| Fake Electors Plot | 2020 Election Subversion | 2021-01-02 | The Trump fake electors plot was a significant part of attempts to overturn the 2020 United States presidential election made by Donald Trump and his associates. After the results of the 2020 United States presidential election determined U.S. president Donald Trump had lost, a scheme was devised by him, his associates, and Republican Party officials in seven states to subvert the election by creating and submitting fraudulent certificates of ascertainment to falsely claim Trump had won the electoral college vote in those states | |
| Trump pressured, threatened Pence to overturn election | 2020 Election Subversion | 2021-01-06 | Mike Pence: “President Trump demanded that I use my authority as vice president presiding over the count of the Electoral College to essentially overturn the election by returning or literally rejecting votes. I had no authority to do that.” | |
| Call to suspend Constitution over 2020 election loss | 2020 Election Subversion | 2022-12-03 | “A Massive Fraud of this type and magnitude allows for the termination of all rules, regulations, and articles, even those found in the Constitution,” he wrote. “Our great ‘Founders’ did not want, and would not condone, False & Fraudulent Elections!” | |
| Trump’s vow to only be a dictator on ‘day one’ follows growing worry over his authoritarian rhetoric | Anti-Democratic Behavior | 2023-12-07 | As Donald Trump faces growing scrutiny over his increasingly authoritarian and violent rhetoric, Fox News host Sean Hannity gave his longtime friend a chance to assure the American people that he wouldn’t abuse power or seek retribution if he wins a second term.
But instead of offering a perfunctory answer brushing off the warnings, Trump stoked the fire.
“Except for day one,” the GOP front-runner said Tuesday night before a live audience in Davenport, Iowa. “I want to close the border, and I want to drill, drill, drill.”
And in case anyone missed it, he reenacted the exchange.
“We love this guy,” Trump said of Hannity. “He says, ‘You’re not going to be a dictator, are you?’ I said: ‘No, no, no, other than day one. We’re closing the border, and we’re drilling, drilling, drilling. After that, I’m not a dictator.’” | |
| Trump on protester: ‘I’d like to punch him in the face | Anti-Democratic Behavior | 2016-02-22 | Donald Trump wished grievous bodily harm on a protester at his rally here on Monday night, saying he’d like to punch the man in the face and see him carried out on a stretcher.
“The guards are being very gentle with him,” Trump said. “I’d like to punch him in the face, I’ll tell you that.” | |
| Trump says he’ll deport anti-Israel student protesters if elected | Anti-Democratic Behavior | 2024-05-28 | Presumptive Republican US presidential candidate Donald Trump has said that if elected in November he will deport anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian student protesters, The Washington Post reported.
Referring to anti-Israel protests amid the ongoing war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip that swept US college campuses in the last seven months, the former US president vowed to defeat the “radical revolution,” according to sources who heard him speak at a May 14 donor event that he described as including “98 percent of my Jewish friends.”
“If you get me reelected, we’re going to set that movement back 25 or 30 years,” Trump said. “It has to be stopped now.”
“One thing I do is, any student that protests, I throw them out of the country. You know, there are a lot of foreign students. As soon as they hear that, they’re going to behave,” he vowed. | |
| Trump suggested that Walt Disney-owned ABC should lose its broadcast licenses over the network's moderating of the Sept. 10th presidential debate | Anti-Democratic Behavior | 2024-09-10 | Trump claimed the debate was "rigged" because the ABC News moderators fact checked several comments he made.
"They ought to take away their license for the way they did that," Trump told Fox News. | |
| ‘Knock the Crap Out’ of Protesters, I'll Pay Legal Fees | Anti-Democratic Behavior | 2016-02-01 | At an earlier rally, Trump had said to his supporters: "If you see somebody getting ready to throw a tomato, knock the crap out of them, would you? Seriously. Okay? Just knock the hell — I promise you, I will pay for the legal fees." | |
| Take the guns first, go through due process second | Anti-Democratic Behavior | 2018-02-28 | Trump on Wednesday voiced support for confiscating guns from certain individuals deemed to be dangerous, even if it violates due process rights.
“I like taking the guns early, like in this crazy man’s case that just took place in Florida … to go to court would have taken a long time,” Trump said at a meeting with lawmakers on school safety and gun violence.
“Take the guns first, go through due process second,” Trump said.
Trump was responding to comments from Vice President Pence that families and local law enforcement should have more tools to report potentially dangerous individuals with weapons. | |
| Trump suggested ‘one really violent day’ to combat crime | Anti-Democratic Behavior | 2024-09-30 | In what was seen as an extreme display of demagoguery even by his standards, Trump drew cheers from an audience in Erie, Pennsylvania, with a picture of an out-of-control crime spree that he said could be ended “immediately” with one “real rough, nasty day”, or “one rough hour”.
“You see these guys walking out with air conditioners with refrigerators on their back, the craziest thing,” Trump said. “And the police aren’t allowed to do their job. They’re told, if you do anything, you’re gonna lose your pension.
“They’re not allowed to do it because the liberal left won’t let them do it. The liberal left wants to destroy them, and they want to destroy our country.” | |
| When Vice President Mike Pence refused to comply with a scheme to overturn the lawful result of the 2020 election. Donald Trump told him, "You're too honest." | Anti-Democratic Behavior | 2023-08-03 | In Trump’s latest indictment—in which he is charged with four federal crimes related to his efforts to stay in office despite losing the 2020 election—a scene is detailed from January 1, 2021 in which Trump told Pence, “You’re too honest,” after Pence said there was no constitutional basis for a lawsuit asking a judge to determine whether the vice president has authority to reject votes. | |
| Trump pledges to revert Fort Liberty to Confederate general name | Anti-Democratic Behavior | 2024-10-07 | In his first visit to Fayetteville in his bid to seek another term in the White House, former President Donald Trump told a crowd of more than 5,000 at the Crown Arena on Friday night that he would restore the name of the world’s most populated U.S. military installation.
Formerly known as Fort Bragg and named after Confederate Gen. Braxton Bragg, the home of the Army airborne and Special Forces was renamed Fort Liberty last June.
“We did win two world wars from Fort Bragg. … So, this is no time to be changing names. … We’re going to do everything we can to get it back. We’re going to bring our country back,” Trump told the crowd that roared with applause and chanted, “Fight, fight, fight!” | |
| Trump Demands CBS Be Pulled Off Air In Rage-Filled Rant Over Harris Interview | Anti-Democratic Behavior | 2024-10-10 | Donald Trump’s wrath over CBS News’ “60 Minutes” interview with Kamala Harris continued into Thursday, now with him demanding the century-old network and all other TV news stations lose their broadcasting licenses.
CBS, Trump charged on social media, “should lose its license, and it should be bid out to the Highest Bidder, as should all other Broadcast Licenses, because they are just as corrupt as CBS — and maybe even WORSE!” | |
| Trump: ‘Enemy From Within’ Should Be Handled by Military on Election Day | Anti-Democratic Behavior | 2024-10-13 | Former President Donald Trump suggested using the military to handle what he called “the enemy from within” on Election Day, saying that he isn’t worried about chaos from his supporters or foreign actors, but instead from “radical left lunatics.”
“I think the bigger problem are the people from within. We have some very bad people. We have some sick people. Radical left lunatics,” Trump said told Fox News’ Maria Bartiromo in an interview on “Sunday Morning Futures.”
“I think it should be very easily handled by, if necessary, by National Guard, or if really necessary, by the military, because they can’t let that happen,” he added.
The former president, whose supporters stormed the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, in an attempt to thwart Congress’ certification of his 2020 election loss, downplayed any threat from his voters. | |
| Trump to far-right extremists: ‘Stand back and stand by’ | Anti-Democratic Behavior | 2020-09-30 | President Donald Trump on Tuesday didn’t condemn white supremacist groups and their role in violence in some American cities this summer, branding it solely a “left-wing” problem and telling one far-right extremist group to “stand back and stand by.”
“Almost everything I see is from the left wing, not from the right wing,” said Trump, whose exchange with Democrat Joe Biden left the extremist group Proud Boys celebrating what some of its members saw as tacit approval. | |
| Trump Floats the Idea of Executing Joint Chiefs Chairman Milley | Anti-Democratic Behavior | 2023-09-25 | Late Friday night, the former president of the United States—and a leading candidate to be the next president—insinuated that America’s top general deserves to be put to death.
That extraordinary sentence would be unthinkable in any other rich democracy. But Donald Trump, on his social-media network, Truth Social, wrote that Mark Milley’s phone call to reassure China in the aftermath of the storming of the Capitol on January 6, 2021, was “an act so egregious that, in times gone by, the punishment would have been DEATH.” | |
| Trump Threatens to Prosecute Google for Showing ‘Bad Stories’ About Him | Anti-Democratic Behavior | 2024-09-27 | Former President Donald J. Trump threatened Friday to prosecute Google if he was elected to the presidency a second time, claiming that the tech company had been “illegally” showing only “bad stories” about him and only “good” ones about Vice President Kamala Harris.
It was the latest instance of Mr. Trump threatening to prosecute his perceived opponents should he return to office | |
| Trump to police: Don’t worry about people in custody hitting their heads on squad cars | Anti-Democratic Behavior | 2017-07-28 | President Donald Trump seemed to encourage police to be more violent in handling potential offenders during a speech to law enforcement officers today.
"Please don't be too nice," he said to the audience in Long Island, New York.
While the speech was largely focused on the fight against the gang MS-13, it appeared that Trump was directing his comments about police interactions with suspected criminals in general.
He described the precautions typically taken by police where they place a hand over a suspect's head while they're being put into a police car to protect them.
"When you see these thugs being thrown into the back of a paddy wagon, you just seen them thrown in, rough. I said, ‘Please don’t be too nice,’" he said.
