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Topic: Russia

Did a Putin-Connected Russian Official Secretly Pay for Trump Jr.’s Wedding?

Verdicts: 2 Mostly True

ProPublica found a Kremlin-decorated IBA president paid six figures for Trump Jr.’s Bahamas wedding. Both claims are Mostly True, with key caveats on ‘bankrolled’ and ‘oligarch.’

Fact-Check: Trump’s Truth Social Attack on Maggie Haberman’s “Regime Change”

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

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…

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

Verdicts: 1 Unproven, 4 False

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.

Analysis

Hungary’s Reckoning: Orban’s Corruption, Magyar’s Revolution, and the Geopolitics of a NATO Ally Between Washington and Moscow

After 16 years of Orban’s rule, Hungary’s new PM Peter Magyar is exposing systematic corruption while navigating the country’s Cold War-rooted position between the US, Russia, and the EU.

Analysis

Russian Interference, the Comey Firing, and the Long Campaign to Make It All Disappear

Russia ran a sweeping operation to elect Trump in 2016, every major investigation confirmed it, Trump fired the FBI director investigating it, pardoned those convicted by it, and is now prosecuting…

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