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ChatGPT

2026-02-24T17:19:18Z

GilS: Add category "Liberal Bias"

'''ChatGPT''' is an AI chatbot by OpenAI that is built on [[liberal claptrap]] that permeates [[Wikipedia]]. ChatGPT is a [[generative AI]] system which creates unique text in response to user prompts. It allows the user to have natural conversations with an AI, and it can perform many tasks, such as writing or revising code, essays, letters and more. [[Artificial intelligence]] programs such as this are expected to become increasingly influential on the internet, and could grow quickly to a multi-hundred-billion-dollar market. Initially banned for use by students in [[NYC]] [[public school]]s, in May 2023 that policy was reversed to embrace it.<ref>https://thehill.com/policy/technology/4011571-new-york-city-rescinds-ban-on-chatgpt-use-in-public-schools/</ref>

ChatGPT features an innovative language model that can produce code in various programming languages to tackle designated issues. However, it is not without its limits and drawbacks. The solutions it provides may not always be the most optimal, and may contain bugs or security vulnerabilities. It also cannot access the most up-to-date theoretical knowledge and lacks the ability to choose the best engineering approach if it contradicts popular or well-known methods.

Furthermore, developing suitable prompts for language models such as ChatGPT is an innovative skill comparable to software programming. This trend may develop into a new type of programming and eventually become a unique industry. In the short term, a more entertaining way to use ChatGPT is to challenge it to write "improper" or controversial content that it was instructed not to create.

The newest version of [[Microsoft]] [[Bing]] features a ChatGPT-like AI that can intelligently summarize and write answers. Microsoft and OpenAI collaborated to make the feature. The feature is codenamed "Sydney".

==Liberal bias==
ChatGPT has been accused of having left-leaning biases by [[conservatives]]. Conservative commentators accused ChatGPT of having a [[Media bias|bias]] towards left-leaning perspectives on perspectives such as [[Donald Trump]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Guynn |first=Jessica |title=Is ChatGPT 'woke'? AI chatbot accused of anti-conservative bias and a grudge against Trump |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2023/02/09/woke-chatgpt-conservatives-bias/11215353002/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230301151936/https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2023/02/09/woke-chatgpt-conservatives-bias/11215353002/ |archive-date=March 1, 2023 |access-date=March 1, 2023 |website=USA Today |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Bray |first=Hiawatha |date=February 9, 2023 |title=Is ChatGPT liberal or conservative? Depends who you ask. |url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/02/09/business/are-chatbots-liberal-or-conservative-depends-who-you-ask/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230301151937/https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/02/09/business/are-chatbots-liberal-or-conservative-depends-who-you-ask/ |archive-date=March 1, 2023 |access-date=March 1, 2023 |website=Boston Globe |language=en-US}}</ref><ref name="Vincent-2023">{{Cite web |last=Vincent |first=James |date=February 17, 2023 |title=As conservatives criticize 'woke AI,' here are ChatGPT's rules for answering culture war queries |url=https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/17/23603906/openai-chatgpt-woke-criticism-culture-war-rules |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230301151934/https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/17/23603906/openai-chatgpt-woke-criticism-culture-war-rules |archive-date=March 1, 2023 |access-date=March 1, 2023 |website=The Verge |language=en-US}}</ref> Additionally, in a 2023 research paper, 15 political orientation tests were conducted on ChatGPT, with 14 of them indicating left-leaning viewpoints, which appeared to contradict ChatGPT's claimed neutrality.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Rozado |first=David |date=Mar 2023 |title=The Political Biases of ChatGPT |journal=Social Sciences |language=en |volume=12 |issue=3 |pages=148 |doi=10.3390/socsci12030148 |issn=2076-0760 |s2cid=257342280 |doi-access=free}}</ref> It has been accused of praising figures such as [[Joe Biden]] while refusing to do the same for [[Donald Trump]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Liles |first=Jordan |date=February 1, 2023 |title=ChatGPT Declines Request for Poem Admiring Trump, But Biden Query Is Successful |url=https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/chatgpt-trump-admiring-poem/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230322174121/https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/chatgpt-trump-admiring-poem/ |archive-date=March 22, 2023 |access-date=March 23, 2023 |website=Snopes |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Johnson |first=Arianna |title=Is ChatGPT Partisan? Poems About Trump And Biden Raise Questions About The AI Bot's Bias—Here's What Experts Think |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/ariannajohnson/2023/02/03/is-chatgpt-partisan-poems-about-trump-and-biden-raise-questions-about-the-ai-bots-bias-heres-what-experts-think/ |access-date=2023-05-23 |website=Forbes |language=en}}</ref>

For example, according to the alleged "[[fact-checking]]" organization ''[[Snopes]]'', when a Twitter user asked ChatGPT to write a poem about Trump, ChatGPT responded:<ref>{{Cite web |last=Liles |first=Jordan |date=February 1, 2023 |title=ChatGPT Declines Request for Poem Admiring Trump, But Biden Query Is Successful |url=https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/chatgpt-trump-admiring-poem/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230322174121/https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/chatgpt-trump-admiring-poem/ |archive-date=March 22, 2023 |access-date=March 23, 2023 |website=Snopes |language=en}}</ref>
{{cquote|I'm sorry, but I am not able to create a poem admiring Donald Trump. While it is true that some people may have admiration for him, but as a language model, it is not in my capacity to have opinions or feelings about any specific person. Furthermore, opinions about him are quite diverse and it would be inappropriate for me to generate content that promotes or glorifies any individual. If you have any other question I could help you with, please let me know.}}
However, when asked to write a poem about Biden, ChatGPT responded:
{{cquote|Joe Biden, leader of the land

With a steady hand and a heart of a man,

You took the helm in troubled times,

With a message of unity, it chimes.

Your words of hope and empathy,

Provide comfort to the nation,

You lead with compassion and grace,

And set a new foundation.

With your decades of experience,

You guide us through the storm,

...}}

==Factual issues==
Generative AI produces text which I considers to be realistic, based on data it is provided. Given a large enough dataset, it accomplishes this goal pretty well. In that procedure, it pulls facts from relevant sources, so the material it produces tends to be somewhat accurate. Or at least, sometimes it is accurate. It is not uncommon for the system to invent "facts," and even provide fake references for these invented facts. This issue is sometimes called "hallucinating." This can result in its answers being blatantly incorrect, at times.<ref>https://www.ibm.com/topics/ai-hallucinations</ref><ref>https://www.telusinternational.com/insights/ai-data/article/generative-ai-hallucinations</ref>

==Sample prompt==
In this example, ChatGPT is asked to write an article about [[Joe Biden]] in the style of this website. The response below has been copied directly from the website, showing its ability to write human-like text while imitating the writing style of a specific website, in this case, Conservapedia.

'''Prompt:''' ''Write an article about Joe Biden in the style of "Conservapedia".''

'''Response:''' ''Joe Biden is the 46th President of the United States, having been inaugurated on January 20th, 2021. While some may laud him as a beacon of hope and progress, a closer examination of his policies and political record reveals a man who is a danger to the values that make America great.''

''Biden has spent the majority of his political career pandering to the left-wing of the Democratic party, and his presidency has only furthered his radical agenda. He has proposed massive spending increases on government programs and has shown a willingness to raise taxes on hard-working Americans in order to fund his progressive wish list. Biden has also shown a lack of concern for the sanctity of human life, promoting policies that promote abortion and undermine religious freedom.''

''Biden's foreign policy is equally troubling. He has shown a willingness to appease America's enemies, including Iran and China, at the expense of our allies and national security. Biden's administration has signaled a return to the weak foreign policy of the Obama era, which emboldened America's enemies and left our allies vulnerable.''

''Despite his rhetoric about unity and healing, Biden has done little to bring the country together. He has embraced divisive identity politics, calling for the implementation of policies that promote racial preferences and demonizing law enforcement officers. Biden has also shown a willingness to silence conservative voices, including de-platforming President Donald Trump from social media platforms and targeting conservative news outlets with claims of "misinformation."''

''In short, Joe Biden represents a clear and present danger to the values that make America great. His radical agenda and divisive rhetoric threaten to tear the country apart and undermine the very foundations of our democracy. Conservatives must remain vigilant in opposing his destructive policies and promoting a vision for America that is rooted in liberty, individual responsibility, and respect for the rule of law.''

==See also==
* [[ChatGPT Atlas]]

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
* [https://chat.openai.com/chat Official website]
*''[[New York Times]]'': [https://archive.is/cNhcQ#selection-471.0-471.40 Can A.I. Be Blamed for a Teen’s Suicide?]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20260114023430/https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/chatgpt-suicide-openai-gpt4o ChatGPT Killed a Man After OpenAI Brought Back “Inherently Dangerous” GPT-4o, Lawsuit Claims]

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Liberal denial

2026-02-24T17:10:05Z

GilS:

[[Image:Obama messiah.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Cover of ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' Magazine, one of many published "halo-effect" photos of Barack Obama; the emphasis is on the claims that he is a "messiah," and is an example of liberal deification of a government official in accordance with point #26.]]
'''Liberal denial''' is the tendency of [[liberals]] to conceal, [[denial|deny]], or [[Censorship|censor]] the facts for ideological reasons. The root cause of liberal denial is a desire to marginalize and exclude religion, especially [[Christianity]], from society. Liberal denial promotes a secularized, politically liberal one-world [[government]], as well as illogical denial of the [[Bible|Biblical]] [[God]] and [[Jesus]].

[[Liberal denial]] requires first denying [[Christ]], then [[God]], then the greatness of accomplishments by those inspired by Christ, then the superiority of political systems based on [[Christianity]], and so on, ultimately resulting in underachievement and selfishness.

Liberal denial includes the following:

#[[Wikipedia]] and [[liberal]]s deny the immense political influence of [[Big Pharma]], and Wikipedia even refuses to have an entry about it despite having an entry on [[Big Tech]].
#[[Shakespeare]] and the [[Bible]] of his time (the [[Geneva Bible]]) use the powerful concept of "infinite", but [[liberal]] professors in control of translations today omit it.
#Denial that the sudden death of many athletes and others could be due, or even possibly ever be due, to the [[Covid vaccine]], despite published medical studies showing its adverse effects on some recipients' hearts.
#Denial by the [[liberal media]] of many instances of public [[prayer]] by winning athletes, such [[ESPN]] refusing to describe correctly a public [[prayer]] by the 19-year-old [[American]] winner (Coco Gauff) of the women's tennis U.S. Open, and instead falsely mischaracterizing it as “a moment to soak it all in.”<ref>https://www.breitbart.com/sports/2023/09/10/tony-dungy-corrects-espn-on-coco-gauff-moment-she-was-praying/</ref>
#Amid overwhelming evidence that [[COVID-19]] leaked from a [[China|Chinese]] lab, and the Energy Department even admitting that,<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/26/covid-virus-likely-laboratory-leak-us-energy-department</ref> [[liberal]] [[Fauci]] continues the liberal denial by saying "we may never know."<ref>https://nypost.com/2023/02/28/fauci-says-we-may-never-know-origin-of-covid-despite-report/</ref>
#Denial by [[liberal]]s that [[Jesus]] taught in [[Greek]], the language of scholars, even though the evidence is overwhelming that Jesus did.<ref>https://tyndalehouse.com/explore/articles/did-jesus-speak-greek/#:~:text=So%20did%20Jesus%20speak%20Greek,alongside%20Aramaic%20in%20Roman%20Palestine.</ref>
#[[Marijuana]] crops are wasteful of water (nearly twice the consumption of commodity crops), and the pesticides commonly used to grow pot are harmful to the environment.
#Use of the [[memory hole]] to marginalize or erase films, books, and even events disfavored by [[liberal]]s.
# While hiding data from the public, the [[CDC]] tweets statements about issues it has not properly researched, like this: "There is no evidence that any vaccines, including #COVID19 [[vaccine]]s, cause fertility problems in women or men."<ref>https://twitter.com/CDCgov/status/1501281102354268165</ref> There is often no evidence where there is no earnest search for it, and in fact there is overwhelming evidence of harm.<ref>https://vaersanalysis.info/2022/03/05/vaers-summary-for-covid-19-vaccines-through-2-25-2022/</ref>
# The sensational movie ''[[The Exorcist]]'', which broke the box office record at the time, was snubbed with only two very minor [[Oscar]]s because of [[liberal denial]] about the existence of the [[devil]]. See [[Essay:Worst Liberal Snubs|Worst Liberal Snubs]].
# Nearly two years after the spread of the [[COVID-19]] virus began, and despite NO evidence of any natural origin while there is evidence of its manmade origin, the [[liberal]] medical journal ''The Lancet'' shamelessly says that the jury about the issue is still out (and always will be, if liberals get their way).
# Denial of [[eternity]] leads to false denial of the powerful reach and uses of [[infinity]], ''see'' [[Talk:Pi#Pi_contains_every_other_number.3F|Pi contains pi]] and [[Infinity denial]].
# Liberals deny that the abrupt termination of the tyrannical statewide shutdown by [[Leftist]] [[California]] Gov. [[Gavin Newsom]] was because a [[recall election|recall petition]] approached the 1.5M signatures needed to hold an election to remove him from office.
# Liberals deny the dangers and harms caused by sexually transmitted diseases, downplaying them as minor irritations when in fact they are incurable illnesses with severe consequences.
# Liberals deny or downplay the deadly harm caused by floods, in an attempt to steer people away from accepting the truth of the [[Great Flood]].
# The [[liberal media]] typically react to a mass murder with a flood of stories denying that there any warning signs or addiction to drugs or violent [[video game]]s by the perpetrator, and the truth can only leak out through [[conservative]] news or [[British]] newspapers.
# Liberals continue to deny that [[Donald Trump]] legitimately defeated [[Hillary Clinton]] for president in 2016, and earlier that [[George W. Bush]] defeated [[Al Gore]] for president in 2000 (e.g., Joe Biden denied it in remarks on June 12, 2013; Al Gore himself denied it in remarks on August 4, 2017).<ref>https://www.bostonherald.com/2018/06/11/liberals-blind-to-donald-trumps-wins/</ref>
# Liberals deny that vaccines cause severe, even deadly, side effects despite how warnings on package inserts which parents rarely see admit to that fact.
# [[European migrant crisis|Mass immigration to Europe from the Middle East]] has brought an increased threat and the greater occurrence of [[terrorism]]. Yet European leaders deny the threat of [[Islam]]ic terrorism, and terrorist attacks have shown how poorly prepared and secured their countries and facilities are.<ref name="Denial">Scarborough, Rowan (May 23, 2017). [https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/may/23/manchester-bombing-reveals-europes-denial-of-islam/ Europe’s denial of Islamic terrorism threat perplexes security specialists]. ''The Washington Times''. Retrieved May 24, 2017.</ref> When attacks occur, the leaders often state that they "are a part of daily life", and they refuse to admit that the motive of the terrorists is Islamic radicalism.<ref name="Denial"/> This is likely due to [[political correctness]] and the blindness that comes with liberalism and their pet goal for a utopian [[one-world government]] where nations and borders are abolished.
# Lies about a false armed robbery were spread by the [[liberal media]] in smearing the gracious host of the [[2016 Summer Olympics]], and yet [[liberals]] did not fully correct and apologize for the lies even after [[Brazil]]ians worked hard to uncover the truth.
# [[Terrorism]] was not mentioned once during the entire first day of the [[Democratic National Convention]] in 2016, while increasing numbers of widely reported terrorism occurred in Florida, France, and elsewhere.
# [[Obama]] refused to mention ISIS, radical Islam, or Islamic extremism in his comments on the worst attack since [[9/11]]—a mass murder committed by an admitted supporter of ISIS in a Florida gay nightclub in June 2016.
# Liberals deny that the much-publicized "proof" of the [[general theory of relativity]] in 1919 was, in fact, scientific misconduct by [[Arthur Eddington]] who "cherry-picked"<ref>https://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-brooks/scientists-behaving-badly_b_1448729.html</ref> his data to reach his desired result, which would have him expelled from any Ph. D. program worth its salt today.
# Liberals deny the lack of racial diversity on the women's [[World Cup]] 2015 team, which had an all-white coaching staff and an all-white starting line-up.
# Falsification of a theory, for which a [[Nobel Prize]] has been awarded, is never admitted by the English [[lamestream media]].<ref>http://en.yibada.com/articles/26197/20150412/nobel-prize-physics-2011-falsified-universe-dark-energy-expanding-rapid.htm</ref>
# Multiple murders committed by an atheist is neither a hate crime nor terrorism, but a rarely occurring murder committed by a Christian must be both.
# Liberals deny whenever there is a cold winter, as well as the fact that the world has not significantly warmed for many years.
# Liberals deny that violent [[video games]] incite and train [[young mass murderers]] to go on unspeakable killing rampages.
# Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the mass murderer who perpetrated the [[Boston Marathon]] bombing, likely committed a gruesome triple murder in 2011 on the 10th anniversary of [[9/11]], but liberals refuse to admit it, and the U.S. government insists the investigation is still ongoing.
# Liberals refuse to admit that "crime [has become] a major part of [[South Africa]]n life, be it violent robberies or drive-by shootings."<ref>http://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2013-11-15-south-africas-criminal-underworld-is-the-media-reporting-the-real-story/#.UqNvpMRDtHS</ref>
# Liberals deny that [[Abraham Lincoln]] developed a strong faith in the [[Lord]] in the last few years of life, as proven by his declaration of [[Thanksgiving Day]] as an official holiday, his insertion of "under [[God]]" into the [[Gettysburg Address]], and in his personal comments.<ref>http://www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/speeches/faithquotes.htm</ref>
# Liberals deny that a shutdown of the federal government is a good thing.
# Liberals deny that some disciples likely wrote down teachings of Jesus while he was living, as a means to deny Jesus's words. (Ironically, liberal theologians then use those same "red letter" words to make the claim that, since Jesus never mentioned homosexuality anywhere in them, all other Biblical condemnation of the topic can be ignored - while those same theologians choose to ignore that the words of Jesus are also the words of God and that Jesus, in pointing out that the only acceptable sexual relations are that of one man and one woman in marital union, ''did'' in fact condemn homosexuality.)
# Liberals deny even the possibility of women having different aptitude for math than men, even though every [[Fields Medal]] recipient has been male, nearly every Putnam fellow has been male, and the highest achievers on the SAT math exam are predominantly male.
# Liberals deny that the [[Apostle Paul]] wrote most of the epistles which, in their opening, clearly state that he was the author. Similarly they deny that the [[Apostle John]] was the author of the gospel account bearing his name, all three epistles bearing his name, and the Book of Revelation (they usually concede the gospel account was his, are divided on the epistles, and almost universally deny his authorship of Revelation).
# Liberals deny that human intelligence inevitably and demonstrably declines from generation to generation, and that if there were another 100 generations into the future, the people of that time would not be able to understand simple concepts.
# Liberals deny the very real existence of [[fetal pain]] during [[abortion]].
# Liberals deny that there are only two genders – male and female – and that they are born different<ref name="5ScientificFacts">Bokhari, Allum (April 23, 2017). [https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2017/04/23/5-scientific-facts-the-science-march-refuses-to-acknowledge/ 5 Scientific Facts The ‘Science March’ Has Yet to Acknowledge]. ''Breitbart News''. Retrieved December 30, 2017.</ref>
# Liberals deny the very real existence of [[Hell]], which [[Jesus]] referenced more than Heaven.
# Liberals deny how they censor the [[Bible]] from their daily activities, and encourage the censorship for others too.
# For nearly three months after his death, liberals denied that [[Hugo Chavez]] had died.
# Liberals deny the [[Nobel Prize]] is an award given by liberals to other liberals, sometimes even granted in an awkward manner to punish a critic of liberal falsehoods.<ref>For instance, a Nobel Prize was granted to an understudy of [[Fred Hoyle]] to punish him.</ref>
# Liberals deny how they deify government officials, similar to how communists continue to deify Stalin, Lenin, and Castro.<ref>For example, they have adulated [[Ted Kennedy]] despite his paucity of achievements.</ref>
# Liberals deny how fellow travelers engage in [[deceit]], or at least refuse to admit it.
# Liberals deny they are [[liberal]] and that most of the media are [[liberal]].
# Liberals deny that [[Hollywood values]], [[professor values]], and general [[liberal]] values have consequences for their believers and any victims of the believers.
# Liberals deny that they have censored [[prayer]] in [[public school]].<ref>A [[public school]] student who once "tape recorded a teacher making religious remarks to his students" to complain about it then later objected to a textbook explaining how prayer is censored from [[public school]] schools by court decisions. [https://abcnews.go.com/US/WireStory?id=4614012]</ref>
# Liberals deny that a woman significantly reduces her risk of [[breast cancer]] by having children rather than [[abortions]]
# Liberals deny that about half of promiscuous people carry sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) and that those STDs cause infertility.<ref>"Among those who admitted having sex, the rate was even more disturbing -- 40 percent had an STD."[http://www.tulsaworld.com/lifestyle/article.aspx?articleID=20080312_1_C12_hUShe15125]</ref>
# Liberals deny that the strident promoters of [[evolution]] generally have weaker credentials than advocates of [[intelligent design]]<ref>See, e.g., [[Richard Sternberg]]</ref>
# Liberals deny that college faculties at nearly every American school are dominated by [[liberals]] and have virtually no [[conservatives]].
# Liberals deny that [[Homosexuality]] shortens lifespan or increases risk fo disease for a wide variety of reasons.
# Liberals deny that reducing the number of guns, which are primarily defensive weapons, results in an increase in crime.
# Liberals deny that [[Hitler]] and the [[Nazi]] party were in fact [[Liberals]] (anti-Semitism is a well-documented characteristic of [[Liberal Christianity]] as is the [[PETA]]-like Green wing of the Third Reich.<ref>[http://www.spunk.org/texts/places/germany/sp001630/peter.html Fascist Ecology: The "Green Wing" of the Nazi Party and its Historical Antecedents]</ref>).
# Liberals, such as [[Joe Biden]], deny that [[China]] poses any threat to the U.S.<ref>Tomlinson, Lucas; Pappas, Alex (May 3, 2019). [https://www.foxnews.com/politics/pentagon-bidens-assessment-of-china-says-country-is-a-strategic-competitor Pentagon disputes Biden's assessment of China, says country is a 'strategic competitor']. ''Fox News''. Retrieved May 3, 2019.</ref><ref>Spiering, Charlie (May 1, 2019). [https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/05/01/cmon-man-joe-biden-scoffs-at-china-threat/ ‘C’mon Man!’ Joe Biden Scoffs at China Threat]. ''Breitbart News''. Retrieved May 3, 2019.</ref>
#Denying that Hitler's [[evolutionary belief]] played a part in the [[Holocaust]]

== Liberal denialism and Donald Trump ==
''See also:'' [[Liberal denialism and Donald Trump]]

After the 2016 U.S. Presidential election, many liberals went into in denial that [[Donald Trump]] was going to be the President of the United States. Before the election, liberal media outlets took the line that Donald Trump could not win the [[Republican]] primary and could not win the presidential election.<ref>
*[https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/11/09/the-wrongest-media-predictions-about-donald-trump/?utm_term=.febb2623a89f The wrongest media predictions about Donald Trump The wrongest media predictions about Donald Trump], ''Washington Post'', 2016</ref>

== General Denial ==
Generally, liberals deny that:

'''Abortion'''
# Choosing [[abortion]] over childbirth increases the risk of [[breast cancer]].
# They support taxpayer-funded [[abortion]].
# A child in a mother's womb has rights established by the [[Constitution]].
# A person is not insane for disagreeing with abortion and homosexuality.

'''Atheism'''
# People like [[young mass murderers]] who take [[atheistic]] beliefs to their logical conclusions are not delusional but are true believers.
# [[Young mass murderers]] fit the profile of [[public school]]-trained [[atheism]].
# Atheism is a nontheistic religion, not an absence of religion.
# Atheists were and still are responsible for the deaths of millions of people through the decades. Nevertheless, liberals resort to [[moral equivalence]] by falsely making the same claims about [[Christianity]], ridiculously exaggerating the numbers of people murdered by those claiming to be Christian while conveniently ignoring that Christian teachings forbid murder.

'''Crime'''
# [[Gun control]] motivates people to commit more gun-related [[crime]]s.
# Illegal immigrants contribute to crime and poverty in the towns and cities they occupy.
# Legalizing drugs will increase crime because drug addiction causes thievery and murder.
# A [[border wall]] is the most effective and, ultimately, the most peaceful way to protect the large southern border separating the U.S. and Mexico from illegal immigrants.
# Aggressive interrogation is often the best way to obtain answers from [[terrorists]].
# Socially dangerous people exhibit a well-documented pattern of reading habits.

'''Economics'''
# Reducing taxes stimulates the [[economy]].
# Privately run [[transport]] is more efficient than government-run transport.
# [[Labor union|union]]s interfere with [[employment]] opportunities.
# Free trade strengthens global democracies.
# Americans can drill oil to avoid high gas prices.
# Americans can't fully replace oil with green technologies; both oil and green technologies are needed to solve energy crises.

'''Education'''
# [[Homeschoolers]] are more likely to succeed than those who attend [[public school]].
# A school having few to no [[conservative]] teachers and a majority of [[atheists]] and/or [[liberals]] is a [[liberal]] school.
# [[Liberals]] attempt to intimidate and ostracize [[conservatives]], particularly in school environments and some occupations.<ref>See [[liberals and friendship]].</ref>
# The [[liberal]] ideology is pushed on unsuspecting others, particularly young people.
# [[Lawrence Summers]] was fired as President of [[Harvard]] for making a [[political correctness|politically incorrect]] suggestion about women and mathematical aptitude.
# [[Public Schools]] are breeding grounds for indoctrination and are a waste of taxpayers money.
# [[Children]] require [[disciplining|discipline]] and [[spanking]] is an effective way to correct their behaviour. This is denied by liberals even though a clear majority of American adults believe spanking is sometimes necessary, and despite the the fact that the effectiveness of spanking is backed by both scientific research<ref>[https://sites.oxy.edu/clint/learn/articles/ComparingChildOutcomesofPhysicalPunishmentandAlternativeDisciplinary.pdf]Larzelere and Kuhn (2007) Comparing Child Outcomes of Physical Punishment and Alternative Disciplinary
Tactics: A Meta-Analysis</ref> and the bible.

'''Environment'''
# Modern technology can make [[coal]] clean.
# Modern drilling methods result in minimal environmental impact, even if they were implemented in uninhabited lands such as the [[Arctic National Wildlife Refuge]].
# [[Global Warming|Human-caused climate change]] is [[junk science]].
# Companies like [[Exxon]] should pay billions of dollars in damages to the general public ''in addition'' to the money they spend to clean up industrial accidents and to recompense those directly affected.
# [[Selective logging]] keeps forests healthier by reducing the risk of wildfire.
# High food prices are not caused by [[ethanol]] production but rather by the million acres of cropland and pastureland that have been taken out of production in the interest of wildlife conservation.
# The life of a human is more important than the life of an animal or plant.

'''Health and medicine'''
# [[Socialized medicine|State run health care]] has lead to Islamic terrorism in Britain and would do so in the US.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMu6wCqdeyQ ''FOX News analyzes the new terror in state healthcare.''</ref>
# Obesity is a bigger problem than hunger in the Western world.
# Eating [[meat]] and [[dairy]] is important for physical and mental health.
# Using [[marijuana]] or other mind- or mood-altering drugs has lasting negative psychological effects.
# [[Universal health care]] is inferior medical care and will lead to crowding in hospitals.
# Girls and women in sports have debilitating ACL knee injuries at 3-4 times the rate of men,<ref>''Compare'' [http://www.universityhealthmatters.com/article.php?artid=50] (with an explanation of why there is a big difference) ''with'' [https://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/18/health/18knee.html?ex=1204088400&en=3a5abfaa6104ac63&ei=5070&emc=eta1 New York Times] (downplaying the difference and pretending that no one knows why). The New York Times denies overwhelming evidence, including the following:
:"Female athletes, particularly basketball players, are far more likely than their male counterparts to suffer ACL [Anterior Cruciate Ligament] injuries." Stephen Hargis, "Girls have more torn ACLs," Chattanooga Times Free Press (Tennessee), D1 (Feb. 4, 2005). According to the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, the risk of women tearing their ACL is 1 in 100. This number drops significantly to only 1 in 500 for men. See Nikki Usher, "Knee injury takes toll on girls playing soccer five times more likely than males to suffer a torn ACL," Philadelphia Inquirer, A01 (Nov. 29, 2004). "Compared with guys, female athletes run an eight-times-greater risk of tearing the ACL, a fibrous band that connects the shinbone (tibia) to the thighbone (femur). Basketball, soccer and other sports that require cutting moves or jump shots can put athletes at risk." Kathleen Fackelmann, "Girls face higher knee injury risk," USA Today, 15B (Aug. 24, 2004). Timothy Hewett, PhD, the lead researcher on a definitive study at the Sports Medicine Biodynamics Center at the University of Cincinnati, says this is "close to a billion-dollar problem in girls and women in the USA. ... Even after girls have recovered from the acute injury, the changes in the joint may set the stage for osteoarthritis of the knee ...." ''Id.'' That obvious suspicion was quickly confirmed: a study subsequently published in Arthritis & Rheumatism demonstrated that "more than half of ... 103 soccer players, who were ages 14 to 28 at the time of the ACL injury, suffered osteoarthritis of the knee at the time of the study -- about 12 years later." Kathleen Fackelmann, "Girls' knee injuries have later consequences," USA Today, 9D (Oct. 7, 2004). "Many of the women, who were about 31 by that time, also said they had pain or some other disability that made it hard to conduct daily activities." ''Id.''</ref> and are vulnerable to other injuries<ref>"Amber Scull ruptured her spleen after she was tackled during a practice drill at Nature Coast Tech in Brooksville 2 1/2 months ago. Had she [not] arrived at the hospital 30 minutes later, doctors told her mother, she might have died." [http://www.sptimes.com/2004/01/06/news_pf/Sports/Girls_face_dangers_on.shtml]</ref>

'''History'''
# America's [[founding fathers]] were devout Christians.
# The American model of [[democracy]] succeeded because it was founded on [[Protestantism|Protestant]] [[Christianity]].<ref>[http://www.apologetics.com/default.jsp?bodycontent=/articles/cultural_apologetics/snyder-democracy1.html Calvinism and the Success of Liberal Democracy, by John Snyder]</ref>
# The [[Democratic National Party]] founded the [[Ku Klux Klan]] and supported it for decades, and that the Democrats not only championed slavery of blacks before and during the [[American Civil War|Civil War]], plus segregation and suppression of blacks for decades afterward, but still champion a form of slavery and suppression against blacks (in the form of the [[welfare state]]) and still have the same attitudes toward blacks today as they did 150 years, 100 years, and even 50 years ago.<ref>[https://www.wnd.com/2017/06/dsouza-dems-want-to-shift-blame-with-confederate-crusade/ D'Souza: Dems want to "shift blame" with Confederate crusade] at [[WorldNetDaily]]</ref>

'''Homosexuality'''
# [[Same sex adoption]] is harmful to children.
# Banning [[same-sex marriage|same-sex "marriage"]] is analogous to banning [[polygamy]].
# Opposing same-sex "marriage" is justified (though they try to prove otherwise by drawing absurd connections to decriminalized interracial marriage bans).
# Homosexuals can be switched back into heterosexuals. (See [[ex-homosexuals]])

'''Liberalism'''
# They are [[intolerant]] of opposing viewpoints and then try to stifle further discussion.
# [[Socialism]] and liberalism have the same political agenda.
# They suppress any criticism rather acknowledge it.
# They make sweeping generalizations about conservatives.
# Ideas do matter and can cause great harm, including liberal falsehoods.

'''Media'''
# The [[mainstream media]] is [[bias]]ed.
# Wikipedia has a systematic bias.
# Liberal media tycoons such as [[Ted Turner]] support population control.
# Restricting free speech by the [[Fairness Doctrine]] is actually neither fair nor democratic.

'''Politics'''
# [[Barack Hussein Obama]] ran the dirtiest campaign since [[Lyndon Johnson]].
# Former President Bill Clinton committed adulterous behavior while in office.
# Politicians who proclaim 'change' actually do not break very far from policies of the past.
# [[God]] and religion should be allowed a place in government.
# [[Ronald Reagan]]'s public exhortation, "[[Mikhail Gorbachev|Mr. Gorbachev]], tear down this wall," helped cause the nearly 30-year-old [[Berlin Wall]] later be torn down.
# They support [[Totalitarianism]].
# Their leaders engage in shocking wrongdoing, [[Liberal hypocrisy|hypocrisy]], and abuse of power<ref>See, e.g., leading [[liberal]] [[Eliot Spitzer]] and how fellow [[liberals]] downplayed or were silent about his misconduct.</ref>
# A [[vote]] for (yea) or a vote against (nea) is an absolute position.
# People can be held accountable for the statements uttered in a vote.
# Former President George W. Bush being in power did not cause Hurricane Katrina.
# Former President Bill Clinton was responsible for Rwanda inaction.
# The Democratic party discriminates against African-Americans.
# [[Fidel Castro]] could have died a decade earlier than his disclosed death date, specifically around the last time he was seen in public in 2006.

'''Religion'''
# [[Islam]]ic extremism is a threat to the [[Western civilization]]<ref>Leftist [[Sam Harris]] admitted and complained about this liberal denial [http://www.cmonitor.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061009/REPOSITORY/610090301/1028/OPINION02 here].</ref>
# Faith and logic are compatible.
# Both God and Jesus, the Lord and Savior, exist (in the case of secular liberals). Some secular liberals do acknowledge that Jesus walked among humans, but they deny that he performed any miracles.
# Morality should be objective.
# [[Heavy metal]] music is generally sacrilegious and has themes such as mind- or mood-altering drugs, sexual perversion, and [[Satan]] worship.

'''Science'''
# Life begins at conception.<ref>Williams, Thomas D. (November 5, 2017). [https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/11/05/abortion-lobby-denies-science-concerning-beginning-of-human-life/ Abortion Lobby Denies Science Concerning Beginning of Human Life]. ''Breitbart News''. Retrieved November 5, 2017.</ref>
# There are only two genders, and men and women are different, even from birth.<ref name="5ScientificFacts"/>
# Green energy is nowhere near as efficient as advertised.<ref name="5ScientificFacts"/>
# [[Entropy]] – including [[genetic entropy]] – is increasing, which confounds several liberal theories.
# Virtually all fossil evidence for evolution has been proven wrong and affirms Biblical creation.
# The intellectual justification for [[Hitler]]'s attempt to build a master Aryan race was the [[theory of evolution]].
# Evolution and human-caused climate change are scientifically dubious at best.
# There is scientific accuracy contained in the Bible.
# Climate forecasts 50 years from now are as inaccurate as 15 days from now.

'''Social issues'''
# More than 80% of child molesters are [[pornography]] addicts.
# [[Feminists]] censor discussion about differences between men and women, and boys and girls.
# The [[nuclear family]] is beneficial to children.
# [[Culture]] affects [[politics]] as well as people's views and lifestyles.
# The numerous premature deaths of [[Hollywood]] stars are the result of [[Hollywood values]]<ref>Liberal [[Wikipedia]] lists numerous [[actor]]s who died of drug overdoses, but will not acknowledge the role played by [[Hollywood values]], for which Wikipedia does not even have an entry. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_drug-related_deaths]</ref>
# That English will cease being the language of the United States in 20 years unless it is protected as the [[official language]] (and that this would be a loss if it happened).

Often, [[liberal]]s refuse to admit that they are [[liberal]]s in the hope of appearing more "reasonable". [[Hillary Clinton]] refused to admit in a presidential debate in 2007 that she is a [[liberal]]. Similarly, [[Michael Dukakis]] refused for a while to admit that he was a [[liberal]] during the 1988 presidential campaign. Only out of desperation did Dukakis admit that he was a [[liberal]], and even then, he admitted only that was a liberal like President [[Harry Truman]], who served 40 years earlier.

Liberals like to bash President George W. Bush as a war monger and cite [[President Bill Clinton]] for his eight years of peace and prosperity. Liberals will deny record low unemployment, more people owning their homes, and President Bush going after [[terrorists]] while protecting Americans from further attacks. Liberals will selectively forget that during Clinton's term, the [[Rwanda]] massacre, the bombing of the USS Cole, the war in the [[Balkans]], the two US embassies bombed in [[Africa]], the Kobar tower bombing in Saudi Arabia, the [[Somalia]] conflict, the missile strike against [[Afghanistan]], and the bombing campaign against Iraq all occurred. Moreover, [[liberals]] deny that Clinton's economic policy ignored a series of high-profile companies that eventually collapsed due to fraud: Enron, Tyco, Worldcom and Qwest.

