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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When was the last time Trump was ridiculed on Russian state TV (besides/before the stopping wars as soon as he's elected issue/claim)?
Recently, Solovyov ridiculed Trump for saying he'd stop all wars as soon as he's elected president. (Well technically Trump just gave a list: Russia-Ukraine, Middle-East/Israel, and China-Taiwan [even ...
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Has Trump changed his political views on Israel's war in Gaza?
Trump is a strong supporter of US ally Israel. On April 14, 2024, Washington Post reported - Trump supporters echo pro-Palestinian ‘genocide Joe’ chant:
“Genocide Joe” is a phrase used by pro-...
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Has Trump explained how or at least how quickly he's going to stop WW3 if it starts before he gets into office? [closed]
TASS has been covering Trump's WW3 prognostication lately:
World War III may break out before current US President Joe Biden leaves office, former US president Donald Trump told Fox News, adding that ...
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Has any of the top US media/press criticized the US president Mr. Trump for recognizing the Golan Heights as Israeli lands?
The internationally recognized Syrian lands that is occupied by Israel, the Golan Heights has been recently recognized as Israeli lands by the US president Mr. Trump, I wonder how the major US press/...
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Are there any indications what the stance of a future Trump administration would be towards Gaza?
The title says it all. Are there statements from Trump or his inner circle indicating what the stance of a future Trump administration would be towards the ongoing Israeli aggression against Gaza (...
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If Russia hacked the 2016 election, how or why can we proceed with inaugurating Trump?
Simple question, but it's been bugging me for quite some time.
If we know for a fact that Russians interfered with the 2016 US presidential election, why can we proceed with inaugurating Trump, ...
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Did the Taliban give any hint they were letting the US 'keep' the Bagram Airfield (under some conditions)?
Trump claimed in 2022 that his peace plan for Afghanistan (that Biden ruined) involved keeping the Bagram Airfield:
We were gonna be out. I got it down to 2,000 [troops] we were getting ready to pull ...
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Has Trump expressed any opinion about US allies like Germany, Japan, or South Korea getting their own nuclear weapons?
Opinion in other US allies may be lowers on this, but
A poll published in May by the conservative Asan Institute for Policy Studies suggested that more than 70% of South Koreans support their country ...
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Does the US Supreme Court judgement preventing States from barring Trump in the ballot make any rulings on the 'insurrectionist' charges against him?
The Justices unanimously reversed a December 19 decision by Colorado's top court to kick Mr. Trump off the State's Republican primary ballot after finding that the U.S. Constitution's 14th Amendment ...
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What's going on with the effort to disqualify Trump in 2023 under the Constitution, Article 14, Clause 3
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What's going on with the effort to disqualify Trump for 2024 under the Constitution.
To recap:
Two legal scholars from the very influential right wing Federalist Society came out with a 128 ...
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Do critics/experts underestimate the performance of the Trump administration? [closed]
With current developments increasing the odds for a second Biden-Trump match-up, this question seems to becoming more relevant (especially for the future). U.S. politics contain so much bias, it is ...
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Has Trump indicated who he will endorse if he remains disqualified from the ballot?
Trump is currently disqualified from the ballot in Colorado, and the case is being appealed to the Supreme Court.
Assuming the Supreme Court rules against Trump and he remains disqualified, has he ...
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Did President Trump ever answer questions on obstruction to Mueller?
The FBI’s Trump-Russia investigation, overseen by Special Counsel Robert Mueller, has just finished. Now at some point in the course of the investigation, Mueller’s team sent President Trump a series ...
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How true are Trump’s claims about NATO spending?
Over President Trump’s term in office, he has been very vocal about the spending commitments made by many NATO countries, and their frequent failure to live up to them. He now seems to be taking ...
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Why do Americans consider Biden to be too old for president, but not Trump?
A number of polls show that Americans by and large consider Joe Biden to be too old to be president.
For example, an Associated Press poll asked
Do you think each of the following is too old to ...
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Is there a precedent in Western countries where a state court has prohibited a candidate from running for office?
Colorado's Supreme Court has ruled that Donald Trump cannot run for
president next year in the state, citing a constitutional insurrection
clause.
The court ruled 4-3 that Mr Trump was not an eligible ...
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Is former president Trump "out on bail" as Chris Christie asserts? If so, were campaign funds used?
to help answers along, this was just asserted
by Jim Sciutto, CNN anchor and chief national security correspondent after 06:22:
The previous indictments Trump has faced, he has not had to post bond. ...
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Given there is no primary on the democratic side, why isn't there a push to get Democrat voters to vote Trump out in the primary?
Biden is the incumbent with no serious challenges.
Given his unpopularity with Democrats, why hasn't there been a campaign run by Democrats or maybe even some anti-Trump Republicans to get Democrat ...
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What explains the timing of the U.S China trade tariffs and negotiations?
This Wikipedia article dates the start of the U.S. China trade war to January 2018.
Link to Wikipedia.
Of course trade rhetoric about China probably dates back to the earliest days of the Trump ...
