Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg announced that his office “has decided to drop all charges against Donald Trump.”
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The Dispatch→ Will Donald Trump’s Attacks Sink Ron DeSantis?
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks to Iowa voters on March 10, 2023. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)Plus: Two Democratic visions for Chicago’s future meet in next week’s mayoral runoff. Continue reading Will Donald Trump’s Attacks Sink Ron De
The Dispatch→ Our Best Stuff on Donald Trump, Joe Exotic, and the Xi-Putin Summit
Former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to reporters on March 4, 2023, in National Harbor, Maryland. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)Plus: Deepfakes are here and it’s going to get crazy.Continue reading Our Best Stuff on Donald Trump, Joe E
Truth or Fiction?→ Donald Trump Holds Rally in Waco, 30 Years After Waco Siege
On March 24 2023, an Imgur account shared a tweet about former United States President Donald Trump staging a rally in Waco, Texas, from his niece Mary Trump: Donald has a rally in Waco this Saturday [March 25 2023]. It’s a ploy to remind his cu
The Dispatch→ Fact Check: Photos of Donald Trump Being Arrested Are Fake
Images are circulating online that purport to show the arrest of former President Donald Trump by New York police officers. The images are not authentic. They were produced using Midjourney, an artificial text-to-image generator that has the capacity
PolitiFact→ Donald Trump – Donald Trump exaggerates Manhattan crime levels in attacks on DA in Stormy Daniels case
Violent crime in Manhattan is "now at a record level."
The Dispatch→ Fact Check: Did Donald Trump and the January 6 Prison Choir Top the Billboard Hot 100?
Former President Donald Trump. (Phelan M. Ebenhack for The Washington Post via Getty Images) A March 21 article by The Gateway Pundit claimed that the song “Justice For All,” which features the January 6 Prison Choir and former President Donald Tru
The Dispatch→ Fact Check: What Did Ron DeSantis Say About Donald Trump’s Potential Extradition?
Ron DeSantis. (Photo by Kyle Mazza/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images) Contradictory claims are circulating online regarding Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ stated position on the potential indictment, arrest, and extradition of former President Donald Trump, a
The Dispatch→ The (Possible) Charges Against Donald Trump, Explained
Former President Donald Trump speaks with reporters in March 2023. (Photo by Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images)The Manhattan district attorney’s case likely would rely on tenuous legal reasoning. Continue reading The (Possible) Char
PolitiFact→ Viral image – Former President Donald Trump’s Truth Social posts about his possible arrest don’t include this one
Former President Donald Trump said “any indictment of me is an indictment of you.”
PolitiFact→ How Bill Clinton’s settlement with Paula Jones differs from Donald Trump’s Stormy Daniels payment
Some are comparing Bill Clinton’s payment to Paula Jones with Trump’s payoff to Stormy Daniels, but there are key differences. Clinton paid Jones to settle a public lawsuit after being elected. Trump secretly paid Daniels before the 2016 election.
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – Donald Trump is a former U.S. president, not the current commander in chief
Former President Donald Trump is the “current sitting” commander in chief.
PolitiFact→ Timeline: What Donald Trump has said about Stormy Daniels and $130,000 payment
Trump has repeatedly denied an affair with Stormy Daniels and attacked his former lawyer Michael Cohen. Trump has also attacked Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg. We trace his explanations in a timeline.
PolitiFact→ Viral image – Fake statement attributed to Donald Trump about Kevin McCarthy emerges amid flurry of arrest posts
Former President Donald Trump issued a statement threatening to leak “interesting videos” of House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.
The Dispatch→ Fact Check: Did Donald Trump Claim That He Will Be Arrested?
Donald Trump. (Photo by Brandon Bell/Getty Images.) Claims are circulating online that former President Donald Trump has predicted his own arrest. These claims are true; Trump has indeed predicted via social media posts published on March 18 that he wo
PolitiFact→ Viral image – Former President Donald Trump didn’t tweet this QAnon phrase
Former President Donald Trump tweeted, “The storm is upon us.”
PolitiFact→ Tweets – These are not real photos of a Donald Trump arrest
Photo shows former President Donald Trump detained by police.
PolitiFact→ Tweets – Did Kari Lake tweet that Donald Trump was ‘fat’ in 2016? Not that evidence shows
Kari Lake called Trump the “fattest president since Taft” in a 2016 tweet.
PolitiFact→ Donald Trump – In swipe at Fox News, Trump misleads about Los Angeles County election
The 2020 election could not have been fair because “Los Angeles County agreed, during litigation, that there were 1.2 million ineligible voters after the election.”
Truth or Fiction?→ How the Court of Public Opinion Shifted on the Infamous McDonald’s Coffee Lawsuit
Derided for years as a comedic (at best) example of a frivolous lawsuit, the story of Stella Liebeck’s legal battle with the McDonald’s fast food chain has been the subject of a critical reappraisal. The 1994 case, Liebeck v. McDonalds, ste
PolitiFact→ Donald Trump – Donald Trump issued trans military ban, but his administration rejected calling it that
“We banned transgender” people from serving in the military.