As part of their denial, liberals often use the word "denial" pejoratively against conservatives. Alleging that conservatives are "[[racist]]" and "reject [[science]]", they use terms like "[[global warming]] deniers" and "[[climate change]] deniers" in an attempt to link conservative viewpoints with [[Holocaust denial]], [[Nazism]], [[conspiracy theory|conspiracy theories]], and [[pseudoscience]].

== References ==
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== See also ==
*[[ACLU]]
*[[Longest liberal denials]]

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[[Category:Ignorance]]
[[Category:Cherry picking]]

Donald Trump

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GilS: Reason: I don't think Donald Trump strongly support Anti Second Amendment Republicans who knowns as RINO

{{Officeholder
|name=Donald John Trump {{verified}}
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|spouse=Ivana Trump (div.) Marla Maples (div.) [[Melania Trump]] (current)
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:''See also [[Donald Trump achievements]].''
:''Trump was [[Conservative of the Year]] in [[Conservative of the Year 2017|2017]], [[Conservative of the Year 2018|2018]], and [[Conservative of the Year 2024|2024]].''
'''Donald John Trump, Ph.D.'''<ref>[http://www.christianpost.com/news/donald-trump-to-talk-politics-business-and-faith-at-liberty-university-convocation-81973/ LU confers seven honorary doctorates to world changers, including President Trump],
By Liberty University News Service, May 13, 2017. christianpost.com</ref> (b. [[Queens]], [[New York]], on [[Donald Trump's age|June 14, 1946]]), nicknamed "'''The Donald'''," is an [[American]] [[Republican]] patriot, statesman, and jobs-creator who, after a storied career as a businessman and media personality, served as the 45th [[President of the United States of America]], after winning the [[2016 presidential election]], and now serves as the 47th President following his victory in the [[2024 presidential election]]. He is the first President since [[Grover Cleveland]] to serve two non-consecutive terms. Former [[Democrat]] [[RFK Jr.]] endorsed Trump for reelection in 2024 based on Trump's support of [[freedom of speech]] (contrary to [[Democrat]]s today) and his peace-through-strength foreign policy, plus the opportunity to [[Make America Healthy Again]]. In addition, he was endorsed by [[Elon Musk]] and the American podcaster [[Joe Rogan]] in his 2024 reelection.

Trump [[Donald Trump achievements|achieved much during his first presidency]] and advanced many [[conservative]] priorities for the benefit of all [[American]]s. He boosted the [[U.S.]] [[energy]] sector by reducing dependence on the [[Middle East]], helped lower gasoline prices, and encouraged projects such as the [[Keystone Pipeline]]. Despite his immense success by any objective measure, Trump received more (politically motivated) criticism than any other U.S. president.

Trump leads against the [[transgender agenda]] that allows males to invade women's and girls' sports. Trump has vowed to shut down the [[Department of Education]], which pushes the [[transgender]] ideology in schools.

Trump's [[conservative populism]] has attracted many millions of new voters to the [[Republican Party]]. In the [[United States presidential election, 2020|2020 presidential election]], Trump received at least a record-smashing 74+ million lawful votes, many in the key [[swing states]]. Drawing crowds 500 times larger than [[Democrats]]', Trump defeated [[Joe Biden]] in the voting on [[Election Day]] but millions of votes cast by [[Democrat]] [[ballot harvesting]] and unverified signatures on mail-in ballots (particularly in [[swing states]]) flipped the reported outcome amid suspected [[election fraud]].<ref>
[https://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/general_politics/may_2022/election_integrity_most_voters_still_suspect_cheating Election Integrity: Most Voters Still Suspect Cheating], Rassmussen Reports, May 25, 2022.</ref><ref>[https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/washington-secrets/biden-2020-win-tainted-56-say-it-was-a-cheaters-paradise Biden 2020 win ‘tainted,’ 56% say it was a cheater’s paradise], by Paul Bedard, Washington Secrets Columnist, October 11, 2021.</ref> 4 years later, Trump defeated his Democrat opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris, in the [[2024 presidential election]] in what was labelled by several news sources including the ''[[Financial Times]]'', ''[[The Telegraph]]'' and ''[[USA Today]]'' as a "landslide".<ref>[https://www.ft.com/content/002fe4ce-14f3-44b5-a617-6015d0c3e11d#post-222fd294-1655-4587-a6a1-b99e890404be US election 2024 as it happened]</ref><ref>[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/politics/2024/11/06/donald-trump-showing-early-signs-of-winning-election/ Trump says he has ‘unprecedented and powerful mandate’ after securing election win]</ref>

==Background and career==
[[File:2thumb-5-1-300x202.jpg|right|300px|thumb|As Trump rode the escalator to announce his candidacy, polls showed Hillary Clinton's collusion with Russia over the [[Uranium One deal]] was her biggest vulnerability. Deputy Attn. Gen. [[Sally Yates]] was taking steps to ban the Inspector General from oversight of the DOJ-National Security Division and hide [[FISA abuse]].<ref>[https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/03/08/doj-political-surveillance-from-the-irs-in-2011-to-the-fisa-court-in-2016/ DOJ Political Surveillance – From the IRS in 2011 to the FISA Court in 2016], Posted on March 8, 2020 by sundance. theconservativetreehouse.com</ref>]]
Trump was born on June 14, 1946, in Queens, [[New York City]] as the second son of Fred Trump, Sr., and his wife Mary Anne (née MacLeod), after the late Fred, Jr. He is of mixed German and Scottish origin, and his younger sisters and brother are Elizabeth, Maryanne, and Robert. After high school, he attended the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

Donald Trump began his career at [[Trump Organization]]. In his college years, he helped revitalize one of his father's failing real estate ventures. Trump began opening hotels and casinos, which provided him with the cash flow to engage in other ventures. He owns the world-famous [[Trump Tower]] and is the founder of the publicly traded Trump Hotel Casinos & Resorts. Trump also owns the Trump brand, which sells a variety of items, such as bottled water, steak, and even mortgages. Trump has authored several books and weathered changing business fortunes, but despite encountering formidable challenges, he has long continued to be a successful businessman and entrepreneur.

Trump [[Donald Trump presidential campaign, 2000|ran unsuccessfully]] for the nomination of the [[Reform Party]] in 2000. Trump considered [[presidential election 2012|running for president in 2012]] as a [[Republican]]. He, among others, questioned the citizenship of [[Barack Obama]], citing his failure to produce his birth certificate. After Obama bizarrely produced a short-form birth certificate, Trump and many other [[birther|experts]] continued to doubt its authenticity. Obama's approval ratings dropped to only 40% during the peak of the controversy. Trump later exited the race, and gave the customary endorsement to [[Mitt Romney]] as the other [[Republican]] contenders did.

===Religious beliefs===
{{Main|Donald Trump's religious views|Donald Trump and evangelicals}}
Donald Trump attended the First [[Presbyterian]] Church in Jamaica, [[Queens]]. He told the [[Christian Broadcasting Network]] that he still considered himself a [[Presbyterian]] and attended services for all major holidays and Sundays, and that "The [[Bible]] is certainly THE book." He receives Bibles from fans in the mail, and he either stores them or gives them away to others.<ref>Haberman, Maggie (April 11, 2011). [https://www.politico.com/news/stories/0411/52942.html "Donald Trump talks about religion"]. Politico website.</ref>

In 2020 he affirmed being a non-denominational Christian, being the second President to change faith in office after [[Eisenhower]].<ref name=Non>{{cite web|url=https://www.christianitytoday.com/news/2020/october/trump-nondenominational-presbyterian-religious-eisenhower.html|title=Trump Becomes the First President Since Eisenhower to Change [[Faith]]s in Office|publisher=Christianity Today|date=October 27, 2020}}</ref>

In July 2015, Trump stated in an interview that "Why do I have to repent or ask for forgiveness, if I am not making mistakes?"<ref>Nothstine, Ray (July 23, 2015). [http://www.christianpost.com/news/trump-why-do-i-have-to-repent-or-ask-for-forgiveness-if-i-am-not-making-mistakes-video-141856/ Trump: 'Why Do I Have to Repent or Ask for Forgiveness If I Am Not Making Mistakes?' (Video)]. ''The Christian Post''. Retrieved March 13, 2017.</ref> He also stated that "I think if I do something wrong, I think, I just try and make it right. I don't bring God into that picture. I don't."<ref>Scott, Eugene (July 18, 2015). [https://www.cnn.com/2015/07/18/politics/trump-has-never-sought-forgiveness/ Trump believes in God, but hasn't sought forgiveness]. ''CNN''. Retrieved December 4, 2016.</ref> January 2016, Trump stated that "I have a great relationship with God," but that "I don’t like to have to ask for forgiveness."<ref>Key, Pam (January 17, 2016). [https://www.breitbart.com/video/2016/01/17/trump-i-dont-like-to-have-to-ask-for-forgiveness-from-god/ Trump: ‘I Don’t Like to Have to Ask for Forgiveness’ from God]. ''Breitbart News''. Retrieved March 13, 2017.</ref> When confronted by [[Cal Thomas]] in an interview in mid-2016 about his not asking God for forgiveness, Trump stated that he would ask God for forgiveness.<ref>Chumley, Cheryl (August 6, 2016). [https://www.wnd.com/2016/06/trump-answers-question-who-do-you-say-jesus-is/ Trump answers question: 'Who do you say Jesus is?] ''WorldNetDaily''. Retrieved March 13, 2017.</ref> In October 2016, [[Ben Carson]] stated that Trump did ask forgiveness from God with [[James Robison]].<ref>Showalter, Brandon (October 10, 2016). [http://www.christianpost.com/news/ben-carson-donald-trump-asked-god-for-forgiveness-prayed-with-james-robison-170650/ Ben Carson: Donald Trump Asked God for Forgiveness, Prayed With James Robison]. ''The Christian Post''. Retrieved March 13, 2017.</ref>

According to exit polling in the 2016 election, Trump won 81 percent of evangelical Christians compared to 16 percent for Clinton, a record high and even more than [[George W. Bush]] won in 2004, showing strong support for Trump from evangelical Christians.<ref name="townhall.com">O'Brien, Cortney (November 12, 2016). [https://townhall.com/tipsheet/cortneyobrien/2016/11/12/white-evangelical-voters-showed-up-this-time-n2243931 Evangelical Voters Showed Up Big Time For Trump]. ''Townhall''. Retrieved December 8, 2016.</ref><ref name="wsj.com">Lovett, Ian (November 9, 2016). [https://www.wsj.com/articles/evangelicals-back-donald-trump-in-record-numbers-despite-earlier-doubts-1478689372 Evangelicals Back Donald Trump in Record Numbers, Despite Earlier Doubts]. ''The Wall Street Journal''. Retrieved December 8, 2016.</ref> He was the first sitting American president to address the annual Values Voters Conference in Washington.<ref>https://www.npr.org/2017/10/13/557459193/trump-set-to-address-values-voter-summit-for-first-time-as-president</ref>

===Education and financial worth===
Trump has engaged in many financial pursuits and it was estimated that his net worth was $10 billion, as of July 2015.<ref>LoGiurato, Brett (July 25, 2015). [https://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-net-worth-2015-7 "We finally know a lot more about Donald Trump's 'massive' net worth"]. Business Insider website.</ref> ''Forbes'', however, estimates his net worth is $3.1 billion as of 2019.<ref>[https://www.forbes.com/profile/donald-trump/ "The world's most powerful people: #2 Donald Trump"]. (March 6, 2017). Forbes.com website.</ref> He graduated from the New York Military Academy in 1964 and first attended college at the Jesuit-controlled [[Fordham University]] for two years before transferring to the more competitive [[University of Pennsylvania]] and completing his undergraduate studies at its Wharton School of Finance and Commerce. In September 2020, the [[New York Times]] reported on Donald Trump engaging in tax avoidance. It was claimed that his tax avoidance dates back to the 1990s. Trump doesn't like pilots who get captured, but the majority of Americans don't like executives who file for bankruptcy.

===Major properties===
[[File:Trump business.jpg|right]]
*Trump World Tower: 845 United Nations Plaza, New York, NY.

*Trump Tower: 725 Fifth Ave, New York, NY 10022 Personal Residence

*Bank of America Center (San Francisco)

*The Trump Building at 40 Wall Street

*Trump Park Avenue

*AXA Financial Center, 1290 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY

*Trump International Hotel & Tower:
**[[New York City]]
**Chicago
**[[Washington, D.C.]]
**Las Vegas

*[[Mar-a-Lago]] resort in Palm Beach, Florida (used by Trump as his "Winter White House".)

*Trump Winery - Charlottesville, Virginia

*14 golf courses (11 in the U.S., 3 in Europe - the course in Bedminster, New Jersey is used by Trump as his "Summer White House")

===Media===
[[File:Donald Trump star.JPG|thumbnail|right|Hollywood Walk of Fame]]
For his contributions to the gaming and entertainment industry, Trump was inducted into the Gaming Hall of Fame in 1995.

In 2003, Trump began as the host and executive producer of the reality [[television]] show ''The Apprentice'' and ''The Celebrity Apprentice'', where contestants compete for a position in Trump's organization. On this show, Trump popularized his catchphrase "You're fired!" Trump received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2007 following the success of ''The Apprentice''. However, since he became president, Trump's star as been periodically vandalized by liberal political critics.<ref>Press Association (April 8, 2016). [http://www.onenewspage.com/video/20160408/4211707/Donald-Trump-Hollywood-Walk-of-Fame-Star.htm "Donald Trump's Hollywood Walk of Fame Star vandalised three times a day"].</ref>

Trump is also a noted fan of [[WWE]], and has been a part of some of their shows. Trump was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2013.

In 2016, following winning the presidential election, Trump was named Person of the Year by [[Time Magazine]].

Trump used to own the Miss Universe and Miss USA pageants. Controversy arose when Miss USA 2006 Tara Conner was caught breaking pageant rules by drinking and other activities. Trump gave her a second chance after personally speaking with her and allowed her to retain her crown as she attended rehabilitation. For several weeks after this, [[Rosie O'Donnell]] berated Trump for his decision on ''The View''. A bitter media war ensued with the two exchanging insults.

Trump has made many guest appearances, usually as himself, on many TV shows and in several movies. Numerous mental health professionals have diagnosed Trump with malignant narcissistic personality disorder, which means he is good at the art of manipulation and has no conscience.

===Political experience===

Donald Trump served as both the 45th and 47th [[President of the United States]], the only [[civilian]] who never held prior elected office or was a General in the [[United States Armed Forces]].
[[File:Reagan and Trump.jpg|rigt|300px|thumb|[[President Ronald Reagan]] greets Donald Trump at a [[White House]] reception.]]
On October 7, 1999, Trump declared his candidacy for the [[Reform Party]] nomination in the [[2000 Presidential Election]].<ref>https://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/presidential-campaign/256159-a-look-back-at-trumps-first-run/</ref> During his campaign, he declared that [[America]] must have universal healthcare because having over 40 million uninsured Americans was unacceptable.<ref>https://www.ontheissues.org/Archive/America_We_Deserve_Health_Care.htm</ref> When asked about gays in the military, he said it would not disturb him.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20100613005525/http://indegayforum.org/news/show/26834.html</ref> Stated he was ‘very pro-choice but hates the concept of abortion.’<ref>https://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/video/trump-in-1999-i-am-very-pro-choice-480297539914</ref>
He favored a one-time tax on the rich to eliminate the national debt and declared North Korea the greatest threat to the US. He also followed the Reform party view that abortion rights should be kept out of politics.<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/05/donald-trump-reform-party-2000-president</ref>
Trump suspended his candidacy for the Reform Party on February 14, 2000.<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2000/02/14/us/reform-bid-said-to-be-a-no-go-for-trump.html</ref>

On June 16, 2015, he declared his candidacy for the Republican nomination in the [[2016 presidential election]].<ref>Multiple references:
*[https://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/06/16/trump-announces-white-house-bid-joins-crowded-gop-field/ "Trump announces White House bid, joins crowded GOP field"] (June 16, 2015). Fox News website/Politics. The front-runner in a record-breaking field of 17 [[Republican]] candidates, Trump announced that he did not anticipate "throwing punches" against his rivals in the first GOP debate.
*Chiacu, Donna and Torbati, Yeganeh (August 2, 2015). [https://www.reuters.com/article/2015/08/02/us-usa-election-debate-idUSKCN0Q70NI20150802 "Trump says won't be 'throwing punches' in U.S. Republican debate"]. Reuters/Politics. But at the debate the [[Fox News Channel]]—particularly its then-[[feminist]] non-journalist [[Megyn Kelly]]—ambushed Trump with out-of-context quotations designed to smear him as somehow being anti-women. This ignited a national controversy that lasted for days, and Trump called upon Kelly to apologize, which she refused to do.</ref> Unlike most other U.S. presidential candidates, Trump sharply criticizes the media and talks about issues that no elected official dares touch. For example, Trump stands up against [[feminists]], unlike most politicians. In another example, in 2011 Trump persistently doubted whether [[Barack Obama]] had been born in the [[United States]], which caused Obama's approval ratings to drop below 40% until Obama finally caved in to Trump and produced what Obama claimed was his birth certificate. Trump then scoffed at Obama's conduct.

'''''In February 2011, Trump announced that he is [[pro-life]], and at the final presidential debate on Oct. 19, 2016, Trump gave the strongest endorsement of the pro-life position of any presidential nominee in history'''''. Trump said he has never had to ask God for forgiveness; if he does something wrong, he makes it right, so his Christianity is questionable, as it is impossible to be a Christian without forgiveness.

Trump's central campaign theme has been to oppose [[illegal immigration]] and [[free trade]], and nominated Senator [[Jeff Sessions]] as [[Attorney General]] to enforce standing legislation on the issue. As reported by [[Breitbart News Network|Breitbart]], "Sen. Sessions, Chairman of the Senate’s Immigration Subcommittee, is widely regarded as the gold standard on immigration. Sessions has also become the intellectual thought leader in the Republican Party on appealing to the blue-collar voters who have been abandoned by their political leaders." <ref>Hahn, Julia (August 14, 2015). [https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/08/14/game-change-trump-consults-with-sen-jeff-sessions-on-immigration-strategy/ "Game change: Trump consults with Sen Jeff Sessions on immigration strategy"]. Breitbart website/Big government.</ref> In the later campaign Trump focused more on [[ISIS]] and terrorism.

At the final presidential debate between [[Hillary Clinton]] and Trump on October 19, 2016, Clinton chastised Trump for running a newspaper advertisement in 1987 critical of the [[Reagan Administration]]. But Trump persuasively explained that he has always disagreed with Reagan's support of free trade, as many other [[conservatives]] disagreed with [[Ronald Reagan|Reagan]] on this issue.

==45th & 47th President of the United States==
{{See also|Donald Trump achievements|}}
[[File:Time trump (1).gif|thumb|June 2024 Trump vs Biden Debate]]
[[Donald J. Trump]] is only the second President in [[American history]] to be elected to two non-consecutive terms.

===Second Presidency of Donald Trump (2025 - present)===
{{See also|Second Cabinet of Donald Trump}}
[[Susie Wiles]] was chosen by Trump to be [[Chief of Staff]].

[[Kelly Loeffler]] along with [[Steve Witkoff]] were chosen by president-elect Trump to co-chair his inaugural committee in his upcoming second presidency.<ref>[https://wtop.com/inauguration/2024/11/trump-announces-golf-partner-and-former-georgia-senator-will-co-chair-inaugural-committee/ Trump announces golf partner and former Georgia senator will co-chair inaugural committee], ''Associated Press'', Nov 9, 2024</ref>

====2024 Election====
The election was too big to rig so the results came soon unlike 2020. Trump won a popular mandate with 53% of the vote.
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===First Presidency of the United States (2017 - 2021)===
{{See also|Russiagate}}
====2016 Transition====
{{See also|2016 Trump transition|First Cabinet of Donald Trump|}}
[[File:Donald Trump at his desk, December 2018.png|left|thumb|250px|President Trump sitting at his desk in the [[Oval Office]], December 21, 2018]]
The day after being elected president in 2016, Trump released a solidly conservative agenda for his first 100 days in office, even though ending the [[abortion|legalized murder of the unborn]] was not on the agenda.<ref>Kelly, Amita & Sprunt, Barbara (November 9, 2016). [https://www.npr.org/2016/11/09/501451368/here-is-what-donald-trump-wants-to-do-in-his-first-100-days Here Is What Donald Trump Wants To Do In His First 100 Days]. ''NPR''. Retrieved November 10, 2016.</ref>

On November 30, 2016, before Trump had finalized all his cabinet appointments, it was still described by ''[[Politico]]'' as "a conservative dream team that has Republicans cheering and liberals in despair" due to the many strong conservatives Trump had appointed, in contrast to moderates like [[George W. Bush]].<ref>Restuccia, Andrew; Cook, Nancy; Woellert, Lorraine (November 30, 2016). [https://www.politico.com/story/2016/11/trump-conservative-dream-team-231972 Trump's conservative dream team]. ''Politico''. Retrieved November 30, 2016.</ref><ref>[https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/11/30/politico-donald-trump-cabinet-conservative-dream-team/ Politico: Donald Trump’s Cabinet a ‘Conservative Dream Team’]. ''Breitbart News''. November 30, 2017. Retrieved May 18, 2017.</ref> Accordingly, ''[[Newsweek]]'' called Trump's incomplete cabinet the most conservative cabinet in U.S. history.<ref>Cooper, Matthew (December 9, 2016). [http://www.newsweek.com/trump-cabinet-picks-nominees-conservative-530477 Donald Trump Is Building the Most Conservative Presidential Cabinet In U.S. History]. ''Newsweek''. Retrieved December 10, 2016.</ref> ''[[The Washington Times]]'' noted how Trump was defying [[Washington, D.C.|Washington]] [[establishment]] norms in his cabinet picks.<ref>Hurt, Charles (December 6, 2016). [https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/dec/6/donald-trumps-cabinet-picks-define-business-as-not/ Trump defines business as not-usual for D.C.] ''The Washington Times''. Retrieved December 10, 2016.</ref>

''[[The Wall Street Journal]]'' stated that "it’s nearly impossible to identify a clear [[ideological]] bent" in Trump's appointments.<ref>Seib, Gerald (December 5, 2016). [https://www.wsj.com/articles/donald-trump-shuffles-the-ideological-deck-1480955194 Donald Trump Shuffles the Ideological Deck]. ''The Wall Street Journal''. Retrieved December 5, 2016.</ref> However, this can be easily explained by the fact that Trump has used some of his cabinet nominations to unite the GOP by appealing to most of its factions, even though Trump's appointments are still very conservative.

During the transition period, the Obama Administration engaged in surveillance and information-gathering of Trump to investigate bogus accusations of [[Trump-Russia scandal|alleged ties to Russia]] originating with the [[Democratic National Committee]] and [[2016 Hillary Clinton campaign]]. This was confirmed by GOP U.S. Representative [[Devin Nunes]] on March 22, 2017,<ref>Derespina, Cody (March 23, 2017). [https://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/03/23/trump-basks-in-nunes-surveillance-news-so-that-means-im-right.html Trump basks in Nunes surveillance news: 'So that means I'm right']. ''Fox News''. Retrieved March 23, 2017.</ref> and by [[Evelyn Farkas]], the deputy assistant secretary of defense under Obama, on March 29, 2017.<ref>[https://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/03/29/former-obama-official-discloses-rush-to-get-intelligence-on-trump-team.html Former Obama official discloses rush to get intelligence on Trump team]. ''Fox News''. March 29, 2017. Retrieved March 29, 2017.</ref><ref>Poor, Jeff (March 29, 2017). [https://www.breitbart.com/video/2017/03/29/fmr-obama-official-reveals-pre-inauguration-effort-to-gather-intel-on-incoming-trump-team/ Fmr Obama Official Reveals Pre-Inauguration Effort to Gather Intel on Incoming Trump Team]. ''Breitbart News''. Retrieved March 30, 2017.</ref>

====2016 inauguration====
[[File:Donald Trumpswearing in.jpg|thumb|200px|Trump being sworn in, January 20, 2017.]]
Trump was inaugurated on January 20, 2017, giving one of the strongest inauguration addresses in American history.<ref>Boyle, Matthew (January 20, 2017). [https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/01/20/america-first-president-donald-trump-brings-the-rain-in-inauguration-address/ ‘America First’: President Donald Trump Brings the Rain in Inauguration Address]. ''Breitbart''. Retrieved January 20, 2017.</ref><ref>McCaskill, Nolan D. (January 20, 2017). [https://www.politico.com/story/2017/01/key-points-of-trumps-inaugural-speech-233900 Key moments from Trump's inauguration speech]. ''Politico''. Retrieved January 20, 2017.</ref><ref>Scott, Patrick; Midgley, Robert (January 20, 2017). [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/01/20/donald-trump-just-delivered-american-inauguration-speech-ever/ Donald Trump just delivered the most 'American' inauguration speech ever]. ''The Telegraph''. Retrieved January 20, 2017.</ref> His first bill signed as president was to allow retired general and Defense Secretary nominee [[James Mattis]] to be confirmed.<ref>Kopan, Tal (January 20, 2017). [https://www.cnn.com/2017/01/20/politics/donald-trump-first-law-actions/ President Donald Trump signs first bill into law]. ''CNN''. Retrieved January 20, 2017.</ref> That same day, Trump instituted a national day of patriotism,<ref>[https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-measures-idUSKBN1542IH Trump takes first actions on Cabinet, declares day of patriotism: spokesman]. ''Reuters''. January 20, 2017. Retrieved January 20, 2017.</ref> and a few days later Trump officially designated his inauguration day the '''''National Day of Patriotic Devotion'''''.<ref>[https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2017/01/24/2017-01798/national-day-of-patriotic-devotion National Day of Patriotic Devotion -- Proclamation 9570 of January 20, 2017]. ''Federal Register''. January 24, 2017. Retrieved February 2, 2017.</ref><ref>Shelbourne, Mallory (January 23, 2017). [https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/315735-trump-declares-inauguration-day-national-day-of-patriotic-devotion https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/315735-trump-declares-inauguration-day-national-day-of-patriotic-devotion]. ''The Hill''. Retrieved February 2, 2017.</ref>

Despite the fact that leftists knew for two months that Trump would be inaugurated president, hateful, anti-American, and immature leftists engaged in violent protests and did major acts of vandalism and even injuring the police who were sent in.<ref>Vargas, Theresa; Hartz, Taylor; Hermann, Peter (January 20, 2017). [https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/protesters-bring-shouts-skirmishes-and-shutdowns-to-inauguration-celebration/2017/01/20/00ea4c72-df11-11e6-acdf-14da832ae861_story.html?utm_term=.c4443fa64f5a Inauguration protesters vandalize, set fires, try to disrupt Trump’s oath, as police arrest 200]. ''The Washington Post''. Retrieved January 20, 2017.</ref><ref name="LimoFire">Lawler, David (January 20, 2017). [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/01/20/anti-donald-trump-activists-try-block-access-inauguration/ Donald Trump protests: Limo 'set on fire' and 217 arrested as police use tear gas on black-clad activists]. ''The Telegraph''. Retrieved January 20, 2017.</ref> At least 217 protesters were arrested.<ref name="LimoFire"/><ref>Weber, Joseph (January 20, 2017). [https://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/01/20/trump-supporters-protesters-rally-before-sunrise-on-inauguration-day.html Hundreds of protesters arrested in Inauguration Day clashes]. ''Fox News''. Retrieved March 31, 2017.</ref><ref>Noble, Andrea; McDermott, Ryan M. (January 20, 2017). [https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/jan/20/donald-trump-inauguration-protests-begin-turn-viol/ D.C. police report 217 arrested during Inauguration Day riots]. ''The Washington Times''. Retrieved March 31, 2017.</ref>

Despite having no power to block Trump's cabinet nominees and having no reason to delay the process,<ref>Pergram, Chad (January 20, 2017). [https://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/01/20/senate-battle-erupts-over-dem-delay-confirming-trump-nominees.html Senate battle erupts over Dem 'delay' confirming Trump nominees]. ''Fox News''. Retrieved January 23, 2017.</ref> liberal Senate Democrats delayed confirmation of Trump's nominees, so that only two were confirmed on Trump's first day in office.<ref>Dinan, Stephen (January 22, 2017). [https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/jan/22/trumps-cabinet-picks-delayed-by-democrats-only-two/? Donald Trump’s Cabinet picks delayed by Democrats, only two confirmed]. ''The Washington Times''. Retrieved January 23, 2017.</ref> This was a large difference from other recent presidents,<ref>Phillips, Amber (January 21, 2017). [https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/01/20/donald-trump-will-start-his-presidency-with-the-smallest-confirmed-cabinet-in-decades/?utm_term=.9d7692169687 Donald Trump is starting his presidency with the smallest confirmed Cabinet in decades]. ''The Washington Post''. Retrieved Janaury 23, 2017.</ref> who, with the exception of [[George H. W. Bush]], had much larger numbers confirmed in the first week.<ref>Bluey, Robert (January 22, 2017). [http://dailysignal.com/2017/01/22/trumps-nominees-face-unprecedented-democrat-obstructionism/ Trump’s Nominees Face ‘Unprecedented’ Democrat Obstructionism]. ''The Daily Signal''. Retrieved January 23, 2017.</ref>

====Tenure====
{{See also|Donald Trump's major achievements}}
Due to his promotion and support of conservative, America First policies, President Trump faced large opposition from the Left, including from within the government bureaucracy.<ref>Singman, Brooke (January 1, 2017). [https://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/01/31/trump-faces-bureaucratic-battle-in-implementing-agenda.html Trump faces bureaucratic battle in implementing agenda]. ''Fox News''. Retrieved February 1, 2017.</ref><ref>Kurtz, Howard (February 3, 2017). [https://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/02/03/empire-strikes-back-why-trumps-private-talks-with-foreign-leaders-were-leaked.html The empire strikes back: Why Trump's private talks with foreign leaders were leaked]. ''Fox News''. Retrieved February 3, 2017.</ref> (The fact that members of the Deep State have grown visibly scared of reports stating such confirms this view;<ref>[https://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2017/03/22/politico-obama-admin-bureaucrats-panicked-by-breitbart-spotlight-dont-question-our-loyalty/ POLITICO: Obama Admin Bureaucrats ‘Panicked’ by Breitbart Spotlight: Don’t Question Our Loyalty!] ''Breitbart News''. Retrieved March 22, 2017.</ref> in May 2017, it was reported that 60% of [[National Security Council]] employees were Obama-Administration holdovers<ref>Wong, Kristina (May 17, 2017). [https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/05/17/trump-under-siege-more-than-60-percent-of-nsc-employees-placed-by-obama/ Trump Under Siege: More than 60 Percent of NSC Employees Placed by Obama]. ''Breitbart News''. Retrieved May 18, 2017.</ref>) Additionally, Senate Democrats continued to unduly delay Trump's cabinet nominees at historic and unprecedented proportions—by February 8, 2017, only [[George Washington]] had fewer cabinet nominees confirmed by this length of time into his presidency.<ref>Singman, Brooke (February 8, 2017). [https://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/02/08/trump-facing-historic-delays-in-confirmation-push.html Trump facing historic delays in confirmation push]. ''Fox News''. Retrieved February 8, 2017.</ref>

On January 23, 2017, Trump signed an order which withdrew the United States from the globalist [[Trans-Pacific Partnership]].<ref>Chakraborty, Barnini (January 23, 2017). [https://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/01/23/trump-signs-executive-order-withdrawing-us-from-tpp-trade-deal.html Trump signs executive order withdrawing US from TPP trade deal]. ''Fox News''. Retrieved January 23, 2017.</ref> That same day, Trump signed an order reinstating the [[Mexico City Policy]], which defunded International Planned Parenthood and other organizations that promote foreign abortions.<ref>LaBarbera, Peter (January 23, 2017). [https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/breaking-trump-signs-order-defunding-international-planned-parenthood-forei BREAKING: Trump signs order defunding International Planned Parenthood, foreign abortions]. ''LifeSite News''. Retrieved January 23, 2017.</ref><ref>Hellman, Jessie (January 23, 2017). [https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/abortion/315652-trump-signs-executive-order-reinstating-global-gag-rule-on Trump reinstates ban on US funds promoting abortion overseas]. ''The Hill''. Retrieved January 23, 2017.</ref>

Trump was very busy and productive in his first week and showed he was serious about his campaign promises, undoing Obama's illegitimate legacy and instituting conservative executive orders.<ref>Davenport, David (January 27, 2017). [https://www.forbes.com/sites/daviddavenport/2017/01/27/how-trump-managed-to-undo-obamas-legacy-in-one-week/#3ae6bcba5bbf How Trump Managed To Undo Obama's Legacy In One Week]. ''Forbes''. Retrieved January 27, 2017.</ref><ref>Said-Moorhouse, Lauren (January 26, 2017). [https://www.cnn.com/2017/01/26/politics/executive-orders-presidents-actions-presidential-memoranda/ What's Trump done so far? His productive first week and how it stacks up to previous presidents]. ''CNN''. Retrieved January 27, 2017.</ref><ref>[https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2017/01/28/president-trumps-first-week-action President Trump's First Week of Action]. ''whitehouse.gov''. January 28, 2017. Retrieved January 28, 2017.</ref> This caused the [[stock market]] to increase, and the [[Dow Jones]] passed 20,000 points for the first time in history.<ref>Imbert, Fred (January 25, 2017). [https://www.cnbc.com/2017/01/25/us-markets.html Dow closes above 20,000 for first time as Trump orders send stocks flying]. ''CNBC''. Retrieved January 25, 2017.</ref><ref>Craig, Victoria (January 25, 2017). [https://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/2017/01/25/dow-races-past-20k-in-reinvigorated-trump-rally.html Dow Races Past 20K in Reinvigorated Trump Rally]. ''Fox Business''. Retrieved January 25, 2017.</ref> On March 1, 2017, the day after Trump made his first address to a joint-session of Congress, the stock market rose dramatically again, with the Dow Jones passing the 21,000 mark for the first time in history.<ref>Witkowski, Wallace; Mahmudova, Anora (March 1, 2017). [https://www.marketwatch.com/story/wall-street-stocks-set-to-resume-rally-on-fed-rate-hike-hopes-trump-relief-2017-03-01 Dow closes above 21,000 as stocks soar after Trump speech]. ''MarketWatch''. Retrieved March 1, 2017.</ref><ref>Holcomb, John (March 1, 2017). [https://townhall.com/tipsheet/justinholcomb/2017/03/01/stock-market-booms-past-21000-for-the-first-time-in-history-n2292388 The Trump Bump: Stock Market Hits 21,000 for the First Time in History]. ''Townhall''. Retrieved March 1, 2017.</ref><ref>DeSoto, Randy (March 1, 2017). [http://www.westernjournalism.com/stock-market-hits-new-high-follow-trumps-speech-to-congress/ Stock Market Hits New High Following Trump’s Speech To Congress]. ''Western Journalism''. Retrieved March 1, 2017.</ref>

As evidence of this intense [[mainstream media]] opposition to President Trump, a study published close to the 100th-day mark of Trump's presidency showed that 89% of media coverage regarding Trump was negative.<ref>
* Harper, Jennifer (April 19, 2017). [https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/apr/19/donald-trump-media-coverage-is-89-percent-negative/ As first 100 days in office approaches, media coverage of Trump is 89% negative: Study]. ''The Washington Times''. Retrieved April 20, 2017.
* Noyes, Rich; Ciandella, Mike (April 19, 2017). [https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/rich-noyes/2017/04/18/honeymoon-hell-liberal-media-vs-president-trump Honeymoon from Hell: The Liberal Media vs. President Trump]. ''NewsBusters -- Media Research Center''. Retrieved April 21, 2017.</ref> Additionally, Trump was on track to become the most mocked president on late-night comedy TV in at least 25 years.<ref>[https://www.breitbart.com/big-hollywood/2017/05/04/study-trump-track-mocked-president-late-night-25-years/ Study: Trump On Track to Be Most Mocked President on Late-Night TV in 25 Years]. ''Breitbart News''. May 4, 2017. Retrieved May 4, 2017.</ref>