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Trump inauguration opposition
Some celebrities and also Democrats have boycotted Donald Trump's inauguration.
There are also many demonstrations held in the country and in other countries. Has there been such a vast opposition ...
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Why hasn't the US political system taken recourse against Trump for his politically motivated firings?
The answers to this question - What reasons may Donald Trump have had for firing FBI Director James Comey? - appear to suggest that there is widespread certainty that the sacking was politically ...
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Did Trump ever state his opinion of Theodore Roosevelt?
An earlier answer pointed to the fact that Trump, seemingly, thinks America was great under President Theodore Roosevelt. Did Trump ever state his opinion of Theodore Roosevelt? Both as a personality, ...
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What is the 'Alt-Right'?
Recently, Clinton gave a speech in which she claimed that the majority of Trump supporters were young, tech-savvy, enthusiastic, radically right-wing individuals who have taken over the Republican ...
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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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Can the Trump Campaign use the voter data the Trump Administration received in 2017?
In 2017 the Trump Administration requested and received 2016 voting data from the states. In some states this data can be used to determine how a person voted based on a code that was entered into the ...
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What was the reason for Trump's administration to withdraw from JCPOA? [duplicate]
From the Wikipedia article for JCPOA:
After the Trump administration twice certified Iran's compliance in 2017, in May 2018 the United States withdrew from JCPOA as Trump pledged he would negotiate a ...
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How could Trump's campaign benefit from attacking the Netanyahu government(s)?
According to the NY Post, Trump appears to be taking some pot shots at past and present Israeli governments led by Netanyahu:
Former President Donald Trump made an extraordinary attack on the ...
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Documented Actions and Legal Proceedings Involving Trump Indicative of Presidential Fitness Concerns [closed]
I am inquiring about specific actions or legal proceedings involving Donald Trump that could be indicative of a breach of law or a failure to uphold the duties of the presidency, according to ...
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What exactly are the "fake elector" allegations that are being made in the US media re. the 2020 POTUS elections?
Even Fox manages to talk about them.
Who is Cathy Latham? Former Coffee County (Georgia) GOP chair accused of being a 'fake elector'
ATLANTA - Cathy Latham, former GOP chair for Coffee County and a ...
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At any forthcoming trial of Donald Trump, what lengths will be employed to eliminate political bias among jurors? [closed]
There has been a fairly recent case in Britain that has reinforced the notion that jurors have an absolute right to bring in any verdict they choose irrespective of the facts of the case.
See this ...
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Which "Bar" eviscerated US District Judge Aileen Cannon after granting the special master review of documents?
In CNN"s July 20, 2023 See ex-GOP lawmaker's reaction to Trump's trial date after 07:50 is the following exchange between CNN's Anchor and Chief Political Correspondent Dana Bash and Senior Legal ...
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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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Was the U.S. IRS instructed to give Congress Donald Trump's tax records; if so, have they?
With the recent ruling by the Supreme Court letting Manhattan prosecutor pursue Donald Trump's financial records, it rejected President Trump’s bold claims of immunity from local law enforcement and ...
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What was the cause of the MAGAcommunism movement?
I know what I am saying sounds nonsensical at first. But I am referring to a group of Communists who unironically support Trump.
This movement and way of thought was established by the YouTuber Haz ...
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Why does the KKK support Trump?
Although Trump rejects the support of the KKK, the KKK still likes Trump. Why are the KKK people supporting him?
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Why hasn't Donald Trump sued E. Jean Carroll for defamation? [closed]
She has claimed many times that Donald Trump raped her. Being accused of rape could potentially damage someone's reputation. At the Cornell Law School website, defamation is defined as, "...a ...
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"America is a marshmallow" statement from president Putin in 2016 after Trump was elected [closed]
I am looking for more information on a quote that I heard in 2016 and barely remember.
After President Trump was elected in 2016, a reporter on a NPR news program mentioned that Putin mentioned in a ...
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How were Donald Trump's 2015 comments about Muslim immigrants unconstitutional?
A 2015 campaign press release from Donald Trump, back then the leading contender to become the Republican party’s nominee for US presidential candidate, called to ban Muslims from entering the United ...
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In what sense did Trump put a notch on his belt? [closed]
The following extract is from UStoday site:
Trump's lawyer, Joe Tacopina, told NBC's "Today" show on Friday that Trump was initially "shocked" when notified of the grand jury's ...
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Did Trump authorise a 2016 negative political ad against the Jewish elite? [closed]
There is a negative political ad floating around that is alleged to be from the 2016 Trump campaign. Its content is the standard anti-globalist fare. The ad implies that Democrat presidential ...
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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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Social media impact on Trump's presidency
It is difficult for me to realise really how much social media content approves or rejects some political party or person. The content is automatically generated and will always fit what the reader ...
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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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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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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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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:
Trump's ...
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Is @realDonaldTrump a parody account? [closed]
Is the Twitter account @realDonaldTrump a parody account, or is it actually controlled by Donald Trump?
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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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