John Eligon, Johannesburg bureau chief, recounts what he witnessed in the Oval Office when President Trump confronted the visiting President Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa […]
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Courts Defer to Executive Branch Factual Claims. Trump Complicates That.
The government typically has an advantage when defending its policies against legal challenges. Courts generally defer to the executive branch’s factual declarations and formal representations […]
Fact-Checking Trump’s Justice Dept. Speech on Crime, Immigration and His Cases
President Trump repeated a number of well-trodden falsehoods on Friday in a grievance-fueled speech at the Justice Department, veering from prepared remarks to single out […]
‘You Can’t Pin Him Down’: Trump’s Contradictions Are His Ultimate Cover
What does President Trump really believe? Does he want to run for a third term, or is that just a joke? Does he intend to […]
AI Video of Trump and Musk Appears on TVs at HUD Building
Monitors at the Washington, D.C., headquarters of the Department of Housing and Urban Development on Monday briefly displayed a fake video depicting President Trump sucking […]
Trump Uses Lies to Lay the Groundwork for Radical Change
The United States sent $50 million in condoms to Hamas. Diversity programs caused a plane crash. China controls the Panama Canal. Ukraine started the war […]
Man Convicted in Pizzagate Shooting Is Killed in Confrontation With Police
A man in North Carolina who fired a rifle inside a Washington restaurant in 2016 because he wrongly believed an internet conspiracy known as Pizzagate […]