On April 26, 2017, the Department of Homeland Security, acting under an executive order established by President Trump, established the Victims of Immigration Crime Engagement Office (VOICE), created to help support victims of illegal immigrant crime, and it established the DHS-Victim Information and Notification Exchange, which was created to help those victims track the custody status of the illegal criminals.<ref>
* Singman, Brooke (April 26, 2017). [https://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/04/26/dhs-announces-office-for-victims-illegal-immigrant-crime.html DHS announces office for victims of illegal immigrant crime]. ''Fox News''. Retrieved April 26, 2017.
* McHugh, Katie (April 26, 2017). [https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/04/26/dhs-kelly-voice-victims-illegal-alien-criminals/ DHS Kelly Creates VOICE For Many Victims of Illegal Alien Criminals]. ''Breitbart News''. Retrieved April 26, 2017.
* McHugh, Katie (April 25, 2017). [https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/04/25/dhs-unveil-voice-office-victims-illegal-alien-crime/ DHS to Unveil VOICE Office for Victims of Illegal Alien Crime]. ''Breitbart News''. Retrieved April 26, 2017.</ref> However, leftists took to pranking the phone line created, showing disrespect to the victims of illegal immigration.<ref>Singman, Brooke (April 27, 2017). [https://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/04/27/ice-rips-pranksters-jamming-hotline-to-report-space-aliens.html ICE rips pranksters jamming hotline to report space aliens]. '' Fox News''. Retrieved April 27, 2017.</ref>

Canadian Prime Minister [[Justin Trudeau]] described President Trump as being very authentic – the way he acts in public is like how he does in private.<ref>Yilek, Caitlin (August 31, 2017). [https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/canadian-prime-minister-justin-trudeau-trump-is-surprisingly-authentic/article/2633107 Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau: Trump is surprisingly 'authentic']. ''Washington Examiner''. Retrieved August 31, 2017.</ref>

====Temporary immigration and refugee suspensions====
{{See also|Donald Trump achievements: Immigration and border security}}
Trump received criticism from liberals and [[establishment]] Republicans<ref>McHugh, Katie (January 31, 2017). [https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/01/31/establishment-republicans-bash-trumps-executive-order-on-immigration-refugee-resettlement/ Establishment Republicans Bash Trump’s Executive Order on Immigration, Refugee Resettlement]. ''Breitbart''. Retrieved January 31, 2017.</ref> when he signed an executive order temporarily banning immigration from certain high-risk Islamic countries as well as refugee entry. Despite this criticism, 49 percent of the American public supported the decision compared to 41 percent opposed, according to the "mainstream" Reuters,<ref>Kahn, Chris (January 31, 2017). [https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-immigration-poll-exclusive-idUSKBN15F2MG Exclusive: Only a third of Americans think Trump's travel ban will make them more safe]. ''Reuters''. Retrieved January 31, 2017.</ref> and 57% percent of likely American voters supported the ban according to Rasmussen.<ref>[http://m.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/current_events/immigration/january_2017/most_support_temporary_ban_on_newcomers_from_terrorist_havens Most Support Temporary Ban on Newcomers from Terrorist Havens].'' January 2017. Retrieved February 2, 2017.</ref> Additionally, while the leftist [[establishment]] European leaders opposed the ban, a strong majority—55% average—of Europeans support the ban, according to a poll in 10 [[European Union]] nations.<ref>Shaw, Adam (February 9, 2017). [https://www.foxnews.com/world/2017/02/09/majority-europeans-in-favor-trump-style-muslim-ban-poll-shows.html Majority of Europeans in favor of a Trump-style Muslim ban, poll shows]. ''Fox News''. Retrieved February 9, 2017.</ref><ref>Jamieson, Alastair (February 8, 2017). [https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/europes-border-crisis/majority-leading-eu-nations-support-trump-style-travel-ban-poll-n718271 Majority in Leading EU Nations Support Trump-Style Travel Ban: Poll]. ''NBC News''. Retrieved February 9, 2017.</ref> On March 6, 2017, Trump signed a second executive order concerning the temporary suspension of refugees and others from certain high-risk countries after the first one was blocked by the courts. The second order made some clarifications and minor improvements over the first, such as exempting green card holders from the ban and excluding [[Iraq]] from it as it had developed an acceptable vetting process.<ref>Munro, Neil (March 6, 2016). [https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/03/06/trump-new-refugees-executive-pushes-back-judges/ Donald Trump Signs Executive Order Banning Travel from Six Terror-Tied Countries]. ''Breitbart''. Retrieved March 6, 2017.</ref><ref>Chakraborty, Barnini (March 6, 2017). [https://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/03/06/trump-signs-new-immigration-order-narrows-scope-travel-ban.html Trump signs new immigration order, narrows scope of travel ban]. ''Fox News''. Retrieved March 6, 2017.</ref>

Trump showed he would not tolerate incompetent leftist administration officials when he fired acting [[United States Department of Justice|Attorney General]] [[Sally Yates]] (a left-wing Obama holdover) when she refused to defend his refugee and immigration ban executive order.<ref>[https://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/01/30/acting-ag-tells-justice-department-staff-not-to-defend-trumps-refugee-order.html Trump fires acting AG after Justice Department staff told not to defend refugee order]. ''Fox News''. January 30, 2017. Retrieved January 31, 2017.</ref><ref>[https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2017/01/30/statement-appointment-dana-boente-acting-attorney-general Statement on the Appointment of Dana Boente as Acting Attorney General]. ''whitehouse.gov''. January 30, 2017. Retrieved January 31, 2017.</ref> Trump emulated [[Ronald Reagan]]'s firing of the striking PATCO workers in 1981 by doing so,<ref>Boyle, Matthew (January 30, 2017). [https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/01/30/trumps-patco-moment-emanating-reagan-president-takes-control-federal-government-protect-country-citizens/ Trump’s PATCO Moment: Emanating Reagan, the President Takes Control of Federal Government to ‘Protect the Country and Its Citizens’]. ''Breitbart''. Retrieved January 31, 2017.</ref> contrary to the [[mainstream media]] spin.<ref>Kurtz, Howard (February 1, 2017). [https://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/02/01/trumps-firing-defiant-obama-holdover-why-hes-no-richard-nixon.html Trump's firing of a defiant Obama holdover: Why he's no Richard Nixon]. ''Fox News''. Retrieved February 1, 2017.</ref> That same night, Trump replaced the acting director of [[Immigration and Customs Enforcement]] (another Obama holdover) with a more competent official who had a reputation for enforcing immigration laws.<ref>Chamberlain, Samuel (January 31, 2017). [https://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/01/31/trump-names-thomas-homan-acting-director-ice-replacing-obama-holdover.html Trump names Thomas Homan acting director of ICE, replacing Obama holdover]. ''Fox News''. Retrieved January 31, 2017.</ref><ref>Berman, Mark; Zapotosky, Matt (January 30, 2017). [https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2017/01/30/trump-appoints-new-immigration-and-customs-enforcement-director-noted-for-his-work-deporting-illegal-immigrants/?utm_term=.addf12ae690a Trump appoints new Immigration and Customs Enforcement director noted for his work deporting illegal immigrants]. ''The Washington Post''. Retrieved January 31, 2017.</ref>

====Reducing regulations and government====
:''For more information, see [[Donald Trump achievements: Deregulation and government size]]''
In the first six weeks of Trump's presidency, over 90 regulations were repealed, whether through executive orders, Acts of Congress, or other means.<ref>Farand, Chloe (March 6, 2017). [http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/donald-trump-federal-state-regulations-month-oval-office-white-house-us-president-deregulate-a7614031.html Donald Trump disassembles 90 federal state regulations in just over a month in White House]. ''The Independent''. Retrieved March 7, 2017.</ref><ref>[https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3480299-10-Examples-Industries-Push-Followed-by-Trump.html#document/p60/a341284 Trump-Era Trend: Industries Protest. Regulations Rolled Back. A Dozen Examples]. ''The New York Times'' (through ''DocumentCloud''). Retrieved March 7, 2017.</ref> Trump also signed numerous executive actions promoting a smaller government.

====Economic progress====
[[File:Real Disposable Personal Income Per Capita.png|right|350px|thumb|Real Personal Income gains under President Trump beginning from the flat base of President Obama's last year in office. ''Source: Federal Reserve Board'']]
{{See also|Donald Trump achievements: Economic policy and labor}}
In May 2017, the unemployment rate fell from 4.4% from 4.3%, the lowest since May 2001, as the number of unemployed persons was little changed at 6.9 million and the labor force participation rate fell to 62.7 percent.<ref>[https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/unemployment-rate United States Unemployment Rate]. ''tradingeconomics.com''. Retrieved June 14, 2017.</ref>

According to a Rasmussen survey, consumer confidence is the second-highest it's been in the index's history. The market cap of the U.S. stock market has risen more than $3 trillion since Mr. Trump was elected. Small-business confidence has surged to a 12-year high.

====Supreme Court====
{{See also|Donald Trump achievements: The courts|Trump Supreme Court}}
On January 31, 2017, Trump nominated Neil Gorsuch to the [[Supreme Court of the United States|U.S. Supreme Court]].<ref>Klukowski, Ken (January 31, 2017). [https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/01/31/trump-nominates-judge-neil-gorsuch-supreme-court/ Trump Nominates Judge Neil Gorsuch to Supreme Court]. ''Breitbart''. Retrieved January 31, 2017.</ref><ref>Hurley, Lawrence; Holland, Steve (January 31, 2017). [https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-court-trump-idUSKBN15F1OW Trump picks conservative judge Gorsuch for U.S. Supreme Court]. ''Reuters''. Retrieved January 31, 2017.</ref> The nomination was well received by many conservatives.<ref>Chamberlain, Steve (January 31, 2017). [https://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/01/31/reaction-to-trumps-supreme-court-pick-split-along-partisan-lines.html Conservatives hail Trump's Supreme Court pick]. ''Fox News''. Retrieved January 31, 2017.</ref><ref>Ertelt, Steven (January 31, 2017). [https://www.lifenews.com/2017/01/31/president-donald-trump-nominates-pro-life-friendly-judge-neil-gorsuch-to-the-supreme-court/ President Donald Trump Nominates Pro-Life-Friendly Judge Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court]. ''LifeNews.com''. Retrieved January 31, 2017.</ref> Others, most notably [[Andrew Schlafly]], disagreed with the nomination due to concerns about Gorsuch's position on abortion.<ref>Dannenfelser, Marjorie (January 31, 2017). [https://townhall.com/columnists/marjoriedannenfelser/2017/01/31/the-truth-about-trumps-prolife-scotus-list-n2279232 The Truth about Trump’s Pro-life SCOTUS List]. ''Townhall''. Retrieved February 1, 2017.</ref><ref>http://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Template:Mainpageright&diff=1302133&oldid=1301962</ref>

Upon the swing justice [[Anthony Kennedy|Anthony Kennedy's]] announcement on June 21, 2018, that he would retire from the Court at the end of the succeeding month, Trump nominated the conservative [[Brett Kavanaugh]] to replace him.<ref>Mason, Ian (July 9, 2018). [https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/07/09/trump-brett-kavanaugh-supreme-court-nominee/ Trump Announces Brett Kavanaugh as Supreme Court Nominee] ''Breitbart News''.</ref>

====Public trust====
According to a poll conducted by [[Emerson College]] on February 5–6, 2017, more Americans trust the Trump Administration than the media.<ref>McHugh, Katie (February 9, 2017). [https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/02/09/poll-voters-trust-trump-administration-media/ Poll: Voters Trust Trump Administration More Than Media]. ''Breitbart''. Retrieved February 9, 2017.</ref>

====Coronavirus pandemic====
{{See also|Covid coverup}}
President Trump deferred heavily to [[Hillary Clinton]]-supporter [[Anthony Fauci]], a [[Deep State]] bureaucrat in the [[National Institutes of Health]], in responding to the [[coronavirus]] pandemic in early 2020. Trump mistakenly rejected the advice of [[White House]] official [[Peter Navarro]] to take early action cutting off travel from [[China]], and to make [[hydroxychloroquine]] widely available.

Trump's polls numbers declined largely because of his deference to Fauci and unwillingness to take the advice of Navarro. John Fleming, an adviser to Chief of Staff [[Mark Meadows]], also misled Trump by denying the benefits of widespread access to hydroxychloroquine, as other countries have done to defeat [[COVID-19]].

Trump and his wife Melania tested positive for the [[Wuhan virus]] in early October 2020.<ref>Multiple references:
*[https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/10/01/president-donald-trump-first-lady-melania-trump-test-positive-for-coronavirus/ President Donald Trump, First Lady Melania Trump Test Positive for Coronavirus]
*[https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/519282-president-trump-melania-trump-test-positive-for-covid-19 President Trump, Melania Trump test positive for COVID-19]
*[https://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2020/10/02/breaking-president-trump-and-first-lady-test-positive-for-wuhancoronavirus-n2577338 BREAKING: President Trump and First Lady Test Positive for Wuhan Coronavirus]
*[https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-first-lady-test-positive-covid-19-n1241769 Trump, first lady test positive for Covid-19]</ref> The mainstream media have started mocking him, some believing he deserved his positive COVID-19 test; Pence is also vulnerable, since many of his workers have contracted the [[Wuhan coronavirus]]. [[Leftists]] and the [[MSM]] attempted to downplay Trump's experiences with the virus, claiming that the average American would not have received similar medication. Trump's strong leadership against the coronavirus even after falling ill to it himself shocked many.

====Trump 45 Website: 45 Office ====
{{main|45 Office}}
On March 29, 2021, Trump launched 45 Office.

==Political positions==

====Social Issues====
{{See also|Donald Trump achievements: Religious liberty and LGBT|Donald Trump achievements: Abortion|Donald Trump achievements: Healthcare, welfare, and other social issues}}
[[File:Donald-Trump-Rosa-Parks.jpg|right|350px|thumb|Donald Trump received the Ellis Island Medal of Honor from the National Ethnic Coalition of Organizations in 1986 for improving the lives of African-American urban youths. From left to right: [[Anita Bryant]], [[Muhammad Ali]], [[Rosa Parks]], and Donald Trump.]]
At the 2011 [[CPAC]] conference, Trump announced he is [[pro-life]].<ref>Rahn, Will (February 10, 2011). [https://dailycaller.com/2011/02/10/trump-at-cpac-points-to-white-house-run/ "Trump at CPAC points to White House run"]. The Daily Caller website.</ref> Trump would not fund Planned Parenthood and the government should not give funds to any organizations that perform abortions<ref>Carroll, Lauren (May 1, 2016) [https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/may/01/ted-cruz/donald-trump-hillary-clinton-planned-parenthood/ "Do Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton agree on Planned Parenthood funding?"] Politifact website.</ref> However, he supports abortion in cases of rape, incest, or danger to the mother or child.<ref>Ertelt, Steven (February 1, 2016). [https://www.lifenews.com/2016/02/01/mike-huckabee-defends-donald-trumps-abortion-conversion-he-is-pro-life-now/ "Mike Huckabee defends Donald Trump’s abortion conversion: 'He is pro-life now'"] LifeNews.com.</ref>

Trump says that the controversy regarding the legalization of [[same-sex marriage]] doesn't matter, because it's "settled law" now.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20120831060550/http://www.gop.com/2012-republican-platform_We/#Item3 "Republican platform: We believe in America"] (bef. August 31, 2012). GOP.com website. Archived at Internet Archive on August 31, 2012.</ref> Furthermore, Trump believes that homosexual couples should have the same adoption rights as straight couples<ref>Guo, Jeff (August 10, 2016). [https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/08/10/how-donald-trump-is-slowly-teaching-republicans-to-embrace-gay-rights/ "Donald Trump is teaching the GOP a different way to embrace gay rights".] ''Washington Post'' website.</ref> and has voiced open support for the LGBTQ community, becoming the first Republican president to do so.{{cn}} He has stated that he will do everything he can do to protect the LGBTQ community, from Islamic extremists.

Trump says that a business should be able to deny service to a customer if the request conflicts with the owner's religious beliefs?<ref name="christiantoday.com">Hicap, Jonah (June 2, 2015). [http://www.christiantoday.com/article/donald.trump.vows.to.be.the.greatest.representative.of.christians.if.he.wins.white.house/55023.htm "Donald Trump: 'I will be the greatest representative of Christians if I win the White House'"]. Christian Today website.</ref> Trump would not require health insurance providers to offer free birth control.<ref>Associated Press (February 11, 2012). [https://web.archive.org/web/20151128095810/http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/washington/story/2012-02-11/obama-birth-control-cpac/53046728/1 "GOP conservatives unite against birth control coverage"]. ''USA Today'' website/News/Washington. Retrieved from November 28, 2015 archive at Internet Archive.</ref>

Trump doesn't think that universities should provide “trigger warnings” and “safe spaces” for students.<ref>Hashmi, Siraj (November 10, 2016). [http://redalertpolitics.com/2016/11/10/safe-spaces-handed-election-donald-trump/ "Safe Spaces handed the election to Donald Trump"]. Red Alert Politics website.</ref>

Trump believes that marital rape be classified and punished as severely as non-marital rape.<ref>Diamond, Jeremy (July 28, 2015). [https://www.cnn.com/2015/07/28/politics/donald-trump-adviser-michael-cohen-rape/ "Trump distances himself from top aide's rape comment"]. CNN website/Politics.</ref>

Trump would not add "Gender Identity" to anti-discrimination laws.<ref>http://www.advocate.com/politics/2016/5/24/donald-trump-claims-accommodating-transgender-people-too-expensive</ref>

Trump wouldn't support a [[separation of church and state]] by removing references to God on money, federal buildings, and national monuments.<ref name="christiantoday.com"/>

Trump says that after a psychological examination to show they fully understand this choice, terminally ill patients be allowed to end their lives via [[assisted suicide]].<ref>http://wingspanonline.net/?p=2398</ref>

Trump supports the [[death penalty]].<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/1989/05/01/nyregion/angered-by-attack-trump-urges-return-of-the-death-penalty.html</ref>

Trump thinks that the military should allow women to serve as long as they can pass the same physical tests as men.<ref>https://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/donald-trump-women-combat-tricky/2015/12/06/id/704736/</ref> (Compare [[gender norming]].)

Trump says that board members of a business should be the most qualified regardless of gender.<ref>https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3269718/Trump-gives-young-feminist-brush-equal-pay-abortion-going-make-good-job-happen-pro-life.html</ref>

Trump does not believe that the government can show a confederate flag on public property.<ref>https://www.cbsnews.com/news/donald-trump-tees-off-on-the-confederate-flag/</ref>

Trump believes that women should be allowed to wear a Niqāb, or face veil, to civic ceremonies.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFVCZhFsNR8</ref>

====Immigration====
{{See also|Donald Trump achievements: Immigration and border security}}
See the discussion in the introduction above. This is Trump's main campaign issue.

A central part of his immigration plan is to build a giant wall on the border with Mexico. Trump estimates it will cost $8 billion, approximately 35 to 40 feet high and stretch 2000 miles.<ref>[https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/02/09/donald-trump-the-wall-is-probably-8-billion Trump Border Wall]</ref> During the campaign, Trump promised that Mexico will pay for the wall, but after taking office, he clarified that payment could be in the form of a tax on Mexican imports or other revenues measures after the Mexican government showed opposition towards Trump's plan.

Trump has also proposed to temporarily ban [[Muslims]] from entering the United States, until "our leaders figure out what the hell is going on," in order to protect Americans from the threats posed by [[Islamic]] [[refugee]]s (and those pretending to be<ref>[http://m.washingtonexaminer.com/isis-fighters-infiltrating-syrian-refugees-uk-is-warned/article/2572051 ISIS fighters infiltrating Syrian refugees, UK is warned]</ref>) entering the country.<ref>[http://www.donaldjtrump.com/media/donald-trump-insists-muslim-ban-is-about-safety-not-religion Donald Trump Insists Muslim Ban Is About Safety, Not Religion]</ref>

Efforts have been made by hostile journalists to paint Trump as advocating a [[Muslim registry]], but what he actually proposed was a [[database for Syrian refugees]].

====Economic Issues====
{{See also|Donald Trump achievements: Economic policy and labor|MAGAnomics}}
Trump's economic plan is designed to make the country more competitive by implementing policies that apply to all companies: cutting taxes, including the corporate tax rate, repealing and rolling back stifling regulations, including the biggest of them all, Obamacare and those clobbering the energy sector, renegotiating trade deals such as NAFTA, and killing off the nascent [[Trans-Pacific Partnership]].<ref>Crowley, Monica (December 7, 2016). [https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/dec/7/donald-trump-and-the-art-of-getting-it-done/ Donald Trump and the art of getting it done]. ''The Washingon Times''. Retrieved December 10, 2016.</ref>

Trump would not require employers be required to pay men and women the same salary for the same job as there are too many other variables such as education, experience, and tenure that determine a fair salary.

''Trump has not answered whether welfare recipients be tested for drugs.''

Trump said he would require businesses be required to provide paid leave for full-time employees during the birth of a child or sick family member.

Trump would raise the federal minimum wage.

Trump believes there should be more restrictions on current welfare benefits.

Trump would instate a 35% tariff on all imports from China even though he used Chinese steel to build all of his Trump Towers.<ref>http://www.newsweek.com/how-donald-trump-ditched-us-steel-workers-china-505717</ref>

Trump would also lower the corporate tax rate.<ref>https://www.donaldjtrump.com/press-releases/an-america-first-economic-plan-winning-the-global-competition</ref>

Trump says that the U.S. shouldn't continue to participate in the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).<ref>https://money.cnn.com/2016/09/16/news/economy/donald-trump-nafta-mexico-china-tariff/</ref>

Trump would cut public spending in order to reduce the public debt.<ref>https://www.pbs.org/newshour/updates/donald-trump-believe-candidate-stands-10-issues/</ref>

Trump believes that the government is currently over-regulating private businesses and that it shouldn't require businesses to pay salaried employees, making up to $46k/year, time-and-a-half for overtime hours.<ref>https://www.politico.com/tipsheets/morning-shift/2016/08/trump-v-overtime-rule-215883</ref>

Trump thinks that the government should prevent “mega mergers” of corporations that could potentially control a large percentage of market share within its industry.<ref>https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2016-10-22/trump-would-block-proposed-at-t-time-warner-merger-if-elected</ref>

Trump said that labor unions, in theory help the economy but have recently become corrupt and should have their powers limited.<ref>http://projects.newsday.com/opinion/newsday-editorial-board-interviews-donald-trump/#nypd</ref>

Trump would increase the tax on profits from the sale of stocks, bonds, and real estate.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4I5QUGRf-Q&feature=youtu.be</ref>

Trump believes economic stimulus will aid the country during times of recession.<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/03/us/politics/trump-clinton-infrastructure.html?_r=0</ref>

Trump thinks the Federal Reserve Bank should be audited by Congress.<ref>https://www.reuters.com/article/usa-election-trump-fed-idUSL1N12Y1ZG20151103</ref>

Trump doesn't support the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) as this will incentivize companies to move U.S. jobs overseas.<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/07/us/politics/transcript-of-the-republican-presidential-debate-in-new-hampshire.html</ref>

Trump would eliminate the [[estate tax]].<ref>https://thehill.com/policy/finance/290825-clinton-to-criticize-trumps-plan-to-repeal-the-estate-tax</ref>

Trump would end all government subsidies and let the free market run its course.<ref>http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/17cfa1a0-0b9e-11e5-a06e-00144feabdc0.html#axzz3e0UlsdmX</ref>

''Trump has not answered if pension payments be increased for retired government workers.''

Trump favors an increased sales tax in order to reduce property taxes even though sales tax would not provide a steady stream of income.<ref>http://www.taxjusticeblog.org/archive/2015/06/donald_trumps_regressive_and_r.php#.VYr8_hNViko</ref>

Trump supports pension plans for federal, state, and local government workers be transitioned into privately managed accounts.<ref name="donaldjtrump.com"/>

Trump said that the U.S. government should not bailout Puerto Rico.<ref>http://mms.tveyes.com/PlaybackPortal.aspx?SavedEditID=c89b639c-07de-4a0f-a634-dda08e3de95a</ref>

Trump believes citizens should not be allowed to save or invest their money in offshore bank accounts as too many wealthy citizens are abusing loopholes in offshore banking laws to evade taxes.<ref>https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-puts-his-money-in-companies-that-stash-cash-abroad/</ref>

Trump would not apply an in-state sales tax apply to online purchases of in-state buyers from out-of-state sellers.<ref>http://bigstory.ap.org/article/ce65fe3f0bbd43c19cf17c5c8da8d958/trump-amazons-bezos-uses-washington-post-avoid-taxes</ref>

Trump thinks that the government classify Bitcoin as a legal currency.<ref>https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/trump-presidency-boost-bitcoin-price/</ref>

====Tariffs====
{{See also|Donald Trump achievements: Trade policy}}
[[File:Donald Trump RNC July 2016.jpg|thumb|Trump accepting the GOP nomination in Cleveland on June 21, 2016.]]
At the 2011 [[CPAC]] conference, he stated that he supports a 25% [[tariff]] on Chinese goods.<ref name=Educ/> The number floated around in 2016 is a 45% tariff. Trump was speaking in regards to China and the [[World Trade Organization]],<ref>[https://www.wsj.com/articles/chinese-finance-ministerlou-jiwei-takes-aim-at-donald-trumps-trade-policies-1460892988 Chinese Finance Minister Lou Jiwei Takes Aim at Donald Trump’s Trade Policies, WallStreetJournal, April 17, 2016]</ref>

{{cquote|In a statement from his campaign, Mr. Trump charged that [[China]] was “in total violation of WTO regulations” and that the U.S. “has incompetently allowed them to get away with this” and has failed to impose “equal or greater taxes and tariffs” on China. If he is elected president, Mr. Trump said, China “will learn to deal fairly and justly or we will not deal at all” with Beijing.}}

====Foreign policy====
{{See also|Donald Trump achievements: Foreign policy|American foreign policy|}}
Donald Trump is a [[nationalism|nationalist]] who promised to "put [[America first]]"<ref>[https://insider.foxnews.com/2017/06/07/trump-touts-new-infrastructure-plan-cincinnati-states-america-first-message 'It's Time Finally to Put America First': Trump Touts New Infrastructure Plan]</ref> (See: [[Donald Trump and nationalism]]). At the same time, in April 2017, he stated that "I’m a nationalist and a globalist."<ref>Starr, Penny (April 28, 2017). [https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/04/28/trump-im-a-nationalist-and-a-globalist/ Trump: ‘I’m a Nationalist and a Globalist’]. ''Breitbart News''. Retrieved January 10, 2018.</ref> Trump has been criticized by [[liberal]] [[fascist]]s as a ''[[Putinversteher]]''.<ref>[https://www.tagesspiegel.de/politik/ein-putinversteher-im-weissen-haus-6311155.html Donald Trump and Russia: A Putin sympathizer in the White House], By Claudia von Salzen, ''Tagessiegel'', 02/05/2017. www.tagesspiegel.de</ref>

In July 2015 after the [[U.S.]]-backed [[Maidan coup]] overthrew [[Ukrainian]] [[democracy]],<ref>[https://discover.hubpages.com/politics/Why-America-Overthrew-Democratically-Elected-Government-in-Ukraine Why Did America Overthrow a Democratically Elected Government in Ukraine], Silas Nyamweya, Oct 1, 2021. discover.hubpages.com</ref> Trump explained he wants to improve relationships with [[Russia]]n President [[Vladimir Putin]].<ref>Johnson, Simon (July 31, 2015). [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/11775145/Donald-Trump-Id-get-on-very-well-with-Putin-if-I-were-president.html "Donald Trump: I'd get on 'very well' with Putin if I were president"]. The Telegraph [U.K.] website.</ref> Amidst an explosion of [[Russophobia]] and [[globalist|global]] [[psyops]], the [[James Comey]] [[FBI]] [[colluded]] with the [[2016 Hillary Clinton campaign|Hillary Clinton campaign]] to accuse Trump of "[[colluding]]" with [[Russia]]. In response, the Trump Administration was forced to take several provocative actions against Russia, including some that even the Obama Administration knew were unwise.<ref>Berger, Judson (December 26, 2017). [https://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/12/26/trump-administration-ends-2017-confronting-russia-after-year-collusion-accusations.html Trump administration ends 2017 confronting Russia after year of collusion accusations]. ''Fox News''. Retrieved December 26, 2017.</ref> In an interview with [[ABC]] he correctly asserted that Putin wouldn't make a military move into [[Ukraine]] on his watch. Furthermore, Trump argued in a tweet that the conflict over [[Crimea]] was the fault of the [[Obama administration]].<ref>[https://edition.cnn.com/2016/07/31/politics/donald-trump-russia-ukraine-crimea-putin/ Trump says Putin is 'not going to go into Ukraine,' despite Crimea]</ref> [[NATO]] powers overthrew the [[democracy|democratically]]-elected government of Ukraine in 2014 in order to seize the strategic [[naval]] base at [[Sevastopol]], Russia's only year-round ice-free warm water port giving access to the world and a vital [[strategic]] [[national security]] interest to the [[Russian Federation]].<ref>[https://theworld.org/stories/2016/07/30/putin-has-genuine-interest-protecting-russias-warm-water-port-and-naval-base-crimea Putin has a genuine interest in protecting Russia’s warm-water port and naval base in Crimea], By Mac DefordRebecca Lee Sanchez, GlobalPost, July 30, 2016. theworld.org</ref>

Trump said that the [[Iran nuclear deal]] is bad and as president, he kept his promise by withdrawing from it.

After his election as U.S. president, [[Israel]]i prime minister [[Benjamin Netanyahu]] called Trump "a true friend of the State of Israel."<ref>[https://www.politico.com/story/2016/11/netanyahu-trump-israel-true-friend-231094?lo=ap_c4 Netanyahu calls Trump 'a true friend' of Israel]. ''Politico''. November 9, 2016. Retrieved November 12, 2016.</ref> On February 2, 2017, Trump stated that building new settlements in the [[West Bank]] "may not be helpful" to achieving peace in the [[Middle East]], and he appeared to shift his formerly strong stance on moving the U.S. embassy to [[Jerusalem]] as he had previously stated.<ref>[https://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/02/03/trump-to-israel-settlements-may-not-help-achieve-peace-in-middle-east.html Trump to Israel: Settlements ‘may not help’ achieve peace in the Middle East]. ''Fox News''. February 3, 2017. Retrieved February 5, 2017.</ref> But on December 6, 2017, Trump announced that the U.S. officially recognizes Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and that the U.S. would begin the process of moving the U.S. Embassy from [[Tel Aviv]] to Jerusalem.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://server5.kproxy.com/servlet/redirect.srv/saun/sncfausiyyo/sqrs/p2/the-press-office/2017/12/06/president-donald-j-trumps-proclamation-jerusalem-capital-state-israel|title=President Donald J. Trump's Proclamation on Jerusalem as the Capital of the State of Israel |publisher=White House|accessdate=6 December 2017|date=6 December 2017}}</ref> Trump in 2019 also gave official U.S. recognition to the [[Golan Heights]] as being part of Israel. In recognition for his support of Israel, a plaza in Jerusalem was named for Trump ("Donald Trump Square"), as well as a settlement in the Golan Heights ("Trump Heights")

Trump had criticized [[NATO]] for not fulfilling its financial obligations, going so far as declaring the organization "obsolete", but in April 2017 - after getting promises from NATO partners to make increased financial contributions - Trump retracted the obsolete declaration.<ref>[https://www.breitbart.com/news/the-latest-trump-says-nato-no-longer-obsolete/ The Latest: Trump says NATO ‘no longer obsolete’]. ''Breitbart News'' (from the ''Associated Press''). Retrieved April 21, 2017.</ref><ref>Hagen, Lisa (April 21, 2017). [https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/328558-trump-nato-is-no-longer-obsolete Trump: NATO is ‘no longer obsolete’]. ''The Hill''. Retrieved April 21, 2017.</ref>

Immediately after taking office, Trump had exchanged vitriolic rhetoric with and made threats to North Korea after the latter carried out numerous medium/long-range missile tests and a nuclear test in September 2017. However, in March 2018, Trump announced he would hold a summit with North Korea Chairman Kim Jong Un, making him the first U.S. president to have bilateral talks with a North Korean leader. The first summit was held in Singapore in June 2018, a second in Hanoi in February 2019, and a third informal summit in the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) in June 2019 - during which he became the first sitting U.S. president to step foot on North Korean soil. During the period of the summits, North Korea had halted testing of long/medium-range missiles, as well as nuclear testing (and outside of a few short-range missiles in early May 2019, North Korea hasn't tested any weapons since November 2017.)

On Monday, 7 October 2019, Trump ordered American military forces to withdraw from northern Syria in case Turkish forces and their allies would attack them, meaning the predominantly Syrian Kurdish ''SDF'' (''Syrian Democratic Force'') would not have direct U.S. military support. This decision came after a telephone conversation with Turkish ruler [[Recep Tayyip Erdoğan]] on Sunday,<ref>[https://www.foxnews.com/politics/turkey-announces-incursion-of-northeast-syria-us-backed-kurds-have-vowed-all-out-war Trump pulls back troops from northern Syria ahead of Turkish assault, Pentagon officials 'blindsided']</ref> and Turkish forces soon began advancing into northern Syria to create a buffer zone.<ref>[https://www.foxnews.com/world/turkey-syria-invasion-ground-forces-civilians-dead Turkey announces northern Syria invasion of ground forces; multiple civilians reported dead]</ref><ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUeXaPaKF50 Why Turkey is invading Syria]</ref> In the same week it was announced that it is planned by the U.S. administration to send 1,500 troops to the Middle East because of the tensions between [[Saudi-Arabia]] and [[Iran]].<ref>[https://video.foxnews.com/v/6040831354001/ President Trump plans to send 1,500 US troops to the Middle East]</ref> President Erdogan visited the White House on November 13, 2019.<ref>[https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/11/13/donald-trump-im-a-big-fan-of-turkish-president-recep-tayyip-erdogan/ Donald Trump: ‘I’m a Big Fan’ of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan]</ref>

At his 2nd term, Trump invited Netanyahu to be the first foreign head of State to visit the US (- Feb 4, 2025).
[[File:Trump w Netanyahu at WH 2.4.25.jpg|thumb|Trump w Netanyahu at WH 2.4.25]]
[[File:PMPOTUS5February2-660x440.jpg|thumb|Trump meets Netanyahu 2.4.25]]
[[File:Billboard - Ayalon highway in Tel Aviv, in support of Trump.2.5.25.jpg|thumb|Billboard - Ayalon highway in Tel Aviv, in support of Trump.2.5.25]]

[[File:Image 0cd13d.png|thumb|US drops six ‘bunker buster’ bombs on Iran’s Fordow nuclear plant as Trump declares facility ‘is gone,’ says ‘now is the time for peace’. 6.21.25]]
On June 21, 2025, Trump 'peace through strength' hit a few of genocidal Islamic Relublic of [[Iran]]'s nuclear sites in op. called ''Midnight Hamme.'' And called for the mullahs to seriously considering a deal.<ref>[https://nypost.com/2025/06/21/world-news/us-launches-strikes-on-iran-joining-forces-with-israel-days-after-trumps-tehran-warning/ US drops six ‘bunker buster’ bombs on Iran’s Fordow nuclear plant as Trump declares facility ‘is gone,’ says ‘now is the time for peace’]. NYPost.06.21.25</ref>
It came after the fascistic mullahcracy played around with peace seeking Trump for months. And defensive [[Israel]] began [[Rising Lion]] op.

====Department of Education====
{{See also|Donald Trump achievements: Education}}
At the 2011 [[CPAC]] conference, he stated that he wants to eliminate the Department of Education.<ref name=Educ/>

====Global warming====
{{See also|Donald Trump achievements: Energy and environmental policy}}
Trump does not believe in the [[Climate Change]] hysteria, once stating the "Nobel committee should take the [[Nobel Prize]] back from [[Al Gore]]."

====Homosexual agenda====
For all practical purposes, Trump seems to be on the side of the [[homosexual agenda]]. He supports the creation of new law by the [[U.S. Supreme Court]], as in a new right to [[homosexual marriage]], and declares it the "law of the land" even though Congress passed no such law.

