Questions tagged [donald-trump]
Claims made about Donald Trump. Do not use this tag for questions about claims made by Trump.
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Did Trump save on taxes by burying his ex wife on a golf course?
This article claims that burying Ivana Trump on a Bedminster golf course eliminates property, income and sales tax.
Trump is accused of burying Ivana at his Bedminster golf club to take advantage of ...
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Can Trump actually reach the steering wheel in the Beast? [closed]
Cassidy Hutchinson testified that someone told her Trump tried to grab the steering wheel of the car he was being driving in.
When told that wouldn't be possible, Trump "reached up towards the ...
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Did the judge in the Rittenhouse case have a Trump rally ringtone on his phone?
According to MSN:
The phone belonging to the judge presiding over the closely watched double homicide trial of Kyle Rittenhouse rang at least twice during the trial with Lee Greenwood’s “God Bless ...
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Is Trump's book, Our Journey Together, personally signed?
The website 45books.com lists "hand-signed", "autographed" books by former US president Trump for sale:
OUR JOURNEY TOGETHER (SIGNED COPY) $229.99
Get your hand-signed edition of ...
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Did Donald Trump move donated money to his business accounts?
According to The Independent,
Donald Trump moved more than $200,000 donated to his Make America Great Again PAC into his own private business accounts, according to an analysis of his federal filings....
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Did a recent Senate report vindicate the Mueller investigation? [closed]
Because according to Aaron Mate:
But the plain text of the Senate report contains no concrete evidence to support its conclusions. Instead, with a heavy dose of caveats and innuendo, reminiscent of ...
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Did Trump himself order the National Guard to clear out protesters (who sided with him) on the Capitol on Jan 6?
An op-ed on Russia Today (which obviously has its biases) claims about Trump's reaction to the Jan 6 events:
The supposed Nazi fascist dictator himself ordered National Guard and police to clear out ...
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Did Trump verbally say he was appointing Sidney Powell special counsel?
Former Overstock CEO and Trump supporter Patrick Byrne said this on Tuesday, regarding his White House meeting with President Trump:
I saw Cippolone, the [White House] general counsel, say something ...
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Did a Milwaukee airport allow Biden but not Trump to hold a rally because Biden's rally will be smaller?
A twitchy article claims that Mitchell International Airport will allow Biden to hold a rally but not Trump because the former rally is significantly smaller:
The Trump campaign was denied a permit ...
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Was Donald Trump treated with pharmaceuticals derived from fetal stem cells?
A post on www.twitter.com [link] has garnered over 100K retweets and 345K likes which states:
So it turns out the monoclonal antibodies that Trump is on are from fetal stem cells. So Trump is being ...
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Did the World Bank discredit any claims related to Hunter Biden's work in Ukraine?
During the first 2020 U.S. Presidential debate, Former Vice President Biden claimed that President Donald Trump's assertion that his son Hunter Biden had improper dealings with the Ukrainian ...
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Has Trump been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize?
Daily Mail just posted an article entitled: Donald Trump has been nominated for 2021 Nobel Peace Prize following deal between Israel and the United Arab Emirates.
The article mentions that,
President ...
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Has Trump built just 5 miles of wall where no barrier existed?
CNN’s Daniel Dale said just said this, in the course of fact-checking President Trump’s acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention:
[President Trump] boasted about building about 300 ...
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Did Trump publicly out Jeffrey Epstein as a pedophile in 2002?
A new Facebook claim about Epstein has been making the rounds - this one talking about Trump's past relationship with Epstein.
There are a number of claims about the relationship between Trump and ...
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Can red state legislature automatically give Trump a second term?
Their are some people online (Greg Palast) saying that if Trump loses the election, he will claim fraud, have the results thrown out and have state legislature use the 12 amendment to give him a ...
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Did Trump salute 600 times at the West Point commencement exercise before using two hands to drink water?
At the Tulsa rally of June 20th, Donald Trump defended his apparent difficulty tilting a glass of water with his right hand by saying his arm was tired from saluting 600 times.
“They said you couldn’...
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Did protesters block metal detectors at Trump's Tulsa rally?
