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QAnon and linked movements have repeatedly and falsely accused a range of public figures — including top Democrats, Hollywood celebrities and billionaire financiers — of participating in imaginary “ad...
Tafari Campbell was the Obamas’ longtime personal chef who died July 23, 2023 while paddleboarding on Martha’s Vineyard; Massachusetts authorities ruled his death an accidental drowning and the Obamas...
The principal claim across the materials is that the Obamas , a position stated by White House communications at the time and repeated in contemporaneous reports . Secondary material in the collection...
The current White House renovation under President Trump centers on a proposed grand ballroom and a suite of exterior and interior changes that media reports place in the hundreds of millions — widely...
Congress provided the money for the multi-year White House infrastructure project commonly cited as a roughly renovation; that appropriation was approved in before Barack Obama took office, and the wo...
The Obamas did not personally pay for a $376 million White House renovation carried out during their administration; rather than personal expenditures by the First Family . By contrast, recent Trump-e...
Michael S. Smith served as the Obamas’ principal interior designer for their White House renovations, widely described as the family's “decorator in chief,” and the Obamas privately funded many aesthe...
The available reporting concludes that there is for the Obamas’ White House personal renovations; the family opted not to use the presidential $100,000 taxpayer allotment and reported covering decorat...
The available materials show reporting indicates the Obamas paid for redecorating and personal upgrades themselves rather than accepting outside gifts or taxpayer financing . Contemporary pieces that ...
From the available reports and analyses, there is ; available figures break down into discretionary redecoration expenditures and partial project costs rather than a consolidated sum. Reports show the...