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Structured corroboration path: PBS NewsHour (https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/abc-agrees-to-pay-15-million-to-trumps-presidential-library-to-settle-defamation-lawsuit; opened-live).", "access_status": "blocked-direct", "corroboration_url": "https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/abc-agrees-to-pay-15-million-to-trumps-presidential-library-to-settle-defamation-lawsuit", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "Associated Press", "published": "2024-12-14", "role": "independent", "type": "Independent reporting", "url": "https://apnews.com/article/abc-trump-stephanopoulos-carroll-lawsuit-settlement-15-million-8d13c719e654341eaf609112a15c6b5d" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-28", "access_notes": "ABC settlement filing: direct HTTPS audit returned HTTP 404 on 2026-08-28; no direct-open claim is made. Structured corroboration path: PBS NewsHour (https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/abc-agrees-to-pay-15-million-to-trumps-presidential-library-to-settle-defamation-lawsuit; opened-live).", "access_status": "blocked-direct", "corroboration_url": "https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/abc-agrees-to-pay-15-million-to-trumps-presidential-library-to-settle-defamation-lawsuit", "date_basis": "filing-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "ABC settlement filing", "published": "2024-12-14", "role": "primary", "type": "Settlement agreement filed in federal court", "url": "https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flsd.669625/gov.uscourts.flsd.669625.64.1.pdf" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "PBS NewsHour: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "PBS NewsHour", "published": "2024-12-14", "role": "independent", "type": "Independent reporting", "url": "https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/abc-agrees-to-pay-15-million-to-trumps-presidential-library-to-settle-defamation-lawsuit" } ], "summary": "ABC agreed to contribute $15 million to a future Trump presidential foundation and museum and pay $1 million in legal fees to settle Trump's defamation action. The agreement was a settlement, not a judicial liability finding.", "title": "ABC and Trump settled the defamation action" }, { "category": "Criminal cases", "date_precision": "day", "disposition": "The appeal was terminated as to Trump; no appellate merits ruling followed.", "disposition_source_urls": [ "https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-court-dismisses-appeal-trump-classified-documents-case-2024-11-26/", "https://abcnews.go.com/US/jack-smith-defends-appointment-special-counsel-classified-docs/story?id=116250996" ], "entity": null, "event_date": "2024-11-26", "event_date_display": "November 26, 2024", "evidence_basis": "independent-corroboration", "id": "2024-11-26-classified-documents-appeal-dropped", "last_verified": "2026-09-07", "personal_bankruptcy": null, "posture": "Government appeal terminated as to Trump", "record_kind": "criminal", "response": null, "sources": [ { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-28", "access_notes": "Reuters: direct HTTPS audit returned HTTP 401 on 2026-08-28; no direct-open claim is made. Structured corroboration path: ABC News (https://abcnews.go.com/US/jack-smith-defends-appointment-special-counsel-classified-docs/story?id=116250996; opened-live).", "access_status": "blocked-direct", "corroboration_url": "https://abcnews.go.com/US/jack-smith-defends-appointment-special-counsel-classified-docs/story?id=116250996", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "Reuters", "published": "2024-11-26", "role": "independent", "type": "Independent reporting", "url": "https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-court-dismisses-appeal-trump-classified-documents-case-2024-11-26/" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "ABC News: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30. Final URL: https://abcnews.com/US/jack-smith-defends-appointment-special-counsel-classified-docs/story?id=116250996.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "ABC News", "published": "2024-12-03", "role": "independent", "type": "Independent reporting", "url": "https://abcnews.go.com/US/jack-smith-defends-appointment-special-counsel-classified-docs/story?id=116250996" } ], "summary": "After the district court dismissed the classified-documents prosecution, the government terminated its appeal as to Trump following the 2024 election. The termination produced no appellate ruling on the dismissal or the charged facts.", "title": "Classified-documents appeal terminated as to Trump" }, { "category": "Criminal cases", "date_precision": "day", "disposition": "Dismissed without prejudice under the Justice Department's sitting-president policy; no merits trial occurred.", "disposition_source_urls": [ "https://apnews.com/article/d6172cf98d8e03e099571c908267456c", "https://www.justice.gov/storage/Report-of-Special-Counsel-Smith-Volume-1-January-2025.pdf" ], "entity": null, "event_date": "2024-11-25", "event_date_display": "November 25, 2024", "evidence_basis": "primary-plus-independent", "id": "2024-11-25-federal-election-case-dismissal", "last_verified": "2026-09-07", "personal_bankruptcy": null, "posture": "Case dismissed without a merits trial", "record_kind": "criminal", "response": null, "sources": [ { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "U.S. Department of Justice: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "filing-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "U.S. Department of Justice", "published": "2023-08-01", "role": "primary", "type": "Official record", "url": "https://www.justice.gov/storage/US_v_Trump_23_cr_257.pdf" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "Associated Press dismissal report: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30. Final URL: https://apnews.com/article/trump-capitol-riot-justice-department-jack-smith-d6172cf98d8e03e099571c908267456c.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "Associated Press dismissal report", "published": "2024-11-25", "role": "independent", "type": "Independent legal reporting", "url": "https://apnews.com/article/d6172cf98d8e03e099571c908267456c" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "U.S. Department of Justice: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "document-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "U.S. Department of Justice", "published": "2025-01-14", "role": "primary", "type": "Official record", "url": "https://www.justice.gov/storage/Report-of-Special-Counsel-Smith-Volume-1-January-2025.pdf" } ], "summary": "The Special Counsel moved to dismiss the federal 2020-election prosecution without prejudice because Justice Department policy barred prosecuting a sitting president. The court granted the motion without a merits trial.", "title": "Federal 2020-election case dismissed without prejudice" }, { "alleged_conduct_date_display": "1993", "category": "Sexual-misconduct allegations and litigation", "date_precision": "day", "disposition": "The cited sources document a public allegation, a reported corroborator, and denial, not an adjudication. The bounded review located no filed claim or merits finding through 2026-08-28.", "disposition_source_urls": [ "https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13983755/beauty-queen-beatrice-keul-donald-trump-groped-plaza-hotel.html", "https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-sexual-assault-1993-epstein-beatrice-keul-b2638620.html" ], "entity": null, "event_date": "2024-10-30", "event_date_display": "October 30, 2024", "evidence_basis": "primary-plus-independent", "id": "2024-10-30-beatrice-keul-allegation", "last_verified": "2026-09-07", "personal_bankruptcy": null, "posture": "Public allegation — not adjudicated", "record_kind": "allegation", "response": "Trump's campaign denied the account as fake, according to the cited reporting.", "sources": [ { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "Daily Mail: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30. Final URL: https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-13983755/beauty-queen-beatrice-keul-donald-trump-groped-plaza-hotel.html.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "Daily Mail", "published": "2024-10-30", "role": "primary", "type": "Original on-record claimant interview", "url": "https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13983755/beauty-queen-beatrice-keul-donald-trump-groped-plaza-hotel.html" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "The Independent: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "The Independent", "published": "2024-11-01", "role": "independent", "type": "Independent reporting", "url": "https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-sexual-assault-1993-epstein-beatrice-keul-b2638620.html" } ], "summary": "Beatrice Keul alleged in an on-record interview that Trump groped her during an encounter at New York's Plaza Hotel in 1993; she said she told a friend at the time.", "title": "Beatrice Keul's public allegation record", "topics": [ "epstein" ] }, { "alleged_conduct_date_display": "1993", "category": "Sexual-misconduct allegations and litigation", "date_precision": "day", "disposition": "The cited sources document a public allegation and denial, not an adjudication. The bounded review located no filed claim or merits finding through 2026-08-28.", "disposition_source_urls": [ "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/23/donald-trump-accuser-stacey-williams-jeffrey-epstein", "https://apnews.com/article/5ab730ec694ef47e587e8f5ca4f1ad55" ], "entity": null, "event_date": "2024-10-23", "event_date_display": "October 23, 2024", "evidence_basis": "primary-plus-independent", "id": "2024-10-23-stacey-williams-allegation", "last_verified": "2026-09-07", "personal_bankruptcy": null, "posture": "Public allegation — not adjudicated", "record_kind": "allegation", "response": "Trump campaign spokesperson Karoline Leavitt denied the allegation as false and politically motivated, according to the cited sources.", "sources": [ { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "The Guardian: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "The Guardian", "published": "2024-10-23", "role": "primary", "type": "Original claimant interview reporting", "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/23/donald-trump-accuser-stacey-williams-jeffrey-epstein" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-28", "access_notes": "Associated Press: indexed source content exposed the dated or captioned material on 2026-08-28; no direct-open claim is made.", "access_status": "indexed-content", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "Associated Press", "published": "2024-10-25", "role": "independent", "type": "Independent reporting", "url": "https://apnews.com/article/5ab730ec694ef47e587e8f5ca4f1ad55" } ], "summary": "Stacey Williams alleged in interviews that Trump groped her at Trump Tower in 1993 while Jeffrey Epstein was present.", "title": "Stacey Williams's public allegation record", "topics": [ "epstein" ] }, { "category": "Criminal cases", "date_precision": "day", "disposition": "The government terminated its appeal as to Trump on November 26, 2024 without an appellate merits ruling.", "disposition_source_urls": [ "https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-court-dismisses-appeal-trump-classified-documents-case-2024-11-26/", "https://abcnews.go.com/US/jack-smith-defends-appointment-special-counsel-classified-docs/story?id=116250996" ], "entity": null, "event_date": "2024-07-15", "event_date_display": "July 15, 2024", "evidence_basis": "primary-plus-independent", "id": "2024-07-15-classified-documents-case-dismissal", "last_verified": "2026-09-07", "personal_bankruptcy": null, "posture": "Case dismissed without a merits trial", "record_kind": "criminal", "response": null, "sources": [ { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "District-court dismissal order reproduction: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited reproduction (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30. The host is a reproduction path rather than the issuing court or agency.", "access_status": "reproduction-opened", "date_basis": "decision-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "District-court dismissal order reproduction", "published": "2024-07-15", "role": "primary", "type": "Court order reproduction", "url": "https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/24807243/trump-documents-case-dismissed.pdf" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-28", "access_notes": "Reuters: direct HTTPS audit returned HTTP 401 on 2026-08-28; no direct-open claim is made. Structured corroboration path: ABC News (https://abcnews.go.com/US/jack-smith-defends-appointment-special-counsel-classified-docs/story?id=116250996; opened-live).", "access_status": "blocked-direct", "corroboration_url": "https://abcnews.go.com/US/jack-smith-defends-appointment-special-counsel-classified-docs/story?id=116250996", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "Reuters", "published": "2024-11-26", "role": "independent", "type": "Independent reporting", "url": "https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-court-dismisses-appeal-trump-classified-documents-case-2024-11-26/" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "ABC News: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30. Final URL: https://abcnews.com/US/jack-smith-defends-appointment-special-counsel-classified-docs/story?id=116250996.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "ABC News", "published": "2024-12-03", "role": "independent", "type": "Independent reporting", "url": "https://abcnews.go.com/US/jack-smith-defends-appointment-special-counsel-classified-docs/story?id=116250996" } ], "summary": "The district court dismissed the classified-documents prosecution on the ground that the Special Counsel's appointment violated the Appointments Clause. The ruling did not adjudicate the charged facts, and the later appeal was terminated as to Trump without an appellate merits decision.", "title": "Classified-documents case dismissed by district court" }, { "category": "Criminal cases", "date_precision": "day", "disposition": "The court imposed an unconditional discharge on January 10, 2025; Trump continued to challenge the convictions.", "disposition_source_urls": [ "https://apnews.com/article/0315a0b848219932df77080288307b2c", "https://www.nycourts.gov/public-information/people-v-donald-trump-criminal" ], "entity": null, "event_date": "2024-05-30", "event_date_display": "May 30, 2024", "evidence_basis": "primary-plus-independent", "id": "2024-05-30-new-york-criminal-convictions", "last_verified": "2026-09-07", "personal_bankruptcy": null, "posture": "Criminal convictions", "record_kind": "criminal", "response": "Trump denied wrongdoing or disputed the underlying characterization, as described in the cited material.", "sources": [ { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-28", "access_notes": "Associated Press: direct HTTPS audit returned HTTP 404 on 2026-08-28; no direct-open claim is made. Structured corroboration path: Associated Press sentencing report (https://apnews.com/article/0315a0b848219932df77080288307b2c; opened-live).", "access_status": "blocked-direct", "corroboration_url": "https://apnews.com/article/0315a0b848219932df77080288307b2c", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "Associated Press", "published": "2024-05-30", "role": "independent", "type": "Independent reporting", "url": "https://apnews.com/article/trump-hush-money-trial-verdict-jury-ef1cbb4184f73600f9fdca2fdb97b44e" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-28", "access_notes": "New York Courts: direct HTTPS audit returned HTTP 403 on 2026-08-28; no direct-open claim is made. Structured corroboration path: Associated Press sentencing report (https://apnews.com/article/0315a0b848219932df77080288307b2c; opened-live).", "access_status": "blocked-direct", "corroboration_url": "https://apnews.com/article/0315a0b848219932df77080288307b2c", "date_basis": "document-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "New York Courts", "published": "2024-05-30", "role": "primary", "type": "Official record", "url": "https://www.nycourts.gov/LegacyPDFS/press/PDFs/People-v-Donald-J-Trump-Decisions.pdf" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "Associated Press sentencing report: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30. Final URL: https://apnews.com/article/trump-hush-money-sentencing-excerpts-0315a0b848219932df77080288307b2c.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "Associated Press sentencing report", "published": "2025-01-10", "role": "independent", "type": "Independent later-disposition reporting", "url": "https://apnews.com/article/0315a0b848219932df77080288307b2c" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-28", "access_notes": "New York Courts criminal-case collection: direct HTTPS audit returned HTTP 403 on 2026-08-28; indexed content exposed the dated or captioned source material. No direct-open claim is made.", "access_status": "indexed-content", "date_basis": "access-date", "date_precision": "access", "name": "New York Courts criminal-case collection", "published": "2026-08-28", "role": "primary", "type": "Official case-document collection", "url": "https://www.nycourts.gov/public-information/people-v-donald-trump-criminal" } ], "summary": "A New York jury found Trump guilty on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records. These were criminal convictions, not allegations; Trump denied wrongdoing and pursued appellate review.", "title": "New York jury returned 34 felony guilty verdicts" }, { "category": "Civil judgments and litigation", "date_precision": "day", "disposition": "The contract claims against Mary Trump remained in litigation; the media defendants stayed dismissed.", "disposition_source_urls": [ "https://case-law.vlex.com/vid/trump-v-trump-1051005322" ], "entity": null, "event_date": "2024-05-30", "event_date_display": "May 30, 2024", "evidence_basis": "independent-corroboration", "id": "2024-05-30-mary-trump-contract-claim-allowed", "last_verified": "2026-09-07", "personal_bankruptcy": null, "posture": "Documented public claim and fact-check", "record_kind": "civil", "response": null, "sources": [ { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "First Amendment Watch: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "First Amendment Watch", "published": "2023-05-04", "role": "independent", "type": "Independent reporting", "url": "https://firstamendmentwatch.org/new-york-judge-dismisses-trumps-100m-lawsuit-against-the-new-york-times/" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-28", "access_notes": "vLex opinion reproduction: direct HTTPS access was not represented as live; indexed full-text content inspected on 2026-08-28 exposed the caption, May 30, 2024 decision date, and ruling that the breach-of-contract claim could proceed. No direct-open claim is made.", "access_status": "indexed-content", "date_basis": "decision-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "Trump v. Trump appellate-opinion reproduction", "published": "2024-05-30", "role": "primary", "type": "Appellate opinion reproduction", "url": "https://case-law.vlex.com/vid/trump-v-trump-1051005322" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-28", "access_notes": "Reuters: direct HTTPS audit returned HTTP 401 on 2026-08-28; no direct-open claim is made. Structured corroboration path: Trump v. Trump appellate-opinion reproduction (https://case-law.vlex.com/vid/trump-v-trump-1051005322; indexed-content).", "access_status": "blocked-direct", "corroboration_url": "https://case-law.vlex.com/vid/trump-v-trump-1051005322", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "Reuters", "published": "2024-05-30", "role": "independent", "type": "Independent reporting", "url": "https://www.reuters.com/legal/donald-trump-can-sue-niece-over-ny-times-article-ny-appeals-court-rules-2024-05-30/" } ], "summary": "A New York appellate court allowed some contract and confidentiality claims against Mary Trump to continue while leaving the prior dismissal of claims against The New York Times and its reporters intact.", "title": "Appeals court allowed contract claims against Mary Trump to continue" }, { "category": "Elections, January 6, and institutional conduct", "date_precision": "day", "disposition": "The Supreme Court reversed the Colorado judgment; the decision did not adjudicate criminal guilt for January 6 conduct.", "disposition_source_urls": [ "https://apnews.com/article/trump-supreme-court-insurrection-colorado-ballot-2c27d8e3d739f186e1baa9d3c9da7ac2", "https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/23-719_19m2.pdf" ], "entity": null, "event_date": "2024-03-04", "event_date_display": "March 4, 2024", "evidence_basis": "primary-plus-independent", "id": "2024-03-04-trump-v-anderson", "last_verified": "2026-09-07", "personal_bankruptcy": null, "posture": "U.S. Supreme Court reversal of state ballot exclusion", "record_kind": "government", "response": null, "sources": [ { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-28", "access_notes": "Associated Press decision report: direct HTTPS audit returned HTTP 404 on 2026-08-28; no direct-open claim is made. Structured corroboration path: Trump v. Anderson opinion (https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/23-719_19m2.pdf; opened-live).", "access_status": "blocked-direct", "corroboration_url": "https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/23-719_19m2.pdf", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "Associated Press decision report", "published": "2024-03-04", "role": "independent", "type": "Independent legal reporting", "url": "https://apnews.com/article/trump-supreme-court-insurrection-colorado-ballot-2c27d8e3d739f186e1baa9d3c9da7ac2" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "Trump v. Anderson opinion: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "decision-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "Trump v. Anderson opinion", "published": "2024-03-04", "role": "primary", "type": "Supreme Court opinion", "url": "https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/23-719_19m2.pdf" } ], "summary": "The Court unanimously reversed Colorado's exclusion of Trump from the presidential primary ballot, while separate opinions disagreed about the breadth of the majority's federal-enforcement analysis.", "title": "Supreme Court held states could not enforce Section 3 against presidential candidates" }, { "category": "Civil judgments and litigation", "date_precision": "day", "disposition": "The August 2025 appellate decision vacated the monetary remedy while leaving liability and other relief in place.", "disposition_source_urls": [ "https://apnews.com/article/db39d93feff322eeeeedbc1ff75ccaf3", "https://www.nycourts.gov/reporter/3dseries/2025/2025_04756.htm" ], "entity": null, "event_date": "2024-02-16", "event_date_display": "February 16, 2024", "evidence_basis": "primary-plus-independent", "id": "2024-02-16-new-york-civil-fraud-judgment", "last_verified": "2026-09-07", "personal_bankruptcy": null, "posture": "Civil fraud liability judgment — monetary remedy later vacated on appeal", "record_kind": "civil", "response": "Trump and the other defendants denied wrongdoing, challenged the attorney general's authority and evidence, and appealed.", "sources": [ { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "Decision and Order After Non-Jury Trial: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "decision-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "Decision and Order After Non-Jury Trial", "published": "2024-02-16", "role": "primary", "type": "New York trial-court decision", "url": "https://ag.ny.gov/sites/default/files/decisions/trump-decision.pdf" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "Associated Press verdict context: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30. Final URL: https://apnews.com/article/trump-civil-fraud-trial-engoron-new-york-646814bb4945306f19a22f38fdb246a5.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "Associated Press verdict context", "published": "2024-02-16", "role": "independent", "type": "Independent legal reporting", "url": "https://apnews.com/article/646814bb4945306f19a22f38fdb246a5" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "Associated Press appellate-disposition report: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30. Final URL: https://apnews.com/article/trump-fraud-lawsuit-appeal-db39d93feff322eeeeedbc1ff75ccaf3.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "Associated Press appellate-disposition report", "published": "2025-08-21", "role": "independent", "type": "Independent later-disposition reporting", "url": "https://apnews.com/article/db39d93feff322eeeeedbc1ff75ccaf3" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-28", "access_notes": "People v. Trump appellate opinion: direct HTTPS audit returned HTTP 403 on 2026-08-28; no direct-open claim is made. Structured corroboration path: Associated Press appellate-disposition report (https://apnews.com/article/db39d93feff322eeeeedbc1ff75ccaf3; opened-live).", "access_status": "blocked-direct", "corroboration_url": "https://apnews.com/article/db39d93feff322eeeeedbc1ff75ccaf3", "date_basis": "decision-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "People v. Trump appellate opinion", "published": "2025-08-21", "role": "primary", "type": "New York appellate opinion", "url": "https://www.nycourts.gov/reporter/3dseries/2025/2025_04756.htm" } ], "summary": "After a bench trial, the court found Trump and co-defendants liable under New York civil enforcement law and imposed disgorgement and business restrictions. On August 21, 2025, the Appellate Division preserved liability but vacated the monetary awards as excessive.", "title": "New York court entered final civil fraud judgment" }, { "category": "Civil judgments and litigation", "date_precision": "day", "disposition": "A Second Circuit panel affirmed the $83.3 million award and the full court denied rehearing on April 29, 2026. A Supreme Court petition remained pending at the 2026-08-28 research cutoff.", "disposition_source_urls": [ "https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/ca2/24-644/24-644-2026-04-29.html", "https://apnews.com/article/67d4f6a25ef4914410abbf45f8c48548", "https://www.supremecourt.gov/docket/docketfiles/html/public/26-141.html" ], "entity": null, "event_date": "2024-01-26", "event_date_display": "January 26, 2024", "evidence_basis": "primary-plus-independent", "id": "2024-01-26-carroll-defamation-damages", "last_verified": "2026-09-07", "personal_bankruptcy": null, "posture": "Civil jury damages verdict", "record_kind": "civil", "response": "Trump denied wrongdoing or disputed the underlying characterization, as described in the cited material.", "sources": [ { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-28", "access_notes": "Reuters: direct HTTPS audit returned HTTP 401 on 2026-08-28; no direct-open claim is made. Structured corroboration path: Second Circuit en banc rehearing order reproduction (https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/ca2/24-644/24-644-2026-04-29.html; indexed-content).", "access_status": "blocked-direct", "corroboration_url": "https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/ca2/24-644/24-644-2026-04-29.html", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "Reuters", "published": "2024-01-26", "role": "independent", "type": "Independent reporting", "url": "https://www.reuters.com/legal/trump-must-pay-833-mln-e-jean-carroll-defamation-case-jury-says-2024-01-26/" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-28", "access_notes": "Associated Press: direct HTTPS access was not represented as live; indexed full article content inspected on 2026-08-28 exposed the April 29, 2026 date and reported the full Second Circuit denial of rehearing. No direct-open claim is made.", "access_status": "indexed-content", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "Associated Press en banc-rehearing report", "published": "2026-04-29", "role": "independent", "type": "Independent later-disposition reporting", "url": "https://apnews.com/article/67d4f6a25ef4914410abbf45f8c48548" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-28", "access_notes": "Second Circuit en banc rehearing order reproduction: direct HTTPS audit returned HTTP 403 on 2026-08-28; indexed content exposed the dated or captioned source material. No direct-open claim is made.", "access_status": "indexed-content", "date_basis": "decision-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "Second Circuit en banc rehearing order reproduction", "published": "2026-04-29", "role": "primary", "type": "Appellate order reproduction", "url": "https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/ca2/24-644/24-644-2026-04-29.html" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-28", "access_notes": "U.S. Supreme Court docket: direct access was not represented as live; indexed official docket content inspected on 2026-08-28 exposed the July 28, 2026 certiorari filing and docket status. No direct-open claim is made.", "access_status": "indexed-content", "date_basis": "filing-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "Supreme Court docket, Trump v. Carroll", "published": "2026-07-28", "role": "primary", "type": "Official Supreme Court docket", "url": "https://www.supremecourt.gov/docket/docketfiles/html/public/26-141.html" } ], "summary": "A federal civil jury awarded Carroll $83.3 million for defamatory statements Trump made after taking office. The verdict was civil, not criminal, and was distinct from the 2023 liability-and-damages verdict.", "title": "Carroll jury awarded additional defamation damages" }, { "category": "Conflicts of interest and self-dealing", "date_precision": "year", "disposition": null, "entity": null, "event_date": "2024-01-01", "event_date_display": "2024", "evidence_basis": "primary-plus-independent", "id": "2024-adelson-preserve-america-donations", "last_verified": "2026-09-07", "personal_bankruptcy": null, "posture": "Documented political contributions", "record_kind": "government", "response": null, "sources": [ { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-28", "access_notes": "www.politico.com: direct HTTPS audit returned HTTP 403 on 2026-08-28; no direct-open claim is made. Structured corroboration path: Federal Election Commission October quarterly report (https://docquery.fec.gov/pdf/027/202410159686532027/202410159686532027.pdf; opened-live).", "access_status": "blocked-direct", "corroboration_url": "https://docquery.fec.gov/pdf/027/202410159686532027/202410159686532027.pdf", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "www.politico.com", "published": "2024-05-30", "role": "independent", "type": "Independent reporting", "url": "https://www.politico.com/news/2024/05/30/miriam-adelson-republican-trump-super-pac-preserve-america-00160660" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "Federal Election Commission October quarterly report: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "filing-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "Federal Election Commission October quarterly report", "published": "2024-10-15", "role": "primary", "type": "Federal campaign-finance filing", "url": "https://docquery.fec.gov/pdf/027/202410159686532027/202410159686532027.pdf" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-28", "access_notes": "www.axios.com: direct HTTPS audit returned HTTP 403 on 2026-08-28; no direct-open claim is made. Structured corroboration path: Federal Election Commission October quarterly report (https://docquery.fec.gov/pdf/027/202410159686532027/202410159686532027.pdf; opened-live).", "access_status": "blocked-direct", "corroboration_url": "https://docquery.fec.gov/pdf/027/202410159686532027/202410159686532027.pdf", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "www.axios.com", "published": "2024-10-16", "role": "independent", "type": "Independent reporting", "url": "https://www.axios.com/2024/10/16/trump-harris-megadonors-2024" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-28", "access_notes": "www.timesofisrael.com: direct HTTPS audit returned HTTP 403 on 2026-08-28; no direct-open claim is made. Structured corroboration path: Federal Election Commission October quarterly report (https://docquery.fec.gov/pdf/027/202410159686532027/202410159686532027.pdf; opened-live).", "access_status": "blocked-direct", "corroboration_url": "https://docquery.fec.gov/pdf/027/202410159686532027/202410159686532027.pdf", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "www.timesofisrael.com", "published": "2024-10-17", "role": "independent", "type": "Independent reporting", "url": "https://www.timesofisrael.com/miriam-adelson-gives-100-million-to-trump-campaign-making-good-on-reported-pledge/" } ], "summary": "Federal disclosures and reporting documented Miriam Adelson's substantial 2024 contributions to pro-Trump political efforts. The contributions establish financial support but do not by themselves prove that a particular policy was purchased or caused by the donor.", "title": "Miriam Adelson funded pro-Trump efforts through Preserve America" }, { "category": "Civil judgments and litigation", "date_precision": "day", "disposition": "The liability ruling was not erased by the August 2025 appeal; the monetary awards were vacated.", "disposition_source_urls": [ "https://apnews.com/article/db39d93feff322eeeeedbc1ff75ccaf3", "https://www.nycourts.gov/reporter/3dseries/2025/2025_04756.htm" ], "entity": null, "event_date": "2023-09-26", "event_date_display": "September 26, 2023", "evidence_basis": "primary-plus-independent", "id": "2023-09-26-new-york-civil-fraud-summary-judgment", "last_verified": "2026-09-07", "personal_bankruptcy": null, "posture": "Partial summary judgment on standalone civil-fraud count", "record_kind": "civil", "response": "The defendants denied fraud and appealed the summary-judgment and post-trial rulings.", "sources": [ { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-28", "access_notes": "Decision on motions for summary judgment: direct HTTPS audit returned HTTP 404 on 2026-08-28; no direct-open claim is made. Structured corroboration path: Associated Press final-judgment context (https://apnews.com/article/646814bb4945306f19a22f38fdb246a5; opened-live).", "access_status": "blocked-direct", "corroboration_url": "https://apnews.com/article/646814bb4945306f19a22f38fdb246a5", "date_basis": "decision-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "Decision on motions for summary judgment", "published": "2023-09-26", "role": "primary", "type": "New York trial-court decision", "url": "https://ag.ny.gov/sites/default/files/decisions/trump-decision-20230926.pdf" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "Associated Press final-judgment context: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30. Final URL: https://apnews.com/article/trump-civil-fraud-trial-engoron-new-york-646814bb4945306f19a22f38fdb246a5.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "Associated Press final-judgment context", "published": "2024-02-16", "role": "independent", "type": "Independent legal reporting", "url": "https://apnews.com/article/646814bb4945306f19a22f38fdb246a5" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "Associated Press appellate-disposition report: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30. Final URL: https://apnews.com/article/trump-fraud-lawsuit-appeal-db39d93feff322eeeeedbc1ff75ccaf3.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "Associated Press appellate-disposition report", "published": "2025-08-21", "role": "independent", "type": "Independent later-disposition reporting", "url": "https://apnews.com/article/db39d93feff322eeeeedbc1ff75ccaf3" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-28", "access_notes": "People v. Trump appellate opinion: direct HTTPS audit returned HTTP 403 on 2026-08-28; no direct-open claim is made. Structured corroboration path: Associated Press appellate-disposition report (https://apnews.com/article/db39d93feff322eeeeedbc1ff75ccaf3; opened-live).", "access_status": "blocked-direct", "corroboration_url": "https://apnews.com/article/db39d93feff322eeeeedbc1ff75ccaf3", "date_basis": "decision-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "People v. Trump appellate opinion", "published": "2025-08-21", "role": "primary", "type": "New York appellate opinion", "url": "https://www.nycourts.gov/reporter/3dseries/2025/2025_04756.htm" } ], "summary": "The court found the attorney general had established the standalone Executive Law Section 63(12) claim at summary judgment. The remaining claims and remedies proceeded to trial; the 2025 appellate decision later preserved the liability determination while vacating the monetary awards.", "title": "Court granted partial summary judgment before the civil fraud trial" }, { "category": "Criminal cases", "date_precision": "day", "disposition": "A prosecutor appointed after disqualification of the original district attorney dismissed the remaining case in November 2025 before trial; dismissal was not an acquittal.", "disposition_source_urls": [ "https://apnews.com/article/b9000b28e65fc8ebe57f6f9cca5cc3ef", "https://www.democracydocket.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/2025-11-26-Order-granting-states-motion-for-dismissal.pdf" ], "entity": null, "event_date": "2023-08-14", "event_date_display": "August 14, 2023", "evidence_basis": "independent-corroboration", "id": "2023-08-14-georgia-election-indictment", "last_verified": "2026-09-07", "personal_bankruptcy": null, "posture": "State criminal indictment — allegations not convictions", "record_kind": "criminal", "response": "Trump denied wrongdoing and described the prosecution as politically motivated.", "sources": [ { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "TIME criminal-case status guide: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "TIME criminal-case status guide", "published": "2023-08-15", "role": "independent", "type": "Independent legal context", "url": "https://time.com/6301112/trump-criminal-cases-status/" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "PBS publication of the Georgia indictment: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "PBS publication of the Georgia indictment", "published": "2023-08-15", "role": "independent", "type": "Independent report reproducing charging document", "url": "https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/read-the-full-georgia-indictment-against-trump-and-18-allies" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "Associated Press dismissal report: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30. Final URL: https://apnews.com/article/georgia-trump-election-indictment-fani-willis-b9000b28e65fc8ebe57f6f9cca5cc3ef.