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Associated Press reporting / Miami, Florida / June 13, 2023

Donald J. Trump, twice impeached as president and now twice indicted since leaving the White House, surrendered to federal authorities in Miami on Tuesday and was arraigned on charges that he had put national security secrets at risk and obstructed investigators.

Mr. Trump was booked, fingerprinted and led to a courtroom on the 13th floor of the Federal District Court, where his lawyer entered a plea of not guilty on his behalf.

And then there are facts about the case as delivered by PolitiFact

• https://www.politifact.com/article/2023/jun/14/fact-checking-donald-trumps-bedminster-speech-foll/

And then there are 'larger questions', as seen by the US Supreme Court and as seen by scholars and explaind by writers and political scientists. The history of ideas brings forth vigorous debate on the future of democratic institutions and threats to the republic.

Here, consider Hannah Arendt who, with deep personal experience, speaks of the recent history of democracy in conflict. Lessons from the past, of costs of war, of grievance and a politics of blaming 'the other', of authoritarianism v. democratic freedoms and rights are again challenges of the times.

• https://greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Totalitarianism_in_the_Age_of_Trump,_Lessons_from_Hannah_Arendt.png

• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Disinformation_-_Online_-_Dangerous

A President and Legacy of Dis- and Mis-information

At GreenPolicy360 we continue to advocate for science and facts. Fact checking and fact finding increasingly have grown in importance as social media platforms (Facebook, Twitter, etc) can exponentially multiply falsehoods and untruths. In the era of the Internet, politics is taking on new powers to reach, engage, interact with, convert and motivate targeted audiences with calls to action. Fact checking is essential in a powerful, fast changing and evolving Internet ....

Washington Post

Trump made 30,573 false or misleading claims as president. Nearly half came in his final year.

• https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/how-fact-checker-tracked-trump-claims/2021/01/23/ad04b69a-5c1d-11eb-a976-bad6431e03e2_story.html

• https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/trump-claims-database/?itid=lk_interstitial_manual_9

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It's Time for Real-Time Fact Checking

Beginning in 2007 in St. Petersburg, Florida, an independent news organization steps up and starts a fact-checking network. It is called PolitiFact.

PolitiFact acts to change the ways news is reported... a battle of facts vs. 'non-facts', facts vs. dis- and mis-info, conspiracies and viral theories, info ops - and com ops weaponizing online and social media communications.

PolitiFact's tagline -- Be Informed.

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Fact Checking

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