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The recurring claims about gas prices
The recurring remark about Trump's uncle at MIT
Migrant caravan coverage timed to election season
The recurring pardons of political allies and donors
- Oct 2026: Times reports that a pardoned banker's family company hired Alina Habba on a $50M-plus contract
- Sep 2026: 60 Minutes report on pardon brokers and Democratic promises to investigate
- Jan 2026: Trump pardons ex-Puerto Rico Governor Wanda Vázquez Garced, banker Julio Herrera Velutini and Mark Rossini
- Nov 2025: Pardons of Giuliani, Meadows and the 2020 alternate electors
- May 2025: Walczak pardon reporting and the late-May clemency batch
- Jan 2025: January 6 pardons and commutations
- Jan 2025 – ongoing: Biden's preemptive pardons of family members and officials
- Dec 2024: Biden pardons his son Hunter Biden
The recurring promise that Mexico will pay for the wall
The recurring drug-laced Halloween candy scare
The recurring misuse of license plate reader data by officials
The recurring claim that it's the last president's fault
The recurring Trump remarks about acing his cognitive test
The recurring abrupt firings and departures of Trump administration officials
- Oct 2026: Katie Zacharia's exit as White House press secretary after five days
- Apr 2026: Attorney General Pam Bondi pushed out after about 14 months; Todd Blanche named acting AG
- Aug 2025 – Sep 2025: CDC Director Susan Monarez ousted after 29 days
- May 2025: Mike Waltz removed as National Security Adviser and nominated as UN ambassador
- Nov 2018: Jeff Sessions forced out as attorney general
The recurring claim that Ilhan Omar married her brother
The recurring promise to end the Ukraine war "in 24 hours" / "on day one"
Election-season "ballots found in a ditch" stories
The recurring claim that Somali immigrants are living lavishly on public benefits
The recurring promise of direct payments to Americans funded by ___
The recurring claim that prices are coming down
The recurring promise that prices will come down "on day one"
The recurring Trump threats and actions against broadcasters and publishers
- Sep 2026: Des Moines Register / J. Ann Selzer suit dismissed
- Mar 2026 – Apr 2026: Judge rules Trump's NPR/PBS funding order unconstitutional
- Nov 2025 – Dec 2025: BBC Panorama edit: threat, apology, then a $10 billion suit
- Jul 2025: Paramount settles Trump's 60 Minutes lawsuit during the Skydance merger review
- Jun 2025: Appeals court lets the White House keep limiting AP access (AP v. Budowich)
- Dec 2024: ABC settles the Stephanopoulos defamation suit
- Jun 2020: Justice Department tries to block John Bolton's book and bind its publisher
- Feb 2020 – Mar 2020: Trump campaign sues the New York Times, the Washington Post and CNN over opinion pieces
- Mar 2018 – Apr 2018: Trump's tweets against Amazon and the Washington Post over the Postal Service
- Oct 2017: Trump asks when it is "appropriate to challenge" NBC's license
The recurring promise of a healthcare plan "in two weeks"
The recurring AI predictions and safety warnings
The recurring claim that mass-shooting victims and witnesses are "crisis actors"
Pre-election "assassination attempt thwarted" amplification
The recurring claim that Iran's nuclear program was "obliterated"
The recurring Trump moves and threats to rename places and institutions
The recurring Republican and MAGA figures charged with child sex crimes
- Aug 2026: Mike Caruso, Palm Beach County clerk and former Florida state representative (Republican), arrested on child sex abuse charges
- Mar 2025: Influencer Ricci Wynne indicted on federal charges of producing child sexual abuse material
- Mar 2025: Minnesota Republican state Sen. Justin Eichorn charged after a Bloomington sting
The recurring arrests of pardoned January 6 defendants on new charges
- Nov 2025: John Banuelos charged in a 2018 Utah kidnapping and sexual assault case
- Jan 2025: Matthew Huttle killed during attempted arrest at Indiana traffic stop
- Jan 2025 – Feb 2025: Andrew Taake, released under the January 6 pardon while wanted on a 2016 Texas warrant, then arrested
