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The available official investigations and contemporaneous reporting conclude the July 13, 2024 Butler, Pennsylvania shooting was not a staged event: the FBI and Secret Service investigations, a bipart...
Available reporting shows no confirmed, contemporaneous evidence that Bill Clinton ever visited Jeffrey Epstein’s private island, Little Saint James; Epstein himself wrote in multiple emails that “Cli...
Federal and state authorities have investigated fundraising schemes that used the Wounded Warrior Project (WWP) name, including a 2018 U.S. Department of Justice case charging four defendants with run...
Documents and reporting show the U.S. Secret Service and related federal spending routed nearly $2 million to Trump properties for protection, lodging, and support during presidential travel and stays...
The available reporting shows the U.S. Secret Service and local authorities incurred to protect Mar-a-Lago, with federal procurement records documenting over $1.4 million in perimeter security contrac...
The central, verifiable facts are: the U.S. Secret Service’s annual budget has been around in recent years with approximately dedicated to protective operations that cover current and former president...
The available public record shows the July 13, 2024 shooting at a rally was investigated by federal authorities as an attempted assassination and treated as a real attack, not a staged event . Multipl...
producing and premiering a commercial documentary raises immediate ethical questions about conflicts between public duty and private profit, the use of privileged access for commercial gain, and the i...
Donald Trump was the target of an assassination attempt at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania on July 13, 2024 and was struck by gunfire — grazed in the ear — but survived; federal authorities i...
Presidential travel is funded through a mix of federal appropriations that pay for official transportation and security, supplemented in specific cases by campaign or private funds for political or pr...
The most consistent, documented figure for direct federal security spending on Charlie Kirk’s memorial is , which the U.S. Secret Service paid to ARCUS Group, LLC for perimeter protection at State Far...
Federal DHS guidance frames use of force by its law enforcement officers as tightly constrained: deadly force is authorized only when an officer has a reasonable belief of an imminent threat of death ...
The bipartisan House Task Force found "significant failures in the planning, execution, and leadership of the Secret Service and its law enforcement partners" and concluded the July 13 Butler, Pennsyl...
Charlie Kirk’s alleged “moronic Black woman” remark prompted significant criticism and debate, but available reporting is mixed on how his immediate audience reacted and whether a single, unified audi...
The publicly framed the July 13, 2024 shooting as an assassination attempt on and as potential while naming 20‑year‑old as the subject of the attack . Public statements from the bureau reported that t...
Iranian state media broadcast imagery from the July 2024 Butler, Pennsylvania assassination attempt on Donald Trump alongside Persian text widely translated as “This time, the bullet won’t miss,” an a...
Estimates in contemporary reporting put the annual Obama family Christmas trips to Hawaii at roughly $4 million per trip in many years, with watchdog groups and press summaries totaling about $85 mill...
The records show multiple, overlapping authorities and requests behind the National Guard presence around the January 6, 2021 Capitol attack: of Guard forces after a request from D.C. officials, while...
Public records and released documents show , while contemporaneous materials do confirm Clinton flew on Epstein-associated aircraft after his presidency; Clinton has denied any trips to the island and...
The available reporting does not produce a single, definitive dollar figure for Secret Service protection at Mar-a-Lago during calendar year 2024, but multiple contemporaneous sources document tied to...