[
  {
    "id": "housing-prices",
    "question": "What are Trump's goals for affordable housing?",
    "quote": "I want to <strong>drive housing prices up</strong> for people who own homes.",
    "context": "At the World Economic Forum in Davos, January 2026.",
    "source_url": "https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/watch-trump-says-he-wants-to-drive-housing-prices-up-not-down",
    "source_name": "PBS NewsHour",
    "date": "2026-01-29",
    "tags": [
      "housing",
      "economy"
    ],
    "emphasis": "question",
    "note": {
      "label": "Since then",
      "text": "In June 2026, Congress passed a landmark bipartisan bill to lower housing costs with veto-proof majorities. <strong>Trump refused to sign it</strong> — canceling the signing ceremony and dismissing the bill as \"of minor importance\" — to pressure lawmakers into first passing an unrelated voting bill, the SAVE Act. Lawmakers expect it to become law over his objection anyway.",
      "source_url": "https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-cancels-plan-sign-major-housing-bill-fights-congress-act-rcna351558",
      "source_name": "NBC News",
      "date": "2026-06-24"
    }
  },
  {
    "id": "tariffs-beautiful-word",
    "question": "How does Trump feel about tariffs?",
    "quote": "I always say 'tariffs' is the most beautiful word to me in the dictionary.",
    "context": "After his second inauguration, January 2025, arguing tariffs would make the country rich.",
    "source_url": "https://www.npr.org/2025/04/09/nx-s1-5355661/tariffs-history-meaning",
    "source_name": "NPR",
    "date": "2025-01-20",
    "tags": [
      "trade",
      "economy"
    ],
    "note": {
      "label": "The cost",
      "text": "Trump insists other countries pay the tariffs. But the New York Fed found U.S. importers bore about 94% of the cost in early 2025 — part of roughly $287 billion the Treasury collected in tariffs that year.",
      "source_url": "https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-tariffs-consumers-business-nearly-90-percent-new-york-federal-reserve/",
      "source_name": "CBS News / New York Fed",
      "date": "2026-02-18"
    }
  },
  {
    "id": "energy-drill",
    "question": "What is Trump's energy policy?",
    "quote": "We will drill, baby, drill.",
    "context": "From his second inaugural address, January 2025, as he declared a national energy emergency.",
    "source_url": "https://www.okenergytoday.com/2025/01/trump-uses-inauguration-speech-to-promote-drill-baby-drill/",
    "source_name": "Oklahoma Energy Today",
    "date": "2025-01-20",
    "tags": [
      "energy",
      "economy"
    ],
    "note": {
      "label": "Since then",
      "text": "He framed this as a way to bring energy prices down but as of June 30, 2026, AAA's national average for regular gas was about $3.85 a gallon — up roughly 24% from around $3.12 when he took office in January 2025.",
      "source_url": "https://gasprices.aaa.com/",
      "source_name": "AAA",
      "date": "2026-06-30"
    }
  },
  {
    "id": "nato-delinquent",
    "question": "What did Trump say when asked about defending NATO allies?",
    "quote": "No, I would not protect you.",
    "context": "At a February 2024 rally in Conway, SC, recounting telling a NATO ally he deemed 'delinquent' that he would not protect it from Russia.",
    "source_url": "https://www.npr.org/2024/02/11/1230658309/trump-would-encourage-russia-to-attack-nato-allies-who-dont-pay-bills",
    "source_name": "NPR",
    "date": "2024-02-10",
    "tags": [
      "foreign-policy"
    ],
    "note": {
      "label": "Since then",
      "text": "Trump has moved to shrink the U.S. commitment to NATO rather than formally quit. In 2026 he ordered 5,000 troops withdrawn from Germany and threatened to cut more — echoing a first-term push to pull forces out of Germany that was ultimately abandoned. He has floated leaving outright, but can't do it alone: wary of exactly that, Congress set a legal floor of 76,000 U.S. troops in Europe and, in 2023, barred any president from exiting NATO without the Senate's approval.",
      "source_url": "https://www.cfr.org/articles/trump-is-pulling-troops-from-germany-the-missiles-are-a-bigger-problem",
      "source_name": "Council on Foreign Relations",
      "date": "2026-05-04"
    }
  },
  {
    "id": "immigration-poisoning-blood",
    "question": "How does Trump feel about immigrants?",
