• Fox News Host Fact-Checks Donald Trump After Interview

    Fox News host Howard Kurtz fact-checked former President Donald Trump on Sunday following an interview in which he shared an oft-repeated false claim about abortion.The exchange began during an interview Kurtz conducted with Trump, who is now the presumptive 2024 GOP presidential nominee, in which the host asked if he would support a nationwide abortion ban after 16 weeks of pregnancy, a proposal he has reportedly supported in private, but declined to commit to one way or the other in public.In...

  • Fox News Fact-Checks Donald Trump Bond Claim: 'Actually Not True'

    Fox News host Eric Shawn fact-checked former President Donald Trump's claim that the $454 million bond he has to pay by Monday is "unprecedented," saying it is "actually not true."In February, Judge Arthur Engoron ordered Trump to pay $355 million, plus interest, and barred him from doing business in New York for three years after finding him liable for financial fraud in September 2023 in a lawsuit brought on by New York Attorney General Letitia James' office. Trump, the presumed GOP...

  • Trump's claim about hush money judge's daughter debunked in devastating fact-check

    Former President Donald Trump attacked Judge Juan Merchan, the jurist overseeing his Manhattan hush money trial, by claiming that his daughter posted a picture of him behind bars on social media.The problem, according to The Spectator's Jacqueline Sweet, is that that almost certainly didn't happen."The account’s veracity is dubious at best, with a creation date of April 2023. Analysis of the Twitter ID associated with the account shows that Judge Juan Merchan’s daughter Loren’s known Twitter...

  • 'This is embarrassing': Jeanine Pirro ruthlessly fact-checked over Trump legal analysis

    Jeanine Pirro, the Fox News pundit who is also a former judge, raised eyebrows Monday when she made a strange legal comparison between former President Donald Trump and two notorious convicted fraudsters. Pirro complained that Trump had gotten an unfair deal in his New York City civil fraud trial — in which he was found liable for $464 million, but will be allowed to pay a $175 million bond as he pursues an appeal — in comparison to Bernie Madoff, the perpetrator of the world's largest Ponzi...

  • Fact check: Analyzing the life expectancies of Biden and Trump, survival odds through 2029

    Recent polls suggest a significant number of Americans doubt President Biden, 81, could handle another presidential term due to his age. On the other hand, fewer respondents express similar concerns about former President Donald Trump, but he’s only a few years younger at 77.

  • 'Newsflash': CNN fact checks Trump on claim he has 'never mocked Joe Biden's stutter'

    Donald Trump may enjoy jabbing 81-year-old Joe Biden for his frail state, but he appears to have forgotten the times that he's targeted his successor's stutter. A Washington Post story suggested former President Donald Trump's mockery of Biden might backfire as the duo close in on a potential rematch to become the 47th president. The story claims that in recent weeks Trump, 77, has been "falsely claiming that the president is stuttering during his speeches, and he has parodied the...

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    Fact check: Trump tells ‘mind-bogglingly nonsensical’ story about the New York Stock Exchange

    Former President Donald Trump told a story on Monday in which he claimed that he decided not to list the Trump Media & Technology Group on the New York Stock Exchange, even though the exchange “badly” wanted the company, because businesspeople are “treated too badly in New York” and “don’t want to be attacked by a thug like this horrible attorney general that we have in New York.” There is one problem. The story does not make any sense. Facts First: The stock exchange on which the Trump Media &...

  • Republican Sen. Todd Young will NOT vote for Donald Trump and is sick and 'tired' of having his vote 'taken for granted'

    Indiana GOP senator said party needs someone that 'principled conservatives can actually believe in'. Young is one of the rare Republican lawmakers not rallying behind Trump after he received the necessary delegates to clinch the party nomination. Fellow Hoosier Mike Pence also said he would not vote for Trump

  • Donald Trump's 'Worst Nightmare' Just Came True: Mary Trump

    Donald Trump may be seeing his "worst nightmare" come true after the date was confirmed for his falsifying business records trial in New York, according to his niece.Mary Trump, author, podcast host and frequent critic of her uncle, was reacting to Judge Juan Merchan setting an April 15 date for the trial where the former president has pleaded not guilty to 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in relation to so-called "hush money" he arranged his former lawyer Michael Cohen to pay...

  • Mary Trump Mocks Donald Trump Over Bible Push: 'Never Prayed in His Life'

    Mary Trump, the estranged niece of Donald Trump, mocked her uncle's new venture of helping peddle a version of the Bible, saying on Tuesday, "He's never prayed in his life."The former president shared a video message for Holy Week on Tuesday to his Truth Social account, announcing that he was endorsing a "God Bless the USA Bible," which costs $59.99.The Bible is named after the Lee Greenwood song that is often played at Trump's campaign events, and according to the website selling the product,...

  • Trump Tower, Mar-a-Lago among Donald Trump properties at risk in fraud case

    March 25 (UPI) — New York Attorney General Letitia James may soon seize the properties of Donald Trump if he does not pay a $454 judgment against him for civil fraud Monday. The former president’s prized Trump Tower, the Trump Building — both in New York — and more than a dozen golf and social clubs, including the Mar-a-Lago resort […] The post Trump Tower, Mar-a-Lago among Donald Trump properties at risk in fraud case first appeared on Gephardt Daily.

  • Donald Trump to make $3.4bn if shareholders back plan to float Trump Media

    Ex-US president planning to list Trump Media & Technology Group if merger with special purpose acquisition company goes aheadHow does Trump stand to make $3bn from Truth Social being listed on the market?Donald Trump’s wealth is set to increase by about $3.4bn (£2.7bn) if a shareholder vote on Friday paves the way for the float of his Trump Media business.The former US president is preparing to list Trump Media & Technology Group, which operates the Truth Social tech platform, via a merger with...