President Trump appointed Heather Honey and Marci McCarthy—prominent 2020 election conspiracy activists—to senior DHS roles overseeing federal election integrity efforts. Both appointees actively promoted false claims about the 2020 election and participated in attempts to overturn legitimate …
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President Trump committed $40 billion in U.S. assistance to bail out Argentina’s economy while explicitly tying aid to President Javier Milei’s reelection prospects, stating he would ‘cut it off’ if Milei loses. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent assembled a $20 billion private …
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The National Personnel Records Center released Rep. Mikie Sherrill’s nearly unredacted military records—including Social Security number, home addresses, life insurance information, performance evaluations, and classified information nondisclosure agreements—to Nicholas De Gregorio, who stated …
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The Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division filed federal lawsuits against California, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, New Hampshire, and Pennsylvania demanding unredacted statewide voter registration lists including driver’s license numbers and partial Social Security numbers for …
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Paramount Global agreed to pay $16 million to settle a lawsuit by President Donald Trump over a 2024 campaign-related ‘60 Minutes’ interview with Kamala Harris. The settlement, viewed as a strategic move to facilitate a pending corporate transaction, involves no apology and a commitment …
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President Trump directed the Department of Justice to investigate ActBlue, alleging illegal campaign contributions and foreign donor fraud. The investigation was backed by Elon Musk, who claimed the platform was involved in widespread criminal identity theft.
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Elon Musk handed out $1 million checks to two Wisconsin voters at a rally in Green Bay, moments after the state Supreme Court declined to block his political spending. The event highlighted Musk’s significant financial intervention in a critical judicial election that could reshape …
Elon Musk awarded a $1 million payment to a Wisconsin voter days before the state Supreme Court election, part of a broader $20 million effort to influence the race. The payment to Scott Ainsworth, who supports conservative candidate Brad Schimel, prompted a legal challenge from Wisconsin’s …
Elon Musk’s America PAC spent $20,488.90 on texting services to support two Republican candidates in Florida special House elections: Jimmy Patronis (1st District) and Randy Fine (6th District). The strategic spending demonstrates Musk’s continued political engagement while serving as a …
Portugal election interference investigation by Cyabra found 58% of social media accounts supporting far-right parties were fake profiles. Discovery demonstrates global scale of social media manipulation in democratic elections, with coordinated bot networks amplifying extremist political messages. …
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Arizona’s Cochise County Supervisor Peggy Judd pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor for refusing to certify the 2022 midterm election on time, receiving 90 days of probation and a $500 fine. Her plea agreement acknowledges that she knowingly delayed the election canvass, highlighting ongoing …
Elon Musk established comprehensive political warfare operations through America PAC, combining financial, organizational, and information manipulation to support the Trump 2024 campaign. The PAC spent approximately $200 million, with Musk providing the vast majority of funds, to influence voter …
Computational research revealed systematic algorithmic manipulation on X platform, demonstrating a strategic modification enhancing visibility for Elon Musk and Republican-aligned accounts. Researchers from Queensland University of Technology and Monash University identified a precise ‘change …
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Trump launched his third NFT collection titled ‘MugShot’ featuring 100,000 digital trading cards based on his Georgia election interference mugshot. Priced at $99 each, the collection generated approximately $9.9 million in initial revenue. The unique offering included pieces of …
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Trump launched his third NFT collection titled ‘MugShot’ featuring 100,000 digital trading cards based on his Georgia election interference mugshot, priced at $99 each. The collection generated approximately $9.9 million in initial revenue and offered pieces of Trump’s actual …
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President Trump called Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger on January 2, 2021, demanding he ‘find 11,780 votes’ to overturn Biden’s victory in Georgia. In the recorded hour-long call, Trump threatened Raffensperger with criminal prosecution, saying ‘you know what …
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U.S. District Judge Emmet G. Sullivan issued an emergency order on Election Day directing the United States Postal Service to immediately sweep its processing facilities between 12:30 p.m. and 3:00 p.m. to ensure that delivery of mail-in ballots was not delayed, particularly in crucial battleground …
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Twitter and Facebook suppressed the New York Post’s Hunter Biden laptop story after months of FBI warnings about potential Russian ‘hack-and-leak’ operations. The FBI had possessed the laptop since December 2019 and confirmed its authenticity, but when social media companies asked …
Postmaster General Louis DeJoy testified before the House Oversight and Reform Committee in a contentious marathon hearing where he repeatedly refused to restore mail sorting machines that had been removed or disconnected under his leadership, despite widespread mail delays and concerns about the …
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Postmaster General Louis DeJoy testified before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, denying that his operational changes were designed to sabotage mail service or interfere with the 2020 election. DeJoy insisted he had “never spoken to the President about the …
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The United States Postal Service confirmed that it removed dozens of public mailboxes from streets in Democratic-leaning areas across multiple states, including Oregon, Montana, Pennsylvania, and New York. In Portland, four blue collection boxes were removed from city streets, while 27 additional …
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In a Fox Business interview with Maria Bartiromo, President Trump explicitly admitted that he was blocking emergency funding for the United States Postal Service in order to prevent the expansion of mail-in voting during the 2020 presidential election. “They need that money in order to have …