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "Associated Press dismissal report", "published": "2025-11-26", "role": "independent", "type": "Independent later-disposition reporting", "url": "https://apnews.com/article/b9000b28e65fc8ebe57f6f9cca5cc3ef" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "Georgia dismissal order reproduction: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited reproduction (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30. The host is a reproduction path rather than the issuing court or agency.", "access_status": "reproduction-opened", "date_basis": "decision-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "Georgia dismissal order reproduction", "published": "2025-11-26", "role": "primary", "type": "Georgia court dismissal order reproduction", "url": "https://www.democracydocket.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/2025-11-26-Order-granting-states-motion-for-dismissal.pdf" } ], "summary": "Trump and 18 co-defendants were charged in Georgia with racketeering and election-related offenses. The indictment was an accusation, not proof. The remaining case against Trump was dismissed before trial in November 2025 and produced no conviction.", "title": "Fulton County grand jury returned election-interference indictment" }, { "category": "Criminal cases", "date_precision": "day", "disposition": "Dismissed without prejudice on November 25, 2024 because DOJ policy barred continuing the prosecution once Trump was set to return as president; no merits trial occurred.", "disposition_source_urls": [ "https://www.justice.gov/storage/Report-of-Special-Counsel-Smith-Volume-1-January-2025.pdf" ], "entity": null, "event_date": "2023-08-01", "event_date_display": "August 1, 2023", "evidence_basis": "primary-plus-independent", "id": "2023-08-01-federal-election-indictment", "last_verified": "2026-09-07", "personal_bankruptcy": null, "posture": "Federal criminal indictment — allegations not convictions", "record_kind": "criminal", "response": "Trump pleaded not guilty and denied wrongdoing.", "sources": [ { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "United States v. Trump indictment: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "filing-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "United States v. Trump indictment", "published": "2023-08-01", "role": "primary", "type": "Federal indictment", "url": "https://www.justice.gov/storage/US_v_Trump_23_cr_257.pdf" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "TIME criminal-case status guide: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "TIME criminal-case status guide", "published": "2023-08-15", "role": "independent", "type": "Independent legal context", "url": "https://time.com/6301112/trump-criminal-cases-status/" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "Special Counsel final report, volume one: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "document-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "Special Counsel final report, volume one", "published": "2025-01-14", "role": "primary", "type": "Official later-disposition report", "url": "https://www.justice.gov/storage/Report-of-Special-Counsel-Smith-Volume-1-January-2025.pdf" } ], "summary": "The indictment charged four offenses related to efforts to overturn the certified 2020 election result. Charges are allegations. The case ended without trial after the Special Counsel moved to dismiss without prejudice under Justice Department policy concerning a sitting president.", "title": "Federal grand jury charged Trump in the 2020-election case" }, { "category": "Criminal cases", "date_precision": "day", "disposition": "Dismissed by the district court on July 15, 2024; the appeal as to Trump was terminated on November 26, 2024 without an appellate merits ruling.", "disposition_source_urls": [ "https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-court-dismisses-appeal-trump-classified-documents-case-2024-11-26/", "https://abcnews.go.com/US/jack-smith-defends-appointment-special-counsel-classified-docs/story?id=116250996" ], "entity": null, "event_date": "2023-06-08", "event_date_display": "June 8, 2023", "evidence_basis": "primary-plus-independent", "id": "2023-06-08-classified-documents-indictment", "last_verified": "2026-09-07", "personal_bankruptcy": null, "posture": "Federal criminal indictment — allegations not convictions", "record_kind": "criminal", "response": "Trump pleaded not guilty and denied wrongdoing.", "sources": [ { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "United States v. Trump and Nauta indictment: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "filing-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "United States v. Trump and Nauta indictment", "published": "2023-06-08", "role": "primary", "type": "Federal indictment", "url": "https://www.justice.gov/storage/US_v_Trump-Nauta_23-80101.pdf" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "TIME criminal-case status guide: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "TIME criminal-case status guide", "published": "2023-08-15", "role": "independent", "type": "Independent legal context", "url": "https://time.com/6301112/trump-criminal-cases-status/" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-28", "access_notes": "Reuters appeal termination report: direct HTTPS audit returned HTTP 401 on 2026-08-28; no direct-open claim is made. Structured corroboration path: ABC News (https://abcnews.go.com/US/jack-smith-defends-appointment-special-counsel-classified-docs/story?id=116250996; opened-live).", "access_status": "blocked-direct", "corroboration_url": "https://abcnews.go.com/US/jack-smith-defends-appointment-special-counsel-classified-docs/story?id=116250996", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "Reuters appeal termination report", "published": "2024-11-26", "role": "independent", "type": "Independent later-disposition reporting", "url": "https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-court-dismisses-appeal-trump-classified-documents-case-2024-11-26/" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "ABC News: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30. Final URL: https://abcnews.com/US/jack-smith-defends-appointment-special-counsel-classified-docs/story?id=116250996.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "ABC News", "published": "2024-12-03", "role": "independent", "type": "Independent reporting", "url": "https://abcnews.go.com/US/jack-smith-defends-appointment-special-counsel-classified-docs/story?id=116250996" } ], "summary": "The indictment alleged unlawful retention of national-defense information and obstruction-related conduct. Charges are allegations. The district court later dismissed the case on Special Counsel appointment grounds, and the government ended its appeal as to Trump after the 2024 election.", "title": "Federal grand jury charged Trump in the classified-documents case" }, { "category": "Civil judgments and litigation", "date_precision": "day", "disposition": "The Second Circuit affirmed on December 30, 2024. The Supreme Court denied certiorari on June 29, 2026 and denied rehearing on August 17, 2026; the $5 million judgment became final.", "disposition_source_urls": [ "https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23808241-carroll-ii-verdict-form-final/", "https://www.reuters.com/legal/jury-finds-trump-sexually-abused-writer-e-jean-carroll-awards-her-5-mln-2023-05-09/", "https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/ca2/23-793/23-793-2024-12-30.html", "https://www.supremecourt.gov/docket/docketfiles/html/public/26-141.html" ], "entity": null, "event_date": "2023-05-09", "event_date_display": "May 9, 2023", "evidence_basis": "primary-plus-independent", "id": "2023-05-09-carroll-liability", "last_verified": "2026-09-07", "personal_bankruptcy": null, "posture": "Civil liability jury finding", "receipt_track": "sexual-misconduct-findings-allegations", "record_kind": "civil", "response": null, "sources": [ { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "decision-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York", "published": "2023-01-13", "role": "primary", "type": "Official record", "url": "https://www.nysd.uscourts.gov/sites/default/files/2023-01/Carroll%20II%20DI%2038%20Opinion.pdf" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "DocumentCloud court exhibit: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "document-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "DocumentCloud court exhibit", "published": "2023-05-09", "role": "primary", "type": "Court record reproduction", "url": "https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23808241-carroll-ii-verdict-form-final/" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-28", "access_notes": "Reuters civil-verdict report: direct HTTPS audit returned HTTP 401 on 2026-08-28; no direct-open claim is made. Structured corroboration path: Justia court-opinion archive (https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/ca2/23-793/23-793-2024-12-30.html; indexed-content).", "access_status": "blocked-direct", "corroboration_url": "https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/ca2/23-793/23-793-2024-12-30.html", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "Reuters civil-verdict report", "published": "2023-05-09", "role": "independent", "type": "Independent legal reporting", "url": "https://www.reuters.com/legal/jury-finds-trump-sexually-abused-writer-e-jean-carroll-awards-her-5-mln-2023-05-09/" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-28", "access_notes": "Justia court-opinion archive: direct HTTPS audit returned HTTP 403 on 2026-08-28; indexed content exposed the dated or captioned source material. No direct-open claim is made.", "access_status": "indexed-content", "date_basis": "decision-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "Justia court-opinion archive", "published": "2024-12-30", "role": "primary", "type": "Court record reproduction", "url": "https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/ca2/23-793/23-793-2024-12-30.html" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "Supreme Court docket, Trump v. Carroll: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "document-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "Supreme Court docket, Trump v. Carroll", "published": "2026-08-17", "role": "primary", "type": "Official later-disposition docket", "url": "https://www.supremecourt.gov/docket/docketfiles/html/public/26-141.html" } ], "summary": "A federal civil jury found Trump liable for sexually abusing Carroll and defaming her and awarded $5 million. Judge Lewis Kaplan later explained that the jury did not find rape under the narrow New York Penal Law definition used on the verdict form, but that it necessarily found Trump raped Carroll in the ordinary modern meaning of the word. This remains a civil liability finding, not a criminal conviction.", "title": "Carroll jury found civil liability for sexual abuse and defamation", "topics": [ "conduct", "sexual-misconduct" ] }, { "category": "Civil judgments and litigation", "date_precision": "day", "disposition": "The claims against The Times and its reporters were dismissed; the separate Mary Trump claims continued in part.", "disposition_source_urls": [ "https://firstamendmentwatch.org/new-york-judge-dismisses-trumps-100m-lawsuit-against-the-new-york-times/", "https://www.reuters.com/legal/donald-trump-can-sue-niece-over-ny-times-article-ny-appeals-court-rules-2024-05-30/" ], "entity": null, "event_date": "2023-05-03", "event_date_display": "May 3, 2023", "evidence_basis": "independent-corroboration", "id": "2023-05-03-new-york-times-claims-dismissed", "last_verified": "2026-09-07", "personal_bankruptcy": null, "posture": "Claims dismissed", "record_kind": "civil", "response": null, "sources": [ { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "First Amendment Watch: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "First Amendment Watch", "published": "2023-05-04", "role": "independent", "type": "Independent reporting", "url": "https://firstamendmentwatch.org/new-york-judge-dismisses-trumps-100m-lawsuit-against-the-new-york-times/" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-28", "access_notes": "Reuters: direct HTTPS audit returned HTTP 401 on 2026-08-28; no direct-open claim is made. Structured corroboration path: First Amendment Watch (https://firstamendmentwatch.org/new-york-judge-dismisses-trumps-100m-lawsuit-against-the-new-york-times/; opened-live).", "access_status": "blocked-direct", "corroboration_url": "https://firstamendmentwatch.org/new-york-judge-dismisses-trumps-100m-lawsuit-against-the-new-york-times/", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "Reuters", "published": "2024-05-30", "role": "independent", "type": "Independent reporting", "url": "https://www.reuters.com/legal/donald-trump-can-sue-niece-over-ny-times-article-ny-appeals-court-rules-2024-05-30/" } ], "summary": "The court dismissed Trump's claims against The New York Times and its reporters arising from reporting based on records supplied by Mary Trump. Contract-related claims against Mary Trump followed a separate procedural path.", "title": "Court dismissed claims against The New York Times and its reporters" }, { "category": "Criminal cases", "date_precision": "day", "disposition": "A jury convicted Trump on all 34 counts in May 2024. In January 2025 the court imposed an unconditional discharge; appeals followed.", "disposition_source_urls": [ "https://apnews.com/article/0315a0b848219932df77080288307b2c", "https://www.nycourts.gov/public-information/people-v-donald-trump-criminal" ], "entity": null, "event_date": "2023-04-04", "event_date_display": "April 4, 2023", "evidence_basis": "primary-plus-independent", "id": "2023-04-04-new-york-criminal-indictment", "last_verified": "2026-09-07", "personal_bankruptcy": null, "posture": "State criminal charges filed — allegations not convictions", "record_kind": "criminal", "response": "Trump pleaded not guilty and denied wrongdoing.", "sources": [ { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "Manhattan district attorney indictment announcement: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "Manhattan district attorney indictment announcement", "published": "2023-04-04", "role": "primary", "type": "Prosecutor release and charging record", "url": "https://manhattanda.org/district-attorney-bragg-announces-34-count-felony-indictment-of-former-president-donald-j-trump/" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "TIME criminal-case status guide: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "TIME criminal-case status guide", "published": "2023-08-15", "role": "independent", "type": "Independent legal context", "url": "https://time.com/6301112/trump-criminal-cases-status/" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-28", "access_notes": "Associated Press verdict report: direct HTTPS audit returned HTTP 404 on 2026-08-28; no direct-open claim is made. Structured corroboration path: Associated Press sentencing report (https://apnews.com/article/0315a0b848219932df77080288307b2c; opened-live).", "access_status": "blocked-direct", "corroboration_url": "https://apnews.com/article/0315a0b848219932df77080288307b2c", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "Associated Press verdict report", "published": "2024-05-30", "role": "independent", "type": "Independent later-disposition reporting", "url": "https://apnews.com/article/trump-hush-money-trial-verdict-jury-ef1cbb4184f73600f9fdca2fdb97b44e" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "Associated Press sentencing report: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30. Final URL: https://apnews.com/article/trump-hush-money-sentencing-excerpts-0315a0b848219932df77080288307b2c.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "Associated Press sentencing report", "published": "2025-01-10", "role": "independent", "type": "Independent later-disposition reporting", "url": "https://apnews.com/article/0315a0b848219932df77080288307b2c" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-28", "access_notes": "New York Courts criminal-case collection: direct HTTPS audit returned HTTP 403 on 2026-08-28; indexed content exposed the dated or captioned source material. No direct-open claim is made.", "access_status": "indexed-content", "date_basis": "access-date", "date_precision": "access", "name": "New York Courts criminal-case collection", "published": "2026-08-28", "role": "primary", "type": "Official case-document collection", "url": "https://www.nycourts.gov/public-information/people-v-donald-trump-criminal" } ], "summary": "Trump was arraigned on 34 counts of falsifying business records. The charging event was an allegation stage; a jury later returned guilty verdicts on all counts on May 30, 2024.", "title": "New York court unsealed a 34-count felony indictment" }, { "category": "Civil judgments and litigation", "date_precision": "day", "disposition": "The court imposed monetary sanctions after the underlying action had been dismissed with prejudice.", "disposition_source_urls": [ "https://caselaw.findlaw.com/court/us-dis-crt-sd-flo/2181258.html", "https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/trump-clinton-sanctions.pdf", "https://www.reuters.com/legal/trump-lawyers-sanctioned-nearly-1-million-political-lawsuit-vs-clinton-2023-01-20/" ], "entity": null, "event_date": "2023-01-19", "event_date_display": "January 19, 2023", "evidence_basis": "primary-plus-independent", "id": "2023-01-19-clinton-lawsuit-sanctions", "last_verified": "2026-09-07", "personal_bankruptcy": null, "posture": "Sanctions or enforcement action", "record_kind": "civil", "response": null, "sources": [ { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-28", "access_notes": "Reuters: direct HTTPS audit returned HTTP 401 on 2026-08-28; no direct-open claim is made. Structured corroboration path: Trump v. Clinton sanctions opinion reproduction (https://caselaw.findlaw.com/court/us-dis-crt-sd-flo/2181258.html; indexed-content).", "access_status": "blocked-direct", "corroboration_url": "https://caselaw.findlaw.com/court/us-dis-crt-sd-flo/2181258.html", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "Reuters", "published": "2022-09-09", "role": "independent", "type": "Independent reporting", "url": "https://www.reuters.com/legal/judge-dismisses-trump-lawsuit-against-clinton-over-2016-russia-allegations-2022-09-09/" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-28", "access_notes": "FindLaw reproduction: direct HTTPS audit returned HTTP 403 on 2026-08-28; indexed full-text content exposed the caption, January 19, 2023 decision date, sanctions ruling, and opinion text. No direct-open claim is made.", "access_status": "indexed-content", "date_basis": "decision-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "Trump v. Clinton sanctions opinion reproduction", "published": "2023-01-19", "role": "primary", "type": "Court opinion reproduction", "url": "https://caselaw.findlaw.com/court/us-dis-crt-sd-flo/2181258.html" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-28", "access_notes": "Federal sanctions order: direct HTTPS audit returned HTTP 404 on 2026-08-28; no direct-open claim is made. Structured corroboration path: Trump v. Clinton sanctions opinion reproduction (https://caselaw.findlaw.com/court/us-dis-crt-sd-flo/2181258.html; indexed-content).", "access_status": "blocked-direct", "corroboration_url": "https://caselaw.findlaw.com/court/us-dis-crt-sd-flo/2181258.html", "date_basis": "decision-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "Federal sanctions order", "published": "2023-01-19", "role": "primary", "type": "Federal court order reproduction", "url": "https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/trump-clinton-sanctions.pdf" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-28", "access_notes": "Reuters: direct HTTPS audit returned HTTP 401 on 2026-08-28; no direct-open claim is made. Structured corroboration path: Trump v. Clinton sanctions opinion reproduction (https://caselaw.findlaw.com/court/us-dis-crt-sd-flo/2181258.html; indexed-content).", "access_status": "blocked-direct", "corroboration_url": "https://caselaw.findlaw.com/court/us-dis-crt-sd-flo/2181258.html", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "Reuters", "published": "2023-01-20", "role": "independent", "type": "Independent reporting", "url": "https://www.reuters.com/legal/trump-lawyers-sanctioned-nearly-1-million-political-lawsuit-vs-clinton-2023-01-20/" } ], "summary": "After dismissing Trump's civil action against Hillary Clinton and others, the federal court imposed sanctions on Trump and his lead counsel for litigation the court found abusive and unsupported. The finding was specific to that civil action.", "title": "Federal court sanctioned Trump and counsel over the Clinton action" }, { "category": "Consumer, charity, tax, and regulatory matters", "date_precision": "day", "disposition": "The court imposed $810,000 on The Trump Corporation and $800,000 on Trump Payroll Corporation.", "disposition_source_urls": [ "https://apnews.com/article/e2f1d01525dafb64be8738c8b4f32085", "https://www.manhattanda.org/d-a-bragg-trump-corporation-trump-payroll-corp-sentenced-to-pay-maximum-fines-under-law-following-felony-trial-conviction/" ], "entity": "The Trump Corporation; Trump Payroll Corporation", "event_date": "2023-01-13", "event_date_display": "January 13, 2023", "evidence_basis": "primary-plus-independent", "id": "2023-01-13-trump-corporation-sentencing", "last_verified": "2026-09-07", "personal_bankruptcy": null, "posture": "Corporate criminal sentencing — Trump was not personally on trial", "record_kind": "civil", "response": "The companies disputed prosecutors' characterization and attributed the scheme to Allen Weisselberg; Trump denied knowing of the untaxed compensation.", "sources": [ { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "Associated Press sentencing report: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30. Final URL: https://apnews.com/article/politics-legal-proceedings-new-york-city-donald-trump-manhattan-e2f1d01525dafb64be8738c8b4f32085.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "Associated Press sentencing report", "published": "2023-01-13", "role": "independent", "type": "Independent reporting", "url": "https://apnews.com/article/e2f1d01525dafb64be8738c8b4f32085" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "Manhattan district attorney sentencing release: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30. Final URL: https://manhattanda.org/d-a-bragg-trump-corporation-trump-payroll-corp-sentenced-to-pay-maximum-fines-under-law-following-felony-trial-conviction/.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "Manhattan district attorney sentencing release", "published": "2023-01-13", "role": "primary", "type": "Prosecutor sentencing record", "url": "https://www.manhattanda.org/d-a-bragg-trump-corporation-trump-payroll-corp-sentenced-to-pay-maximum-fines-under-law-following-felony-trial-conviction/" } ], "summary": "The Trump Corporation and Trump Payroll Corporation were ordered to pay a combined $1.61 million after their corporate convictions. Donald Trump was not a defendant in this corporate prosecution and was not personally convicted in it.", "title": "Two Trump Organization entities received the maximum statutory fines" }, { "category": "Documented falsehood campaigns and institutional attacks", "date_precision": "day", "disposition": "The committee completed its work and transferred records; prosecutorial decisions remained with the Justice Department.", "disposition_source_urls": [ "https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/read-the-final-report-from-the-jan-6-committee", "https://www.govinfo.gov/collection/january-6th-committee-final-report" ], "entity": null, "event_date": "2022-12-22", "event_date_display": "December 22, 2022", "evidence_basis": "primary-plus-independent", "id": "2022-12-22-january-6-committee-report", "last_verified": "2026-09-07", "personal_bankruptcy": null, "posture": "Dated official or institutional report", "record_kind": "government", "response": "Supporters or defenders disputed the critical interpretation; the record preserves the attributed finding or analysis rather than converting it into a court judgment.", "sources": [ { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "PBS NewsHour: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "PBS NewsHour", "published": "2022-12-23", "role": "independent", "type": "Independent reporting", "url": "https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/read-the-final-report-from-the-jan-6-committee" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "GovInfo: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "access-date", "date_precision": "access", "name": "GovInfo", "published": "2026-08-30", "role": "primary", "type": "Official record", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/collection/january-6th-committee-final-report" } ], "summary": "The House January 6 Select Committee issued its final report describing its factual findings and legislative recommendations. These were congressional findings, not a criminal-court judgment.", "title": "January 6 Committee issued its final report" }, { "category": "Elections, January 6, and institutional conduct", "date_precision": "day", "disposition": "DOJ made its own charging decisions; the later federal case was dismissed without trial in November 2024 under sitting-president policy.", "disposition_source_urls": [ "https://apnews.com/article/d6172cf98d8e03e099571c908267456c", "https://www.justice.gov/storage/Report-of-Special-Counsel-Smith-Volume-1-January-2025.pdf" ], "entity": null, "event_date": "2022-12-19", "event_date_display": "December 19, 2022", "evidence_basis": "primary-plus-independent", "id": "2022-12-19-january-6-criminal-referrals", "last_verified": "2026-09-07", "personal_bankruptcy": null, "posture": "Congressional referrals — recommendations, not charges", "record_kind": "government", "response": "Trump and allies disputed the committee's legitimacy and conclusions.", "sources": [ { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "PBS committee-report context: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "PBS committee-report context", "published": "2022-12-23", "role": "independent", "type": "Independent reporting", "url": "https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/read-the-final-report-from-the-jan-6-committee" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "Associated Press federal-case dismissal report: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30. Final URL: https://apnews.com/article/trump-capitol-riot-justice-department-jack-smith-d6172cf98d8e03e099571c908267456c.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "Associated Press federal-case dismissal report", "published": "2024-11-25", "role": "independent", "type": "Independent later-disposition reporting", "url": "https://apnews.com/article/d6172cf98d8e03e099571c908267456c" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "Special Counsel Smith Volume One report: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "document-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "Special Counsel Smith Volume One report", "published": "2025-01-14", "role": "primary", "type": "Official later-disposition report", "url": "https://www.justice.gov/storage/Report-of-Special-Counsel-Smith-Volume-1-January-2025.pdf" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "January 6 Committee final-report collection: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "access-date", "date_precision": "access", "name": "January 6 Committee final-report collection", "published": "2026-08-30", "role": "primary", "type": "Congressional record", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/collection/january-6th-committee-final-report" } ], "summary": "The committee recommended that the Justice Department consider four federal offenses. A congressional referral is not a criminal charge or conviction and did not bind prosecutors.", "title": "January 6 Committee voted to refer Trump to DOJ" }, { "category": "Consumer, charity, tax, and regulatory matters", "date_precision": "day", "disposition": "The two entities were sentenced to combined maximum fines on January 13, 2023.", "disposition_source_urls": [ "https://www.manhattanda.org/d-a-bragg-trump-corporation-trump-payroll-corp-convicted-on-all-counts-in-manhattan-d-a-s-criminal-tax-fraud-case/", "https://apnews.com/article/e2f1d01525dafb64be8738c8b4f32085" ], "entity": "The Trump Corporation; Trump Payroll Corporation", "event_date": "2022-12-06", "event_date_display": "December 6, 2022", "evidence_basis": "primary-plus-independent", "id": "2022-12-06-trump-corporation-convictions", "last_verified": "2026-09-07", "personal_bankruptcy": null, "posture": "Corporate criminal convictions — Trump was not personally on trial", "record_kind": "civil", "response": "The companies said Weisselberg acted for himself; Trump denied knowledge of illegal tax evasion.", "sources": [ { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-28", "access_notes": "Manhattan district attorney conviction release: direct HTTPS audit returned HTTP 404 on 2026-08-28; no direct-open claim is made. Structured corroboration path: Associated Press sentencing and conviction context (https://apnews.com/article/e2f1d01525dafb64be8738c8b4f32085; opened-live).", "access_status": "blocked-direct", "corroboration_url": "https://apnews.com/article/e2f1d01525dafb64be8738c8b4f32085", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "Manhattan district attorney conviction release", "published": "2022-12-06", "role": "primary", "type": "Prosecutor verdict record", "url": "https://www.manhattanda.org/d-a-bragg-trump-corporation-trump-payroll-corp-convicted-on-all-counts-in-manhattan-d-a-s-criminal-tax-fraud-case/" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "Associated Press sentencing and conviction context: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30. Final URL: https://apnews.com/article/politics-legal-proceedings-new-york-city-donald-trump-manhattan-e2f1d01525dafb64be8738c8b4f32085.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "Associated Press sentencing and conviction context", "published": "2023-01-13", "role": "independent", "type": "Independent reporting", "url": "https://apnews.com/article/e2f1d01525dafb64be8738c8b4f32085" } ], "summary": "A New York jury convicted The Trump Corporation and Trump Payroll Corporation on 17 felony counts tied to executive compensation and tax reporting. Donald Trump was not personally charged or convicted in this corporate trial.", "title": "Jury convicted two Trump Organization entities on tax-fraud counts" }, { "category": "Civil judgments and litigation", "date_precision": "day", "disposition": "Partial liability was adjudicated in September 2023 and a final trial judgment entered in February 2024; monetary awards were vacated on appeal in August 2025 while liability remained.", "disposition_source_urls": [ "https://apnews.com/article/db39d93feff322eeeeedbc1ff75ccaf3", "https://www.nycourts.gov/reporter/3dseries/2025/2025_04756.htm" ], "entity": null, "event_date": "2022-09-21", "event_date_display": "September 21, 2022", "evidence_basis": "primary-plus-independent", "id": "2022-09-21-new-york-civil-fraud-complaint", "last_verified": "2026-09-07", "personal_bankruptcy": null, "posture": "Civil enforcement complaint — allegations not findings", "record_kind": "civil", "response": "Trump and the other defendants denied wrongdoing and called the case politically motivated.", "sources": [ { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "New York attorney general complaint announcement: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "New York attorney general complaint announcement", "published": "2022-09-21", "role": "primary", "type": "Official civil complaint release", "url": "https://ag.ny.gov/press-release/2022/attorney-general-james-sues-donald-trump-years-financial-fraud" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "Associated Press final-judgment context: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30. Final URL: https://apnews.com/article/trump-civil-fraud-trial-engoron-new-york-646814bb4945306f19a22f38fdb246a5.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "Associated Press final-judgment context", "published": "2024-02-16", "role": "independent", "type": "Independent legal reporting", "url": "https://apnews.com/article/646814bb4945306f19a22f38fdb246a5" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "Associated Press appellate-disposition report: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30. Final URL: https://apnews.com/article/trump-fraud-lawsuit-appeal-db39d93feff322eeeeedbc1ff75ccaf3.