"When you guys put somebody in the car and you’re protecting their head you know, the way you put their hand over [their head]," Trump continued, mimicking the motion. "Like, 'Don’t hit their head and they’ve just killed somebody, don’t hit their head.' I said, 'You can take the hand away, OK?'
"I have to tell you, you know, the laws are so horrendously stacked against us, because for years and years, they've been made to protect the criminal. Totally made to protect the criminal. Not the officers. You do something wrong, you're in more jeopardy than they are," he added. | |
| Trump had been “venting about the need to punish late-night comedians for giving ‘illegal’ campaign contributions to the Democratic Party — in the form of jokes and on-air satire.” | Anti-Democratic Behavior | 2024-09-10 | A recent Rolling Stone article that reported that if Trump becomes president, he will look for a way to go after the late-night hosts who have made fun of him over the past few years.
“During his 2024 campaign, according to a source with direct knowledge, Trump has raised this topic again, venting about the need to punish late-night comedians for giving ‘illegal’ campaign contributions to the Democratic Party — in the form of jokes and on-air satire,” the report states. | |
| Donald Trump dined with white nationalist, Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes | Anti-Democratic Behavior | 2022-11-29 | Just two days before Thanksgiving, Donald Trump was planning to have a private, uneventful dinner with an old friend: Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West.
Ye arrived with three guests, including white nationalist and antisemite Nick Fuentes. | |
| Trump says he’d threaten to blow Iran ‘to smithereens’ over candidate threats | Anti-Democratic Behavior | 2024-09-25 | Former President Trump said Wednesday that he’d threaten to blow Iran “to smithereens” if he was back in the White House and a candidate faced threats from Tehran, comments that come after his campaign said he was briefed about Iran’s alleged assassination threats against him.
“If I were the president, I would inform the threatening country — in this case, Iran — that if you do anything to harm this person, we are going to blow your largest cities and the country itself to smithereens. We are going to blow it to smithereens,” Trump said at a campaign event in North Carolina. | |
| Trump blames California for wildfires, tells state ‘you gotta clean your floors’ | Anti-Democratic Behavior | 2020-08-20 | “I see again the forest fires are starting,” he said at a rally in swing-state Pennsylvania. “They’re starting again in California. I said, you gotta clean your floors, you gotta clean your forests — there are many, many years of leaves and broken trees and they’re like, like, so flammable, you touch them and it goes up.”
“Maybe we’re just going to have to make them pay for it because they don’t listen to us,” he added.
The combination of assigning blame while fires still burn and offering questionable remedies have become as familiar to Californians as the conflagrations that ignite each year. Those fires have spurred a predictable response from the president: blame the Democrat-dominated state and then threaten to punish it by withholding money. He did so as fires burned in 2018, and again in 2019. | |
| Former administration officials say Trump deliberately denied funds to states he deemed politically hostile | Anti-Democratic Behavior | 2024-10-03 | Donald Trump deliberately withheld disaster aid to states he deemed politically hostile to him as US president and will do so again unimpeded if he returns to the White House, several former Trump administration officials have warned.
Former Trump administration officials have said the former president, when in office, initially refused to release federal disaster aid for wildfires in California in 2018, withheld wildfire assistance for Washington state in 2020, and severely restricted emergency relief to Puerto Rico in the wake of the devastating Hurricane Maria in 2017 because he felt these places were not sufficiently supportive of him. | |
| Trump campaign staff had altercation with official at Arlington National Cemetery | Anti-Democratic Behavior | 2024-08-28 | Two members of Donald Trump's campaign staff had a verbal and physical altercation Monday with an official at Arlington National Cemetery, where the former president participated in a wreath-laying ceremony, NPR has learned.
A source with knowledge of the incident said the cemetery official tried to prevent Trump staffers from filming and photographing in a section where recent U.S. casualties are buried. The source said Arlington officials had made clear that only cemetery staff members would be authorized to take photographs or film in the area, known as Section 60.
When the cemetery official tried to prevent Trump campaign staff from entering Section 60, campaign staff verbally abused and pushed the official aside, according to the source. | |
| Trump tells Christians they won't have to vote after this election | Anti-Democratic Behavior | 2024-07-28 | Trump tells Christian voters they "won't have to vote anymore" if he is elected in November
Former President Donald Trump told attendees at a conservative Christian event on Friday night that they "won't have to vote anymore" if he is elected into office in November. He implored Christians to save America by voting "just this time," so that he can win the presidential election in a landslide "that's too big to rig."
Trump, who is the Republican Party's candidate for president, made his remarks at the end of a speech at The Believers' Summit, an event hosted by the conservative advocacy group Turning Point Action, in West Palm Beach, Florida.
"Christians get out and vote. Just this time," he urged. "You won't have to do it anymore. Four more years. You know what? It'll be fixed. It'll be fine. You won't have to vote anymore my beautiful Christians." | |
| Donald Trump killed the bipartisan border bill to save his campaign | Anti-Democratic Behavior | 2024-08-22 | Donald Trump is able to go to the U.S. border with Mexico and rail about a crisis because he made sure there was a crisis to rail about.
Earlier this year, Republicans in the U.S. Senate bowed to Trump’s demands and killed a bipartisan security bill introduced by Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, Republican Sen. James Lankford of Oklahoma and Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy of Connecticut.
Trump even bragged about killing the border security package, saying, “I think we killed it. I think it’s dead! But you can never say it because bad bills always come back to life because these guys make a lot of money with bad bills.” | |
| Trump, GOP get millions, Miriam Adelson gets Presidential Medal of Freedom | Anti-Democratic Behavior | 2018-11-16 | Miriam Adelson was one of seven individuals to be awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor, on Friday.
The White House lauded Adelson the as a “committed doctor, philanthropist, and humanitarian,” but not everyone believed the Israeli-American physician — known best as a leading GOP megadonor alongside her husband Sheldon — was deserving of the exclusive jewelry.
NBC’s Robert Schlesinger noted that the Adelsons gave more than $20 million to Trump’s 2016 campaign, saying Trump’s decision “perfectly captures the crassly transactional nature of Donald Trump and his presidency.”
Paul Krugman of the New York Times ripped the decision, calling it an “insult to people who received the medal for genuine service.”
Between the two, the wealthy couple was the top contributor to Trump’s campaign, excluding Trump himself. They also chipped in $5 million toward Trump’s inauguration.
That appeared to be enough to earn access to the President | |
| Trump calls for jail sentence for desecrating flag | Anti-Democratic Behavior | 2024-08-26 | "I want to get a law passed. Everyone tells me, oh sure, it's very hard. You burn an American flag, you go to jail for one year. Got to do it, we got to do it. They say, 'Sir, that's not constitutional.' We'll make it constitutional," said Trump during a National Guard address in Detroit on Monday August 26. | |
| Trump Proposes Ban on Criticizing Pro-Trump Judges | Anti-Democratic Behavior | 2024-09-23 | Donald Trump scolded those who critique the Supreme Court at a rally on Monday, saying people should be jailed for “the way they talk about our judges and our justices” – despite the First Amendment allowing people to criticize the government.
The former president, who has invoked his First Amendment right to launch a bevy of attacks against federal and state judges, suggested it should be “illegal” to rebuke judicial decisions or try and advocate in favor of a certain decision.
“It should be illegal, what happens,” Trump told a crowd in Pennsylvania. “You know, you have these guys like playing the ref, like the great Bobby Knight. These people should be put in jail the way they talk about our judges and our justices, trying to get them to sway their vote, sway their decision.” | |
| Trump says he would listen if foreigners offered dirt on opponents | Anti-Democratic Behavior | 2019-06-13 | President Donald Trump may not alert the FBI if foreign governments offered damaging information against his 2020 rivals during the upcoming presidential race, he said, despite the deluge of investigations stemming from his campaign's interactions with Russians during the 2016 campaign.
Asked by ABC News Chief Anchor George Stephanopoulos in the Oval Office on Wednesday whether his campaign would accept such information from foreigners -- such as China or Russia -- or hand it over the FBI, Trump said, "I think maybe you do both." | |
| Disparaged U.S. service members and veterans | Anti-Military | 2017-05-01 | "A person that thinks those who defend their country in uniform, or are shot down or seriously wounded in combat, or spend years being tortured as POWs are all ‘suckers’ because ‘there is nothing in it for them,'" Kelly said of Trump. "A person that did not want to be seen in the presence of military amputees because ‘it doesn’t look good for me.’ A person who demonstrated open contempt for a Gold Star family — for all Gold Star families — on TV during the 2016 campaign, and rants that our most precious heroes who gave their lives in America’s defense are ‘losers’ and wouldn’t visit their graves in France.” | |
| Trump says civilian award is ‘much better’ than Medal of Honor | Anti-Military | 2024-08-16 | Former President Donald Trump on Thursday said the Presidential Medal of Freedom, which honors civilians, “is actually much better” than the Medal of Honor, because service members who receive the nation’s highest military decoration are often wounded or awarded it posthumously.
Trump was praising Republican megadonor Miriam Adelson, whom he awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom while in office, during remarks at his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey.
“Miriam, I watched (Sheldon Adelson, her late husband) sitting so proud in the White House when we gave Miriam the Presidential Medal of Freedom. That’s the highest award you can get as a civilian, it’s the equivalent of the Congressional Medal of Honor, but civilian version. It’s actually much better, because everyone gets the Congressional Medal of Honor – that’s soldiers. They’re either in very bad shape because they’ve been hit so many times by bullets, or they’re dead,” Trump said. | |
| Trump told slain soldier's widow that he "knew what he was getting into," Congresswoman says | Anti-Military | 2017-10-17 | President Trump told the widow of one of the soldiers killed in Niger that he "knew what he was getting into," said U.S. Rep. Frederica Wilson (D-Miami), who said she was in the car where the phone call was received.
