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2016 US Election

The 2016 US presidential election and its context, including payments made around the campaign.

Fact-Checks

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Jan 28, 2026
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How did initial media coverage of Melania Trump's nude photos influence her public image and later career?

Initial headlines that recycled ’s 1990s nude modeling photos during her husband’s reframed a pre-existing modeling past into a political flashpoint, prompting both sensational tabloid play and sober ...

Jan 14, 2026
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What evidence links Donald Trump to payments made to Stormy Daniels?

The public evidentiary record tying Donald Trump to the $130,000 payment to Stormy Daniels rests primarily on Michael Cohen’s admissions and testimony, corporate records showing reimbursements disguis...

Jan 19, 2026
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What is the provenance and history of the Al Taylor/Norm Lubow publicist campaign and its role in sexual abuse allegations?

The allegations known as the “Katie Johnson” claims were propagated to reporters and the public through an aggressive media campaign coordinated by a publicist calling himself “Al Taylor,” who investi...

Jan 23, 2026

Did Trump get a fair trial in Manhattan?

The question of whether received a in generated intense partisan debate; legal scholars and watchdog groups largely concluded the courtroom process followed normal procedures, while Republican officia...

Jan 15, 2026

What specific business records and bank documents were introduced at Trump’s Manhattan trial related to the $130,000 payment?

Prosecutors introduced a cluster of documentary exhibits tying the $130,000 payment to Stormy Daniels to Michael Cohen and to entries in Trump Organization records: bank statements showing Cohen’s wir...

Jan 15, 2026

What primary sources exist for Stormy Daniels's account of her encounter with Trump?

The core primary sources for Stormy Daniels’s account of an encounter with Donald Trump are Daniels’s own sworn courtroom testimony and contemporaneous documentary evidence tied to the hush‑money tran...

Jan 28, 2026

What are the specific charges and current status of each of Trump’s four indictments?

faces four separate criminal matters filed in 2023: a state "hush‑money" indictment, a federal classified‑documents case in , a federal Jan. 6 election‑interference case in , and a state racketeering/...

Jan 22, 2026

Does Donald Trump have 18 illegitimate children

No reputable reporting in the documents provided supports the claim that has ; the most concrete allegations in these sources involve a single rumored out‑of‑wedlock child tied to a former doorman and...

Jan 22, 2026

Did the media hate trump from the beginning?

The short answer: did not uniformly “hate” from the beginning, but coverage was unusually intense, often framed around controversy and horserace narratives that produced both outsized attention and pr...

Jan 14, 2026

How did rival campaigns and political opponents use Trump's Epstein mentions in 2016 campaign messaging?

Rival campaigns and political opponents raised Donald Trump’s ties to Jeffrey Epstein during the 2016 cycle primarily to cast doubt on his character and judgment, prompting media queries and debate li...

Jan 13, 2026

What is the timeline and current status for each criminal case against Donald Trump as of November 2025?

Three years of prosecutions that began in 2023 culminated in four separate criminal tracks: a Manhattan state trial that produced a conviction and an eventual unconditional discharge, two federal pros...

Jan 8, 2026

How have Trump’s denials and responses addressed claims about entering changing rooms?

Donald Trump’s public responses to claims that he entered pageant changing rooms have combined categorical denials through campaign spokespeople, selective acknowledgments about adult pageants, and at...

Jan 8, 2026

What key revelations came from the New York Times investigation into Donald Trump's taxes?

The New York Times’ multi‑year investigation presented a portrait of Donald Trump not as an unfailingly successful billionaire but as a businessman who reported large paper losses, paid minimal federa...

Jan 6, 2026

donald trump biography

Donald John Trump, born June 14, 1946 in Queens, New York, is a real‑estate developer turned media figure who parlayed celebrity into electoral success and served as both the 45th and, after a noncons...

Jan 5, 2026

What allegations involved payoffs, hush money, or campaign finance violations tied to Donald J. Trump (2016–2023)?

From 2016 through 2023 the dominant allegations tied to payoffs and potential campaign-finance misconduct around Donald J. Trump centered on a cluster of payments made in the run-up to the 2016 electi...