    "quote": "They're <strong>poisoning the blood</strong> of our country.",
    "context": "At a December 2023 rally in Durham, NH",
    "source_url": "https://www.c-span.org/clip/campaign-2024/donald-trump-on-illegal-immigrants-poisoning-the-blood-of-our-country/5098439",
    "source_name": "C-SPAN",
    "date": "2023-12-16",
    "tags": [
      "immigration"
    ],
    "note": {
      "label": "Who else said it?",
      "text": "In Mein Kampf, Hitler warned that great civilizations died out through racial \"blood poisoning\" — <strong>language the Nazis used to cast Jews as contaminating Aryan blood and to justify the Holocaust</strong>. Scholars of fascism were quick to draw the parallel. Confronted with it, Trump said he had \"never read Mein Kampf\" and never knew Hitler used the phrase — then repeated the \"blood\" line at his next rally.",
      "source_url": "https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trump-says-he-didnt-know-his-immigration-rhetoric-echoes-hitler-thats-part-of-a-broader-pattern",
      "source_name": "PBS NewsHour",
      "date": "2023-12-27"
    }
  },
  {
    "id": "healthcare-concepts",
    "question": "Does Trump have a plan to replace the Affordable Care Act?",
    "quote": "I have <strong>concepts</strong> of a plan.",
    "context": "Answering a debate question in September 2024 about whether he had a plan to replace the ACA.",
    "source_url": "https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/4873254-trump-debate-obamacare-replacement/",
    "source_name": "The Hill",
    "date": "2024-09-10",
    "tags": [
      "healthcare"
    ],
    "emphasis": "question",
    "note": {
      "label": "Since then",
      "text": "<strong>The concepts never became a plan.</strong> Instead, the Republican-led Congress let the ACA's tax credits lapse without a replacement, causing average premiums to more than double — up roughly 114%, about $1,016 a year. Marketplace enrollment is projected to fall from 22.3 million in 2025 to about 17.5 million in 2026, and a KFF survey found that 9% of 2025 enrollees had already become uninsured.",
      "source_url": "https://www.kff.org/affordable-care-act/what-we-know-so-far-about-2026-aca-marketplace-enrollment-premiums-and-deductibles/",
      "source_name": "KFF",
      "date": "2026-05-19"
    }
  },
  {
    "id": "iran-financial-situation",
    "question": "Does Trump think about Americans' financial situation?",
    "quote": "I don't think about Americans' financial situation.",
    "context": "Asked on the White House lawn on May 12, 2026 whether Americans' financial strain during the Iran war was motivating a deal.",
    "source_url": "https://www.c-span.org/clip/white-house-event/president-trump-i-dont-think-about-americans-financial-situation-amid-iran-talks/5200218",
    "source_name": "C-SPAN",
    "date": "2026-05-12",
    "tags": [
      "economy",
      "foreign-policy"
    ]
  },
  {
    "id": "constitution-termination",
    "question": "How does Trump feel about the Constitution?",
    "quote": "A Massive Fraud of this type and magnitude allows for the termination of all rules, regulations, and articles, <strong>even those found in the Constitution</strong>.",
    "context": "In a December 2022 Truth Social post pushing his false 2020-election-fraud claims, arguing they justified throwing out the results or holding a new election.",
    "source_url": "https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/03/politics/trump-constitution-truth-social",
    "source_name": "CNN",
    "date": "2022-12-03",
    "tags": [
      "elections",
      "democracy"
    ],
    "emphasis": "question",
    "note": {
      "text": "He later denied he meant to “terminate” the Constitution, calling that framing “disinformation” — but his actual post reads as quoted.",
      "source_url": "https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-termination-us-constitution/",
      "source_name": "Snopes",
      "date": "2022-12-05"
    }
  },
  {
    "id": "guns-due-process",
    "question": "How would Trump solve the gun crisis in America?",
    "quote": "Take the guns first, go through due process second.",
    "context": "At a February 2018 White House meeting on school safety after the Parkland shooting, endorsing taking firearms from people deemed dangerous before any court review.",
    "source_url": "https://www.c-span.org/clip/white-house-event/user-clip-donald-trump-take-the-guns-first-go-through-due-process-second/4717030",
    "source_name": "C-SPAN",
