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American politician and diplomat (born 1972)
A catalogue of specific Joe Biden statements that opponents and fact-checkers have called racist includes well‑known gaffes, past comments about busing and race in the 1970s, stereotyping remarks abou...
Donald Trump received five Vietnam-era draft deferments, four for education and one for a medical deferment for bone spurs in his heels; that medical deferment is the specific focus of enduring contro...
Donald Trump received a 1968 medical deferment from the Vietnam draft attributed to "bone spurs" in his heels; contemporaneous records are scarce because much draft medical paperwork no longer exists ...
The gross federal debt rose roughly from $19.95 trillion when Donald Trump took office to about $27.75 trillion when he left — an increase near $7.8 trillion over his single term (gross totals) . Diff...
Multiple commentators and mental-health professionals have publicly raised , citing specific episodes they interpret as potential cognitive decline; these claims are documented across articles, interv...
Donald Trump received five draft deferments during the Vietnam War era: four educational deferments while he was a student and one medical deferment for bone spurs (a 1‑Y medical classification later ...
launched a campaign for the in mid-February 2023 and positioned herself as the first major challenger to . Her campaign ran through the early primary season but she suspended her bid on March 6, 2024 ...
Reporting and compilations from multiple outlets document a string of verbal miscues by Donald Trump at 2024 campaign rallies, including confusing world leaders and places, misnaming political figures...
Only a narrow set of cognitive-screening results have been publicly reported for a U.S. president before 2025: President Donald Trump’s 2018 Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) score — reported as 30...
did utter racially charged language during a Judiciary Committee hearing in 1985 — including the N-word — but contemporaneous fact-checking shows he was quoting a racist legislator’s comment as eviden...
Conservative politicians have turned from a Black vernacular warning into a flexible political cudgel, using its vagueness to label a wide range of progressive policies and cultural changes as threats...
Multiple high‑profile U.S. presidential figures have taken money or benefited from spending by pro‑Israel political action committees and affiliated super PACs; reporting and PAC disclosures specifica...
Republicans are not united behind a single, current plan for a complete nationwide abortion ban, but significant factions and policy blueprints within the broader GOP ecosystem are actively pursuing f...
of racism typically point to a handful of his own public remarks—most notably his 2008 “A More Perfect Union” speech, candid comments about the behavior of Black men during the , and his association w...
The supplied reporting contains extensive documentation of directed at — including a Truth Social video depicting the Obamas as apes that drew bipartisan condemnation and was removed — but none of the...
A range of contemporary political figures and advisers — most prominently and several Republican allies and commentators — have used militaristic or “” style rhetoric, and outlets have reported those ...
The claim that the Biden administration negotiated or began talks for 747 gifted by is unproven in the public record: fact‑checkers report the assertion circulated but had not been corroborated and go...
Reporting and investigator accounts about ’s 1968 “bone‑spur” deferment converge on three facts: Trump was granted a medical deferment for heel spurs that year, the diagnosis has been linked in report...
Tucker Carlson’s shift from mainstream conservative foreign-policy commentator to a leading critic of the U.S.–Israel alliance is traceable to a handful of high-profile interviews and speeches that re...
Donald Trump’s 2024–25 campaign and presidential appearances produced a long list of public verbal missteps — mixing up names, places and timelines — that rivals and commentators say undercut his part...