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "Associated Press appellate-disposition report", "published": "2025-08-21", "role": "independent", "type": "Independent later-disposition reporting", "url": "https://apnews.com/article/db39d93feff322eeeeedbc1ff75ccaf3" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-28", "access_notes": "People v. Trump appellate opinion: direct HTTPS audit returned HTTP 403 on 2026-08-28; no direct-open claim is made. Structured corroboration path: Associated Press appellate-disposition report (https://apnews.com/article/db39d93feff322eeeeedbc1ff75ccaf3; opened-live).", "access_status": "blocked-direct", "corroboration_url": "https://apnews.com/article/db39d93feff322eeeeedbc1ff75ccaf3", "date_basis": "decision-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "People v. Trump appellate opinion", "published": "2025-08-21", "role": "primary", "type": "New York appellate opinion", "url": "https://www.nycourts.gov/reporter/3dseries/2025/2025_04756.htm" } ], "summary": "The complaint alleged persistent misrepresentations in statements of financial condition. Filing a complaint did not establish liability; later summary-judgment and trial decisions did, subject to appeal.", "title": "New York attorney general filed the financial-statements action" }, { "category": "Civil judgments and litigation", "date_precision": "day", "disposition": "Dismissed with prejudice; the later sanctions order was a separate adjudication.", "disposition_source_urls": [ "https://dockets.justia.com/docket/florida/flsdce/2%3A2022cv14102/610157", "https://www.reuters.com/legal/judge-dismisses-trump-lawsuit-against-clinton-over-2016-russia-allegations-2022-09-09/", "https://caselaw.findlaw.com/court/us-dis-crt-sd-flo/2181258.html", "https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/trump-clinton-sanctions.pdf" ], "entity": null, "event_date": "2022-09-08", "event_date_display": "September 8, 2022", "evidence_basis": "primary-plus-independent", "id": "2022-09-08-clinton-lawsuit-dismissed", "last_verified": "2026-09-07", "personal_bankruptcy": null, "posture": "Federal civil complaint dismissed with prejudice", "record_kind": "civil", "response": null, "sources": [ { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-28", "access_notes": "Justia docket reproduction: direct HTTPS audit returned HTTP 403 on 2026-08-28; indexed docket content exposed the September 8, 2022 dismissal entry and case metadata. No direct-open claim is made.", "access_status": "indexed-content", "date_basis": "decision-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "Trump v. Clinton federal docket reproduction", "published": "2022-09-08", "role": "primary", "type": "Federal docket reproduction", "url": "https://dockets.justia.com/docket/florida/flsdce/2%3A2022cv14102/610157" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-28", "access_notes": "Reuters dismissal report: direct HTTPS audit returned HTTP 401 on 2026-08-28; no direct-open claim is made. Structured corroboration path: Trump v. Clinton federal docket reproduction (https://dockets.justia.com/docket/florida/flsdce/2%3A2022cv14102/610157; indexed-content).", "access_status": "blocked-direct", "corroboration_url": "https://dockets.justia.com/docket/florida/flsdce/2%3A2022cv14102/610157", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "Reuters dismissal report", "published": "2022-09-09", "role": "independent", "type": "Independent legal reporting", "url": "https://www.reuters.com/legal/judge-dismisses-trump-lawsuit-against-clinton-over-2016-russia-allegations-2022-09-09/" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-28", "access_notes": "FindLaw reproduction: direct HTTPS audit returned HTTP 403 on 2026-08-28; indexed full-text content exposed the caption, January 19, 2023 decision date, sanctions ruling, and opinion text. No direct-open claim is made.", "access_status": "indexed-content", "date_basis": "decision-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "Trump v. Clinton sanctions opinion reproduction", "published": "2023-01-19", "role": "primary", "type": "Court opinion reproduction", "url": "https://caselaw.findlaw.com/court/us-dis-crt-sd-flo/2181258.html" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-28", "access_notes": "Federal sanctions order: direct HTTPS audit returned HTTP 404 on 2026-08-28; no direct-open claim is made. Structured corroboration path: Trump v. Clinton sanctions opinion reproduction (https://caselaw.findlaw.com/court/us-dis-crt-sd-flo/2181258.html; indexed-content).", "access_status": "blocked-direct", "corroboration_url": "https://caselaw.findlaw.com/court/us-dis-crt-sd-flo/2181258.html", "date_basis": "decision-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "Federal sanctions order", "published": "2023-01-19", "role": "primary", "type": "Federal court order reproduction", "url": "https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/trump-clinton-sanctions.pdf" } ], "summary": "The court dismissed the action with prejudice, concluding that the pleaded claims were untimely or failed to state legally cognizable claims. A separate January 2023 order later imposed sanctions.", "title": "Court dismissed Trump's RICO action against Clinton and others" }, { "category": "Civil judgments and litigation", "date_precision": "day", "disposition": "The nonreliance notice was an accounting position, not a standalone adjudication.", "disposition_source_urls": [ "https://ag.ny.gov/sites/default/files/2022.02.17_-_nyscef_740_-_mazars_letter.pdf", "https://apnews.com/article/business-new-york-donald-trump-accounting-fraud-1315da94475d30f0f05a96c4f6d241b6", "https://www.finance.senate.gov/chairmans-news/wyden-presses-trump-accounting-firm-on-trump-taxes" ], "entity": null, "event_date": "2022-02-09", "event_date_display": "February 9, 2022", "evidence_basis": "primary-plus-independent", "id": "2022-02-09-mazars-nonreliance-letter", "last_verified": "2026-09-07", "personal_bankruptcy": null, "posture": "Accounting-firm nonreliance notice", "record_kind": "civil", "response": null, "sources": [ { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-28", "access_notes": "ag.ny.gov: direct HTTPS audit returned HTTP 404 on 2026-08-28; no direct-open claim is made. Structured corroboration path: U.S. Senate Finance Committee letter concerning Mazars (https://www.finance.senate.gov/chairmans-news/wyden-presses-trump-accounting-firm-on-trump-taxes; indexed-content).", "access_status": "blocked-direct", "corroboration_url": "https://www.finance.senate.gov/chairmans-news/wyden-presses-trump-accounting-firm-on-trump-taxes", "date_basis": "document-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "ag.ny.gov", "published": "2022-02-09", "role": "primary", "type": "Official record", "url": "https://ag.ny.gov/sites/default/files/2022.02.17_-_nyscef_740_-_mazars_letter.pdf" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-28", "access_notes": "Associated Press: direct HTTPS audit returned HTTP 404 on 2026-08-28; no direct-open claim is made. Structured corroboration path: U.S. Senate Finance Committee letter concerning Mazars (https://www.finance.senate.gov/chairmans-news/wyden-presses-trump-accounting-firm-on-trump-taxes; indexed-content).", "access_status": "blocked-direct", "corroboration_url": "https://www.finance.senate.gov/chairmans-news/wyden-presses-trump-accounting-firm-on-trump-taxes", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "Associated Press", "published": "2022-02-09", "role": "independent", "type": "Independent reporting", "url": "https://apnews.com/article/business-new-york-donald-trump-accounting-fraud-1315da94475d30f0f05a96c4f6d241b6" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-28", "access_notes": "Senate Finance Committee: direct HTTPS audit returned HTTP 403 on 2026-08-28; indexed page content exposed the May 24, 2022 date and described Mazars' February 9 nonreliance letter. No direct-open claim is made.", "access_status": "indexed-content", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "U.S. Senate Finance Committee letter concerning Mazars", "published": "2022-05-24", "role": "primary", "type": "Congressional release", "url": "https://www.finance.senate.gov/chairmans-news/wyden-presses-trump-accounting-firm-on-trump-taxes" } ], "summary": "Mazars informed the Trump Organization that financial statements for 2011 through 2020 should no longer be relied upon. The letter was an accounting-firm nonreliance notice, not an independent judicial fraud finding.", "title": "Mazars withdrew reliance on financial statements from 2011–2020" }, { "category": "Documented falsehood campaigns and institutional attacks", "date_precision": "day", "disposition": "The Justice Department adopted a revised policy limiting compulsory process against journalists.", "disposition_source_urls": [ "https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/us-justice-dept-says-it-will-no-longer-seize-reporters-records-leak-2021-06-05/" ], "entity": null, "event_date": "2021-06-05", "event_date_display": "June 5, 2021", "evidence_basis": "independent-corroboration", "id": "2021-06-05-doj-reporter-records-policy-change", "last_verified": "2026-09-07", "personal_bankruptcy": null, "posture": "Dated official or institutional report", "record_kind": "government", "response": null, "sources": [ { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-28", "access_notes": "The Washington Post: direct HTTPS audit returned curl exit 92 on 2026-08-28; no direct-open claim is made. Structured corroboration path: pressfreedomtracker.us (https://pressfreedomtracker.us/all-incidents/justice-department-attempts-to-seize-email-records-of-four-new-york-times-reporters/; opened-live).", "access_status": "blocked-direct", "corroboration_url": "https://pressfreedomtracker.us/all-incidents/justice-department-attempts-to-seize-email-records-of-four-new-york-times-reporters/", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "The Washington Post", "published": "2021-05-07", "role": "independent", "type": "Independent reporting", "url": "https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/trump-justice-dept-seized-post-reporters-phone-records/2021/05/07/933cdfc6-af5b-11eb-b476-c3b287e52a01_story.html" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "pressfreedomtracker.us: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "pressfreedomtracker.us", "published": "2021-06-04", "role": "analysis", "type": "Institutional or advocacy analysis", "url": "https://pressfreedomtracker.us/all-incidents/justice-department-attempts-to-seize-email-records-of-four-new-york-times-reporters/" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-28", "access_notes": "Reuters: direct HTTPS audit returned HTTP 401 on 2026-08-28; no direct-open claim is made. Structured corroboration path: pressfreedomtracker.us (https://pressfreedomtracker.us/all-incidents/justice-department-attempts-to-seize-email-records-of-four-new-york-times-reporters/; opened-live).", "access_status": "blocked-direct", "corroboration_url": "https://pressfreedomtracker.us/all-incidents/justice-department-attempts-to-seize-email-records-of-four-new-york-times-reporters/", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "Reuters", "published": "2021-06-05", "role": "independent", "type": "Independent reporting", "url": "https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/us-justice-dept-says-it-will-no-longer-seize-reporters-records-leak-2021-06-05/" } ], "summary": "After disclosures that the Justice Department had obtained journalists' communications records in leak investigations, the department announced that it would change its policy and stop using compulsory process to obtain reporters' source information in routine leak investigations.", "title": "DOJ changed policy on obtaining reporters' records" }, { "category": "Documented falsehood campaigns and institutional attacks", "date_precision": "day", "disposition": "The Justice Department announced a policy change the following month.", "disposition_source_urls": [ "https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/trump-justice-dept-seized-post-reporters-phone-records/2021/05/07/933cdfc6-af5b-11eb-b476-c3b287e52a01_story.html", "https://pressfreedomtracker.us/all-incidents/justice-department-attempts-to-seize-email-records-of-four-new-york-times-reporters/", "https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/us-justice-dept-says-it-will-no-longer-seize-reporters-records-leak-2021-06-05/" ], "entity": null, "event_date": "2021-05-07", "event_date_display": "May 7, 2021", "evidence_basis": "independent-corroboration", "id": "2021-05-07-doj-journalist-records-disclosure", "last_verified": "2026-09-07", "personal_bankruptcy": null, "posture": "Later disclosure of prior government action", "record_kind": "government", "response": null, "sources": [ { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-28", "access_notes": "The Washington Post: direct HTTPS audit returned curl exit 92 on 2026-08-28; no direct-open claim is made. Structured corroboration path: pressfreedomtracker.us (https://pressfreedomtracker.us/all-incidents/justice-department-attempts-to-seize-email-records-of-four-new-york-times-reporters/; opened-live).", "access_status": "blocked-direct", "corroboration_url": "https://pressfreedomtracker.us/all-incidents/justice-department-attempts-to-seize-email-records-of-four-new-york-times-reporters/", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "The Washington Post", "published": "2021-05-07", "role": "independent", "type": "Independent reporting", "url": "https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/trump-justice-dept-seized-post-reporters-phone-records/2021/05/07/933cdfc6-af5b-11eb-b476-c3b287e52a01_story.html" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "pressfreedomtracker.us: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "pressfreedomtracker.us", "published": "2021-06-04", "role": "analysis", "type": "Institutional or advocacy analysis", "url": "https://pressfreedomtracker.us/all-incidents/justice-department-attempts-to-seize-email-records-of-four-new-york-times-reporters/" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-28", "access_notes": "Reuters: direct HTTPS audit returned HTTP 401 on 2026-08-28; no direct-open claim is made. Structured corroboration path: pressfreedomtracker.us (https://pressfreedomtracker.us/all-incidents/justice-department-attempts-to-seize-email-records-of-four-new-york-times-reporters/; opened-live).", "access_status": "blocked-direct", "corroboration_url": "https://pressfreedomtracker.us/all-incidents/justice-department-attempts-to-seize-email-records-of-four-new-york-times-reporters/", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "Reuters", "published": "2021-06-05", "role": "independent", "type": "Independent reporting", "url": "https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/us-justice-dept-says-it-will-no-longer-seize-reporters-records-leak-2021-06-05/" } ], "summary": "News organizations disclosed that the Justice Department had secretly obtained journalists' communications records during Trump-era leak investigations. The later policy change is recorded separately.", "title": "Trump-era acquisition of journalists' records disclosed" }, { "category": "Elections, January 6, and institutional conduct", "date_precision": "day", "disposition": "Acquitted because 57 votes were fewer than the 67 required for conviction.", "disposition_source_urls": [ "https://apnews.com/article/trump-impeachment-trial-acquitted-57-43-2e85314cb9158f9cf17fe1c0ab60f8e7", "https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1171/vote_117_1_00059.htm?congress=117&vote=00059", "https://www.senate.gov/about/powers-procedures/impeachment/impeachment-trump.htm" ], "entity": null, "event_date": "2021-02-13", "event_date_display": "February 13, 2021", "evidence_basis": "primary-plus-independent", "id": "2021-02-13-second-impeachment-acquittal", "last_verified": "2026-09-07", "personal_bankruptcy": null, "posture": "Senate impeachment acquittal", "record_kind": "institutional", "response": null, "sources": [ { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-28", "access_notes": "Associated Press Senate vote report: direct HTTPS audit returned HTTP 404 on 2026-08-28; no direct-open claim is made. Structured corroboration path: U.S. Senate roll call vote 59 (https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1171/vote_117_1_00059.htm?congress=117&vote=00059; indexed-content).", "access_status": "blocked-direct", "corroboration_url": "https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1171/vote_117_1_00059.htm?congress=117&vote=00059", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "Associated Press Senate vote report", "published": "2021-02-13", "role": "independent", "type": "Independent reporting", "url": "https://apnews.com/article/trump-impeachment-trial-acquitted-57-43-2e85314cb9158f9cf17fe1c0ab60f8e7" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-28", "access_notes": "U.S. Senate roll call: direct HTTPS audit returned HTTP 403 on 2026-08-28; indexed official content exposed the February 13, 2021 vote date and 57-43 tally. No direct-open claim is made.", "access_status": "indexed-content", "date_basis": "decision-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "U.S. Senate roll call vote 59", "published": "2021-02-13", "role": "primary", "type": "Official Senate roll call", "url": "https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1171/vote_117_1_00059.htm?congress=117&vote=00059" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-28", "access_notes": "U.S. Senate impeachment trial record: direct HTTPS audit returned HTTP 403 on 2026-08-28; no direct-open claim is made. Structured corroboration path: U.S. Senate roll call vote 59 (https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1171/vote_117_1_00059.htm?congress=117&vote=00059; indexed-content).", "access_status": "blocked-direct", "corroboration_url": "https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1171/vote_117_1_00059.htm?congress=117&vote=00059", "date_basis": "access-date", "date_precision": "access", "name": "U.S. Senate impeachment trial record", "published": "2026-08-28", "role": "primary", "type": "Official Senate record", "url": "https://www.senate.gov/about/powers-procedures/impeachment/impeachment-trump.htm" } ], "summary": "The Senate voted 57-43 to convict on the article of incitement of insurrection, short of the constitutionally required two-thirds. Acquittal was not a criminal-court judgment.", "title": "Senate vote did not reach the two-thirds threshold to convict" }, { "category": "Elections, January 6, and institutional conduct", "date_precision": "day", "disposition": "The Senate acquitted Trump on February 13, 2021 after a 57-43 vote to convict fell short of two thirds.", "disposition_source_urls": [ "https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1171/vote_117_1_00059.htm?congress=117&vote=00059" ], "entity": null, "event_date": "2021-01-13", "event_date_display": "January 13, 2021", "evidence_basis": "primary-plus-independent", "id": "2021-01-13-second-impeachment", "last_verified": "2026-09-07", "personal_bankruptcy": null, "posture": "House impeachment", "record_kind": "institutional", "response": null, "sources": [ { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "Associated Press second-impeachment report hosted by GBH: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "Associated Press second-impeachment report hosted by GBH", "published": "2021-01-13", "role": "independent", "type": "Independent Associated Press reporting", "url": "https://www.wgbh.org/news/politics/2021-01-13/watch-trump-impeached-after-capitol-riot-in-historic-second-charge" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-28", "access_notes": "U.S. Senate roll call: direct HTTPS audit returned HTTP 403 on 2026-08-28; indexed official content exposed the February 13, 2021 vote date and 57-43 tally. No direct-open claim is made.", "access_status": "indexed-content", "date_basis": "decision-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "U.S. Senate roll call vote 59", "published": "2021-02-13", "role": "primary", "type": "Official Senate roll call", "url": "https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1171/vote_117_1_00059.htm?congress=117&vote=00059" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-28", "access_notes": "www.senate.gov: direct HTTPS audit returned HTTP 403 on 2026-08-28; no direct-open claim is made. Structured corroboration path: U.S. Senate roll call vote 59 (https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1171/vote_117_1_00059.htm?congress=117&vote=00059; indexed-content).", "access_status": "blocked-direct", "corroboration_url": "https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1171/vote_117_1_00059.htm?congress=117&vote=00059", "date_basis": "access-date", "date_precision": "access", "name": "www.senate.gov", "published": "2026-08-28", "role": "primary", "type": "Official record", "url": "https://www.senate.gov/about/powers-procedures/impeachment/impeachment-trump.htm" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "history.house.gov: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "access-date", "date_precision": "access", "name": "history.house.gov", "published": "2026-08-30", "role": "primary", "type": "Official record", "url": "https://history.house.gov/Institution/Impeachment/Impeachment-List/" } ], "summary": "The House impeached Trump for incitement of insurrection. Impeachment is a constitutional charge by the House, not a criminal conviction; the Senate later acquitted because the vote fell short of two thirds.", "title": "House impeached Trump for a second time" }, { "category": "Elections, January 6, and institutional conduct", "date_precision": "day", "disposition": null, "entity": null, "event_date": "2020-12-22", "event_date_display": "December 22, 2020", "evidence_basis": "primary-plus-independent", "id": "2020-12-22-blackwater-pardons", "last_verified": "2026-09-07", "personal_bankruptcy": null, "posture": "Presidential clemency and attributed criticism", "record_kind": "government", "response": null, "sources": [ { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "PBS NewsHour: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "PBS NewsHour", "published": "2020-12-23", "role": "independent", "type": "Independent reporting", "url": "https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/how-the-blackwater-pardons-could-have-a-lasting-impact-the-americans-got-away-with-it" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-28", "access_notes": "www.ohchr.org: direct HTTPS audit returned HTTP 403 on 2026-08-28; no direct-open claim is made. Structured corroboration path: PBS NewsHour (https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/how-the-blackwater-pardons-could-have-a-lasting-impact-the-americans-got-away-with-it; opened-live).", "access_status": "blocked-direct", "corroboration_url": "https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/how-the-blackwater-pardons-could-have-a-lasting-impact-the-americans-got-away-with-it", "date_basis": "document-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "www.ohchr.org", "published": "2020-12-30", "role": "primary", "type": "Official record", "url": "https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2020/12/us-pardons-blackwater-guards-affront-justice-un-experts" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-28", "access_notes": "www.cambridge.org: direct HTTPS audit returned HTTP 429 on 2026-08-28; no direct-open claim is made. Structured corroboration path: PBS NewsHour (https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/how-the-blackwater-pardons-could-have-a-lasting-impact-the-americans-got-away-with-it; opened-live).", "access_status": "blocked-direct", "corroboration_url": "https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/how-the-blackwater-pardons-could-have-a-lasting-impact-the-americans-got-away-with-it", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "www.cambridge.org", "published": "2021-04-01", "role": "analysis", "type": "Institutional or advocacy analysis", "url": "https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-journal-of-international-law/article/trump-grants-clemency-to-former-blackwater-contractors-convicted-of-war-crimes-in-iraq-and-associates-prosecuted-following-the-mueller-investigation/32660A07781AD28D6C24448E37177EDE" } ], "summary": "Trump pardoned four former Blackwater contractors convicted in connection with killings of Iraqi civilians in Nisour Square. United Nations experts criticized the pardons; the record does not allege that Trump committed the underlying killings.", "title": "Trump pardoned four Blackwater contractors" }, { "category": "Documented falsehood campaigns and institutional attacks", "date_precision": "month", "disposition": null, "entity": null, "event_date": "2020-12-01", "event_date_display": "December 2020", "evidence_basis": "independent-corroboration", "id": "2020-12-border-wall-progress-claim", "last_verified": "2026-09-07", "personal_bankruptcy": null, "posture": "Documented public claim and fact-check", "record_kind": "statement", "response": null, "sources": [ { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "FactCheck.org: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "FactCheck.org", "published": "2020-12-22", "role": "independent", "type": "Independent reporting", "url": "https://www.factcheck.org/2020/12/trumps-border-wall-where-does-it-stand/" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-28", "access_notes": "Washington Post claims database: direct HTTPS audit returned curl exit 92 on 2026-08-28; no direct-open claim is made. Structured corroboration path: FactCheck.org (https://www.factcheck.org/2020/12/trumps-border-wall-where-does-it-stand/; opened-live).", "access_status": "blocked-direct", "corroboration_url": "https://www.factcheck.org/2020/12/trumps-border-wall-where-does-it-stand/", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "Washington Post claims database", "published": "2021-01-24", "role": "independent", "type": "Independent claims archive", "url": "https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/trump-claims-database/" } ], "summary": "Trump described the border-wall program as delivering large amounts of new wall. FactCheck.org's December 2020 accounting found that much of the construction replaced or reinforced existing barriers and that construction remained below the original campaign promise.", "title": "Border-wall construction claim and accounting" }, { "category": "Elections, January 6, and institutional conduct", "date_precision": "day", "disposition": null, "entity": null, "event_date": "2020-11-03", "event_date_display": "November 3, 2020", "evidence_basis": "primary-plus-independent", "id": "2020-11-03-election-loss", "last_verified": "2026-09-07", "personal_bankruptcy": null, "posture": "Certified election result", "record_kind": "institutional", "response": null, "sources": [ { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "Associated Press election result report: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "Associated Press election result report", "published": "2020-11-07", "role": "independent", "type": "Independent election reporting", "url": "https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-wins-white-house-ap-fd58df73aa677acb74fce2a69adb71f9" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "CISA: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30. Final URL: https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/news/joint-statement-elections-infrastructure-government-coordinating-council-election-infrastructure.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "CISA", "published": "2020-11-12", "role": "primary", "type": "Official record", "url": "https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/news/joint-statement-elections-infrastructure-government-coordinating-council-election" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "National Archives: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "access-date", "date_precision": "access", "name": "National Archives", "published": "2026-08-30", "role": "primary", "type": "Official record", "url": "https://www.archives.gov/electoral-college/2020" } ], "summary": "Certified results show that Joe Biden defeated Trump in the 2020 presidential election. Election-fraud claims and their evidentiary record are treated separately.", "title": "Certified 2020 presidential election result" }, { "category": "Documented falsehood campaigns and institutional attacks", "date_precision": "month", "disposition": null, "entity": null, "event_date": "2020-11-01", "event_date_display": "November 2020", "evidence_basis": "independent-corroboration", "id": "2020-11-election-fraud-claims", "last_verified": "2026-09-07", "personal_bankruptcy": null, "posture": "Documented public claim and fact-check", "record_kind": "statement", "response": null, "sources": [ { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "FactCheck.org: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "FactCheck.org", "published": "2020-12-11", "role": "independent", "type": "Independent reporting", "url": "https://www.factcheck.org/2020/12/nine-election-fraud-claims-none-credible/" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-28", "access_notes": "Reuters: direct HTTPS audit returned HTTP 401 on 2026-08-28; no direct-open claim is made. Structured corroboration path: FactCheck.org (https://www.factcheck.org/2020/12/nine-election-fraud-claims-none-credible/; opened-live).", "access_status": "blocked-direct", "corroboration_url": "https://www.factcheck.org/2020/12/nine-election-fraud-claims-none-credible/", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "Reuters", "published": "2021-02-15", "role": "independent", "type": "Independent reporting", "url": "https://www.reuters.com/article/world/factbox-courts-have-dismissed-multiple-lawsuits-of-alleged-electoral-fraud-pres-idUSKBN2AF1FQ/" } ], "summary": "After the 2020 election, Trump repeatedly claimed that outcome-changing fraud had deprived him of victory. Courts, election officials, audits and federal security officials did not substantiate fraud sufficient to alter the result.", "title": "Post-election claims of outcome-changing fraud" }, { "alleged_conduct_date_display": "September 5, 1997", "category": "Sexual-misconduct allegations and litigation", "date_precision": "day", "disposition": "The cited sources document a public allegation, corroborator accounts, and denial, not an adjudication. The bounded review located no filed claim or merits finding through 2026-08-28.", "disposition_source_urls": [ "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/sep/17/donald-trump-accused-of-sexual-assault-by-former-model-amy-dorris", "https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/former-model-alleged-assault-trump/2020/09/17/8722c1fc-f92f-11ea-be57-d00bb9bc632d_story.html" ], "entity": null, "event_date": "2020-09-17", "event_date_display": "September 17, 2020", "evidence_basis": "primary-plus-independent", "id": "2020-09-17-amy-dorris-allegation", "last_verified": "2026-09-07", "personal_bankruptcy": null, "posture": "Public allegation — not adjudicated", "record_kind": "allegation", "response": "Trump's lawyers denied the allegation and said her account did not withstand scrutiny, according to the cited reporting.", "sources": [ { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "The Guardian: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "The Guardian", "published": "2020-09-17", "role": "primary", "type": "Original claimant and corroborator interviews", "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/sep/17/donald-trump-accused-of-sexual-assault-by-former-model-amy-dorris" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-28", "access_notes": "The Washington Post: indexed source content exposed the dated or captioned material on 2026-08-28; no direct-open claim is made.", "access_status": "indexed-content", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "The Washington Post", "published": "2020-09-17", "role": "independent", "type": "Independent reporting", "url": "https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/former-model-alleged-assault-trump/2020/09/17/8722c1fc-f92f-11ea-be57-d00bb9bc632d_story.html" } ], "summary": "Amy Dorris alleged in a Guardian interview that Trump forcibly kissed and groped her outside a bathroom at the 1997 U.S. Open; the report included accounts from people she said she told.", "title": "Amy Dorris's public allegation record" }, { "category": "Elections, January 6, and institutional conduct", "date_precision": "day", "disposition": null, "entity": null, "event_date": "2020-09-02", "event_date_display": "September 2, 2020", "evidence_basis": "primary-plus-independent", "id": "2020-09-02-icc-official-sanctions", "last_verified": "2026-09-07", "personal_bankruptcy": null, "posture": "Sanctions or enforcement action", "record_kind": "government", "response": null, "sources": [ { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "www.hrw.org: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "www.hrw.org", "published": "2020-06-11", "role": "analysis", "type": "Institutional or advocacy analysis", "url": "https://www.hrw.org/news/2020/06/11/us-sets-sanctions-against-international-criminal-court" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "State Department sanctions announcement: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "State Department sanctions announcement", "published": "2020-09-02", "role": "primary", "type": "Official designation announcement", "url": "https://2017-2021.state.gov/public-designation-of-current-and-former-officials-of-the-international-criminal-court/" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-28", "access_notes": "ccrjustice.org: direct HTTPS audit returned HTTP 403 on 2026-08-28; no direct-open claim is made. Structured corroboration path: State Department sanctions announcement (https://2017-2021.state.gov/public-designation-of-current-and-former-officials-of-the-international-criminal-court/; opened-live).", "access_status": "blocked-direct", "corroboration_url": "https://2017-2021.state.gov/public-designation-of-current-and-former-officials-of-the-international-criminal-court/", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "ccrjustice.org", "published": "2020-09-02", "role": "analysis", "type": "Institutional or advocacy analysis", "url": "https://ccrjustice.org/factsheet-us-sanctions-international-criminal-court" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "PBS NewsHour: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "PBS NewsHour", "published": "2020-09-02", "role": "independent", "type": "Independent reporting", "url": "https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/watch-pompeo-announces-sanctions-on-international-tribunal-prosecutor-aide" } ], "summary": "The administration designated and sanctioned International Criminal Court officials under the June executive order. Human-rights and legal organizations characterized the action as interference with accountability work; that characterization was criticism, not a court finding.", "title": "Administration designated and sanctioned ICC officials" }, { "category": "Elections, January 6, and institutional conduct", "date_precision": "day", "disposition": null, "entity": null, "event_date": "2020-06-11", "event_date_display": "June 11, 2020", "evidence_basis": "primary-plus-independent", "id": "2020-06-11-icc-sanctions-order", "last_verified": "2026-09-07", "personal_bankruptcy": null, "posture": "Sanctions or enforcement action", "record_kind": "government", "response": null, "sources": [ { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "Executive order authorizing ICC-related sanctions: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "decision-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "Executive order authorizing ICC-related sanctions", "published": "2020-06-11", "role": "primary", "type": "Presidential executive order", "url": "https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/presidential-actions/executive-order-blocking-property-certain-persons-associated-international-criminal-court/" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "www.hrw.org: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "www.hrw.org", "published": "2020-06-11", "role": "analysis", "type": "Institutional or advocacy analysis", "url": "https://www.hrw.org/news/2020/06/11/us-sets-sanctions-against-international-criminal-court" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-28", "access_notes": "ccrjustice.org: direct HTTPS audit returned HTTP 403 on 2026-08-28; no direct-open claim is made. Structured corroboration path: PBS NewsHour (https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/watch-pompeo-announces-sanctions-on-international-tribunal-prosecutor-aide; opened-live).", "access_status": "blocked-direct", "corroboration_url": "https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/watch-pompeo-announces-sanctions-on-international-tribunal-prosecutor-aide", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "ccrjustice.org", "published": "2020-09-02", "role": "analysis", "type": "Institutional or advocacy analysis", "url": "https://ccrjustice.org/factsheet-us-sanctions-international-criminal-court" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "PBS NewsHour: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "PBS NewsHour", "published": "2020-09-02", "role": "independent", "type": "Independent reporting", "url": "https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/watch-pompeo-announces-sanctions-on-international-tribunal-prosecutor-aide" } ], "summary": "Trump issued an executive order authorizing sanctions against people involved in certain International Criminal Court investigations of U.S. personnel or allies. Later designations under the order are recorded separately.", "title": "Executive order authorized ICC-related sanctions" }, { "category": "Documented falsehood campaigns and institutional attacks", "date_precision": "day", "disposition": null, "entity": null, "event_date": "2020-04-23", "event_date_display": "April 23, 2020", "evidence_basis": "primary-plus-independent", "id": "2020-04-23-disinfectant-remarks", "last_verified": "2026-09-07", "personal_bankruptcy": null, "posture": "Documented historical event", "record_kind": "statement", "response": null, "sources": [ { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "document-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov", "published": "2020-04-23", "role": "primary", "type": "Official record", "url": "https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-vice-president-pence-members-coronavirus-task-force-press-briefing-31/" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "FactCheck.org: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "FactCheck.org", "published": "2020-04-23", "role": "independent", "type": "Independent reporting", "url": "https://www.factcheck.org/2020/04/the-white-house-spins-trumps-disinfectant-remarks/" } ], "summary": "During a COVID-19 briefing, Trump asked officials to examine whether light or disinfectant could be used inside the body. Medical experts warned against ingesting or injecting disinfectants; Trump later said he had been speaking sarcastically.", "title": "COVID-19 briefing included disinfectant and light remarks" }, { "category": "Documented falsehood campaigns and institutional attacks", "date_precision": "day", "disposition": null, "entity": null, "event_date": "2020-04-16", "event_date_display": "April 16, 2020", "evidence_basis": "independent-corroboration", "id": "2020-04-16-cpj-press-attacks-report", "last_verified": "2026-09-07", "personal_bankruptcy": null, "posture": "Dated official or institutional report", "record_kind": "government", "response": null, "sources": [ { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "www.hks.harvard.edu: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "publication-year", "date_precision": "year", "name": "www.hks.harvard.edu", "published": "2018-01-01", "role": "analysis", "type": "Institutional or advocacy analysis", "url": "https://www.hks.harvard.edu/publications/enemy-people-trumps-war-press-new-mccarthyism-and-threat-american-democracy" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "Committee to Protect Journalists: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "Committee to Protect Journalists", "published": "2020-04-16", "role": "analysis", "type": "Institutional or advocacy analysis", "url": "https://cpj.org/reports/2020/04/trump-media-attacks-credibility-leaks/" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "The Independent report on the CPJ assessment: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "The Independent report on the CPJ assessment", "published": "2020-04-16", "role": "independent", "type": "Independent press-freedom reporting", "url": "https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-journalists-media-democracy-fake-news-white-house-cpj-a9469586.html" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-28", "access_notes": "Washington Post coverage of the CPJ assessment: direct HTTPS audit returned curl exit 92 on 2026-08-28; no direct-open claim is made. Structured corroboration path: Committee to Protect Journalists (https://cpj.org/reports/2020/04/trump-media-attacks-credibility-leaks/; opened-live).", "access_status": "blocked-direct", "corroboration_url": "https://cpj.org/reports/2020/04/trump-media-attacks-credibility-leaks/", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "Washington Post coverage of the CPJ assessment", "published": "2020-04-16", "role": "independent", "type": "Independent press-freedom reporting", "url": "https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/media/new-study-says-trump-has-dangerously-undermined-truth-with-attacks-on-news-media/2020/04/15/4152f81c-7f2d-11ea-9040-68981f488eed_story.html" } ], "summary": "The Committee to Protect Journalists published a dated assessment of the administration's attacks on journalists and news organizations. Its press-freedom conclusions are institutional analysis, not a legal judgment.", "title": "CPJ assessed the administration's attacks on the press" }, { "category": "Elections, January 6, and institutional conduct", "date_precision": "day", "disposition": "Senate acquittal ended the first impeachment trial.", "disposition_source_urls": [ "https://apnews.com/article/4cb9baf4b621a67d6e1d49558e2a497b", "https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1162/vote_116_2_00033.htm", "https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1162/vote_116_2_00034.htm", "https://www.senate.gov/about/powers-procedures/impeachment/impeachment-trump.htm" ], "entity": null, "event_date": "2020-02-05", "event_date_display": "February 5, 2020", "evidence_basis": "primary-plus-independent", "id": "2020-02-05-first-impeachment-acquittal", "last_verified": "2026-09-07", "personal_bankruptcy": null, "posture": "Senate impeachment acquittal", "record_kind": "institutional", "response": null, "sources": [ { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-28", "access_notes": "Associated Press acquittal report: direct HTTPS audit returned HTTP 404 on 2026-08-28; no direct-open claim is made. Structured corroboration path: U.S. Senate roll call vote 33 (https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1162/vote_116_2_00033.htm; indexed-content).", "access_status": "blocked-direct", "corroboration_url": "https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1162/vote_116_2_00033.htm", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "Associated Press