"Sadly, protesters interfered with supporters, even blocking access to
the metal detectors, which prevented people from entering the rally,"
Tim Murtaugh, the campaign's communications ...
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Did Trump order tear gas to be used on protesters to clear a pathway to a church for a photoshot?
There are dozens of articles out there like this one which states that Trump ordered the use of tear gas to disperse peaceful protesters so he could do a photoshoot. However I recently read that ...
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Was this photo taken on Friday 29th of May 2020, when the President was moved to a White House bunker [closed]
This tweet (with over 8,000 shares) was posted recently, implying that the photo of the White House, was taken when the President was evacuated to a bunker.
Lights out at #WhiteHouse is a ...
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Are there many per capitas? [closed]
Politico quotes Donald Trump :
Just this past week, Trump reveled in a mental list he has been keeping of how many tests the U.S. has conducted, approaching 14 million, in comparison with other ...
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Has Donald Trump ever had a 50,000 domestic arena crowd?
Eric Trump, in an interview with Fox News Jeanine Pirro, claimed the following:
“They think they’re taking away Donald Trump’s greatest tool, which is being able to go into an arena and fill it ...
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Did the Trump administration propose new cuts to the health budget in February 2020?
As quoted in an interview:
Chomsky described the Trump administration’s approach to the problem as “surreal.”
“So in February, the pandemic is already raging. Everyone outside the United States ...
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Were Trump 2020 campaign banners made in China?
This 2018 Reuters story on reuters.com says:
The red, white and blue banners for U.S. President Donald Trump’s
second-term campaign are ready to ship, emblazoned with the words
“Keep America ...
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Did President Trump suggest the public should inject disinfectant? [closed]
A number of media outlets recently released articles loudly announcing that Donald Trump suggested use of disinfectant internally for Covid19.
For example this quote in relation to disinfectant from ...
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Was Trump told around Jan 29 of "risks of a coronavirus pandemic: [...] half a million deaths and trillions of dollars in economic losses"?
The NYT writes:
Despite Mr. Trump’s denial weeks later, he was told at the time about a Jan. 29 memo produced by his trade adviser, Peter Navarro, laying out in striking detail the potential risks ...
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Did Joe Biden write a letter of apology over Trump's COVID-19 handling?
In a recent press conference, within the context of talking about the Trump administration's response to COVID-19, Trump said:
And when you ask me that question—let me ask you this. Why did Biden ...
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Did Trump vote by mail in the last two elections?
In a recent controversy it was claimed that
“Mail ballots are a very dangerous thing for this country because they’re cheaters,” [Trump] said. “They go and collect them, they’re fraudulent in many ...
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Did Donald Trump fire the entire pandemic response team in 2018?
This tweet claims Trump "fired the entire pandemic response team in 2018":
Text: Just a reminder: it’s okay to blame the president for how bad things get with COVID-19 because he fired the ...
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Did Trump call Putin a great leader?
I came across this allegation in multiple places, including the New York Times. However, I couldn't find the quote anywhere.
Supporters of Mrs. Clinton have argued that Mr. Trump’s evident affinity ...
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Can the USA easily get thousands of doctors back very quickly? [closed]
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President Donald Trump defended his huge budget cuts to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention during a Wednesday press conference on the federal government's response to the ...
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Is Trump the "chief law-enforcement officer of the United States"?
This article from Business Insider, and many others, say that
President Donald Trump falsely designated himself the "chief law-enforcement officer of the United States" while speaking with ...
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Is this picture of Trump, Bloomberg, and Clinton playing golf real? [closed]
Picture reads "it's big club and you ain't in it", and has Rudy Giuliani, Donald Trump, Michael Bloomberg, and Clinton.
That's quite similar to this tweet of the same Image without the caption by ...
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Did Donald Trump order the killing of General Qassem Soleimani? [closed]
Throughout the media there have been articles in the past weeks that said that Trump 'ordered' the killing of General Qassem Soleimani from Iran. Can a president order such killings or he approved ...
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Has Trump, as of January 2020, used military force less than any other president since Jimmy Carter?
