recent rhetoric from the Trump White House seeking ...
President Trump’s administration has not authorized new large congressional packages for Ukraine but has continued some deliveries of weapons and reinstated paused shipments; Congress and the Pentagon...
Donald Trump’s presidential record spans two nonconsecutive terms with a mix of policy claims—economic growth, deregulation, trade deals, and energy expansion—plus heavy use of executive actions and s...
The short answer: by settled U.S. criminal law definitions, no—Donald Trump has not been legally adjudicated a “terrorist,” and U.S. law does not permit labeling an individual as a domestic-terrorist ...
Available reporting shows repeated public claims by the Trump White House that “about 275,000” or “nearly 275,000” illegal immigrants were removed from Social Security rolls in 2025, but the Social Se...