acquittal report", "published": "2020-02-05", "role": "independent", "type": "Independent reporting", "url": "https://apnews.com/article/4cb9baf4b621a67d6e1d49558e2a497b" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-28", "access_notes": "U.S. Senate roll call 33: direct HTTPS audit returned HTTP 403 on 2026-08-28; indexed official content exposed the February 5, 2020 vote and tally. No direct-open claim is made.", "access_status": "indexed-content", "date_basis": "decision-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "U.S. Senate roll call vote 33", "published": "2020-02-05", "role": "primary", "type": "Official Senate roll call", "url": "https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1162/vote_116_2_00033.htm" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-28", "access_notes": "U.S. Senate roll call 34: direct HTTPS audit returned HTTP 403 on 2026-08-28; indexed official content exposed the February 5, 2020 vote and tally. No direct-open claim is made.", "access_status": "indexed-content", "date_basis": "decision-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "U.S. Senate roll call vote 34", "published": "2020-02-05", "role": "primary", "type": "Official Senate roll call", "url": "https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1162/vote_116_2_00034.htm" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-28", "access_notes": "U.S. Senate first-impeachment record: direct HTTPS audit returned HTTP 403 on 2026-08-28; no direct-open claim is made. Structured corroboration path: U.S. Senate roll call vote 33 (https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1162/vote_116_2_00033.htm; indexed-content).", "access_status": "blocked-direct", "corroboration_url": "https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1162/vote_116_2_00033.htm", "date_basis": "access-date", "date_precision": "access", "name": "U.S. Senate first-impeachment record", "published": "2026-08-28", "role": "primary", "type": "Official Senate record", "url": "https://www.senate.gov/about/powers-procedures/impeachment/impeachment-trump.htm" } ], "summary": "The Senate acquitted Trump of abuse of power by 52-48 and obstruction of Congress by 53-47. The votes resolved the impeachment trial, not any criminal prosecution.", "title": "Senate acquitted Trump on both first-impeachment articles" }, { "category": "Elections, January 6, and institutional conduct", "date_precision": "day", "disposition": null, "entity": null, "event_date": "2020-01-04", "event_date_display": "January 4, 2020", "evidence_basis": "independent-corroboration", "id": "2020-01-04-iran-cultural-sites-threat", "last_verified": "2026-09-07", "personal_bankruptcy": null, "posture": "Public statement and legal controversy", "record_kind": "statement", "response": null, "sources": [ { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-28", "access_notes": "Reuters: direct HTTPS audit returned HTTP 401 on 2026-08-28; no direct-open claim is made. Structured corroboration path: PBS NewsHour (https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/trump-retreats-from-threat-to-attack-iranian-cultural-sites; opened-live).", "access_status": "blocked-direct", "corroboration_url": "https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/trump-retreats-from-threat-to-attack-iranian-cultural-sites", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "Reuters", "published": "2020-01-04", "role": "independent", "type": "Independent reporting", "url": "https://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security-trump-cultural-sites/trump-threatens-iranian-cultural-sites-critics-say-that-would-be-a-war-crime-idUSKBN1Z40CV/" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-28", "access_notes": "www.hrw.org: direct HTTPS audit returned HTTP 404 on 2026-08-28; no direct-open claim is made. Structured corroboration path: PBS NewsHour (https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/trump-retreats-from-threat-to-attack-iranian-cultural-sites; opened-live).", "access_status": "blocked-direct", "corroboration_url": "https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/trump-retreats-from-threat-to-attack-iranian-cultural-sites", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "www.hrw.org", "published": "2020-01-06", "role": "analysis", "type": "Institutional or advocacy analysis", "url": "https://www.hrw.org/news/2020/01/06/us-trumps-threats-iranian-cultural-sites-war-crime" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-28", "access_notes": "Search indexing exposes the intended archived official transcript, but direct retrieval returned an HTTP 200 page titled Technical Difficulties on 2026-08-28. This is indexed official content, not semantically opened transcript content; PBS NewsHour/AP supplies live independent support.", "access_status": "indexed-content", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "Archived State Department press remarks", "published": "2020-01-07", "role": "primary", "type": "Official executive-branch remarks", "url": "https://2017-2021.state.gov/secretary-michael-r-pompeo-remarks-to-the-press-4/" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-28", "access_notes": "The intended NPR headline remains indexed, but the cited URL redirected to an unrelated NPR article on 2026-08-28. It is retained for provenance and is not used as the direct-access corroboration target.", "access_status": "indexed-content", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "www.npr.org", "published": "2020-01-07", "role": "independent", "type": "Independent reporting", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2020/01/07/794302086/trump-administration-softens-threat-to-target-irans-cultural-sites" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "PBS NewsHour: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "PBS NewsHour", "published": "2020-01-07", "role": "independent", "type": "Associated Press reporting", "url": "https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/trump-retreats-from-threat-to-attack-iranian-cultural-sites" } ], "summary": "Trump threatened strikes on Iranian sites, including culturally significant locations. He later said the United States would follow the law; no strike on a cultural site is asserted in this record.", "title": "Trump threatened Iranian cultural sites, then withdrew the threat" }, { "category": "Elections, January 6, and institutional conduct", "date_precision": "day", "disposition": null, "entity": null, "event_date": "2020-01-03", "event_date_display": "January 3, 2020", "evidence_basis": "primary-plus-independent", "id": "2020-01-03-soleimani-strike", "last_verified": "2026-09-07", "personal_bankruptcy": null, "posture": "Use of force and attributed legal assessment", "record_kind": "government", "response": null, "sources": [ { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-28", "access_notes": "Defense Department strike announcement: direct HTTPS audit returned HTTP 403 on 2026-08-28; no direct-open claim is made. Structured corroboration path: www.jurist.org (https://www.jurist.org/news/2020/01/un-rights-expert-us-assassination-of-iranian-official-violated-international-human-rights-laws/; opened-live).", "access_status": "blocked-direct", "corroboration_url": "https://www.jurist.org/news/2020/01/un-rights-expert-us-assassination-of-iranian-official-violated-international-human-rights-laws/", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "Defense Department strike announcement", "published": "2020-01-02", "role": "primary", "type": "Official military announcement", "url": "https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/release/article/2049534/statement-by-the-department-of-defense/" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "www.jurist.org: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "www.jurist.org", "published": "2020-01-03", "role": "independent", "type": "Independent reporting", "url": "https://www.jurist.org/news/2020/01/un-rights-expert-us-assassination-of-iranian-official-violated-international-human-rights-laws/" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-28", "access_notes": "www.afjag.af.mil: direct HTTPS audit returned HTTP 403 on 2026-08-28; no direct-open claim is made. Structured corroboration path: www.jurist.org (https://www.jurist.org/news/2020/01/un-rights-expert-us-assassination-of-iranian-official-violated-international-human-rights-laws/; opened-live).", "access_status": "blocked-direct", "corroboration_url": "https://www.jurist.org/news/2020/01/un-rights-expert-us-assassination-of-iranian-official-violated-international-human-rights-laws/", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "www.afjag.af.mil", "published": "2020-10-29", "role": "analysis", "type": "Institutional or advocacy analysis", "url": "https://www.afjag.af.mil/Post/Article-Display/Article/4368511/the-killing-of-qassem-soleimani/" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-28", "access_notes": "scholarlycommons.law.case.edu: direct HTTPS audit returned HTTP 403 on 2026-08-28; no direct-open claim is made. Structured corroboration path: www.jurist.org (https://www.jurist.org/news/2020/01/un-rights-expert-us-assassination-of-iranian-official-violated-international-human-rights-laws/; opened-live).", "access_status": "blocked-direct", "corroboration_url": "https://www.jurist.org/news/2020/01/un-rights-expert-us-assassination-of-iranian-official-violated-international-human-rights-laws/", "date_basis": "access-date", "date_precision": "access", "name": "scholarlycommons.law.case.edu", "published": "2026-08-28", "role": "analysis", "type": "Institutional or advocacy analysis", "url": "https://scholarlycommons.law.case.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2599&context=jil" } ], "summary": "A U.S. drone strike in Baghdad killed Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani. A United Nations special rapporteur later assessed the strike as unlawful; that conclusion was an attributed legal assessment rather than a court judgment.", "title": "U.S. strike killed Qassem Soleimani in Baghdad" }, { "category": "Documented falsehood campaigns and institutional attacks", "date_precision": "year", "disposition": null, "entity": null, "event_date": "2020-01-01", "event_date_display": "2020", "evidence_basis": "independent-corroboration", "id": "2020-mail-voting-fraud-claims", "last_verified": "2026-09-07", "personal_bankruptcy": null, "posture": "Documented public claim and fact-check", "record_kind": "statement", "response": null, "sources": [ { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-28", "access_notes": "Washington Post mail-voting fact-check: direct HTTPS audit returned curl exit 92 on 2026-08-28; no direct-open claim is made. Structured corroboration path: FactCheck.org (https://www.factcheck.org/2020/09/trumps-repeated-false-attacks-on-mail-in-ballots/; opened-live).", "access_status": "blocked-direct", "corroboration_url": "https://www.factcheck.org/2020/09/trumps-repeated-false-attacks-on-mail-in-ballots/", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "Washington Post mail-voting fact-check", "published": "2020-09-11", "role": "independent", "type": "Independent fact-check", "url": "https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/09/11/trumps-fusillade-falsehoods-mail-voting/" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "FactCheck.org: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "FactCheck.org", "published": "2020-09-25", "role": "independent", "type": "Independent reporting", "url": "https://www.factcheck.org/2020/09/trumps-repeated-false-attacks-on-mail-in-ballots/" } ], "summary": "During the 2020 campaign, Trump repeatedly claimed that expanded mail voting would produce mass fraud or a rigged result. Election experts and contemporaneous fact-checks found those categorical claims unsupported.", "title": "Claims that mail voting would cause mass fraud" }, { "category": "Conflicts of interest and self-dealing", "date_precision": "range", "disposition": null, "entity": null, "event_date": "2020-01-01", "event_date_display": "2020–2021", "evidence_basis": "primary-plus-independent", "id": "2020-2021-allies-clemency-pattern", "last_verified": "2026-09-07", "personal_bankruptcy": null, "posture": "Presidential clemency and institutional criticism", "record_kind": "government", "response": null, "sources": [ { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-28", "access_notes": "www.lawfaremedia.org: direct HTTPS audit returned HTTP 404 on 2026-08-28; no direct-open claim is made. Structured corroboration path: U.S. Department of Justice (https://www.justice.gov/pardon/pardons-granted-president-donald-trump-2017-2021; indexed-content).", "access_status": "blocked-direct", "corroboration_url": "https://www.justice.gov/pardon/pardons-granted-president-donald-trump-2017-2021", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "www.lawfaremedia.org", "published": "2020-07-11", "role": "independent", "type": "Independent reporting", "url": "https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/trumps-pardons-and-commutations" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "Trump White House archived clemency statement: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "Trump White House archived clemency statement", "published": "2021-01-20", "role": "primary", "type": "Official executive record", "url": "https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefings-statements/statement-press-secretary-regarding-executive-grants-clemency-012021/" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "PBS NewsHour / Associated Press: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "PBS NewsHour / Associated Press", "published": "2021-01-20", "role": "independent", "type": "Independent reporting", "url": "https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trump-pardons-ex-strategist-steve-bannon-dozens-of-others-in-final-clemency-flurry" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-28", "access_notes": "U.S. Department of Justice: direct HTTPS audit returned HTTP 404 on 2026-08-28; indexed official page content exposed the dated 2017-2021 pardon list and named recipients. No direct-open claim is made.", "access_status": "indexed-content", "date_basis": "access-date", "date_precision": "access", "name": "U.S. Department of Justice", "published": "2026-08-28", "role": "primary", "type": "Official record", "url": "https://www.justice.gov/pardon/pardons-granted-president-donald-trump-2017-2021" } ], "summary": "Trump granted clemency to multiple political allies and associates between July 2020 and January 2021. Critics described some grants as loyalty rewards, but the clemency records alone do not prove a criminal exchange.", "title": "Clemency grants to political allies and associates" }, { "category": "Elections, January 6, and institutional conduct", "date_precision": "day", "disposition": "The Senate acquitted Trump on both articles on February 5, 2020.", "disposition_source_urls": [ "https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1162/vote_116_2_00033.htm", "https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1162/vote_116_2_00034.htm" ], "entity": null, "event_date": "2019-12-18", "event_date_display": "December 18, 2019", "evidence_basis": "primary-plus-independent", "id": "2019-12-18-first-impeachment", "last_verified": "2026-09-07", "personal_bankruptcy": null, "posture": "House impeachment", "record_kind": "institutional", "response": null, "sources": [ { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-28", "access_notes": "U.S. Senate roll call 33: direct HTTPS audit returned HTTP 403 on 2026-08-28; indexed official content exposed the February 5, 2020 vote and tally. No direct-open claim is made.", "access_status": "indexed-content", "date_basis": "decision-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "U.S. Senate roll call vote 33", "published": "2020-02-05", "role": "primary", "type": "Official Senate roll call", "url": "https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1162/vote_116_2_00033.htm" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-28", "access_notes": "U.S. Senate roll call 34: direct HTTPS audit returned HTTP 403 on 2026-08-28; indexed official content exposed the February 5, 2020 vote and tally. No direct-open claim is made.", "access_status": "indexed-content", "date_basis": "decision-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "U.S. Senate roll call vote 34", "published": "2020-02-05", "role": "primary", "type": "Official Senate roll call", "url": "https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1162/vote_116_2_00034.htm" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "Associated Press impeachment history: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "Associated Press impeachment history", "published": "2023-12-11", "role": "independent", "type": "Independent reporting", "url": "https://apnews.com/article/a16e4f35fa6e8682ccb7e0b929942ea5" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-28", "access_notes": "www.senate.gov: direct HTTPS audit returned HTTP 403 on 2026-08-28; no direct-open claim is made. Structured corroboration path: U.S. Senate roll call vote 33 (https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1162/vote_116_2_00033.htm; indexed-content).", "access_status": "blocked-direct", "corroboration_url": "https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1162/vote_116_2_00033.htm", "date_basis": "access-date", "date_precision": "access", "name": "www.senate.gov", "published": "2026-08-28", "role": "primary", "type": "Official record", "url": "https://www.senate.gov/about/powers-procedures/impeachment/impeachment-trump.htm" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "history.house.gov: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "access-date", "date_precision": "access", "name": "history.house.gov", "published": "2026-08-30", "role": "primary", "type": "Official record", "url": "https://history.house.gov/Institution/Impeachment/Impeachment-List/" } ], "summary": "The House impeached Trump for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress arising from the Ukraine matter. Impeachment is a constitutional charge, not a criminal conviction; the Senate later acquitted on both articles.", "title": "House impeached Trump on two articles" }, { "category": "Conflicts of interest and self-dealing", "date_precision": "day", "disposition": null, "entity": null, "event_date": "2019-12-03", "event_date_display": "December 3, 2019", "evidence_basis": "primary-plus-independent", "id": "2019-12-03-house-ukraine-impeachment-report", "last_verified": "2026-09-07", "personal_bankruptcy": null, "posture": "House impeachment", "record_kind": "institutional", "response": "Trump denied wrongdoing or disputed the underlying characterization, as described in the cited material.", "sources": [ { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "democrats-intelligence.house.gov: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "document-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "democrats-intelligence.house.gov", "published": "2019-12-03", "role": "primary", "type": "Official record", "url": "https://democrats-intelligence.house.gov/report/" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "GovInfo: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "document-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "GovInfo", "published": "2019-12-03", "role": "primary", "type": "Official record", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GOVPUB-Y4_IN8_18-PURL-gpo129303/pdf/GOVPUB-Y4_IN8_18-PURL-gpo129303.pdf" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-28", "access_notes": "Washington Post report analysis: direct HTTPS audit returned curl exit 92 on 2026-08-28; no direct-open claim is made. Structured corroboration path: democrats-intelligence.house.gov (https://democrats-intelligence.house.gov/report/; opened-live).", "access_status": "blocked-direct", "corroboration_url": "https://democrats-intelligence.house.gov/report/", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "Washington Post report analysis", "published": "2019-12-03", "role": "independent", "type": "Independent reporting", "url": "https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/12/03/takeaways-house-intelligence-committees-impeachment-report-trump/" } ], "summary": "The House Intelligence Committee issued a report concluding that Trump had conditioned official acts involving Ukraine on announcements of investigations that would benefit him politically. This was a congressional finding; Trump denied the characterization.", "title": "House Intelligence Committee issued Ukraine impeachment report" }, { "category": "Elections, January 6, and institutional conduct", "date_precision": "day", "disposition": null, "entity": null, "event_date": "2019-11-15", "event_date_display": "November 15, 2019", "evidence_basis": "independent-corroboration", "id": "2019-11-15-military-justice-clemency-interventions", "last_verified": "2026-09-07", "personal_bankruptcy": null, "posture": "Presidential clemency and institutional criticism", "record_kind": "government", "response": null, "sources": [ { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "abcnews.com: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "abcnews.com", "published": "2019-11-15", "role": "independent", "type": "Independent reporting", "url": "https://abcnews.com/Politics/trump-issues-pardons-service-members-accused-war-crimes/story?id=67055490" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-28", "access_notes": "Reuters: direct HTTPS audit returned HTTP 401 on 2026-08-28; no direct-open claim is made. Structured corroboration path: abcnews.com (https://abcnews.com/Politics/trump-issues-pardons-service-members-accused-war-crimes/story?id=67055490; opened-live).", "access_status": "blocked-direct", "corroboration_url": "https://abcnews.com/Politics/trump-issues-pardons-service-members-accused-war-crimes/story?id=67055490", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "Reuters", "published": "2019-11-15", "role": "independent", "type": "Independent reporting", "url": "https://www.reuters.com/article/world/trump-pardons-army-officers-restores-navy-seals-rank-in-war-crimes-cases-idUSKBN1XQ03Q/" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-28", "access_notes": "ndupress.ndu.edu: direct HTTPS audit returned HTTP 403 on 2026-08-28; indexed content exposed the dated or captioned source material. No direct-open claim is made.", "access_status": "indexed-content", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "ndupress.ndu.edu", "published": "2020-11-19", "role": "analysis", "type": "Institutional or advocacy analysis", "url": "https://ndupress.ndu.edu/Media/News/News-Article-View/Article/2421280/pardon-the-paradox-making-sense-of-president-trumps-interventions-in-military-j/" } ], "summary": "Trump granted clemency in two military cases and restored the rank of a service member acquitted of murder but convicted of posing with a casualty. Military-law specialists criticized the interventions; the actions were presidential clemency, not findings that Trump committed the underlying offenses.", "title": "Trump granted or restored clemency in military-justice cases" }, { "category": "Business bankruptcies and failures", "date_precision": "day", "disposition": "The $2 million was distributed to charities and the foundation remained dissolved.", "disposition_source_urls": [ "https://ag.ny.gov/press-release/2019/ag-james-secures-court-order-against-donald-j-trump-trump-children-and-trump", "https://www.factcheck.org/2019/11/trump-spins-court-ruling-on-trump-foundation/" ], "entity": "Donald J. Trump Foundation", "event_date": "2019-11-07", "event_date_display": "November 7, 2019", "evidence_basis": "primary-plus-independent", "id": "2019-11-07-trump-foundation-dissolution-order", "last_verified": "2026-09-07", "personal_bankruptcy": false, "posture": "Official order or court disposition", "record_kind": "business", "response": null, "sources": [ { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "ag.ny.gov: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "document-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "ag.ny.gov", "published": "2019-11-07", "role": "primary", "type": "Official record", "url": "https://ag.ny.gov/press-release/2019/ag-james-secures-court-order-against-donald-j-trump-trump-children-and-trump" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "FactCheck.org: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "FactCheck.org", "published": "2019-11-12", "role": "independent", "type": "Independent reporting", "url": "https://www.factcheck.org/2019/11/trump-spins-court-ruling-on-trump-foundation/" } ], "summary": "After the Donald J. Trump Foundation dissolved under court supervision, a New York court ordered Trump to pay $2 million over misuse of charitable assets. The order was a civil charity-law disposition, not a criminal conviction.", "title": "Court ordered a $2 million payment after the Trump Foundation dissolved" }, { "category": "Conflicts of interest and self-dealing", "date_precision": "day", "disposition": "The Doral selection was withdrawn two days after it was announced.", "disposition_source_urls": [ "https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/19/trump-says-his-florida-doral-resort-will-no-longer-host-g-7.html", "https://time.com/5705628/donald-trump-g7-doral-resort/", "https://www.axios.com/2019/10/20/trump-doral-miami-resort-no-longer-hosting-g" ], "entity": null, "event_date": "2019-10-19", "event_date_display": "October 19, 2019", "evidence_basis": "independent-corroboration", "id": "2019-10-19-g7-doral-selection-reversed", "last_verified": "2026-09-07", "personal_bankruptcy": null, "posture": "Administration reversal after criticism", "record_kind": "institutional", "response": "Trump blamed media and political hostility and said the resort would have hosted at cost.", "sources": [ { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-28", "access_notes": "CNBC contemporaneous reversal report: direct HTTPS audit returned HTTP 404 on 2026-08-28; no direct-open claim is made. Structured corroboration path: Axios reversal report (https://www.axios.com/2019/10/20/trump-doral-miami-resort-no-longer-hosting-g; indexed-content).", "access_status": "blocked-direct", "corroboration_url": "https://www.axios.com/2019/10/20/trump-doral-miami-resort-no-longer-hosting-g", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "CNBC contemporaneous reversal report", "published": "2019-10-19", "role": "independent", "type": "Independent reporting", "url": "https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/19/trump-says-his-florida-doral-resort-will-no-longer-host-g-7.html" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "TIME reversal report: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "TIME reversal report", "published": "2019-10-20", "role": "independent", "type": "Independent reporting", "url": "https://time.com/5705628/donald-trump-g7-doral-resort/" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-28", "access_notes": "Axios: direct HTTPS access was not represented as live; indexed full article content inspected on 2026-08-28 exposed the October 20, 2019 date and reported the Doral reversal. No direct-open claim is made.", "access_status": "indexed-content", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "Axios reversal report", "published": "2019-10-20", "role": "independent", "type": "Independent reporting", "url": "https://www.axios.com/2019/10/20/trump-doral-miami-resort-no-longer-hosting-g" } ], "summary": "Two days after announcing Trump National Doral Miami as the summit site, Trump said the administration would choose another location. The reversal meant the summit did not generate the proposed event business for his resort.", "title": "Trump abandoned the plan to host the G7 at Doral" }, { "category": "Conflicts of interest and self-dealing", "date_precision": "day", "disposition": null, "entity": null, "event_date": "2019-10-17", "event_date_display": "October 17, 2019", "evidence_basis": "primary-plus-independent", "id": "2019-10-17-mulvaney-ukraine-aid-statement", "last_verified": "2026-09-07", "personal_bankruptcy": null, "posture": "Public statement and subsequent clarification dispute", "record_kind": "government", "response": null, "sources": [ { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "Trump White House archived press-briefing transcript: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "document-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "Trump White House archived press-briefing transcript", "published": "2019-10-17", "role": "primary", "type": "Official archived transcript", "url": "https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefings-statements/press-briefing-acting-chief-staff-mick-mulvaney/" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-28", "access_notes": "PBS NewsHour: direct HTTPS audit returned HTTP 404 on 2026-08-28; no direct-open claim is made. Structured corroboration path: Trump White House archived press-briefing transcript (https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefings-statements/press-briefing-acting-chief-staff-mick-mulvaney/; opened-live).", "access_status": "blocked-direct", "corroboration_url": "https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefings-statements/press-briefing-acting-chief-staff-mick-mulvaney/", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "PBS NewsHour", "published": "2019-10-17", "role": "independent", "type": "Independent reporting", "url": "https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/watch-live-acting-chief-of-staff-mick-mulvaney-holds-news-briefing" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-28", "access_notes": "Reuters: direct HTTPS audit returned HTTP 401 on 2026-08-28; no direct-open claim is made. Structured corroboration path: Trump White House archived press-briefing transcript (https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefings-statements/press-briefing-acting-chief-staff-mick-mulvaney/; opened-live).", "access_status": "blocked-direct", "corroboration_url": "https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefings-statements/press-briefing-acting-chief-staff-mick-mulvaney/", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "Reuters", "published": "2019-10-17", "role": "independent", "type": "Independent reporting", "url": "https://www.reuters.com/article/world/mulvaney-says-he-did-not-say-there-was-a-quid-pro-quo-on-ukraine-idUSKBN1WW2PT/" } ], "summary": "Acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney publicly linked withheld Ukraine aid to an investigation involving the 2016 election, then issued a statement disputing that his remarks described a quid pro quo.", "title": "Mulvaney tied Ukraine aid to a 2016-related investigation, then disputed that reading" }, { "category": "Conflicts of interest and self-dealing", "date_precision": "day", "disposition": "The administration withdrew the Doral selection on October 19, 2019.", "disposition_source_urls": [ "https://time.com/5703794/trump-g7-summit-doral/", "https://www.theusconstitution.org/news/trump-hosting-the-g-7-at-his-miami-doral-resort-is-an-extraordinary-breach-of-norms-that-could-violate-the-constitution-experts-say/", "https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/19/trump-says-his-florida-doral-resort-will-no-longer-host-g-7.html", "https://time.com/5705628/donald-trump-g7-doral-resort/", "https://www.citizensforethics.org/reports-investigations/crew-reports/president-trumps-3400-conflicts-of-interest/" ], "entity": null, "event_date": "2019-10-17", "event_date_display": "October 17, 2019", "evidence_basis": "independent-corroboration", "id": "2019-10-17-g7-doral-selection", "last_verified": "2026-09-07", "personal_bankruptcy": null, "posture": "Documented historical event", "record_kind": "institutional", "response": null, "sources": [ { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "TIME: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "TIME", "published": "2019-10-17", "role": "independent", "type": "Independent reporting", "url": "https://time.com/5703794/trump-g7-summit-doral/" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-28", "access_notes": "www.theusconstitution.org: direct HTTPS audit returned HTTP 404 on 2026-08-28; no direct-open claim is made. Structured corroboration path: www.citizensforethics.org (https://www.citizensforethics.org/reports-investigations/crew-reports/president-trumps-3400-conflicts-of-interest/; opened-live).", "access_status": "blocked-direct", "corroboration_url": "https://www.citizensforethics.org/reports-investigations/crew-reports/president-trumps-3400-conflicts-of-interest/", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "www.theusconstitution.org", "published": "2019-10-17", "role": "analysis", "type": "Institutional or advocacy analysis", "url": "https://www.theusconstitution.org/news/trump-hosting-the-g-7-at-his-miami-doral-resort-is-an-extraordinary-breach-of-norms-that-could-violate-the-constitution-experts-say/" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-28", "access_notes": "CNBC selection and reversal context: direct HTTPS audit returned HTTP 404 on 2026-08-28; no direct-open claim is made. Structured corroboration path: www.citizensforethics.org (https://www.citizensforethics.org/reports-investigations/crew-reports/president-trumps-3400-conflicts-of-interest/; opened-live).", "access_status": "blocked-direct", "corroboration_url": "https://www.citizensforethics.org/reports-investigations/crew-reports/president-trumps-3400-conflicts-of-interest/", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "CNBC selection and reversal context", "published": "2019-10-19", "role": "independent", "type": "Independent reporting", "url": "https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/19/trump-says-his-florida-doral-resort-will-no-longer-host-g-7.html" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "TIME: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "TIME", "published": "2019-10-20", "role": "independent", "type": "Independent reporting", "url": "https://time.com/5705628/donald-trump-g7-doral-resort/" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "www.citizensforethics.org: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "www.citizensforethics.org", "published": "2020-09-24", "role": "analysis", "type": "Institutional or advocacy analysis", "url": "https://www.citizensforethics.org/reports-investigations/crew-reports/president-trumps-3400-conflicts-of-interest/" } ], "summary": "The administration announced that the 2020 G7 summit would be held at Trump's Doral resort. The selection raised conflict-of-interest concerns and was abandoned two days later; the summit was never held there.", "title": "Administration selected Trump Doral for the G7" }, { "alleged_conduct_date_display": "Early 2000s", "category": "Sexual-misconduct allegations and litigation", "date_precision": "day", "disposition": "The cited sources document a named public allegation and reported contemporaneous corroboration, not an adjudication. The bounded review located no filed claim or merits finding through 2026-08-28.", "disposition_source_urls": [ "https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a29391247/donald-trump-assault-allegations-karen-johnson-all-the-presidents-women-book/", "https://www.axios.com/2024/10/28/trump-sexual-misconduct-allegations-women" ], "entity": null, "event_date": "2019-10-09", "event_date_display": "October 9, 2019", "evidence_basis": "primary-plus-independent", "id": "2019-10-09-karen-johnson-allegation", "last_verified": "2026-09-07", "personal_bankruptcy": null, "posture": "Public allegation — not adjudicated", "record_kind": "allegation", "response": "A bounded search of the Esquire and Axios reports located no claimant-specific Trump response; Axios documented his campaign's aggregate denial.", "sources": [ { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "Esquire: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "Esquire", "published": "2019-10-09", "role": "primary", "type": "Original on-record claimant interview", "url": "https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a29391247/donald-trump-assault-allegations-karen-johnson-all-the-presidents-women-book/" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-28", "access_notes": "Axios claimant-by-claimant review: direct HTTPS page content was opened and inspected on 2026-08-28.