- Jan 2025: Daniel Ball rearrested on a gun charge after his January 6 case was dismissed
The recurring claim that vaccines cause autism
- Aug 2026: Trump's childhood-vaccine order and the federal autism committee
- Nov 2025: CDC "Autism and Vaccines" page changed
- Jan 2025 – Feb 2025: Confirmation hearings
- Nov 2024 – Dec 2024: Kennedy picked for HHS; Trump raises autism in interviews
- Mar 2016: The "Vaxxed" film is pulled from the Tribeca Film Festival
The recurring DOGE savings claims
The recurring promise to release the Epstein files
- Feb 2026: Redaction dispute and Bondi's "all files released" letter
- Dec 2025: Deadline release, redactions and "over a million more" documents
- Nov 2025: Trump reverses position; the Epstein Files Transparency Act becomes law
- Jul 2025: DOJ/FBI memo finds no "client list"; Trump directs grand jury unsealing request
The recurring insults aimed at female journalists
The recurring questions about Trump's physical health
The recurring claim that the DOJ and FBI have been "weaponized"
- Nov 2025 – Dec 2025: Comey and James cases dismissed; grand juries refuse to re-indict James
- Oct 2025: Letitia James and John Bolton indictments
- Sep 2025: Trump's post to "Pam" and the Comey indictment
- Jun 2023 – Aug 2023: Weaponization claims around the 2023 Trump indictments
- May 2023: Durham report
- Feb 2018: The Nunes memo
The recurring promises of a new Iran nuclear deal
The recurring "in two weeks"
The recurring claim that George Soros is paying the protesters
The recurring "welfare queen" claim that recipients are gaming public benefits
- Dec 2025 – Jan 2026: Minnesota child care fraud claims: Nick Shirley video, federal child care funding freezes, Walz drops re-election bid
- May 2025 – Jul 2025: "One Big Beautiful Bill" Medicaid and SNAP work requirements
- Feb 2025: DOGE / Trump claims that dead people are getting Social Security
- Jun 2018 – Jul 2018: Court blocks Kentucky's Medicaid work requirement
- Apr 2018: Trump executive order on welfare work requirements
The recurring claim that foreign countries pay the tariffs
The recurring claims that wind power is bad, doesn't work, and "doesn't work at night"
The recurring awards and gifts given to, or claimed by, Trump
The annual "War on Christmas" coverage
The recurring scrutiny of Trump associates' ties to Russia
The recurring promise to jail or prosecute political opponents
- Nov 2025: Trump posts "SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR, punishable by DEATH!" about six Democratic lawmakers
- Oct 2025: Trump posts that Garland, Wray, Smith and Monaco "should be prosecuted"
- Oct 2025: Trump says Pritzker and Brandon Johnson "should be in jail"
- Nov 2023: Univision interview on using the DOJ against opponents
- Jun 2023: Pledge of a "real special prosecutor" to "go after" Biden
The recurring claim that undocumented immigrants get free health care
The recurring claim that the jobs numbers are rigged
The recurring threats of tariffs and sanctions against longtime allies
- Jul 2025: The EU tariff threat ends in the Turnberry deal
- Mar 2025: Trump threatens 50% tariffs on Canadian steel and aluminum over Ontario's electricity surcharge, then drops it the same day
- Feb 2024: "Do whatever the hell they want" rally remark
- Jan 2020: Reported private 25% auto-tariff threat over the Iran nuclear deal
- Dec 2019: Proposed tariffs over France's digital services tax
The recurring claim that illegal voting decided an election
The recurring "fake news" label on reporting later confirmed accurate
The recurring third-party presidential bids that surface in election years and fade between them
The recurring "they're coming for your ___" warnings
The recurring Trump praise for authoritarian leaders
- Nov 2019: "I'm a big fan" of Erdoğan (White House visit)
- Jul 2018: Helsinki press conference
- Jun 2018: After Singapore, "His people sit up at attention"
- Apr 2017: Kim "a pretty smart cookie" (CBS "Face the Nation")
- Feb 2017: "You think our country is so innocent?" (Fox News interview with Bill O'Reilly)