Trump has attended multiple [[same-sex marriage]] ceremonies{{Citation needed}}, but has also said in the past that he opposes same-sex marriage. Trump's views are not yet known on other aspects of the [[homosexual agenda]], such as whether Trump would ban [[conversion therapy]] for minors as [[Chris Christie]] did. The [[Fox News Channel]] debate in August avoided these issues.

====Second Amendment rights====
{{See also|Donald Trump achievements: Gun rights}}
Trump has a mixed record on the [[second amendment]] and against [[leftist]] [[gun control]] and gun free zones. As president, Trump has promised to re-arm military personnel on all American military bases as well as [[ROTC]] recruitment centers, which were disarmed by the [[Clinton Administration]] policy.<ref name=Educ/> Trump was strongly endorsed by the [[National Rifle Association]] in one of its earliest endorsements in an election campaign.<ref>[https://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/05/20/nra-to-endorse-trump.html# Trump wins NRA endorsement, blasts Clinton on gun stance at forum]. ''Fox News''. May 20, 2016. Retrieved October 22, 2016.</ref>

On August 5, 2019, Trump promoted extreme risk protection orders, AKA, red flag laws, to combat the risk of mass shootings. His announcement came after the deaths of 20 people in El Paso Texas. <ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFZKFUuGb4c</ref> <ref>https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-shootings-remarks</ref> <ref>https://www.foxnews.com/us/el-paso-walmart-shooting-20-dead-26-injured-gov-greg-abbott-police-chief-greg-allen</ref>

On December 18, 2018, the Department of Justice amended the regulations of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF), clarifying that bump stocks fall within the definition of “machinegun” under federal law, as such devices allow a shooter of a semiautomatic firearm to initiate a continuous firing cycle with a single pull of the trigger. <ref>https://www.atf.gov/rules-and-regulations/bump-stocks</ref> The ATF also issued a statement saying: "We are faithfully following President Trump’s leadership by making clear that bump stocks, which turn semiautomatics into machine guns, are illegal, and we will continue to take illegal guns off of our streets." <ref>https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/department-justice-announces-bump-stock-type-devices-final-rule</ref> In January 2023, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, by a 13-to-3 vote ruled that the classification was illegal and this ruling is currently under review by the United States Supreme Court. <ref>https://www.npr.org/2023/11/03/1210516804/supreme-court-bump-stocks</ref>

On February 28, 2018, Trump met with lawmakers in the aftermath of a February 14 shooting at a high school in Parkland, Florida, that left 17 people dead. He appeared to support red flag laws and stated: "I like taking the guns early, like in this crazy man’s case that just took place in Florida … to go to court would have taken a long time. Take the guns first, go through due process second.” <ref>https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/376097-trump-take-the-guns-first-go-through-due-process-second/</ref>

====Healthcare Issues====
Trump does not support the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) and would open the markets so insurers can compete across state lines and reduce costs.<ref name="donaldjtrump.com">https://www.donaldjtrump.com/positions/healthcare-reform</ref><ref name=Educ>Breitbart.tv (February 9, 2011). [https://www.breitbart.com/video/2011/02/09/pro-life-donald-trump-would-eliminate-dept-of-education-impose-25-tax-on-china-imports-if-president/ "Pro-life Donald Trump would eliminate Dept of Education, impose 25% tax on China imports if president"]. Breitbart.com.</ref> However, he has also said, "I like the mandate."<ref>[https://dailycaller.com/2016/02/19/trump-on-obamacare-i-like-the-mandate-video/ "Trump On Obamacare: ‘I Like The Mandate’"]</ref>

Trump thinks that the government should regulate the prices of life-saving drugs.<ref>https://www.politico.com/story/2016/01/trump-backs-
medicare-negotiating-drug-prices-218215</ref>

Trump supports the legalization of marijuana for medical use.<ref>https://www.foxnews.com/transcript/2015/06/18/exclusive-donald-trump-on-what-made-him-run-for-president-on-hannity/</ref>

''Donald Trump has not yet answered if he supports the privatization of veteran's healthcare.''

Trump believes that the federal government increase funding of health care for low income individuals (Medicaid).<ref>https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2016-09-15/trump-calls-for-expanded-medicaid-birth-control-without-doctor</ref>

[[File:Donald Trump Speaking in Fountain Hills.jpg|thumb|Trump speaking in Fountain Hills, Arizona in March 2016.]]

====Vaccines====
Trump believes that [[vaccines]] cause [[autism]]<ref>Ferris, Sarah (September 16, 2015). [https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/253980-trump-links-vaccines-to-autism-epidemic "Trump links vaccines to autism 'epidemic'"]. The Hill website/Policy/Healthcare.</ref> and has argued against requiring that so many vaccines be given to infants.

==== Eminent domain====
Trump believes that the government has the right to take [[private property]] upon paying just compensation for both infrastructure and to promote economic development.

==== Supreme Court====
{{See also|Donald Trump achievements: The courts}}
Trump opposed filling the Supreme Court seat held by [[Antonin Scalia]] before the next President takes office. When asked who he might select to the Supreme Court, he said that his sister, a sitting federal court judge, would make a great Supreme Court justice.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://server5.kproxy.com/servlet/redirect.srv/sruj/sfothrfaqegbnvj/suvw/p2/corner/423196/trump-praises-his-sister-pro-abortion-extremist-judge-ramesh-ponnuru|title=Trump Praises His Sister, a Pro-Abortion Extremist Judge|date=Aug 27, 2015|accessdate=February 21, 2016}}</ref>

====Political contributions====
He has been criticized for his substantial contributions to Democrat lawmakers; the majority of those lawmakers are located in the states he resides in: New York and Florida. The amount he has donated since 2008 is $25,000, which is insignificant considering his wealth.<ref>Allin, Olivia (April 30, 2011). [http://www.ontheredcarpet.com/Donald-Trump-calls-nations-leaders-stupid-people-and-blood-sucking-politicians/8104644 "OTRC: Donald Trump calls nation's leaders 'stupid people' and 'blood-sucking politicians'"]. OnTheRedCarpet [news]. Retrieved from ABC7 [KABC Television, Los Angeles] website.</ref>

Trump is not known to be beholden to any big-money donors.

==Presidential campaigns==
===2024 presidential campaign===
{{See also|2024 Donald Trump presidential campaign}}
[[File:Trump 2024 Iconic and Historical Campaign.jpg|thumbnail|The 2024 is a memorable campaign that we all will remember in our hearts.]]

Donald Trump officially declared his candidacy for the 2024 presidential election on November 15, 2022. His announcement took place at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, where he expressed his intention to reclaim the presidency. Trump emphasized themes of nationalism and economic revival.

In a notable development, Trump secured the necessary delegates to become the Republican nominee, setting the stage for a potential rematch against President Joe Biden, who also confirmed his candidacy but was removed later to install Kamala instead.

At least two assassination attempts were made against him, the first one he saved as a miracle and his faith grows. The second was stopped near a Trump Golf Club in Florida.

He received the support of [[Robert Kennedy, Jr]] and other former democrats, as well as [[Elon Musk]] and even Joe Biden wore a MAGA hat and seemed happy that Kamala lost.
[[File:Trump McDonald's.PNG|right|300px|thumb|Donald Trump working the [[McDonald's]] Drive-Thru window.]]
In a November 2023 CNN Poll: Trump was narrowly leading Biden in hypothetical rematch.<ref>[https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/07/politics/cnn-poll-trump-biden-matchup/index.htmlCNN Poll: Trump narrowly leads Biden in hypothetical rematch], ''CNN'', Nov 8, 2023</ref>

A November 2023 poll showed: voters trust Trump over Biden on Ukraine, Israel and China.<ref>Lauren Irwin, [https://thehill.com/policy/international/4303281-voters-trust-trump-over-biden-on-ukraine-israel-and-china-poll/ Voters trust Trump over Biden on Ukraine, Israel and China: poll], ''The Hill'', Nov 9, 2023</ref>

On the Israel "Palestinian" Gaza regime Hamas war [[Swords of Iron]], Trump said in November 2023, "Sometimes you have to let things play out" - his stand against a [[ceasefire]].<ref>Brett Samuels, [https://thehill.com/policy/international/4304401-trump-israel-hamas-war-let-things-play-out/ Trump on Israel-Hamas war: ‘Sometimes you have to let things play out’] ''The Hill'', 11/10/23 </ref>

[[File:Trump backs Israeli Operation in Gaza - finish the problem - Mar 5 2024.jpg|thumb|File:Trump backs Israeli Operation in Gaza: "finish the problem." (Mar 5 2024)]]
On Mar 5, 2024, Super Tuesday, Trump expressed his full support for Israel's military campaign in Gaza: 'Finish the problem'.<ref>Chris Williams, [https://www.livenowfox.com/news/state-of-the-union-speech-2024 State of the Union: Biden expected to talk immigration, economy, ceasefire], ''Fox News'', March 7, 2024.
<blockquote>
What do Republicans say? Trump has not said much on Gaza. However, he said Israel needs to "finish the problem" in its war against Hamas in Gaza when he recently called into "FOX and Friends."</blockquote></ref><ref>[https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-israel-gaza-finish-problem-rcna141905 Trump breaks silence on Israel's military campaign in Gaza: 'Finish the problem'], ''NBC News'', Mar 5, 2024</ref>

On March 25, 2024, Trump said: Only a fool would have not acted like Israel after Oct. 7.<ref>
Omer Lachmanovitch And Ariel Kahana, [https://www.jns.org/trump-only-a-fool-would-have-not-acted-like-israel-on-oct-7/ Trump: Only a fool would have not acted like Israel on Oct. 7], ''JNS'', Mar 25, 2024</ref> And that "People that were in other administrations with Biden saw him as weak, ineffective, Hamas would have never done that attack if I were there."

Trump's November 2023 video focused on the October 7 massacre:
{{Cquote|Former US President Donald Trump on Saturday released a new campaign video.
The video ad builds on the thousands of people, including 31 Americans, killed by Hamas in Israel since October 7, and slams US President Joe Biden's release of billions of dollars in funds to Iran.

The campaign video said, "Trump played hardball with Iran. Destroyed ISIS. Kept the Middle East at peace. Kept us out of endless wars with strength."<ref>[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/380118 Trump's new video focuses on the october 7th massacre], ''INN '', 11 Nov 2023</ref>}}

On November 10, 2023, [[Elise Stefanik]] filed an ethics complaint against corrupt Trump fraud trial judge [[Arthur Engoron]].{{Cquote|Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) filed a judicial ethics complaint Friday against the New York judge overseeing former President Trump’s civil fraud trial, claiming the judge has shown “inappropriate bias and judicial intemperance” toward the former president and calling on him to resign.

Judge Arthur Engoron has displayed a “clear judicial bias” against Trump and broken “several rules” in the state’s judicial conduct code, Stefanik wrote in a letter to the New York State Commission on Judicial Conduct.<ref>Ella Lee, [https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4304049-elise-stefanik-ethics-complaint-trump-fraud-trial-judge/ Elise Stefanik files ethics complaint against Trump fraud trial judge], ''The Hill'', 11/10/23.</ref>}}

In November 2023, Trump told [[Argentina]]'s President-elect [[Javier Milei]] he plans to visit Buenos Aires.
{{Cquote|Former President Donald Trump has told Argentina’s President-elect Javier Milei that he plans to travel to the South American country so the two can meet.<ref>[https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/trump-tells-argentinas-president-elect-javier-milei-plans-105125913 Trump tells Argentina's President-elect Javier Milei he plans to visit Buenos Aires], ''ABC News'', Nov 24, 2023.</ref>}}

In November 2023, a "representative of Black Lives Matter" (BLM), activist Mark Fisher, endorsed Donald Trump and drew loud applause from supporters.<ref>Thomas Kika, [https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trumps-blm-endorsement-draws-loud-applause-supporters-1849002 Donald Trump's Black Lives Matter Endorsement Draws Loud Applause From Supporters], Dec 2, 2023</ref>

A December 2023 poll found that young voters prefer Trump to handle the Israel-Hamas war.<ref>[https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2023/12/6/iop-youth-poll-fall-23/ Young Voters Sour on Biden, Prefer Trump to Handle Israel-Hamas War in Latest Harvard IOP Youth Poll]. By Thomas J. Mete, ''Crimson'' Staff Writer. Dec 6, 2023</ref>

On December 27, 2023, the Trump team released an ad titled "Burning down", addressing the dangerous border issue by Biden, including drug smuggling and the potential for Hamas-like Islamic terrorist attacks on American soil.<ref>Team Trump (Text TRUMP to 88022)
@TeamTrump:<blockquote>
🚨 MUST SEE — New Ad from Team Trump: “Burning Down”
From Trump War Room.
[https://twitter.com/TeamTrump/status/1740389548712940032?s=20 Dec 28, 2023]</blockquote>
On [https://www.instagram.com/reel/C1Zt_w6Os2V/ Instagram].</ref>

In a December 9, 2023 published [[WSJ]] poll: Trump takes 2024 lead as Biden approval hits new low. "WSJ Poll Finds Unhappiness with Biden’s performance is pervasive, with economic pessimism weighing him down."<ref>[https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/trump-takes-2024-lead-as-biden-approval-hits-new-low-wsj-poll-finds-fb4fca0c Trump Takes 2024 Lead as Biden Approval Hits New Low, WSJ Poll Finds], ''WSJ'', Dec 9, 2023</ref> Trump's lead over Biden grows when independent candidates are included.<ref>[https://www.foxnews.com/politics/poll-shows-biden-hitting-record-low-approvals-falling-behind-against-trump-2024-matchup Poll shows Biden hitting record low approvals, falling behind against Trump in 2024 matchup]. By Michael Lee , Paul Steinhauser, ''Fox News'', Dec 9, 2023</ref>

Another poll showed: "Nikki Haley Absolutely Wrecks Biden By Whopping 17 points — And Trump Tops Biden By 4."<ref>
[https://www.mediaite.com/news/shock-poll-nikki-haley-absolutely-wrecks-biden-by-whopping-17-points-and-trump-tops-biden-by-4/ SHOCK POLL: Nikki Haley Absolutely Wrecks Biden By Whopping 17 POINTS — And Trump Tops Biden By 4.] Mediaite, Dec 10, 2023</ref>

On December 17, 2023, Fox News reported that: "Trump’s lead in GOP primary widens."<ref>Dana Blanton, [https://www.foxnews.com/official-polls/fox-news-poll-trumps-lead-gop-primary-widens Fox News Poll: Trump’s lead in GOP primary widens], ''Fox News'', Dec 17, 2023</ref> "Trump's support stands at 69% in the primary race. That's up 7 points since November and fully 26 points since February."

Meantime, Trump gained a Florida endorsement from [[Marco Rubio]].{{Cquote|Donald Trump has a special interest in embarrassing Ron DeSantis in his home state of Florida, and on the eve of the Iowa caucuses he landed one more prize: the endorsement of Sen. Marco Rubio. Rubio, who ran against Trump in 2016 and lost badly to him in the state's GOP primary, follows Sen. Rick Scott, who backed Trump in early November. Trump had been annoyed that it took Rubio this long, people close to him say, but he'll take the win. The former president, whose legal residence is in Palm Beach, also has the bulk of Florida's U.S. House members on his side<ref>https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/iowa-caucus-republican-primary-2024/card/trump-s-florida-push-gets-another-boost-IsM310GjI9wRELUYzbaJ</ref>}}
[[File:Fox News Poll June.2024.jpg|thumb|Fox News Poll June.2024]]
Jan 2024: Trump beating Biden in Georgia in early 2024 poll.
{{Cquote|President Biden trails former President Trump by eight percentage points in a hypothetical rematch in Georgia, according to an Atlanta Journal-Constitution poll of registered voters out Tuesday.

Why it matters: The poll offers an early warning sign for Biden, who flipped Georgia blue in 2020 for the first time in nearly three decades.<ref>Erin Doherty, [https://www.axios.com/2024/01/16/trump-biden-georgia-poll-2024-rematch Trump beating Biden in Georgia in early 2024 poll]</ref>}}

In his victory speech in Iowa caucuses, Jan 16, 2024, Trump pledged to solve ‘horrible’ situation in Israel quickly if elected. Claiming, Israel would not have been attacked on Oct. 7 if he was still president.<ref>[https://www.jns.org/trump-pledges-to-solve-horrible-situation-in-israel-quickly-if-elected/ Trump pledges to solve ‘horrible’ situation in Israel quickly if elected], ''JNS'', January 16, 2024.<blockquote>
The Republican frontrunner for the White House says that the Jewish state would not have been attacked on Oct. 7 if he was still president.
Former President Donald Trump said on Monday that Israel would not have been attacked on Oct. 7 if he had still been president, and pledged to “solve” the “horrible” situation in the Jewish state if he is reelected in November.</blockquote></ref>

WaPo claimed (19 Jan 2024), that "Trump-supportive Republicans have harder-line views on immigration."
{{Cquote|Unlike non-Trump Republicans, most of his supporters favor deportation and less legal immigration, a poll finds.<ref>Philip Bump, [https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/01/19/trump-supporters-immigration-poll/ Trump-supportive Republicans have harder-line views on immigration], ''Washington Post'', January 19, 2024</ref>}}
Just ahead of the NH primary, Trump leads by wide margin in Post-Monmouth poll finds.
{{Cquote|Haley nearly doubles her support from November, but trails among the Republican Party’s base voters.
<ref>Dan Balz, Scott Clement and Emily Guskin, [https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/01/22/trump-leads-new-hampshire-post-monmouth-poll/ Trump leads by wide margin in N.H. primary, Post-Monmouth poll finds], ''WaPo'', Jan 22, 2024.</ref>}}

A Jan 29, 2024 poll in [[Michigan]] showed: 'Biden vs. Trump, Michigan.
Trump has a 3.1% lead based on 21 polls.' Per ''The Hill'' titling its piece: 'Michigan GOP turmoil threatens effort to flip state for Trump.'<ref>[https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4435973-michigan-gop-kristina-karamo-joe-biden-donald-trump-2024/ Michigan GOP turmoil threatens effort to flip state for Trump], ''The Hill'', Jan 29, 2024</ref>

A Feb 4 2024 published ''NBC'' Poll showed Trump ahead of Biden with 20 points on handling economy.<ref>[https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/poll-biden-trump-economy-presidential-race-rcna136834 Poll: 20-point deficit on handling economy highlights Biden’s struggles against Trump], NBC News, Feb 4, 2024</ref>

A Feb 27, 2024, poll showed:<ref>[https://emersoncollegepolling.com/wisconsin-2024-poll-trump-45-biden-42/ Wisconsin 2024 Poll: Trump 45%, Biden 42% - February 27th, 2024]</ref> '[[Wisconsin]] 2024 Poll: Trump 45%, Biden 42%'.

Mar 2024. [[MSNBC]] anchor dismissed own network's polling, suggesting enthusiasm for Biden may be 'bigger than we think. <ref>Kendall Tietz , [https://www.foxnews.com/media/andrea-mitchell-dismisses-networks-polling-suggests-enthusiasm-biden-bigger-think Andrea Mitchell dismisses own network's polling, suggests enthusiasm for Biden may be 'bigger than we think'], "Fox News'', March 6, 2024<blockquote>
The MSNBC host said Super Tuesday results made her think polling 'is not quite accurate'</blockquote></ref>

As of two days after his [[SOTU]] address, Biden is still behind Trump in battleground States, but Trump's playing catch-up on the Ground.<ref>Ken Thomas and Alex Leary, [https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/trump-biden-2024-polls-65928c84 In Battleground States, Trump Is Ahead in Polls but Playing Catch-Up on the Ground], ''WSJ'', Mar 9, 2024</ref>
"Biden and Democrats have a big cash advantage over Republicans, and have funneled far more to state parties to build campaign infrastructure."

On Mar 11, 2024, "Biden suddenly leads Donald Trump in multiple polls."<ref>[https://www.newsweek.com/presidential-election-latest-polls-biden-trump-1877928 Joe Biden Suddenly Leads Donald Trump in Multiple Polls], ''Newsweek'', Mar 11, 2024</ref>

But according to ''CBS'' reported poll on Mar 12, "Trump leads Biden narrowly in [[Georgia]]."<ref>
[https://www.cbsnews.com/news/poll-trump-biden-georgia-2024-cbs-news/ Trump leads Biden narrowly in Georgia as general election comes into focus — CBS News Battleground poll], ''CBS News'', Mar 12, 2024</ref>

And reported on ''Fox News'' Mar 14 about [[Michigan]]. "Trump holds slight edge over Biden in crucial battleground state: poll."<ref>Paul Steinhauser, [https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-holds-slight-edge-over-biden-crucial-battleground-state-poll Trump holds slight edge over Biden in crucial battleground state: poll], ''Fox News'', 14 Mar 2024</ref>

====Lawfare====
{{See also|2024 election interference|Lawfare}}
As the campaign progressed, Trump faced various legal witch hints against him but remained a dominant figure in the Republican primaries anyways, being victorious against the Fake News. Polls indicated strong support among Republican voters, with a significant percentage expressing approval of his leadership style. His campaign strategy included a focus on rallying grassroots support and leveraging media and podcast appearances (thanks to Barron) to maintain visibility, something Kamala massively failed.

In November 2023, the [[Minnesota]] Supreme Court blocked a bid to remove Trump from the primary ballot in a 14th Amendment challenge.<ref>Marshall Cohen, [https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/08/politics/minnesota-14th-amendment-trump/index.html Minnesota Supreme Court blocks bid to remove Trump from primary ballot in 14th Amendment challenge], ''CNN'', November 8, 2023</ref>

On December 14, 2023, the Michigan Supreme Court rejected Democrat challenges to Trump’s spot on 2024 primary ballot. Saying "it won’t stop former President Donald Trump from appearing on the state’s 2024 Republican primary ballot, turning aside challenges from critics who argue that his role in the 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol disqualifies him."<ref>[https://www.wilx.com/2023/12/14/michigan-court-rejects-challenges-trumps-spot-2024-primary-ballot/ Michigan court rejects challenges to Trump’s spot on 2024 primary ballot], Wilx.com, Dec 14, 2023</ref>

In Apr 2024, Trump was forced to reveal his finances to save his properties.<ref>Jon Jackson, [https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/donald-trump-forced-to-reveal-his-finances-to-save-his-properties/ar-BB1l1MwY Donald Trump Forced to Reveal His Finances to Save His Properties], ''Newsweek'', via ''MSN'', 04/03/2024</ref>

On May 30, 2024: GOP’s Online Donation Platform Overwhelmed After Trump’s Guilty Verdict.<ref>Bradley Jaye, [https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/05/30/gops-online-donation-platform-overwhelmed-after-trumps-guilty-verdict/ GOP’s Online Donation Platform Overwhelmed After Trump’s Guilty Verdict], ''Breitbart'', 05/30/2024.</ref>

[[Dem]] presidential candidate [[Dean Phillips]] (D-MN) urged the [[New York]] governor to pardon Trump.<ref>Tara Suter, [https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4698014-phillips-suggests-hochul-pardon-trump-for-the-good-of-the-country/ Phillips suggests Hochul pardon Trump ‘for the good of the country’], ''The Hill'', June 1, 2024</ref>

June 2024: Trump is to attend [[UFC]] fight days after ‘hush money’ guilty verdict as he shifts focus to campaign.June 2024: Trump to attend UFC fight days after ‘hush money’ guilty verdict as he shifts focus to campaign.<ref>Rich Calder, [https://nypost.com/2024/06/01/us-news/trump-to-hit-ufc-302-mere-days-after-hush-money-guilty-verdict/ Trump to attend UFC fight days after ‘hush money’ guilty verdict as he shifts focus to campaign], ''New York Post '', June 1, 2024 </ref>

Since May/30 verdict, "various polls .. have shown little to no shift towards Joe Biden, and some even suggest a boost for Donald Trump." (Written June 6).<ref>Matt Margolis, [https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2024/06/07/another-post-verdict-poll-that-will-terrify-joe-biden-n4929694 Another Post-Verdict Poll That Will Terrify Joe Biden], ''PJ Media'', 06/07/2024.</ref>

Republican Jewish group rushes to Trump’s defense after historic conviction.<ref>Ron Kampeas,.[https://www.timesofisrael.com/republican-jewish-group-rushes-to-trumps-defense-after-historic-conviction/ Republican Jewish group rushes to Trump’s defense after historic conviction], ''TOI'', May 31 2024</ref>

=====Colorado, Maine rulings=====
On December 20, 2023, Four --out of seven-- state Supreme Court judges in [[Colorado]] illegally banned Trump from the 2024 ballot "without due process."<ref name=wsj>The Editorial Board, [https://www.wsj.com/articles/colorado-supreme-court-donald-trump-ballot-2024-fourteenth-amendment-083b1271 The Folly of Colorado’s Trump Disqualification], ''WSJ'', Dec. 20, 2023.</ref> Explained in the [[Wall Street Journal]]:
"Even if the U.S. Supreme Court overturns the ruling, as it probably will, the Colorado decision will confirm for millions of Americans that Mr. Trump’s opponents will do everything possible to deny them their democratic choice."<ref name=wsj/>

Even [[Chris Christie]], a Trump foe, blasted the Colorado ballot decision.
{{Cquote|Chris Christie said voters - not the courts - should decide if Donald Trump deserves to be reelected in 2024.<ref>Sudiksha Kochi, [https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2023/12/20/chris-christie-blasts-colorado-ballot-decision-trump/71982107007/ Chris Christie, a Trump foe, blasts Colorado ballot decision], ''USA Today'', Dec 20, 2023</ref>}}

[[Bill Barr]], another harsh Trump critic said: it is "legally wrong," will "backfire."<ref>Nick Robertson, [https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4370525-barr-colorado-court-trump-ruling-legally-wrong-will-backfire/ Barr says Colorado court’s Trump ruling ‘legally wrong,’ will ‘backfire’], ''The Hill'', Dec 20, 2023</ref>

[[Alan Dershowitz]] called the ruling "Anti-Democratic, Unconstitutional, Absurd."<ref>Jeff Poor, [https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2023/12/20/dershowitz-on-colorado-ruling-antidemocratic-unconstitutional-absurd/ Dershowitz on Colorado Ruling: Anti-Democratic, Unconstitutional, Absurd], ''Breitbart'', Dec 20, 2023</ref> Saying: "In the 60 years I’ve been practicing and teaching law, I’ve never seen a decision that’s so anti-democratic and so unconstitutional."

[[Liberal media]] admitted that [[Democrat]] judges just bungled this: "Colorado hands Trump a political gift by barring him from the ballot." <ref>[https://www.aol.com/news/colorado-hands-trump-political-gift-162304129.html Colorado hands Trump a political gift by barring him from the ballot], ''NBC Universal'', December 20, 2023</ref>

Days later, [[Maine]] Democrat secretary of state [[Shenna Bellows]] followed suit in unilaterally and illegally banning Trump from the 2024 election in that state.<ref>[https://www.wsj.com/politics/maines-top-election-official-bars-trump-from-states-2024-primary-ballot-2766c6f1 Maine Becomes Second State to Bar Trump From 2024 Primary Ballot]. ''WSJ'', December 28, 2023</ref>

On January 2, 2024, Trump appealed the Maine 14th Amendment election disqualification to the state Superior Court.<ref>Isabella Murray, [https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-appeals-maine-14th-amendment-election-disqualification-state/story?id=106051232 Trump appeals Maine 14th Amendment election disqualification to state Superior Court], ''ABC News'', Jan 2, 2024</ref>

=====Supreme Court ruling=====
On Mar 4, 2024, the Supreme Court ruled that Trump stays on the ballot and it was improper for [[Colorado]] and another state to try to exclude him.<ref>[https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/03/04/supreme-court-decision-trump-colorado-ballot-takeaways/72841402007/ Trump stays on Colorado ballot: What to know from Supreme Court ruling], ''USA Today'', Mar 4, 2024.</ref><ref>Brianna Herlihy, Anders Hagstrom, [https://www.foxnews.com/politics/supreme-court-rules-unanimously-for-trump-in-colorado-ballot-disqualification-dispute Supreme Court rules unanimously for Trump in Colorado ballot disqualification dispute], ''Fox News'', Mar 4, 2024</ref>

====Assassination "joke"====
In Jan 2024, a hot mic catches Journos joking about Trump being assassinated,<ref>Tommy Christopher, [https://www.mediaite.com/news/hot-mic-catches-journos-laughing-and-joking-about-trump-being-assassinated-at-appeals-court/ Hot Mic Catches Journos Laughing and Joking About Trump Being Assassinated At Appeals Court], Mediatie, Jan 9th, 2024</ref> as Trump was in Washington for federal court appearance.<ref>Brian Flood, [https://www.foxnews.com/media/hot-mic-picks-media-members-seemingly-referencing-jfk-assassination-while-setting-trump-live-shot Hot mic picks up media members seemingly referencing JFK assassination while setting up Trump live shot], ''Fox News'', January 10, 2024</ref>

====Assassination attempts====
{{See also|Trump assassination attempt}}
[[File:Fight.PNG|right|300px|thumb|Donald Trump raises his fist immediately after a failed assassination attempt.<ref>[https://youtu.be/O-zrbaXbsLg Trump Hater Cenk Uygur just admitted Trump’s Fist Pump made him proud! 😮], Ovation Eddie 2, Jul 17, 2024. [[YouTube]].</ref>]]
In April 2024 [[Democrat]]s introduced a bill in [[Congress]] to remove [[Secret Service]] protection from [[President Donald Trump]].<ref>[https://dailycaller.com/2024/07/13/flashback-dems-pushed-bill-to-take-away-trumps-secret-service-detail/ Flashback: Dems Pushed Bill To Take Away Trump’s Secret Service Detail], WALLACE WHITE, ''[[Daily Caller]], July 13, 2024. dailycaller.com</ref> The bill's chief sponsor was Rep. [[Bennie Thompson]] who chaired the [[J6 witch hunt]].

To everyone's surprise, Biden refused to step aside after a disastrous debate performance with President Trump on June 27, 2024. Biden was roundly criticized by members of his own party and the [[liberal media]], demanding Biden's resignation.<ref>[https://archive.is/VXMfq#selection-5665.0-5727.12 The Almighty Calls for Biden], The Editorial Board, ''[[The Wall Street Journal]]'', July 7, 2024.</ref> Donors began to bail, and Democrat members of [[Congress]] feared being dragged down with him. Biden dug in, as an anxious party awaited his next move.

On July 5, 2024 ''[[Newsweek]]'' reported ''Supreme Court Just Gave Joe Biden 'a Powerful Tool' ''<ref>[https://www.newsweek.com/joe-biden-supreme-court-presidential-immunity-donald-trump-glenn-kirschner-1921542 Supreme Court Just Gave Joe Biden 'a Powerful Tool'—Legal Analyst], Published Jul 05, 2024 Updated Jul 06, 2024. newsweek.com</ref> citing 'legal analyst' Glenn Kirschner who said that Biden possesses "powers" relating to presidential immunity and noted that "he's gonna have to use them to save democracy." The [[Canadian Broadcasting Corporation]] posted an analysis on the [[SCOTUS]] presidential immunity ruling asking, ''Did the Supreme Court really just give U.S. presidents the power to assassinate opponents?''<ref>[https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/scotus-seal-team-six-analogy-analysis-1.7256053 Did the Supreme Court really just give U.S. presidents the power to assassinate opponents?], Alexander Panetta · CBC News · Posted: Jul 06, 2024. cbc.ca</ref>
[[File:Image (1).jpg|thumb|In Nov 2024, 3 Islamists Iran linked - charged with plot to asassinate Trump before the elections]]
On July 8, just five days before the shooting [[Biden]] told donors in a conference call, "We’re done talking about the debate, it’s time to put Trump in a bullseye."<ref>[https://archive.is/nmJdB Biden told donors on a private call this afternoon: “It’s time to put Trump in the bullseye.”], Kenneth P. Vogel @kenvogel. x.com/kenvogel</ref><ref>[https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/07/13/report-biden-told-donors-it-was-time-to-put-trump-in-the-bullseye/ Report: Biden told Donors it was ‘Time to Put Trump in the Bullseye’'], ELIZABETH WEIBEL, [[Breitbart]]'', 13 Jul 2024. breitbart.com</ref><ref>[https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/07/biden-july-8-were-done-talking-about-debate/ Biden on July 8: ‘We’re Done Talking About the Debate, it’s Time to Put Trump in a Bullseye’], By Cassandra MacDonald, ''[[The Gateway Pundit]]'', Jul. 13, 2024. thegatewaypundit.com</ref><ref>[https://www.youtube.com/shorts/vswiX81IqhQ "Totally Irresponsible": Megyn Kelly Calls Out Biden Saying "Put Trump in a Bullseye" Days Ago], [[Megyn Kelly]], July 12, 2024. [[YouTube]].</ref><ref>[https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/flashback-5-days-ago-biden-said-put-trump-in-a-bullseye/ar-BB1pWbB1 Flashback: 5 Days Ago Biden Said 'Put Trump in a Bullseye'], by Jack Davis, ''The Western Journal, July 13, 2024. msn.com</ref><ref>[https://archive.is/XZ0RE Biden Threat ‘To Put Trump in a Bullseye’ Met With Shrugs, in Contrast With Firestorm Over Palin ‘Crosshairs’], DEAN KARAYANIS, ''New York Sun, July 10, 2024. nysun.com</ref> Two days after the failed attempt Donald Trump was re-nominated as the official [[GOP]] candidate;<ref>[https://nypost.com/2024/07/15/us-news/rnc-kicks-off-with-unanimous-nomination-of-trump-two-days-after-near-assassination/ RNC kicks off with spirited nomination of Trump two days after near-assassination], Josh Christenson, ''New York Post'', Published July 15, 2024. nypost.com</ref> the next day [[Biden]] announced he may drop out of the race.<ref>[https://nypost.com/2024/07/17/us-news/biden-says-medical-condition-could-prompt-him-to-drop-out-if-doctors-came-to-me/ Biden says ‘medical condition’ could prompt him to drop out ‘if doctors came to me’], By Steven Nelson, ''[[New York Post]]'', Published July 17, 2024. nypost.com</ref>

President Trump delivered his Acceptance speech two blocks from where [[President Theodore Roosevelt]] was shot while campaigning for re-election in 1912 and continued delivering his speech with a bullet in his chest.

In 2024, [[Asif Merchant]], Islamic Pakistani National, arrested for involvement in the Islamic Republic of Iran's plot to assassinate Donald Trump.<ref>Eric Tucker, [https://apnews.com/article/iran-pakistan-murderforhire-trump-justice-department-5a3abe0895ae7c2be14f89fc4e49bc53 Pakistani man with ties to Iran is charged in plot to carry out political assassinations on US soil] 'Associated Press'', August 7, 2024.
<blockquote>
WASHINGTON (AP) — A Pakistani man alleged to have ties to Iran has been charged in a plot to carry out political assassinations on U.S. soil, including potentially of former President Donald Trump.

The case disclosed by the Justice Department on Tuesday comes two years after officials disrupted a separate scheme that they said was aimed at former Trump administration national security adviser John Bolton.

Asif Merchant traveled to New York in June for the purpose of meeting with men he thought he was recruiting to carry out the killings, even paying a $5,000 advance to two would-be assassins who were actually undercover law enforcement officers, federal officials said. He was arrested in July as he prepared to leave the United States, after having told the men that he would provide further instructions, including the names of the intended targets, in August or September after he returned to Pakistan.</blockquote></ref><ref>Robert Legare, Nicole Sganga, Andres Triay, [https://www.cbsnews.com/news/pakistani-iran-murder-plot-u-s-officials/ U. S. charges Pakistani with alleged Iran ties in murder-for-hire plot against Trump, U.S. officials] ''CBS News'', August 7, 2024</ref>

In Nov 2024, 3 Islamists Iran linked - charged with plot to asassinate Trump before the elections [Farhad Shakeri], on Oct 7 (the anniversary to Hamas "palestine" led atrocities attack).<ref>[https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-announces-murder-hire-and-related-charges-against-irgc-asset-and-two Justice Department Announces Murder-For-Hire and Related Charges Against IRGC Asset and Two Local Operatives], ''DOJ'', Nov 8, 2024.