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "Axios claimant-by-claimant review", "published": "2024-10-27", "role": "independent", "type": "Independent reporting and source review", "url": "https://www.axios.com/2024/10/28/trump-sexual-misconduct-allegations-women" } ], "summary": "Karen Johnson alleged in an on-record Esquire interview that Trump pulled her behind a tapestry, groped her, and kissed her without consent at a Mar-a-Lago New Year's Eve party in the early 2000s.", "title": "Karen Johnson's public allegation record" }, { "category": "Discrimination and civil rights", "date_precision": "day", "disposition": null, "entity": null, "event_date": "2019-08-14", "event_date_display": "August 14, 2019", "evidence_basis": "primary-plus-independent", "id": "2019-08-14-public-charge-final-rule", "last_verified": "2026-09-07", "personal_bankruptcy": null, "posture": "Agency final rule", "record_kind": "government", "response": null, "sources": [ { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "ABC News public-charge rule report: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "ABC News public-charge rule report", "published": "2019-08-12", "role": "independent", "type": "Independent policy reporting", "url": "https://abcnews.com/Politics/trump-administration-announces-rule-limit-legal-immigration/story?id=64924601" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "www.kff.org: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "www.kff.org", "published": "2019-08-12", "role": "analysis", "type": "Institutional or advocacy analysis", "url": "https://www.kff.org/racial-equity-and-health-policy/public-charge-policies-for-immigrants-implications-for-health-coverage/" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-28", "access_notes": "Federal Register: the direct HTTPS request reached an anti-bot interstitial (HTTP 200 at https://unblock.federalregister.gov/) on 2026-08-28; no direct-open claim is made. Structured corroboration path: ABC News public-charge rule report (https://abcnews.com/Politics/trump-administration-announces-rule-limit-legal-immigration/story?id=64924601; opened-live).", "access_status": "blocked-direct", "corroboration_url": "https://abcnews.com/Politics/trump-administration-announces-rule-limit-legal-immigration/story?id=64924601", "date_basis": "document-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "Federal Register", "published": "2019-08-14", "role": "primary", "type": "Official record", "url": "https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2019/08/14/2019-17142/inadmissibility-on-public-charge-grounds" } ], "summary": "The administration published a final rule expanding the immigration public-charge test. Civil-rights and immigration organizations attributed chilling and disparate effects to the policy; those assessments remain attributed policy analysis.", "title": "Administration issued the public-charge final rule" }, { "category": "Conflicts of interest and self-dealing", "date_precision": "day", "disposition": null, "entity": null, "event_date": "2019-07-25", "event_date_display": "July 25, 2019", "evidence_basis": "primary-plus-independent", "id": "2019-07-25-trump-zelensky-call", "last_verified": "2026-09-07", "personal_bankruptcy": null, "posture": "Official call record and congressional interpretation", "record_kind": "government", "response": "Supporters or defenders disputed the critical interpretation; the record preserves the attributed finding or analysis rather than converting it into a court judgment.", "sources": [ { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "document-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov", "published": "2019-07-25", "role": "primary", "type": "Official record", "url": "https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Unclassified09.2019.pdf" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "TIME report and reproduction of the call memorandum: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "TIME report and reproduction of the call memorandum", "published": "2019-09-25", "role": "independent", "type": "Independent reporting and document context", "url": "https://time.com/5685947/trump-ukraine-call/" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "GovInfo: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "access-date", "date_precision": "access", "name": "GovInfo", "published": "2026-08-30", "role": "primary", "type": "Official record", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/collection/impeachment-related-publications" } ], "summary": "In the official call memorandum, Trump asked Ukraine's president to investigate matters involving the 2016 election and the Bidens after the president raised U.S. support. The House inquiry treated the exchange as part of its abuse-of-power case; Trump denied an improper quid pro quo.", "title": "Trump and Zelensky held the July 25 call" }, { "alleged_conduct_date_display": "1995 or 1996", "category": "Sexual-misconduct allegations and litigation", "date_precision": "day", "disposition": "Separate civil juries later found Trump liable for sexual abuse and defamation and awarded damages; those adjudications remain separate ledger rows. Civil liability is not a criminal conviction, and the jury did not find rape under the then-applicable New York penal-law definition.", "disposition_source_urls": [ "https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/ca2/23-793/23-793-2024-12-30.html" ], "entity": null, "event_date": "2019-06-21", "event_date_display": "June 21, 2019", "evidence_basis": "primary-plus-independent", "id": "2019-06-21-e-jean-carroll-public-allegation", "last_verified": "2026-09-07", "personal_bankruptcy": null, "posture": "Public allegation later adjudicated in civil proceedings", "receipt_track": "sexual-misconduct-findings-allegations", "record_kind": "allegation", "response": "Trump denied the allegation, said he had never met Carroll, and continued to contest the resulting civil judgments and damages awards.", "sources": [ { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "New York magazine / The Cut: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30. Final URL: https://www.thecut.com/article/donald-trump-assault-e-jean-carroll-other-hideous-men.html.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "New York magazine / The Cut", "published": "2019-06-21", "role": "primary", "type": "Original first-person publication", "url": "https://www.thecut.com/2019/06/donald-trump-assault-e-jean-carroll-other-hideous-men.html" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-28", "access_notes": "Axios claimant-by-claimant review: direct HTTPS page content was opened and inspected on 2026-08-28.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "Axios claimant-by-claimant review", "published": "2024-10-27", "role": "independent", "type": "Independent reporting and source review", "url": "https://www.axios.com/2024/10/28/trump-sexual-misconduct-allegations-women" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-28", "access_notes": "Second Circuit Carroll opinion: indexed source content exposed the dated or captioned material on 2026-08-28; no direct-open claim is made.", "access_status": "indexed-content", "date_basis": "decision-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "Second Circuit Carroll opinion", "published": "2024-12-30", "role": "primary", "type": "Federal appellate opinion reproduction", "url": "https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/ca2/23-793/23-793-2024-12-30.html" } ], "summary": "E. Jean Carroll alleged in a first-person New York magazine excerpt that Trump sexually assaulted her in a department-store dressing room in the mid-1990s.", "title": "E. Jean Carroll's public allegation record", "topics": [ "conduct", "sexual-misconduct" ] }, { "category": "Elections, January 6, and institutional conduct", "date_precision": "day", "disposition": null, "entity": null, "event_date": "2019-05-24", "event_date_display": "May 24, 2019", "evidence_basis": "independent-corroboration", "id": "2019-05-24-saudi-uae-arms-sale-emergency", "last_verified": "2026-09-07", "personal_bankruptcy": null, "posture": "Documented historical event", "record_kind": "government", "response": null, "sources": [ { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "www.armscontrol.org: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "publication-month", "date_precision": "month", "name": "www.armscontrol.org", "published": "2019-04-01", "role": "analysis", "type": "Institutional or advocacy analysis", "url": "https://www.armscontrol.org/act/2019-04/news/congress-acts-war-yemen" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "Associated Press: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30. Final URL: https://apnews.com/article/politics-united-kingdom-yemen-government-saudi-arabia-a8dd0a5e5d2f42f1ae4b0e6d309f96cb.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "Associated Press", "published": "2019-05-24", "role": "independent", "type": "Independent reporting", "url": "https://apnews.com/article/a8dd0a5e5d2f42f1ae4b0e6d309f96cb" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-28", "access_notes": "www.axios.com: direct HTTPS audit returned HTTP 403 on 2026-08-28; no direct-open claim is made. Structured corroboration path: www.justsecurity.org (https://www.justsecurity.org/72188/state-dept-inspector-general-linick-saudi-arms-sales/; opened-live).", "access_status": "blocked-direct", "corroboration_url": "https://www.justsecurity.org/72188/state-dept-inspector-general-linick-saudi-arms-sales/", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "www.axios.com", "published": "2020-08-11", "role": "independent", "type": "Independent reporting", "url": "https://www.axios.com/2020/08/11/pompeo-saudi-arms-sales-inspector-general" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "www.justsecurity.org: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "www.justsecurity.org", "published": "2020-08-26", "role": "analysis", "type": "Institutional or advocacy analysis", "url": "https://www.justsecurity.org/72188/state-dept-inspector-general-linick-saudi-arms-sales/" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "www.forumarmstrade.org: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "source-update-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "www.forumarmstrade.org", "published": "2020-12-29", "role": "analysis", "type": "Institutional or advocacy analysis", "url": "https://www.forumarmstrade.org/resource-page---trump--saudi-arms-sales1.html" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-28", "access_notes": "www.cambridge.org: direct HTTPS audit returned HTTP 429 on 2026-08-28; indexed content exposed the dated or captioned source material. No direct-open claim is made.", "access_status": "indexed-content", "date_basis": "publication-month", "date_precision": "month", "name": "www.cambridge.org", "published": "2021-01-01", "role": "analysis", "type": "Institutional or advocacy analysis", "url": "https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-journal-of-international-law/article/congress-and-the-trump-administration-spar-over-us-arms-sales-to-the-saudiled-coalition-in-yemen/3B502E4E27A1EC19DF148C5440946705" } ], "summary": "The administration invoked emergency authority to proceed with $8.1 billion in arms sales to Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Jordan over congressional objections. The State Department inspector general later found the authority was available but criticized the civilian-harm assessment.", "title": "Administration invoked emergency authority for Saudi and UAE arms sales" }, { "category": "Documented falsehood campaigns and institutional attacks", "date_precision": "month", "disposition": null, "entity": null, "event_date": "2019-05-01", "event_date_display": "May 2019", "evidence_basis": "independent-corroboration", "id": "2019-05-pre-trump-china-tariff-revenue-claim", "last_verified": "2026-09-07", "personal_bankruptcy": null, "posture": "Documented public claim and fact-check", "record_kind": "statement", "response": null, "sources": [ { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "Associated Press trade fact-check hosted by PBS: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "Associated Press trade fact-check hosted by PBS", "published": "2019-05-11", "role": "independent", "type": "Independent Associated Press fact-check", "url": "https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/ap-fact-check-trumps-fog-of-misinformation-on-trade" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "FactCheck.org: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "FactCheck.org", "published": "2019-05-14", "role": "independent", "type": "Independent reporting", "url": "https://www.factcheck.org/2019/05/trump-wrong-on-china-trade-again/" } ], "summary": "Trump claimed the United States had collected no tariff revenue from China before his administration. Treasury history cited by FactCheck.org showed that the United States had collected billions of dollars in duties on Chinese imports before 2017.", "title": "Claim that the United States collected no China tariffs before 2017" }, { "category": "Documented falsehood campaigns and institutional attacks", "date_precision": "month", "disposition": null, "entity": null, "event_date": "2019-04-01", "event_date_display": "April 2019", "evidence_basis": "independent-corroboration", "id": "2019-04-obama-family-separation-claim", "last_verified": "2026-09-07", "personal_bankruptcy": null, "posture": "Documented public claim and fact-check", "record_kind": "statement", "response": null, "sources": [ { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "Associated Press family-separation fact-check: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "Associated Press family-separation fact-check", "published": "2019-04-09", "role": "independent", "type": "Independent Associated Press fact-check", "url": "https://www.boston.com/news/politics/2019/04/09/ap-fact-check-trump-tries-to-pin-child-separations-on-obama/" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "FactCheck.org: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "FactCheck.org", "published": "2019-04-10", "role": "independent", "type": "Independent reporting", "url": "https://www.factcheck.org/2019/04/more-family-separation-spin/" } ], "summary": "Trump said his administration had inherited the same family-separation policy from Obama. FactCheck.org distinguished prior immigration enforcement from the Trump administration's systematic zero-tolerance separation policy.", "title": "Claim that the Obama administration had the same separation policy" }, { "category": "Conflicts of interest and self-dealing", "date_precision": "day", "disposition": null, "entity": null, "event_date": "2019-03-25", "event_date_display": "March 25, 2019", "evidence_basis": "primary-plus-independent", "id": "2019-03-25-golan-heights-recognition", "last_verified": "2026-09-07", "personal_bankruptcy": null, "posture": "Foreign-policy recognition action", "record_kind": "government", "response": null, "sources": [ { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "document-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov", "published": "2019-03-25", "role": "primary", "type": "Official record", "url": "https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/presidential-actions/proclamation-recognizing-golan-heights-part-state-israel/" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-28", "access_notes": "Reuters: direct HTTPS audit returned HTTP 401 on 2026-08-28; no direct-open claim is made. Structured corroboration path: trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov (https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/presidential-actions/proclamation-recognizing-golan-heights-part-state-israel/; opened-live).", "access_status": "blocked-direct", "corroboration_url": "https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/presidential-actions/proclamation-recognizing-golan-heights-part-state-israel/", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "Reuters", "published": "2019-03-25", "role": "independent", "type": "Independent reporting", "url": "https://www.reuters.com/article/world/trump-recognizes-golan-heights-as-israeli-boosting-netanyahu-and-angering-syria-idUSKCN1R61IT/" } ], "summary": "Trump signed a proclamation recognizing Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights, departing from prior U.S. policy and the position held by much of the international community.", "title": "United States recognized Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights" }, { "category": "Documented falsehood campaigns and institutional attacks", "date_precision": "month", "disposition": null, "entity": null, "event_date": "2019-03-01", "event_date_display": "March 2019", "evidence_basis": "independent-corroboration", "id": "2019-03-born-alive-execution-claim", "last_verified": "2026-09-07", "personal_bankruptcy": null, "posture": "Documented public claim and fact-check", "record_kind": "statement", "response": null, "sources": [ { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "PolitiFact born-alive claim review: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "PolitiFact born-alive claim review", "published": "2019-02-28", "role": "independent", "type": "Independent fact-check", "url": "https://politifact.com/factchecks/2019/feb/28/donald-trump/fact-checking-donald-trumps-tweet-saying-democrats/" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "FactCheck.org: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "FactCheck.org", "published": "2019-03-04", "role": "independent", "type": "Independent reporting", "url": "https://www.factcheck.org/2019/03/the-facts-on-the-born-alive-debate/" } ], "summary": "Trump characterized Democratic abortion positions as supporting execution after birth. Infanticide was already illegal, and the cited fact-check found that the rhetoric misrepresented the born-alive policy dispute.", "title": "Claim that Democrats supported executing infants after birth" }, { "alleged_conduct_date_display": "August 24, 2016", "category": "Sexual-misconduct allegations and litigation", "date_precision": "day", "disposition": "A federal judge dismissed the complaint without prejudice and with leave to amend on June 14, 2019. Johnson declined to amend and ended the action in September 2019; the alleged kiss was not adjudicated, and dismissal is not disproof.", "disposition_source_urls": [ "https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/florida/flmdce/8%3A2019cv00475/360631/55/", "https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/alva-johnson-former-campaign-staffer-drops-lawsuit-accusing-trump-of-kissing-her-without-her-consent/2019/09/05/95d9ba64-cfe8-11e9-9031-519885a08a86_story.html" ], "entity": null, "event_date": "2019-02-25", "event_date_display": "February 25, 2019", "evidence_basis": "primary-plus-independent", "id": "2019-02-25-alva-johnson-lawsuit", "last_verified": "2026-09-07", "personal_bankruptcy": null, "posture": "Civil complaint dismissed with leave to amend; claimant declined to refile", "record_kind": "allegation", "response": "White House and campaign spokespeople denied the allegation as absurd, unfounded, and contradicted by witnesses, according to the cited reporting.", "sources": [ { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "TIME: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "TIME", "published": "2019-02-25", "role": "independent", "type": "Independent litigation reporting", "url": "https://time.com/5537033/donald-trump-alva-johnson/" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "Alva Johnson federal complaint: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "filing-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "Alva Johnson federal complaint", "published": "2019-02-25", "role": "primary", "type": "Filed federal civil complaint", "url": "https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/alva-johnson.pdf" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-28", "access_notes": "Johnson dismissal order reproduction: direct HTTPS page content was opened and inspected on 2026-08-28.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "decision-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "Johnson dismissal order reproduction", "published": "2019-06-14", "role": "primary", "type": "Federal dismissal order reproduction", "url": "https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/florida/flmdce/8%3A2019cv00475/360631/55/" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-28", "access_notes": "The Washington Post: indexed source content exposed the dated or captioned material on 2026-08-28; no direct-open claim is made.", "access_status": "indexed-content", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "The Washington Post", "published": "2019-09-05", "role": "independent", "type": "Independent disposition reporting", "url": "https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/alva-johnson-former-campaign-staffer-drops-lawsuit-accusing-trump-of-kissing-her-without-her-consent/2019/09/05/95d9ba64-cfe8-11e9-9031-519885a08a86_story.html" } ], "summary": "Alva Johnson alleged in a federal civil complaint and interviews that Trump kissed her without consent during a 2016 campaign stop.", "title": "Alva Johnson's public allegation record" }, { "category": "Documented falsehood campaigns and institutional attacks", "date_precision": "month", "disposition": null, "entity": null, "event_date": "2019-02-01", "event_date_display": "February 2019", "evidence_basis": "independent-corroboration", "id": "2019-02-china-pays-tariffs-claim", "last_verified": "2026-09-07", "personal_bankruptcy": null, "posture": "Documented public claim and fact-check", "record_kind": "statement", "response": null, "sources": [ { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "AP tariff fact-check hosted by Boston.com: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "AP tariff fact-check hosted by Boston.com", "published": "2019-02-05", "role": "independent", "type": "Independent Associated Press fact-check", "url": "https://www.boston.com/news/politics/2019/02/05/ap-fact-check-trump-on-tariffs/" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "FactCheck.org: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "FactCheck.org", "published": "2019-02-28", "role": "independent", "type": "Independent reporting", "url": "https://www.factcheck.org/2019/02/does-china-pay-tariffs/" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "FactCheck.org: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "FactCheck.org", "published": "2019-05-14", "role": "independent", "type": "Independent reporting", "url": "https://www.factcheck.org/2019/05/trump-wrong-on-china-trade-again/" } ], "summary": "Trump repeatedly said China paid tariffs imposed by his administration. U.S. importers remit those duties, with economic incidence potentially distributed among businesses, consumers and foreign producers.", "title": "Claim that China paid U.S. tariffs" }, { "category": "Conflicts of interest and self-dealing", "date_precision": "day", "disposition": null, "entity": null, "event_date": "2019-01-16", "event_date_display": "January 16, 2019", "evidence_basis": "primary-plus-independent", "id": "2019-01-16-dc-hotel-lease-review", "last_verified": "2026-09-07", "personal_bankruptcy": null, "posture": "Oversight review", "record_kind": "government", "response": null, "sources": [ { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "www.govexec.com: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "www.govexec.com", "published": "2016-11-28", "role": "independent", "type": "Independent reporting", "url": "https://www.govexec.com/management/2016/11/gsas-trump-hotel-lease-debacle/133424/" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "www.gsaig.gov: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "document-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "www.gsaig.gov", "published": "2019-01-16", "role": "primary", "type": "Official record", "url": "https://www.gsaig.gov/news/press-release-gsa-inspector-general-evaluation-old-post-office-building-lease-finds-agency" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "democrats-transportation.house.gov: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "access-date", "date_precision": "access", "name": "democrats-transportation.house.gov", "published": "2026-08-30", "role": "primary", "type": "Official record", "url": "https://democrats-transportation.house.gov/committee-activity/issue/gsas-management-of-the-old-post-office-building-lease" } ], "summary": "The GSA inspector general found that the agency had failed to resolve constitutional issues when reviewing the federally owned Old Post Office lease after Trump became president. This was an oversight finding about GSA's review, not a court liability judgment against Trump.", "title": "GSA inspector general criticized the D.C. hotel lease review" }, { "category": "Documented falsehood campaigns and institutional attacks", "date_precision": "month", "disposition": null, "entity": null, "event_date": "2019-01-01", "event_date_display": "January 2019", "evidence_basis": "independent-corroboration", "id": "2019-01-mexico-border-wall-payment-claim", "last_verified": "2026-09-07", "personal_bankruptcy": null, "posture": "Documented public claim and fact-check", "record_kind": "statement", "response": null, "sources": [ { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "FactCheck.org: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "FactCheck.org", "published": "2019-01-11", "role": "independent", "type": "Independent reporting", "url": "https://www.factcheck.org/2019/01/trump-revises-history-on-mexicos-wall-payment/" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "PolitiFact: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30. Final URL: https://politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/trumpometer/promise/386428/build-wall-and-make-mexico-pay-it/.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "source-update-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "PolitiFact", "published": "2020-07-15", "role": "independent", "type": "Independent reporting", "url": "https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/trumpometer/promise/1397/build-wall-and-make-mexico-pay-it/" } ], "summary": "Trump repeatedly said Mexico would pay for the border wall and later reframed the promise around trade benefits. Mexico did not directly fund the construction.", "title": "Claim that Mexico was paying for the border wall" }, { "category": "Conflicts of interest and self-dealing", "date_precision": "day", "disposition": null, "entity": null, "event_date": "2018-11-16", "event_date_display": "November 16, 2018", "evidence_basis": "primary-plus-independent", "id": "2018-11-16-miriam-adelson-medal-of-freedom", "last_verified": "2026-09-07", "personal_bankruptcy": null, "posture": "Official presidential honor", "record_kind": "government", "response": "Supporters or defenders disputed the critical interpretation; the record preserves the attributed finding or analysis rather than converting it into a court judgment.", "sources": [ { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-28", "access_notes": "trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov: direct HTTPS audit returned HTTP 404 on 2026-08-28; no direct-open claim is made. Structured corroboration path: responsiblestatecraft.org (https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2022/10/07/new-book-highlights-how-campaign-money-influences-us-foreign-policy/; opened-live).", "access_status": "blocked-direct", "corroboration_url": "https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2022/10/07/new-book-highlights-how-campaign-money-influences-us-foreign-policy/", "date_basis": "document-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov", "published": "2018-11-16", "role": "primary", "type": "Official record", "url": "https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefings-statements/president-donald-j-trump-awards-presidential-medal-freedom/" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "TIME: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "TIME", "published": "2021-01-12", "role": "independent", "type": "Independent reporting", "url": "https://time.com/5543562/sheldon-adelson-dies/" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "responsiblestatecraft.org: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "responsiblestatecraft.org", "published": "2022-10-07", "role": "analysis", "type": "Institutional or advocacy analysis", "url": "https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2022/10/07/new-book-highlights-how-campaign-money-influences-us-foreign-policy/" } ], "summary": "Trump awarded Miriam Adelson the Presidential Medal of Freedom after the Adelsons had become major Republican donors. The sequence is documented; the honor alone does not establish that a particular policy was exchanged for donations.", "title": "Miriam Adelson received the Presidential Medal of Freedom" }, { "category": "Documented falsehood campaigns and institutional attacks", "date_precision": "day", "disposition": null, "entity": null, "event_date": "2018-11-16", "event_date_display": "November 16, 2018", "evidence_basis": "independent-corroboration", "id": "2018-11-16-acosta-pass-restored", "last_verified": "2026-09-07", "personal_bankruptcy": null, "posture": "Court-ordered interim restoration", "record_kind": "government", "response": null, "sources": [ { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "National Constitution Center: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "National Constitution Center", "published": "2018-11-16", "role": "independent", "type": "Independent reporting", "url": "https://constitutioncenter.org/blog/cnn-gets-temporary-due-process-ruling-in-trump-case" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "Voice of America: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "Voice of America", "published": "2018-11-16", "role": "independent", "type": "Independent reporting", "url": "https://www.voanews.com/a/white-house-ordered-to-return-press-pass-to-cnn-reporter/4661693.html" } ], "summary": "A federal court ordered the White House to restore CNN correspondent Jim Acosta's press credential temporarily after finding that the government had not provided adequate process.", "title": "Court ordered temporary restoration of Jim Acosta's press pass" }, { "category": "Documented falsehood campaigns and institutional attacks", "date_precision": "day", "disposition": "A court ordered temporary restoration on November 16, 2018.", "disposition_source_urls": [ "https://constitutioncenter.org/blog/cnn-gets-temporary-due-process-ruling-in-trump-case", "https://www.voanews.com/a/white-house-ordered-to-return-press-pass-to-cnn-reporter/4661693.html" ], "entity": null, "event_date": "2018-11-07", "event_date_display": "November 7, 2018", "evidence_basis": "independent-corroboration", "id": "2018-11-07-acosta-pass-revoked", "last_verified": "2026-09-07", "personal_bankruptcy": null, "posture": "Press credential revoked", "record_kind": "government", "response": null, "sources": [ { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "National Constitution Center: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "National Constitution Center", "published": "2018-11-16", "role": "independent", "type": "Independent reporting", "url": "https://constitutioncenter.org/blog/cnn-gets-temporary-due-process-ruling-in-trump-case" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "Voice of America: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "Voice of America", "published": "2018-11-16", "role": "independent", "type": "Independent reporting", "url": "https://www.voanews.com/a/white-house-ordered-to-return-press-pass-to-cnn-reporter/4661693.html" } ], "summary": "The White House revoked CNN correspondent Jim Acosta's press credential after a contentious briefing exchange. CNN challenged the revocation on due-process and First Amendment grounds.", "title": "White House revoked Jim Acosta's press pass" }, { "category": "Conflicts of interest and self-dealing", "date_precision": "month", "disposition": null, "entity": null, "event_date": "2018-07-01", "event_date_display": "July 2018", "evidence_basis": "primary-plus-independent", "id": "2018-07-trump-turnberry-government-spending", "last_verified": "2026-09-07", "personal_bankruptcy": null, "posture": "Documented spending and conflict concern", "record_kind": "government", "response": null, "sources": [ { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-28", "access_notes": "The Washington Post: direct HTTPS audit returned curl exit 92 on 2026-08-28; no direct-open claim is made. Structured corroboration path: www.mainepublic.org (https://www.mainepublic.org/2019-09-09/allowable-but-not-advisable-air-force-and-congress-review-stays-at-trump-resort; opened-live).", "access_status": "blocked-direct", "corroboration_url": "https://www.mainepublic.org/2019-09-09/allowable-but-not-advisable-air-force-and-congress-review-stays-at-trump-resort", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "The Washington Post", "published": "2019-09-07", "role": "independent", "type": "Independent reporting", "url": "https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/house-panel-is-probing-us-military-use-of-trump-owned-property-in-scotland/2019/09/07/658aa050-d176-11e9-87fa-8501a456c003_story.html" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "www.mainepublic.org: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "www.mainepublic.org", "published": "2019-09-09", "role": "independent", "type": "Independent reporting", "url": "https://www.mainepublic.org/2019-09-09/allowable-but-not-advisable-air-force-and-congress-review-stays-at-trump-resort" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "www.oig.dhs.gov: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "document-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "www.oig.dhs.gov", "published": "2020-03-18", "role": "primary", "type": "Official record", "url": "https://www.oig.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/assets/2020-03/OIG-20-18-Mar20.pdf" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "CBS News Turnberry expense report: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "CBS News Turnberry expense report", "published": "2020-03-24", "role": "independent", "type": "Independent reporting on the inspector-general findings", "url": "https://www.cbsnews.com/news/secret-service-incurred-more-than-950000-in-expenses-for-trump-stay-at-his-scotland-resort/" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "www.citizensforethics.org: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "www.citizensforethics.org", "published": "2024-10-18", "role": "analysis", "type": "Institutional or advocacy analysis", "url": "https://www.citizensforethics.org/reports-investigations/crew-investigations/the-secret-service-spent-nearly-2-million-at-trump-properties/" } ], "summary": "Government records and reporting documented Secret Service expenses for Trump's July 2018 Turnberry visit and examined separate military stays at or near the resort. Officials disputed that the stays were improper; the spending nevertheless raised conflict-of-interest concerns because Trump owned the property.", "title": "Government and military spending connected to Trump Turnberry" }, { "category": "Discrimination and civil rights", "date_precision": "day", "disposition": null, "entity": null, "event_date": "2018-06-26", "event_date_display": "June 26, 2018", "evidence_basis": "primary-plus-independent", "id": "2018-06-26-trump-v-hawaii", "last_verified": "2026-09-07", "personal_bankruptcy": null, "posture": "Documented historical event", "record_kind": "government", "response": null, "sources": [ { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "ABC News Supreme Court decision report: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "ABC News Supreme Court decision report", "published": "2018-06-26", "role": "independent", "type": "Independent legal reporting", "url": "https://abcnews.com/Politics/breaking-supreme-court-rules-favor-trumps-controversial-travel/story?id=56086286" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-28", "access_notes": "www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org: direct HTTPS audit returned HTTP 403 on 2026-08-28; no direct-open claim is made. Structured corroboration path: ABC News Supreme Court decision report (https://abcnews.com/Politics/breaking-supreme-court-rules-favor-trumps-controversial-travel/story?id=56086286; opened-live).", "access_status": "blocked-direct", "corroboration_url": "https://abcnews.com/Politics/breaking-supreme-court-rules-favor-trumps-controversial-travel/story?id=56086286", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org", "published": "2018-06-26", "role": "analysis", "type": "Institutional or advocacy analysis", "url": "https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/blog/supreme-court-upholds-muslim-ban/" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "www.brennancenter.org: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "www.brennancenter.org", "published": "2018-06-26", "role": "analysis", "type": "Institutional or advocacy analysis", "url": "https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/trumps-travel-ban-still-unconstitutional" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "U.S. Supreme Court: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "document-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "U.S. Supreme Court", "published": "2018-06-26", "role": "primary", "type": "Official record", "url": "https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/17pdf/17-965_h315.pdf" } ], "summary": "The Supreme Court upheld the presidential proclamation restricting entry from several countries against the claims before it. Civil-rights organizations continued to criticize the policy as discriminatory; that criticism is distinct from the Court's judgment.", "title": "Supreme Court upheld the challenged travel proclamation" }, { "category": "Consumer, charity, tax, and regulatory matters", "date_precision": "day", "disposition": "The foundation dissolved and the court ordered a $2 million payment in November 2019; that later disposition is recorded separately.", "disposition_source_urls": [ "https://ag.ny.gov/press-release/2018/attorney-general-underwood-announces-lawsuit-against-donald-j-trump-foundation", "https://www.factcheck.org/2019/11/trump-spins-court-ruling-on-trump-foundation/" ], "entity": null, "event_date": "2018-06-14", "event_date_display": "June 14, 2018", "evidence_basis": "primary-plus-independent", "id": "2018-06-14-trump-foundation-suit-filed", "last_verified": "2026-09-07", "personal_bankruptcy": null, "posture": "State charity-enforcement complaint — allegations not yet adjudicated", "record_kind": "civil", "response": "Trump and the foundation denied intentional misuse and criticized the enforcement action.", "sources": [ { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "New York attorney general charity complaint release: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "New York attorney general charity complaint release", "published": "2018-06-14", "role": "primary", "type": "Official enforcement complaint", "url": "https://ag.ny.gov/press-release/2018/attorney-general-underwood-announces-lawsuit-against-donald-j-trump-foundation" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "FactCheck.org later-order analysis: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "FactCheck.org later-order analysis", "published": "2019-11-12", "role": "independent", "type": "Independent fact-check", "url": "https://www.factcheck.org/2019/11/trump-spins-court-ruling-on-trump-foundation/" } ], "summary": "The complaint alleged persistent illegal conduct involving charitable assets and sought dissolution and other relief. The filing was an allegation stage; a November 2019 court order later imposed a $2 million payment and the foundation dissolved under supervision.", "title": "New York attorney general filed suit against the Trump Foundation" }, { "category": "Conflicts of interest and self-dealing", "date_precision": "day", "disposition": null, "entity": null, "event_date": "2018-05-14", "event_date_display": "May 14, 2018", "evidence_basis": "primary-plus-independent", "id": "2018-05-14-us-embassy-jerusalem-opened", "last_verified": "2026-09-07", "personal_bankruptcy": null, "posture": "Foreign-policy implementation", "record_kind": "government", "response": null, "sources": [ { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "ABC News embassy-opening report: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "ABC News embassy-opening report", "published": "2018-05-14", "role": "independent", "type": "Independent reporting", "url": "https://abcnews.com/International/us-embassy-set-open-jerusalem-netanyahu-praises-trump/story?id=55137896" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "document-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov", "published": "2018-05-14", "role": "primary", "type": "Official record", "url": "https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefings-statements/statement-president-trump-jerusalem/" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "www.state.gov: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "document-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "www.state.gov", "published": "2018-05-14", "role": "primary", "type": "Official record", "url": "https://www.state.gov/u-s-embassy-jerusalem/" } ], "summary": "The United States opened its embassy in Jerusalem after recognizing the city as Israel's capital. The policy aligned with priorities of major pro-Israel supporters, but the cited record does not prove donor causation.", "title": "United States opened its embassy in Jerusalem" }, { "category": "Documented falsehood campaigns and institutional attacks", "date_precision": "month", "disposition": null, "entity": null, "event_date": "2018-05-01", "event_date_display": "May 2018", "evidence_basis": "independent-corroboration", "id": "2018-05-family-separation-law-claim", "last_verified": "2026-09-07", "personal_bankruptcy": null, "posture": "Documented public claim and fact-check", "record_kind": "statement", "response": null, "sources": [ { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "FactCheck.org: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "FactCheck.org", "published": "2018-05-28", "role": "independent", "type": "Independent reporting", "url": "https://www.factcheck.org/2018/05/video-trump-on-breaking-up-immigrant-families/" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "CBS News family-separation claim review: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "CBS News family-separation claim review", "published": "2018-06-15", "role": "independent", "type": "Independent fact-check", "url": "https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-continues-to-falsely-claim-theres-a-law-on-family-separation/" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "www.aclu.org: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "www.aclu.org", "published": "2018-06-19", "role": "analysis", "type": "Institutional or advocacy analysis", "url": "https://www.aclu.org/news/immigrants-rights/fact-checking-family-separation" } ], "summary": "Trump administration officials said family separation was required by law or caused by laws enacted by Democrats. The cited fact-checks found that systematic separation resulted from the administration's own zero-tolerance enforcement choice.", "title": "Claim that family separation was legally required" }, { "category": "Discrimination and civil rights", "date_precision": "day", "disposition": null, "entity": null, "event_date": "2018-04-06", "event_date_display": "April 6, 2018", "evidence_basis": "primary-plus-independent", "id": "2018-04-06-zero-tolerance-family-separation", "last_verified": "2026-09-07", "personal_bankruptcy": null, "posture": "Documented historical event", "record_kind": "government", "response": null, "sources": [ { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "Justice Department zero-tolerance announcement: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30. Final URL: https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/attorney-general-announces-zero-tolerance-policy-criminal-illegal-entry.