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President of the United States from 2001 to 2009
Year-by-year CPI inflation numbers by calendar year are reported by the Bureau of Labor Statistics and summarized in many outlets; available reporting shows inflation peaked near 9.1% in mid‑2022 duri...
Historians and academic surveys most often place James Buchanan, Andrew Johnson, and (in modern polls) Donald Trump among the presidents judged most harmful or least effective; common reasons given in...
Available reporting names multiple men called “Harry Myers” with documented military service, but none in the provided sources match the user’s specifics — a 1990s service member who went into hiding ...
Republican leaders have invoked Barack Obama’s drone campaign—often citing a figure of roughly 500–550 strikes—to defend or contextualize recent “double-tap” maritime strikes in the Caribbean; reporti...
Barack Obama oversaw the largest number of formal removals of noncitizens in U.S. presidential history, with Department of Homeland Security data attributing roughly , a figure that exceeds recorded t...
"Trump Derangement Syndrome" (TDS) is a pejorative label applied to intense, often dismissive criticism of Donald Trump that his defenders characterize as irrational or pathologically excessive; comme...
Available reporting shows no credible evidence that Barack Obama “is in” the Epstein files as a conspirator or that he “made up” investigative files; multiple outlets report that claims tying Obama to...
President Obama’s administrations oversaw the largest tally of formal removals in recent history, with reporting indicating , a figure that, by raw counts, exceeds recorded removals under Presidents C...
The Obama administration expanded and oversaw hundreds of drone and airstrike operations in Pakistan and elsewhere; multiple reputable trackers put U.S. strikes in Pakistan and neighboring areas at hu...
Available reporting and government analyses do not give a single, simple “deported by George W. Bush” number without important qualifiers: DHS-style “removals” (formal deportations) total a bit over 2...
Presidential-era deportation tallies are not apples-to-apples: recent counts mix formal removals, voluntary “returns,” and border expulsions (including pandemic-era Title 42), so headline numbers can ...
Claims that “Bush did 9/11” are a central 9/11 conspiracy theory that accuses the George W. Bush administration of planning, allowing, or covering up the September 11, 2001 attacks; most mainstream in...
Public reporting shows no verified, public SAT scores for Donald Trump; multiple outlets note that his grades and test results were never released and that his former lawyer Michael Cohen testified th...
Contemporary reporting and historical accounts agree that the modern East Wing expansion of the White House in 1942 was built in part to conceal an underground Presidential Emergency Operations Center...
The Somali presence in Minnesota largely stems from refugee resettlement beginning in the early 1990s and subsequent secondary migration and family reunification; roughly 150,000 Somalis have been res...
Available reporting shows the Biden administration’s enforcement produced millions of repatriations (returns, expulsions and removals) — roughly 4.4–4.7 million by late 2024/early 2025 — while ICE rem...
Counting “how many illegals each president deported” is complicated because agencies report different categories—formal removals, voluntary returns, expulsions under Title 42, and self‑deportations—an...
Available public analyses show the Biden administration’s enforcement produced roughly 4.4 million “repatriations” when deportations are combined with expulsions and other border removals, and the adm...
Available reporting shows no evidence that Presidents Barack Obama or Joe Biden “created” or were responsible for the investigative files on Jeffrey Epstein; the two main federal investigations occurr...
Donald Trump’s approval in 2025 is generally lower than the peak early-term approvals enjoyed by Barack Obama and George W. Bush, though short-term averages and trackers show variation by pollster and...