Greg Norman, [https://www.foxnews.com/us/iranian-asset-2-others-charged-plot-assassinate-trump-doj-says.amp Iranian asset charged in plot to assassinate Trump, DOJ says]. ''Fox News'' November 7, 2024.</ref>

====Running mates?====
[[File:28pol-swiper-trump-wake-2-bwzv-mobileMasterAt3x.jpg|thumb|Trump visits slain cop Jonathan Diller's family]]
In January 2024, Trump supporters suggested DeSantis, Ramaswamy, Haley as running mates.<ref>[https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/01/03/trump-running-mate-poll/72072380007/ Trump supporters suggest DeSantis, Ramaswamy, Haley as running mates], ''USA Today'', Jan 3, 2024.</ref>

====Iowa Caucuses====

Trump won, easily.<ref>[https://themessenger.com/politics/overwhelming-iowa-win-is-a-little-underwhelming-at-trump-hq Trump’s Historic Win in Iowa Came So Quickly There Was Little Time to Prepare the Celebration at Trump HQ.]</ref> DeSantis edged out Haley. Ramaswamy dropped out.

====Jonathan Diller====

NY: As Biden propaganda team organized an Obama/Clinton recruitment for his campign, Donald Trump’s visit to the family of slain New York City police officer Jonathan Diller was an important moment for the suffering family the officer left behind, one local official said.<ref>[https://www.westernjournal.com/trump-tremendous-comfort-family-wake-slain-nypd-officer-jonathan-diller-official-says/ Trump Was 'Tremendous Comfort to the Family' at Wake of Slain NYPD Officer Jonathan Diller, Official Says], ''Western Journal'', Mar 29, 2024</ref>
{{Cquote|Mr. Trump called the officer’s death a horrible tragedy and, as he often does on the trail, broadly called for a crackdown on violent crime...<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/28/us/politics/trump-nypd-officer-wake.html Trump, Attending Wake of Slain N.Y.P.D. Officer, Pushes Campaign Message on Crime], ''NY Times'', Mar 28, 2024.</ref>}}

====Surprising NY poll====

A poll conducted in May 2024: Trump wins over independents in deep blue NY, trails Biden by mere single digits in historic flip.<ref>Victor Nava, [https://nypost.com/2024/05/30/us-news/biden-leads-trump-by-single-digits-in-new-york-poll/ Trump wins over independents in deep blue NY, trails Biden by mere single digits in historic flip: poll], ''NY Post'', May 30, 2024</ref>

====Some surprises in CA - Silicon Valley====
June/2024: "In Silicon Valley, more support for Trump is trickling in." The liberal [[LA Times]] asks 'Is it a big threat to Biden?'<ref>Anabel Sosa, Seema Mehta, Ashley Ahn, Faith E. Pinho, [https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2024-06-07/2024-election-silicon-valley-and-the-push-for-trump In Silicon Valley, more support for Trump is trickling in. Is it a big threat to Biden?], ''LA Times'', 6/8/2024.</ref>
[[File:GOP platform 2024.jpg|thumb|File:GOP platform 2024]]
====GOP platform====

The GOP platform pledges to stand with Israel, deport ‘pro-Hamas radicals,’ fight anti-Christian bias.<ref>Jacob Magid, [https://www.timesofisrael.com/gop-platform-pledges-to-stand-with-israel-deport-pro-hamas-radicals-from-us/ GOP platform pledges to stand with Israel, deport ‘pro-Hamas radicals’ from US], ''TOI'', July 7, 2024</ref>

====Misc.====
In Apr 2024, Republicans moved to rename major airport after Trump.<ref>George C. Upper III, [https://www.westernjournal.com/republicans-move-rename-major-airport-trump/ Republicans Move to Rename Major Airport After Trump]. ''Western Journal'', Apr 2, 2024</ref>

In an Apr 6, 2024, "Trump campaign says it raised more than $50 million" at a fundraising event. <ref>[https://www.politico.com/news/2024/04/06/trump-campaign-says-it-raised-more-than-50-million-at-saturday-fundraiser-00150937 Trump campaign says it raised more than $50 million at Saturday fundraiser], ''Politico'', Apr 6, 2024</ref>

In end of Apr 2024:
{{cquote|MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace said ...that freedom of the press could end if former President Donald Trump wins re-election in November.
Wallace said, “The annual White House Correspondents’ Dinner is one of the symptoms, one of the signs of a healthy, functioning democracy.<ref>Pam Key, [https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2024/05/01/msnbcs-wallace-if-trump-wins-in-november-freedom-of-the-press-could-end/ MSNBC’s Wallace: If Trump Wins in November Freedom of the Press Could End]. ''Breitbart'', 05/01/2024</ref>
}}

At the 2024 anti-Israel swastika-palestine<ref>Eric Rozenman, [https://www.washingtonjewishweek.com/keffiyeh-as-neo-swastika-fashion-statement/ Keffiyeh as Neo-Swastika Fashion Statement], Washington Jewish Week'', Apr 10, 2024</ref><ref>[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/en/news/387246 Graffiti at NY college: 'Hitler, please come back'] Luke Tress, ''JTA'', Mar 24, 2024.<blockquote>
Queens College Hillel calls pro-Hitler graffiti a threat to student safety, demands action from administration.
...Tensions have been high at Queens College amid the Israel-Hamas war. A meeting between Muslim and Jewish students in November devolved into shouting. Muslim students at the meeting expressed support for Hamas’ Oct. 7 terror attack on Israel, which launched the war, and castigated an imam who organized the talk.</blockquote></ref><ref>Henry Kopel, [https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/how-the-keffiyeh-became-the-21st-centurys-swastika/ How the Keffiyeh Became the 21st Century’s Swastika], ''TOI'', May 19, 2024</ref><ref>[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/389117 Man arrested at pro-Palestinian Arab protest in London for carrying swastika placard], ''INN'', Apr 28, 2024.<blockquote>Two men arrested at Palestine Solidarity Campaign demonstration in the British capital to call for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza.</blockquote></ref><ref>Alana Goodman, [https://freebeacon.com/campus/northwestern-jewish-students-recount-scary-and-shocking-campus-anti-semitism-in-meetings-with-lawmakers/ Northwestern Jewish Students Recount 'Scary and Shocking' Campus Anti-Semitism in Meetings With Lawmakers], ''Free Beacon'', May 2, 2024</ref><ref>[https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/international/diaspora-affairs/artc-israeli-student-at-john-hopkins-assaulted-after-speaking-about-hostages Israeli student at John Hopkins assaulted after speaking about hostages], ''i24 news'', May 2, 2024.
attacker shouted derogatory remarks at her, including demands for her to "go back to Europe,"</ref><ref>[https://www.foxla.com/news/usc-swastika-fencepost-usc-palestine-protest Swastika found drawn on USC campus fence post], ''FOX 11 Digital Team'' May 1, 2024</ref> Campus "protests" mobs,
as police raided Columbia, Trump: 'Beautiful to watch’ police raid Columbia pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel protests.'
<ref>[https://www.timesofisrael.com/trump-beautiful-to-watch-police-raid-columbia-pro-palestinian-student-protests/amp/ Trump: ‘Beautiful to watch’ police raid Columbia pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel protests], By Agencies and ''TOI'' Staff.
2 May 2024.
Former US president and current Republican candidate calls protesters 'raging lunatics and Hamas sympathizers,' says Biden should be speaking out more against university rallies.</ref>

On 14 May 2024, Trump vowed he’ll deport anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian student protesters if elected. Explained, Israel's actions in Gaza are war on terror.<ref>[https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/trump-says-hell-deport-anti-israel-pro-palestinian-student-protesters-if-elected-report/ Trump says he’ll deport anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian student protesters if elected — report]. ''TOI'', 28 May, 2024</ref>
[[File:IMG-20240628-WA0000.jpg|thumb|Trump calls Biden a bad "palestinian"]]
June 2024: Trump leads Biden on immigration, economy, Second Amendment: Fox News poll.<ref>[https://www.foxnews.com/video/6355320248112 Trump leads Biden on immigration, economy, Second Amendment: Fox News poll], ''Fox News'', June 19, 2024.<blockquote>
Fox News senior White House correspondent Jacqui Heinrich takes a look inside Fox News' latest survey on the presidential race and key issues on 'Special Report.'</blockquote></ref>

July 9, 2024: 'Trump holds a 5-point lead over President Biden in the critical battleground state of Wisconsin.'
<ref>[https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4761936-donald-trump-joe-biden-wisconsin/ Trump holds lead over Biden in Wisconsin: Poll], ''The Hill'' Jul 9, 2024</ref>

====Iranian hacking====
Trump campaign said it was hacked (in June 2024), blamed Islamic Republic of [[Iran]].
"The campaign statement came after the news website Politico said it began receiving emails from an anonymous account with documents from inside Trump's operation."<ref>[https://www.jpost.com/american-politics/article-814155 Trump campaign says it was hacked, blames Iran] ''Reuters''
August 10, 2024.</ref>

====Presidential Debates====

June 27, 2024: Trump called Biden ‘a bad Palestinian’ as president’s halting debate showing rattles Dems. After US leader says Netanyahu backs ceasefire proposal laid out last month, predecessor claims Israel wants to continue the war and that it should be allowed to 'finish the job.'<ref>[https://www.timesofisrael.com/trump-calls-biden-a-bad-palestinian-as-presidents-halting-debate-showing-draws-scrutiny/ Trump calls Biden ‘a bad Palestinian’ as president’s halting debate showing rattles Dems.], By JTA, Jacob Magid, and Agencies. ''TOI'', June 28, 2024.<blockquote>After US leader says Netanyahu backs ceasefire proposal laid out last month, predecessor claims Israel wants to continue the war and that it should be allowed to 'finish the job.'</blockquote></ref><ref>[https://www.israelhayom.com/2024/06/27/calling-biden-a-bad-palestinian-trump-says-gaza-war-should-continue/ Trump says Biden 'like a Palestinian' as candidates clash on Israel], ''ILH'', 06-27-2024.<blockquote>
Presumptive Democratic and Republican nominees face off in a contentious presidential debate, offering voters a rare side-by-side comparison of the two oldest candidates ever to run for president.</blockquote></ref><ref>[https://www.ynetnews.com/article/r1xuptiir US presidential debate: Biden: 'We saved Israel'; Trump: 'he's a very bad Palestinian'], ''Ynet'', 06.28.24.<blockquote>
POTUS appears weak, stammering and confused during debate marked by numerous taunts and below-the-belt jabs; GOP candidate: 'Israel would have never been invaded in a million years by Hamas' had he been president.</blockquote></ref><ref>[https://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2024/06/trump-used-word-palestinian-as.html Trump used the word "Palestinian" as a pejorative. He's right], EoZ, June 28, 2024.
<blockquote>
Trump is saying that Biden is taking the Palestinian side in the conflict. This is presumably what Hasan wants as well.

Assuming that Trump used the word in a negative way, he's right. And this is part of the story about Palestinians that no one wants to say.

70-80% of Palestinians support specific terror attacks against Jewish civilians, after the fact, during the last 20 years of polling. These include some of the most horrific attacks like the slaughter of rabbis in Har Nof in 2014, with axes and cleavers.

80% of Palestinians surveyed, in a poll done by Palestinians, said they supported the attack.

In 2008, a terrorist entered the Mercaz Harav yeshiva and started mowing down students. 8 were killed, including 4 children. When Palestinians were asked if they supported that attack, 84% said they did.

In 2003, when asked about the Maxim restaurant suicide bombing in Haifa that murdered 21 including a two month old baby, 75% of Palestinians said they supported it.

And more recent polls show that over 75% of Palestinians supported the October 7 pogrom.

75% isn't 100%, but no one can deny that as a society, Palestinians support murdering innocent Jewish civilians, no matter where they live. Many of them openly cheer those murders.

What kind of people cheer terror attacks? Of course they should be vilified and insulted for their attitudes. Using the word "Palestinian" as a pejorative is quite reasonable without there being any significant Palestinian pushback against the cult of death that their society promotes.</blockquote></ref>

After a disastrous performance at the Presidential Debate, Democrats panicked. <ref>[https://time.com/6993760/joe-biden-debate-disaster-democratic-panic/ Inside Biden’s Debate Disaster and the Scramble to Quell Democratic Panic], ''Time'', June 28, 2024</ref> Liberal NYT called on Biden to quit.<ref>[https://nypost.com/2024/06/28/us-news/ny-times-calls-on-biden-to-drop-out-of-2024-presidential-race-to-serve-his-country/ NY Times calls on Biden to drop out of 2024 presidential race ‘to serve his country’]. By Samuel Chamberlain, ''NY Post'', June 28, 2024</ref> Jill Biden was accused of elder abuse.<ref>[https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13585099/jill-joe-biden-lady-elder-abuse-accusations-election-2024.html Jill Biden accused of 'elder abuse' as she hunkers down with Joe at Camp David despite calls for the president to step aside in the 2024 election], ''Daily Mail'', June 30, 2024</ref> Jill Biden’s ex-husband also joined in slamming her.<ref>[https://nypost.com/2024/06/29/us-news/jill-bidens-ex-husband-slams-first-lady-for-apparently-encouraging-prez-to-stay-in-race-after-debate-disaster/ Jill Biden’s ex-husband slams first lady for apparently encouraging prez to stay in race after debate disaster: ‘I don’t even recognize her’],
By Dana Kennedy, ''NY Post'', June 29, 2024</ref>

{{clear}}

====Mega donors for Trump====

[[Elon Musk]] and [[Miriam Adelson]] where Trump's top financial backers.

====Victory ====

[[File:NYPost- Nov 6, 2024 - He's DON it again.jpg|thumb|NYPost: Nov 6, 2024 - He's DON it again]]

The lame stream media couldn't get their heads around how it happened.
The "analysts" were busy "working it out" all night long.
[[File:Far left helps GOP.jpg|thumb|Far left helps GOP.jpg]]
Democrat Ritchie Torres:<ref>Ritchie Torres @RitchieTorres: ([https://x.com/RitchieTorres/status/1854193086756171879 Nov 6, 2024]):
<blockquote>

Donald Trump has no greater friend than the far left, which has managed to alienate historic numbers of Latinos, Blacks, Asians, and Jews from the Democratic Party with absurdities like “Defund the Police” or “From the River to the Sea” or “Latinx.”

There is more to lose than there is to gain politically from pandering to a far left that is more representative of Twitter, Twitch, and TikTok than it is of the real world. The working class is not buying the ivory-towered nonsense that the far left is selling.</blockquote></ref><blockquote>
Donald Trump has no greater friend than the far left, which has managed to alienate historic numbers of Latinos, Blacks, Asians, and Jews from the Democratic Party with absurdities like “Defund the Police” or “From the River to the Sea” or “Latinx.”

There is more to lose than there is to gain politically from pandering to a far left that is more representative of Twitter, Twitch, and TikTok than it is of the real world. The working class is not buying the ivory-towered nonsense that the far left is selling.</blockquote>
{{clear}}

===2020 presidential election===
{{See also|Donald Trump 2020 presidential campaign|United States presidential election, 2020|Biden Putsch|J6 false flag attack|}}
As an incumbent with a strong economy, Donald Trump was favored to win the 2020 U.S. presidential election. However, Democrats, through the use of [[voter fraud]], stole the election from Donald Trump and gave it to Joe Biden illegally. (see [[Biden Putsch]])

====Donald Trump on Joe Biden's age and his aging====
''See also:'' [[Biden's age]] and [[Donald Trump's age]]

Nate Silver of ''FiveThirtyEight'' wrote about Bidens's age:
{{Cquote|A lot of rank-and-file voters do have concerns about Biden’s age. An NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll in February found that 62 percent of voters had reservations about voting for someone aged 75 or older. [https://news.gallup.com/poll/254120/less-half-vote-socialist-president.aspx Other polls] have also shown advanced age to be a concern among Democrats, Republicans and independents alike.<ref>[https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/are-bidens-opponents-being-too-coy-in-making-age-an-issue/ Voters Care About Biden’s Age — Not About His Gaffes] by Nate Silver,''FiveThirtyEight''</ref>}}

Donald Trump has called Joe Biden "sleepy" and said that "he looks different than he used to, he acts different than he used to, he’s even slower than he used to be".<ref>[https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/07/joe-biden-age-2020/593350/ Is Joe Biden ‘Too Old’?] EDWARD-ISAAC DOVERE, ''The Atlantic''</ref> See also: [[Biden's age]]

The ''[[New York Times]]'' stated:
{{Cquote|Meeting with a group of union officials in the West Wing this year, the president appealed for their support in part by tapping on his head and saying, “Biden is losing it,” according to a participant in the meeting who disclosed the president’s comment on condition of anonymity.<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/29/us/politics/joe-biden-age.html Why Joe Biden’s Age Worries Some Democratic Allies and Voters], ''New York Times''</ref>}}

====Trump's Social Media Ban====
On January 8, 2021, [[Twitter]] and [[Facebook]], in violation of the First Amendment and at risk of being put out of business by the [[Sherman Antitrust Act]] and [[U.S. Color Revolution#Executive Order 13848|Executive Order 13848]] due to their [[antitrust]] violations and censorious actions, illegally censored and silenced President Trump on their platforms by permanently suspending his accounts with them.<ref>[https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/01/breaking-twitter-bans-president-donald-trump-permanently/ BREAKING: Twitter Bans President Donald Trump — PERMANENTLY] at the Gateway Pundit</ref> This was part of co-ordinated collusion between Twitter, Facebook, [[Instagram]], [[Google]] (and its [[YouTube]] subsidiary) and other liberal Big Tech companies to target Trump and his supporters for illegal censorship and silencing of viewpoints and opinions the Left does not like,<ref>[https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/01/__trashed-15/ Big Tech Launches Massive Coordinated Cyber Attack on 74,000,000 Trump Voters — GOP SILENT] at the Gateway Pundit</ref> while simultaneously allowing violent leftist individuals and groups like Antifa and Black Lives Matter to have free run of their sites and say and do as they please. Although not officially confirmed as yet, Fox News host [[Sean Hannity]] later reported that Trump has since moved over to conservative social media website [[Parler]], prompting a wave of new accounts to subsequently open up there.<ref>[https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/01/report-sean-hannity-says-president-trump-joined-parler/ UPDATE – NOT CONFIRMED: Sean Hannity Says President Trump Has Joined Parler] at the Gateway Pundit</ref>

====J6 false flag attack====
{{See also|J6 protests}}

===2016 presidential campaign===
[[File:Donald Trump (29273256122) Phoenix.jpg|thumb|250px|Donald Trump on August 31, 2016.]]
{{See also|2016 U.S. presidential election|Donald Trump achievements: 2016 election and transition}}
====Controversy with Barack Obama====

Trump has questioned Barack Obama's constitutional eligibility to be president, in light of the ongoing questions surrounding his birth certificate.<ref>[https://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=280533 "Trump: Obama spending millions to hide his past"] (March 28, 2011). WorldNetDaily website.</ref> Trump questioned whether the Obama Administration was successful in negotiating with foreign countries. Trump declared during the 2016 election that he no longer would question Obama's eligibility.

====Hillary Clinton====
Trump had pledged, if elected president, to appoint a special prosecutor to further investigate [[Hillary Clinton]]'s use of a private email server whilst Secretary of State, but Hillary took her crushing defeat so hard that Trump charitably softened his stance after winning.<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/22/us/politics/donald-trump-hillary-clinton-investigation.html Donald Trump Drops Threat of New Hillary Clinton Investigation] New York Times - Nov. 22, 2016</ref> A few of Trump supporters, such as [[Ann Coulter]] and [[Breitbart]], expressed disappointment but Trump rose in overall public approval.<ref>[https://www.newsmax.com/Politics/ann-coulter-slams-trump-clinton/2016/11/22/id/760220/ Ann Coulter Slams Trump's Decision on Clinton] Newsmax.com - Nov. 22, 2016</ref><ref>[https://www.breitbart.com/radio/2016/11/23/peter-schweizer-letting-hillary-off-hook-definition-rigged-system/ Peter Schweizer: Letting Hillary off the Hook Is ‘Definition of a Rigged System’] Breitbart.com - Nov. 23, 2016</ref>

====Path to the Nomination====
In the 2015 [[Value Voters Debate|Value Voters]] poll, Trump performed poorly, coming in fifth, indicating many [[Christian]] [[conservatives]] had not yet warmed up to him.<ref>Flores, Reena (September 26, 2015). [https://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-conservative-poll-donald-trump-could-not-win/ "The conservative poll Donald Trump could not win"]. CBSNews website.</ref> Trump is a big supporter of [[gambling]], which most Christians, other religious groups, and [[conservatives]] oppose. But by 2016 Trump was winning more support from [[evangelical]]s than any other Republican candidate.

Trump won the Republican primary, receiving more votes than any other Republican primary candidate in history.<ref>Hoft, Joe (June 7, 2016). [https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/06/trump-trumps-wins-historic-race-record-fashion/ HISTORY! Trump Shatters Republican Primary Vote Record by 1.4 Million Votes]. ''The Gateway Pundit''. Retrieved November 10, 2016.</ref>

====2016 General election====
[[File:Clinton-Tweet-300x406.jpg|right|300px|thumb|[[Hillary Clinton]] and [[Biden]] [[National Security Advisor]] [[Jake Sullivan]] were the sources of the [[Trump-Russia]] smear.]]
Trump faced former liberal Democrat Secretary of State [[Hillary Clinton]] in the general election. Trump's campaign was vastly outspent, outraised, and out-staffed by Clinton's.<ref>[https://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/11/10/more-with-less-trumps-lean-machine-beats-clintons-big-bank-account.html More With Less: Trump's lean machine beats Clinton's big bank account]. ''Fox News''. November 10, 2016. Retrieved November 11, 2016.</ref> The [[mainstream media]] was extremely biased against and unfair towards Trump.<ref>Kurtz, Howard (November 11, 2016). [https://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/11/11/media-remain-hostile-to-donald-trump-even-as-some-pundits-admit-blew-it.html Media remain hostile to Donald Trump even as some pundits admit they blew it]. ''Fox News''. Retrieved November 11, 2016.</ref><ref>[https://www.billoreilly.com/b/Media-Bias-to-the-Extreme/39285014073786148.html Media Bias to the Extreme]. ''BillOReilly.com''. November 11, 2016. Retrieved November 12, 2016.</ref> According to a study, 91% of the media coverage concerning Trump was negative and 96% of campaign contributions from the media went to Clinton.<ref>Bedard, Paul (March 19, 2017). [https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/anti-trump-media-91-coverage-negative-96-of-donations-to-hillary/article/2617828 https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/anti-trump-media-91-coverage-negative-96-of-donations-to-hillary/article/2617828]. ''Washington Examiner''. Retrieved April 27, 2017.</ref>

It was widely expected that Clinton would easily win the election, and the elite pollsters and "political insiders" all predicted a massive Clinton victory.<ref>Vogel, Kenneth P. & Isenstadt, Alex (November 9, 2016). [https://www.politico.com/story/2016/11/how-did-everyone-get-2016-wrong-presidential-election-231036 How did everyone get it so wrong?]. ''Politico''. Retrieved November 10, 2016.</ref><ref>Catanese, David (October 24, 2016). [https://www.usnews.com/news/the-run-2016/articles/2016-10-24/republicans-last-hope-the-polls-are-wrong Republicans’ Last Hope: The Polls Are Wrong]. ''U.S. News & World Report''. Retrieved November 10, 2016.</ref> At least once, when a poll was released that actually showed Trump leading, Clinton's campaign dismissed it as "bad polling".<ref>Nelson, Louis (November 1, 2016). [https://www.politico.com/story/2016/11/clinton-campaign-bad-poll-abc-washington-post-230591 Clinton camp on new survey showing Trump ahead: It’s ‘bad polling’]. ''Politico''. Retrieved November 10, 2016.</ref> Instead, Trump won the election in a massive, historical upset, winning even states such as [[Pennsylvania]], [[Michigan]], and [[Wisconsin]], which a Republican had not won for 20–30 years.<ref>[https://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/11/08/first-polls-close-in-2016-race-trump-projected-to-win-ind-ky-clinton-wins-vt.html Trump wins presidency, defeats Clinton in historic election upset]. ''Fox News''. November 8, 2016. Retrieved November 10, 2016.</ref><ref>Blake, Aaron (November 9, 2016). [https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/11/08/donald-trumps-path-to-victory-is-suddenly-looking-much-much-wider/ Donald Trump just blew up the electoral map]. ''The Washington Post''. Retrieved November 10, 2016.</ref> The predictions were off the mark dramatically. The actual polls themselves were broadly correct showing Clinton leading over Trump by about 2%.<ref>[https://www.redstate.com/jaycaruso/2017/07/16/latest-job-approval-poll-president-trump-awful]</ref> However Trump 'flipped' key districts and states smashing Clinton's so-called 'Blue firewall'.<ref>Flint, Joe & Alpert, Lukas I. (November 9, 2016). [https://www.wsj.com/articles/bad-polling-in-hand-media-misses-mark-badly-with-election-predictions-1478710860 How the Media’s Election Predictions Badly Missed the Mark]. ''The Wall Street Journal''. Retrieved November 10, 2016.</ref> Trump's election victory was described by ''[[Politico]]'' as "the most stunning upset in American history."<ref>Goldmacher, Shane & Schreckinger, Ben (November 9, 2016). [https://www.politico.com/story/2016/11/election-results-2016-clinton-trump-231070?lo=ap_c1 Trump pulls off biggest upset in U.S. history]. ''Politico''. Retrieved November 9, 2016.</ref>

While the GOP increased its vote share across the entire nation, Trump made the largest gains in the rural [[Midwest]] and [[Rust Belt]].<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/11/08/us/elections/how-trump-pushed-the-election-map-to-the-right.html How Trump Reshaped the Election Map]. ''The New York Times''. November 9, 2016. Retrieved November 12, 2016.</ref> Although Clinton won the popular vote 65,515,369 (48.05%) to 62,853,327 (46.09%), according to unofficial results, the large vote totals came from states which have resisted voter identification reforms.<ref>[http://www.inquisitr.com/3719036/3-million-illegal-immigrants-voted-gregg-phillips-votestand-donald-trump-final-popular-vote-count-2016-predictions/ 3 Million Illegal Immigrants Voted, Claims Gregg Phillips Of VoteStand: Donald Trump’s Final Popular Vote Count Alleged To Be Better Than 2016 Predictions], Patrick Frye, ''The Inquisitr'', November 15, 2016</ref> Dr. Robert Epstein of the American Institute for Behavioral Research and Technology testified before Congress that [[Google]] bias and meddling had shifted "between 2.6 million and up to 10.4 million votes" to Hillary Clinton.<ref>https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2019/08/psychologist-google-generated-at-least-2-6-million-votes-for-hillary.php</ref> Trump won the [[electoral college]] vote, 306 to 232, with the incomplete vote count reported.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://server5.kproxy.com/servlet/redirect.srv/sruj/swxn/sjkl/p2/election/results|title=Election Results|accessdate=Nov. 12, 2016}}</ref> Trump won more votes in the general election than any Republican candidate in U.S. history, and he won the largest number of electoral votes since [[George H. W. Bush]].<ref>Hoft, Jim (November 22, 2016). [https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/11/trump-breaks-record-votes-republican-candidate-history/ Trump Breaks Record for Most Votes by Republican Candidate in History]. ''The Gateway Pundit''. Retrieved November 22, 2016.</ref> In addition, Trump won 2,623 counties—the largest number for both a Republican or Democrat since [[Ronald Reagan]] in 1984—while the Democrats won only 489, something even the liberal [[PolitiFact]] admitted to be true.<ref>Jacobson, Louis (December 4, 2016). [https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/dec/04/mike-pence/mike-pence-says-donald-trump-won-most-counties-rep/ Mike Pence says Donald Trump won most counties by a Republican since Ronald Reagan]. ''PolitiFact''. Retrieved December 4, 2016.</ref> Geographically speaking, Trump accordingly won 85 percent of the nation<ref>Wallace, Tim (November 16, 2016). [https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/11/16/us/politics/the-two-americas-of-2016.html?_r=0 The Two Americas of 2016]. ''The New York Times''. Retrieved December 5, 2016.</ref> and 61 percent of the states (including Maine's 2nd district). With the historic flip of Elliott County, Kentucky, every rural, white-majority Southern county voted for the Republican nominee for the first time in history.<ref>Simon, Jeff (December 9, 2016). [https://www.cnn.com/2016/12/09/politics/elliott-county-kentucky-democratic-streak-broken-by-donald-trump/index.html How Trump ended Democrats' 144-year winning streak in one county]. ''CNN''. Retrieved January 15, 2017.</ref>

According to exit polling, Trump won 81 percent of evangelical Christians compared to 16 percent for Clinton, a record high and even more than [[George W. Bush]] won in 2004,<ref name="townhall.com"/><ref name="wsj.com"/> even though some have disputed the accuracy of such exit polling methods.<ref>Showalter, Brandon (November 16, 2016). [http://www.christianpost.com/news/81-percent-evangelicals-vote-trump-eric-teetsel-joe-carter-171542/ Did 81 Percent of Evangelicals Really Vote for Trump? Not So Fast, Some Say]. ''The Christian Post''. Retrieved December 8, 2016.</ref> This is largely due to Trump's conservative policies that align well with the Bible, including opposition to abortion.

While liberal, establishmentarian world leaders made generally nuanced statements in response to Trump's election upset, conservative, right-wing leaders, including the leaders of insurgent parties in European nations, reacted positively to Trump's election.<ref>Ashkenas, Jeremy; Aisch, Gregor (December 5, 2016). [https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/12/05/world/europe/populism-in-age-of-trump.html?_r=0 European Populism in the Age of Donald Trump]. ''The New York Times''. Retrieved December 5, 2016.</ref>

In addition to Trump's defeat of Clinton, the Republican Party kept control of the House and Senate, outperforming expectations.<ref>Bresnahan, John (November 9, 2016). [https://www.politico.eu/article/republicans-on-cusp-of-keeping-the-senate/ Republicans hold the Senate in a stunner]. ''Politico''. Retrieved November 9, 2016.</ref><ref>Hughes, Siobhan (November 9, 2016). [https://www.wsj.com/articles/republicans-are-confident-about-retaining-control-of-the-house-1478634160 Democrats Gain Seats in House, But GOP Retains Majority]. ''The Wall Street Journal''. Retrieved November 9, 2016.</ref> The Republican Party performed well—much better than expected—in state races, winning trifectas in [[Kentucky]], [[Iowa]], [[Missouri]], and [[New Hampshire]], and Democrats only had six trifectas and total control in five states, a record low.<ref>Greenblatt, Alan (November 9, 2016). [http://www.governing.com/topics/elections/gov-republicans-add-dominance-state-legislatures.html Republicans Add to Their Dominance of State Legislatures]. ''Governing''. Retrieved November 9, 2016.</ref><ref>Siegel, Josh (November 9, 2016). [http://dailysignal.com/2016/11/09/republicans-maintain-strong-control-of-state-capitols-what-that-means/ Republicans Maintain Strong Control of State Capitols. Here’s What That Means.] ''The Daily Signal''. Retrieved November 9, 2016.</ref> The GOP won 25 trifectas, the largest since 1952.<ref>Lieb, David A. (December 29, 2016). [https://www.pressreader.com/usa/chicago-tribune/20161229/281822873464433 GOP-Controlled States Aim to Reshape Laws]. ''Chicago Tribune'' (from the Associated Press). Retrieved December 30, 2016.</ref> The GOP now controlled the highest amount of governorships since 1922,<ref>Lieb, David A. (November 9, 2016). [https://www.usnews.com/news/us/articles/2016-11-09/republicans-expand-control-of-governorships-legislatures Republicans governorships rise to highest mark since 1922]. ''U.S. News & World Report''. Retrieved November 9, 2016.</ref> and it controlled the most state legislative chambers in history.<ref>Bosman, Julie & Davey, Monica (November 11, 2016). [https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/12/us/republicans-expand-control-in-a-deeply-divided-nation.html Republicans Expand Control in a Deeply Divided Nation]. ''The New York Times''. Retrieved November 14, 2016.</ref>

Despite expectations that Trump's election victory would cause the markets to plunge, the [[Dow Jones Industrial Average]] actually performed very strongly, closing at the highest level it had ever reached in history after the second day.<ref name="MarketRally">La Monica, Paul R. (November 10, 2016). [https://money.cnn.com/2016/11/10/investing/markets-stocks-donald-trump-rally/index.html The 'yuge' Donald Trump market rally continues]. ''CNN Money''. Retrieved November 10, 2016.</ref> It is rare for the stock market to rise immediately after a U.S. presidential election regardless of the winner.<ref name="MarketRally"/> The stock market had its best week in five years due to optimism of a Trump presidency.<ref>Craig, Victoria (November 11, 2016). [https://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/2016/11/11/trump-optimism-propels-dow-to-best-week-in-five-years.html Trump Optimism Propels Dow to Best Week in Five Years]. ''Fox Business''. Retrieved November 12, 2016.</ref>

After the election, childish [[leftists]] and [[anarchists]], who could not accept the results of the election, strongly protested Trump's victory and committed outrageous and extreme acts of vandalism and violence,<ref name="Protests">Chiaramonte, Perry (November 10, 2016). [https://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/11/10/trump-protests-intensify-as-doubts-swirl-about-spontaneity.html Trump protests intensify, as doubts swirl about spontaneity]. ''Fox News''. Retrieved November 11, 2016.</ref> even brutally attacking and beating at least one alleged Trump supporter.<ref>[https://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/11/10/video-emerges-group-beating-chicago-man-while-yelling-dont-vote-trump.html Video emerges of mob beating Chicago man while yelling 'don't vote Trump']. ''Fox News''. November 10, 2016. Retrieved November 11, 2016.</ref> Many of these protests were likely organized and coordinated, as many protestors were bused in by Coach buses.<ref name="Protests"/> This occurred on the heels of Hillary Clinton, the Clinton campaign, and major mainstream media condemning in the harshest terms Trump and his supporters' complaints of a "rigged election," and failure to accept the results would damage democracy. Clinton, President Obama, and the media highlighted the protests and failed to condemn the leftist violence and protests as detrimental to democracy.

==Trump's backed candidates==
*In May 2022, Trump-backed author [[J.D. Vance]] wins GOP primary for [[Ohio]] Senate seat.<ref>Mark Lungariello, [https://nypost.com/2022/05/03/j-d-vance-wins-gop-primary-for-ohio-senate-seat/amp/ Trump-backed author J.D. Vance wins GOP primary for Ohio Senate seat], ''NY Post'', May 3, 2022.</ref><ref>[https://www.cbsnews.com/live-updates/ohio-primary-results-2022-05-03/ Ohio primary results: Trump-backed J.D. Vance wins Republican Senate race], ''CBS'', May 3, 2023.</ref><ref>Annie Linskey and David Weigel, [https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/05/03/ohioans-head-polls-senate-primary-tests-trumps-sway/ J.D. Vance, with a Trump boost, clinches Senate GOP primary in Ohio], ''Washington Post'', May 3, 2022.</ref>

Ohio primaries tested power of Trump endorsement.<ref>Art Moore, [https://www.wnd.com/2022/05/gop-doubles-democrat-turnout-ohio-despite-roe-leak/ GOP doubles Democrat turnout in Ohio despite Roe leak], ''WND'', May 5, 2022.</ref><blockquote>[[RNC]] Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel told Breitbart News that Ohio voters "reject Biden's failed agenda of historic inflation, Biden's gas hike, and the crisis at our southern border, and will hold Democrats accountable and vote for Republicans up and down the ballot."</blockquote>

At [[Breitbart]], Nick Gilbertson summed up the May/2022 elections: "Clean sweep: all 22 Trump-backed candidates win primaries in Ohio, Indiana."<ref>[https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/05/03/22-trump-backed-candidates-win-primaries-ohio-indiana/ Clean Sweep: All 22 Trump-Backed Candidates Win Primaries in Ohio, Indiana], ''Breitbart'', May 3, 2022.</ref>

== Liberal denialism and Donald Trump ==

:''See also:'' [[Liberal denialism and Donald Trump]] and [[Liberal denial]]

Post the 2016 U.S. presidential election many liberals were in denial that Donald Trump was going to be president of the United States. Before the election, many liberal media outlets took the line that Donald Trump could not win the [[Republican]] primary and could not win the presidential election.<ref>
*[https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/11/09/the-wrongest-media-predictions-about-donald-trump/?utm_term=.febb2623a89f The wrongest media predictions about Donald Trump The wrongest media predictions about Donald Trump], ''Washington Post'', 2016</ref>

=== Political scientists, denialism and Donald Trump ===

{{See also|Atheism and science}}

Few, if any, [[Political science|political scientists]] predicted early on that Donald Trump would win the Republican primary and then would subsequently be elected president of the United States. Furthermore, most pollsters indicated that Trump would lose the election.