    "date": "2018-02-28",
    "tags": [
      "guns"
    ]
  },
  {
    "id": "immigration-due-process",
    "question": "Does Trump understand due process?",
    "quote": "I don't know. I'm not a lawyer. I don't know.",
    "context": "Asked on Meet the Press whether he agreed with Secretary of State Marco Rubio that everyone in the U.S. is entitled to due process — a right the Fifth Amendment extends to all 'persons,' not only citizens.",
    "source_url": "https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/what-the-constitution-says-about-noncitizens-rights-as-trump-doubts-need-for-due-process",
    "source_name": "NBC News, Meet the Press",
    "date": "2025-05-04",
    "tags": [
      "immigration",
      "democracy"
    ],
    "emphasis": "question",
    "note": {
      "label": "Moments later",
      "text": "Pressed on whether he needs to uphold the Constitution as president, Trump again answered, \"I don't know.\" The Supreme Court has held for over a century that <strong>the due process clause protects anyone in the United States, regardless of citizenship</strong>.",
      "source_url": "https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/what-the-constitution-says-about-noncitizens-rights-as-trump-doubts-need-for-due-process",
      "source_name": "PBS NewsHour",
      "date": "2025-05-06"
    }
  },
  {
    "id": "authoritarianism-president-for-life",
    "question": "How did Trump react to Xi Jinping becoming 'president for life'?",
    "quote": "Maybe we'll give that a shot someday.",
    "context": "Praising Xi Jinping's move to abolish term limits, at a March 2018 donor lunch at Mar-a-Lago.",
    "source_url": "https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/03/politics/trump-maralago-remarks/index.html",
    "source_name": "CNN",
    "date": "2018-03-03",
    "tags": [
      "democracy",
      "foreign-policy"
    ],
    "emphasis": "question"
  },
  {
    "id": "midterms-2026",
    "question": "Is Trump looking forward to the 2026 midterm elections?",
    "quote": "When you think of it, <strong>we shouldn't even have an election</strong>.",
    "context": "Said in a January 2026 Oval Office interview with Reuters, while complaining that the president's party usually loses seats in the midterms.",
    "source_url": "https://www.ibtimes.com/trump-fears-midterm-defeat-while-insisting-us-shouldnt-even-have-election-2026-voting-cycle-3795419",
    "source_name": "Reuters",
    "date": "2026-01-14",
    "tags": [
      "elections",
      "democracy"
    ],
    "emphasis": "quote",
    "note": {
      "label": "Said in jest?",
      "text": "The White House said Trump was \"speaking facetiously.\" It was not the first time he'd raised it: days earlier he told House Republicans \"they should cancel the election,\" and in 2025, told that Ukraine bars elections during wartime, he mused, \"if we happen to be in a war with somebody, <strong>no more elections? Oh, that's good.</strong>\"",
      "source_url": "https://time.com/7343696/trump-floats-cancelling-2026-elections/",
      "source_name": "TIME",
      "date": "2026-01-15"
    }
  },
  {
    "id": "guns-did-nothing",
    "question": "What has Trump done about gun violence?",
    "quote": "We did <strong>nothing</strong>.",
    "context": "Boasting to the NRA's Great American Outdoor Show in February 2024 that, despite heavy pressure to act on guns after mass shootings during his first term, he refused to enact any restrictions.",
    "source_url": "https://www.voanews.com/a/trump-says-no-one-will-lay-a-finger-on-your-firearms-if-he-wins-/7482066.html",
    "source_name": "VOA News",
    "date": "2024-02-09",
    "tags": [
      "guns"
    ],
    "emphasis": "quote",
    "note": {
      "label": "The pattern",
      "text": "After the 2018 Parkland shooting killed 17 students and staff, Trump briefly embraced measures to restrict gun sales, then pivoted again amid intense NRA lobbying.",
      "source_url": "https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/18/politics/trump-nra-convention-guns/index.html",
      "source_name": "CNN",
      "date": "2024-05-18"
    }
  },
  {
    "id": "wind-cancer",
    "question": "What does Trump think about wind power?",
    "quote": "They say <strong>the noise causes cancer</strong>.",
    "context": "Railing against wind turbines — which he calls 'windmills' — at a National Republican Congressional Committee dinner in April 2019, alongside claims they tank property values and slaughter birds.",
