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Mike Pompeo

American politician (born 1963) and former United States Secretary of State (2018–2021)

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Jan 18, 2026
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Which cabinet members or officials were reported to have discussed invoking the 25th Amendment, and what did they say on the record?

Multiple news outlets reported that “some” members of President Trump’s Cabinet discussed invoking Section 4 of the 25th Amendment in the wake of the January 6, 2021 Capitol attack, but few individual...

Dec 3, 2025
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Has the US officially approved F-35 sales to the UAE and when?

The United States formally notified Congress in 2021 of a planned F‑35 sale to the United Arab Emirates under a reported roughly $23 billion package; the Biden administration reviewed and then moved t...

Nov 25, 2025
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How do leaked government documents (e.g., China Cables) support claims of a coordinated repression campaign?

Leaked document sets such as the China Cables and related Xinjiang papers provide internally authored guidance, operational lists and numeric tallies that investigators and governments say show an org...

Jan 20, 2026

How have past informal discussions among Cabinet members about invoking the 25th Amendment been documented and what prevented action?

Informal Cabinet conversations about invoking Section 4 of the Twenty-fifth Amendment have been documented primarily through contemporaneous news reporting, retrospective legal scholarship and archiva...

Jan 19, 2026

How did other major news outlets cover cabinet discussions of the 25th Amendment during the Trump administration?

Major outlets reported that some Cabinet members discussed invoking Section 4 of the 25th Amendment after the January 6 Capitol riot, but coverage varied sharply on seriousness, sources, and political...

Jan 8, 2026

What exactly did The Atlantic report about Trump and U.S. service members in 2020?

The Atlantic reported in 2020 that President Donald Trump had repeatedly disparaged U.S. service members — including calling American war dead “suckers” and “losers” — and that he had questioned the v...

Jan 6, 2026

Did any Trump officials confirm or deny the suckers and losers quotes in 2020?

In 2020, after The Atlantic published allegations that President Trump called U.S. service members "suckers" and "losers," Trump and several senior Trump officials publicly denied the report, while ot...

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 20, 2025

What documented interactions exist between Donald Trump and CIA officials during the 1990s–2010s?

Documented interactions between Donald Trump and CIA officials during the 1990s–2010s, as reflected in the available sources, cluster around three periods: pre-presidential public references and contr...