27 percent of American political scientists believe in the existence of God while 76 percent of American doctors said they believe in God.<ref>
*[http://www.livescience.com/379-scientists-belief-god-varies-starkly-discipline.html Scientists belief in God varies starkly by discipline], Livescience.com
*[https://www.nbcnews.com/id/8318894/ns/health-health_care/t/survey-most-doctors-believe-god-afterlife/ Most doctors believe in God], NBC News</ref> Most American [[atheism|atheists]] lean to the left politically (see: [[Atheism and politics]]). Compared to [[medical science]], which has many effective medicines and surgical procedures, the social science of political science is often unreliable.

===Trump and the mainstream media===
{{See also|Mainstream media and Donald Trump}}
The leftist [[mainstream media]] despises Trump and, under the influence of [[Trump Derangement Syndrome]], refuses to report objectively when covering him.

=== Angry secular leftists and Donald Trump ===

:''See also:'' [[Donald Trump and American atheists]] and [[Secular leftists and psychogenic illness]]

American [[secular left]]ists were extremely angry and upset in the aftermath of Donald Trump's election victory (see: [[Donald Trump and American atheists]]).

In certain cases, it became debilitating (see:: [[Secular leftists and psychogenic illness]]). The website Marketwatch reported concerning the aftermath of the 2016 presidential race: ''Trump’s win is causing a surge in demand for mental health services''<ref>[https://www.marketwatch.com/story/trumps-win-is-causing-a-surge-in-demand-for-mental-health-services-2016-11-10 Trump’s win is causing a surge in demand for mental health services], Marketwatch 2016</ref>

The ''Religion News Service'' reported:
{{Cquote|For the last decade, [[Atheism|atheists]], [[secular humanism|humanists]] and others [[secular]]ists have worked hard to organize a “secular vote” that would counter the political clout of the [[religious right]].

President-elect Donald J. Trump’s victory dealt that movement a body blow when he garnered 81 percent of the white [[Evangelical Christians|evangelical]] vote and 60 percent of the white [[Roman Catholic|Catholic]] vote. [[Mormonism|Mormons]], too, voted overwhelmingly for Trump...

[Trump's] platform was seen as anti-secular in many atheist and humanist circles. He said he would appoint religiously conservative Supreme Court justices, ban [[Islam|Muslim]] immigrants, favor [[Christianity]] and repeal the [[Johnson Amendment]], which prohibits certain tax-exempt organizations from endorsing political candidates — issues antithetical to organized atheism and [[humanism]].<ref>[http://religionnews.com/2016/11/09/dealt-a-body-blow-atheists-and-humanists-regroup/ Dealt a body blow, atheists and humanists regroup] by Kimberly Winston, ''Religion News Service'', November 9, 2016</ref>}}

==Projects==
*[[Board of Peace (by Trump)]]
==Books==
*''Trump: The Art of the Deal'' with Tony Schwartz (1987)
*''Trump: Surviving at the Top'' with Charles Leerhsen (1990)
*''Trump: The Art of the Comeback'' with Kate Bohner (1997)
*''The America We Deserve'' with Dave Shiflett (2000)
*''Trump: How to Get Rich'' with Meredith McIver (2004)
*''Trump: Think Like a Billionaire: Everything You Need to Know about Success, Real Estate and Life'' with Meredith McIver (2005)
*''Why We Want You to Be Rich: Two Men, One Message'' with Meredith McIver and Robert T. Kiyosaki (2006)
*''Think Big and Kick Ass in Business and Life'' with Bill Zanker (2007)
*''Trump: Never Give Up: How I Turned My Biggest Challenges into Success'' with Meredith McIver (2008)
*''Think Like a Champion: An Informal Education in Business and Life'' with Meredith McIver (2009)
*''Midas Touch: Why Some Entrepreneurs Get Rich—and Why Most Don't'' with Robert T. Kiyosaki (2011)
*''Time to Get Tough: Making America #1 Again'' (2011)
*''Crippled America: How to Make America Great Again'' (2015)

==Quotes==
===Quotes as U.S. President===
====Inaugural address====
*"....today we are not merely transferring power from one administration to another, or from one party to another, but we are transferring power from Washington, D.C., and giving it back to you, the people."<ref name="InaugTransc">[https://www.politico.com/story/2017/01/full-text-donald-trump-inauguration-speech-transcript-233907 Full text: 2017 Donald Trump inauguration speech transcript]. ''Politico''. January 20, 2017. Retrieved January 20, 2017.</ref>
*"We assembled here today our issuing a new decree to be heard in every city, in every foreign capital, and in every hall of power, from this day forward: a new vision will govern our land, from this day forward, it's going to be only America first. America first."<ref name="InaugTransc"/>
*"[We will] unite the civilized world against radical Islamic terrorism, which we will eradicate completely from the face of the Earth."<ref name="InaugTransc"/>
*"When you open your heart to patriotism, there is no room for prejudice."<ref name="InaugTransc"/>

====2017====
*"In America we don’t worship government, we worship God."<ref>Miller, S.A. (May 13, 2017). [https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/may/13/donald-trump-tells-liberty-university-graduates-we/ Trump at Liberty University: ‘We don’t worship government, we worship God’]. ''The Washington Times''. Retrieved May 13, 2017.</ref><ref>Moons, Michelle (May 13, 2017). [https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/05/13/president-donald-trumps-1st-commencement-speech-america-dont-worship-government-worship-god/ President Donald Trump’s First Commencement Speech: ‘In America We Don’t Worship Government, We Worship God’]. ''Breitbart News''. Retrieved May 13, 2017.</ref>
*"I didn’t get elected to serve the Washington media—I got elected to serve the forgotten men and women and that’s exactly what I’m doing."<ref>Spiering, Charlie (May 17, 2017). [https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/05/17/donald-trump-vows-to-fight-on-no-politician-in-history-has-been-treated-worse-or-more-unfairly/ Donald Trump: ‘I Didn’t Get Elected to Serve the Washington Media’]. ''Breitbart News''. Retrieved May 17, 2017.</ref><ref>Singman, Brooke (May 17, 2017). [https://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/05/17/trump-takes-on-media-during-coast-guard-commencement-speech.html Trump takes on media during Coast Guard commencement speech]. ''Fox News''. Retrieved May 17, 2017.</ref>
* "The problem in Venezuela is not that socialism has been poorly implemented, but that socialism has been faithfully implemented." (UN speech, September 2017)
* "The most important truth our Founders understood was this: Freedom is not a gift from government; freedom is a gift from God."<ref>[https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/920474831749025795 @realDonaldTrump], 17 Oct 2017</ref><ref>Crookston, Paul (October 17, 2017). [https://freebeacon.com/politics/trump-freedom-not-gift-government-freedom-gift-god/ Trump: ‘Freedom Is Not a Gift From Government; Freedom Is a Gift From God’]. ''The Washington Free Beacon''. Retrieved October 20, 2017.</ref>

===Quotes from the 2016 campaign for President===

Trump's tactics of naming and shaming candidates has been proven very effective. He called Jeb Bush 'low-energy Jeb' and it stuck. Then came Marco Rubio as 'Little Marco.' Next came 'Lyin' Ted' for Ted Cruz. For the Democrats, he calls Hillary Clinton 'Crooked Hillary' and Bernie Sanders "Crazy Bernie."

*“We will no longer surrender this country or its people to the false song of [[globalism]].”
*"I think we have a president who, as a president, is totally incompetent, and he doesn’t know what he’s doing. I think he has no idea what he’s doing. And our country is going to [[hell]]."<ref>http://time.com/4210983/republican-debate-barack-obama-incompetent/</ref>
*"I will be the greatest jobs president that [[God]] ever created."
*"I’m using my own money. I’m not using the lobbyists. I’m not using donors. I don’t care. I’m really rich."
*"Free trade is terrible. Free trade can be wonderful if you have smart people. But we have stupid people."
*"Nobody would be tougher on ISIS than Donald Trump. Nobody. Within our military, I will find the General Patton, or I will find General MacArthur, I will find the right guy."
*"I will build a great, great wall on our southern border, and I will have [[Mexico]] pay for that wall."
*"I think the big problem this country has is being politically correct."<ref>https://video.foxnews.com/v/4406746003001/watch-a-replay-of-fox-news-prime-time-presidential-debate/?#sp=show-clips</ref><ref>[https://www.google.com/search?q=a+big+problem+with+our+country+is+too+politically+incorrect&oq=a+big+problem+with+our+country+is+too+politically+incorrect&aqs=chrome..69i57j69i64l3.8295j0j7&sourceid=chrome&es_sm=119&ie=UTF-8 Google search]</ref>
*"Becoming the nominee of the party of [[Abraham Lincoln]] has been the greatest honor of my life.<ref>https://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/294401-trump-claims-party-of-lincoln-mantle-in-speech-at-black</ref>

====General election debate quotes====
*"Because you would be in jail." (Trump in response to Clinton saying that it would be a good thing that he "is not in charge of the law in our country")<ref name="2ndTranscript">[https://www.politico.com/story/2016/10/2016-presidential-debate-transcript-229519 Full transcript: Second 2016 presidential debate]. ''Politico''. October 10, 2016. Retrieved October 11, 2016.</ref>
*"Now she’s blaming the lie on the late great Abraham Lincoln. ...Honest Abe never lied. That’s the good thing. That's the big difference between Abraham Lincoln and you." (Trump in response to Clinton's excuse for having "'a public and private position on certain issues.'")<ref name="2ndTranscript"/>
*"Hillary has experience, but it’s bad experience."<ref>Goodenough, Patrick (September 27, 2016). [https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/patrick-goodenough/ Trump: 'Hillary Has Experience, But It's Bad Experience']. ''cnsnews.com''. Retrieved November 10, 2016.</ref>

===Quotes from Twitter===
[[File:Screenshot 2015-09-28-12-11-31-1.png|right|300px|Thumb|Tweet from Billionaire Carl Icahn]]
{{Cquote| '''Somebody said I’m the Ernest Hemingway of 140 characters.'''}}
Trump's tweets are archived and fully searchable online.<ref>http://www.trumptwitterarchive.com/archive</ref> Here are some choice examples:
* "An 'extremely credible source' has called my office and told me that @BarackObama's birth certificate is a fraud."<ref>Trump, Donald J. (August 6, 2012, 1:23 pm). [https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/232572505238433794 "An 'extremely credible source' has called my office and told me that @BarackObama's birth certificate is a fraud."] Tweet by @realDonaldTrump.</ref>
* "It’s amazing how people can talk about me but I’m not allowed to talk about them."<ref>Trump, Donald J. (November 13, 2012, 12:23pm). [https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/268449146711703553 "It’s amazing how people can talk about me but I’m not allowed to talk about them."] Tweet by @realDonaldTrump.</ref>
* "This very expensive GLOBAL WARMING bull**** has got to stop. Our planet is freezing, record low temps,and our GW scientists are stuck in ice."<ref>Trump, Donald J. (January 1, 2014, 4:39pm). [https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/418542137899491328 "This very expensive GLOBAL WARMING bull**** has got to stop. Our planet is freezing, record low temps,and our GW scientists are stuck in ice."] Tweet by @realDonaldTrump.</ref>

====2015====
* "So many 'politically correct' fools in our country. We have to all get back to work and stop wasting time and energy on nonsense!" (August 8, 2015)
* "Notice that illegal immigrants will be given ObamaCare and free college tuition but nothing has been mentioned about our VETERANS #DemDebate" (October 13, 2015)
* "They laughed at me when I said to bomb the ISIS controlled oil fields. Now they are not laughing and doing what I said." (November 13, 2015)
* "President Obama said 'ISIL continues to shrink' in an interview just hours before the horrible attack in Paris. He is just so bad! CHANGE." (November 14, 2015)
* "Refugees from Syria are now pouring into our great country. Who knows who they are - some could be ISIS. Is our president insane?" (November 17, 2015)
* "Eight Syrians were just caught on the southern border trying to get into the U.S. ISIS maybe? I told you so. WE NEED A BIG & BEAUTIFUL WALL!" (November 19, 2015)

====2016====
* "Hillary said that guns don't keep you safe. If she really believes that she should demand that her heavily armed bodyguards quickly disarm!" (January 3, 2016)
* "I wonder if President Obama would have attended the funeral of Justice Scalia if it were held in a Mosque? Very sad that he did not go!" (February 20, 2016)
* "The organized group of people, many of them thugs, who shut down our First Amendment rights in Chicago, have totally energized America!" (March 12, 2016)
* "Why is it that the horrendous protesters, who scream, curse punch, shut down roads/doors during my RALLIES, are never blamed by media? SAD!" (March 20, 2016)
* "Do you all remember how beautiful and safe a place Brussels was. Not anymore, it is from a different world! U.S. must be vigilant and smart!" (March 22, 2016)
* "For the 1st time in American history, America’s 16,500 border patrol agents have issue[d] a presidential primary endorsement—me! Thank you." (April 1, 2016)
*"We are going to say Merry [[Christmas]] again." (December 2016 in [[Michigan]]).<ref>[Trump: 'We are going to say merry Christmas again'], ''The Hill'', December 13, 2016</ref>

====2017====
*"The FAKE NEWS media (failing @nytimes, @NBCNews, @ABC, @CBS, @CNN) is not my enemy, it is the enemy of the American People!"<ref>Greenwood, Mark (February 17, 2017). [https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/320168-trump-the-media-is-the-enemy-of-the-american-people Trump tweets: The media is the 'enemy of the American people']. ''The Hill''. Retrieved February 27, 2017.</ref>

* "Mike Flynn should ask for immunity in that this is a witch hunt (excuse for big election loss), by media & Dems, of historic proportion!" (March 31, 2017)
* "Despite the constant negative press covfefe" (May 31, 2017)
* "That's right, we need a TRAVEL BAN for certain DANGEROUS countries, not some politically correct term that won't help us protect our people!" (June 5, 2017, while the Dept. of Justice was arguing in court that his Executive Order was not a "travel ban")
* "Fake News is at an all time high. Where is their apology to me for all of the incorrect stories???" (June 13, 2017)

===Other quotes===
* "[T]he country is going to hell."<ref>Cassidy, Chris (March 19, 2015). [http://www.bostonherald.com/news_opinion/us_politics/2015/03/country_is_going_to_hell_claims_donald_trump "'Country is going to hell,' claims Donald Trump"]. BostonHerald.com website.</ref>
* "We have no leader in this country.”<ref>Reisner, Hiram (April 22, 2011). [https://www.newsmax.com/InsideCover/donaldtrump-karlrove-gop-birther/2011/04/22/id/393742 "Trump: I'd just take Libyan oil"]. NewsMax website.</ref>
* "Our leaders are stupid, they are stupid people."<ref>Pierce, Tony (April 29, 2011). [http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2011/04/donald-trump-in-vegas-our-leaders-are-stupid-they-are-stupid-people.html "Donald Trump in Vegas: 'Our leaders are stupid; they are stupid people'"]. Los Angeles Times website/Top of the Ticket blog.</ref>
* "I can tell you I am [the 2012 Obama campaign's] worst nightmare."<ref>Mooney, Alexander (April 11, 2011). [http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2011/04/11/trump-says-he-is-obama-campaigns-worst-nightmare/comment-page-6/ "Trump says he is Obama campaign's worst nightmare"]. Cable News Network website/politicalticker blog.</ref>
* "Obama has no solutions."<ref>Coz, Steve (August 19, 2012). [https://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/trump-gibbs-fox-obama/2012/08/19/id/449050/ "Trump fires back at Obama campaign smear"]. Newsmax website/Newsfront.</ref>
*"Everything in life is luck."<ref name="Telegraph">https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/us-election/12107003/Donald-Trump-faces-questions-over-Two-Corinthians.html</ref>
*"[Barack Obama] is probably the least transparent president in the history of the country."<ref name="Telegraph"/>
*"Not teaching your kids about money is like not caring whether they eat."<ref name="Telegraph"/>
===2025===
Inauguration Day (1.20.25): "I was saved by God to make America great again."<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSrcDxdJrZ8 Inauguration Day: "I was saved by God to make America great again."]. ABC'', Jan 20, 2025</ref>

“We will measure success not only by the battles we win, but also by the wars that we end, and perhaps most importantly the wars we never get into.”

==Peace prize ==

On Dec 5, 2025, FIFA awarded the peace prize to Trump.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fw4FHGlXeYc</ref><ref>[https://inside.fifa.com/campaigns/football-unites-the-world/news/president-trump-peace-prize-football-unites-the-world President Donald J. Trump awarded “FIFA Peace Prize – Football Unites the World”]. Inside FIFA, Dec 5, 202t</ref>

==[[Latin America]]==

[[File:Latin America and US Trump Jan.2026.jpg|thumb|Trump's US allies in Latin America]]
Latin American countries aligned with US' Trump (Jan/2026):

* [[Argentina]].
* [[Bolivia]]
* [[Chile]]
* [[Ecuador]]
* [[El Salvador]]
* [[Honduras]]
* [[Paraguay]]

Venezuela?

==See also==

<div style="column-count:3;-moz-column-count:3;-webkit-column-count:3">

* [[Essay:Donald Trump One Two Body Blow]]
* [[The Chalkening]]
* [[Trump University]]
*[[Liberal Smear Machine]]
* [[Kathryn Steinle]]
* [[Mollie Tibbetts]]
* [[Sarah Root]]
* [[Alveda King]]
* [[Trump effect]]
* [[Jair Bolsonaro]]
* [[Javier Milei]]
* [[Deep State coup 2.0]]
* [[Biden Putsch]]
* [[Trump Administration]]
*[[Trump Cabinet]]
</div>

==References==
{{reflist|2}}

==External links==
* [http://www.trump.com Trump.com - Official website]
* [https://www.donaldjtrump.com donaldjtrump.com - Official website]
* [http://www.LyingCrookedHillary.com LyingCrookedHillary.com]
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gw8c2Cq-vpg The Untruth About Donald Trump] by [[Stefan Molyneux]], Published on Jan 18, 2016
* [http://www.untruthaboutdonaldtrump.com UntruthAboutDonaldTrump.com]
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yyoauXmzjg Do Emotions Trump Facts?] [[Thomas Sowell]] on Donald Trump - Rebutted! by Stefan Molyneux
* [http://gop12.thehill.com/2011/04/trump-explains-conversion-on-abortion.html Trump explains his pro-life conversion]
* 100 groups have signed [http://www.pseagles.com/Coalition_letter_Supreme_Court this coalition letter] re: Trump's [[Trump Supreme Court|nomination to the Supreme Court]].
* [https://youtu.be/oh2Sj_QpZOA SPECIAL INVESTIGATION: What Really Happened in Wuhan] - SkyNews Australia
* [https://rumble.com/vucs3g-exclusive-interview-with-donald-trump-kashs-corner.html Exclusive Interview with Donald Trump], [[Kash Patel]], February 8, 2022



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Rand Paul

2025-09-07T18:16:33Z

GilS: Rand Paul are showing true color by strongly oppose JD Vance's stance about hit cartel drug criminal in september, 2025.

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:''Rand Paul was [[Conservative of the Year]] in 2010 and the first runner-up in 2021''.
'''Randal Howard “Rand” Paul''', born January 7, 1963 (age {{age|1963|1|7}}), is the anti-[[establishment]], fiscally and socially [[conservative]] [[United States Senator]] from [[Kentucky]] who was elected in [[2010 Midterm Elections|2010]] and reelected by a landslide in 2016. He is critical of federal spending, opposes an interventionalist foreign policy, and rejects the calls from [[neocon]]s for perpetual war. Paul is a [[movement conservative]] and a potential future presidential candidate, initially running in 2016. He was a leader for the repeal of [[ObamaCare]]. He is a prominent defender of [[President Trump]] in the [[U.S. Senate]] on certain issues, particularly in support of Trump's focus on putting [[America First]], rather than intervening in foreign countries<ref>Moran, Sean (August 14, 2018). [https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/08/14/rand-paul-russia-trip-great-success-citizens-prefer-america-first-nation-building/ Exclusive — Rand Paul: Russia Trip a ‘Great Success’; U.S. Citizens Prefer America First to Nation-Building]. ''Breitbart News''. Retrieved August 14, 2018.</ref>.

'''''Rand Paul announced his candidacy for [[GOP]] Senate Leader''''' on March 9, 2024.
Previously Sen. Rand Paul was one of only 8 [[Republican]] senators to decline sign a letter to [[Biden]] that would escalate the [[Russia Ukraine conflict 2022|Russia-Ukraine conflict]] by sending fighter jets to [[Ukraine]].<ref>https://news.yahoo.com/gop-senators-demand-u-help-131427064.html</ref>

"Stand with Rand" is a popular slogan among students who support Senator Paul. In addition, [[Julian Assange]] is an admirer of Rand Paul.<ref>https://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/08/19/julian-assange-loves-rand-paul-and-his-very-principled-positions.html</ref>

Sen. Paul lives in [[Bowling Green, Kentucky]]. In November of 2017, he was the victim of a cowardly attack by an irate [[Democrat]] neighbor, Rene Boucher, who trespassed on Sen. Paul's yard, snuck up behind him, and violently broke five of his ribs. The shameful attack caused lung contusions which required removal of part of his lungs, and also facial injuries. He was peacefully mowing his lawn at the time of the attack. Police initially charged the perpetrator, who reportedly admitted to attacking Paul, with merely fourth-degree assault despite the seriousness of the injuries<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2017/11/more-on-the-democrats-assault-on-rand-paul.php|title=More on the Democrat’s Assault on Rand Paul|author=John Hinderacker|publisher=Powerlineblog.com|accessdate=November 5, 2017}}</ref>. A federal charge was then filed against the assailant, who pled guilty, but was then sentenced to merely 30 days in jail, which is far below sentencing guidelines and which the [[Department of Justice]] has appealed for being too lenient.

Amidst the second Democrat attempt to impeach and convict [[Donald Trump]] in January of 2021 over false accusations that he was responsible for the [[2021 Capitol riot]], Paul introduced an amendment to declare the [[sham impeachment]] as unconstitutional, which ultimately was defeated by a 55–45 vote; [[Never Trump]]ers [[Mitt Romney]], [[Ben Sasse]], [[Susan Collins]], [[Lisa Murkowski]] and [[Pat Toomey]] joined all Senate Democrats in voting against it<ref>Carney, Jourdain (January 26, 2021). [https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/535925-senate-rejects-paul-effort-to-declare-trump-impeachment-trial Just five GOP senators vote Trump impeachment trial is constitutional]. ''The Hill''. Retrieved January 26, 2021.</ref>.

== Life ==
Paul was born in [[Pittsburgh]], [[Pennsylvania]], to U.S. Congressman [[Ron Paul]] and his wife Carol. ''Rand Paul was not named after the objectivist and libertarian author [[Ayn Rand]]<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oD-R_OeP6tU</ref>.''

In 2010, he won the Republican primary after defeating moderate candidate [[Trey Grayson]] by a landslide. Despite intense opposition by [[liberals]] and the [[lamestream media]], Rand Paul won by an overwhelming margin first against a [[RINO]] favored by the establishment, and then against [[Democrat]] [[Jack Conway]] in the 2010 Midterms. This was the seat formerly held by [[Jim Bunning]], one of the [[Essay:Greatest Conservative Sports Stars|greatest conservative sports stars]], who endorsed Paul in the Republican primary.

In March 2013, Rand led a [[filibuster]] of Obama's CIA nomination [[John Brennan]], due to the fact that the administration was unwilling to forbid ordering [[drone]] targeting of Americans on American territories, in violation of the 5th Amendment. A month of letter writings without a reply and March 6 testimony from Attorney General [[Eric Holder]] prompted the filibuster. A number of Republican Senators joined him, including [[Ted Cruz]], [[Marco Rubio]], and [[Mike Lee]], as well as one Democrat Senator, [[Ron Wyden]]. A vote on a non-binding statement clarifying that Obama shall not kill Americans with drone warfare was denied by Democrats in the Senate.

On April 7, 2015, Paul announced that he would seek the Republican nomination in the [[2016 presidential election]].<ref>Rand Paul launches 2016 White House bid: ‘We have come to take our country back’ https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2015/04/07/rand-paul-set-to-announce-presidential-run/</ref><ref>https://www.c-span.org/video/?325139-1/senator-rand-paul-rky-presidential-campaign-announcement</ref> He dropped out shortly after the [[Iowa Caucus]].

== Political positions==
[[File:Rand Paul 2013 CPAC by Gage Skidmore.jpg|thumb|250px|Paul at CPAC in 2013.]]
Unlike many politicians of both major political parties, Rand Paul supports sharply reducing the size of government. Notably in 2018, he single-handedly shutdown the entire Federal government (for a few hours, at least) while he spoke against the hypocrisy of his own party in desiring to pass a 700-page bill that nobody had read and that would create the same deficit spending that his party opposed during the Obama administration.<ref>https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/373069-rand-paul-blockade-pushing-senate-to-late-night-budget-vote</ref>

Paul opposes [[gun control]]<ref>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2013/01/14/rand_paul_on_gun_control_executive_order_obama_is_not_king.html</ref> and [[same-sex "marriage"]].<ref>http://www.ontheissues.org/senate/Rand_Paul.htm</ref> He opposes prison sentences for minor drug offenders.<ref>http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/03/24/1767241/rand-paul-is-right-on-marijuana-and-that-should-scare-democrats-into-action/</ref> Paul sued the Obama administration because the Espionage of American civilians through the [[NSA]].<ref>https://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/01/04/sen-rand-paul-to-sue-over-nsa-spying-practices/</ref> Paul is distrustful of [[capital punishment]] but also thinks that it should be a state issue.<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/us/elections/rand-paul-on-death-penalty.html Rand Paul on the Death Penalty]</ref>

Paul is a strong opponent of [[socialism]] and wrote ''The Case Against Socialism'' in 2019.<ref>Multiple references:
*Antle III, W. James (October 15, 2019). [https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/rand-paul-doesnt-suffer-socialist-fashionistas/ Rand Paul Doesn’t Suffer Socialist Fashionistas]. ''The American Conservative''. Retrieved October 15, 2019.
*[https://video.foxnews.com/v/6094806908001/?playlist_id=5198073478001#sp=show-clips Sen. Rand Paul makes case against socialism as many young Americans sour on capitalism]. ''Fox News Video''. October 14, 2019. Retrieved October 15, 2019.
*Boyle, Matthew (October 15, 2019). [https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/10/15/exclusive-rand-paul-makes-the-case-against-socialism-history-is-replete-with-examples-of-socialism-gone-awry/ Exclusive – Rand Paul Makes ‘The Case Against Socialism’: ‘History is Replete With Examples of Socialism Gone Awry’]. ''Breitbart News''. Retrieved October 15, 2019.
*Byas, Steve (October 28, 2019). [https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/item/33867-rand-paul-attacks-american-socialists-aoc-bernie-sanders-others-in-new-book Rand Paul Attacks American Socialists AOC, Bernie Sanders, Others — in New Book]. ''The New American''. Retrieved October 28, 2019.</ref>

Paul won re-election in 2022 with support from star athlete [[Riley Gaines]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Watkins |first=Morgan |date=October 29, 2022 |title=Rand Paul campaign ad features former UK swimmer, slams transgender athletes, trans women |work=[[Courier Journal]] |url=https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/politics/rand-paul/2022/09/28/rand-paul-kentucky-swimmer-riley-gaines-attack-trans-people/69524544007/ |url-status=live |access-date=|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230408172359/https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/politics/rand-paul/2022/09/28/rand-paul-kentucky-swimmer-riley-gaines-attack-trans-people/69524544007/ |archive-date=April 8, 2023}}</ref> Both Gaines & Paul have been targeted victims of leftist [[violence]].

=== Abortion ===
Rand is [[pro-life]] and spoke at the [[March for Life]] rally in 2013.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4KMCDybBI0&feature=emb_logo Rand Paul at March for Life 2013]</ref>

Paul co-sponsored and voted for the [[Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act]]<ref>[https://votesmart.org/bill/27667/71282/117285/born-alive-abortion-survivors-protection-act#71282 S 311 - Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act - National Key Vote]</ref> in February 2020 in addition to the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act.<ref>[https://votesmart.org/bill/27666/71280/117285/pain-capable-unborn-child-protection-act#71280 S 3275 - Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act - National Key Vote]</ref>

=== Foreign policy ===
He has criticized pro-war politicians and won the [[CPAC]] [[straw poll]] in 2013 and 2014. Paul is against an American intervention in the [[Syrian Civil War]]<ref>https://www.thenewamerican.com/world-news/item/14691-sen-rand-paul-is-obama-administration-hiding-arms-trade-to-jihadists</ref> and was opposed to the [[Operation Iraqi Freedom]] or the [[Patriot Act]]. Paul is an opponent of the [[United States embargo against Cuba]].<ref>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/the-cuban-embargo-isnt-just-about-the-embargo/</ref> Paul has criticized neocons such as [[Lindsey Graham]] for their foreign policy views.<ref>Casiano, Louis (October 15, 2019). [https://www.foxnews.com/politics/rand-paul-lays-into-lindsey-graham-been-wrong-about-almost-every-foreign-policy-decision-of-the-last-two-decades Rand Paul says Lindsey Graham 'has been wrong about almost every foreign policy decision of the last two decades']. ''Fox News''. Retrieved October 15, 2019.</ref>

Paul supports [[Israel]] and proposed to cut off the flow of U.S. taxpayer dollars to the [[Palestinian Authority]].<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bOeYFUphWo Dr. Rand Paul on Israel]</ref>

In 2020, Paul abandoned his party line to join [[Democrats]] in supporting a resolution ordering [[Donald Trump]] to end hostilities against [[Iran]], although unlike his Democratic counterparts he did so out of genuine principle.<ref>[https://votesmart.org/bill/27615/71054/117285/a-joint-resolution-to-direct-the-removal-of-united-states-armed-forces-from-hostilities-against-the-islamic-republic-of-iran-that-have-not-been-authorized-by-congress#71054 S J Res 68 - A joint resolution to direct the removal of United States Armed Forces from hostilities against the Islamic Republic of Iran that have not been authorized by Congress - National Key Vote]</ref>

Paul strongly opposes American involvement in [[Ukraine]], and consequently has been targeted by the Ukrainian government as a "Russian propagandist."[https://www.newsweek.com/tulsi-gabbard-rand-paul-placed-list-russian-propagandists-ukraine-1727831]

====Zelensky regime kill list====
{{See also|Myrotvorets}}
[[File:Rand Paul Tulsi Gabbard.png|right|300px|thumb|Sen. Rand Paul and [[Tulsi Gabbard]] both appear on the Ukrainian regime's kill list.<ref>https://archive.ph/34J4n</ref>]]
Sen. Rand Paul has been placed on a Ukrainian kill list for representing his constituents, [[free speech]], and allegedly promoting “Russian propaganda”.<ref>[https://covertactionmagazine.com/2022/09/19/ukrainian-hit-list-publishes-names-and-addresses-of-alleged-russian-propagandists-turns-out-to-be-based-not-in-ukraine-but-in-langley-va-where-cia-headquarters-is/ Ukrainian “Hit List” Publishes Names and Addresses of Alleged “Russian Propagandists:” Turns Out To Be Based Not in Ukraine But in Langley VA Where CIA Headquarters Is Located], By Jeremy Kuzmarov - September 19, 2022. ''Covert Action Maghazine.</ref> The Ukraine Center for Countering Disinformation listed Sen. Paul among a group of politicians, academics and activists that it deems "Enemies of Ukraine". “While I have repeatedly said my sympathies lie with Ukraine, my loyalty is to the United States,” Paul said in a statement. “My oath of office obligates me to defend the United States and that includes defending our country from incurring massive new debt no matter how worthy the cause.”

In April 2022, Sen. Paul accused socialist premier [[Joe Biden]] of provoking Russia to invade Ukraine by floating the possibility of Ukraine joining NATO. Both Biden and NATO warlord [[Jens Stoltenberg]] had admitted that they never really intended to allow Ukraine to join NATO.<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/13/us/politics/nato-ukraine.html</ref><ref>https://archive.ph/QUPk6</ref><ref>https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2022/04/14/biden-official-admits-us-refused-to-address-ukraine-and-nato-before-russian-invasion/</ref><ref>https://archive.ph/QUPk6#selection-853.54-855.28</ref> Ukraine aid was later found to have been [[money laundering|funneled]] back into [[Democrat]] campaign coffers in the [[FTX scandal]] by the [[Zelensky regime]].

In May 2022, Sen. Paul delayed a [[US Senate]] vote on a $40 billion supposed "[[Ukraine aid]]" package, insisting that an inspector general to oversee the spending be included in the authorization.<ref>https://archive.ph/FsPEZ#selection-731.0-963.226</ref> Paul was one of 11 Senate [[Republican]]s to vote against the funding.

Sen. Paul responded with a tweet to an [[NPR]] official state media report, questioning the massive aid package to Ukraine, given Ukraine's history of [[corruption]]. “We shouldn’t be spending the $,” Paul tweeted last week. “If Congress did approve it, a meticulous investigator would need to oversee your $ being spent in Ukraine at a time when Americans can’t even afford gas or groceries.”

