Questions tagged [donald-trump]
Donald Trump served as the 45th president of the United States of America from 2017 to 2021. Use for questions specific to Donald Trump or his policies. Use with the [united-states] tag.
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Did the FBI seize former US president's current passport in the Mar-a-Lago raid? If so, did they return it? If so, when?
After 03:20 in CNN's January 22, 2023 Brown presses GOP House Intelligence chair on Trump documents US Representative Mike Turner (R-OH) says the following:
The concern we all have, is the abuse of ...
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Did the Biden administration successfully terminate Trump’s Safe Third Country agreements?
In 2019, the Trump Administration signed asylum cooperative agreements, commonly known as “Safe Third Country” agreements, with Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador. Under these agreements, those ...
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Why were there no objections to the public release of the former US president's tax records at the House Ways and Means Committee meeting?
In the PBS NewsHour's December 20, 2022 video WATCH LIVE: House committee votes on release of Trump's tax returns it appears, if I understand correctly, that there were no objections heard to making ...
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How significant was Trump's undisclosed 19.8M loan relative to his total net worth? [closed]
Title sort of says it all. There is plenty of talk about Trump having a loan to a foreign power he never disclosed. I'm just wondering how big was that loan, at least relative to Trump's finances as ...
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Which Trump-appointed judge allegedly "sat on the lawsuit for two and a half years" related to Trump's tax returns, and did they really sit on it?
After 00:33 In the CNN video Lawmaker explains what Democrats are planning to do with Trump's tax documents "Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-TX), who sits on the House Ways and Means committee, explains ...
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Can the House Committee that gained access to Trump's tax return information release it publicly?
Since the Supreme Court cleared the way for a House committee to receive Trump’s tax returns, can that committee make the information public? Could this allow House Democrats to use this information ...
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What is gained by appointing a special counsel to oversee the Trump investigations? [duplicate]
A special counsel was named by the DOJ to take care of the Trump legal investigations.
The goal of this is to help remove the investigation from politics. By naming a special counsel, the ...
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Why would Biden seeking re-election be a reason to appoint a special counsel for the Justice Department's Trump investigations?
On November 18, 2022, Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed a special counsel to oversee the Justice Department's Trump investigations.
Garland gave two reasons for this appointment:
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US presidential election: winning three times
Donald Trump has, according to his claims, been elected president twice by popular vote. However he has been denied the office due to claimed malfeasance of the state governments.
If his claims are ...
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Does Donald Trump have any official standing in the Republican Party right now (Nov 2022)?
Mid-November 2022, post mid-term elections. Various media outlets are reporting that Trump is furious with the lack of a Republican “red wave” sweeping the nation
I know American and UK/European ...
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Is it common for former presidential advisors to go by "Honorable"?
I saw this tweet today for an event headlined by "The Honorable Jared Kushner."
https://twitter.com/meridithmcgraw/status/1569300032389619714
Kushner, a former senior advisor to Donald Trump,...
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Can Trump be barred from ever holding an elected position again?
Couy Griffin has been removed from his position and is barred from ever holding a state or federal elected position again. Does this mean that Trump can be barred from holding any elected position?
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Prior to removals of documents from Mar-a-Lago, what did Trump himself say about possessing documents?
From wikipedia
During May 2021, the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), the federal agency that preserves government records, contacted Trump's representatives regarding missing ...
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What does the average American citizen think about the raid on Mar-a-Lago? [closed]
What does the average American citizen think of the raid on Trump?
While CNN, MSNBC, etc report how good it is, and Fox reports how bad it is, what does the average person think? I am asking as I read ...
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Why did the FBI take so long to recover the documents taken by Trump in January 2021?
The FBI recently raided Trump's residence to recover documents that were supposedly taken by Trump sometime in January 2021. However this raises the question... why wait for so long to do so? Shouldn'...
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Why are paper copies of Presidential records supposed to be important given that digital copies are extremely easy to make?
