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John Bolton

American lawyer and diplomat (born 1948)

Fact-Checks

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Nov 19, 2025
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Which Republican leaders publicly called for Trump to resign and on what dates?

Available sources show multiple moments — chiefly around January 2021 and in the post–2024/2025 shutdown fights — when some Republicans publicly urged President Trump to leave office or criticized him...

Oct 18, 2025
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list of uncostitutionaal acts by trump

The provided analyses assert several by the Trump administration, chiefly the deployment of National Guard forces in Illinois, controversial immigration and asylum practices, use of lethal force polic...

Oct 24, 2025
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Can a US President be charged with a crime after leaving office?

Yes — a former U.S. president can be investigated and in some circumstances charged after leaving office, but the legal landscape has shifted: the Supreme Court’s 2024 ruling grants broad immunity for...

Oct 16, 2025

Please list all of trumps crimes and examples of his violation of the constitution during his time in office, both first and current term.

This analysis extracts key claims from three recent media analyses about actions attributed to Donald J. Trump during his presidential terms and compares factual reporting, timing, and emphasis across...

Dec 11, 2025

How did fact-checkers and major outlets respond to claims Trump praised Hitler?

Fact‑checkers and mainstream outlets treated reports that Donald Trump “praised Hitler” as based on sourcing from senior aides and contemporaneous accounts rather than on a single direct quotation; ne...

Jan 17, 2026

Iran assassination trump threat

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...

Dec 6, 2025

Did Trump meet Taliban leaders at the White House or Camp David on 9/11 anniversary?

President Trump announced in September 2019 that he had invited Taliban leaders to meet at Camp David days before the 18th anniversary of 9/11, then cancelled the planned summit after a Taliban attack...

Jan 5, 2026

Was the USA involved in the 2019 attempted coup in Venezuela

The short answer: the United States did not publicly acknowledge executing a direct, overt military coup in Venezuela in 2019, but American policy and covert tools were actively deployed in ways that ...

Dec 6, 2025

What evidence exists that the Taliban leadership was invited to U.S. presidential retreats?

Multiple mainstream reports confirm that President Donald Trump announced he had invited senior Taliban leaders to a planned meeting at the presidential retreat Camp David in September 2019, but the m...

Nov 30, 2025

bolton prosecution

John Bolton was indicted in mid‑October 2025 on 18 counts alleging unlawful transmission (8 counts) and unlawful retention (10 counts) of national defense information, pleaded not guilty, and faces a ...

Nov 13, 2025

How have biographies portrayed Trump's relationships with family and advisors?

Biographies consistently portray Donald Trump’s relationships with family and advisors as : family members acted as formal advisors and key operatives while external advisers ranged from transactional...

Nov 1, 2025

That Bolton launched a counterattack within 24 hours of his indictment that would “flip the entire Washington narrative upside down true or false or partly false or unverif ed

The claim that John Bolton launched a coordinated “counterattack” within 24 hours of his indictment that would “flip the entire Washington narrative upside down” is by contemporaneous reporting; avail...

Oct 25, 2025

What is the process for the US Department of Justice to investigate treason claims?

The Department of Justice (DOJ) does not publish a single, detailed public playbook for investigating treason; investigative responsibility typically involves , and proceeds through grand-jury review ...

Oct 21, 2025

Have any Trump administration officials been convicted of crimes related to the Russian hoax?

The materials provided do not show any convictions of Trump administration officials The documents instead report a recent indictment of former national security adviser John Bolton on classified‑info...

Oct 21, 2025

Have any government officials been charged or convicted in connection to the Russian hoax?

Two recent developments show government officials have faced legal actions tied to inquiries about the so‑called “Russia hoax”: former FBI Director James Comey was criminally indicted in September 202...