PolitiFact→ Fact-checking Donald Trump’s 2023 CPAC speech about elections, immigration, economy
Donald Trump’s 2023 CPAC speech included false or misleading claims about elections, immigration and the economy. We fact-checked him.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: McDonald’s Was NOT Caught Using Human Meat In Its ‘Oklahoma City Meat Factory’
Was human meat discovered in a McDonald's meat factory in Oklahoma City? No, that's not true: The video in this post was taken from a now-defunct satirical website and has been around since at least 2014. The claim resurfaced in a post on
PolitiFact→ Ask PolitiFact: How does Joe Biden’s proposed asylum rule differ from Donald Trump’s ‘transit ban’?
President Joe Biden’s administration proposed a new rule limiting immigrants ability to apply for asylum. The rule has been compared with Trump-era asylum policies. Experts say Biden’s policy is similar but less restrictive.
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – Donald Trump isn’t commander in chief anymore; he’s not preparing U.S. Marines to stop ‘coup’
“BREAKING Trump preps Marines to stop presidential coup.”
The Dispatch→ Fact Check: Did Donald Trump Send 13-Year-Old Drinking Water to East Palestine?
Former President Donald Trump stands next to a pallet of water before delivering remarks at the East Palestine Fire Department station on February 22, 2023 in East Palestine, Ohio. (Photo by Michael Swensen/Getty Images) Claims are circulating online t
PolitiFact→ Nikki Haley – Nikki Haley flip-flops on presidential plans and will challenge Donald Trump after all
On running against Donald Trump for president.
PolitiFact→ Viral image – Photo of Donald Trump, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador kissing is altered
Photo shows former President Donald Trump and Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador kissing.
Truth or Fiction?→ Donald Trump and Bob Woodward ‘Depends’ Tweet
On January 31 2023, a screenshot purportedly of a tweet by journalist Bob Woodward disclosing information about former United States President Donald Trump’s “Depends” [sic] appeared on Imgur: At the top of the image, the name “
PolitiFact→ Viral image – Old photo of former President Donald Trump used to hawk diet pills
This photo shows former President Donald Trump “last week.”
The Dispatch→ Mike Pompeo’s Preemptive Strike on Donald Trump
Former U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo waves as he arrives to speak during a Republican Jewish Coalition Annual Leadership Meeting in Las Vegas, Nevada, on November 18, 2022. (Photo by Wade Vandervort / AFP) (Photo by WADE VANDERVORT/AFP via Getty
PolitiFact→ Timeline: Classified documents seized at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home
The FBI in August seized documents at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida. Trump sued to challenge the seizure, but later lost. The Justice Department’s investigation into Trump’s possession of the classified documents continues.
PolitiFact→ Joe Biden – Joe Biden blames Donald Trump for one quarter of today’s debt, ignores context
“One quarter” of today’s $31.4 trillion federal debt “was accumulated in the four years of my predecessor,” Donald Trump.
PolitiFact→ Donald Trump – Trump is wrong; Biden did have the right to declassify records as VP
Joe Biden as vice president didn't "have the right to declassify" documents.
PolitiFact→ Viral image – No, JFK Jr. didn’t attend Donald Trump’s inauguration
Video shows John F. Kennedy Jr. at Donald Trump’s presidential inauguration.
The Dispatch→ Fact Check: Did Donald Trump Ever Drop His Support of Kevin McCarthy’s Speakership Bid?
U.S. House Minority Leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) speaks during his weekly news conference on Capitol Hill (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images) A fabricated image purporting to show a statement from former President Donald Trump began circulating onli
PolitiFact→ Donald Trump – Trump touts one year’s decline in drug overdoses, ignoring three years of increases
As president, Donald Trump “marshaled the full power of government to stop deadly drugs, opioids, and fentanyl from coming into our country. As a result, drug overdose deaths declined nationwide for the first time in nearly 30 years."
PolitiFact→ Who is Byron Donalds, the Florida politico in the House speaker scramble?
U.S. Rep.-elect Byron Donalds, R-Fla., found himself at the center of a political firestorm as the U.S. House of Representatives made its way through a historic sixth vote for speaker of the chamber.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Trump Did NOT Endorse Rep. Byron Donalds For House Speaker
Did former President Donald Trump endorse Florida Rep. Byron Donalds for House speaker? No, that's not true: Trump, himself, says the claim is false. He described the statement making the claim as a forgery and a fake. Trump has publicly
The Dispatch→ The Real Donald Trump
Former President Donald Trump (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)The 45th president has made himself the saddest figure in politics. The post The Real Donald Trump appeared first on The Dispatch.