Myeshia Johnson was on her way to the airport to greet the remains of her husband, Army Sgt. La David Johnson, when she received the call from the commander-in-chief, CBS Miami reports.
"David was a young man from our community who gave his life for our country," Wilson told CBS Miami. "He's a hero. I was in the car when President Trump called. He never said the word hero. He said to the wife, 'Well, I guess he knew what he was getting into.' How insensitive can you be?"
The slain soldier's mother, Cowanda Jones-Johnson, stood by the congresswoman's account.
"President Trump did disrespect my son and my daughter and also me and my husband," she told the Post. | |
| Trump says he ‘wouldn’t pay’ employees overtime because he ‘hated it’ | Anti-Worker Behavior | 2024-09-30 | Former President Donald Trump proposed a tax break for overtime wages, which he used to “hate” paying as an employer.
When discussing his new proposal to end taxes on overtime pay at a campaign rally in Erie, Pa., on Sunday, Trump recalled his own dislike for the practice.
“I hated it,” Trump said of overtime pay. | |
| Calling Covid a "Hoax" | Covid Misinformation | 2020-02-28 | President Donald Trump accused Democrats of “politicizing” the deadly coronavirus during a campaign rally here on Friday, claiming that the outbreak is “their new hoax” as he continued to downplay the risk in the U.S.
“Now the Democrats are politicizing the coronavirus,” Trump said. “They have no clue, they can't even count their votes in Iowa.”
“This is their new hoax,” Trump continued, adding that attacking the White House’s response to the coronavirus had become the Democratic Party’s “single talking point.” | |
| Trump said more Covid-19 testing ‘creates more cases' | Covid Misinformation | 2020-07-20 | In a June 15 tweet, President Trump said testing “makes us look bad.” At his campaign rally in Tulsa five days later, he said he had asked his “people” to “slow the testing down, please.” At a White House press conference last week, he told reporters, “When you test, you create cases.”
And in an interview with Fox News that aired Sunday, Trump could not have been clearer: “Cases are up because we have the best testing in the world and we have the most testing.” Basically, the president was arguing that the U.S. had just as many new cases in June and July as it did in May but, with fewer tests being done in May, they weren’t being detected; with more testing now, they are. | |
| Suggested research into whether coronavirus might be treated by injecting disinfectant into the body | Covid Misinformation | 2020-04-24 | US President Donald Trump has been lambasted by the medical community after suggesting research into whether coronavirus might be treated by injecting disinfectant into the body.
He also appeared to propose irradiating patients' bodies with UV light, an idea dismissed by a doctor at the briefing.
Another of his officials had moments earlier said sunlight and disinfectant were known to kill the infection. | |
| Claimed coronavirus pandemic will 'go away without a vaccine' | Covid Misinformation | 2020-05-09 | Donald Trump has asserted with no evidence that the coronavirus pandemic will 'go away without a vaccine'. Without mentioning specifics, he pointed to other viruses and flus that 'disappeared' before vaccines were created. 'They've never shown up again. They die, too. Like everything else, they die,' Trump said. 'It's going to go away. And we're not going to see it again, hopefully, after a period of time.' | |
| Referred to the coronavirus as “kung flu” & "Chinese Virus" | Covid Misinformation | 2022-06-23 | Trump was listing the different names he has heard for the virus, which has killed at least 119,000 Americans, during a speech for the student Republican group Turning Point Action.
“Wuhan. Wuhan was catching on, coronavirus, kung flu,” he said, repeating it as the crowd roared. “I could give you many, many names. Some people call it the Chinese flu, the China flu, they call it the China.” | |
| Donald Trump charged with illegal retention of classified documents | Criminal Indictment | 2023-06-08 | Federal prosecutors have charged Donald Trump over his retention of national security documents and obstructing the government’s efforts to retrieve them, according to multiple people familiar with the matter, a historic development that poses the most significant legal peril yet for the former president. | |
| Stormy Daniels–Donald Trump scandal | Criminal Indictment | 2023-03-30 | Trump was prosecuted in New York for falsifying his business records in order to hide any one of three other crimes: Cohen's illegal campaign contribution, tax law violations, and/or Trump's own participation in the alleged conspiracy to influence the 2016 presidential election through unlawful means, in the first criminal trial of a former U.S. president. A jury found him guilty on all 34 counts he was charged with, making him the first former U.S. president to become a convicted felon. | |
| January 6 U.S. Capitol attack | Criminal Indictment | 2021-01-06 | January 6 U.S. Capitol attack, storming of the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021, by a mob of supporters of Republican Pres. Donald J. Trump. The attack disrupted a joint session of Congress convened to certify the results of the presidential election of 2020, which Trump had lost to his Democratic opponent, Joe Biden. Because its object was to prevent a legitimate president-elect from assuming office, the attack was widely regarded as an insurrection or attempted coup d’état. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and other law-enforcement agencies also considered it an act of domestic terrorism. | |
| Georgia vote fabrication | Criminal Indictment | 2021-01-02 | "All I want to do is this: I just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have. Because we won this state, and flipping the state is a great testament to the country," Trump said. "I only need 11,000 votes. Fellas, I need 11,000 votes. Give me a break." "It's just not possible to have lost Georgia. It's not possible," Trump said. | |
| Mocks the attack on Paul Pelosi | Cruelty | 2023-09-09 | “We’ll stand up to crazy Nancy Pelosi, who ruined San Francisco — how’s her husband doing, anybody know?” Trump said to a raucous crowd of California Republicans at a state party convention. “And she’s against building a wall at our border, even though she has a wall around her house — which obviously didn’t do a very good job.” | |
| Trump tells supporters 'we have to get over it' after Iowa school shooting | Cruelty | 2024-01-05 | Former President Donald Trump on Friday extended condolences following a school shooting in Iowa this week that left one dead and seven wounded before urging supporters to “move forward.”
“I want to send our support and our deepest sympathies to the victims and families touched by the terrible school shooting yesterday in Perry, Iowa,” Trump said during a campaign rally.
“It’s just horrible, so surprising to see it here. But have to get over it, we have to move forward,” he added. | |
| Mocked a disabled reporter | Cruelty | 2015-11-26 | Trump performed an impression of Serge Kovaleski, who suffers from a congenital joint condition, at a rally.
He has used a 2001 article by Mr Kovaleski to back up widely disputed claims that "thousands" of Muslims in New Jersey celebrated the 9/11 attacks.
The New York Times called Mr Trump's actions "outrageous". | |
| Trump tells supporters 'we have to get over it' after Iowa school shooting | Cruelty | 2024-01-05 | Former President Donald Trump on Friday extended condolences following a school shooting in Iowa this week that left one dead and seven wounded before urging supporters to “move forward.”
“I want to send our support and our deepest sympathies to the victims and families touched by the terrible school shooting yesterday in Perry, Iowa,” Trump said during a campaign rally.
“It’s just horrible, so surprising to see it here. But have to get over it, we have to move forward,” he added. | |
| Trump has said on several occasions that immigrants in the United States illegally are "poisoning the blood of our country." | Dehumanization | 2023-12-16 | Donald Trump, the Republican presidential frontrunner, said on Saturday that undocumented immigrants were "poisoning the blood of our country," repeating language that has previously drawn criticism as xenophobic and echoing of Nazi rhetoric.
Trump made the comments during a campaign event in New Hampshire where he railed against the record number of migrants attempting to cross the U.S. border illegally. Trump has promised to crack down on illegal immigration and restrict legal immigration if elected to a second four-year term in office. | |
| Trump Defends Claim That Haitians Are Eating Pets, Says Immigrants Are ‘Eating Other Things’ Too | Dehumanization | 2024-10-16 | Former President Donald Trump has doubled down his controversial assertions that Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, are consuming pets, stating they are also “eating other things” that “they’re not supposed to.”
For several weeks, Trump and his campaign have disseminated misinformation regarding Haitian migrants, particularly claiming they are eating local pets. This assertion was notably made during a September debate with Vice President Kamala Harris, where it was promptly challenged by ABC News moderators.
Trump responded: “Well, thank you very much. And this was just reported. I was just saying what was reported that’s been reported and eating other things, too, that they’re not supposed to.”
“But this is all I do is report,” he insisted. “I have not — I was there. I’m going to be there. And we’re going to take a look and I’ll give you a full report when I do. But that’s been in the newspapers and reported pretty broadly.” | |
| Trump suggests immigrants have 'bad genes' in latest disparagement of migrants | Dehumanization | 2024-10-07 | In an interview on “The Hugh Hewitt Show” that aired Monday morning, former President Donald Trump criticized Vice President Kamala Harris for her policies on the southern border and suggested that migrants have “bad genes.”
“When you look at the things that she proposes, they’re so far off she has no clue. How about allowing people to come to an open border, 13,000 of which were murderers,” he said, referring to the vice president’s immigration proposals.
“Many of them murdered far more than one person, and they’re now happily living in the United States,” he added. “You know, now a murderer, I believe this, it’s in their genes. And we got a lot of bad genes in our country right now. They left, they had 425,000 people come into our country that shouldn’t be here, that are criminals.” | |
| Trump repeats baseless claim about Haitian immigrants eating pets | Dehumanization | 2024-09-10 | During ABC's presidential debate, Trump said: "In Springfield, they are eating the dogs. The people that came in, they are eating the cats. They’re eating – they are eating the pets of the people that live there." | |
| Trump on Immigrants: “They’re Not Humans, They’re Animals” | Dehumanization | 2024-04-03 | At a campaign rally in Grand Rapids, MI, in April 2024, Trump was most venomous, insisting:
“The Democrats say, ‘Please don’t call them animals. They’re humans.’ I said, ‘No, they’re not humans, they’re not humans, they’re animals’ … Nancy Pelosi told me that. She said, ‘Please don’t use the word animals when you’re talking about these people.’ I said, ‘I’ll use the word animal because that’s what they are.’” | |
| Trump Escalates His Dehumanization of Migrants: Some Are ‘Not People … These Are Animals’ | Dehumanization | 2024-03-16 | Former president Donald Trump, who opened his 2016 campaign declaring undocumented immigrants “rapists,” took the dehumanization even further this weekend, saying some immigrants are “not people … these are animals.”
