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President of the United States from 1961 to 1963 (1917–1963)
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
There is in the provided materials that U.S. Senator John Kennedy visited Joel Osteen’s church; available fact-checking and background sources show the claim is unsubstantiated and likely based on con...
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 ...
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...
There is no credible, verifiable evidence that Israel or its intelligence services assassinated President John F. Kennedy; the allegation is a modern conspiracy theory amplified after selective readin...
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...
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...