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "Justice Department zero-tolerance announcement", "published": "2018-04-06", "role": "primary", "type": "Official policy announcement", "url": "https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/attorney-general-announces-zero-tolerance-policy-criminal-illegal-entry" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "PBS report on family-separation executive order: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "PBS report on family-separation executive order", "published": "2018-06-20", "role": "independent", "type": "Independent reporting", "url": "https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trump-signs-executive-order-to-keep-families-together-at-border-says-zero-tolerance-policy-will-continue" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "tracreports.org: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "document-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "tracreports.org", "published": "2019-02-26", "role": "analysis", "type": "Institutional or advocacy analysis", "url": "https://tracreports.org/tracker/dynadata/2019_03/R45266.pdf" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-28", "access_notes": "www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org: direct HTTPS audit returned HTTP 403 on 2026-08-28; indexed content exposed the dated or captioned source material. No direct-open claim is made.", "access_status": "indexed-content", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org", "published": "2025-10-30", "role": "analysis", "type": "Institutional or advocacy analysis", "url": "https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/report/family-separation-policy/" } ], "summary": "The Justice Department announced a zero-tolerance prosecution policy for improper entry. Its implementation led to systematic separation of children from parents or guardians and substantial reunification problems.", "title": "Justice Department announced zero-tolerance prosecutions" }, { "category": "Business bankruptcies and failures", "date_precision": "day", "disposition": "Resolved by a $25 million settlement without an admission of wrongdoing.", "disposition_source_urls": [ "https://abcnews.go.com/US/judge-finalizes-25-million-settlement-victims-donald-trumps/story?id=54347237" ], "entity": "Trump University, LLC / Trump Entrepreneur Initiative, LLC", "event_date": "2018-03-30", "event_date_display": "March 30, 2018", "evidence_basis": "primary-plus-independent", "id": "2018-03-30-trump-university-settlement", "last_verified": "2026-09-07", "personal_bankruptcy": false, "posture": "Civil settlement without admission", "record_kind": "business", "response": "The settlement or consent resolution did not include an admission of wrongdoing.", "sources": [ { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "TIME: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "TIME", "published": "2016-06-02", "role": "independent", "type": "Independent reporting", "url": "https://time.com/4354855/donald-trump-trump-university-eric-schneiderman/" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "Federal court settlement order: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "decision-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "Federal court settlement order", "published": "2016-12-20", "role": "primary", "type": "Federal court order", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCOURTS-casd-3_10-cv-00940/pdf/USCOURTS-casd-3_10-cv-00940-25.pdf" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "ABC News: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30. Final URL: https://abcnews.com/US/judge-finalizes-25-million-settlement-victims-donald-trumps/story?id=54347237.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "ABC News", "published": "2018-03-30", "role": "independent", "type": "Independent reporting", "url": "https://abcnews.go.com/US/judge-finalizes-25-million-settlement-victims-donald-trumps/story?id=54347237" } ], "summary": "The federal court finalized a $25 million settlement resolving state and private fraud claims involving Trump University. The settlement included no admission of wrongdoing and was not a fraud verdict against Trump.", "title": "Court finalized the $25 million Trump University settlement" }, { "category": "Documented falsehood campaigns and institutional attacks", "date_precision": "day", "disposition": null, "entity": null, "event_date": "2017-03-04", "event_date_display": "March 4, 2017", "evidence_basis": "independent-corroboration", "id": "2017-03-04-trump-tower-wiretapping-claim", "last_verified": "2026-09-07", "personal_bankruptcy": null, "posture": "Documented public claim and fact-check", "record_kind": "statement", "response": null, "sources": [ { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "FactCheck.org: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "FactCheck.org", "published": "2017-03-04", "role": "independent", "type": "Independent reporting", "url": "https://www.factcheck.org/2017/03/examining-trumps-wiretap-claim/" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-28", "access_notes": "TIME: direct HTTPS audit returned HTTP 406 on 2026-08-28; indexed content exposed the dated or captioned source material. No direct-open claim is made.", "access_status": "indexed-content", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "TIME", "published": "2017-09-03", "role": "independent", "type": "Independent reporting", "url": "https://time.com/4926141/barack-obama-donald-trump-wiretap-doj/" } ], "summary": "Trump accused President Obama of wiretapping Trump Tower before the 2016 election. Justice Department, FBI and congressional inquiries did not substantiate the accusation.", "title": "Claim that Obama wiretapped Trump Tower" }, { "category": "Documented falsehood campaigns and institutional attacks", "date_precision": "day", "disposition": null, "entity": null, "event_date": "2017-01-23", "event_date_display": "January 23, 2017", "evidence_basis": "independent-corroboration", "id": "2017-01-23-illegal-vote-claim", "last_verified": "2026-09-07", "personal_bankruptcy": null, "posture": "Documented public claim and fact-check", "record_kind": "statement", "response": null, "sources": [ { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "FactCheck.org: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "FactCheck.org", "published": "2017-01-23", "role": "independent", "type": "Independent reporting", "url": "https://www.factcheck.org/2017/01/trumps-bogus-voter-fraud-claims-revisited/" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "PBS NewsHour: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "PBS NewsHour", "published": "2017-01-23", "role": "independent", "type": "Independent reporting", "url": "https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/ap-report-trump-advances-false-claim-3-5-million-voted-illegally" } ], "summary": "Trump claimed that three to five million people had voted illegally in 2016. No evidence substantiated illegal voting on that scale.", "title": "Claim that millions voted illegally in 2016" }, { "category": "Documented falsehood campaigns and institutional attacks", "date_precision": "day", "disposition": null, "entity": null, "event_date": "2017-01-21", "event_date_display": "January 21, 2017", "evidence_basis": "independent-corroboration", "id": "2017-01-21-inauguration-audience-claim", "last_verified": "2026-09-07", "personal_bankruptcy": null, "posture": "Documented public claim and fact-check", "record_kind": "statement", "response": null, "sources": [ { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-28", "access_notes": "TIME: direct HTTPS audit returned HTTP 406 on 2026-08-28; indexed full article content exposed the January 23, 2017 timestamp, the administration claim, and comparative audience evidence. No direct-open claim is made.", "access_status": "indexed-content", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "TIME", "published": "2017-01-23", "role": "independent", "type": "Independent reporting", "url": "https://time.com/4643927/sean-spicer-white-house-donald-trump-inauguration-press-briefing/" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-28", "access_notes": "The Washington Post: direct HTTPS audit returned curl exit 92 on 2026-08-28; no direct-open claim is made. Structured corroboration path: TIME (https://time.com/4643927/sean-spicer-white-house-donald-trump-inauguration-press-briefing/; indexed-content).", "access_status": "blocked-direct", "corroboration_url": "https://time.com/4643927/sean-spicer-white-house-donald-trump-inauguration-press-briefing/", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "The Washington Post", "published": "2021-01-24", "role": "independent", "type": "Independent reporting", "url": "https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/trump-claims-database/" } ], "summary": "The administration described Trump's inauguration audience as the largest ever. Photographs, transit figures and television ratings did not support the categorical claim.", "title": "Claim of the largest-ever inauguration audience" }, { "category": "Conflicts of interest and self-dealing", "date_precision": "day", "disposition": null, "entity": null, "event_date": "2017-01-11", "event_date_display": "January 11, 2017", "evidence_basis": "independent-corroboration", "id": "2017-01-11-business-conflict-plan", "last_verified": "2026-09-07", "personal_bankruptcy": null, "posture": "Documented historical event", "record_kind": "government", "response": null, "sources": [ { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "CBS News ethics-office response: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "CBS News ethics-office response", "published": "2017-01-11", "role": "independent", "type": "Independent reporting", "url": "https://www.cbsnews.com/news/head-of-government-ethics-office-calls-donald-trump-business-plans-wholly-inadequate/" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-28", "access_notes": "Washington Post business-plan report: direct HTTPS audit returned curl exit 92 on 2026-08-28; no direct-open claim is made. Structured corroboration path: CBS News ethics-office response (https://www.cbsnews.com/news/head-of-government-ethics-office-calls-donald-trump-business-plans-wholly-inadequate/; opened-live).", "access_status": "blocked-direct", "corroboration_url": "https://www.cbsnews.com/news/head-of-government-ethics-office-calls-donald-trump-business-plans-wholly-inadequate/", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "Washington Post business-plan report", "published": "2017-01-11", "role": "independent", "type": "Independent reporting", "url": "https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-outlines-plan-to-shift-assets-give-up-management-of-his-company/2017/01/11/8c7527d8-d801-11e6-b8b2-cb5164beba6b_story.html" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "www.citizensforethics.org: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "www.citizensforethics.org", "published": "2021-02-22", "role": "analysis", "type": "Institutional or advocacy analysis", "url": "https://www.citizensforethics.org/reports-investigations/crew-investigations/trump-reported-making-more-than-1-6-billion-while-president/" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "www.theusconstitution.org: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "access-date", "date_precision": "access", "name": "www.theusconstitution.org", "published": "2026-08-30", "role": "analysis", "type": "Institutional or advocacy analysis", "url": "https://www.theusconstitution.org/litigation/citizens-for-responsibility-and-ethics-in-washington-et-al-v-trump/" } ], "summary": "Trump announced that his businesses would be managed by his sons but did not divest or place the assets in a true blind trust. Watchdog and constitutional-law groups argued that continued ownership preserved conflicts involving payments to his businesses.", "title": "Trump announced a business-management plan without divestment" }, { "category": "Conflicts of interest and self-dealing", "date_precision": "range", "disposition": null, "entity": null, "event_date": "2017-01-01", "event_date_display": "2017–2021", "evidence_basis": "primary-plus-independent", "id": "2017-2021-secret-service-spending-trump-properties", "last_verified": "2026-09-07", "personal_bankruptcy": null, "posture": "Documented spending and conflict concern", "record_kind": "government", "response": null, "sources": [ { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "www.oig.dhs.gov: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "document-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "www.oig.dhs.gov", "published": "2020-03-18", "role": "primary", "type": "Official record", "url": "https://www.oig.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/assets/2020-03/OIG-20-18-Mar20.pdf" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "oversightdemocrats.house.gov: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "document-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "oversightdemocrats.house.gov", "published": "2024-10-18", "role": "primary", "type": "Official record", "url": "https://oversightdemocrats.house.gov/news/press-releases/oversight-democrats-new-report-proves-trump-used-his-dc-hotel-take" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "www.citizensforethics.org: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "www.citizensforethics.org", "published": "2024-10-18", "role": "analysis", "type": "Institutional or advocacy analysis", "url": "https://www.citizensforethics.org/reports-investigations/crew-investigations/the-secret-service-spent-nearly-2-million-at-trump-properties/" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "The Guardian: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "The Guardian", "published": "2024-10-18", "role": "independent", "type": "Independent reporting", "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/18/trump-overcharge-secret-service-hotel" } ], "summary": "Government records documented Secret Service spending at Trump-owned properties during and immediately after his first presidency, including rates above normal government per-diem levels at the D.C. hotel. The spending was required by protective operations but also directed public money to businesses in which Trump retained an interest.", "title": "Secret Service spending at Trump properties" }, { "category": "Conflicts of interest and self-dealing", "date_precision": "range", "disposition": null, "entity": null, "event_date": "2017-01-01", "event_date_display": "2017–2020", "evidence_basis": "independent-corroboration", "id": "2017-2020-trump-property-promotion-pattern", "last_verified": "2026-09-07", "personal_bankruptcy": null, "posture": "Documented multi-event pattern", "record_kind": "government", "response": null, "sources": [ { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "TIME: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "TIME", "published": "2019-10-20", "role": "independent", "type": "Independent reporting", "url": "https://time.com/5705628/donald-trump-g7-doral-resort/" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "www.citizensforethics.org: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "www.citizensforethics.org", "published": "2020-09-24", "role": "analysis", "type": "Institutional or advocacy analysis", "url": "https://www.citizensforethics.org/reports-investigations/crew-reports/president-trumps-3400-conflicts-of-interest/" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "Independent report on first-term property conflicts: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "Independent report on first-term property conflicts", "published": "2020-12-10", "role": "independent", "type": "Independent reporting on the documented pattern", "url": "https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-conflicts-of-interest-trump-organisation-crew-report-b600173.html" } ], "summary": "During his first presidency, Trump repeatedly promoted or conducted official activity at properties bearing his name, including Doral and Mar-a-Lago. Watchdogs treated the pattern as brand enhancement and a conflict concern rather than an adjudicated pay-to-play offense.", "title": "Presidential promotion of Trump properties" }, { "category": "Conflicts of interest and self-dealing", "date_precision": "range", "disposition": null, "entity": null, "event_date": "2017-01-01", "event_date_display": "2017–2020", "evidence_basis": "independent-corroboration", "id": "2017-2020-trump-dc-hotel-influence-hub", "last_verified": "2026-09-07", "personal_bankruptcy": null, "posture": "Documented spending and access pattern", "record_kind": "government", "response": null, "sources": [ { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-28", "access_notes": "www.cntraveler.com: direct HTTPS audit returned HTTP 404 on 2026-08-28; no direct-open claim is made. Structured corroboration path: CREW political-spending analysis (https://www.citizensforethics.org/reports-investigations/crew-investigations/political-spending-equaled-at-least-3-4-of-revenue-linked-to-trumps-dc-hotel/; opened-live).", "access_status": "blocked-direct", "corroboration_url": "https://www.citizensforethics.org/reports-investigations/crew-investigations/political-spending-equaled-at-least-3-4-of-revenue-linked-to-trumps-dc-hotel/", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "www.cntraveler.com", "published": "2018-05-02", "role": "independent", "type": "Independent reporting", "url": "https://www.cntraveler.com/story/trump-hotel-dc-inside-worlds-most-controversial-hotel" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-28", "access_notes": "The Washington Post: direct HTTPS audit returned curl exit 92 on 2026-08-28; no direct-open claim is made. Structured corroboration path: CREW political-spending analysis (https://www.citizensforethics.org/reports-investigations/crew-investigations/political-spending-equaled-at-least-3-4-of-revenue-linked-to-trumps-dc-hotel/; opened-live).", "access_status": "blocked-direct", "corroboration_url": "https://www.citizensforethics.org/reports-investigations/crew-investigations/political-spending-equaled-at-least-3-4-of-revenue-linked-to-trumps-dc-hotel/", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "The Washington Post", "published": "2018-11-19", "role": "independent", "type": "Independent reporting", "url": "https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2017/politics/gop-money-trump-properties/" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "CREW political-spending analysis: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "CREW political-spending analysis", "published": "2019-05-23", "role": "analysis", "type": "Watchdog analysis", "url": "https://www.citizensforethics.org/reports-investigations/crew-investigations/political-spending-equaled-at-least-3-4-of-revenue-linked-to-trumps-dc-hotel/" } ], "summary": "Political committees, lobbyists and foreign delegations spent money at the Trump International Hotel in Washington during Trump's first presidency. Reporting and watchdog analysis described the hotel as an access and influence venue; no criminal exchange is asserted.", "title": "Political and lobbying spending at the Trump D.C. hotel" }, { "category": "Conflicts of interest and self-dealing", "date_precision": "range", "disposition": null, "entity": null, "event_date": "2017-01-01", "event_date_display": "2017–2020", "evidence_basis": "primary-plus-independent", "id": "2017-2020-foreign-government-spending-trump-businesses", "last_verified": "2026-09-07", "personal_bankruptcy": null, "posture": "Documented spending and conflict concern", "record_kind": "government", "response": null, "sources": [ { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-28", "access_notes": "U.S. Supreme Court: direct HTTPS audit returned HTTP 404 on 2026-08-28; indexed content exposed the dated or captioned source material. No direct-open claim is made.", "access_status": "indexed-content", "date_basis": "decision-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "U.S. Supreme Court", "published": "2021-01-25", "role": "primary", "type": "Official record", "url": "https://www.supremecourt.gov/orders/courtorders/012521zor_8n59.pdf" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "Associated Press: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30. Final URL: https://apnews.com/article/congress-emoluments-trump-raskin-house-oversight-d7400a67dec40940fe76fbaa57feda9c.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "Associated Press", "published": "2024-01-04", "role": "independent", "type": "Independent reporting", "url": "https://apnews.com/article/d7400a67dec40940fe76fbaa57feda9c" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "American Oversight: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "American Oversight", "published": "2024-01-05", "role": "analysis", "type": "Institutional or advocacy analysis", "url": "https://americanoversight.org/new-congressional-report-trump-businesses-received-7-8-million-from-foreign-governments-during-his-presidency/" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "www.citizensforethics.org: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "www.citizensforethics.org", "published": "2024-09-17", "role": "analysis", "type": "Institutional or advocacy analysis", "url": "https://www.citizensforethics.org/reports-investigations/crew-reports/trump-likely-benefited-from-13-6-million-in-payments-from-foreign-governments-during-his-presidency/" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-28", "access_notes": "www.citizensforethics.org: direct HTTPS audit returned HTTP 404 on 2026-08-28; no direct-open claim is made. Structured corroboration path: www.citizensforethics.org (https://www.citizensforethics.org/reports-investigations/crew-reports/trump-likely-benefited-from-13-6-million-in-payments-from-foreign-governments-during-his-presidency/; opened-live).", "access_status": "blocked-direct", "corroboration_url": "https://www.citizensforethics.org/reports-investigations/crew-reports/trump-likely-benefited-from-13-6-million-in-payments-from-foreign-governments-during-his-presidency/", "date_basis": "access-date", "date_precision": "access", "name": "www.citizensforethics.org", "published": "2026-08-28", "role": "analysis", "type": "Institutional or advocacy analysis", "url": "https://www.citizensforethics.org/reports-investigations/crew-reports/trump-emoluments-clause-lawsuits/" } ], "summary": "A House staff report identified at least $7.8 million in payments by 20 foreign governments to Trump businesses during his presidency; a later watchdog estimate used broader data and reached a larger figure. The amounts are attributed estimates and do not by themselves establish a criminal exchange.", "title": "Foreign-government spending at Trump businesses" }, { "category": "Elections, January 6, and institutional conduct", "date_precision": "day", "disposition": null, "entity": null, "event_date": "2016-11-08", "event_date_display": "November 8, 2016", "evidence_basis": "primary-plus-independent", "id": "2016-11-08-popular-vote-result", "last_verified": "2026-09-07", "personal_bankruptcy": null, "posture": "Certified election result", "record_kind": "government", "response": null, "sources": [ { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "TIME final popular-vote count: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "TIME final popular-vote count", "published": "2016-12-20", "role": "independent", "type": "Independent election reporting", "url": "https://time.com/4608555/hillary-clinton-popular-vote-final/" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "National Archives: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "access-date", "date_precision": "access", "name": "National Archives", "published": "2026-08-30", "role": "primary", "type": "Official record", "url": "https://www.archives.gov/electoral-college/2016" } ], "summary": "Certified results show that Hillary Clinton received more popular votes nationwide in 2016 while Trump won the Electoral College and the presidency.", "title": "Certified 2016 popular-vote result" }, { "alleged_conduct_date_display": "2006", "category": "Sexual-misconduct allegations and litigation", "date_precision": "day", "disposition": "The cited sources document a public allegation and aggregate denial, not an adjudication. The bounded review located no filed claim or merits finding through 2026-08-28.", "disposition_source_urls": [ "https://www.is.fi/viihde/art-2000001940422.html", "https://www.axios.com/2024/10/28/trump-sexual-misconduct-allegations-women" ], "entity": null, "event_date": "2016-10-27", "event_date_display": "October 27, 2016", "evidence_basis": "primary-plus-independent", "id": "2016-10-27-ninni-laaksonen-allegation", "last_verified": "2026-09-07", "personal_bankruptcy": null, "posture": "Public allegation — not adjudicated", "record_kind": "allegation", "response": "A bounded search of the Ilta-Sanomat and Axios reports located no claimant-specific response; Axios documented the campaign's aggregate denial.", "sources": [ { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "Ilta-Sanomat: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "Ilta-Sanomat", "published": "2016-10-27", "role": "primary", "type": "Original claimant interview", "url": "https://www.is.fi/viihde/art-2000001940422.html" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-28", "access_notes": "Axios claimant-by-claimant review: direct HTTPS page content was opened and inspected on 2026-08-28.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "Axios claimant-by-claimant review", "published": "2024-10-27", "role": "independent", "type": "Independent reporting and source review", "url": "https://www.axios.com/2024/10/28/trump-sexual-misconduct-allegations-women" } ], "summary": "Ninni Laaksonen alleged in an Ilta-Sanomat interview that Trump grabbed her buttocks backstage before a 2006 television appearance.", "title": "Ninni Laaksonen's public allegation record" }, { "alleged_conduct_date_display": "2006", "category": "Sexual-misconduct allegations and litigation", "date_precision": "day", "disposition": "The cited sources document Drake's named public allegation and a denial, not an adjudication. The two unnamed women are not converted into separate claimant rows.", "disposition_source_urls": [ "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/oct/22/trump-news-porn-star-jessica-drake-gloria-allred", "https://time.com/5058646/donald-trump-accusers/" ], "entity": null, "event_date": "2016-10-22", "event_date_display": "October 22, 2016", "evidence_basis": "primary-plus-independent", "id": "2016-10-22-jessica-drake-allegation", "last_verified": "2026-09-07", "personal_bankruptcy": null, "posture": "Public allegation — not adjudicated", "record_kind": "allegation", "response": "Trump's campaign denied Drake's account and called it false and politically motivated, according to the cited sources.", "sources": [ { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "The Guardian: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "The Guardian", "published": "2016-10-22", "role": "primary", "type": "Original press-conference reporting", "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/oct/22/trump-news-porn-star-jessica-drake-gloria-allred" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "TIME claimant-by-claimant review: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "TIME claimant-by-claimant review", "published": "2017-12-12", "role": "independent", "type": "Independent reporting and source review", "url": "https://time.com/5058646/donald-trump-accusers/" } ], "summary": "Jessica Drake alleged at an October 2016 press conference that Trump kissed her and two unnamed women without permission and later offered her money to return to his room after a 2006 golf event.", "title": "Jessica Drake's public allegation record" }, { "alleged_conduct_date_display": "1998", "category": "Sexual-misconduct allegations and litigation", "date_precision": "day", "disposition": "The cited sources document a public allegation and denial, not an adjudication. The bounded review located no filed claim or merits finding through 2026-08-28.", "disposition_source_urls": [ "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/oct/20/donald-trump-sexual-misconduct-tenth-woman-accuser", "https://time.com/5058646/donald-trump-accusers/" ], "entity": null, "event_date": "2016-10-20", "event_date_display": "October 20, 2016", "evidence_basis": "primary-plus-independent", "id": "2016-10-20-karena-virginia-allegation", "last_verified": "2026-09-07", "personal_bankruptcy": null, "posture": "Public allegation — not adjudicated", "record_kind": "allegation", "response": "The Trump campaign denied the account as fictional and politically coordinated, according to the cited sources.", "sources": [ { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "The Guardian: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "The Guardian", "published": "2016-10-20", "role": "primary", "type": "Original press-conference reporting", "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/oct/20/donald-trump-sexual-misconduct-tenth-woman-accuser" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "TIME claimant-by-claimant review: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "TIME claimant-by-claimant review", "published": "2017-12-12", "role": "independent", "type": "Independent reporting and source review", "url": "https://time.com/5058646/donald-trump-accusers/" } ], "summary": "Karena Virginia alleged at an October 2016 press conference that Trump grabbed her arm and touched her breast while she waited for a car after the 1998 U.S. Open.", "title": "Karena Virginia's public allegation record" }, { "alleged_conduct_date_display": "1997 or 1998", "category": "Sexual-misconduct allegations and litigation", "date_precision": "day", "disposition": "The cited sources document a public allegation, witness accounts, and denial, not an adjudication. The bounded review located no filed claim or merits finding through 2026-08-28.", "disposition_source_urls": [ "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/oct/15/donald-trump-sexual-misconduct-allegations-cathy-heller", "https://time.com/5058646/donald-trump-accusers/" ], "entity": null, "event_date": "2016-10-15", "event_date_display": "October 15, 2016", "evidence_basis": "primary-plus-independent", "id": "2016-10-15-cathy-heller-allegation", "last_verified": "2026-09-07", "personal_bankruptcy": null, "posture": "Public allegation — not adjudicated", "record_kind": "allegation", "response": "Trump campaign spokesperson Jason Miller denied that such an incident could have occurred in that public setting, according to the cited sources.", "sources": [ { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "The Guardian: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "The Guardian", "published": "2016-10-15", "role": "primary", "type": "Original claimant and witness interviews", "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/oct/15/donald-trump-sexual-misconduct-allegations-cathy-heller" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "TIME claimant-by-claimant review: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "TIME claimant-by-claimant review", "published": "2017-12-12", "role": "independent", "type": "Independent reporting and source review", "url": "https://time.com/5058646/donald-trump-accusers/" } ], "summary": "Cathy Heller alleged in a Guardian interview that Trump grabbed her and kissed the side of her mouth without invitation during a Mother's Day brunch at Mar-a-Lago.", "title": "Cathy Heller's public allegation record" }, { "alleged_conduct_date_display": "2007", "category": "Sexual-misconduct allegations and litigation", "date_precision": "day", "disposition": "Zervos voluntarily discontinued the defamation action on November 12, 2021. Her counsel said there was no settlement or payment and that she stood by the allegation; the underlying conduct was not adjudicated, and withdrawal is not disproof.", "disposition_source_urls": [ "https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-lawsuits-summer-zervos-7db288887ca56a7f0819b1f03f4cf271" ], "entity": null, "event_date": "2016-10-14", "event_date_display": "October 14, 2016", "evidence_basis": "primary-plus-independent", "id": "2016-10-14-summer-zervos-allegation", "last_verified": "2026-09-07", "personal_bankruptcy": null, "posture": "Public allegation; defamation suit voluntarily discontinued", "record_kind": "allegation", "response": "Trump denied meeting Zervos at a hotel or greeting her inappropriately and denied her account, according to the cited sources.", "sources": [ { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "The Guardian: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "The Guardian", "published": "2016-10-14", "role": "primary", "type": "Original press-conference reporting", "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/oct/14/donald-trump-summer-zervos-apprentice-sexual-assault" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-28", "access_notes": "Associated Press: indexed source content exposed the dated or captioned material on 2026-08-28; no direct-open claim is made.", "access_status": "indexed-content", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "Associated Press", "published": "2021-11-12", "role": "independent", "type": "Independent disposition reporting", "url": "https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-lawsuits-summer-zervos-7db288887ca56a7f0819b1f03f4cf271" } ], "summary": "Summer Zervos alleged at an October 2016 press conference that Trump kissed and groped her without consent in 2007; she later sued for defamation over his denials.", "title": "Summer Zervos's public allegation record" }, { "alleged_conduct_date_display": "Early 1990s", "category": "Sexual-misconduct allegations and litigation", "date_precision": "day", "disposition": "The cited sources document a public allegation, corroborator accounts, and denial, not an adjudication. The bounded review located no filed claim or merits finding through 2026-08-28.", "disposition_source_urls": [ "https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/woman-says-trump-reached-under-her-skirt-and-groped-her-in-early-1990s/2016/10/14/67e8ff5e-917d-11e6-a6a3-d50061aa9fae_story.html", "https://time.com/5058646/donald-trump-accusers/" ], "entity": null, "event_date": "2016-10-14", "event_date_display": "October 14, 