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John F. Kennedy

President of the United States from 1961 to 1963 (1917–1963)

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Oct 21, 2025
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Is trump actually not getting paid as president?

President Donald J. Trump has repeatedly announced that he does not keep the official presidential salary and instead donates it to federal causes or agencies, often taking a nominal $1 paycheck, a pr...

Jan 17, 2026
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Which presidents used the insurrection act

The Insurrection Act has been invoked intermittently since the early republic, with sources counting roughly 30 separate invocations over U.S. history and attributing those uses to somewhere between 1...

Oct 4, 2025
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Did Trump take a salary during his presidency or donate it?

Donald Trump publicly stated that he rather than keeping it, and multiple contemporary news reports document specific donations from presidential paychecks to entities like the White House Historical ...

Jan 14, 2026

When has the Insurrection Act been officially invoked in U.S. history and what were the outcomes?

The Insurrection Act, a set of statutes dating to the early republic, has been invoked roughly 30 times across U.S. history to authorize federal military intervention on American soil; those invocatio...

Dec 19, 2025

What role did Donald Trump play at the Kennedy Center and how did fundraising change under him?

Donald Trump moved from guest and critic to formal chairman of the Kennedy Center’s Board of Trustees early in his second term, a takeover that included firing the institution’s president, installing ...

Dec 17, 2025

does donald trump donate his salary to charity

Donald Trump publicly pledged and—according to multiple government press releases and news reports—did donate portions of his presidential salary to federal agencies and nonprofits during his first te...

Dec 13, 2025

Who is Ian Carroll in journalism and what notable stories has he covered?

Ian Carroll is presented in recent coverage as an independent, self-styled investigative journalist and online researcher who built large followings on platforms such as X, TikTok, Instagram and YouTu...

Oct 24, 2025

Did trump not take a salary during his presidency?

Donald Trump publicly pledged to decline his presidential salary and announced repeated donations of portions of it to federal agencies and nonprofits; contemporaneous reporting confirms multiple docu...

Nov 30, 2025

What charities did Trump claim to donate his presidential salary to?

Donald Trump has publicly said he donated his presidential salary to several government entities and a nonprofit: his first-term donations included the National Park Service (via the Department of the...

Nov 5, 2025

Which presidents have refused or donated their salaries?

Three U.S. presidents are repeatedly identified as having donated their presidential pay while in office—Herbert Hoover, John F. Kennedy, and Donald J. Trump—and George Washington is often noted for i...

Oct 6, 2025

Democrats (as a party) were behind the assassinations of Lincoln, JFK, MLK, and also created racial terror systems (e.g. KKK, Jim Crow). true or false

The claim that *“Democrats (as a party) were behind the assassinations of Lincoln, JFK, MLK, and created racial terror systems (e.g. KKK, Jim Crow)”* is as framed: the historical record and the provid...

Nov 17, 2025

Mossad is behind JFK assasination

Claims that Israel’s intelligence service, the Mossad, orchestrated John F. Kennedy’s assassination appear repeatedly in fringe media, documentaries and social posts after recent document releases, bu...

Dec 4, 2025

Did Donald Trump donate his presidential salary each year or only occasionally?

Donald Trump repeatedly said and reported that he donated his presidential salary during his first term, with multiple outlets and federal agencies confirming donations to specific agencies and projec...

Nov 24, 2025

Did senator Kennedy ever debate Joel Olsteen

Available sources in the packet are extremely limited and do not document a debate between any senator named Kennedy and televangelist Joel Osteen; the lone result appears to be an unrelated StatMuse ...

Nov 29, 2025

Is mossad behind the killings by of JFK

Claims that Israel’s intelligence agency Mossad assassinated John F. Kennedy appear repeatedly in fringe articles, documentaries and some investigative pieces—but mainstream archival records and major...

Nov 6, 2025

Is trump taking president pay

Donald Trump does receive the statutory presidential salary of , but publicly stated he has been donating his quarterly paychecks to government entities and charities rather than keeping them for pers...

Dec 17, 2025

What specific predictions did Edgar Cayce reportedly make about future U.S. presidents?

Edgar Cayce is widely reported to have made several striking statements about future U.S. presidents: that the 44th president would be Black and “the last one,” that two presidents would die in office...

Jan 17, 2026

What new documents about the JFK assassination were released after 1992 and what did they reveal?

Since the 1992 JFK Records Act set a 2017 deadline for disclosure, multiple waves of previously secret documents have been released—most notably the Assassination Records Review Board’s 1990s transfer...

Dec 16, 2025

How many political figures have been assassinated in US history and what were their party affiliations?

Complete, authoritative counts of every U.S. political figure ever assassinated are not presented in the supplied sources; available reporting instead catalogs notable cases (including four presidents...

Dec 6, 2025

who killed john f kennedy

Official U.S. investigations have concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald fired the shots that killed President John F. Kennedy in Dallas on November 22, 1963; the Warren Commission and later federal inquiri...