    "source_url": "https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/10/donald-trump-wind-turnbines-energy-cancer/",
    "source_name": "C-SPAN",
    "date": "2019-04-02",
    "tags": [
      "energy"
    ],
    "emphasis": "quote",
    "note": {
      "text": "<strong>There is no evidence for this.</strong> The American Cancer Society said it was \"unaware of any credible evidence linking the noise from windmills to cancer,\" and researchers have found no such link.",
      "source_url": "https://www.factcheck.org/2019/04/trumps-faulty-wind-power-claims/",
      "source_name": "FactCheck.org",
      "date": "2019-04-04"
    }
  },
  {
    "id": "renewables-green-scam",
    "question": "Does Trump believe in renewable energy?",
    "quote": "If you don't get away from this green scam, <strong>your country is going to fail</strong>.",
    "context": "Addressing world leaders at the United Nations General Assembly in September 2025, during an off-script attack on renewable energy and climate policy.",
    "source_url": "https://grist.org/language/strategy-behind-trump-climate-catchphrase-green-new-scam/",
    "source_name": "Grist",
    "date": "2025-09-23",
    "tags": [
      "energy"
    ],
    "emphasis": "quote",
    "note": {
      "label": "Now official language",
      "text": "\"Green New Scam\" is no longer just a slogan. Always capitalized, <strong>it now appears in White House budget and policy documents</strong>, including a 2025 fact sheet titled \"Ending the Green New Scam\" that cut clean-energy funding.",
      "source_url": "https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Ending-the-Green-New-Scam-Fact-Sheet.pdf",
      "source_name": "The White House",
      "date": "2025-05-02"
    }
  },
  {
    "id": "solar-not-strong",
    "question": "What does Trump think of solar power?",
    "quote": "Solar's wonderful too, but it's <strong>not strong enough</strong>, and <strong>it's very, very expensive</strong>.",
    "context": "Speaking to workers at a tank factory in Lima, Ohio, in March 2019, as he touted record U.S. oil and gas production.",
    "source_url": "https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-criticizes-solar-power-windmills-turn-television-1370707",
    "source_name": "Newsweek",
    "date": "2019-03-20",
    "tags": [
      "energy"
    ],
    "emphasis": "quote",
    "note": {
      "label": "Meanwhile",
      "text": "Solar has grown so abundant that <strong>Australia now has more rooftop solar capacity than all its remaining coal plants combined</strong>, driving midday wholesale prices to zero or below. From July 2026, its government requires retailers in New South Wales, South Australia and South-East Queensland to offer households three hours of free electricity in the middle of every day to soak up the surplus.",
      "source_url": "https://minister.dcceew.gov.au/bowen/media-releases/more-australian-homes-get-access-solar-power",
      "source_name": "Australian Government",
      "date": "2025-11-03"
    }
  },
  {
    "id": "profit-presidency",
    "question": "Does Trump profit from being president?",
    "quote": "Being president probably cost me money if you really look.",
    "context": "Interviewed on Meet the Press in May 2025, Trump cast the office as a financial sacrifice, adding that he donates his presidential salary.",
    "source_url": "https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/read-full-transcript-president-donald-trump-interviewed-meet-press-mod-rcna203514",
    "source_name": "NBC News, Meet the Press",
    "date": "2025-05-04",
    "tags": [
      "economy"
    ],
    "emphasis": "quote",
    "note": {
      "label": "Instead",
      "text": "Forbes estimates his net worth at about $6.5 billion — up roughly $1.4 billion in the past year alone, which it attributes to \"leveraging the presidency for profit,\" largely through the cryptocurrency ventures he launched around his second inauguration.",
      "source_url": "https://www.forbes.com/sites/danalexander/article/the-definitive-networth-of-donaldtrump/",
      "source_name": "Forbes",
      "date": "2026-03-25"
    }
  },
  {
    "id": "elections-rigged",
    "question": "Does Trump think our elections are run fairly?",
    "quote": "The only way we're going to lose this election is if the election is rigged.",
    "context": "At an August 2020 campaign event, about three months before he lost to Joe Biden.",
