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There is no evidence in the provided reporting that the 25th Amendment was activated today; the sources explain what invocation would require and show that Section 4—the only part that removes a sitti...
President Trump’s “fight like hell” line came during his January 6, 2021 speech at the Ellipse in Washington, D.C., amid repeated claims that the 2020 election was stolen; he urged supporters to “walk...
President Trump’s January 6 speech combined emphatic claims of widespread with direct exhortations that supporters should and “fight like hell,” while also including a line urging the crowd to act “pe...
The question of whether Donald Trump “incited an insurrection” centers chiefly on his words before and on January 6, 2021 — the House impeached him for “incitement of insurrection,” and the Senate vot...
The Jan. 6 House Select Committee produced an 845‑page final report and supporting materials — including more than 100 public transcripts, videos of nine televised hearings and 140,000 documents — and...
No. Available reporting does not show that the 25th Amendment was invoked on January 16, 2026; what appears in the sources are calls, analysis, and political discussion about the amendment’s use, not ...
Legal analysts, commentators and post‑Jan. 6 investigations disagree on whether Donald Trump’s conduct on January 6, 2021 meets the constitutional crime of treason; several former prosecutors and scho...
Donald Trump’s January 6, 2021 Ellipse remarks combined calls to challenge the 2020 election result with a mix of exhortations that have been read in sharply different ways: he told supporters to “wal...
unnecessary but reportedly unintentionaloverlapping factors The Department of Defense and Army guidance in place around Jan. 6 required explicit authorization before District of Columbia National Guar...
No — President Trump has not been declared incapacitated by his Cabinet; Section 4 of the 25th Amendment, which would require the vice president plus a majority of Cabinet members to declare the presi...
President Trump announced in September 2019 that he had invited Taliban leaders to meet at Camp David days before the 18th anniversary of 9/11, then cancelled the planned summit after a Taliban attack...
Witnesses and official inquiries described former President Donald Trump’s January 6, 2021 remarks as both a rallying cry and a catalyst for the Capitol assault, with many attendees reporting that his...
Section 4 of the Twenty-Fifth Amendment has never been invoked in U.S. history; it remains an unused constitutional mechanism for removing a president deemed unable to discharge the powers and duties ...
Contemporaneous, verifiable emails or internal memoranda showing Cabinet members formally deliberating to invoke Section 4 of the 25th Amendment are not produced or cited in the reporting provided; mo...
The House Select Committee concluded that President Trump never gave an order to deploy the National Guard to the Capitol on January 6, 2021, that the authority to order D.C. Guard forces rested with ...
The Supreme Court in Trump v. United States held that former presidents enjoy absolute criminal immunity for exercises of “core” presidential powers, presumptive immunity for other official acts, and ...
Donald Trump’s role in “inciting” the January 6, 2021 attack is a contested legal and factual claim: prosecutors, congressional investigators, and many defendants assert his rhetoric and actions spurr...
Donald Trump's January 6, 2021 "Save America" rally was officially presented as a protest to demand election transparency and to contest the certification of Joe Biden's 2020 victory; the speech expli...
Donald Trump’s January 6, 2021 Ellipse remarks included several verifiable lines: he said attendees would be “marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices hea...
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...