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Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, appointed despite lacking postal experience and having conflicts of interest with USPS competitors, removed 711 high-speed mail sorting machines capable of processing 21.4 million pieces per hour during the 2020 election mail voting surge. DeJoy also eliminated …
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Louis DeJoy officially began serving as the 75th Postmaster General of the United States and USPS Chief Executive Officer, having been unanimously selected by the USPS Board of Governors on May 6, 2020. DeJoy was a major Republican Party megadonor who contributed over $1.2 million to Trump’s …
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President Trump orchestrated a multi-month campaign to pressure Ukraine into investigating Joe Biden and his son Hunter, using $391 million in congressionally approved military aid as leverage. In a July 25 phone call with President Zelensky, Trump explicitly demanded ‘I would like you to do …
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President Donald Trump pressured Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate his domestic political rival Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden during a July 25, 2019 phone call, explicitly tying U.S. military assistance to political favors in what would become the central act of his first …
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One day after facing fierce bipartisan condemnation for siding with Vladimir Putin over U.S. intelligence agencies, President Donald Trump attempted damage control with an implausible claim that he had simply misspoken a single word during the Helsinki press conference. The walkback was widely …
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In one of the most shocking moments in modern American presidential history, President Donald Trump publicly sided with Russian President Vladimir Putin over his own intelligence agencies during a joint press conference in Helsinki, Finland. Standing next to Putin before a global audience, Trump …
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Former Air Force veteran and NSA contractor Reality Leigh Winner was arrested for leaking a classified intelligence report documenting Russian cyberattacks on U.S. election infrastructure. Her case would result in the longest prison sentence ever imposed for an unauthorized release of government …
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Michael Cohen wires $130,000 from Essential Consultants LLC to Stormy Daniels’ attorney, using fraudulent HELOC loan, completing hush money payment days before election
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Roger Stone tweeted “Trust me, it will soon be the Podesta’s time in the barrel” on August 21, 2016 - 47 days before WikiLeaks released Podesta emails on October 7. Even Podesta himself didn’t know about the hack until WikiLeaks began leaking. Stone claimed he meant …
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Paul Manafort shared internal Trump campaign polling data with Russian intelligence officer Konstantin Kilimnik at Manhattan’s Grand Havana Room. Treasury later confirmed this “provided Russian Intelligence Services with sensitive information on polling and campaign strategy.”
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From August 14 to September 9, 2016, Roger Stone exchanged private Twitter DMs with Guccifer 2.0, a persona US Intelligence concluded with “high confidence” was operated by Russian GRU military intelligence. On August 17, Guccifer told Stone - “please tell me if i can help u …
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National Enquirer pays former Playboy model Karen McDougal $150,000 for exclusive rights to story about year-long affair with Trump, largest catch-and-kill payment of campaign
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On July 27, 2016, at a televised press conference, Donald Trump publicly called on Russia to hack Hillary Clinton’s emails: “Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing.” According to Mueller’s indictment of 12 GRU …
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On July 22, 2016, WikiLeaks released 19,252 DNC emails and 8,034 attachments stolen by Russian GRU intelligence—strategically timed for maximum political damage just three days before the Democratic National Convention. The release, coordinated between Russian intelligence (via Guccifer 2.0), …
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On June 15, 2016—just one day after CrowdStrike publicly disclosed that Russian intelligence had hacked the Democratic National Committee—the GRU launched the “Guccifer 2.0” persona and began releasing stolen DNC documents. The Mueller investigation later proved that Guccifer 2.0 was not …
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Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort creates “grave counterintelligence threat” by sharing internal polling data with Konstantin Kilimnik, identified Russian intelligence officer, creating direct pipeline to Russian intelligence during election interference. The Senate Intelligence …
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Donald Trump staged a campaign fundraiser in Des Moines, Iowa disguised as a charitable event, using the Trump Foundation in direct violation of federal tax law prohibiting 501(c)(3) charitable organizations from participating in political campaigns. The January 28, 2016 event occurred just days …
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National Enquirer publisher David Pecker meets with Trump, Cohen, and Hope Hicks at Trump Tower, agrees to use tabloid to catch and kill sexual affair allegations against Trump during campaign
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Cambridge University researcher Aleksandr Kogan developed a personality-quiz
app that collected data via Facebook’s API and shared it with Cambridge
Analytica. Regulators later documented deceptive practices; Facebook estimated
up to ~87 million users were affected.
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The Supreme Court issued a controversial 5-4 decision in Bush v. Gore that effectively awarded Florida’s 25 electoral votes to Republican candidate George W. Bush, ensuring his victory over Al Gore. The unsigned per curiam decision reversed a Florida Supreme Court request for a selective …
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Democratic fundraiser Johnny Chung receives $300,000 from Ji Shengde, the head of Chinese military intelligence, with instructions to funnel the money to help reelect President Clinton in 1996. Chung tells federal investigators that he passed on $35,000 of this money to the Democratic National …
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Vice President Al Gore attends a fundraising luncheon at the Hsi Lai Buddhist temple in Hacienda Heights, California, organized by longtime Democratic fundraiser Maria Hsia and DNC fundraiser John Huang. The event raises $166,750 for the Democratic National Committee through illegal contributions …
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