“I don’t know if you call them people. In some cases they’re not people, in my opinion,” Trump said at an Ohio rally on Saturday. “But I’m not allowed to say that because the radical left says that’s a terrible thing to say.” | |
| Trump tells people to vote on January 5 | Dementia | 2024-10-15 | Donald Trump has called for voters to get out and vote on January 5 2025, two months after Election Day – and social media users are all making the same joke.
The former president was addressing a crowd at an Oaks, Pennsylvania, town hall on Monday night, as both presidential candidates made campaign stops in the crucial swing state just three weeks before the November 5 election.
While on stage, Trump sought to tout his support amongst Black and Latino voters – following a recent New York Times and Siena College poll – and urged Americans to get out and vote on Election Day.
The only problem was: Trump got the critical date wrong.
“I’ll tell you, if everything works out and everybody gets out on January 5, or before,” Trump told the crowd, seemingly oblivious of his gaffe. | |
| "Not able to run for two weeks": Trump cancels NRA rally appearance amid decline concerns | Dementia | 2024-10-17 | Former President Donald Trump abruptly cancelled an appearance at an NRA event in Savannah, Georgia, fueling public concerns about his mental state.
Trump was slated to headline the “Defend the 2nd” rally on Oct. 22. The Trump campaign cited a scheduling conflict in pulling out of that event, per the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. The gun advocacy group later scrapped the entire event. | |
| Trump rejects Harris' challenge to debate again on CNN | Dementia | 2024-09-24 | Former US President Donald Trump has said he will not take part in a second TV debate ahead of November's presidential election.
While Vice-President Kamala Harris, the Democratic Party's candidate, accepted an invitation to the CNN debate on 23 October, Republican nominee Trump told a rally it was "too late" as voting has already started.
Harris's campaign team said that given the former president claimed to have won their previous debate in Philadelphia earlier this month he should accept.
Snap polls taken after that encounter suggested a majority of viewers believed the vice-president outperformed her challenger.
After the 10 September debate, Trump said there would be no further debates. | |
| Trump backs out of CNBC interview, his second about-face with mainstream press this month | Dementia | 2024-10-15 | Donald Trump has backed out of an interview with CNBC, marking the second time this month the former president has canceled on a mainstream press interview.
Joe Kernen, the “Squawk Box” co-anchor, broke the news of the unannounced interview’s cancellation during Tuesday morning’s broadcast.
“Well, Trump canceled, and he was going to come on,” he said.
Kernen added that the network had also offered to sit down with Vice President Kamala Harris, but said “she’s not coming on.” Kernen joked that, with Trump’s decision, “she could come on and we could say we offered it to Trump camp, but they’re not.” | |
| Cancelled 60 minutes interview | Dementia | 2024-10-07 | It's been a tradition for more than half a century that the major party candidates for president sit down with 60 Minutes in October. In 1968, it was Richard Nixon and Hubert Humphrey. This year, Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump accepted invitations.
Unfortunately, last week, Trump canceled.
The Trump campaign had said that the interview would be this past Thursday at Mar-A-Lago, Trump's Florida home. It also asked whether 60 Minutes would meet 78-year-old Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, where the Republican candidate for president was grazed by a bullet in an assassination attempt. 60 Minutes agreed. On Sept. 9, Trump communications director Steven Cheung sent a text that read: "I'm working with our advance team to see logistically if Butler would work in addition to the sit down."
Days later, Cheung called to say "the president said yes."
Then, a week ago, Trump backed out. The campaign offered shifting explanations. First, it complained that 60 Minutes would fact check the interview. | |
| Trump Calls Arizonans ‘Aseurasians’ during rally in Prescott valley | Dementia | 2024-10-14 | Former President Donald Trump mistakenly referred to his supporters as 'Aseurasians' during an Arizona rally. At the event, he outlined immigration plans, pledged to hire additional Border Patrol agents with bonuses, and blamed Vice President Kamala Harris for the rise in illegal border crossings. | |
| Elimination of the Department of Education | Destabilization | 2024-09-20 | “I say it all the time, I’m dying to get back to do this. We will ultimately eliminate the federal Department of Education,” he said earlier this month during a rally in Wisconsin. | |
| Overturning of Roe v. Wade | Destabilization | 2024-09-10 | Former President Trump says he has “no regrets” that his handpicked Supreme Court justices overturned Roe v. Wade and ended the constitutional right to an abortion. | |
| Donald Trump called Chinese leader Xi Jinping a 'brilliant man' and said there is no one in Hollywood with the good looks or brains to play him in a movie | Dictator Adoration | 2023-04-11 | Former President Donald Trump gushed about Chinese leader Xi Jinping in an interview on Fox News, calling him a "brilliant man" and praising his good looks.
During a sit-down interview on Tuesday night, Fox News host Tucker Carlson asked Trump how smart he thinks Xi is.
Trump replied: "Top of the line."
"President Xi is a brilliant man. If you went all over Hollywood to look for somebody to play the role of President Xi, you couldn't find it. There's nobody like that. The look, the brain, the whole thing," said Trump. | |
| Trump on China’s Xi: ‘We love each other’ | Dictator Adoration | 2020-01-21 | During his address, the U.S. president gave the gathering of elite policy-makers and business people a laundry list of economic achievements, including what he described as confronting "China's predatory practices" in trade with America. Trump said these had become "worse and worse and worse" under his predecessors. "Under my leadership America confronted the problem head on," he said.
"Our relationship with China has now probably never, ever been better," Trump said, adding that he gets on well with President Xi Jinping. "He's for China, I'm for the U.S., but other than that, we love each other." | |
| Trump Praises ‘Smart, Brilliant, Everything Perfect’ Xi Jinping: ‘Runs 1.4 Billion People With an Iron Fist’ | Dictator Adoration | 2023-07-18 | Former President Donald Trump praised Chinese President Xi Jinping — again — during his town hall with Fox News host Sean Hannity on Tuesday, calling the Chinese leader a “brilliant guy” who “runs 1.4 billion people with an iron fist.”
“Think of President Xi. Central casting, brilliant guy. You know, when I say he’s brilliant, everyone says, ‘Oh that’s terrible,'” said Trump during the event. “Well, he runs 1.4 billion people with an iron fist. Smart, brilliant, everything perfect. There’s nobody in Hollywood like this guy. I got them to pay us $28 billion because they screwed our farmers for years.” | |
| Love letters to Kim Jong Un | Dictator Adoration | 2023-03-04 | “Your excellency Mr. President,” Kim began in a letter dated July 30, 2018 and shared with POLITICO ahead of the book’s publication. “I express my deep appreciation to Your Excellency for having a firm faith in the excellent relations established between us during the first summit and exerting yourself to honor the promise made in that historic day.” | |
| Trump calls Putin ‘genius’ and ‘savvy’ for Ukraine invasion | Dictator Adoration | 2022-02-22 | At a campaign rally in Georgia over the weekend, the former President, again, praised Russian President Vladimir Putin.
“The smartest one gets to the top,” Trump told the crowd. “That didn’t work so well recently in our country. But they ask me, ‘Is Putin smart?’ Yes, Putin was smart. And I actually thought he was going to be negotiating. I said, ‘That’s a hell of a way to negotiate, put 200,000 soldiers on the border.’”
The very next day, Trump said almost the same thing.
“They say, ‘Trump said Putin’s smart.’ I mean, he’s taking over a country for two dollars’ worth of sanctions,” Trump told a crowd at a fundraiser at Mar-a-Lago, according to a recording of the event. “I’d say that’s pretty smart. He’s taking over a country – really a vast, vast location, a great piece of land with a lot of people, and just walking right in.”
Then, in a speech to the Conservative Political Action Conference several days later, Trump tripled down. “Yesterday reporters asked me if I thought President Putin was smart,” he said. “I said, ‘Of course, he’s smart,’ to which I was greeted with ‘Oh, that’s such a terrible thing to say.’ I like to tell them, ‘Yes, he’s smart.’” | |
| Tax Cuts for Billionaires | Economic Failure | 2019-10-09 | The most significant piece of legislation former President Donald Trump signed during his first term had a dramatic cut in the corporate tax rate from 35 percent to 21 percent as its centerpiece. That corporate tax cut did not trickle down to ordinary workers but cost $1.3 trillion and helped fuel a record $1 trillion in stock buybacks the year after it passed. | |
| Farmer bailout due to tariffs | Economic Failure | 2018-01-01 | Trump administration farmer bailouts are a series of United States bailout programs introduced during the presidency of Donald Trump as a consequence of his "America First" economic policy to help US farmers suffering due to the US-China trade war and trade disputes with European Union, Japan, Canada, Mexico, and others. China and respectively European reconcilable tariffs imposed on peanut butter, soybeans, orange juice, and other agriculture products had hit hard, especially swing states, such as Iowa, Ohio, and Wisconsin. | |
| Increased the national debt by 8 trillion dollars | Economic Failure | 2024-01-10 | Over the course of President Trump’s four years in office, the gross national debt grew from $19.95 trillion to $27.75 trillion – a $7.8 trillion increase | |
| Lock Up Hillary Clinton | Empty Promise | 2016-06-02 | In June 2016, at a rally in San Jose, California, Trump made his first explicit statement calling for Clinton to be jailed, saying:
"Hillary Clinton has to go to jail, OK? She has to go to jail."