    "source_url": "https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/512424-trump-the-only-way-we-are-going-to-lose-this-election-is-if-the/",
    "source_name": "The Hill",
    "date": "2020-08-17",
    "tags": [
      "elections",
      "democracy"
    ],
    "emphasis": "quote",
    "note": {
      "label": "The tell",
      "text": "He lost that election, <strong>then called it stolen</strong> — a claim rejected by recounts, the courts, and his own attorney general, who found no meaningful fraud. He recycled the warning in 2024, urging supporters to make his win \"too big to rig.\" Then he won — and voiced no such complaint about the election he'd just won.",
      "source_url": "https://whyy.org/articles/donald-trump-election-lies-2024-election-challenge/",
      "source_name": "The Associated Press",
      "date": "2024-11-02"
    }
  },
  {
    "id": "immigration-shithole-countries",
    "question": "Does Trump respect immigrants?",
    "quote": "Why is it we only take people from <strong>shithole countries</strong>?",
    "context": "First said in a January 2018 Oval Office immigration meeting — about Haiti, El Salvador and African nations — as he asked why the U.S. couldn't take more immigrants from Norway. He denied using the word for years, then repeated it on stage at a December 2025 rally in Pennsylvania.",
    "source_url": "https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/10/politics/donald-trump-shithole-countries-phrase",
    "source_name": "CNN",
    "date": "2025-12-09",
    "tags": [
      "immigration"
    ],
    "emphasis": "quote",
    "note": [
      {
        "label": "His own family",
        "text": "Trump is himself the son and grandson of immigrants — Scottish on his mother's side, German on his father's. The family hid those German roots for decades; in The Art of the Deal, Trump claimed his grandfather \"came here from Sweden.\"",
        "source_url": "https://www.history.com/articles/donald-trump-father-mother-ancestry",
        "source_name": "HISTORY",
        "date": "2026-01-02"
      },
      {
        "label": "The process he wants to end",
        "text": "His wife Melania is a Slovenian immigrant. In 2018, her parents became U.S. citizens through the family-based path Trump derides as \"chain migration\" — the very process he has campaigned to abolish.",
        "source_url": "https://www.npr.org/2018/08/10/637371714/first-ladys-parents-become-u-s-citizens-thanks-to-chain-migration",
        "source_name": "NPR",
        "date": "2018-08-10"
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "id": "women-grab-them",
    "question": "How does Trump talk about women?",
    "quote": "When you're a star, they let you do it. <strong>You can do anything.</strong> Grab 'em by the pussy.",
    "context": "Caught on a hot mic in September 2005, riding a bus to an Access Hollywood taping, bragging to host Billy Bush about kissing and grabbing women. The Washington Post published the recording in October 2016, weeks before the election.",
    "source_url": "https://www.npr.org/2016/10/07/497087141/donald-trump-caught-on-tape-making-vulgar-remarks-about-women",
    "source_name": "NPR",
    "date": "2005-09-01",
    "tags": ["women"],
    "emphasis": "quote",
    "note": {
      "label": "Under oath",
      "text": "Shown the tape during a 2022 deposition, Trump affirmed that stars can behave this way — \"historically, that's true with stars.\" Months later, a jury found him liable for sexually abusing writer E. Jean Carroll; the judge cited this recording in denying his request for a new trial.",
      "source_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump_Access_Hollywood_tape",
      "source_name": "Wikipedia",
      "date": "2023-05-09"
    }
  },
  {
    "id": "covid-play-it-down",
    "question": "How did Trump handle the coronavirus?",
    "quote": "I wanted to always <strong>play it down</strong>. I still like playing it down, because I don't want to create a panic.",
    "context": "Told to journalist Bob Woodward in a recorded March 19, 2020 phone call — Woodward taped 18 interviews with Trump's permission.",
    "source_url": "https://www.npr.org/2020/09/10/911368698/trump-tells-woodward-he-deliberately-downplayed-coronavirus-threat",
    "source_name": "NPR",
    "date": "2020-03-19",
    "tags": ["covid"],
    "emphasis": "quote",
    "note": {
      "label": "What he knew",