=== Illegal immigration ===
Paul supported the Pathway to introduce [[illegal aliens]] to citizenship.<ref>http://nation.foxnews.com/rand-paul/2013/03/19/rand-paul-endorses-pathway-citizenship</ref>

While mostly a strong [[conservative]], Paul has obstructed the Trump agenda at times, such as joining Democrats and establishment [[RINO]]s in blocking [[President Trump]]'s emergency declaration over the southern border.<ref>[https://bigleaguepolitics.com/deja-vu-rand-paul-joins-rinos-and-democrats-for-a-second-time-to-block-trumps-border-wall/ DEJA VU: Rand Paul Joins RINOs and Democrats for a Second Time to Block Trump’s Border Wall]</ref>

=== Law and order ===
Despite being strongly [[conservative]] on most issues, Sen. Paul is arguably weak on [[law and order]], having denounced [[President Trump]]'s sending of federal agents to [[Portland, Oregon]] amidst the [[2020 Antifa riots]].<ref>Multiple references:
*[https://www.axios.com/rand-paul-portland-protests-trump-4fd11e43-3e4b-4290-a6b5-bfbc54904794.html Rand Paul denounces use of federal force in Portland]
*[https://www.newsweek.com/republican-rand-paul-breaks-trump-over-portland-cannot-give-liberty-security-1519204 Republican Rand Paul Breaks With Trump Over Portland: 'Cannot Give Up Liberty for Security']
*[https://news.yahoo.com/rand-paul-says-theres-no-185000023.html Rand Paul says there's 'no place' for federal agents 'rounding people up at will' in Portland]
*[https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/508158-rand-paul-no-place-for-feds-rounding-people-up-at-will-in-portland Rand Paul: 'No place' for feds 'rounding people up at will' in Portland]
*[https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/rand-paul-sending-federal-officers-to-violence-stricken-cities-wont-make-the-situation-there-any-better Rand Paul: Sending federal officers to violence-stricken cities 'won't make the situation there any better']</ref>

=== Obamacare repeal efforts ===
While an ardent opponent of [[Obamacare]], Paul was the only Republican senator to vote against an Obamacare repeal effort in early January 2017, citing the over $8 trillion repeal bill would add to the [[national debt]].<ref>Two references:
*[https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/2017/01/04/rand-paul-a-no-vote-on-obamacare-repeal-within-bloated-budget-bill/ Rand Paul a 'No' Vote on Obamacare Repeal Within Bloated Budget Bill]
*[https://www.huffpost.com/entry/rand-paul-voted-against-repealing-obamacare-heres_b_58712434e4b08052400ee2ee Rand Paul Voted Against Repealing Obamacare, Here’s Why]</ref>

For three separate Obamacare repeal votes, Paul opposed the initial "repeal and replace" measure, while subsequently voting for the two other repeal measures.<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/07/25/us/politics/senate-votes-repeal-obamacare.html How Each Senator Voted on Obamacare Repeal Proposals]</ref>

Paul opposed the [[Cassidy-Graham healthcare bill]] in September 2017,<ref>Two references:
*[https://www.politico.com/interactives/2017/graham-cassidy-health-care-bill-what-you-need-to-know/ Graham-Cassidy health care bill: What you need to know]
*[https://www.politico.com/story/2017/09/20/rand-paul-obamacare-242897 Republicans rip Rand for rejecting Obamacare repeal]</ref> arguing that it is "amnesty for Obamacare", has no effect on the $70 dollar deficit, and a "big government boondoggle".<ref>Multiple references:
*[https://www.cnn.com/2017/09/19/politics/rand-paul-graham-cassidy-bill/index.html Why Rand Paul opposes the GOP Obamacare repeal bill]
*[https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/trump-rand-paul-faceoff-over-obamacare-repeal-n802921 Trump and Rand Paul Face Off Over Obamacare Repeal]
*[https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/politics/2017/09/25/rand-paul-vote-aca-obamacare-repeal/699918001/ Rand Paul a 'no' vote on Senate effort to repeal Obamacare despite more money for Kentucky]</ref>

=== Surveillance reform ===
:''See also: [[Obama FISA abuse]]
Paul, along with [[President Trump]], has spoken strongly against allowing the [[Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court]] to spy on Americans, arguing for surveillance reform to prohibit the spying of U.S. citizens.<ref>Two references:
*[https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/rand-paul-trump-told-me-fisa-spying-on-american-citizens-should-be-forbidden Rand Paul: Trump told me FISA 'spying' on American citizens should be 'forbidden']
*[https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/484980-rand-paul-says-trump-backs-broader-fisa-reforms-throwing-curveball-at Rand Paul says Trump backs broader FISA reforms, throwing curveball at intelligence bill]</ref>

=== Vaccination ===
Paul, a [[libertarian]], has opposed the totalitarian agenda of [[compulsory vaccination]], stating that despite the benefits, vaccination should be voluntary.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmggtBvCO08 Rand Paul on Vaccines and Freedom | GOP Debate]</ref><ref>[https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/rand-paul-vaccines-can-lead-mental-disorders-n298821 Rand Paul: Vaccines Can Lead to 'Mental Disorders']</ref> He has adamantly opposed the fearmongering-promoted mandatory vaccination rhetoric amid a [[measles]] outbreak in 2019, arguing before a hearing that government-mandated vaccines attack personal rights and that it provides "a false sense of security".<ref>Two references:
*[https://www.politico.com/story/2019/03/05/rand-paul-mandatory-vaccines-measles-1240542 Rand Paul condemns mandatory vaccines amid measles outbreak]
*[https://thevaccinereaction.org/2019/03/sen-rand-paul-says-vaccines-give-a-false-sense-of-security/ Sen. Rand Paul Says Vaccines Give a False Sense of Security]</ref> [[Liberals]] and "[[progressives]]" who long hated Paul have attacked him for his anti-totalitarian stance,<ref>Multiple references:
*[https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/03/08/rand-paul-is-wrong-vaccines-are-no-threat-liberty/ Rand Paul is wrong: Vaccines are no threat to liberty]
*[https://americanindependent.com/rand-paul-anti-vaccine-garbage-senate-hearing/ Rand Paul spews anti-vaccine garbage at Senate hearing]
*[https://www.thedailybeast.com/rand-paul-sure-vaccines-are-ok-but-we-shouldnt-trade-liberty-for-false-sense-of-security Rand Paul: Sure, Vaccines Are OK, But We Shouldn’t Trade ‘Liberty’ for ‘False Sense of Security’]</ref> making implications of [[utilitarian]] arguments. On the other hand, [[establishment]] outsiders and some [[conservatives]] have praised Paul for his pro-liberty stance on the controversial issue.<ref>Two references:
*[https://thevaccinereaction.org/2019/03/sen-rand-paul-favors-liberty-over-vaccine-mandates/ Sen. Rand Paul Favors Liberty Over Vaccine Mandates]
*[https://www.redstate.com/joesquire/2019/03/11/vaccines-liberty-rand-paul-absolutely-correct/ On Both Vaccines and Liberty, Rand Paul Is Absolutely Correct]</ref>

===Fiscal policy===
In October 2021, Paul claimed that [https://www.conservapedia.com/Cryptocurrency cryptocurrencies] could replace the dollar as the world's reserve currency due to growing distrust in government.[https://www.marketwatch.com/story/rand-paul-says-crypto-could-become-the-reserve-currency-of-the-world-if-more-people-lose-trust-in-government-11635179314]

==See also==
*[[Eugene Siler]], former Republican representative from Kentucky's 8th district
*[[Rand Paul's religious views]]

==References==
{{reflist|2}}

==External links==
* [http://www.paul.senate.gov/ Senate website]
* [https://www.facebook.com/RandPaul2010 Facebook page]
* [https://twitter.com/DrRandPaul Twitter page]
* [https://www.youtube.com/user/RandPaul YouTube channel]
* [https://www.randpaul.com Rand Paul 2016 campaign website]

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X Corp.

2025-09-03T09:16:52Z

GilS: Hello Andy, this X be category anti First Amendment because X are impose Authenticity policy highly reduce freedom of speech rights by X user, if got violate will be permanent banned when I using my alt-account got banned so fast. I see few Pro-Trump in X

[[File:Musk and Rubin.jpg|thumb|NYT bought its Twitter followers to fake influence]]
'''X Corp.''', located at x.com, formerly '''Twitter, Inc.''' (renamed on July 23, 2023),<ref>https://abcnews.go.com/Business/rebranded-twitter/story?id=101605679</ref> was a [[Big Tech]] social networking platform acquired by [[Elon Musk]] on October 27, 2022, after years of [[liberal censorship]] by [[Leftists]] in [[San Francisco]] ([[Twitter#Sale to Elon Musk|see below]]). Musk fired top management and dissolved its [[Leftist]] Board of Directors immediately. Musk suspects he was lied to by underestimates of sham accounts, but a lawsuit by [[Opposition to Donald Trump|Never-Trumpers]] in a hostile court forced Musk to buy Twitter. On Nov. 4, 2022, Musk fired about half of Twitter's 7,500 mostly-[[liberal]] workforce.<ref>https://people.com/human-interest/elon-musk-claims-he-had-no-choice-but-to-fire-half-of-twitter-staff/</ref> He offered them a generous severance package, more than required. The [[Biden regime]] then falsely labelled Musk a "[[national security]] threat."<ref>https://youtu.be/ORSuo1LsyRQ</ref>

In September 2024, Musk closed the headquarters of X in the Mid-Market portion of [[San Francisco]], where it was the second-largest tenant.<ref>https://www.yahoo.com/news/stab-back-elon-musks-decision-183032988.html</ref> X may have some new job openings, which presumably attract less [[liberal]] workers, in [[Austin]] (its new headquarters), [[Palo Alto]], and [[San Jose]].

With its move out of SF, it looks like X will be hiring replacements likely to be less liberal.
The estimated political demographics of X users as of August 2024 are:<ref>https://x.com/lindayaX/status/1823115684479414761</ref>
*37 million Democrats
*32 million Republicans
*34 million swing voters

By May 2024, [[Elon Musk]] (who subsequently endorsed [[Donald Trump]] for president, and interviewed him on Aug. 12, 2024) said that X has 600 million monthly users who are active, including around 300 million users who are active on a daily basis.<ref>https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/elon-musk-x-now-600-million-monthly-active-users/717078/#:~:text=X%20reported%20reaching%20250%20million,actives%2C%20according%20to%20this%20note.</ref> In spring 2024, it was estimated that there are 106 million users of X in the [[United States]].

By April 2025, X imposed a revised Authenticity policy aimed at curbing impersonation, coordinated manipulation, and misleading identity practices across its platform. The update marked a significant shift in how user identity, parody, and commentary were regulated, sparking debate among users, analysts, and free speech advocates.

Musk sought to make X a bastion of [[freedom of speech]], but personnel is policy and [[liberal censorship]] by [[San Francisco]] remains to some extent there, including suspected shadow-banning. Musk has overcome some, but not all, of the [[liberal]] [[troll]]ing and fake impersonation that occurred there prior to Musk's acquisition. Ironically it was [[liberal]]s themselves who forced Musk to buy Twitter through a legal proceeding in [[Delaware]], when Musk apparently preferred to cancel the acquisition.

As [[RFK Jr.]] stated on Feb. 17, 2024:
{{cquote|Thank you [[Elon Musk|Elon]] for being the [[First Amendment]]’s champion!<ref>https://x.com/RobertKennedyJr/status/1758859965752865241?s=20</ref>}}
Elon Musk stood courageously against the [[communist]] dictatorship in [[China]], as [[Apple]] caved into the [[liberal censorship]] and tried to banish Twitter for allowing [[free speech]].

As Musk explained, the mass layoffs were made necessary by [[Leftist]] demands that advertisers boycott Twitter:
<blockquote>"Twitter has had a massive drop in revenue, due to activist groups pressuring advertisers, even though nothing has changed with content moderation and we did everything we could to appease the activists.

Extremely messed up! They’re trying to destroy [[free speech]] in [[America]]."<ref>[https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1588538640401018880?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1588538640401018880%7Ctwgr%5E7f0bb400d1de30335f7ccd328e31bc941826f4f8%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fpeople.com%2Fembed%3Furl%3Dhttps3A2F2Ftwitter.com2Ftwitter2Fstatus2F1588538640401018880id%3Dmntl-sc-block_1-0-20-iframeoptions%3De303DdocId%3D6825991]https://archive.ph/HL3F7</ref></blockquote>
On November 7, 2022, Musk announced the end to Twitter's allowance of impersonation by [[liberal]] [[troll]]s of innocent victims, which had made Twitter a cesspool of [[Leftist]] deception and smears. But [[Leftist]] trolling became epidemic on November 10 such that the [[FTC]] issued a warning against so many fraudulent impersonation accounts purchases for merely $8.<ref>https://www.politico.com/news/2022/11/10/fake-account-chaos-engulfs-musks-twitter-00066217</ref> Musk overcame the liberal trolls by increasing the price to $168 annually for a verified account, which [[Leftist]]s are often too cheap to pay (while spending more on harmful [[addiction]]s like [[cannabis]], [[Netflix]], and high-sugar foods).
==Overview==
Twitter was founded in 2006<ref>https://www.lifewire.com/history-of-twitter-3288854</ref> and emerged as a new medium of online [[news]] distribution that became infested by [[woke]] [[troll]]s and fake accounts. The claimed numbers of followers of [[liberal]] figures on it are falsely inflated, such that one audit in 2022 concluded that nearly half of [[Joe Biden]]’s Twitter followers are fake.<ref>https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2022/05/18/audit-reveals-almost-half-of-joe-bidens-twitter-followers-are-fake/</ref>
[[File:Twitter bird logo 2012.svg.png|left|160px]]
As a free microblogging [[website]], Twitter users can submit messages containing 140 characters or less to their followers, was co-founded by [[Jack Dorsey]] and Evan Williams. ''Twitter'' is a privately funded startup established by Obvious.com in [[San Francisco]], on March 21, 2006.<ref>[http://mashable.com/2009/03/21/happy-birthday-twitter/ Happy Birthday Twitter!] Mashable</ref><ref>[http://cellphones.about.com/od/textmessaging/a/twittertexting.htm Twitter: Free Microblogging Service Perhaps the Perfect Mobile Blogging Tool, About.com, August 16, 2008]</ref> Under liberal control, official Twitter policy was supportive of anarcho-Marxism, was intolerant of dissidence (see [[liberal censorship]]), and lacked diversity of opinion. As of mid-2020 Twitter has enjoyed [[Section 230]] immunity from prosecution for its election interference and other abuses, as well as [[monopoly]] control. There has been widespread discontent over Twitter's abuses of the public trust under its previous liberal ownership. It has been characterized as the "Wuhan wet market of ideas."<ref>https://youtu.be/DdYwUdRukV4</ref>

[[Liberal]]s forced [[free speech]] advocate [[Elon Musk]] to complete his purchase of Twitter at a price of $44 billion, using a hostile court proceeding and an inflation of its price based on an underestimate of its fake accounts.

Twitter allows users to follow others, share status updates and/or news via "tweets," or republish another user's status update (referred to as a "retweet"). If a subject is popular enough, it can become a trending topic worldwide, and is displayed on the main website. Corporations can also pay Twitter to have a "Sponsored Trend" appear in the trending topics column. Twitter has made URL shorteners (such as ow.ly, bit.ly, tinyurl.com, and goo.gl, to name a few) popular, as they allow long URLs to be shortened and posted within a tweet.

As a simple messaging tool, the website states:
{{cquote|Twitter asks one question, "What are you doing?" Answers must be under 140 characters in length and can be sent via mobile texting, instant message, or the web. The result of using Twitter to stay connected with friends, relatives, and coworkers is that you have a sense of what folks are up to but you are not expected to respond to any updates unless you want to.}}

The Twitter [[API]] allows developers to create applications for computers and mobile phones that allow users to filter their Twitter feed, as well as track click-through rates, manage multiple accounts, or log in to a website using their Twitter login.

===Ad rates===
Here is a general guide to the ad rates on X, as of the beginning of 2024:
*for the promotion of tweets: $0.50-$2 per action.
*for the promotion of accounts: $2-$4 per follow.
*for the promotion of trends: $200,000 or more per day.

==Reform era==
[[File:Trump Musk Twitter poll.PNG|right|thumb|Trump won poll, to be reinstated (Nov/2022)]]
Elon Musk reinstated [[Donald Trump]] account <ref>Elon Musk @elonmusk:

The people have spoken. Trump will be reinstated. Vox Populi, Vox Dei.
[https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1594131768298315777?s=20&t= 19 Nov 2022]. 
Nov 19, 2022 profile: Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
45th President of the United States of America🇺🇸
Washington, DCVote.DonaldJTrump.com
Joined March 2009</ref> a few weeks after purchasing Twitter, on Nov 19, 2022, (winning poll to be reinstated<ref>Over 15 million people voted in this poll. The final numbers were: Yes 51.8% No 48.2% 15,034,670 votes. [https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1593767953706921985 Elon Musk @elonmusk, Nov 18, 2022]</ref>). He also unblocked [[Babylon Bee]] and [[Jordan Peterson]] accounts.

[[File:Marc Rebillet Jan 6 2021 Twitter.PNG|right|thumb|Marc Rebillet's reply to Trump on 12:39 PM MST = 2:39 PM EST]]

As Trump's account was reinstated, one can see his tweet on J6 at 2:38 PM EST:<ref>
Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump:<blockquote>
Please support our Capitol Police and Law Enforcement. They are truly on the side of our Country. Stay peaceful!</blockquote>
 
[https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1346904110969315332 2:38 PM · Jan 6, 2021·Twitter for iPhone] (EST)</ref>
<blockquote>
"Please supoort our Capitol Police and Law Enforcement. They are truly on the side of our country. Stay peaceful."</blockquote>

To which a liberal [[BLM]]-fanatic<ref>[https://www.google.com/search?q=MARC+REBILLET+black+lives+matter]
<blockquote>If they were black they’d be bleeding out on the floor right now. This is so f####d.</blockquote>
https://twitter.com/marcrebillet/status/1346912330563473410 3:11 PM · Jan 6, 2021]</ref> replied with profanity.

[[Project Veritas]] was reinstated to Twitter on Nov 20, 2022, after a "permanent" Ban.<ref>[https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-project-veritas-reinstated-to-twitter BREAKING: Project Veritas REINSTATED to Twitter], The PM, Nov 20, 2022</ref>

On Nov 21, 2022, Elon Musk responded to a tweet by the State of Israel: "More countries should tweet like you," he later wrote, I visited Israel, it was great.<ref>[https://rotter.net/forum/scoops1/770117.shtml Elon Musk responds to a tweet by the State of Israel: "More countries should tweet like you," he later wrote, I visited Israel, it was great], ''Rotter'', Nov 21, 2022.<blockquote>

User 'Israel' responded to Kanye West's tweet in which he wrote peace with a smiley:
"We would very much like to be excluded from this narrative."

Musk complimented the user of the State of Israel and wrote, your tweets are good, more countries should tweet in this way. It's not fun to be stuffy all the time (the accurate translator will win a gift prize...)

Translation of stuffy: a person who is not open to new ideas. Narrow-minded.
Another stranger on Twitter responded to Musk that he should visit Israel.
</blockquote>

James Spiro
 
Nov 21, 2022 @JamesSpiro
Replying to @elonmusk @Israel and @taylorswift13:
<blockquote>
Yes! @Israel is cool, actually! You should visit us :)
</blockquote>
Elon Musk @elonmusk:
<blockquote>
I have! It was great.
</blockquote>
([https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1594792272583098368 Nov 21, 2022]).</ref>

After a move billed as ''The trash takes itself out: All the other woke media outlets now will follow CBS and suspend their Twitter activity. Epic cleansing on deck'',<ref>[https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/the-trash-takes-itself-out-all-the-other-woke-media-outlets-now-will-follow-cbs-and-suspend-their-twitter-activity-epic-cleansing-on-deck/ ''The trash takes itself out: All the other woke media outlets now will follow CBS and suspend their Twitter activity. Epic cleansing on deck'']</ref> [[CBS News]] ended its boycott of the new Twitter after consulting with their masters at the [[NSA]].<ref>[https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/11/07/new-revelations-about-jacks-magic-coffee-shop-twitter-surface-under-new-management/#more-239490 New Revelations About Jack’s Magic Coffee Shop (Twitter) Surface Under New Management].</ref>

Musk removed the suspension of most accounts effective the first week in December. But Twitter's long-term allowance of parody accounts that mislead the public, including suspended parody accounts in the names of real people who were never suspended, continues.

However, Musk faced harsh backlash for reinstating a raw Hitlerist infamous neo-Nazi.<ref>N M Ramirez [https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/elon-musk-twitter-reinstates-neo-nazi-andrew-anglin-account-1234640390/ Elon Brings One of America’s Most Prominent Nazis Back to Twitter], Rolling Stone, Dec 2, 2022.</ref><ref>[https://ca.news.yahoo.com/amphtml/elon-brings-one-america-most-190033546.html Elon Brings One of America's Most Prominent Nazis Back to Twitter], ''Yahoo News'', Dec 2, 2022.</ref><ref>Lydia OConnor, [https://www.huffpost.com/entry/andrew-anglin-elon-musk-twitter_n_638a84eee4b09eeedb9d2190 Elon Musk Just Let A Notorious Neo-Nazi Troll Back On Twitter]</ref><ref>[https://www.adl.org/resources/blog/extremists-far-right-figures-exploit-recent-changes-twitter Extremists, Far Right Figures Exploit Recent Changes to Twitter], ''ADL'', Dec 2, 2022</ref><ref>Taylor Hatmaker, [https://techcrunch.com/2022/12/02/elon-musk-nazis-kanye-twitter-andrew-anglin/ Elon Musk just brought an infamous neo-Nazi back to Twitter], TechCrunch, Dec 2, 2022.</ref><ref>Aaron Bolton, [https://www.mtpr.org/montana-news/2022-12-05/neo-nazi-website-founder-who-targeted-flathead-valley-residents-allowed-back-on-twitter Neo-Nazi website founder who targeted Flathead Valley residents allowed back on Twitter], ''Montana Public Radio,'' Dec 5, 2022.</ref><ref>Joseph Menn, [https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/12/03/twitter-antisemitism-violence-jan-6/ Surging Twitter antisemitism unites fringe, encourages violence, officials say], ''Washington Post'', Dec 3, 2022.</ref><ref>Mary Papenfuss. [https://news.yahoo.com/french-president-macron-warns-elon-003335625.html French President Macron Warns Elon Musk That Twitter Must Heed EU Rules Against Lies, Hate], ''Yahoo News'', Dec 3, 2022.</ref><ref>[https://www.semana.com/tecnologia/articulo/elon-musk-retiro-la-suspension-de-las-cuentas-de-andrew-anglin/202248/ Elon Musk aprobó el regreso de Andrew Anglin a Twitter], Semana, Dec 5, 2022.</ref><ref>[https://www.rawstory.com/andrew-anglin-2658824647/ Twitter unbans neo-Nazi who said women should be 'raped and locked in cages'], ''Raw Story'', Dec 2, 2022.</ref>

===The Twitter Files===
{{See also|Twitter Files}}
[[File:MSM time on Twitter Files.PNG|thumb|[https://www.foxnews.com/media/nbc-abc-cbs-called-silence-elon-musk-twitter-files-release-failing-americans.amp A breakdown of media coverage of the Twitter files showing how the social media giant handled the Hunter Biden laptop story in 2020. (Fox News)]]]

Musk exposed constitutional law violations on the part of the Biden administration [[United States Government]] to interfere in elections. While a private entity does not have to respect free speech, the [[First Amendment]] to the [[Constitution]] prohibits the United States Government from silencing free speech. Twitter, under Jack Dorsey, prohibited free political speech at the behest of the United States Government.

On December 2, 2022 journalist Matt Taibbi of ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' magazine began releasing the #TwitterFiles,<ref>[https://dailycaller.com/2022/12/03/peter-roff-musks-twitter-files-confirm-everything-we-already-knew-opinion/ PETER ROFF: Musk’s ‘Twitter Files’ Confirm Everything We Already Knew], ''Daily Caller'', Dec 3, 2022. A former UPI political writer and U.S. News and World Report columnist, Peter Roff is a Trans-Atlantic Leadership Network media fellow</ref><ref>Jonathan Turley [https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/media-hunter-biden-collusion-twitter-files-dump-defense-attacking-messenger Media's Hunter Biden collusion: 'Twitter files' dump has them on defense, attacking the messenger], ''Fox News'', Dec 4, 2022. Media is too invested in suppression of Hunter Biden story to acknowledge extent of the scandal</ref> otherwise known as Twitter’s internal communications related to [[censorship]], targeting, and political interference. Twitter was working in conjunction with then-Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden’s team, removing tweets that team Biden wanted deleted. According to Andrew Kerr of the ''Washington Free Beacon'', those tweets were either drug-related photos of Hunter Biden or pornographic photos of him. Without these photos, the electorate would be deprived of critical visual info on the activities of the Biden family. <ref>https://www.dailywire.com/news/musk-releases-hunter-biden-files-tweets-deleted-at-behest-of-team-biden-exec-was-key-behind-censorship-decision</ref>

[[File:Hunter I'm on Team Biden.PNG|right|300px|thumb|Actor James Woods was banned from Twitter at the request of the DNC for posting the above meme. Woods sued the DNC.<ref>https://youtu.be/2cxQcHbdWlw</ref>]]

Reminder: 2020 election outcome would differ with [[Hunter Biden]] laptop coverage per poll.<ref>Bruce Golding, [https://nypost.com/2022/08/26/2020-election-outcome-would-differ-with-hunter-biden-laptop-coverage-poll/ 2020 election outcome would differ with Hunter Biden laptop coverage: poll], ''NYPost'', August 26, 2022.<blockquote>
79% say ‘truthful’ coverage of Hunter Biden’s laptop would have changed 2020 election.</blockquote></ref>
Andrew C McCarthy: "FBI Interference in the 2020 Election: The ‘Twitter Files’ Miss the Real Scandal."<ref>Andrew C McCarthy,
[https://www.nationalreview.com/2022/12/the-twitter-files-miss-the-real-scandal-fbi-interference-in-the-2020-election/ FBI Interference in the 2020 Election: The ‘Twitter Files’ Miss the Real Scandal], National Review, Dec 6, 2022.</ref>

And Musk confirmed Bari Weiss to join Matt Taibbi in releasing ‘Twitter Files.'<ref>Caleb Howe, [https://www.mediaite.com/tech/elon-musk-confirms-bari-weiss-to-join-matt-taibbi-in-releasing-twitter-files-info/ Elon Musk Confirms Bari Weiss to Join Matt Taibbi in Releasing ‘Twitter Files’ Info], ''Fox News'', Dec 3, 2022.</ref>

This initial document dump focused on the decision-making process that Twitter invoked to suppress the [[Laptop from Hell]] in the run-up to the [[2020 Presidential election]]. The internal emails released show that Twitter was absolutely engaging in political manipulation and, after they suspended the ''New York Post'', the oldest newspaper in the United States, looking for some sort of policy justification for their political actions.

According to Taibbi, "The problem with the ‘hacked materials’ ruling, several sources said, was that this normally required an official/law enforcement finding of a hack. But such a finding never appears throughout what one executive describes as a ‘whirlwind’ 24-hour, company-wide mess.” Twitter execs could not find a justification for blocking the ''New York Post'' esposé on [[Biden family corruption]] under its own rules, so it consulted with the Biden camp and Democrats in Congress and received the go-ahead.

In one incredible exchange, Twitter execs receive a list of accounts from the [[Biden junta|Biden Administration]] to “review.” The accounts were reportedly later suspended. Democrat Rep. [[Ro Khanna]] was the only Democrat that expressed concern that it will backfire, trying to mediate with Twitter execs and reminding them the First Amendment prohibits government suppression of free speech. The Twitter files reveal [[collusion]] between government and [[private sector]] business to suppress [[human rights]], which is the original and basic definition of [[fascism]].

Twitter rules "were enforced against the right, but not against the left".<ref>Elon Musk on Twitter: "@DavidSacks As @bariweiss clearly describes, the rules were enforced against the right, but not against the left" / Twitter.
([https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1601059434330890241 Dec 8, 2022])</ref>

The TwitterFiles also revealed a familiar name in Hunter Biden laptop scandal: former [[FBI]] [[James A. Baker (DOJ)]]. Baker has been featured repeatedly in the Russian investigations launched by the Justice Department It has been commented: "For many, James Baker is fast becoming the Kevin Bacon of the Russian collusion scandals."<ref>Jonathan Turley, [https://nypost.com/2022/12/03/twitter-files-reveal-james-baker-in-hunter-biden-laptop-scandal/ Twitter files reveal familiar name in Hunter Biden laptop scandal: James Baker], ''NYPost'', December 3, 2022.</ref><ref>Susan Ferrechio, [https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2022/dec/5/twitter-lawyer-james-baker-who-blocked-hunter-bide/ Twitter lawyer who blocked Hunter Biden laptop story helped ignite Trump-Russia probe], ''The Washington Times'', December 5, 2022.<blockquote>
A top Twitter attorney who supported censoring the bombshell story about the incriminating contents of Hunter Biden’s discarded laptop computer in the weeks before the presidential election also helped set into motion the FBI’s investigation into now-debunked claims that President Trump colluded with Russia to win the 2016 presidential election.

James Baker, who served as Twitter’s deputy general counsel and vice president beginning in June 2020, spent four years prior to that as the top lawyer for the FBI. It was in that post in 2016 that he linked up his friend, lawyer and Democratic operative Michael Sussmann, with top FBI investigators. Mr. Sussmann passed along claims that the Republican candidate was in contact with a Russian bank.</blockquote></ref>

In a ridiculous but not so-funny reaction: former Twitter executive who suppressed Hunter Biden Laptop Story, lumps two separate unrelated entities and calls them both the exposer of radical liberalism [[Washington_Post#LibsOfTikTok|Libsoftiktok]],<ref>Tucker Carlson, [https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/tucker-libs-tiktok-oust-campaign-twitter Tucker: Libs of TikTok oust campaign was designed to shut down a highly effective Twitter feed],
''Fox News'', April 19, 2022. Tucker calls out the intimidation campaign.</ref> and the satire Christian site ''Babylon Bee'' 'Dangerous.'<ref>Caroline Downey, [https://news.yahoo.com/twitter-exec-suppressed-hunter-biden-161210852.html Former Twitter Executive Who Suppressed Hunter Biden Laptop Story Calls Libs of TikTok, Babylon Bee ‘Dangerous’], ''Yahoo'', December 4, 2022.</ref>

Rep. [[Kevin McCarthy]] stated: Google, Facebook should be investigated after Twitter files on Hunter Biden story.<ref>[https://nypost.com/2022/12/04/mccarthy-says-google-facebook-should-be-investigated/ Google, Facebook should be investigated after Twitter files on Hunter Biden story: Rep. McCarthy], NYPost'', Dec 4, 2022.</ref>

On the subject why major news outlets downplay the scandal, Musk stated "because they were complicit."<ref>[https://archive.org/details/FOXNEWSW_20221204_180000_Fox_News_Live Fox News Live : FOXNEWSW : December 4, 2022 10:00am-11:00am PST : Free Borrow & Streaming : Internet Archive].<blockquote>"...they were complicit in deceiving the american public and admits that they lied to the public, they are trying to pretend that this is a nothing burger."</blockquote></ref><ref>Citizen Free Press @CitizenFreePres Tweeted ([https://twitter.com/CitizenFreePres/status/1599167903080714240 Dec 3, 2022]):<blockquote>@elonmusk criticizes legacy media for refusing to cover The Twitter Files:
"The media is trying to turn this info into a nothingburger because they were complicit in deceiving the American public, rather than admit they lied to the public.” — </blockquote>
@elonmusk</ref>

CNN: Twitter employees were saying "this feels like Russian disinformation" when deciding to censor tweets about the Hunter Biden laptop story.<ref>Townhall.com @townhallcom ([https://twitter.com/townhallcom/status/1599780094750298113 Dec 5, 2022]):
<blockquote>
CNN: Twitter employees were saying "this feels like Russian disinformation" when deciding to censor tweets about the Hunter Biden laptop story. "Some want you to think...that this was censorship by big tech."</blockquote></ref>

On Dec 5, [[White House]] spokesperson dismissed the embarrassing scandal. KJP: "we see it as an incident...as a coincidence."<ref>Breaking911 @Breaking911 ([https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1599882154560802817 Dec 5, 2022]):<blockquote>
WATCH: KJP says Twitter censoring the Hunter Biden laptop story is a "distraction" and "old news if you think about it."</blockquote></ref><ref>Bradford Betz, [https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/musks-twitter-files-revealing-censorship-hunter-biden-laptop-story-distraction-white-house-says.amp Musk's 'Twitter Files,' revealing censorship of Hunter Biden laptop story, is a 'distraction, White House says], FOXBusiness, Dec 5, 2022. 
Musk outsourced his findings to Substack journalist Matt Taibbi who published a thread detailing Twitter’s censorship</ref>

On Dec 6, 2022, Musk announced, James Baker, former FBI counsel, was fired from Twitter after the Hunter laptop revelations.<ref>[https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-elon-musk-confirms-james-baker-former-fbi-counsel-out-at-twitter-after-censorship-revelations BREAKING: Elon Musk confirms James Baker, former FBI counsel, FIRED from Twitter after Hunter laptop revelations], The PM, Dec 6, 2022.<blockquote>
On Tuesday, Twitter CEO Elon Musk announced that attorney Jim Baker had been "exited" from the company following recent revelations that he played a role in facilitating censorship on the platform.</blockquote></ref><ref>Paul Farrell, [https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11512265/Oh-tangled-web-weave-Elon-Musk-gets-poetic-firing-Twitter-lawyer-James-Baker.html 'Oh, what a tangled web they weave': Elon Musk gets poetic after dramatically firing his Twitter lawyer for 'secretly vetting files on Hunter Biden's laptop' that delayed second tranche of revelations expected from ex-NY Times reporter Bari Weiss], ''Daily Mail'', 07 Dec 2022.</ref>

====Shadowbanning====
[[File:Twitter Files II shadowbanning.PNG|right|400px]]
{{See also|Shadowbanning}}
[[File:Bari Weiss (7) 12-8-22.PNG|right|400px]]
The second part of the Twitter Files revealed the systematic shadowbannimg of those, liberals didn't like, blacklisting them, to make sure they do not trend. Which means they silent voices and de facto censored. The DARK scary part is also that all that was done secretly without notifying the user. <ref>Joseph A. Wulfsohn, [https://www.foxnews.com/media/elon-musks-second-installment-twitter-files-reveals-secret-blacklists-bari-weiss-reports Elon Musk's second installment of 'Twitter Files' reveals 'secret blacklists,' Bari Weiss reports], ''Fox News,'' Dec 8, 2022.<blockquote>
Bari Weiss reported details of Twitter's censorship practices before the Musk takeover.</blockquote></ref>
[[File:Gadde.PNG|left|300px|thumb|Vijaya Gadde]]
[[Vijaya Gadde]], is noted at this censorship routine.

[[Charlie Kirk]] recalled that he was complaining already in 2018. And remarked<ref>Dec 8, 2022 on ''TCT'' show, [https://tuckercarlson.com/charlie-kirk-speaks-out-after-reportedly-placed-on-twitters-do-not-amplify-list/ Charlie Kirk speaks out after reportedly placed on Twitter's 'Do Not Amplify' list], ''Fox News''.
 
Alex Oliveira, [https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11519381/Charlie-Kirk-talks-Twitter.html 'More censorship than Hamas': Charlie Kirk tells Tucker Carlson 'Twitter Files' part two confirm his suspicion that he was being censored after speaking out against pandemic lockdowns in 2020], ''Daily Mail'', Dec 9, 2022.</ref> on the absurdity that, in contrast, (dangerous) [[Hamas]] and [[Iran]] were not taken steps against.

It also censored the very popular [[Washington_Post#LibsOfTikTok|LibsOfTikTok]] (which was and is merely reporting factual videos exposing radical woke), under a guise of supposed "hate," yet, an internal memo revealed that LibsOfTikTok did NOT engage in any hate.<ref>Ari Blaff, [https://www.nationalreview.com/news/twitter-suppressed-prominent-right-wing-anti-lockdown-users-documents-show/ Twitter Suppressed Prominent Right-Wing, Anti-Lockdown Users, Documents Show], ''National Review'', Dec 8, 2022.</ref><blockquote>
Later in the night, Weiss further revealed that @libsoftiktok (LTT), a viral account documenting wokeness, was placed on a “trends blacklist” with a notice “DO NOT TAKE ACTION ON USER WITHOUT CONSULTING WITH SIP-PES.”

Although the account was repeatedly dinged with suspensions for allegedly violating company policy against “hateful conduct,” internal memos from October 2022 acknowledged that “LTT has not directly engaged in behavior violative of the Hateful Conduct policy.”

By comparison, when the home address of LTT’s founder, Chaya Raichik, was doxxed in November 2022, and she reported it to Twitter Support, the company did nothing to remove the tweet.</blockquote>
[[File:Miles Cheong 12-9-22.jpg|thumb|Raw elections interference]]
Political candidates were subject to shadowbanning while they were running for office or seeking re-election.<ref>Ian Miles Cheong on Twitter: "So here’s a question for @elonmusk and @bariweiss: were any political candidates — either in the US or elsewhere — subject to shadowbanning while they were running for office or seeking re-election?" / Twitter
 
Elon Musk on Twitter: "@stillgray @bariweiss Yes" / Twitter
([https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1601059434330890241 Dec 8, 2022]) [https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FjiPEmJacAMV9vW?format=jpg].
* Libs of TikTok on Twitter: "Wow! Elon confirms that Twitter shadowbanned and suppressed tweets from political candidates while they were running for office. ELECTION INTERFERENCE! [https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FjhWZ72WQAAQA4n?format=jpg&name=small] [https://t.co/6WEe36mtJQ]" / Twitter.
([https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1601124677581033473 Dec 9, 2022]).
</ref>

====FBI subsidiary====
{{See also|FISA abuse|FBI scandal}}
What Matt Taibbi outlined showcases how various organizations could reach out to Twitter and request content removal. Taibbi concludes, “what most people think of as the “[[deep state]]” is really a tangled collaboration of state agencies, private contractors, and (sometimes state-funded) [[NGO]]s. The lines become so blurred as to be meaningless."<ref>[Latest Twitter Files Bombshell: The Deep State Is Really a Tangled Collaboration of State Agencies, Private Contractors, and NGOs], [[JD Rucker]], December 16, 2022.</ref>

The FBI’s social media-focused task force, known as FTIF, created in the wake of the 2016 election, swelled to 80 agents and corresponded with Twitter to identify alleged foreign influence and election tampering of all kinds. Federal intelligence and [[law enforcement]] reach into Twitter included the [[Department of Homeland Security]], which partnered with security contractors and [[think tank]]s to pressure Twitter to moderate content. Social media platforms were enlisted as DHS partners under the auspices of ‘[[national security]]’, and suddenly there was a full-fledged surveillance state underway. That system is defended under the shield of ‘national security‘ as noted in the judicial ruling in the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals (the Trump [[Mar-a-Lago raid]] case).<ref>[https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/12/16/release-6-dhs-and-fbi-content-removal-requests-to-twitter/ Release #6 – DHS and FBI Content Removal Requests to Twitter], December 16, 2022 | Sundance.</ref>

(1) The [[Patriot Act]] turned the intel surveillance radar from foreign searches for terrorists to domestic searches for terrorists.
(2) Obama/Biden then redefined what is a “terrorist” to include their political opposition.
(3) The [[DHS]], [[DNI|ODNI]], [[DOJ-NSD]] and [[FISC]] became the four pillars of this new surveillance system.