The FBI recently raided Trump's residence in order to recover Presidential records that were taken from the White House without permission. But why would that be important, given that Trump's people ...
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Why would a former US president's announcement of a reelection bid cut off legal defense funds?
At the end of CNN's August 9, 2022 video Analysis: How FBI's search of Mar-a-Lago could help Trump in 2024 (after about 10:00) host Brianna Keilar asks about the former US president potentially ...
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Have the January 6 hearings had a significant impact on the attitudes of Trump supporters?
The public hearings of the January 6 Committee have exposed many details about Donald Trump's actions and behavior in trying to overturn the results of the 2020 election. But I can easily imagine that ...
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Why is Russia threatening Ukraine *now*? [duplicate]
What does Russian government have to gain from the current build up and threatening possible invasion of Ukraine? answers why Russia is threatening Ukraine, but not why it has waited to do it in 2022 ...
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What explains Trump's gains with Latino voters in the 2020 US presidential election?
In almost every majority Hispanic county and electoral district, president Donald Trump gained against his 2016 presidential performance, though he lost almost all of these areas again, most by wide ...
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Non Elected House Speaker [duplicate]
This question is related to this article from NPR. The article states that "there's no requirement the speaker has to be an elected representative." This is referring to to US House. The ...
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Are there any benefits to owning a Trump Card?
Trump-branded cards were given out to those who donated $45 to Trump’s PAC as part of a fundraising campaign.
Other than physically having the card, and being able to show it to others, are there any ...
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During the Trump administration, how did foreign states rank in engaging in personal diplomatic meetings with the U.S.?
During the Trump administration, how did foreign states rank in engaging in diplomatic meetings with the U.S. in state visits, official visits, working visits, official working visits in the U.S. or ...
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What kind of interference was feared by Democratic leaders when creating the "vaccine panels"?
Governor Inslee of Washington promised to create a panel of experts to review the safety of vaccines back in October 2020. Zach Lipton states in a comment that the following concerns were up in the ...
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What led Mike Lindell to specify Aug 13 for a claimed Trump reinstatement?
It is being widely reported that My Pillow CEO Mike Lindell has claimed that Trump would be reinstated on August 13. It is clear that there is no process by which this could occur, so we already know ...
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Is there anything judicial that can prevent Trump from taking part in the 2024 elections?
It seems that Donald Trump is already preparing for his 2024 campaign - especially after the Republican CPAC in Iowa.
Is there anything judicial that could prevent him from running in the 2024 race?
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Why is Former President Trump criticized for leaving the Iran Deal and his 'Maximum Pressure' campaign?
(Inspired by another question which was closed and deleted as a push question.)
According to the Financial Tribune:
The US special envoy for Iran, Robert Malley, said the maximum pressure campaign ...
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Why did NYC swing towards Trump more than surrounding demographically similar area? [closed]
The combined results of the 5 boroughs of NYC had a swing towards former president Donald Trump of about 9 percentage points. However, the combined results of Hudson Union and Essex counties in New ...
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Why do Republicans want to break up Facebook?
Republicans are generally against government meddling in business. Yet many Republicans are threatening to break up Facebook after the decision to ban Trump as seen here, here, here, or here.
If the ...
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Have politicians elaborated on their use of the term 'the Big Lie' in reference to US election fraud claims?
As defined by Lexico, the Big Lie technique is
A gross distortion or misrepresentation of the facts, especially when used as a propaganda device by a politician or official body.
As explained on ...
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Isn't the January 6 Commission redundant considering the investigative powers of existing agencies?
President Biden has control over all federal agencies, several of which have investigative/police powers; he could order them to investigate anything.
So what is the point of the National Commission ...
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How has the Israeli right responded to Trump's failure to condemn Nazis?
I'm sure left-wing Israelis don't like Trump, so I'm more curious about Israelis on the political right. Trump has supported the goals of the Israeli right, such as an undivided Jerusalem, recognition ...
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Is it possible for a US President to end DACA?
President Trump tried to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) immigration policy that his predecessor President Obama had created.