2016", "evidence_basis": "primary-plus-independent", "id": "2016-10-14-kristin-anderson-allegation", "last_verified": "2026-09-07", "personal_bankruptcy": null, "posture": "Public allegation — not adjudicated", "record_kind": "allegation", "response": "Trump's campaign denied the allegation as fabricated and publicity-seeking, according to the cited sources.", "sources": [ { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-28", "access_notes": "The Washington Post: indexed source content exposed the dated or captioned material on 2026-08-28; no direct-open claim is made.", "access_status": "indexed-content", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "The Washington Post", "published": "2016-10-14", "role": "primary", "type": "Original claimant interview", "url": "https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/woman-says-trump-reached-under-her-skirt-and-groped-her-in-early-1990s/2016/10/14/67e8ff5e-917d-11e6-a6a3-d50061aa9fae_story.html" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "TIME claimant-by-claimant review: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "TIME claimant-by-claimant review", "published": "2017-12-12", "role": "independent", "type": "Independent reporting and source review", "url": "https://time.com/5058646/donald-trump-accusers/" } ], "summary": "Kristin Anderson alleged in a Washington Post interview that Trump reached under her skirt and touched her through her underwear at a Manhattan nightclub in the early 1990s.", "title": "Kristin Anderson's public allegation record" }, { "alleged_conduct_date_display": "2006", "category": "Sexual-misconduct allegations and litigation", "date_precision": "day", "disposition": "The cited sources document a public allegation and response, not an adjudication. Holvey did not allege physical contact in these sources.", "disposition_source_urls": [ "https://transcripts.cnn.com/show/cnnt/date/2016-10-13/segment/02", "https://time.com/5058646/donald-trump-accusers/" ], "entity": null, "event_date": "2016-10-13", "event_date_display": "October 13, 2016", "evidence_basis": "primary-plus-independent", "id": "2016-10-13-samantha-holvey-allegation", "last_verified": "2026-09-07", "personal_bankruptcy": null, "posture": "Public pageant-conduct allegation — not adjudicated", "record_kind": "allegation", "response": "The White House later called the claims false and politically motivated; TIME located no earlier claimant-specific campaign response.", "sources": [ { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "CNN transcript: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "CNN transcript", "published": "2016-10-13", "role": "primary", "type": "Original broadcast interview transcript", "url": "https://transcripts.cnn.com/show/cnnt/date/2016-10-13/segment/02" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "TIME claimant-by-claimant review: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "TIME claimant-by-claimant review", "published": "2017-12-12", "role": "independent", "type": "Independent reporting and source review", "url": "https://time.com/5058646/donald-trump-accusers/" } ], "summary": "Samantha Holvey alleged in a CNN interview that Trump personally inspected Miss USA contestants and looked them over in a way she experienced as sexual objectification.", "title": "Samantha Holvey's public allegation record" }, { "alleged_conduct_date_display": "Mid-1990s", "category": "Sexual-misconduct allegations and litigation", "date_precision": "day", "disposition": "The cited sources document a public allegation and denial, not an adjudication. The bounded review located no filed claim or merits finding through 2026-08-28.", "disposition_source_urls": [ "https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-models-skirts-underwear_n_57ffd172e4b0162c043ac07f", "https://time.com/5058646/donald-trump-accusers/" ], "entity": null, "event_date": "2016-10-13", "event_date_display": "October 13, 2016", "evidence_basis": "primary-plus-independent", "id": "2016-10-13-lisa-boyne-allegation", "last_verified": "2026-09-07", "personal_bankruptcy": null, "posture": "Public allegation — not adjudicated", "record_kind": "allegation", "response": "Trump spokesperson Hope Hicks said Trump had never heard of Boyne and would never do that, according to the cited sources.", "sources": [ { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "HuffPost: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "HuffPost", "published": "2016-10-13", "role": "primary", "type": "Original claimant interview", "url": "https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-models-skirts-underwear_n_57ffd172e4b0162c043ac07f" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "TIME claimant-by-claimant review: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "TIME claimant-by-claimant review", "published": "2017-12-12", "role": "independent", "type": "Independent reporting and source review", "url": "https://time.com/5058646/donald-trump-accusers/" } ], "summary": "Lisa Boyne alleged in a HuffPost interview that Trump directed women to walk across a restaurant table and looked under their skirts while commenting on their underwear.", "title": "Lisa Boyne's public allegation record" }, { "alleged_conduct_date_display": "2005 or 2006", "category": "Sexual-misconduct allegations and litigation", "date_precision": "day", "disposition": "The cited sources document a public allegation and denial, not an adjudication. Later testimony in the Carroll civil trial did not adjudicate this claimant's separate allegation.", "disposition_source_urls": [ "https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/13/us/politics/donald-trump-women.html", "https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2017/11/22/president-trump-and-accusations-of-sexual-misconduct-the-complete-list/" ], "entity": null, "event_date": "2016-10-12", "event_date_display": "October 12, 2016", "evidence_basis": "primary-plus-independent", "id": "2016-10-12-rachel-crooks-allegation", "last_verified": "2026-09-07", "personal_bankruptcy": null, "posture": "Public allegation — not adjudicated", "record_kind": "allegation", "response": "Trump told the New York Times that none of the alleged encounter took place, according to the cited source review.", "sources": [ { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-28", "access_notes": "The New York Times: direct retrieval was restricted on 2026-08-28; no direct-open claim is made. Structured corroboration path: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2017/11/22/president-trump-and-accusations-of-sexual-misconduct-the-complete-list/.", "access_status": "blocked-direct", "corroboration_url": "https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2017/11/22/president-trump-and-accusations-of-sexual-misconduct-the-complete-list/", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "The New York Times", "published": "2016-10-12", "role": "primary", "type": "Original claimant interviews", "url": "https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/13/us/politics/donald-trump-women.html" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-28", "access_notes": "Washington Post Fact Checker claimant review: direct HTTPS page content was opened and inspected on 2026-08-28.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "Washington Post Fact Checker claimant review", "published": "2017-11-22", "role": "independent", "type": "Independent reporting and corroborator review", "url": "https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2017/11/22/president-trump-and-accusations-of-sexual-misconduct-the-complete-list/" } ], "summary": "Rachel Crooks alleged in a New York Times interview that Trump kissed her on the mouth without consent after she introduced herself near a Trump Tower elevator.", "title": "Rachel Crooks's public allegation record" }, { "alleged_conduct_date_display": "2005", "category": "Sexual-misconduct allegations and litigation", "date_precision": "day", "disposition": "The cited sources document a first-person allegation, corroborator accounts, and denials, not an adjudication. Her later Carroll-trial testimony did not adjudicate this separate allegation.", "disposition_source_urls": [ "https://people.com/politics/donald-trump-attacked-people-writer/", "https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2017/11/22/president-trump-and-accusations-of-sexual-misconduct-the-complete-list/" ], "entity": null, "event_date": "2016-10-12", "event_date_display": "October 12, 2016", "evidence_basis": "primary-plus-independent", "id": "2016-10-12-natasha-stoynoff-allegation", "last_verified": "2026-09-07", "personal_bankruptcy": null, "posture": "Public first-person account — not adjudicated", "record_kind": "allegation", "response": "Trump denied the account and called Stoynoff a liar; a former butler also denied the incident, according to the cited source review.", "sources": [ { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-28", "access_notes": "People: direct HTTPS page content was opened and inspected on 2026-08-28.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "People", "published": "2016-10-12", "role": "primary", "type": "Original first-person publication", "url": "https://people.com/politics/donald-trump-attacked-people-writer/" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-28", "access_notes": "Washington Post Fact Checker claimant review: direct HTTPS page content was opened and inspected on 2026-08-28.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "Washington Post Fact Checker claimant review", "published": "2017-11-22", "role": "independent", "type": "Independent reporting and corroborator review", "url": "https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2017/11/22/president-trump-and-accusations-of-sexual-misconduct-the-complete-list/" } ], "summary": "Natasha Stoynoff alleged in a first-person People article that Trump pushed her against a wall and kissed her without consent while she was reporting at Mar-a-Lago in 2005.", "title": "Natasha Stoynoff's public allegation record" }, { "alleged_conduct_date_display": "2003", "category": "Sexual-misconduct allegations and litigation", "date_precision": "day", "disposition": "The cited sources document a public allegation and corroborator account, not an adjudication. The bounded review located no filed claim or merits finding through 2026-08-28.", "disposition_source_urls": [ "https://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/palm-beach-post-exclusive-local-woman-says-trump-groped-her/w5ii48gwdJY9htsLl88GcP/", "https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2017/11/22/president-trump-and-accusations-of-sexual-misconduct-the-complete-list/" ], "entity": null, "event_date": "2016-10-12", "event_date_display": "October 12, 2016", "evidence_basis": "primary-plus-independent", "id": "2016-10-12-mindy-mcgillivray-allegation", "last_verified": "2026-09-07", "personal_bankruptcy": null, "posture": "Public allegation — not adjudicated", "record_kind": "allegation", "response": "A bounded search of the Palm Beach Post and Washington Post source review located no claimant-specific Trump response; the latter documented his aggregate denial.", "sources": [ { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-28", "access_notes": "Palm Beach Post: direct retrieval was restricted on 2026-08-28; no direct-open claim is made. Structured corroboration path: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2017/11/22/president-trump-and-accusations-of-sexual-misconduct-the-complete-list/.", "access_status": "blocked-direct", "corroboration_url": "https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2017/11/22/president-trump-and-accusations-of-sexual-misconduct-the-complete-list/", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "Palm Beach Post", "published": "2016-10-12", "role": "primary", "type": "Original claimant and corroborator interview", "url": "https://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/palm-beach-post-exclusive-local-woman-says-trump-groped-her/w5ii48gwdJY9htsLl88GcP/" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-28", "access_notes": "Washington Post Fact Checker claimant review: direct HTTPS page content was opened and inspected on 2026-08-28.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "Washington Post Fact Checker claimant review", "published": "2017-11-22", "role": "independent", "type": "Independent reporting and corroborator review", "url": "https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2017/11/22/president-trump-and-accusations-of-sexual-misconduct-the-complete-list/" } ], "summary": "Mindy McGillivray alleged in a Palm Beach Post interview that Trump grabbed her buttocks during a 2003 Mar-a-Lago event; the photographer with her said she reported it to him immediately.", "title": "Mindy McGillivray's public allegation record" }, { "alleged_conduct_date_display": "1997", "category": "Sexual-misconduct allegations and litigation", "date_precision": "day", "disposition": "The cited sources document Billado's named public account, not an adjudication. Other unnamed contestants are not converted into separate claimant rows.", "disposition_source_urls": [ "https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/kendalltaggart/teen-beauty-queens-say-trump-walked-in-on-them-changing", "https://time.com/5058646/donald-trump-accusers/" ], "entity": null, "event_date": "2016-10-12", "event_date_display": "October 12, 2016", "evidence_basis": "primary-plus-independent", "id": "2016-10-12-mariah-billado-allegation", "last_verified": "2026-09-07", "personal_bankruptcy": null, "posture": "Public allegation involving a teen-pageant dressing room — not adjudicated", "record_kind": "allegation", "response": "BuzzFeed reported no claimant-specific response; TIME documented Trump's aggregate denial of sexual-misconduct allegations.", "sources": [ { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "BuzzFeed News: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "BuzzFeed News", "published": "2016-10-12", "role": "primary", "type": "Original claimant interviews", "url": "https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/kendalltaggart/teen-beauty-queens-say-trump-walked-in-on-them-changing" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "TIME claimant-by-claimant review: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "TIME claimant-by-claimant review", "published": "2017-12-12", "role": "independent", "type": "Independent reporting and source review", "url": "https://time.com/5058646/donald-trump-accusers/" } ], "summary": "Mariah Billado alleged in a BuzzFeed interview that Trump entered the Miss Teen USA dressing room while contestants were changing in 1997 and made a remark indicating he had seen contestants undressed.", "title": "Mariah Billado's public allegation record" }, { "alleged_conduct_date_display": "Late 1970s", "category": "Sexual-misconduct allegations and litigation", "date_precision": "day", "disposition": "The cited sources document a public allegation and denial, not an adjudication. Later testimony in the Carroll civil trial did not adjudicate this claimant's separate allegation.", "disposition_source_urls": [ "https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/13/us/politics/donald-trump-women.html", "https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2017/11/22/president-trump-and-accusations-of-sexual-misconduct-the-complete-list/" ], "entity": null, "event_date": "2016-10-12", "event_date_display": "October 12, 2016", "evidence_basis": "primary-plus-independent", "id": "2016-10-12-jessica-leeds-allegation", "last_verified": "2026-09-07", "personal_bankruptcy": null, "posture": "Public allegation — not adjudicated", "record_kind": "allegation", "response": "Trump denied that the encounter occurred and publicly called the account fiction, according to the cited source review.", "sources": [ { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-28", "access_notes": "The New York Times: direct retrieval was restricted on 2026-08-28; no direct-open claim is made. Structured corroboration path: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2017/11/22/president-trump-and-accusations-of-sexual-misconduct-the-complete-list/.", "access_status": "blocked-direct", "corroboration_url": "https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2017/11/22/president-trump-and-accusations-of-sexual-misconduct-the-complete-list/", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "The New York Times", "published": "2016-10-12", "role": "primary", "type": "Original claimant interviews", "url": "https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/13/us/politics/donald-trump-women.html" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-28", "access_notes": "Washington Post Fact Checker claimant review: direct HTTPS page content was opened and inspected on 2026-08-28.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "Washington Post Fact Checker claimant review", "published": "2017-11-22", "role": "independent", "type": "Independent reporting and corroborator review", "url": "https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2017/11/22/president-trump-and-accusations-of-sexual-misconduct-the-complete-list/" } ], "summary": "Jessica Leeds alleged in a New York Times interview that Trump groped her on an airplane in the late 1970s.", "title": "Jessica Leeds's public allegation record" }, { "alleged_conduct_date_display": "2001", "category": "Sexual-misconduct allegations and litigation", "date_precision": "day", "disposition": "The cited sources document a public allegation and response, not an adjudication. The bounded review located no filed claim or merits finding through 2026-08-28.", "disposition_source_urls": [ "https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/former-miss-arizona-trump-came-strolling-right-in-to-miss-usa-dressing-room/", "https://time.com/5058646/donald-trump-accusers/" ], "entity": null, "event_date": "2016-10-11", "event_date_display": "October 11, 2016", "evidence_basis": "primary-plus-independent", "first_public_record_trace": { "current_page_date": "2016-10-12", "current_page_url": "https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/former-miss-arizona-trump-came-strolling-right-in-to-miss-usa-dressing-room/", "date": "2016-10-11", "note": "TIME identifies the original affiliate interview/story as October 11, 2016; the current CBS News page carries October 12, 2016 source metadata.", "publisher": "CBS Los Angeles / KCAL-TV", "trace_source_url": "https://time.com/5058646/donald-trump-accusers/" }, "id": "2016-10-11-tasha-dixon-allegation", "last_verified": "2026-09-07", "personal_bankruptcy": null, "posture": "Public allegation — not adjudicated", "record_kind": "allegation", "response": "The Trump campaign said the pageant allegations had no merit and had been disproven by people present, according to the cited source review.", "sources": [ { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "CBS News page reproducing CBS Los Angeles interview: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "CBS News page reproducing CBS Los Angeles interview", "published": "2016-10-12", "role": "primary", "type": "Current page for original affiliate on-camera claimant interview", "url": "https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/former-miss-arizona-trump-came-strolling-right-in-to-miss-usa-dressing-room/" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "TIME claimant-by-claimant review: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "TIME claimant-by-claimant review", "published": "2017-12-12", "role": "independent", "type": "Independent reporting and source review", "url": "https://time.com/5058646/donald-trump-accusers/" } ], "summary": "Tasha Dixon alleged in an on-camera CBS interview that Trump unexpectedly entered the Miss USA dressing room while contestants were changing and some were undressed.", "title": "Tasha Dixon's public allegation record" }, { "alleged_conduct_date_display": "2013", "category": "Sexual-misconduct allegations and litigation", "date_precision": "month", "disposition": "The original post is no longer public. Two independent publications on different hostnames preserve the named, dated account; no filed claim or adjudication was located through 2026-08-28.", "disposition_source_urls": [ "https://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/election/article107881877.html", "https://time.com/5058646/donald-trump-accusers/" ], "entity": null, "event_date": "2016-06-01", "event_date_display": "June 2016", "evidence_basis": "independent-corroboration", "id": "2016-06-cassandra-searles-allegation", "last_verified": "2026-09-07", "personal_bankruptcy": null, "posture": "Named social-media allegation preserved by independent reporting", "record_kind": "allegation", "response": "A bounded search of the Miami Herald and TIME reports located no claimant-specific response; TIME documented Trump's aggregate denial of the allegations.", "sources": [ { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-28", "access_notes": "Miami Herald: indexed source content exposed the dated or captioned material on 2026-08-28; no direct-open claim is made.", "access_status": "indexed-content", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "Miami Herald", "published": "2016-10-13", "role": "independent", "type": "Independent reporting preserving the original post", "url": "https://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/election/article107881877.html" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "TIME claimant-by-claimant review: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "TIME claimant-by-claimant review", "published": "2017-12-12", "role": "independent", "type": "Independent reporting and source review", "url": "https://time.com/5058646/donald-trump-accusers/" } ], "summary": "Cassandra Searles alleged in a June 2016 Facebook post and comment, preserved in named reporting, that Trump repeatedly grabbed her buttocks and invited her to his hotel room during Miss USA 2013.", "title": "Cassandra Searles's public allegation record" }, { "alleged_conduct_date_display": "2000", "category": "Sexual-misconduct allegations and litigation", "date_precision": "day", "disposition": "The cited sources document a public allegation and denial, not an adjudication. The bounded review located no filed claim or merits finding through 2026-08-28.", "disposition_source_urls": [ "https://www.buzzfeed.com/jessicagarrison/heres-what-former-beauty-queens-think-of-donald-trump", "https://time.com/5058646/donald-trump-accusers/" ], "entity": null, "event_date": "2016-05-18", "event_date_display": "May 18, 2016", "evidence_basis": "primary-plus-independent", "id": "2016-05-18-bridget-sullivan-allegation", "last_verified": "2026-09-07", "personal_bankruptcy": null, "posture": "Public allegation — not adjudicated", "record_kind": "allegation", "response": "Trump spokesperson Hope Hicks told BuzzFeed that the accounts in the article were totally false, according to TIME's source review.", "sources": [ { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "BuzzFeed: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30. Final URL: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/jessicagarrison/heres-what-former-beauty-queens-think-of-donald-trump.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "BuzzFeed", "published": "2016-05-18", "role": "primary", "type": "Original claimant interview", "url": "https://www.buzzfeed.com/jessicagarrison/heres-what-former-beauty-queens-think-of-donald-trump" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "TIME claimant-by-claimant review: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "TIME claimant-by-claimant review", "published": "2017-12-12", "role": "independent", "type": "Independent reporting and source review", "url": "https://time.com/5058646/donald-trump-accusers/" } ], "summary": "Bridget Sullivan alleged in a BuzzFeed interview that Trump entered a Miss USA dressing area while contestants were undressed and hugged contestants low on the back with a squeeze she considered inappropriate.", "title": "Bridget Sullivan's public allegation record" }, { "alleged_conduct_date_display": "1997", "category": "Sexual-misconduct allegations and litigation", "date_precision": "day", "disposition": "The cited sources document a public allegation and denial, not an adjudication. The bounded review located no filed claim or merits finding through 2026-08-28.", "disposition_source_urls": [ "https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/15/us/politics/donald-trump-women.html", "https://time.com/5058646/donald-trump-accusers/" ], "entity": null, "event_date": "2016-05-14", "event_date_display": "May 14, 2016", "evidence_basis": "primary-plus-independent", "id": "2016-05-14-temple-taggart-mcdowell-allegation", "last_verified": "2026-09-07", "personal_bankruptcy": null, "posture": "Public allegation — not adjudicated", "record_kind": "allegation", "response": "Trump denied knowing her and emphatically denied kissing her, according to the cited reporting.", "sources": [ { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-28", "access_notes": "The New York Times: direct retrieval was restricted on 2026-08-28; no direct-open claim is made. Structured corroboration path: https://time.com/5058646/donald-trump-accusers/.", "access_status": "blocked-direct", "corroboration_url": "https://time.com/5058646/donald-trump-accusers/", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "The New York Times", "published": "2016-05-14", "role": "primary", "type": "Original claimant interview", "url": "https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/15/us/politics/donald-trump-women.html" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "TIME claimant-by-claimant review: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "TIME claimant-by-claimant review", "published": "2017-12-12", "role": "independent", "type": "Independent reporting and source review", "url": "https://time.com/5058646/donald-trump-accusers/" } ], "summary": "Temple Taggart McDowell alleged in a New York Times interview that Trump kissed her on the lips without invitation during the 1997 Miss USA pageant and again during a later Trump Tower visit.", "title": "Temple Taggart McDowell's public allegation record" }, { "alleged_conduct_date_display": "1994", "category": "Sexual-misconduct allegations and litigation", "date_precision": "day", "disposition": "The California complaint was dismissed and later New York filings were voluntarily dismissed, with the final dismissal filed November 4, 2016. No merits adjudication occurred; dismissal is not proof or disproof of the allegations.", "disposition_source_urls": [ "https://www.politico.com/story/2016/11/donald-trump-rape-lawsuit-dropped-230770" ], "entity": null, "event_date": "2016-04-26", "event_date_display": "April 26, 2016", "evidence_basis": "primary-plus-independent", "id": "2016-04-26-jane-doe-epstein-lawsuit", "last_verified": "2026-09-07", "personal_bankruptcy": null, "posture": "Pseudonymous civil complaints voluntarily dismissed — merits not adjudicated", "receipt_track": "sexual-misconduct-findings-allegations", "record_kind": "allegation", "response": "Trump's counsel called the allegations categorically false and without merit, according to the cited reporting.", "sources": [ { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-28", "access_notes": "Filed complaint reproduction: indexed source content exposed the dated or captioned material on 2026-08-28; no direct-open claim is made.", "access_status": "indexed-content", "date_basis": "filing-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "Filed complaint reproduction", "published": "2016-04-26", "role": "primary", "type": "Filed civil complaint reproduction", "url": "https://www.politico.com/f/?id=00000158-26b6-dda3-afd8-b6fe46f40000" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-28", "access_notes": "Courthouse News Service: indexed source content exposed the dated or captioned material on 2026-08-28; no direct-open claim is made.", "access_status": "indexed-content", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "Courthouse News Service", "published": "2016-09-30", "role": "independent", "type": "Independent litigation reporting", "url": "https://www.courthousenews.com/rape-allegations-refiled-against-trump/" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-28", "access_notes": "Politico: indexed source content exposed the dated or captioned material on 2026-08-28; no direct-open claim is made.", "access_status": "indexed-content", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "Politico", "published": "2016-11-04", "role": "independent", "type": "Independent disposition reporting", "url": "https://www.politico.com/story/2016/11/donald-trump-rape-lawsuit-dropped-230770" } ], "summary": "Jane Doe alleged in pseudonymous 2016 civil complaints that Trump sexually assaulted her in 1994 when she was 13 at events associated with Jeffrey Epstein.", "title": "Jane Doe's public allegation record", "topics": [ "conduct", "sexual-misconduct", "epstein" ] }, { "category": "Conflicts of interest and self-dealing", "date_precision": "range", "disposition": null, "entity": null, "event_date": "2016-01-01", "event_date_display": "2016–2020", "evidence_basis": "primary-plus-independent", "id": "2016-2020-adelson-trump-donations", "last_verified": "2026-09-07", "personal_bankruptcy": null, "posture": "Documented political contributions", "record_kind": "government", "response": "Supporters or defenders disputed the critical interpretation; the record preserves the attributed finding or analysis rather than converting it into a court judgment.", "sources": [ { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-28", "access_notes": "trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov: direct HTTPS audit returned HTTP 404 on 2026-08-28; no direct-open claim is made. Structured corroboration path: responsiblestatecraft.org (https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2022/10/07/new-book-highlights-how-campaign-money-influences-us-foreign-policy/; opened-live).", "access_status": "blocked-direct", "corroboration_url": "https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2022/10/07/new-book-highlights-how-campaign-money-influences-us-foreign-policy/", "date_basis": "document-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov", "published": "2018-11-16", "role": "primary", "type": "Official record", "url": "https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefings-statements/president-donald-j-trump-awards-presidential-medal-freedom/" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "TIME: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "TIME", "published": "2021-01-12", "role": "independent", "type": "Independent reporting", "url": "https://time.com/5543562/sheldon-adelson-dies/" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "responsiblestatecraft.org: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "responsiblestatecraft.org", "published": "2022-10-07", "role": "analysis", "type": "Institutional or advocacy analysis", "url": "https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2022/10/07/new-book-highlights-how-campaign-money-influences-us-foreign-policy/" } ], "summary": "Sheldon and Miriam Adelson were major donors to pro-Trump efforts in 2016 and 2020. Their support and alignment with pro-Israel policies are documented, but contribution records alone do not prove policy causation.", "title": "Sheldon and Miriam Adelson's pro-Trump political contributions" }, { "category": "Consumer, charity, tax, and regulatory matters", "date_precision": "day", "disposition": "Resolved with related private actions by the $25 million settlement finalized in 2018, without an admission of wrongdoing.", "disposition_source_urls": [ "https://ag.ny.gov/press-release/2013/ag-schneiderman-sues-donald-trump-trump-university-donald-trump-and-trump", "https://time.com/4354855/donald-trump-trump-university-eric-schneiderman/", "https://abcnews.go.com/US/judge-finalizes-25-million-settlement-victims-donald-trumps/story?id=54347237" ], "entity": null, "event_date": "2013-08-24", "event_date_display": "August 24, 2013", "evidence_basis": "primary-plus-independent", "id": "2013-08-24-trump-university-suit-filed", "last_verified": "2026-09-07", "personal_bankruptcy": null, "posture": "State consumer-fraud complaint — allegations not yet adjudicated", "record_kind": "civil", "response": "Trump denied fraud and defended the program's student evaluations and results.", "sources": [ { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-28", "access_notes": "New York attorney general Trump University complaint release: direct HTTPS audit returned HTTP 404 on 2026-08-28; no direct-open claim is made. Structured corroboration path: ABC News settlement-finalization report (https://abcnews.go.com/US/judge-finalizes-25-million-settlement-victims-donald-trumps/story?id=54347237; opened-live).", "access_status": "blocked-direct", "corroboration_url": "https://abcnews.go.com/US/judge-finalizes-25-million-settlement-victims-donald-trumps/story?id=54347237", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "New York attorney general Trump University complaint release", "published": "2013-08-24", "role": "primary", "type": "Official enforcement complaint", "url": "https://ag.ny.gov/press-release/2013/ag-schneiderman-sues-donald-trump-trump-university-donald-trump-and-trump" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "TIME allegations context: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "TIME allegations context", "published": "2016-06-02", "role": "independent", "type": "Independent reporting", "url": "https://time.com/4354855/donald-trump-trump-university-eric-schneiderman/" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "ABC News settlement-finalization report: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30. Final URL: https://abcnews.com/US/judge-finalizes-25-million-settlement-victims-donald-trumps/story?id=54347237.