Last week, David Brooks, an op-ed columnist for the New York Times claimed (archive):
Love or hate him, Trump has used military force less than any other president since Jimmy Carter.
There are ...
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Did Trump tweet the most liked Persian language tweet in history?
Saeed Ghasseminejad (advisor to a foreign policy think tank) claimed yesterday:
This tweet by
@realDonaldTrump
with more than 100k likes is already the most liked Persian tweet in the history ...
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Did Saudi Arabia deposit 1 billion dollars to pay the US for troop presence?
President Trump said this to Fox News’ Laura Ingraham:
I said to Saudi Arabia - we have a very good relationship with Saudi Arabia - I said “Listen, you’re a very rich country. You want more troops?...
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Was Donald Trump's scene from Home Alone 2 removed by the CBC in 2014?
Comicbook.com recently reported that Donald Trump's cameo in Home Alone 2 had been cut from the version of the film aired on the CBC.
The CBC responded that the cuts were made back in 2014:
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Did Downer claim Israel told him to spy on Papadopoulos?
Former Trump Campaign foreign policy advisor George Papadopoulos just tweeted this:
Alexander Downer has made a bizarre, and unfounded, claim and perpetuated a conspiracy theory that the Israelis ...
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Are the Democrats handing out legitimate subpoenas to the Trump Organization? [closed]
https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/08/politics/gordon-sondland-house-impeachment/index.html
I am seeing quite a few articles about subpoenas and the Trump Organization/White House deciding to not cooperate.
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Do more Americans want the Bidens investigated than Trump impeached?
An October 7th segment of Fox News and Friends is available on YouTube
McCarthy: More people want to investigate Biden than impeach Trump
House Minority Leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy says at 3m19s:
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Is John Durham handling all referrals from the IG investigation?
Jerry Dunleavy said this on Wednesday in the Washington Examiner:
Durham’s investigation is separate from the one that was just finished by DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz. The DOJ watchdog ...
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Did DOJ officials conclude no further action was warranted on the Whistleblower complaint?
The White House just accidentally sent all House Democrats its talking points regarding President Trump’s phone call with the Ukrainian President and the related Intelligence Community whistleblower ...
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Did Google search manipulation push millions of voters towards Clinton in the 2016 US Presidential Election? [closed]
Donald Trump tweeted on August 19, 2019
Wow, Report Just Out! Google manipulated from 2.6 million to 16 million votes for Hillary Clinton in 2016 Election! This was put out by a Clinton supporter, ...
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Did Michelle Obama have a staff of 23 people, while Melania has a staff of 4?
According to this picture (shared over 100k times)
Text reads,
Obama donated none of his salary, Michelle had a staff of 23
Trump donates all of his salary, Melania has a staff of 4
I'm more ...
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Was Donald Trump at ground zero helping out on 9-11?
Donald Trump claims he was at ground zero on 9-11 helping out. Was he?
I was down there also, but I'm not considering myself a first responder," Trump said. "But I was down there. I spent a lot of ...
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Is Trump personally blocking people on Twitter?
To quote John Gruber's commentary, related to the recent appeals court ruling whereby Trump cannot block people on Twitter:
With the absurd number of replies he gets with each tweet — thousands, if ...
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Were Oscar and Valeria Martinez denied the ability to claim asylum at a port of entry?
Democratic Presidential Candidate and former Housing Secretary Julian Castro said this in last night’s debate:
If I were president today, I would sign an executive order that would get rid of Trump’...
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Were Papadopoulos, Manafort, and Flynn subjects of FISA applications?
Democratic Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee said this in December, in a closed-door hearing of the House Judiciary Committee (on pages 66-67 of this transcript, released a few days ago):
I want to ...
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Could Michael Cohen reduce his sentence by cooperating with, or lying to, Congress?
This Trump tweet said
Michael Cohen was one of many lawyers who represented me (unfortunately). He had other clients also. He was just disbarred by the State Supreme Court for lying & fraud. He ...
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Did the Trump admin. hire an Israeli private security firm to spy on Obama aides?
According to Ynetnews.com:
Black Cube, notorious for its work for disgraced Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein, reportedly hired by Trump administration officials to spy on 2 Obama aides involved ...
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