      "text": "On Feb. 7, Trump told Woodward the virus was \"deadly stuff\" and roughly five times more lethal than the flu — yet kept likening it to the flu in public for weeks. Experts said <strong>a decisive early response could have saved thousands of lives</strong>.",
      "source_url": "https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/09/politics/bob-woodward-rage-book-trump-coronavirus/index.html",
      "source_name": "CNN",
      "date": "2020-09-09"
    }
  },
  {
    "id": "democracy-vermin",
    "question": "How does Trump describe his political opponents?",
    "quote": "We will root out the communists, Marxists, fascists, and the <strong>radical left thugs that live like vermin</strong> within the confines of our country.",
    "context": "At a Veterans Day rally in Claremont, NH, on Nov. 11, 2023, and in a Truth Social post the same day. He added that the \"threat from within\" was more dangerous than any foreign adversary.",
    "source_url": "https://www.npr.org/2023/11/17/1213746885/trump-vermin-hitler-immigration-authoritarian-republican-primary",
    "source_name": "NPR",
    "date": "2023-11-11",
    "tags": ["democracy"],
    "emphasis": "quote",
    "note": {
      "label": "Who else said it?",
      "text": "\"Vermin\" was a favored term of Nazi propaganda, which cast Jews as disease-spreading parasites.",
      "source_url": "https://www.forbes.com/sites/saradorn/2023/11/12/trump-compares-political-foes-to-vermin-on-veterans-day-echoing-nazi-propaganda/",
      "source_name": "Forbes",
      "date": "2023-11-12"
    }
  },
  {
    "id": "putin-helsinki",
    "question": "Does Trump trust Putin over U.S. intelligence agencies?",
    "quote": "I have President Putin. He just said it's not Russia. I will say this: <strong>I don't see any reason why it would be.</strong>",
    "context": "At a joint press conference with Vladimir Putin in Helsinki on July 16, 2018, asked whether he believed U.S. intelligence agencies or Putin about Russian interference in the 2016 election — three days after Robert Mueller indicted 12 Russian military officers for that interference.",
    "source_url": "https://www.npr.org/2018/07/17/629601233/trumps-helsinki-bow-to-putin-leaves-world-wondering-whats-up",
    "source_name": "NPR",
    "date": "2018-07-16",
    "tags": ["foreign-policy"],
    "emphasis": "quote",
    "note": {
      "label": "His walkback",
      "text": "The next day, Trump claimed he'd misspoken — that he meant \"wouldn't\" instead of \"would.\" Republican Sen. John McCain called the Helsinki performance one of the most disgraceful \"by an American president in memory.\"",
      "source_url": "https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/24-hours-later-trump-claims-he-misspoke-helsinki-meant-say-n892166",
      "source_name": "NBC News",
      "date": "2018-07-17"
    }
  },
  {
    "id": "veterans-mccain",
    "question": "What does Trump think of prisoners of war?",
    "quote": "He's not a war hero. He's a war hero because he was captured. <strong>I like people that weren't captured.</strong>",
    "context": "At the Family Leadership Summit in Ames, Iowa, on July 18, 2015, after the moderator noted that Sen. John McCain — held as a prisoner of war for five and a half years in Vietnam — was a war hero.",
    "source_url": "https://www.npr.org/2015/07/20/424571396/trump-takes-a-shot-at-john-mccain-and-republicans-push-back",
    "source_name": "NPR",
    "date": "2015-07-18",
    "tags": ["veterans"],
    "emphasis": "question",
    "note": {
      "label": "His own record",
      "text": "Trump did not serve in Vietnam. He received four student draft deferments during the 1960s and a fifth, medical deferment for bone spurs in his heels.",
      "source_url": "https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-mccain-is-not-a-war-hero/",
      "source_name": "The Daily Beast",
      "date": "2015-07-18"
    }
  },
  {
    "id": "fifth-avenue-shoot",
    "question": "Does Trump fear repercussions for anything he's done?",
    "quote": "I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and <strong>shoot somebody</strong>, and I wouldn't lose any voters.",
    "context": "At a campaign rally at Dordt College in Sioux Center, Iowa, on Jan. 23, 2016, boasting about the loyalty of his supporters. He mimed firing a gun as the crowd laughed.",
    "source_url": "https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/01/23/464129029/donald-trump-i-could-shoot-somebody-and-i-wouldnt-lose-any-voters",