Around the same time, at another rally in Redding, California, Trump reiterated this sentiment:
"I think she should be in jail for what she did with her emails" | |
| Mexico will pay for the wall | Empty Promise | 2015-06-16 | Trump falsely claims he’d promised Mexico would pay for ‘a piece’ of the border wall | |
| Promising a “terrific,” “phenomenal” and “fantastic” new health care plan to replace the ACA | Empty Promise | 2016-02-01 | "It's a set of promises for what I'll do in my first 100 days. It includes getting rid of immediately Obamacare, which is a disaster," said Trump. | |
| Geraldo Rivera backing Harris: Trump ‘cannot be trusted to honor the Constitution | Ex-Ally | 2024-10-14 | Television personality Geraldo Rivera revealed Monday that he is backing Vice President Kamala Harris over former President Donald Trump in the election, now less than a month away.
“Former President Trump is a sore loser who cannot be trusted to honor the Constitution,” Rivera, once an ally of the former president, wrote in a lengthy post on social platform X. “That is why I am voting for Kamala Harris to be our 47th President.”
The former Fox News personality said he hasn’t spoken to Trump since Nov. 13, 2020 — just days after he lost the election to President Joe Biden. | |
| Trump's top general calls former president "fascist" and "dangerous" threat | Ex-Ally | 2024-10-11 | Retired U.S. Army Gen. Mark Milley said former President Trump is "a fascist to the core," according to journalist Bob Woodward's forthcoming book, "War," multiple outlets reported on Friday. | |
| Trump Says There Will Be a ‘Bloodbath’ and Elections Will End if He Isn’t Reelected | Fearmongering | 2024-03-18 | While speaking about the potential loss of U.S. auto manufacturing jobs to foreign countries, former President Donald Trump said if he isn’t elected, “it’s going to be a bloodbath for the country.” | |
| Trump claims you can't walk across the street to get a loaf of bread without getting raped and shot | Fearmongering | 2024-08-20 | “You can’t walk across the street to get a loaf of bread. You get shot, you get mugged, you get raped, you get whatever it may be,” Trump said on Tuesday during a visit to Howell, Michigan, while standing in front of two sheriffs. “You’ve seen it, and I’ve seen it.” | |
| Migrants will cut your throat | Fearmongering | 2024-09-30 | Illegal immigrants, he claimed over the weekend, will come into American homes and slit people's throats.
"And you remember when they say no, no, these are migrants and these migrants, they don't commit crimes like us," Trump said. "No, no, they make our criminals look like babies. These are stone cold killers. They'll walk into your kitchen, they'll cut your throat." | |
| Trump used his charitable foundation at times as a personal piggy bank. | Fraud | 2019-12-10 | Trump is paying up after conceding that he used his charitable foundation at times as a personal piggy bank.
Trump has wired $2 million to pay a court-ordered fine for misusing the Trump Foundation in part to further his business interests and 2016 presidential run, New York Attorney General Letitia James said Tuesday. | |
| Trump calls 6 January 'day of love' when asked about Capitol riot | Gaslighting | 2024-10-17 | Trump has spent years making false claims that he lost the 2020 election owing to mass election fraud. The event continues to divide America.
During his "town hall" event in Miami, Florida, Trump was challenged to win back the vote of a man who said he had been disturbed by what happened after the Republican lost the 2020 vote.
"Nothing done wrong at all," Trump said.
"There were no guns down there. We didn’t have guns. The others had guns, but we didn’t have guns.
"And when I say we, these are people that walked down - this was a tiny percentage of the overall which nobody sees and nobody, nobody shows. But that was a day of love." | |
| (4th Set) Trump Releases Fourth Drop of His NFT Trading Cards | Grifting | 2024-08-27 | Former President Donald Trump is out with another collection of digital trading card non-fungible tokens (NFTs), which were once a lucrative business line for the Republican nominee.
This time around, Trump’s fourth collection will offer high-rollers a piece of the candidate’s suit from his debate with President Joe Biden, according to a post on social media platform Truth Social. People who spend $24,750 on the cards will also get access to Trump sneakers, Trump cocktails and dinner at Trump National Golf Club in Jupiter, Florida, with Trump. | |
| Trump hotel overcharged Secret Service, report by House Democrats finds | Grifting | 2024-10-18 | During Donald Trump’s presidency, his D.C. hotel charged the U.S. Secret Service 300 percent or more above standard government rates on multiple occasions, and at times charged the government agency more than it did other patrons — including a Chinese business and members of a foreign royal family, according to a new report released Friday by Democrats on the House Oversight Committee. | |
| Launched a cryptocurrency venture "World Liberty Financial" | Grifting | 2024-09-13 | Donald Trump launched his family’s cryptocurrency venture, World Liberty Financial, on a livestreamed interview on the social media platform X on Monday. The Republican presidential nominee gave few details about the venture | |
| (1st Set) Trump Sells a New Image as the Hero of $99 Trading Cards | Grifting | 2022-12-15 | In his first significant public move since opening his 2024 presidential campaign last month, Mr. Trump announced an online store to sell $99 digital trading cards of himself as a superhero, an astronaut, an Old West sheriff and a series of other fantastical figures. He made his pitch in a brief, direct-to-camera video in which he audaciously declared that his four years in the White House were “better than Lincoln, better than Washington.” | |
| (2nd Set) The former president released his second series of Trump Trading Cards on Tuesday, though it appears that the hype surrounding his Web3 debut is cooling off. | Grifting | 2023-04-19 | In the early hours of Wednesday morning, former U.S. President Donald Trump’s second series of non-fungible tokens (NFT) sold out after releasing to the public a day prior.
The new collection features 47,000 tokens, which sold for $99 each, this time with limited one-of-one NFTs and autographed cards. Traders who purchased 47 tokens would be eligible for a dinner with Trump at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, while those who purchased 100 would not only win the dinner but also a unique one-of-a-kind collectible with new rarity traits. | |
| (3rd Set) Trump's Third 'Mugshot' Series Propels Sales, Boosts Volumes Of First NFT Collection | Grifting | 2023-12-12 | Trump first ventured into the digital collectible space in December 2022 with his Trump Digital Trading Cards. The series was an instant success, selling out within just 24 hours of its release. Priced at $99 apiece, these NFTs didn’t just sell fast—they soared in value and have been consistently trading at prices well above their initial offering.
April 2023 saw the debut of Series 2 of Trump’s NFT collection. Keeping the momentum going, Trump took to his Truth Social account this Tuesday to announce a third drop: the ‘Mugshot’ series. | |
| Selling Trump branded watches for up to $100,000 | Grifting | 2024-09-26 | Former President Donald Trump has given his name and approval to a new piece of merchandise for his supporters to snatch up - $100k watches.
On gettrumpwatches.com, you can now purchase “The Trump Victory Tourbillon” bejeweled golden watch for $100,000. Significantly cheaper options are also available with the “fight fight fight” watch coming in three colors – Onyx Gold for $799 and Red Silver and Silver Gold both for $499 each. | |
| Selling $399 golden high-top sneakers | Grifting | 2024-02-19 | At a sneaker conference in Philadelphia over the weekend, former President Donald Trump unveiled his latest pitch — and it wasn't a stump speech.
The businessman-turned-politician debuted a line of gleaming, golden sneakers called the Never Surrender High-Top Sneaker, which sell online for $399 a pair.
"This is something I've been talking about for 12 years, 13 years, and I think it's going to be a big success," Trump said to the crowd at Sneaker Con Philadelphia. | |
| Selling $100 coins with his face on them | Grifting | 2024-09-23 | he is selling $100 “Trump Coins” with his face on them, calling the items a “true symbol of American greatness.”
The coins are now the latest product to be sold by Trump as he seeks a second term in the White House, following the launch of Trump Sneakers and “God Bless the USA” Bibles earlier this year.
“Trump Coins are designed by me and minted right here in the U.S.A. This beautiful, limited-edition coin commemorates our movement, our fight for freedom, prosperity and putting America first, we always put America first,” Trump said in a video message posted to Truth Social. | |
| Selling ‘God Bless the USA’ Bibles for $59.99 | Grifting | 2024-03-26 | “All Americans need a Bible in their home, and I have many. It’s my favorite book,” Trump declared in March, in a video posted on Truth Social. “I’m proud to endorse and encourage you to get this Bible. We must make America pray again.”
In the video, Trump, who has a long history of endorsing and selling things, is clutching the God Bless the USA Bible – a “patriotic” take on the holy text that Trump is now hawking for $59.99.
“I want to have a lot of people have it,” Trump continued. “You have to have it for your heart and for your soul.” | |
| Trump Said Revolutionary War Troops ‘Took Over the Airports’ in His Fourth of July Speech | Idiocy | 2019-07-05 | Trump made a bit of a historical blunder during his Fourth of July “Salute to America” speech Thursday when he said that the Continental Army “took over the airports” from the British during the American Revolutionary War in the 1770s.
During his hour-long speech at the grounds of Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C., Trump stayed largely off politics.
Trump praised the Americans’ military efforts in the war against Great Britain. “Our army manned the air, it rammed the ramparts, it took over the airports, it did everything it had to do, and at Fort McHenry, under the rockets’ red glare, it had nothing but victory,” he said. | |
| Trump looks at eclipse without eye protection | Idiocy | 2017-08-21 | It was Aug. 21, 2017, and a solar eclipse was due to pass over the U.S., darkening the skies for a few cosmically wondrous minutes. In Washington, D.C., then-President Trump stood on a balcony of the White House with Melania Trump and his son Barron as the moon slowly moved across the sun.
To the nation’s horror (or dismay or embarrassment, or some combination of the three), the president then looked directly at the sun several times, squinting and pointing. An aide shouted, “Don’t look!”
By one count, Trump had looked up at the sun at least six times, violating really the only rule of watching a solar eclipse: Do not stare at the sun without protective eyewear. | |
| Impeached for Ukraine quid pro quo | Impeachment | 2019-07-25 | Trump's first impeachment took place after a formal House inquiry found that he had solicited foreign interference in the 2020 U.S. presidential election to help his re-election bid, and had then obstructed the inquiry itself by telling his administration officials to ignore subpoenas for documents and testimony.
