Fact-checking Donald Trump following U.S. attacks on Venezuela and capture of Nicolás Maduro By Louis Jacobson, Maria Ramirez Uribe • Jan. 3, 2026, midnight Previous Next ← Return to all search ...

"The War Powers Act is Unconstitutional, totally violating Article II of the Constitution, as all Presidents, and their Departments of Justice, have determined before me," Trump wrote. But Trump went ...

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem described the actions of Renee Nicole Good, a Minneapolis woman fatally shot by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer, as "domestic terrorism." ...

Social media users shared a photo they claimed showed Renee Nicole Good, the woman killed by an ICE agent Jan. 7 in Minneapolis. But the image is of another woman from a photo on a Facebook account of ...

Grove told PolitiFact in an email that he is based in Springfield, does not work for ICE, and retired from the Army National Guard in 2023 after serving for 23 years. Grove told the Springfield Daily ...

At a Jan. 3 press conference after Maduro’s capture, Secretary of State Marco Rubio confirmed that members of Congress were not notified in advance. Trump said the administration was concerned about ...

They charged more people in 2023 and 2024. In June 2024, five people were indicted in a related juror bribery scheme. Before Biden left office, Andrew Luger, his U.S. attorney in Minnesota, said 70 ...

Tensions between Trump and Maduro escalated in September after the U.S. government began attacking vessels off the coast of Venezuela, killing more than 100 people, in what Trump described as an ...

The White House post isn’t the first time the Trump administration blamed Maduro for trafficking fentanyl to the U.S. Trump has cited the potent synthetic opioid that is responsible for most U.S. drug ...

Crime has declined in Venezuela in recent years, but experts say that isn’t evidence Maduro sent freed prisoners to the U.S. It's because of a confluence of factors, including a humanitarian crisis ...

"Leaked" audio of President Donald Trump talking about the Epstein files and Venezuela was generated with OpenAI’s video-generating platform, Sora. The audio was originally shared on TikTok back in ...

President Donald Trump amplified the unsubstantiated claim that Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz ordered a state lawmaker’s assassination. In June, a gunman attacked Minnesota lawmakers, shooting and killing ...