    "source_name": "NPR",
    "date": "2016-01-23",
    "tags": ["democracy"],
    "emphasis": "question",
    "note": {
      "label": "The theory, tested",
      "text": "In 2024, arguing for presidential immunity before a federal appeals court, Trump's own lawyer contended that a president could order the military to assassinate a political rival and face no prosecution unless first impeached and convicted by the Senate.",
      "source_url": "https://www.axios.com/2024/01/10/trump-immunity-hearing-court-case-5th-avenue-quote",
      "source_name": "Axios",
      "date": "2024-01-10"
    }
  },
  {
    "id": "press-enemy-of-the-people",
    "question": "How does Trump view the free press?",
    "quote": "It is the enemy of the American People!",
    "context": "Posted on Twitter on Feb. 17, 2017, naming The New York Times, NBC, ABC, CBS and CNN, the day after a combative White House press conference. He has repeated the phrase hundreds of times since.",
    "source_url": "https://www.npr.org/2017/02/17/515630467/with-fake-news-trump-moves-from-alternative-facts-to-alternative-language",
    "source_name": "NPR",
    "date": "2017-02-17",
    "tags": ["press", "democracy"],
    "emphasis": "quote",
    "note": {
      "label": "Who else said it?",
      "text": "\"Enemy of the people\" was a signature phrase of Soviet and Nazi propaganda, used to mark groups for persecution — a parallel the New York Times drew. Asked in 2019 whether supporters might read it as license for violence against reporters, Trump said he hoped they would \"take my words to heart.\"",
      "source_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump's_conflict_with_the_news_media",
      "source_name": "Wikipedia",
      "date": "2019-08-01"
    }
  },
  {
    "id": "immigration-muslim-shutdown",
    "question": "What did Trump propose for Muslims entering the U.S.?",
    "quote": "Donald J. Trump is calling for a <strong>total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States</strong>.",
    "context": "A campaign statement issued Dec. 7, 2015, days after the San Bernardino shooting, and read aloud at a rally in Mount Pleasant, SC. Asked whether the ban would include U.S.-citizen Muslims abroad, his campaign said, \"Everyone.\"",
    "source_url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/statement-donald-j-trump-statement-preventing-muslim-immigration",
    "source_name": "The American Presidency Project",
    "date": "2015-12-07",
    "tags": ["immigration"],
    "emphasis": "quote",
    "note": {
      "label": "Since then",
      "text": "Once elected, Trump's team rebranded the policy: his press secretary insisted it was a \"travel ban,\" not a Muslim ban, and the 2015 statement was quietly deleted from Trump's campaign website.",
      "source_url": "https://www.cnbc.com/2017/05/08/trump-website-takes-down-muslim-ban-statement-after-reporter-grills-spicer-in-briefing.html",
      "source_name": "CNBC",
      "date": "2017-05-08"
    }
  },
  {
    "id": "congresswomen-go-back",
    "question": "Does Trump respect the women of color and immigrants elected to office?",
    "quote": "Why don't they <strong>go back</strong> and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came.",
    "context": "Posted on Twitter on July 14, 2019, about four Democratic congresswomen of color known as \"the Squad.\" He doubled down after the tweets were widely condemned as racist.",
    "source_url": "https://www.npr.org/2019/07/14/741630889/congresswomen-denounce-trump-tweets-telling-them-to-go-back-to-their-home-countr",
    "source_name": "NPR",
    "date": "2019-07-14",
    "tags": ["immigration","women"],
    "emphasis": "question",
    "note": {
      "label": "For the record",
      "text": "<strong>All four are U.S. citizens</strong>, and three were born in the United States. The fourth, Ilhan Omar, came from Somalia as a child and became a citizen as a teenager.",
      "source_url": "https://www.cbsnews.com/news/donald-trump-racist-tweets-progressive-democratic-congresswomen-go-back-to-countries-nancy-pelosi-slam-president/",
      "source_name": "CBS News",
      "date": "2019-07-15"
    }
  },
  {
    "id": "authoritarianism-i-alone",
    "question": "How modest is Trump about his own abilities?",
    "quote": "Nobody knows the system better than me, which is why <strong>I alone can fix it.</strong>",
    "context": "From his acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention on July 21, 2016. After cataloguing the nation's problems, he cast himself as the sole solution.",