The Trump–Ukraine scandal was a political scandal that arose primarily from the discovery of U.S. President Donald Trump's alleged attempts to coerce Ukraine into investigating a Biden–Ukraine conspiracy theory, and thus potentially damage 2020 Democratic Party presidential candidate Joe Biden. Trump enlisted surrogates in and outside his administration, including personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani and Attorney General William Barr, to pressure Ukraine and other governments to cooperate in supporting conspiracy theories concerning US politics | |
| Impeached for Inciting January 6th Insurrection | Impeachment | 2021-01-13 | The House of Representatives of the 117th U.S. Congress adopted one article of impeachment against Trump of "incitement of insurrection", stating that he had incited the January 6 attack of the U.S. Capitol. | |
| "If Ivanka weren’t my daughter, perhaps I’d be dating her" | Incest | 2006-03-07 | In 2006, former U.S. President Donald Trump said, “I’ve said if Ivanka weren’t my daughter, perhaps I’d be dating her.”
Donald Trump made the comment during an appearance with Ivanka Trump on "The View." He and Ivanka were smiling and laughing when he said it. Shortly after the clip aired, Donald Trump's spokesperson told journalists he was joking and "making fun of himself for his tendency to date younger women." | |
| Donald Was Curious About His Baby Daughter’s Breasts | Incest | 1994-01-01 | “She’s a very beautiful baby,” Trump replied. “She’s got Marla’s legs. We don’t know whether or not”—he put his hands to his chest to indicate breasts—”she’s got this part yet, but time will tell.” | |
| Hundreds of Trump supporters stuck on freezing cold Omaha airfield after rally, 7 taken to hospitals | Incompetence | 2020-10-28 | Hundreds of President Donald Trump's supporters were left in the freezing cold for hours after a rally at an airfield in Omaha, Nebraska, on Tuesday night, with some walking around 3 miles to waiting buses and others being taken away in ambulances.
Seven people were taken to hospitals suffering from a variety of conditions, and a total of 30 were "contacted" for medical reasons, the Omaha Police Department said in a statement. The Omaha Airport Authority had a slightly different figure for the number taken to hospitals — it said six were "throughout the duration of the event" and added that it could not confirm that the people were taken to hospitals because of the cold.
The temperature in the area was in the mid-30s at the time but as low as 27 degrees with wind chill. | |
| Donald Trump Followers Left Stranded in Desert After Coachella Rally: 'Chaos' | Incompetence | 2024-10-14 | Hundreds of Donald Trump followers were left stranded in the California desert after a rally in the Coachella Valley over the weekend.
The rally was held at an outdoor venue where temperatures soared to over 100 degrees. Despite the intense heat, thousands of passionate Trump supporters braved the elements to hear the former president speak. During the rally, some supporters reportedly collapsed because of the stifling heat.
Prior to the event, several buses were provided to transport supporters to the rally location. However, after the rally, poorly organized transportation logistics and a lack of basic services left many attendees scrambling to find their way home, with many stranded miles from their cars after the event ended, as reported by the Times of San Diego. | |
| Donald Trump Owned Several Atlantic City Casinos That Went Bankrupt | Incompetence | 2016-06-11 | The Trump Plaza Casino and Hotel is now closed, its windows clouded over by sea salt. Only a faint outline of the gold letters spelling out T-R-U-M-P remains visible on the exterior of what was once this city’s premier casino.
Not far away, the long-failing Trump Marina Hotel Casino was sold at a major loss five years ago and is now known as the Golden Nugget.
At the nearly deserted eastern end of the boardwalk, the Trump Taj Mahal, now under new ownership, is all that remains of the casino empire Donald J. Trump assembled here more than a quarter-century ago. Years of neglect show: The carpets are frayed and dust-coated chandeliers dangle above the few customers there to play the penny slot machines. | |
| Crooked Hilary | Insults | 2016-05-25 | Since he first used the term “Crooked Hillary” in a speech on 16 April, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee has returned to the insult at least 50 times.
In the last week alone, he has called Clinton “Crooked Hillary” on Twitter 17 times – plus in numerous rallies and interviews – and he also unveiled an additional nickname at the NRA convention on Friday, dubbing the Clintons “heartless hypocrites”. | |
| Sloppy Chris Christie | Insults | 2023-12-08 | Former President Donald Trump slammed former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie for how he performed in the fourth GOP presidential debate.
“Sloppy Chris Christie is not fit to run for President,” Mr. Trump wrote on the social media site X Friday. “… According to all, he came in LAST in the debate, and I came in FIRST, as I have in all of the debates, without even being there.” | |
| Trump mocks Chris Christie's weight: 'Don't call him a fat pig' | Insults | 2023-08-08 | Former President Donald Trump mocked Chris Christie, one of his rivals for the Republican presidential nomination, over his eating habits and his weight Tuesday.
"Don't call him a fat pig," Trump playfully admonished an audience member who shouted out during a speech at a high school gym in Windham, New Hampshire. "You can't do that."
Trump was apprising the audience of recent polls that show him leading when he first mentioned Christie, the former New Jersey governor, who was once a close adviser.
"Christie, he’s eating right now," Trump said. "He can’t be bothered.” | |
| Mini Mike Bloomberg | Insults | 2020-02-02 | “Mini Mike is part of the Fake News,” the president wrote early on Sunday, using his nickname for the owner of Bloomberg News. | |
| Crooked Joe Biden | Insults | 2024-07-21 | “Crooked Joe Biden was not fit to run for president, and is certainly not fit to serve – and never was!” Trump, the Republican nominee, said in a post to Truth Social, repeating his favored insult for the man who beat him in the 2020 election, and rehashing a familiar litany of unsubstantiated grievances. | |
| Sleepy Joe Biden | Insults | 2023-09-04 | In 2020, the moniker was “Sleepy Joe.” Now, it has been revised to “Crooked Joe.”
During their first showdown, Donald Trump disparaged Joe Biden as “a sleepy guy in the basement of a house” who was barely aware of his surroundings. Now, facing four criminal indictments and gearing up for a 2024 rematch, the former president is changing course to depict his successor as a nefarious mastermind who is pulling the strings of a complex justice system without leaving any fingerprints. | |
| Trump, using extreme rhetoric, calls Harris 'mentally impaired' and says she should be 'prosecuted' | Insults | 2024-09-29 | ERIE, Pa. — Former President Donald Trump said at a rally here Sunday that Vice President Kamala Harris should be "impeached and prosecuted" for her actions related to the southern U.S. border.
He argued that people were "murdered because of her action at the border, and thousands more will follow in rapid succession," adding, "She should be impeached and prosecuted for her actions."
Trump also lobbed personal attacks at Harris on Sunday, echoing comments at his rally the day Saturday, when he called Harris “mentally disabled” and “mentally impaired.” | |
| Trump falsely claims he didn’t call to lock up Hillary Clinton | Lying | 2024-06-02 | Trump now denies saying, ‘Lock her up.’ But he said Hillary Clinton should go to jail at least 7 times. | |
| Claims he will release his tax returns | Lying | 2016-05-11 | “I don’t mind releasing. I’m under a routine audit, and it’ll be released.”
–Donald Trump
THE FACT CHECKER | Trump cites an Internal Revenue Service audit as his justification for not releasing his federal income tax returns, butt the audit does not prohibit from releasing the returns. Richard Nixon, who started the tradition of presidents and presidential candidates releasing their returns, did so in the middle of an audit.
Moreover, Trump has not released his tax returns from before 2009, which are no longer under audit, according to his attorney.
Presidential candidates have no legal obligation to release their returns, but there has long been a tradition to do so for the sake of transparency. Hillary Clinton has released three decades’ worth of tax returns.
Former President Trump appears to be sticking to his yearslong stance of declining to make his tax returns available to the public as the 2024 presidential campaign enters its final stretch.
With a little more than two months to go until Election Day, Trump has yet to release his most recent tax returns, while Vice President Kamala Harris, his Democratic opponent, has so far released 20 years’ worth of tax returns.
Trump’s decision during his initial White House run and subsequent presidency not to release tax returns bucked nearly 50 years of precedent established by President Nixon. The only other president not to make his full tax returns public during this period was Gerald Ford, who provided a tax summary. | |
| Windmills cause cancer | Lying | 2019-04-02 | “Hillary wanted to put up wind … And they say the noise [of windmills] causes cancer.” | |
| Trump doctored a hurricane map that extended the path of the storm into Alabama | Lying | 2019-09-01 | The Hurricane Dorian–Alabama controversy, also referred to as Sharpiegate, arose from a comment made by then U.S. President Donald Trump on September 1, 2019, as Hurricane Dorian approached the U.S. mainland. Mentioning states that would likely be impacted by the storm, he incorrectly included Alabama, which by then was known not to be under threat from the storm. After many residents of Alabama called the local weather bureau to ask about it, the bureau issued a reassurance that Alabama was not expected to be hit by the storm.
Over the following week, Trump repeatedly insisted his comment had been correct. On September 4, he showed reporters a weather map which had been altered with a black Sharpie marker to show the hurricane's track threatening Alabama. He also reportedly ordered his aides to obtain an official retraction of the weather bureau's comment that the storm was not headed for Alabama. | |
| Trump falsely says Georgia's governor was unable to talk to Biden about storm damage | Lying | 2024-09-30 | Former President Donald Trump falsely claimed that Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp hasn’t been able to reach President Joe Biden to discuss Hurricane Helene's impacts on his state.
“He has been calling the president, but has not been able to get him,” Trump said at a news conference at a furniture store in Valdosta, Georgia.
Yet earlier in the day Kemp, a Republican, said that he initially missed Biden’s call but that he called back and that the two were able to connect Sunday evening.
