In the span of three days, President Donald Trump said he didn’t see why Russia would interfere with the U.S. 2016 elections, then he said he didn’t see why it wouldn’t.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
Russian President Vladimir Putin mocked Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s charges of Russian election interference, saying on Fox News that Mueller was training his investigative powers on a small restaurant. "First of all, special counsel (Robert) Mueller has accused a certain private company in Russia that is not even a very big enterprise.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
The personal relationship between Donald Trump and Russia’s Vladimir Putin was the subject of speculation even before Trump became president, partly because Trump changed his tune about it. Trump touted his ties to Putin on four occasions between 2013 and 2015, once going so far as to say, "I got to know him very well." But during the 2016 presidential campaign, Trump said, "I have no relationship with him" and "I never met Putin – I don't know who Putin is." This turnabout earned Trump a Full Flop.
More | Talk | Read It Later | SharePresident Donald Trump fielded questions about the United States’ strained relationship with NATO allies at the conclusion of the NATO summit in Brussels. We fact-checked several of the president’s more memorable claims from the press conference below.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
With tensions rising with global trading partners, trade was the leading topic that motivated PolitiFact readers to write to us in recent weeks. Here is a sampling of recent emails about trade, as well as other issues.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
Calls to "abolish ICE" have grown louder as the Trump administration deals with fall-out from its "zero-tolerance" immigration policy, which led to the separation of more than 2,000 children from their parents.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said that senators will confirm a successor for Justice Anthony Kennedy this fall, prompting Democrats to accuse him of being a hypocrite on election-year nominees.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
Mary Jennings Hegar, a veteran, mom and Democratic candidate for the Congress in a deep red Texas district, made a splash when her campaign ad went viral. Hegar is challenging 15-year Republican incumbent John Carter.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
After falsely claiming that immigrant families were being separated at the border because of Democrats and arguing that he was unable to do anything about it, President Donald Trump signed an executive order to keep children and parents together in detention.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
Among the outcomes of President Donald Trump’s summit with Kim Jong Un was a video of cinematic proportions. Trump showed a four-minute video to journalists in the Singapore press conference, who initially mistook it as North Korean propaganda.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
The Donald Trump administration billed its "zero-tolerance" immigration policy as an escalated effort needed to address a "crisis" at the border, even though apprehensions were at their lowest point in decades.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
President Donald Trump said he misspoke during his press conference with Russian President Vladimir Putin. At a White House meeting about tax policy, Trump took a moment to set the record straight.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
The Trump administration’s process for reuniting immigrant families separated at the border hasn’t been easy. Pressured by a court order, officials have been working overtime to reconnect parents and children separated this summer as a result of the administration’s "zero-tolerance" policy.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
Scott Pruitt’s resignation marks the latest in a series of speedy departures from President Donald Trump’s White House. The Environmental Protection Agency administrator became known for heavy deregulation and multiple ethical scandals, including several spending abuses.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
As President Donald Trump moves closer to nominating a Supreme Court justice, Democrats are scrambling for a strategy to stop a nominee that would tilt the court in a more conservative direction and reverse liberal gains.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
Politics in 2018 can seem so relentlessly negative, it’s tempting to seek escape in reading stories of the Founding Fathers. Take George Washington. Far from the staid-looking fellow on the $1 bill, Washington was a tall and athletic man, a skilled soldier, an avid horseman and a graceful dancer.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
President Donald Trump headed back to the campaign trail to promote the candidacy of Rep. Kevin Cramer, the Republican challenger to North Dakota Democratic Sen. Heidi Heitkamp. In his rally on June 27 in Fargo, N.D., Trump made a number of statements that were inaccurate or misleading.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
President Donald Trump has denounced the immigration court system and said immigrants arriving illegally should be deported without a court’s review. "We have the worst immigration laws in the history of the world, OK?More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
In two unusual, free-form interviews in the space of one hour, President Donald Trump jumped from calling fired FBI director James Comey a "criminal" after a new report on the Clinton email investigation to saying "we get everything" from the joint statement signed with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
Fresh back from his meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, President Donald Trump tweeted to Americans that they could rest easy. "Everybody can now feel much safer than the day I took office," said Trump.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
Fox News host Chris Wallace pressed Russian President Vladimir Putin on the subjects President Donald Trump failed to bring up in an interview following the press conference. Among those topics were the deaths, disappearances and attacks on multiple Putin critics under mysterious circumstances.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
President Donald Trump and President Vladimir Putin made inaccurate statements to the media following their one-on-one talks in Helsinki about election meddling, global terrorism and nuclear nonproliferation. Here’s a rundown of our fact-checks.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareU.S. law enforcement agencies and Congress are investigating links between Donald Trump’s presidential campaign and Russia, as part of a broader probe into Moscow’s meddling in the 2016 election. To date, Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation has swept up four members of Trump’s campaign, including three who have agreed to work with Mueller’s team as part of a plea deal.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
This story will be updated. President Donald Trump has appointed Judge Brett Kavanaugh to fill the Supreme Court seat that will be vacated by Justice Anthony Kennedy, who announced his retirement on June 27.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
A viral image on social media -- one that’s critical of illegal immigration -- has been circulating for years. The list of claims first circulated in the form of a chain email in 2006, according to Snopes.com.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
Women and children from El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras account for the biggest shift in the people showing up at America’s southwest border. We recently looked at the data that helps tease out whether they are more like refugees seeking safe haven or traditional immigrants seeking economic opportunity.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
Separating children from their parents at the southwest border ignited a broad emotional outcry not often seen in the country’s long-running immigration debate. After weeks of defending the policy both as a deterrent and necessary to make the border legally meaningful, President Donald Trump and his administration reversed course.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareU.S. Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., a vocal critic of President Donald Trump, has drawn criticism from both the left and the right for her call to confront members of Trump’s administration.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
Viral photographs show first lady Melania Trump wearing a green khaki jacket that reads, in graffiti-style capital letters, "I really don’t care. Do u?" The first lady wore the jacket during a trip to a Texas facility holding children separated from their parents after they were apprehended attempting to cross the southern U.S.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
While President Donald Trump and North Korea’s Kim Jong Un prepared for a first-of-its-kind summit to discuss nuclear weapons, one man with connections to both leaders issued a tearful, televised plea for a positive outcome.
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