    "source_url": "https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/address-accepting-the-presidential-nomination-the-republican-national-convention-cleveland",
    "source_name": "The American Presidency Project",
    "date": "2016-07-21",
    "tags": ["democracy"],
    "emphasis": "quote",
    "note": {
      "label": "Worth noting",
      "text": "Historians flagged the novelty of a nominee presenting himself as the country's sole savior.",
      "source_url": "https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/Decoder/2016/0722/Trump-to-America-I-alone-can-fix-it",
      "source_name": "The Christian Science Monitor",
      "date": "2016-07-22"
    }
  },
  {
    "id": "jan6-fight-like-hell",
    "question": "What did Trump tell the crowd before January 6?",
    "quote": "We fight like hell. And if you don't fight like hell, <strong>you're not going to have a country</strong> anymore.",
    "context": "From his speech at the Ellipse on Jan. 6, 2021, shortly before his supporters marched on the Capitol, as he repeated false claims that the 2020 election had been stolen.",
    "source_url": "https://www.npr.org/2021/02/10/966396848/read-trumps-jan-6-speech-a-key-part-of-impeachment-trial",
    "source_name": "NPR",
    "date": "2021-01-06",
    "tags": ["democracy"],
    "emphasis": "question",
    "note": {
      "label": "His defense",
      "text": "Defenders note he also told the crowd to march \"peacefully and patriotically.\" But he used \"fight\" some 20 times to that single mention of \"peacefully\" — a line his speechwriters added — and a federal judge rejected the defense, noting Trump told the crowd to fight like hell immediately before directing them to the Capitol.",
      "source_url": "https://www.justsecurity.org/91904/dissecting-trumps-peacefully-and-patriotically-defense-of-the-january-6th-attack/",
      "source_name": "Just Security",
      "date": "2024-04-29"
    }
  },
  {
    "id": "covid-inject-disinfectant",
    "question": "What did Trump suggest as a possible COVID treatment?",
    "quote": "And is there a way we can do something like that, <strong>by injection inside</strong> or almost a cleaning. Because you see it gets in the lungs and it does a tremendous number on the lungs.",
    "context": "At an April 23, 2020 White House briefing, after an official described how disinfectants and sunlight kill the virus on surfaces. Trump was speaking about disinfectant; he did not say \"bleach.\" The next day he claimed he had been \"sarcastic.\"",
    "source_url": "https://www.factcheck.org/2020/04/the-white-house-spins-trumps-disinfectant-remarks/",
    "source_name": "FactCheck.org",
    "date": "2020-04-24",
    "tags": ["covid"],
    "emphasis": "question",
    "note": {
      "label": "In context",
      "text": "Fact-checkers stress that Trump did not literally instruct anyone to inject disinfectant, and he called it a \"sarcastic\" question the next day, though FactCheck.org and others found no sarcasm in the transcript.",
      "source_url": "https://www.factcheck.org/2020/04/the-white-house-spins-trumps-disinfectant-remarks/",
      "source_name": "FactCheck.org",
      "date": "2020-04-24"
    }
  },
  {
    "id": "epstein-terrific-guy",
    "question": "How well did Trump know Jeffrey Epstein?",
    "quote": "I've known Jeff for fifteen years. Terrific guy. He's a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that <strong>he likes beautiful women as much as I do</strong>, and many of them are on the younger side.",
    "context": "Quoted in a New York magazine profile of Jeffrey Epstein, \"International Moneyman of Mystery,\" published Oct. 28, 2002.",
    "source_url": "https://nymag.com/nymetro/news/people/n_7912/",
    "source_name": "New York Magazine",
    "date": "2002-10-28",
    "tags": [
      "epstein",
      "women"
    ],
    "emphasis": "question",
    "note": {
      "label": "Since then",
      "text": "Trump made the remark in 2002, years before Epstein was convicted as a sex offender. After Epstein's 2019 arrest on charges of trafficking underage girls, Trump distanced himself, saying he \"wasn't a fan\" and hadn't spoken to Epstein in about 15 years.",
      "source_url": "https://abcnews.com/Politics/trumps-comments-epstein-raise-new-questions-fell/story?id=124211483",
      "source_name": "ABC News",
      "date": "2025-07-31"
    }
  }
]