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Trump Calls for Obama's Arrest: A Fact-Check of Every Claim

Trump posted 55 times in three hours calling for Obama's arrest on treason charges — every specific claim he made has been investigated and debunked, most of them by Trump's own appointees.

3 True1 Unproven

Fact-Check: ICE Detention Conditions & the Delaney Hall Hunger Strike

Detainee allegations at Newark’s Delaney Hall are unverified on-site but consistent with a documented pattern of medical neglect and deaths across ICE facilities nationwide.

2 True1 Mixed1 Unproven

The Thiel Signal: Fact-Checking the Argentina Relocation

Of 13 claims about Thiel's Argentina move, 10 are fully confirmed, 2 are editorialized, and 1 is premature — but the viral narrative omits the most concrete driver: California's billionaire tax.

1 True1 Mixed1 Unproven

The Patel "Slush Fund" Claim: What's Proven, What Isn't

Rep. Raskin's letter alleging FBI chief Kash Patel paid $1M+ in bonuses to a loyalist 'payback squad' is real, but the bonus specifics are unproven; the firing purges are the best-documented part.

4 True2 Mostly True1 Mixed1 Unproven

The Mashed Potato Incident: Fact-Checking Trump's "Origin Story"

Genuine family lore, and most corroborating quotes hold up, but the essay mislocates one story, cites two untraceable quotes, and oversells one childhood humiliation as the cause of the whole man.

2 True1 Mostly True1 Unproven1 Misleading1 Contested2 False

Fact-Check: Trump's Truth Social Attack on Maggie Haberman's "Regime Change"

Trump calls the co-authored Regime Change book 'largely fiction' — but his own White House confirmed its accuracy. His electoral stats are mostly correct; his tape denial is unproven; his Iran…

2 True1 Mostly True2 Unproven

Trump Family Foreign Deals: Abuse of Office, Hunter Biden Redux, or Illegal?

The Trump Org did zero foreign deals in term one and eight in term two, plus crypto billions from foreign-linked entities. We check the facts and answer three questions: abuse, hypocrisy, legality.

2 True1 Mostly True1 Mixed1 Unproven

Disaster Aid by Party & the 'Stolen' 250th: Two Threads, Checked

Trump withheld FEMA aid from blue states (23% vs 89%) and tied it to his candidates; Democrats allege his fundraisers diverted America250 donations to Freedom 250. Proven, alleged, illegal, sorted.

1 True1 Mixed1 Unproven2 Misleading1 False

Trump's 'National Scallops Day': What the Post Gets Right, Leaves Out, and Gets Wrong

The NOAA action opening the Northern Edge of Georges Bank is real, but the post misattributes a 32-year-old Clinton-era closure to Obama and Biden, falsely credits Biden as co-creator of the…

1 True3 Mixed1 Unproven5 Misleading

Trump's Election-Integrity Disclosure: What the Declassified Documents Actually Say

The July 16 address released genuine intelligence records. On most claims, the documents' own caveats, confidence levels and context cut against the framing the speech drew from them.

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