Fact check: Trump defense’s closing argument riddled with lies and distortions
The final arguments in the impeachment trial against Donald Trump included numerous falsehoods.
By Associated Press - January 29, 2020The final arguments in the impeachment trial against Donald Trump included numerous falsehoods.
By Associated Press - January 29, 2020The FBI arrested members of a white supremacist group last week and charged them with transporting a firearm and ammunition with intent to commit a felony.
By Associated Press - January 22, 2020Yet another politically motivated investigation into Hillary Clinton comes up blank.
By Emily Singer - January 10, 2020The Trump campaign said it was ‘censorship’ to not air a congressional hearing it hoped would make the news.
By Emily Singer - December 11, 2019Michael Horowitz testified on Wednesday that Obama neither spied on nor ordered an investigation into Trump or his 2016 campaign.
By Emily Singer - December 11, 2019The inspector general’s report documented numerous people at the FBI who were biased against Hillary Clinton.
By Josh Israel - December 11, 2019The attorney general lied about the findings of an inspector general report that determined the Russia investigation was legitimate.
By Emily Singer - December 10, 2019The report blows up Trump’s claim that former special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation was unfair.
By Associated Press - December 09, 2019The public will be kept in the dark when it comes to foreign interference.
By Associated Press - October 21, 2019The inspector general determined that former FBI Director James Comey broke the rules when he shared his memos about Trump pressuring him and demanding loyalty.
By Associated Press - August 29, 2019Republican Rep. Paul Gosar is a conspiracy theorist who pals around with bigots and hate groups.
By Oliver Willis - August 12, 2019The FBI expects the dangerous conspiracy theories to get worse heading into the 2020 election.
By Oliver Willis - August 01, 2019The Republican congressman has a whole new way of attacking the FBI.
By Oliver Willis - July 17, 2019Trump won’t say if he has confidence in Christopher Wray, his hand-picked FBI director.
By Dan Desai Martin - June 25, 2019Trump’s letting his attorney general declassify whatever he wants to further Trump’s conspiracy theories — and our closest allies don’t like it one bit.
By Dan Desai Martin - May 30, 2019Trump issued an order that lets his attorney general declassify anything he wants about the Russia investigation. It’s a move that’s highly dangerous to members of the intelligence community — and everyone else.
By Lisa Needham - May 24, 2019Under oath to Congress, FBI Director Christopher Wray contradicts the wild conspiracy theories pushed by Trump’s attorney general, William Barr.
By Dan Desai Martin - May 07, 2019The administration is trying to equate violent white supremacists, a real and growing threat, with the made-up category of ‘black identity extremists.’
By Oliver Willis - May 03, 2019Trump invents an imaginary coup and then brags that he stopped it.
By Emily Crockett - April 26, 2019Yet another Trump supporter has been arrested, this time for threatening to kill one of Trump’s favorite Democrats to attack.
By Emily Singer - April 08, 2019Trump made America vulnerable by using Mar-a-Lago, now the FBI is investigating a possible espionage operation.
By Oliver Willis - April 03, 2019The Republican senator is obsessed with Hillary Clinton, and he wants everyone else to be obsessed too.
By Kaili Joy Gray - April 01, 2019Former acting FBI director Andrew McCabe said GOP leaders in Congress didn’t object when the FBI opened an investigation into Trump because he might be ‘a threat’ to national security.
By Dan Desai Martin - February 19, 2019Former Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe reveals concern that Trump was compromised by Russia and would interfere in investigations.
By Oliver Willis - February 14, 2019Field agents don’t have the funding they need to investigate some of the worst crimes.
By Oliver Willis - January 23, 2019Pro-Trump propagandists are calling to disband the FBI for investigating Trump’s ties to Russia.
By Caroline Orr - January 16, 2019Trump’s obsession with a border wall is getting truly dangerous.
By Dan Desai Martin - January 10, 2019Sarah Sanders has been hiding from the press for nearly a month. After emerging she attacked the FBI to defend Trump’s criminality.
By Oliver Willis - December 18, 2018The extremist group has close ties to the Trump White House, the Republican Party, and high-profile right-wing media figures.
By Caroline Orr - November 20, 2018Instead of taking down Mueller, the MAGA trolls behind the disinformation operation are now staring down their own FBI investigation.
By Caroline Orr - October 31, 2018