“He just said, 'Hey, what do you need?'” Kemp told reporters. “And I told him, you know, we got what we need. We will work through the federal process.” | |
| Immigrants have machine guns | Lying | 2024-09-26 | "Kamala should have closed the border years ago and we wouldn't have hostile takeovers of Springfield, Ohio, and Aurora, Colorado, where they're actually going in with massive machine gun-type equipment that are beyond even military scope," The Republican presidential candidate said, during his Wednesday speech in Mint Hill, North Carolina. | |
| Trump Exposed for Having More Fake Fans at His Rally | Lying | 2024-10-11 | The Republican presidential nominee’s rally in Scranton, Pennsylvania, on Wednesday featured a crowd of people holding signage that read, “Scranton Firefighters for Trump.” But by Friday, it became clear that the Scranton Fire Department firefighters’ union had absolutely nothing to do with the initiative, and the people waving the signs at Trump’s campaign event were not, in fact, firefighters. | |
| Trump made up bone spurs injury to dodge Vietnam service | Lying | 2018-12-27 | Two daughters of a New York podiatrist say that 50 years ago their father diagnosed President Donald Trump with bone spurs in his heels as a favor to the doctor's landlord, Fred Trump, The New York Times reported Wednesday.
Trump received five deferments from the draft for military service during the Vietnam War. He received four education deferments while he was a college student and a fifth deferment in 1968 for a medical exemption after he graduated. | |
| "I have a concept of a plan" | Lying | 2024-09-10 | Trump said he was interested in replacing the Affordable Care Act -- also known as "Obamacare" -- but implied that he didn't have any specific plans in place.
"Obamacare was lousy health care. Always was," Trump said. "It's not very good today and, what I said, that if we come up with something, we are working on things, we're going to do it and we're going to replace it."
When asked by ABC News moderator Linsey Davis to clarify if he had a health care plan, the former president said he had "concepts of a plan" to replace the ACA but provided no details. | |
| Trump Lied about Jamie Dimon endorsing him for president | Lying | 2024-10-04 |
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JPMorgan Chase denies Trump's claim that CEO Jamie Dimon has endorsed him
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By Kate Gibson
Edited By Alain Sherter
Updated on: October 4, 2024 / 5:17 PM EDT / CBS News
JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon has not endorsed Donald Trump, the financial giant said Friday after the former president claimed in a social media post that the executive, America's most prominent banking industry leader, was supporting him.
"Jamie Dimon has not endorsed anyone. He has not endorsed a candidate," Joe Evangelisti, a spokesperson for the New York-based bank told CBS News in a statement.
The denial came after the Republican presidential nominee posted a screenshot on his Truth Social account falsely stating, "New: Jamie Dimon, the CEO of JPMorgan Chase, has endorsed Trump for president."
Trump told NBC News he didn't know about the post, which was still visible on his account as of 5:10 p.m. Eastern Time. | |
| Trump has continued to falsely claim he won the 2020 election in several states. | Lying | 2022-01-06 | TRUMP, on the Biden administration: “”That’s what you get when you have a rigged Election.”
TRUMP: “In actuality, the Big Lie was the Election itself.”
THE FACTS: To be clear, no widespread corruption was found and no election was stolen from Trump. | |
| Trump Falsely Claims No One Died in Jan. 6 Capitol Attack | Lying | 2024-08-08 | Former President Donald J. Trump claimed at his news conference on Thursday that no one died during the violence at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. But, in fact, four of his own supporters in the crowd that day died of various causes — and others, including a Capitol Police officer, died within days.
Among those who were killed on Jan. 6 itself was Ashli Babbitt, an Air Force veteran who was shot by the police while trying to force her way into the chambers of the House of Representatives. Ms. Babbitt, who came under the influence of the QAnon conspiracy group, was trying to push her way through a door of the Speaker’s Lobby when an officer fatally shot her. | |
| "I never said repeal and replace Obamacare" | Lying | 2017-03-24 | Following the collapse of the Republican-backed American Health Care Act this afternoon, President Donald Trump appeared to backtrack on his long-held stance that President Obama's signature legislation, the Affordable Care Act, should be repealed and replaced "immediately."
“I never said -- I guess I'm here, what, 64 days? I never said repeal and replace Obamacare -- you've all heard my speeches -- I never said repeal it and replace it within 64 days," said Trump in the Oval Office Friday. "I have a long time.”
But his statement stood in stark opposition to the repeated pledge that a repeal would occur at the very start of his presidency. | |
| Trump accuses 60 Minutes of deceitful editing | Lying | 2024-10-20 | Former President Donald Trump is accusing 60 Minutes of deceitful editing of our Oct. 7 interview with Vice President Kamala Harris. That is false.
60 Minutes gave an excerpt of our interview to Face the Nation that used a longer section of her answer than that on 60 Minutes. Same question. Same answer. But a different portion of the response. When we edit any interview, whether a politician, an athlete, or movie star, we strive to be clear, accurate and on point. The portion of her answer on 60 Minutes was more succinct, which allows time for other subjects in a wide ranging 21-minute-long segment.
Remember, Mr. Trump pulled out of his interview with 60 Minutes and the vice president participate | |
| Trump says again that Americans need ID to buy groceries. They still don’t | Lying | 2019-10-04 | President Donald Trump said again on Friday that Americans need identification to buy groceries, which remains not true.
“You know, if you want to go out and buy groceries, you need identification. If you want to do almost anything you need identification. The only thing you don’t need identification for is to vote, the most important single thing you’re doing – to vote,” Trump said at a campaign rally in Lake Charles, Louisiana.
Trump added: “You know why? Because they cheat like hell, that’s why.” Voter fraud is exceedingly rare, and there is no evidence of mass cheating by Democrats.
Friday wasn’t the first time that Trump claimed Americans need identification for their grocery purchases. He said the same at a Florida rally in July 2018. | |
| Trump, at Florida rally, falsely claims ID needed to buy groceries | Lying | 2018-08-01 | President Donald Trump on Tuesday wrongly claimed that shoppers need to show photo identification to buy groceries and accused Democrats of obstructing his agenda and his Supreme Court nominee during a raucous rally aimed at bolstering two Florida Republicans ahead of the state's primary.
"If you go out and you want to buy groceries, you need a picture on a card, you need ID," he said at the event at the Florida State Fairgrounds in Tampa. "You go out and you want to buy anything, you need ID and you need your picture."
A White House spokesman did not immediately respond to questions about when the billionaire president last bought groceries or anything else himself. | |
| “I’m going to be working for you, I’m not going to have time to go play golf,” | Lying | 2020-11-11 | The website TrumpGolfCount.com has been tracking Trump's golfing activities for years and it claims that he has accumulated 285 daytime visits to golf clubs since he became president with evidence of him playing on at least 142 occasions (as of November 08, 2020). That of course comes nowhere close to Eisenhower's golf count (though it was of course easier for him to rack up his tally given that he could just pop out to the White House lawn) but it is higher than that of his predecessor. During the same period of time, Barack Obama played 105 rounds of golf. | |
| Trump denied knowing about payment to Stormy Daniels | Lying | 2018-04-05 | Trump walked back to where reporters were seated on Air Force One, and denied, when questioned, that he knew about a reported $130,000 hush money payment made by his then-lawyer Michael Cohen to Daniels, whose real name is Stefanie Clifford. | |
| Trump lies that Jan. 6 was ‘an insurrection caused by Nancy Pelosi’ | Lying | 2024-02-08 | Former President Donald Trump lied Thursday that Nancy Pelosi caused the insurrection at the Capitol on January 6, 2021, making a claim that has no basis in reality. He also repeated a previous false claim that the rioters had “no guns.” And he continued to omit critical context about what he said in his speech at a rally prior to the riot.
CLAIM: Trump said he offered 10,000 National Guard troops to Pelosi and “she now admits that she turned it down.” Referring to a video Pelosi’s daughter took that day, Trump claimed that Pelosi said, “I take full responsibility for January 6.”
THE FACTS: Trump has repeatedly and falsely claimed that he offered National Guard troops to the Capitol and that his offer was rejected. He has previously said he signed an order for 20,000 troops to go to the Capitol. | |
| "Nobody knew health care could be so complicated" | Lying | 2017-02-28 | President Donald Trump noted with some exasperation Monday the complexity of the nation’s health laws, which he’s vowed to reform as part of a bid to scrap Obamacare.
“We have come up with a solution that’s really, really I think very good,” Trump said at a meeting of the nation’s governors at the White House.
“Now, I have to tell you, it’s an unbelievably complex subject,” he added. “Nobody knew health care could be so complicated.” | |
| Grab em by the pussy | Misogyny | 2016-10-07 | “I’ve gotta use some Tic Tacs, just in case I start kissing her,” Trump says. “You know I’m automatically attracted to beautiful — I just start kissing them. It’s like a magnet. Just kiss. I don’t even wait.”
“And when you’re a star they let you do it,” Trump says. “You can do anything.”
“Whatever you want,” says another voice, apparently Bush’s.
“Grab them by the pussy,” Trump says. “You can do anything.” | |
| Trump Reposts Crude Sexual Remark About Harris on Truth Social | Misogyny | 2024-08-29 | Former President Donald J. Trump used his social-media website on Wednesday to amplify a crude remark about Vice President Kamala Harris that suggested Ms. Harris traded sexual favors to help her political career. The post, by another user on Truth Social, was an image of Ms. Harris and Hillary Clinton, Mr. Trump’s opponent in 2016. The text read: “Funny how blowjobs impacted both their careers differently...” | |
| Trump Calls MSNBC Host A 'Bimbo' After She Makes Case For Voting Against Him | Misogyny | 2024-09-21 | Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump lashed out Saturday on his social media site, Truth Social, over Friday night’s episode of “Real Time With Bill Maher.”