Trump's administration failed to end it.
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Has the freedom of speech been compromised in the US by social media companies banning Trump? [duplicate]
Freedom of speech is defined as:
The right to express any opinion in public without censorship or
restraint by the government, protected in the United States as a right
under the First Amendment to ...
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Why does Donald Trump wield influence over Republican Congressmen & Senators?
Given that Donald Trump lost the recent Presidential election, why is it that congressmen continue to visit Mar-A-Lago? In what way is Donald Trump a power broker? What is it that congressmen seek ...
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Why would the Lincoln Project campaign *against* Sen. Susan Collins?
As I understand it, The Lincoln Project is anti-Trump Republicans.
So why would they campaign against Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME)? And not only that, but campaign the hardest of any Senate election?
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Why another impeachment vote at the Senate?
I always thought it was a three-step procedure:
First, the Congress investigates.
Second, the House of Representatives must pass, by a simple majority of those present and voting, articles of ...
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How has QAnon narrative being affected by Jan 6, the social media bans, and Trump's leaving office?
I haven't heard much about QAnon since Trump's leaving office. It seems between the backlash and banning that came after Jan 6 and Trump's leaving office without any of the major QAnon predictions ...
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Would Trump lose his former President benefits if he's convicted in the impeachment trial?
If a president is impeached and removed from power, do they lose all benefits usually afforded to presidents when they leave office? quotes the Former Presidents Act as defining a former President as
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Why isn't the constitutionality of Trump's 2nd impeachment decided by the supreme court?
Just five GOP senators vote Trump impeachment trial is constitutional
As I understand the US supreme court, they rule on the constitutionality of issues. Therefore it seems like the question of ...
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What did the Trump White House have as written rules regarding mask wearing on WH premises?
I'm aware of photos like these:
(Source: BBC --more photos therein. That event had been criticized by Fauci as a "superspreader".)
But it's also been said in a comment to another q that ...
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Why did Trump rescind his executive order that barred former White House employees from lobbying the government?
Just before leaving office, President Trump rescinded his 2017 executive order which limited lobbying by former government officials:
In the final hours of his term, President Donald J. Trump ...
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What happens with the second impeachment now that Trump has left office?
I know there has been talk already about whether or not a former president can be impeached. I have not, however, heard the practical ending to that talk. What happens with Trump's second impeachment (...
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Any data about Trump supporters amount in National Guard? [closed]
As we know, now there is about 25000 national guardsmen in Washington DC. But doesn't it increase risk of strikes from the inside, from hidden Trump supporters? More people - seems more risky. And FBI ...
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Why are former presidents given intelligence briefings? [duplicate]
According to ABC news, all former presidents "[continue to receive] the President's Daily Brief, a top-secret summary of US intelligence and world events, in a format and style that suits them&...
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During Trump's presidency, did White Americans (on average, still) believe there was more anti-White than anti-Black bias in the US?
An interesting, perhaps, survey on perceptions of racial inequality in the US, conducted some 10 years ago, as (somewhat better) summarized in another paper (of the same authors):
Norton and Sommers (...
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Can the senate Democrats now force a trial with witnesses, and compel Trump to give testimony?
President Trump has been impeached for a second time, in January 2021.
Now the trial goes to the senate.
Now that the Democrats have control of the senate, can they compel witnesses to give testimony, ...
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Does the impeachment of Donald Trump render his future pardons void? [duplicate]
Usually near the end of their terms, U.S. Presidents grant pardons. It is expected from current U.S. President Donal Trump that he will grant several pardons in the following week. Granting pardons is ...
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Can the senate now vote to bar Trump from standing again? [duplicate]
It looks the senate will not hold an impeachment trial very soon. But can they vote by simple majority to bar Trump from ever standing for president again?
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Apparently, there is a message behind the suspension of Trump's accounts from Big Tech companies, what is it? [closed]
Today, January 13th, Google has also decided that they don't want the appearance of Donald Trump on their social platform Youtube, for at least seven days.
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