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American former attorney and former Republican official
did not serve in the Vietnam War and obtained multiple Selective Service deferments during the 1960s, including a 1968 medical deferment for "bone spurs" that kept him out of service . While contempor...
did not serve in the War: he received multiple Selective Service deferments and a final medical exemption for that kept him out of the draft . Critics and fact-checkers characterize that outcome as “d...
Donald J. Trump has been convicted in one criminal case: a New York state trial that produced a jury verdict finding him guilty on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records tied to payments surr...
Donald Trump’s official SAT scores have not been publicly released; multiple contemporaneous reports and testimony indicate his academic records, including SAT results, were kept private and that his ...
Donald Trump received a medical deferment from the Vietnam draft in 1968 for “bone spurs” in his heels, a fact reported in contemporary and retrospective coverage . Multiple lines of reporting and tes...
Donald Trump received five draft deferments during the Vietnam War era: four student (educational) deferments while in college and a later medical deferment for bone spurs that made him 4‑F, which tog...
Stephen Colbert has repeatedly used satire to question and ridicule former President Donald Trump's academic record and mental acuity, riffing on buried school transcripts and Trump’s public boasting ...
There are verified public facts about where Donald Trump went to school and that he graduated from the Wharton School in 1968, but there are no publicly released, verifiable transcripts or SAT score r...
Donald Trump received five draft deferments during the Vietnam era — four student deferments and a medical classification that ultimately kept him from service — a factual core confirmed across contem...
Katie Johnson is the pseudonymous plaintiff who filed and later withdrew a 2016 civil suit alleging she was raped at Jeffrey Epstein’s New York townhouse in 1994; the complaint named both Epstein and ...
Available reporting and public records in the provided sources do not show any verified instance in which Donald Trump paid a family after being accused of raping their young son; major documented set...
Donald Trump was convicted by a New York jury of 34 felony counts of falsifying business records tied to hush‑money payments made during the 2016 campaign; prosecutors said the falsified records conce...
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...
Donald Trump is publicly documented to be connected to at least two six‑figure payments intended to suppress stories about alleged sexual encounters before the 2016 presidential election: a $130,000 p...
The phrase quoted—“Donald Trump was the dumbest goddamn student I ever had”—appears in multiple secondary accounts attributed to a longtime University of Pennsylvania professor recalling Donald Trump’...
The public record contains ; the available materials either explicitly state scores are unknown or present satire, allegations, or reporting about efforts to suppress academic records rather than any ...
avoided service in the -era draft through a combination of four college (student) deferments and a subsequent medical deferment for “,” a sequence confirmed by records and contemporary reporting . The...
A Manhattan jury convicted Donald J. Trump on 34 separate counts of Falsifying Business Records in the First Degree — each count corresponding to a false entry in Trump Organization records that prose...
has not demonstrably in the sense of renewed public endorsement or political alignment; instead, since he has offered a mix of damning testimony, later allegations that , and selective conciliatory re...
’s remark that avoiding sexually transmitted diseases was his “personal ” originated in interviews he gave to in the 1990s and resurfaced in 2016 as reporters and critics highlighted the comparison to...