In a rant against the “increasingly boring” HBO talk show, Trump griped about Maher inviting on MSBNC host Stephanie Ruhle, whom the former president called a “‘dumb as a rock’ bimbo.” | |
| "I understand social media. I understand the power of Twitter. I understand the power of Facebook maybe better than almost anybody" | Narcissism | 2015-11-20 | "I understand the power of Twitter. I understand the power of Facebook maybe better than almost anybody, based on my results," said the Republican presidential candidate at a rally in South Carolina on Friday night. | |
| Trump bragged he now had tallest building in Manhattan on 9/11 | Narcissism | 2001-09-11 | “Well, it was an amazing phone call,” Mr Trump told WWOR. “I mean, 40 Wall Street actually was the second-tallest building in downtown Manhattan. And it was actually – before the World Trade Center – was the tallest. And then when they built the World Trade Center, it became known as the second-tallest, and now it’s the tallest.” | |
| "Nobody knows more about campaign finance than I do" | Narcissism | 1999-01-01 | "I think nobody knows more about campaign finance than I do, because I'm the biggest contributor.
President Donald Trump bragged about how much he knew about campaign finance law—a statement that could prove tricky, considering he's been directly implicated in campaign finance violations to which his former lawyer has pleaded guilty | |
| "I know more about people who get ratings than anyone" | Narcissism | 2012-10-01 | "The TODAY Show should call me about who to put on the show— I know more about people who get ratings than anyone." | |
| "I predicted that Osama bin Laden was coming to the United States because I knew a lot about it and I know more about it than most, believe me" | Narcissism | 2016-01-01 | "I was against the war in Iraq, OK? And I was right about it," Trump untruthfully said, as The Washington post reported in 2016. "You also know I predicted that Osama bin Laden was coming to the United States because I knew a lot about it and I know more about it than most, believe me, and I've been given credit for it." | |
| "I know more about Cory than he knows about himself" | Narcissism | 2016-07-26 | Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump quickly fired back at Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) Monday night after Booker’s speech at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia with a cryptic tweet.
Trump criticized Booker, who was considered a top contender to be presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton’s vice president, tweeting: “If Cory Booker is the future of the Democratic Party, they have no future! I know more about Cory than he knows about himself.” | |
| "I know more about courts than any human being on earth" | Narcissism | 2015-11-01 | "I know more about courts than any human being on earth. Okay?" he claimed at a rally in Texas in November 2015. | |
| “I know more about drones than anybody.” | Narcissism | 2019-01-01 | "I know more about drones than anybody. I know about every form of safety that you can have." | |
| “Nobody knows more about taxes than I do, and income than I do.” | Narcissism | 2016-05-09 | “Nobody knows more about taxes than I do, and income than I do.” | |
| “I know the details of taxes better than anybody. Better than the greatest C.P.A.” | Narcissism | 2017-12-01 | “I know the details of taxes better than anybody. Better than the greatest C.P.A.” | |
| "Nobody in the history of this country has ever known so much about infrastructure as Donald Trump." | Narcissism | 2016-07-01 | "Nobody in the history of this country has ever known so much about infrastructure as Donald Trump." | |
| "I know more about renewables than any human being on Earth" | Narcissism | 2016-04-01 | "I know more about renewables than any human being on Earth" | |
| "I know more about ISIS than the generals do" | Narcissism | 2016-06-01 | Back in his 2016 presidential campaign, then-candidate Trump made it clear that he believed himself to be more knowledgeable than the military’s leadership. “I know more about ISIS than the generals do, believe me,” he bragged in November 2015. “They don’t know much because they’re not winning,” he reiterated in June 2016. | |
| "Who knows more about lawsuits than I do? I'm the king." | Narcissism | 2016-01-10 | Because they are saying he was born in Canada. He is not allowed to run for president. And if there's that doubt, don't forget, these lawsuits -- who knows more about lawsuits than I do? I'm the king. I'm the king. | |
| Trump suggested nuking hurricanes to stop them from hitting U.S. | Policy Failure | 2019-08-25 | President Trump has suggested multiple times to senior Homeland Security and national security officials that they explore using nuclear bombs to stop hurricanes from hitting the United States, according to sources who have heard the president's private remarks and been briefed on a National Security Council memorandum that recorded those comments. | |
| Claims Mexico is sending rapists and criminals to the US | Racism | 2015-07-08 | It's true, and these are the best and the finest. When Mexico sends its people, they're not sending their best. They're not sending you. They're not sending you. They're sending people that have lots of problems, and they're bringing those problems with us. They're bringing drugs. They're bringing crime. They're rapists. And some, I assume, are good people. | |
| Donald Trump falsely suggests Kamala Harris ‘happened to turn Black’ | Racism | 2024-07-31 | Former President Donald Trump falsely claimed Wednesday that his 2024 Democratic rival, Vice President Kamala Harris, “happened to turn Black” a few years ago, saying that “all of a sudden, she made a turn” in her identity.
Trump’s comments at a gathering of Black journalists in Chicago came when an interviewer asked him whether he agreed with Republicans on Capitol Hill who have characterized Harris as a “DEI hire.” Trump responded by questioning Harris’ heritage.
“She was always of Indian heritage, and she was only promoting Indian heritage. I didn’t know she was Black until a number of years ago, when she happened to turn Black, and now she wants to be known as Black. So I don’t know, is she Indian or is she Black?” the former president said.
“I respect either one, but she obviously doesn’t, because she was Indian all the way, and then all of a sudden she made a turn and she went – she became a Black person,” he said at the National Association of Black Journalists convention. “I think somebody should look into that too.” | |
| Referred to Haiti and African nations as 'shithole' countries | Racism | 2018-01-10 | President Donald Trump questioned Thursday why the U.S. would accept more immigrants from Haiti and “shithole countries” in Africa rather than places like Norway, as he rejected a bipartisan immigration deal, according to people briefed on the extraordinary Oval Office conversation. | |
| "Muslim" Travel Ban | Racism | 2017-01-27 | President Donald Trump signed an Executive Order that banned foreign nationals from seven predominantly Muslim countries from visiting the country for 90 days, suspended entry to the country of all Syrian refugees indefinitely, and prohibited any other refugees from coming into the country for 120 days. | |
| Trump sides with Russia against FBI at Helsinki summit | Russian Asset | 2018-07-16 | At a news conference after the summit, President Trump was asked if he believed his own intelligence agencies or the Russian president when it came to the allegations of meddling in the elections.
"President Putin says it's not Russia. I don't see any reason why it would be," he replied.
US intelligence agencies concluded in 2016 that Russia was behind an effort to tip the scale of the US election against Hillary Clinton, with a state-authorised campaign of cyber attacks and fake news stories planted on social media. | |
| Lifting sanctions on Putin ally's firms | Russian Asset | 2019-01-27 | The Trump administration has lifted sanctions on three firms linked to Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska, an ally of President Vladimir Putin. | |
| Concealment of details regarding meetings with Putin | Russian Asset | 2019-01-14 | After meeting with Putin at the 2017 Group of 20 summit in Hamburg, Germany, Trump took his interpreter's notes and told him not to discuss the meeting with anyone, including other U.S. officials, the Post reported.
The paper said Trump's handling of the Hamburg meeting was "part of a broader pattern by the president of shielding his communications with Putin from public scrutiny and preventing even high-ranking officials in his own administration from fully knowing what he has told one of the United States’ main adversaries." | |
| Eric Trump: We have all the funding we need out of Russia | Russian Asset | 2017-05-08 | “So when I got in the cart with Eric,” Dodson says, “as we were setting off, I said, ‘Eric, who’s funding? I know no banks—because of the recession, the Great Recession—have touched a golf course. You know, no one’s funding any kind of golf construction. It’s dead in the water the last four or five years.’ And this is what he said. He said, ‘Well, we don’t rely on American banks. We have all the funding we need out of Russia.’ I said, ‘Really?’ And he said, ‘Oh, yeah. We’ve got some guys that really, really love golf, and they’re really invested in our programs. We just go there all the time.’ Now that was three years ago, so it was pretty interesting.” | |
| Trump blames Ukraine's Zelenskiy for starting war with Russia | Russian Asset | 2024-10-18 | Former President Donald J. Trump blamed President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine for Russia’s invasion of his country in a podcast interview released on Thursday, inverting the facts of the largest military action in Europe since the Second World War.
The war began when President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia massed troops on the border and then invaded Ukraine, sending in troops and launching airstrikes on Feb. 24, 2022. Mr. Putin had long hoped to assert more control over the country, having already seized Crimea from Ukraine in 2014 and backed pro-Russia separatists in Ukraine’s east in a proxy war.
Mr. Trump, in a rambling, muddled answer on a conservative podcast, was criticizing President Biden’s leadership when he abruptly brought up his skepticism over the administration’s continued military aid to Ukraine.
“I think Zelensky is one of the greatest salesmen I’ve ever seen,” Mr. Trump said, repeating a statement he has made frequently. “Every time he comes in, we give him $100 billion. Who else got that kind of money in history? There’s never been. And that doesn’t mean I don’t want to help him, because I feel very badly for those people. But he should never have let that war start. That war is a loser.” | |
| Donald Trump lashed out at Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy for not making concessions to Russia | Russian Asset | 2024-09-25 | Former President Donald Trump described Ukraine in bleak and mournful terms Wednesday, referring to its people as “dead” and the country itself as “demolished," and further raising questions about how much the former president would be willing if elected again to concede in a negotiation over the country's future.
Trump argued Ukraine should have made concessions to Russian President Vladimir Putin in the months before Russia's February 2022 attack, declaring that even “the worst deal would’ve been better than what we have now." | |
| Trump asked Russia to find Clinton’s emails | Russian Asset | 2016-07-27 | “Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing, I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press,” Trump said in a July 27, 2016 news conference. | |