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Trump says he has ‘made peace’ while threatening Iran and inviting Putin

Verdicts: 2 True, 2 Unproven, 1 Misleading, 1 Contested

In one week Trump claimed to have made peace, threatened to annihilate Iran, invited an ICC-indicted Putin to the G20 and kept sanctioning the court. What holds up, and what does not.

Trump’s 52,000 Iran Protester-Death Claim, Fact-Checked

Verdicts: 1 Mostly True, 2 Misleading

Trump’s 52,000 protester-death figure exceeds every independent estimate 7-fold; his Netanyahu pledge is legally grounded; and the Iran war-directive claim to military leadership is mostly true.

Analysis

The Court That Can’t: 25 Years of ICC Failure

The ICC has convicted only Africans, cannot arrest anyone powerful states protect, and is now led by a suspended prosecutor.

Analysis

Bombing the Wells: Is the US Committing War Crimes in Iran?

US strikes have destroyed Iranian drinking water infrastructure; international law prohibits this unambiguously — but accountability is structurally impossible.

Analysis

$230M in Pro-Israel Money Has Flowed to Trump Since 2020

The US has vetoed ceasefire resolutions, sanctioned the ICC, and shipped $21.7B in weapons as Gaza’s death toll passed 72,000, all while that money kept moving.

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