Apr 12 Did Trump engage in insider trading? Experts say he’s unlikely to have legal troubles By Louis Jacobson, PolitiFact A social media post on April 9, followed by a market-moving tariff announcement, led President Donald Trump’s critics to speculate that he might have profited from inside information. Legal and financial experts downplayed the idea that Trump’s message ran afoul… Continue reading
Apr 10 Trump claims countries are ‘cheating’ the U.S. on trade. What does that mean? By Louis Jacobson, PolitiFact While cheating on trade does happen — genuine accusations of it can be adjudicated at the World Trade Organization — the White House’s formula for calculating the tariff rates leaned on how much of a trade imbalance a country has… Continue reading
Apr 10 Fact-checking Trump’s previous claim he wasn’t looking at pausing tariffs By Amy Sherman, PolitiFact For two days, Trump and the White House denied that he was considering changing his tariff plan, before doing just that on April 9. Continue reading
Apr 06 Fact-checking misleading claims by Trump and his allies about Judge James Boasberg By Amy Sherman, PolitiFact Displeased with the check on Trump’s power, the president and his allies have lashed out at federal judges — and against one judge in particular: James Boasberg, chief judge of the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C. Continue reading
Mar 30 Fact check: Can you ‘erase’ your student debt because DOGE accessed federal loan databases? By Claire Cranford, PolitiFact Don’t trust videos saying you can erase your student loans by filing a student privacy law complaint. Continue reading
Mar 18 Fact-checking Trump’s claim that Biden pardons are ‘void’ because he used an autopen By Louis Jacobson, Amy Sherman, PolitiFact Legal scholars say that the Constitution doesn’t require a pardon’s direct human signing, and subsequent judicial decisions and legal memoranda support an autopen’s use for similar purposes. Continue reading
Mar 05 Fact-checking Trump’s 2025 address to Congress By PolitiFact staff President Donald Trump recapped six weeks of aggressive efforts to cut the federal workforce, reorganize the economy and reorient foreign policy in his first address to a joint session of Congress. Continue reading
Mar 02 Fact-checking Trump and Vance’s attacks on Ukrainian President Zelenskyy By Jeff Cercone, Amy Sherman, Sara Swann, PolitiFact During Friday's televised Oval Office fight, Trump and Vance made several misleading claims about Zelenskyy and Ukraine. Here are the facts about three of them. Continue reading
Feb 22 Fact-checking the Trump White House’s claims about illegal immigration dropping sharply By Maria Ramirez Uribe, PolitiFact Illegal immigration at the U.S. southern border has dropped since Trump entered the White House. But the White House’s data use is misleading. … Continue reading
Feb 01 Did Trump’s firing of aviation officials contribute to the D.C. crash? Experts say it’s unlikely By Louis Jacobson, Loreben Tuquero, PolitiFact Aviation experts said there was little that Trump did that could have precipitated the crash between a commercial jet and a military helicopter. There was simply too little time — less than 10 days after Trump was sworn in —… Continue reading