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Dec 20, 2025
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did fulton county admit it illegally certified 315000 ballots?

Fulton County officials acknowledged at a December 9 Georgia State Election Board hearing that they “do not dispute” that tabulation tapes for advanced (early) voting were not signed, and auditors and...

Jan 25, 2026
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How many ice deaths under obama

The most widely cited tally for deaths in custody during the presidency is , a figure reported by a coalition report titled and repeated in media and advocacy accounts . That number has become a short...

Jan 24, 2026
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trump tower has it been seized

has not been seized; courts have entered judgments that allow ’s attorney general to pursue seizure if collection proceeds, but an appeals court pause and bond requirement have so far prevented any ac...

Jan 17, 2026

Did ICE shoot people during the Obama era- if so- how many

Yes — immigration agents under ICE and related DHS components fired their weapons and were involved in shootings during the Obama years, but publicly available reporting does not provide a single, ver...

Jan 24, 2026

What is “the discombobulator” described by Trump

has publicly named a purported classified device used in the that captured “,” describing it as a secret sonic or pulsed-energy system that made enemy equipment “not work” and saying he is “not allowe...

Jan 17, 2026

Did Minneapolis police officers resign and work for ICE

There is clear, repeated reporting that multiple federal prosecutors and senior Justice Department civil‑rights officials resigned in protest over how the DOJ handled the ICE shooting in Minneapolis ....

Jan 18, 2026

Did Obama award Tom Holmes an award in 2015

Barack Obama did present a 2015 Presidential Rank Award to Thomas D. Homan — commonly referred to in press as Tom Homan — when Homan, then ICE’s Executive Associate Director for Enforcement and Remova...

Jan 26, 2026

How many people died because of ICE under Obama

The best-supported count in the reporting provided is that while in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody during the , a figure reported by a coalition report based on documents and summar...

Jan 12, 2026

How many detainees were killed by ICE during the Obama administration?

Available reporting does not document that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) "killed" detainees as a matter of policy; instead, multiple investigations and civil-society reports count people w...

Jan 25, 2026

Has the nra issued a statement about the latest shooting in Minnesota

Yes. The National Rifle Association publicly weighed in on the : the NRA posted on X condemning comments by a federal prosecutor and separately blamed Democratic leaders in for “incit[ing] violence” a...

Jan 16, 2026

did trump end eight wars?

No — the assertion that President Trump “ended eight wars” is an overstatement: he has played a role in negotiating ceasefires, truces and diplomatic agreements in several conflicts, but fact-checkers...

Jan 16, 2026

How did ice arrest people during the Clinton and Obama years

During the Clinton years ICE’s predecessor systems and enforcement tools produced some of the highest deportation counts in modern history, and during the Obama administration ICE shifted toward “prio...

Jan 13, 2026

Did Kristi Noem stand at a podium that was quoted “one of ours all of yours”

Photographs and contemporaneous reporting show Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem standing at a One World Trade Center podium bearing the words “ONE OF OURS, ALL OF YOURS” during a Jan. 8, 2026 p...

Dec 18, 2025

why were the epstein files not released under Joe Biden's term?

The Epstein investigative files remained largely unreleased during President Joe Biden’s term primarily because they were part of active criminal investigations, subject to grand-jury secrecy, and ent...

Nov 15, 2025

were the ice raids during obamas presidency as aggressive as during trumps presidency

Data and reporting show that Obama-era ICE removals were higher in raw counts across his two terms, with more than 3.1 million deportations logged during 2009–2016 . But multiple analyses and contempo...

Jan 22, 2026

How many illegal immigrants have killed in the US from 2000 and

No reliable, authoritative tally exists in the public record that counts “ in the U.S. from 2000” because the federal government does not maintain a comprehensive, national dataset linking immigration...

Jan 19, 2026

Did Ukraine and France provide false information to the Trump administration to test them to see if they would leak it to Putin?

There is no reliable, independently verified evidence that Ukraine and France deliberately fed false classified intelligence to the Trump administration as a sting to see whether it would be leaked to...

Jan 12, 2026

Have any trump properties been seized

No major Trump-owned buildings—such as Trump Tower or 40 Wall Street—have been taken into government custody and sold off under the New York civil fraud judgment; New York Attorney General Letitia Jam...

Jan 23, 2026

Did Obama give Holman an award

Yes — multiple contemporaneous reports and official notices show that received a 2015 Presidential Rank Award while serving as ’s executive associate director for Enforcement and Removal Operations, a...

Dec 9, 2025

Did Obama keep immigrant children in cages?

Yes — facilities with chain‑link enclosures often described as “cages” were used to hold migrant children under the Obama administration, especially during the 2014 surge; those same types of enclosur...