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "ABC News settlement-finalization report", "published": "2018-03-30", "role": "independent", "type": "Independent later-disposition reporting", "url": "https://abcnews.go.com/US/judge-finalizes-25-million-settlement-victims-donald-trumps/story?id=54347237" } ], "summary": "The attorney general alleged deceptive practices in the real-estate seminar program. The filing did not establish liability; private and state claims were later resolved in a $25 million settlement without admission.", "title": "New York attorney general sued Trump University and related defendants" }, { "bankruptcy_context": "corporate-chapter-11", "category": "Business bankruptcies and failures", "date_precision": "day", "disposition": "The companies later emerged after restructuring debt and ownership.", "disposition_source_urls": [ "https://www.reuters.com/article/markets/trump-casino-company-emerges-from-bankruptcy-idUSN16130198/", "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/943320/000119312510161799/dex991.htm", "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/943320/000094332011000017/exhibit101.htm", "https://www.abi.org/feed-item/examining-donald-trump%E2%80%99s-chapter-11-bankruptcies" ], "entity": "TCI 2 Holdings, LLC; Trump Entertainment Resorts, Inc.; Trump Entertainment Resorts Holdings, L.P.; Trump Entertainment Resorts Funding, Inc.; Trump Entertainment Resorts Development Company, LLC; Trump Taj Mahal Associates, LLC d/b/a Trump Taj Mahal Casino Resort; Trump Plaza Associates, LLC d/b/a Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino; Trump Marina Associates, LLC d/b/a Trump Marina Hotel Casino; TER Management Co., LLC; TER Development Co., LLC", "event_date": "2009-02-17", "event_date_display": "February 17, 2009", "evidence_basis": "primary-plus-independent", "id": "2009-02-17-trump-entertainment-resorts-chapter-11", "last_verified": "2026-09-07", "personal_bankruptcy": false, "posture": "Corporate Chapter 11 filing", "record_kind": "business", "response": null, "sources": [ { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-28", "access_notes": "Reuters: direct HTTPS audit returned HTTP 401 on 2026-08-28; indexed content exposed the dated or captioned source material. No direct-open claim is made.", "access_status": "indexed-content", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "Reuters", "published": "2010-07-16", "role": "independent", "type": "Independent reporting", "url": "https://www.reuters.com/article/markets/trump-casino-company-emerges-from-bankruptcy-idUSN16130198/" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-28", "access_notes": "Trump Entertainment Resorts emergence release hosted by SEC: direct HTTPS audit returned HTTP 403 on 2026-08-28; indexed content exposed the dated or captioned source material. No direct-open claim is made.", "access_status": "indexed-content", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "Trump Entertainment Resorts emergence release hosted by SEC", "published": "2010-07-16", "role": "primary", "type": "Corporate emergence release hosted by SEC", "url": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/943320/000119312510161799/dex991.htm" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-28", "access_notes": "SEC-hosted Bankruptcy Court stipulation and debtor list: direct HTTPS audit returned HTTP 403 on 2026-08-28; indexed content exposed the dated or captioned source material. No direct-open claim is made.", "access_status": "indexed-content", "date_basis": "filing-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "SEC-hosted Bankruptcy Court stipulation and debtor list", "published": "2011-12-05", "role": "primary", "type": "Bankruptcy Court filing hosted by SEC", "url": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/943320/000094332011000017/exhibit101.htm" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-28", "access_notes": "American Bankruptcy Institute: direct HTTPS audit returned HTTP 403 on 2026-08-28; no direct-open claim is made. Structured corroboration path: SEC-hosted Bankruptcy Court stipulation and debtor list (https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/943320/000094332011000017/exhibit101.htm; indexed-content).", "access_status": "blocked-direct", "corroboration_url": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/943320/000094332011000017/exhibit101.htm", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "American Bankruptcy Institute", "published": "2016-09-09", "role": "independent", "type": "Independent reporting", "url": "https://www.abi.org/feed-item/examining-donald-trump%E2%80%99s-chapter-11-bankruptcies" } ], "summary": "Ten named corporate debtors in the Trump Entertainment Resorts group filed Chapter 11 on February 17, 2009. Donald Trump was not a debtor; this was not a personal bankruptcy.", "title": "Trump Entertainment Resorts entities filed Chapter 11" }, { "category": "Business bankruptcies and failures", "date_precision": "year", "disposition": "Buyer litigation produced settlements; Trump maintained that he was only the name licensor.", "disposition_source_urls": [ "https://time.com/4343030/donald-trump-failures/", "https://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-mo-donald-trump-settles-baja-mexico-condo-resort-lawsuit-20131127-story.html" ], "entity": "Trump Ocean Resort Baja Mexico licensed development", "event_date": "2008-01-01", "event_date_display": "2008", "evidence_basis": "independent-corroboration", "id": "2008-trump-ocean-resort-baja-collapse", "last_verified": "2026-09-07", "personal_bankruptcy": false, "posture": "Failed licensed development and buyer litigation", "record_kind": "business", "response": null, "sources": [ { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-28", "access_notes": "TIME: direct HTTPS audit returned HTTP 406 on 2026-08-28; indexed content exposed the dated or captioned source material. No direct-open claim is made.", "access_status": "indexed-content", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "TIME", "published": "2011-04-29", "role": "independent", "type": "Independent reporting", "url": "https://time.com/4343030/donald-trump-failures/" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "Los Angeles Times collapse and settlement report: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "Los Angeles Times collapse and settlement report", "published": "2013-11-27", "role": "independent", "type": "Independent business and litigation reporting", "url": "https://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-mo-donald-trump-settles-baja-mexico-condo-resort-lawsuit-20131127-story.html" } ], "summary": "The Trump-branded Baja condominium project collapsed and buyers sued over lost deposits and alleged misrepresentations. Trump maintained that he had licensed his name and was not the developer; the record does not convert the buyers' allegations into an adjudicated finding against him.", "title": "Trump Ocean Resort Baja project collapsed" }, { "category": "Business bankruptcies and failures", "date_precision": "year", "disposition": "The company ceased operating in 2007.", "disposition_source_urls": [ "https://idfpr.illinois.gov/content/dam/soi/en/web/idfpr/banks/resfin/discipline/2007/2007-mbr-130-order6760247.pdf", "https://time.com/4343030/donald-trump-failures/", "https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-mortgage-failed-heres-what-that-says-about-the-gop-front-runner/2016/02/28/f8701880-d00f-11e5-88cd-753e80cd29ad_story.html" ], "entity": "Trump Mortgage, LLC", "event_date": "2007-01-01", "event_date_display": "2007", "evidence_basis": "primary-plus-independent", "id": "2007-trump-mortgage-closed", "last_verified": "2026-09-07", "personal_bankruptcy": false, "posture": "Business closure", "record_kind": "business", "response": null, "sources": [ { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "Illinois mortgage-regulator enforcement order: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "decision-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "Illinois mortgage-regulator enforcement order", "published": "2007-09-28", "role": "primary", "type": "State regulatory order", "url": "https://idfpr.illinois.gov/content/dam/soi/en/web/idfpr/banks/resfin/discipline/2007/2007-mbr-130-order6760247.pdf" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-28", "access_notes": "TIME: direct HTTPS audit returned HTTP 406 on 2026-08-28; indexed content exposed the dated or captioned source material. No direct-open claim is made.", "access_status": "indexed-content", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "TIME", "published": "2011-04-29", "role": "independent", "type": "Independent reporting", "url": "https://time.com/4343030/donald-trump-failures/" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-28", "access_notes": "Washington Post Trump Mortgage investigation: direct HTTPS audit returned curl exit 92 on 2026-08-28; no direct-open claim is made. Structured corroboration path: TIME (https://time.com/4343030/donald-trump-failures/; indexed-content).", "access_status": "blocked-direct", "corroboration_url": "https://time.com/4343030/donald-trump-failures/", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "Washington Post Trump Mortgage investigation", "published": "2016-02-28", "role": "independent", "type": "Independent business reporting", "url": "https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-mortgage-failed-heres-what-that-says-about-the-gop-front-runner/2016/02/28/f8701880-d00f-11e5-88cd-753e80cd29ad_story.html" } ], "summary": "Trump Mortgage launched in 2006 and closed in 2007. Reporting and a state regulatory order document the short-lived venture and compliance problems, supporting a business-closure record with year precision.", "title": "Trump Mortgage closed" }, { "bankruptcy_context": "corporate-chapter-11", "category": "Business bankruptcies and failures", "date_precision": "day", "disposition": "The debtor group emerged under a confirmed restructuring plan.", "disposition_source_urls": [ "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/943320/000119312504219267/dex21.htm", "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/943320/000119312505067289/d10k.htm", "https://www.abi.org/feed-item/examining-donald-trump%E2%80%99s-chapter-11-bankruptcies" ], "entity": "Trump Hotels & Casino Resorts, Inc.; THCR Holding Corp.; THCR/LP Corporation; Trump Hotels & Casino Resorts Holdings, L.P.; Trump Hotels & Casino Resorts Funding, Inc.; THCR Ventures, Inc.; THCR Enterprises, Inc.; THCR Enterprises LLC; Trump Internet Casino, LLC; Trump Hotels & Casino Resorts Development Company, LLC; Trump Atlantic City Holding, Inc.; Trump Atlantic City Associates; Trump Atlantic City Funding, Inc.; Trump Atlantic City Funding II, Inc.; Trump Atlantic City Funding III, Inc.; Trump Atlantic City Corporation; Trump Plaza Associates; Trump Taj Mahal Associates; Trump Casino Holdings, LLC; Trump Casino Funding, Inc.; Trump Marina Associates, L.P.; Trump Marina, Inc.; Trump Indiana, Inc.; Trump Indiana Casino Management LLC; Trump Indiana Realty, LLC; THCR Management Services, LLC; THCR Management Holdings, LLC; Trump Plaza Funding, Inc.", "event_date": "2004-11-21", "event_date_display": "November 21, 2004", "evidence_basis": "primary-plus-independent", "id": "2004-11-21-trump-hotels-casino-resorts-chapter-11", "last_verified": "2026-09-07", "personal_bankruptcy": false, "posture": "Corporate Chapter 11 filing", "record_kind": "business", "response": null, "sources": [ { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-28", "access_notes": "SEC-hosted joint reorganization plan and debtor schedule: direct HTTPS audit returned HTTP 403 on 2026-08-28; indexed content exposed the dated or captioned source material. No direct-open claim is made.", "access_status": "indexed-content", "date_basis": "document-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "SEC-hosted joint reorganization plan and debtor schedule", "published": "2004-12-15", "role": "primary", "type": "Bankruptcy plan filed with SEC", "url": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/943320/000119312504219267/dex21.htm" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-28", "access_notes": "U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission: direct HTTPS audit returned HTTP 403 on 2026-08-28; indexed content exposed the dated or captioned source material. No direct-open claim is made.", "access_status": "indexed-content", "date_basis": "document-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission", "published": "2005-03-31", "role": "primary", "type": "Official record", "url": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/943320/000119312505067289/d10k.htm" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-28", "access_notes": "American Bankruptcy Institute: direct HTTPS audit returned HTTP 403 on 2026-08-28; no direct-open claim is made. Structured corroboration path: U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/943320/000119312505067289/d10k.htm; indexed-content).", "access_status": "blocked-direct", "corroboration_url": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/943320/000119312505067289/d10k.htm", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "American Bankruptcy Institute", "published": "2016-09-09", "role": "independent", "type": "Independent reporting", "url": "https://www.abi.org/feed-item/examining-donald-trump%E2%80%99s-chapter-11-bankruptcies" } ], "summary": "Trump Hotels & Casino Resorts, Inc. and 27 named affiliates filed 28 jointly administered Chapter 11 cases on November 21, 2004. Donald Trump was not a debtor; this was not a personal bankruptcy.", "title": "Trump Hotels & Casino Resorts entities filed Chapter 11" }, { "category": "Civil judgments and litigation", "date_precision": "year", "disposition": null, "entity": null, "event_date": "2000-01-01", "event_date_display": "2000", "evidence_basis": "independent-corroboration", "id": "2000-giuffre-mar-a-lago-recruitment", "last_verified": "2026-09-07", "personal_bankruptcy": null, "posture": "Documented location connection — no misconduct finding", "record_kind": "civil", "response": null, "sources": [ { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-28", "access_notes": "www.miamiherald.com: direct HTTPS audit returned curl exit 92 on 2026-08-28; no direct-open claim is made. Structured corroboration path: PolitiFact later verification (https://api.politifact.com/article/2025/jul/31/what-we-know-about-the-trump-epstein-falling-outow/; opened-live).", "access_status": "blocked-direct", "corroboration_url": "https://api.politifact.com/article/2025/jul/31/what-we-know-about-the-trump-epstein-falling-outow/", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "www.miamiherald.com", "published": "2018-11-28", "role": "independent", "type": "Independent reporting", "url": "https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/article220097825.html" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-28", "access_notes": "PolitiFact: direct HTTPS audit returned HTTP 404 on 2026-08-28; no direct-open claim is made. Structured corroboration path: PolitiFact later verification (https://api.politifact.com/article/2025/jul/31/what-we-know-about-the-trump-epstein-falling-outow/; opened-live).", "access_status": "blocked-direct", "corroboration_url": "https://api.politifact.com/article/2025/jul/31/what-we-know-about-the-trump-epstein-falling-outow/", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "PolitiFact", "published": "2019-08-09", "role": "independent", "type": "Independent reporting", "url": "https://www.politifact.com/article/2019/aug/09/donald-trump-jeffrey-epstein-and-mar-lago-fact-che/" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "PolitiFact later verification: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "PolitiFact later verification", "published": "2025-07-31", "role": "independent", "type": "Independent later verification", "url": "https://api.politifact.com/article/2025/jul/31/what-we-know-about-the-trump-epstein-falling-outow/" } ], "summary": "Virginia Giuffre said Ghislaine Maxwell recruited her while she worked at Mar-a-Lago in 2000. The location connection does not establish that Trump participated in or knew of Epstein's abuse.", "title": "Giuffre said Maxwell recruited her while she worked at Mar-a-Lago", "topics": [ "epstein" ] }, { "alleged_conduct_date_display": "1992–1993", "category": "Sexual-misconduct allegations and litigation", "date_precision": "day", "disposition": "Harth withdrew the sexual-harassment complaint in connection with resolution of a separate contract dispute. The alleged conduct was not adjudicated, and withdrawal is not a finding that the allegation was disproven.", "disposition_source_urls": [ "https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3010800-Jill-Harth-v-Donald-Trump/", "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jul/20/donald-trump-sexual-assault-allegations-jill-harth-interview" ], "entity": null, "event_date": "1997-04-25", "event_date_display": "April 25, 1997", "evidence_basis": "primary-plus-independent", "id": "1997-jill-harth-complaint-withdrawn", "last_verified": "2026-09-07", "personal_bankruptcy": null, "posture": "Civil complaint later withdrawn — merits not adjudicated", "receipt_track": "sexual-misconduct-findings-allegations", "record_kind": "allegation", "response": "Trump denied Harth's allegations and said she had pursued him; his campaign also characterized her as a pawn in litigation, as reported by the cited sources.", "sources": [ { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "Jill Harth v. Donald Trump complaint: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "document-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "Jill Harth v. Donald Trump complaint", "published": "1997-04-25", "role": "primary", "type": "Filed civil complaint reproduction", "url": "https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3010800-Jill-Harth-v-Donald-Trump/" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "The Guardian: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "The Guardian", "published": "2016-07-20", "role": "independent", "type": "Independent interview and litigation reporting", "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jul/20/donald-trump-sexual-assault-allegations-jill-harth-interview" } ], "summary": "Jill Harth alleged in a 1997 civil complaint and later interviews that Trump subjected her to unwanted sexual contact and attempted rape during business dealings in the early 1990s.", "title": "Jill Harth's public allegation record", "topics": [ "conduct", "sexual-misconduct" ] }, { "alleged_conduct_date_display": "1989", "category": "Sexual-misconduct allegations and litigation", "date_precision": "year", "disposition": "No court adjudicated the alleged conduct. The later clarification and disavowal are central to this record and do not support presenting the deposition account as an adjudicated fact.", "disposition_source_urls": [ "https://www.thedailybeast.com/ex-wife-donald-trump-made-me-feel-violated-during-sex/", "https://abcnews.com/Politics/donald-trumps-wife-ivana-disavows-rape-allegation/story?id=32732204" ], "entity": null, "event_date": "1993-01-01", "event_date_display": "1993", "evidence_basis": "primary-plus-independent", "id": "1993-ivana-trump-deposition-account", "last_verified": "2026-09-07", "personal_bankruptcy": null, "posture": "Deposition account later expressly disavowed", "receipt_track": "sexual-misconduct-findings-allegations", "record_kind": "allegation", "response": "Trump denied the account; Ivana Trump also issued the later clarification and disavowal described in the cited sources.", "sources": [ { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "The Daily Beast: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "The Daily Beast", "published": "2015-07-27", "role": "primary", "type": "Original archival reporting on deposition and statement", "url": "https://www.thedailybeast.com/ex-wife-donald-trump-made-me-feel-violated-during-sex/" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "ABC News: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "ABC News", "published": "2015-07-28", "role": "independent", "type": "Independent reporting", "url": "https://abcnews.com/Politics/donald-trumps-wife-ivana-disavows-rape-allegation/story?id=32732204" } ], "summary": "Ivana Trump alleged in a divorce deposition, as reported in a 1993 book and later reporting, that an encounter with Donald Trump had felt sexually violating; she later said she did not mean the word rape in a literal or criminal sense and in 2015 called the story meritless.", "title": "Ivana Trump's public allegation record", "topics": [ "conduct", "sexual-misconduct" ] }, { "bankruptcy_context": "corporate-chapter-11", "category": "Business bankruptcies and failures", "date_precision": "day", "disposition": "The restructuring reduced Trump's ownership and control.", "disposition_source_urls": [ "https://www.upi.com/Archives/1992/11/04/Plaza-Hotel-files-for-bankruptcy-protection-under-Trump-plan/5512720853200/", "https://time.com/4343030/donald-trump-failures/" ], "entity": "Plaza Operating Partners Ltd.", "event_date": "1992-11-02", "event_date_display": "November 2, 1992", "evidence_basis": "independent-corroboration", "id": "1992-11-02-plaza-hotel-chapter-11", "last_verified": "2026-09-07", "personal_bankruptcy": false, "posture": "Corporate Chapter 11 filing", "record_kind": "business", "response": null, "sources": [ { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "UPI report citing the Bankruptcy Court clerk: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "UPI report citing the Bankruptcy Court clerk", "published": "1992-11-04", "role": "independent", "type": "Contemporaneous court-clerk report", "url": "https://www.upi.com/Archives/1992/11/04/Plaza-Hotel-files-for-bankruptcy-protection-under-Trump-plan/5512720853200/" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-28", "access_notes": "TIME: direct HTTPS audit returned HTTP 406 on 2026-08-28; indexed content exposed the dated or captioned source material. No direct-open claim is made.", "access_status": "indexed-content", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "TIME", "published": "2011-04-29", "role": "independent", "type": "Independent reporting", "url": "https://time.com/4343030/donald-trump-failures/" } ], "summary": "Plaza Operating Partners Ltd. filed Chapter 11 on November 2, 1992 as part of a restructuring that reduced Trump's ownership and control. Donald Trump was not a debtor; this was not a personal bankruptcy.", "title": "Plaza Operating Partners filed Chapter 11" }, { "bankruptcy_context": "corporate-chapter-11", "category": "Business bankruptcies and failures", "date_precision": "day", "disposition": "The prepackaged plan was confirmed and the corporate debtor emerged.", "disposition_source_urls": [ "https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-stat/graphics/politics/trump-archive/docs/trump-doc-e-trump-plaza-annual-report-1992-copy-2.pdf", "https://www.abi.org/feed-item/examining-donald-trump%E2%80%99s-chapter-11-bankruptcies" ], "entity": "Trump Plaza Associates, a New Jersey general partnership doing business as Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino", "event_date": "1992-03-09", "event_date_display": "March 9, 1992", "evidence_basis": "primary-plus-independent", "id": "1992-03-09-trump-plaza-casino-chapter-11", "last_verified": "2026-09-07", "personal_bankruptcy": false, "posture": "Corporate Chapter 11 filing", "record_kind": "business", "response": null, "sources": [ { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-28", "access_notes": "Trump Plaza annual report reproduction: direct HTTPS audit returned a transport failure on 2026-08-28; indexed document content exposed the company name, New Jersey general-partnership form, March 9, 1992 Chapter 11 filing, confirmation, and consummation. No direct-open claim is made.", "access_status": "indexed-content", "date_basis": "document-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "Trump Plaza 1992 annual report", "published": "1993-03-31", "role": "primary", "type": "Corporate annual report reproduction", "url": "https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-stat/graphics/politics/trump-archive/docs/trump-doc-e-trump-plaza-annual-report-1992-copy-2.pdf" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-28", "access_notes": "American Bankruptcy Institute: direct HTTPS audit returned HTTP 403 on 2026-08-28; no direct-open claim is made. Structured corroboration path: Trump Plaza 1992 annual report (https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-stat/graphics/politics/trump-archive/docs/trump-doc-e-trump-plaza-annual-report-1992-copy-2.pdf; indexed-content).", "access_status": "blocked-direct", "corroboration_url": "https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-stat/graphics/politics/trump-archive/docs/trump-doc-e-trump-plaza-annual-report-1992-copy-2.pdf", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "American Bankruptcy Institute", "published": "2016-09-09", "role": "independent", "type": "Independent reporting", "url": "https://www.abi.org/feed-item/examining-donald-trump%E2%80%99s-chapter-11-bankruptcies" } ], "summary": "Trump Plaza Associates filed a prepackaged Chapter 11 case on March 9, 1992. Donald Trump was not a debtor; this was not a personal bankruptcy.", "title": "Trump Plaza Associates filed Chapter 11" }, { "bankruptcy_context": "corporate-chapter-11", "category": "Business bankruptcies and failures", "date_precision": "day", "disposition": "The prepackaged plan was confirmed in May 1992 and the company emerged.", "disposition_source_urls": [ "https://www.casemine.com/judgement/us/59148654add7b049344d44f5", "https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/trumps-bad-bet-how-too-much-debt-drove-his-biggest-casino-aground/2016/01/18/f67cedc2-9ac8-11e5-8917-653b65c809eb_story.html" ], "entity": "Trump's Castle Associates", "event_date": "1992-03-09", "event_date_display": "March 9, 1992", "evidence_basis": "primary-plus-independent", "id": "1992-03-09-trump-castle-chapter-11", "last_verified": "2026-09-07", "personal_bankruptcy": false, "posture": "Corporate Chapter 11 filing", "record_kind": "business", "response": null, "sources": [ { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-28", "access_notes": "Linder v. Trump's Castle Associates: direct HTTPS audit returned HTTP 403 on 2026-08-28; indexed content exposed the dated or captioned source material. No direct-open claim is made.", "access_status": "indexed-content", "date_basis": "decision-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "Linder v. Trump's Castle Associates", "published": "1993-06-07", "role": "primary", "type": "Court opinion reproduction", "url": "https://www.casemine.com/judgement/us/59148654add7b049344d44f5" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-28", "access_notes": "Washington Post bankruptcy history: direct HTTPS audit returned curl exit 92 on 2026-08-28; no direct-open claim is made. Structured corroboration path: Linder v. Trump's Castle Associates (https://www.casemine.com/judgement/us/59148654add7b049344d44f5; indexed-content).", "access_status": "blocked-direct", "corroboration_url": "https://www.casemine.com/judgement/us/59148654add7b049344d44f5", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "Washington Post bankruptcy history", "published": "2016-01-18", "role": "independent", "type": "Independent reporting", "url": "https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/trumps-bad-bet-how-too-much-debt-drove-his-biggest-casino-aground/2016/01/18/f67cedc2-9ac8-11e5-8917-653b65c809eb_story.html" } ], "summary": "Trump's Castle Associates entered a prepackaged Chapter 11 restructuring. Donald Trump was not the debtor; this was not a personal bankruptcy.", "title": "Trump's Castle Associates filed Chapter 11" }, { "category": "Business bankruptcies and failures", "date_precision": "year", "disposition": "Creditors took control and the operation passed to USAir.", "disposition_source_urls": [ "https://time.com/4343030/donald-trump-failures/" ], "entity": "Trump Shuttle, Inc.", "event_date": "1992-01-01", "event_date_display": "1992", "evidence_basis": "independent-corroboration", "id": "1992-trump-shuttle-creditor-takeover", "last_verified": "2026-09-07", "personal_bankruptcy": false, "posture": "Creditor takeover after default", "record_kind": "business", "response": null, "sources": [ { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "Los Angeles Times creditor-transfer report: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "Los Angeles Times creditor-transfer report", "published": "1991-12-20", "role": "independent", "type": "Independent contemporaneous reporting", "url": "https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-12-20-fi-654-story.html" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-28", "access_notes": "TIME: direct HTTPS audit returned HTTP 406 on 2026-08-28; indexed content exposed the dated or captioned source material. No direct-open claim is made.", "access_status": "indexed-content", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "TIME", "published": "2011-04-29", "role": "independent", "type": "Independent reporting", "url": "https://time.com/4343030/donald-trump-failures/" } ], "summary": "After debt and operating problems, creditors took control of Trump Shuttle and the operation later passed to USAir. The outcome was a loss of corporate control, not a personal bankruptcy.", "title": "Creditors took control of Trump Shuttle" }, { "bankruptcy_context": "corporate-chapter-11", "category": "Business bankruptcies and failures", "date_precision": "day", "disposition": "The corporate debtors completed a court-supervised restructuring.", "disposition_source_urls": [ "https://www.casemine.com/judgement/us/5914be78add7b049347a8675", "https://www.abi.org/feed-item/examining-donald-trump%E2%80%99s-chapter-11-bankruptcies" ], "entity": "Trump Taj Mahal Associates; Trump Taj Mahal, Inc.; Trump Taj Mahal Corporation; Trump Taj Mahal Funding, Inc.", "event_date": "1991-07-16", "event_date_display": "July 16, 1991", "evidence_basis": "primary-plus-independent", "id": "1991-07-16-trump-taj-mahal-chapter-11", "last_verified": "2026-09-07", "personal_bankruptcy": false, "posture": "Corporate Chapter 11 filing", "record_kind": "business", "response": null, "sources": [ { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-28", "access_notes": "Bankruptcy court decision reproduction: direct HTTPS audit returned HTTP 403 on 2026-08-28; indexed content exposed the dated or captioned source material. No direct-open claim is made.", "access_status": "indexed-content", "date_basis": "decision-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "Bankruptcy court decision reproduction", "published": "1993-08-09", "role": "primary", "type": "Bankruptcy court decision reproduction", "url": "https://www.casemine.com/judgement/us/5914be78add7b049347a8675" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-28", "access_notes": "American Bankruptcy Institute: direct HTTPS audit returned HTTP 403 on 2026-08-28; no direct-open claim is made. Structured corroboration path: Bankruptcy court decision reproduction (https://www.casemine.com/judgement/us/5914be78add7b049347a8675; indexed-content).", "access_status": "blocked-direct", "corroboration_url": "https://www.casemine.com/judgement/us/5914be78add7b049347a8675", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "American Bankruptcy Institute", "published": "2016-09-09", "role": "independent", "type": "Independent reporting", "url": "https://www.abi.org/feed-item/examining-donald-trump%E2%80%99s-chapter-11-bankruptcies" } ], "summary": "Four named Trump Taj Mahal corporate debtors filed Chapter 11 on July 16, 1991. Donald Trump was not a debtor; this was not a personal bankruptcy.", "title": "Trump Taj Mahal entities filed Chapter 11" }, { "category": "Civil judgments and litigation", "date_precision": "range", "disposition": null, "entity": null, "event_date": "1990-01-01", "event_date_display": "1990s", "evidence_basis": "primary-plus-independent", "id": "1990s-trump-epstein-flight-logs", "last_verified": "2026-09-07", "personal_bankruptcy": null, "posture": "Travel-log record — no misconduct finding", "record_kind": "civil", "response": null, "sources": [ { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "U.S. Department of Justice: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "document-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "U.S. Department of Justice", "published": "2025-12-23", "role": "primary", "type": "Official record", "url": "https://www.justice.gov/ag/media/1391276/dl?inline=" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-28", "access_notes": "Reuters: direct HTTPS audit returned HTTP 401 on 2026-08-28; no direct-open claim is made. Structured corroboration path: U.S. Department of Justice (https://www.justice.gov/ag/media/1391276/dl?inline=; opened-live).", "access_status": "blocked-direct", "corroboration_url": "https://www.justice.gov/ag/media/1391276/dl?inline=", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "Reuters", "published": "2025-12-23", "role": "independent", "type": "Independent reporting", "url": "https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-justice-department-releases-new-tranche-epstein-files-2025-12-23/" } ], "summary": "Flight records document Trump travel on Epstein's aircraft during the 1990s. The logs establish travel or association only and do not by themselves establish knowledge of or participation in Epstein's crimes.", "title": "Flight logs document Trump travel on Epstein aircraft", "topics": [ "epstein" ] }, { "category": "Civil judgments and litigation", "date_precision": "range", "disposition": null, "entity": null, "event_date": "1990-01-01", "event_date_display": "1990s–2000s", "evidence_basis": "independent-corroboration", "id": "1990s-2000s-trump-epstein-social-association", "last_verified": "2026-09-07", "personal_bankruptcy": null, "posture": "Documented social association — no misconduct finding", "record_kind": "civil", "response": null, "sources": [ { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-28", "access_notes": "www.nytimes.com: direct HTTPS audit returned HTTP 403 on 2026-08-28; no direct-open claim is made. Structured corroboration path: CNBC reproduction of NBC 1992 archival footage (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLcfpU2cubo; reproduction-opened).", "access_status": "blocked-direct", "corroboration_url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLcfpU2cubo", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "www.nytimes.com", "published": "2019-07-09", "role": "independent", "type": "Independent reporting", "url": "https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/09/us/politics/trump-epstein.html" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "CNBC reproduction of NBC 1992 archival footage: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited reproduction (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30. The host is a reproduction path rather than the issuing court or agency.", "access_status": "reproduction-opened", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "CNBC reproduction of NBC 1992 archival footage", "published": "2019-07-17", "role": "independent", "type": "Archival news-footage reproduction", "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLcfpU2cubo" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-28", "access_notes": "Associated Press: direct HTTPS audit returned HTTP 404 on 2026-08-28; no direct-open claim is made. Structured corroboration path: CNBC reproduction of NBC 1992 archival footage (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLcfpU2cubo; reproduction-opened).", "access_status": "blocked-direct", "corroboration_url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLcfpU2cubo", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "Associated Press", "published": "2024-01-04", "role": "independent", "type": "Independent reporting", "url": "https://apnews.com/article/jeffrey-epstein-donald-trump-bill-clinton-documents-4d8f0b58d99051d1c5e03360c09e3c87" } ], "summary": "Contemporaneous reporting and later records document a social association between Trump and Epstein in the 1990s and early 2000s. Association alone is not evidence that Trump participated in Epstein's crimes.", "title": "Trump and Epstein had a documented social association", "topics": [ "epstein" ] }, { "category": "Consumer, charity, tax, and regulatory matters", "date_precision": "day", "disposition": "Final consent judgment and $750,000 civil penalty.", "disposition_source_urls": [ "https://www.justice.gov/atr/case/us-v-donald-j-trump" ], "entity": null, "event_date": "1988-04-12", "event_date_display": "April 12, 1988", "evidence_basis": "primary-plus-independent", "id": "1988-04-12-hsr-consent-judgment", "last_verified": "2026-09-07", "personal_bankruptcy": null, "posture": "Federal civil consent judgment — no trial admission", "record_kind": "civil", "response": "The consent resolution did not constitute a trial admission of the complaint's allegations.", "sources": [ { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "Los Angeles Times settlement report: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "Los Angeles Times settlement report", "published": "1988-04-06", "role": "independent", "type": "Independent contemporaneous reporting", "url": "https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-04-06-fi-601-story.html" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "DOJ antitrust case page and final judgment: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "access-date", "date_precision": "access", "name": "DOJ antitrust case page and final judgment", "published": "2026-08-30", "role": "primary", "type": "Official antitrust case record", "url": "https://www.justice.gov/atr/case/us-v-donald-j-trump" } ], "summary": "DOJ, acting at the FTC's request, alleged that Trump failed to make required Hart-Scott-Rodino filings before Bally stock acquisitions. The matter resolved by consent judgment and a $750,000 civil penalty without a trial adjudication of the allegations.", "title": "Trump agreed to a $750,000 premerger-reporting civil penalty" }, { "category": "Discrimination and civil rights", "date_precision": "day", "disposition": "Settled by consent decree with prospective fair-housing obligations.", "disposition_source_urls": [ "https://abcnews.com/Politics/back-discrimination-suit-dogging-donald-trump/story?id=41667286", "https://clearinghouse.net/case/15342/" ], "entity": null, "event_date": "1975-06-10", "event_date_display": "June 10, 1975", "evidence_basis": "primary-plus-independent", "id": "1975-06-10-housing-discrimination-consent-decree", "last_verified": "2026-09-07", "personal_bankruptcy": null, "posture": "Federal civil consent decree — no admission of past liability", "record_kind": "government", "response": "The defendants denied discrimination and emphasized that the decree contained no admission of wrongdoing.", "sources": [ { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "ABC News historical case review: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "ABC News historical case review", "published": "2016-08-27", "role": "independent", "type": "Independent reporting", "url": "https://abcnews.com/Politics/back-discrimination-suit-dogging-donald-trump/story?id=41667286" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-28", "access_notes": "Civil Rights Litigation Clearinghouse consent decree: direct HTTPS audit returned HTTP 403 on 2026-08-28; no direct-open claim is made. Structured corroboration path: ABC News historical case review (https://abcnews.com/Politics/back-discrimination-suit-dogging-donald-trump/story?id=41667286; opened-live).", "access_status": "blocked-direct", "corroboration_url": "https://abcnews.com/Politics/back-discrimination-suit-dogging-donald-trump/story?id=41667286", "date_basis": "access-date", "date_precision": "access", "name": "Civil Rights Litigation Clearinghouse consent decree", "published": "2026-08-28", "role": "primary", "type": "Court-record archive", "url": "https://clearinghouse.net/case/15342/" } ], "summary": "The decree prohibited discriminatory rental practices and required advertising, vacancy reporting and fair-housing compliance measures. It resolved the 1973 action without an admission that the defendants had committed the alleged past violations.", "title": "Trump Management entered a Fair Housing Act consent decree" }, { "category": "Discrimination and civil rights", "date_precision": "day", "disposition": "Resolved by the separate June 10, 1975 consent decree.", "disposition_source_urls": [ "https://abcnews.com/Politics/back-discrimination-suit-dogging-donald-trump/story?id=41667286", "https://clearinghouse.net/case/15342/" ], "entity": null, "event_date": "1973-10-15", "event_date_display": "October 15, 1973", "evidence_basis": "primary-plus-independent", "id": "1973-10-15-housing-discrimination-complaint", "last_verified": "2026-09-07", "personal_bankruptcy": null, "posture": "Federal civil complaint — allegations not findings", "record_kind": "government", "response": "The defendants denied discrimination, countersued, and later entered a consent decree without admitting the alleged violations.", "sources": [ { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-30", "access_notes": "ABC News historical case review: August 30 HTTPS audit opened the cited source (HTTP 200) on 2026-08-30.", "access_status": "opened-live", "date_basis": "publication-date", "date_precision": "day", "name": "ABC News historical case review", "published": "2016-08-27", "role": "independent", "type": "Independent reporting", "url": "https://abcnews.com/Politics/back-discrimination-suit-dogging-donald-trump/story?id=41667286" }, { "access_checked_on": "2026-08-28", "access_notes": "Civil Rights Litigation Clearinghouse complaint archive: direct HTTPS audit returned HTTP 403 on 2026-08-28; no direct-open claim is made. Structured corroboration path: ABC News historical case review (https://abcnews.com/Politics/back-discrimination-suit-dogging-donald-trump/story?id=41667286; opened-live).", "access_status": "blocked-direct", "corroboration_url": "https://abcnews.com/Politics/back-discrimination-suit-dogging-donald-trump/story?id=41667286", "date_basis": "access-date", "date_precision": "access", "name": "Civil Rights Litigation Clearinghouse complaint archive", "published": "2026-08-28", "role": "primary", "type": "Court-record archive", "url": "https://clearinghouse.net/case/15342/" } ], "summary": "The complaint alleged that Fred Trump, Donald Trump and Trump Management discriminated against Black rental applicants in violation of the Fair Housing Act. A complaint is an allegation; the case later settled by consent decree without an admission of past liability.", "title": "Justice Department filed housing-discrimination action" } ]