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Claims made about Donald Trump. Do not use this tag for questions about claims made by Trump.

Donald Trump (born June 14, 1946) is an American businessman, politician, television personality, author, and president-elect of the United States for the Republican Party in the 2016 election. He is scheduled to take office on January 20, 2017. At age 70, he will become the oldest President to assume office in U.S. history, and the wealthiest.

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Did Bob Corker ask Trump for his endorsement?

President Trump just tweeted this (see here and here): Senator Bob Corker just stated that, “I’m so priveledged to serve in the Senate for twelve years, and that’s what I told the people of our state that’s what I’d do, serve for two terms.” But…
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Did Trump muse on the different names for the UK?

According to an article in The Guardian, the occasion of his visit to the United Kingdom elicited a philosophical thought about its many possible names. “We would make a great deal with the United Kingdom because they have product that we like,”…
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Is the NSA withholding information from Trump?

There has been a few (1, 2, 3) articles posted lately alleging that the NSA is withholding intelligence from the President. I find this very difficult to believe, and I haven't found any articles with an actual source, other than "a top official". I…
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Are the papers shown by Trump in the 1/11 press conference a genuine sample?

In Donald Trump's press conference on 2016-01-11, he and his lawyer pointed to thousands of sheets of paper in manila folders and identified them as only a portion of the documents he is signing to remove himself an an officer of the Trump…
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Did Palmer Luckey, founder of Oculus, back pro-Trump group?

A lot of news media are writing about Palmer Luckey, founder of Oculus, to have backed Nimble America, a pro-Trump group. He would have acknowledged this on Reddit under a pseudonym rather than his normal account and would've confirmed this to 'The…
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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 investigated allegations of abuses of the Foreign…
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Are these figures about sexual harassment by Trump, O'Reilly, Ailes and Obama correct?

@LegitMillennial claims in a tweet that went viral: I found a graphic I think Fox News might've missed. The image reads: Number of times each have been accused of sexual assault/harassment [Picture of Donald Trump] 14 [Picture of Bill O'Reilly]…
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Did Donald Trump say this about Republicans?

Did Donald Trump really make this claim?
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Can Trump actually reach the steering wheel in the Beast?

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 front of the vehicle to grab at the steering wheel,"…
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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 like “You don’t even need me, you can just do…
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Did Donald Trump order the killing of General Qassem Soleimani?

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 what the generals of the US Army wanted to do…
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Is this graphic depicting Trump and Hitler accurate?

This graphic has been spreading around social media the last few weeks; its sentiment echoed in USA Today among other places. Snopes has weighed in, but I find the article unsatisfying. It calls the claim a "Mixture" and dings it for neither quote…
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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 second term. Can state legislature unilaterally toss…
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Did Trump replace Joint Chiefs of Staff & Director of Natl. Intelligence with Steve Bannon?

This showed up in my Facebook feed: Yesterday, while we were focused on the non-Trump-business-supporting Muslim ban, Trump removed the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Director of National Intelligence from the National Security …
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Did a recent Senate report vindicate the Mueller investigation?

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 much of the torrent of investigative verbiage in…
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