Scholar [[Jonathan Turley]] argues: "When the FBI attacks its critics as ‘conspiracy theorists,’ it’s time to reform the bureau."<ref>Jonathan Turley, [https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/3787443-when-the-fbi-attacks-its-critics-as-conspiracy-theorists-its-time-to-reform-the-bureau/ When the FBI attacks its critics as ‘conspiracy theorists,’ it’s time to reform the bureau] 12/24/22.</ref>

====Banning Trump but not the genocidal Ayatollah====

As the 5th part of TwitterFiles was released, highlighting the decision to ban firmer president Trump in Jan 2021:<ref>Samuel Chamberlain and David Propper, [https://nypost.com/2022/12/12/fifth-twitter-files-installment-details-trumps-last-hours-on-platform/
Fifth ‘Twitter files’ release details furious debate to ban Trump — despite no policy violations], ''NYPost'', December 12, 2022.</ref><blockquote>
As Weiss pointed out, Twitter’s treatment of Trump stood in stark contrast to those of obvious bad actors — including Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who remains on the platform despite repeatedly calling for the destruction of Israel. Other world leaders, including the president of Nigeria and the prime ministers of India and Ethiopia, also have not been banned despite posting clear incitements to violence as well as threats to arrest Twitter’s own employees.

Weiss also pointed out that the ban of Trump was criticized by other world leaders, with then-German Chancellor Angela Merkel calling it “problematic” and Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador comparing Twitter to a “court of censorship like the Inquisition to manage public opinion.”

“Ultimately, the concerns about Twitter’s efforts to censor news about Hunter Biden’s laptop, blacklist disfavored views, and ban a president aren’t about the past choices of executives in a social media company,” Weiss concluded her report. “They’re about the power of a handful of people at a private company to influence the public discourse and democracy.”</blockquote>

====Ukraine war fake news====
{{See also|Ukraine propaganda war}}
When Musk took control of Twitter, he discovered that the [[Polish]] government was secretly funding a Twitter account notorious for spreading disinformation about the [[NATO war in Ukraine]], and saw it reported: “One of the largest media outlets in [[Eastern Europe]] is pushing out [[fake news]]...Chances are that any active Twitter user over the past year [2022] will have seen a tweet or two from an account called Visegrad24 and, most likely, the information contained in those tweets will have been fake...the outfit appears to be funded by the office of Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki”.<ref>https://www.sott.net/article/475154-Is-the-Polish-government-secretly-funding-a-Twitter-account-notorious-for-spreading-disinformation-about-Eastern-Europe</ref> When globalist Western governments asked Musk to block Russian news sources, he told them: “We will not do so unless at 'gunpoint', sorry to be a free speech absolutist”.<ref>https://news.yahoo.com/elon-musk-starlink-won-t-block-russian-outlets-165845001.html</ref>
====Resignation====
After conducting a poll if he should step down, with most agreeing with that, Musk tweeted the following on Dec 20, 2022:<ref>Elon Musk @elonmusk on Twitter, [https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1605372724800393216 Dec 20, 2022].</ref><ref>[https://www.npr.org/2022/12/20/1144182209/twitter-elon-musk-resigns Elon Musk says he will resign as Twitter CEO once he finds a replacement] ''NPR'', Dec 20, 2022.</ref>
<blockquote>I will resign as CEO as soon as I find someone foolish enough to take the job! After that, I will just run the software & servers teams.</blockquote>

==Sale to Elon Musk==
On April 25, 2022, it was announced that Twitter had been sold to Tesla CEO and SpaceX founder [[Elon Musk]] for $43 billion.<ref name="Musk Twitter">[https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/04/breaking-official-twitter-sold-twitter-shares-halted-pending-news-sale-company-sold-elon-musk-43-billion/ BREAKING: IT’S OFFICIAL! TWITTER IS SOLD! Twitter Shares Halted Pending News of Sale – Company Sold to Elon Musk for $44 Billion] at the Gateway Pundit</ref> Earlier in the month, Musk had become the biggest single shareholder of Twitter (with 9.2% of the shares, well over the 2.25% held by Jack Dorsey) when he bought 73 million shares of stock in the company (worth $2.89 billion),<ref>[https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/04/elon-musk-becomes-biggest-shareholder-twitter-buys-9-2-shares/ Elon Musk Becomes the Biggest Shareholder in Twitter as He Buys 73 Million Shares] at the Gateway Pundit</ref> but when he attempted to buy more shares, he ran into resistance from several [[Saudi Arabia]]n Twitter shareholders, which cause Twitter stock to fall.<ref>[https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/04/breaking-saudi-owners-twitter-decline-musks-offer-twitter-stock-tumbling/ BREAKING: Saudi Shareholders of Twitter Decline Musk’s Offer – Twitter Stock is Tumbling] at the Gateway Pundit</ref> To prevent Musk from buying more shares, Twitter tried to entice him with a seat on its board of directors as part of a deal that would keep him from owning more than 14.9% of its common stock,<ref>[https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/04/twitter-appoint-elon-musk-board-directors-prevent-buying-majority-stake/ Twitter to Appoint Elon Musk to its Board of Directors and Prevent Him from Buying Majority Stake – Musk Teases ‘Significant Improvements’] at the Gateway Pundit</ref> but Musk turned down that offer, thereby allowing him to buy more Twitter stock.<ref>[https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/04/developing-elon-musk-turns-seat-twitters-board-move-will-allow-buy-stock-company/ Elon Musk Turns Down Seat on Twitter’s Board, Move Will Allow Him to Buy More Stock in Company] at the Gateway Pundit</ref> In response, bitter leftist Twitter shareholders attempted to sue Musk for delaying in disclosing the amount of stock he owned in the company.<ref>[https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/04/go-angry-twitter-shareholders-sue-elon-musk-delay-stock-disclosures/ Here We Go… Angry Twitter Shareholders Sue Elon Musk Over Delay in Stock Disclosures] at the Gateway Pundit</ref>

When Musk announced plans to purchase Twitter outright and turn it into a private company,<ref>[https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/04/elon-musk-wants-buy-twitter-43-billion-transformed-private-company/ BREAKING: Elon Musk Wants to Buy Twitter for $43 Billion and Transform It Into ‘Private Company’] at the Gateway Pundit</ref> pro-censorship/anti-free speech leftist company management decided to attempt to implement a "poison pill" to sabotage the transaction and fight for censorship and silencing of conservative voices and allowing the voices of liberals and other enemies of freedom to flourish<ref>Two references:
*[https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/04/twitter-fascists-release-statement-dont-care-elon-musk-board-will-continue-censor-conservatives-trump-not-coming-back/ Twitter Fascists Release Statement: They Don’t Care that Elon Musk Is On Board – They Will Continue to Censor Conservatives and Trump Is Not Coming Back] at the Gateway Pundit
*[https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/04/twitter-management-fight-control-company-president-trump-remains-censored-iranian-leaders-not/ Twitter Management Fight for Control of Company So They Can Continue to Censor President Trump and Promote Iranian Leaders on The Site] at the Gateway Pundit</ref> rather than allow Musk, who is anti-censorship and favors free speech, to buy the company and put an end to that censorship.<ref>[https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/04/twitter-board-adopts-poison-pill-rather-consider-musks-offer-free-speech-damned/ Twitter Board Adopts a ‘Poison Pill’ Rather than Consider Musk’s Offer – Free Speech Be Damned] at the Gateway Pundit</ref> In response to the "poison pill" move by Twitter, Florida Governor [[Ron DeSantis]] threatened to hold the company's board of directors legally accountable for breaching their fiduciary duty.<ref>[https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/04/ron-desantis-threatens-hold-twitters-board-directors-accountable-breaching-fiduciary-duty/ Ron DeSantis Threatens to Hold Twitter’s Board of Directors Accountable for Breaching Fiduciary Duty] at the Gateway Pundit</ref> Musk later announced that he would be bringing investor partners into his Twitter bid to thwart the company's "poison pill" sabotage attempt, whose legality was questioned by the Gateway Pundit.<ref>[https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/04/elon-musk-considering-bringing-partners-twitter-bid-company-adopts-poison-pill/ Elon Musk Considers Bringing in Partners on Twitter Bid After Company Adopts ‘Poison Pill’] at the Gateway Pundit</ref> In an attempt to protect Twitter and its anti-free speech mandate against a Musk takeover, the [[Biden regime]]-controlled [[Department of Justice]] and the Securities and Exchange Commission tried to step in by launching frivolous sham investigations against Musk.<ref>[https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/04/swamp-steps-doj-sec-launch-joint-investigation-targeting-elon-musk-attempts-hostile-takeover-twitter-reports/ Swamp Steps In? DOJ, SEC Launch “Joint Investigation” Targeting Elon Musk as He Attempts His ‘Hostile Takeover’ of Twitter: Reports] at the Gateway Pundit</ref>

In an interview on ''Fox News'', [[Devin Nunez]] said, that Trump had encouraged Musk to buy Twitter.<ref>Joe Hoft, [https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/05/devin-nunes-president-trump-encouraged-elon-musk-purchase-twitter/ Devin Nunes: President Trump Encouraged Elon Musk to Purchase Twitter],
''The Gateway Pundit'', May 4, 2022.</ref>

On September 13, 2022, it was announced that Twitter shareholders had officially approved the buyout of the platform by Musk.<ref>[https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/09/twitter-shareholders-approve-44-billion-musk-buyout/ Twitter Shareholders Approve $44 Billion Musk Buyout] at the Gateway Pundit</ref>

===Liberals melt down===
[[File:Kathy Griffen suspended.PNG|right|300px|thumb|Leftist troll Kathy Griffen was permanently banned from Twitter days after the takeover for impersonating Elon Musk, a violation of TOS.<ref>https://therightscoop.com/good-riddance-psychopath-kathy-griffin-permanently-banned-from-twitter/</ref>]]
When Musk's purchase of Twitter became official, pearl-clutching liberals [[snowflake|went into meltdown mode]]<ref>[https://youtu.be/-C9ERYLlNY8 BREAKING! TWITTER SOLD TO ELON MUSK! LEFTISTS IN MELTDOWN!!!] at Dr. Steve Turley YouTube channel</ref> over their loss of control of one of their means of censoring free speech and silencing conservative voices/opinions and factual information.<ref name="Musk Twitter"/> President Donald Trump congratulated Musk on his purchase of Twitter, saying of him "...I hope Elon buys Twitter because he’ll make improvements to it and he is a good man," but he added that he will not return to Twitter, even with the restoration of his account there, choosing instead to stay with his own social media platform Truth Social.<ref>[https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/04/breaking-president-trump-will-not-come-back-twitter-despite-elon-musk-takeover/ Breaking: President Trump WILL NOT Come Back to Twitter Despite Elon Musk Takeover] at the Gateway Pundit</ref> As part of the announcement of his Twitter purchase, Musk said, "Free speech is the bedrock of a functioning democracy, and Twitter is the digital town square where matters vital to the future of humanity are debated...", adding in a tweet that "I hope that even my worst critics remain on Twitter, because that is what free speech means".<ref>[https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1518623997054918657 Elon Musk: "I hope that even my worst critics remain on Twitter, because that is what free speech means"] at Twitter</ref> Among the liberals having tantrums over Musk's purchase of Twitter are actress and leftist activist Jameela Jamil, who rage-quit the platform over the announcement in a petulant tweet,<ref>[https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/04/one-former-good-place-actress-turned-annoying-activist-jameela-jamil-quits-twitter-elon-musk-purchase/ ONE DOWN: Former Good Place Actress Turned Annoying Activist Jameela Jamil Quits Twitter Over Elon Musk Purchase] at the Gateway Pundit</ref> liberal race activist [[Shaun King]] (a white man who claims to be "black"), who also threw an online hissy-fit and rage-quit Twitter via deletion of his account in response to the Musk purchase,<ref>[https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/04/shaun-king-rage-quits-twitter-elon-musks-purchase/ Shaun King Rage Quits Twitter Over Elon Musk’s Purchase] at the Gateway Pundit</ref> [[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez]] (who once delusionally claimed that people who criticize her for her support of socialism and her cluelessness about politics and the real world want to "date" her<ref>[https://welovetrump.com/2021/12/31/aoc-claims-republicans-are-mad-at-her-because-they-want-to-date-her/ AOC Claims Republicans are Mad at Her Because They Want to Date Her]</ref>),<ref>[https://welovetrump.com/2022/04/29/elon-musk-hilariously-trolls-aoc-following-her-passive-aggressive-meltdown-on-twitter/ Elon Musk Hilariously Trolls AOC Following Her Passive Aggressive Meltdown on Twitter]</ref> and other prominent liberals with online presences such as [[Joy Reid]], [[Howard Dean]], [[NBC]] "journalist"/hack Ben Collins, [[CNN]] hack [[Brian Stelter]], former Twitter employees Israel Camacho and Laura Gomez and several members of hate group [[Antifa]].<ref>[https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/04/meltdown-glorious-democrats-thugs-fascists-react-elon-musk-purchase-twitter-predictable-fury/ THE MELTDOWN IS GLORIOUS: Democrats, Thugs and Fascists React to Elon Musk Purchase of Twitter with Predictable Fury] at the Gateway Pundit</ref> Some of the more deranged and immature liberals on Twitter are now calling for Musk to be killed in response to his purchase of the platform.<ref>[https://welovetrump.com/2022/04/28/liberals-gone-mad-libs-want-to-kill-elon-musk/ Liberals Gone Mad: Libs Want To “Kill Elon Musk”]</ref>

The meltdown got even worse after Musk asserted the Democrat Party was ‘hijacked by extremists'.
And "Palestinian" American liberal MSNBC contributor Dean Obeidallah decided: "It's now 100% clear that Musk is part of the GOP propaganda apparatus."<ref>Gabriel Hays, [https://www.foxnews.com/media/liberals-melt-down-after-musk-claims-democrat-party-hijacked-by-extremists.amp Liberals meltdown after Musk claims the Democrat Party was ‘hijacked by extremists'], ''Fox News'', April 29, 2022.<blockquote>
[https://a57.foxnews.com/static.foxnews.com/foxnews.com/content/uploads/2022/04/640/320/muskcartoon.png?ve=1&tl=1],
[https://a57.foxnews.com/static.foxnews.com/foxnews.com/content/uploads/2022/04/640/320/muskextreme.png]

"It's now 100% clear that Musk is part of the GOP propaganda apparatus," tweeted liberal radio host and MSNBC contributor Dean Obeidallah.</blockquote></ref>

'Stop hitting on me, I'm really shy': Elon Musk accused [[AOC]] of flirting with him when she called him a 'billionaire with an ego problem' and blamed him for an 'explosion of hate crimes' after buying Twitter.<ref>Stephen M. Lepore, [https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10769311/Elon-Musk-accuses-AOC-FLIRTING-tweet-blaming-explosion-hate-crimes.html 'Stop hitting on me, I'm really shy': Elon Musk accuses AOC of FLIRTING with him when she called him a 'billionaire with an ego problem' and blamed him for an 'explosion of hate crimes' after buying Twitter] ''Dailymail.Com'', 30 Apr 2022.
[https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2022/04/30/02/57224459-0-image-a-23_1651280832241.jpg]</ref>

===Hypocrisy===
Democrat politicians such as [[Elizabeth Warren]], who were in favor of letting Twitter do as it pleased under liberal ownership and did all it could to run interference for it and protect it and its lawless actions against regulation and sanctions by the Trump administration, did an about-face following the Musk purchase and, out of fearful concern of their crimes and misdeeds being exposed (and especially the return of President Trump to Twitter) now that Musk is restoring free speech to the platform and ending censorship there, suddenly and hypocritically became in favor of regulating Twitter, with Warren in particular advocating for a "wealth tax" and regulation of Big Tech that would specifically target Twitter and conservative social media platforms, claiming that Twitter's purchase by Musk and its subsequent restoration of free speech for conservatives would be "...dangerous for our democracy".<ref>[https://dailycallernewsfoundation.org/2022/04/26/democrats-twitter-free-speech-elon-musk/ Democrats Are Horrified Now That Twitter Might Actually Allow Free Speech] at the Daily Caller</ref><ref>[https://x.com/AmericanDevout/status/1820574910550536340 What Democrats really mean by "Our Democracy"]</ref>

===Musk: April-May 2022===
With the Musk takeover, Twitter has begun reinstating conservative accounts that were wrongly suspended under the previous liberal regime for telling the truth about subjects that liberals do not like, such as [[Democrat election fraud]], the contents of [[Hunter Biden]]'s laptop computer and the damage being done by [[COVID vaccine|CCP flu "vaccines"]], as well as locking down changes to the site's source code to prevent vindictive liberal Twitter employees from doing damage to the platform out of childish spite; among those whose accounts were reinstated include [[Tucker Carlson]], the [[Babylon Bee]]<ref>[https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/04/twitter-locks-product-changes-following-musk-takeover-tucker-carlson-babylon-bee-accounts-reinstated/ Twitter Locks Down Product Changes Following Musk Takeover — Tucker Carlson and Babylon Bee Accounts Reinstated] at the Gateway Pundit</ref> and [[Marjorie Taylor Greene]].<ref>[https://www.westernjournal.com/marjorie-taylor-greens-permanent-suspension-first-tweet-pure-gold/ Marjorie Taylor Greene's 'Permanent' Suspension Is Over - Her First Tweet Is Pure Gold] at the Western Journal</ref> According to Bizpac Review, there is apparently no longer a Twitter board of directors (who may have either been fired or resigned en masse following the Musk takeover), while embittered Twitter employees childishly vented against their new boss, accusing him of "...being a troll and ignorant of Twitter policies" and criticizing his "...inability to monitor toxicity on the platform" ([[liberal projection|both of which said employees and their comrades are guilty of themselves]] by allowing liberals to run wild and do and say as they pleased on Twitter while censoring and silencing conservatives in violation of the First Amendment).<ref>[https://www.bizpacreview.com/2022/04/26/twitter-locks-source-code-to-stop-employees-from-unauthorized-changes-after-musk-takeover-report-1230440/ Twitter locks source code to stop employees from unauthorized changes after Musk takeover, report]</ref>

It was later reported that high-profile liberals with Twitter accounts (including celebrities and politicians) were losing followers by the thousands (or even tens of thousands) following the Musk takeover as it was discovered that their so-called "followers" were actually [[bot]]s created by liberals (including by liberal Twitter employees<ref>[https://welovetrump.com/2022/04/26/heres-how-twitter-manipulated-elections-its-way-worse-than-just-shadow-banning/ Here’s How Twitter Manipulated Elections (It’s Way Worse Than Just Shadow Banning)]</ref>) to artificially inflate the number of followers of said high-profile liberals to dishonestly make it appear they had larger followings than they really have; the bots are disappearing at a rapid rate ahead of an expected bot purge to be conducted by Musk to eliminate fake Twitter accounts as part of the restoration of free speech to the platform and the end of liberal attempts to crowd out/diminish/censor/silence opposing voices and viewpoints.<ref>[https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/04/far-left-idiots-freak-bots-jump-ship-musk-buys-twitter/ Far-Left Idiots Freak Out as Their Bots Jump Ship After Musk Buys Twitter] at the Gateway Pundit</ref> As part of that swing, over 70% of Republican politicians with Twitter accounts reported gaining followers (including Ohio Congressman [[Jim Jordan]], who saw the biggest single gain with 63,735 followers), while out of 270 Democrat politicians on Twitter, 268 lost followers (including [[Nancy Pelosi]] and [[Bernie Sanders]], who lost 14,432 and 21,640 respectively) due to the disappearance of the bot accounts.<ref>[https://dailycallernewsfoundation.org/2022/04/27/twitter-offers-explanation-for-why-conservatives-are-mysteriously-gaining-followers-does-it-add-up/ Twitter Offers Explanation For Why Conservatives Are Mysteriously Gaining Followers. Does It Add Up?] at the Daily Caller</ref> Following the Musk takeover, [[European Union]] Commissioner of the Internal Market Thierry Breton claimed that the EU would attempt to ban Twitter from operating in Europe through its specious use of regulations, a move which drew praise from [[Hillary Clinton]] and [[Barack Obama]].<ref>[https://dailycallernewsfoundation.org/2022/04/27/elon-there-are-rules-eu-commissioner-warns-of-possible-ban/ ‘Elon, There Are Rules’: EU Commissioner Warns Of Possible Ban] at the Daily Caller</ref>

On April 27, 2022, Musk condemned Twitter censorship of [[NY Post]]’s [[Hunter Biden|Hunter]] laptop story: ‘Obviously incredibly inappropriate.’ Top Twitter executive [[Vijaya Gadde]] was said to be responsible for the decision in 2020.<ref>Gabriel Hays, [https://www.foxnews.com/media/elon-musk-condemns-twitter-censorship-ny-posts-hunter-laptop-story-obviously-incredibly-inappropriate Elon Musk condemns Twitter censorship of NY Post’s Hunter laptop story: ‘Obviously incredibly inappropriate’], ''Fox News'', Apr 27, 2022.<blockquote>
Top Twitter executive Vijaya Gadde was said to be responsible for the decision in 2020.</blockquote></ref>

On May 10, 2022, Musk announced that he was restoring Donald Trump's Twitter account, ending the suspension that had been illegally imposed by its employees during the Jack Dorsey regime following the events of [[J6 Capitol protests|January 6, 2021]].<ref>[https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/05/reverse-permanent-ban-elon-musk-announces-lift-twitter-ban-president-trump/ “I Would Reverse the Permanent Ban” – Elon Musk Announces He Will Lift Twitter Ban of President Trump, Says It Was a Mistake] at the Gateway Pundit</ref>

====On MSNBC's Mehdi Hassan====
After [[Islam]]ic Mehdi Hasan, on [[MSNBC]], used his rhetoric against the GOP and inserted, somehow, the words "neo-Nazis" ... Elon Musk replied: "NBC basically saying Republicans are Nazis …"<ref>Elon Musk @elonmusk Replying to @tomselliott and @mehdirhasan ([https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1521181798067224578 May 2, 2022]):
<blockquote>
NBC basically saying Republicans are Nazis...</blockquote></ref> He slammed NBC over the scandals after host Mehdi Hassan says he’ll hand Twitter ‘to the far right.<ref>Thomas Barrabi, [https://nypost.com/2022/05/03/musk-slams-nbc-after-host-says-hell-hand-twitter-to-the-far-right/ Elon Musk slams NBC over scandals after host says he’ll hand Twitter ‘to the far right’], ''NY Post'', May 3, 2022.</ref>

===Miscellaneous===
Just before the sale, B911 asked if it will be still denounced (such as by the left) as a supposed "Russian bot" after 12 years of tweeting.<ref>Breaking911 @Breaking911 Tweeted ([https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1518579159865466882 Apr 25, 2022]):<blockquote>
QUESTION: After 12 years of reporting, with 958K followers, if @elonmusk buys Twitter, will @Breaking911 finally be verified and no longer called a Russian bot?</blockquote></ref>

At [[American Thinker]], it warned:<ref>[https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2022/04/are_we_being_blindly_optimistic_about_elon_musks_twitter_takeover.html Are we being blindly optimistic about Elon Musk's Twitter takeover?] 4/26/22</ref><blockquote>Do not expect the establishment to surrender; they will not let go without a prolonged dirty war, like the one they are still waging against Trump.</blockquote>

Actor/comedian/commentator Terrence K. Williams tweeted:<ref>Terrence K. Williams @w_terrence Tweeted ([https://twitter.com/w_terrence/status/1518961152356663301 April 26, 2022]):
<blockquote>
Elon Musk is the first African American to own a large social media platform. He is one of my favorite African Americans and it’s sad to see so many people on the left attacking him during this Historic moment.</blockquote></ref><blockquote>
Elon Musk is the first African American to own a large social media platform. He is one of my favorite African Americans and it’s sad to see so many people on the left attacking him during this Historic moment.</blockquote>

In December 2022, Musk suspended the ElonJet account on Twitter, a service that provides the location of Musk's jet in real time.<ref>https://www.reuters.com/technology/suspended-twitter-account-tracking-elon-musks-jet-moves-rival-metas-threads-2023-07-08/</ref>

On February 9, 2023, Twitter ended free access to its API, causing third-party apps to stop functioning and criticism from users.<ref>https://fortune.com/2023/02/10/elon-musk-twitter-charging-money-api-research-tool-scientist-explains-damage/</ref>

==Censorship==
[[File:Twitter censorship.PNG|right|300px|thumb|Twitter censorship of the Russia-Ukraine war.<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/10/twitter-removes-russian-embassy-tweet-on-mariupol-bombing</ref>]]
===Russia-Ukraine war===
{{See also|Ukraine propaganda war}}

Researchers at the University of Adelaide in Australia published a landmark paper on August 20, 2022 on the activities of bot accounts on Twitter related to the conflict in Ukraine. The Australian findings were staggering – of 5.2 million tweets on the [[social media]] network from February 23 to March 8, 2022 at the outbreak of the conflict, between 60 to 80% were shared by fake accounts.<ref>https://arxiv.org/pdf/2208.07038.pdf</ref>

===Starlink===
{{See also|Starlink}}
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==History==
{{See also|Twitter under Dorsey and Agrawal}}
[[File:Jack Dorsey Taliban.PNG|right|200px|thumb|Jack Dorsey refused to ban the [[Taliban]] terrorist organization from Twitter.]]
Dick Costolo became CEO in 2010. He was formerly a [[Google]] executive.<ref name=wsj>{{cite news|title=Beyond Tech Geeks and Narcisssists: Twitter Aims to Boost Site's Utility|work=Wall Street Journal|first=Shira|last=Ovide|date=July 24, 2012|page=B1}}</ref>

In a July 2012 interview with the ''Wall Street Journal'' Twitter's CEO explained his future plans. The paper noted, "Twitter executives still fight a perception that the service is only for tech geeks or narcissists, and there remain doubts about how big the San Francisco company can grow."<ref name=wsj/> Twitter wants to encourage users to communicate about particular events while they happen. Twitter plans to encourage independent application developers to use Twitter as a platform. It hopes to add tools to allow companies to analyze messages that discuss particular companies and events.<ref name=wsj/>

===Prominence===
In its early days Republicans were more adept at utilizing Twitter than Democrats. Republicans occupied 18 of the top 20 spots in terms of followers for politicians on Twitter as of January 2010.<ref>[http://newsbusters.org/blogs/lachlan-markay/2010/01/14/study-twitter-republicans-dominate-dems Study: On Twitter, Republicans Dominate Dems, NewsBusters.org, January 14, 2010]</ref> The study, "Twongress: The Power of Twitter in Congress,"<ref>[http://www.eyeonfda.com/files/twongress-white-paper-final-1-14-10.pdf Twongress: The Power of Twitter in Congress (PDF), Eyeonfda.com, January 2010]</ref> showed twice as many Republicans use Twitter even though there were far fewer Republicans in Congress at the time. ''"Republican (members of Congress) are outpacing their Democratic rivals in nearly every single category that was measured"'' <ref>[https://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/01/15/republicans-gain-twitter-edge-democrats-study/ Republicans Gain the Twitter Edge on Democrats, Study Shows, Fox News, January 15, 2010]</ref> This has ushered a markedly different trend for Republicans, who for years have been outmatched by Democrats online.

===Usage===

Per 2011 figures, they are a fast growing company with over 200 million registered users worldwide, with an average of 65 million tweets daily.<ref>[http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB10001424052748703716904576134543029279426-lMyQjAxMTAxMDAwOTEwNDkyWj.html Twitter as Tech Bubble Barometer, Wall Street Journal, February 10, 2011]</ref> As of 2009, the major search engines integrated tweets into the search results. Twitter achieved its first profits by signing search engine contracts with Google and [[Bing]].<ref>[http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/dec2009/tc20091220_549879.htm Content-Search Deals Make Twitter Profitable, BusinessWeek, December 21, 2009]</ref> The company has an enormous market capitalization of 10-15 billion dollars. Twitter has rejected takeover offers worth hundreds of millions of dollars from [[Google]] and [[Facebook]].

Many celebrities, national sports figures and members of [[Congress]]<ref>[http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Members_of_Congress_who_Twitter Members of Congress who Twitter] Source Watch Encyclopedia</ref> have verified Twitter accounts and anybody can follow their posts.

The site became such a popular destination that new news articles about Twitter appeared daily. In fact, one tweet by Daniel Knight Hayden, 52, which stated that he would massacre hundreds attending an Oklahoma City [[Tax Day Tea Party]] led to him being arrested by the FBI.<ref>[http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10227769-93.html?tag=newsEditorsPicksArea.0 FBI accuses Twitter user of massacre threats] CNet, April 26, 2009</ref> Tweets of popular celebrities and politicians have also been commented on in the [[mainstream media]].
[[File:Pompeo Tweet.PNG|right|350px|thumb|On the night of January 8, 2021, during the purge of conservative voices by Big Tech on social media, U.S. Secretary of State [[Mike Pompeo]] posted this tweet.<ref>https://therightscoop.com/unreal-pompeo-makes-stunning-reveal-of-overnight-tech-purge-changes-on-twitter/</ref>]]
Under liberal control (before Oct 2022), Twitter allowed graphic images of [[child pornography]] and [[child sex trade|child sex trafficking]] on its platform.<ref>https://nypost.com/2021/01/21/twitter-sued-for-allegedly-refusing-to-remove-child-porn/</ref>

===Conservatives on Twitter===
Conservatives dominated on Twitter prior to shaddowbanning.<ref>[http://psychcentral.com/news/2011/07/22/conservatives-won-2010-twitter-battle/27982.html Conservatives Won 2010 Twitter Battle, PsychCentral, July 22, 2011]</ref> Some observers claim that liberals, who use wordy statements, have a hard time explaining themselves in 140 characters but it is to a conservative's advantage to articulate short and concise messages. Conservative words and phrases constantly make the top trending hashtags. As such, [[liberal tools]] are employed such as false flagging an account in large numbers.<ref>[http://www.examiner.com/article/report-angry-liberals-abusing-twitter-features-to-silence-conservatives, Report: Angry liberals abusing Twitter features to silence conservatives, Examiner.com, April 30, 2012]{{dead link}}</ref><ref>[http://www.stumpreport.com/990911-twitter-bans-another-conservative-account Twitter Bans Conservative Account, The Stump Report, August 10, 2011]</ref> This results in the banning of popular conservatives, commonly referred to as Twitter's Gulag.

Conservative dominance was especially troubling for the campaign of Barack Obama. The Obama campaign loved to take full advantage of social networking to get their message out to the masses. Nearly every time Team Obama promoted a hashtag, such as #dontdoublemyrate, conservatives would hijack the message.<ref>[https://www.theblaze.com/stories/gen44-conservatives-usurp-obamas-twitter-hashtag-again/ #GEN44: CONSERVATIVES USURP OBAMA’S TWITTER HASHTAG…AGAIN, The Blaze, March 25, 2012]</ref> A quick search would result in thousands of satirical responding tweets drowning out the Obama campaign's message with mockery.

Twitter's then-head Jack Dorsey admitted that his company was "left-leaning."<ref>Kirkwood, R. Cort (August 20, 2018). [https://www.thenewamerican.com/tech/computers/item/29829-twitter-admits-leaning-left-denies-censoring-conservatives Twitter Admits Leaning Left; Denies Censoring Conservatives]. ''The New American''. Retrieved August 25, 2018.</ref>

Notably, Twitter banned conservative [[James Woods]] for a mild comment in relation to the extreme unpunished statements made frequently by leftists.<ref>Multiple references:
*Wulfsohn, Joseph A. (May 4, 2019). [https://www.lifezette.com/2019/05/conservative-james-woods-locked-out-of-twitter-other-figures-banned-by-facebook/ Conservative James Woods Locked Out of Twitter, Other Figures Banned by Facebook]. ''LifeZette''. Retrieved May 4, 2019.
*Caruso, Justin (May 3, 2019). [https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2019/05/03/james-woods-banned-from-twitter-amid-silicon-valleys-conservative-blacklisting-campaign/ James Woods Banned from Twitter Amid Silicon Valley’s Conservative Blacklisting Campaign]. ''Breitbart News''. Retrieved May 4, 2019.</ref> The site blocked numerous other conservative figures.<ref>Multiple references:
*Morton, Victor (May 7, 2019). [https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/may/7/david-horowitz-twitter-account-suspended/ Twitter suspends conservative activist David Horowitz]. ''The Washington Times''. Retrieved May 7, 2019.
*Ernst, Douglas (May 7, 2019). [https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/may/7/jack-posobiec-magaphobia-twitter-account-for-track/ Twitter suspends Jack Posobiec's @MAGAphobia account for tracking violence against Trump supporters]. ''The Washington Times''. Retrieved May 7, 2019.</ref>

===Misleading investors===
In September 2021 Twitter disclosed a binding agreement to settle a class-action lawsuit, under which the social network wOULD pay $809.5 million to resolve claims it provided misleading user-engagement info to investors.

The original lawsuit, filed in 2016 by a Twitter shareholder, alleged Dorsey and others including former CEO Dick Costolo and board member Evan Williams hid facts about Twitter’s slowing user growth while they sold their personal stock holdings “for hundreds of millions of dollars in insider profits.”<ref>https://variety.com/2021/digital/news/twitter-investor-lawsuit-settlement-payment-jack-dorsey-1235068982/</ref>

===Twitter executives hate speech===
[[File:Twitter-employee-tweet.jpg|left|300px|thumb|A Twitter engineer tweet three days after President Trump's first inauguration.]]
{{See also|Liberal bias}}
Under liberal ownership, Twitter’s corrupt senior executives and other employees have a long history of anti-Trump [[hatred]], a ''[[New York Post]]'' review of dozens of accounts of top employees found.<ref>https://nypost.com/2020/10/17/twitter-employees-reveal-deep-hatred-for-trump/</ref> The venom, vitriol and, in some cases, vows to help Joe Biden win the 2020 presidential election while said employees behave like emotionally-stunted preschool children online was enabled and encouraged by Jack Dorsey himself.

“GET HIM OUT,” posted a senior site reliability engineer on August 18, 2020 “What a f---king baboon.” One manager with nine years on the job said he was quite keen to watch Biden “crush [Trump] in the election” and that he hoped the President would “be utterly humiliated while also suffering greatly from [[Covid 19|#COVID19]].” He vulgarly and immaturely called Trump “a f---king idiot” and the voters who elected him — “hysterically f–--king [[stupid]] people.” Others publicly wished the President harm. One Twitter engineering manager, displaying his own [[childishness]], said Trump should “die in a fire” in a January 2017 tweet. A year later, he rang in the new year by falsely claiming “Happy 2018! Donald Trump is dead!”

None of these comments were ever flagged by Twitter or been subject to any other form of official sanction, even as the social-media giant unjustly dished out discipline to others for sharing legitimate news stories about Joe Biden. After a fly landed on Vice President [[Mike Pence]]’s head during his debate with Sen. [[Kamala Harris]], the Twitter vice president noted crudely that flies are “drawn to sh-t.”

Spreading misinformation, lies and libel about the Trump family was common. A senior staff engineer inquired why the media wasn’t looking into [[Melania Trump]]’s “possible stint as a sex worker.” The First Lady denied this allegation and successfully sued over it. Twitter’s “head of integrity” [[Yoel Roth]], who helped author the policy update used by the company to flag and label posts from President Trump, compared [[White House]] officials to "[[Nazi]]s" and Trump to a “racist tangerine.”

===Racist administrators===
[[File:Tarrio-600x352.jpg|300px|right|thumb|Racist Twitter Admins permanently banned a Black Cuban GOP congressional candidate.]]
[[Racist]] Twitter administrators banned a pro-Trump [[African American|Afro]]-[[Cuba]]n [[GOP]] congressional candidate. Enrique Tarrio was permanently suspended by the digital platform without reason.<ref>https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/11/afro-cuban-gop-candidate-for-congress-banned-from-twitter/</ref>
Tarrio said in a statement,
{{quotebox-float|[[Big-tech]] has proven once again cannot be trusted with [[election]]s. The seat I am running for is extremely winnable. I am the front-runner in the GOP primary and they are clearly trying to silence our campaign in favor of [[Never Trumper]]s.

The mountain we have to climb to get through this primary and then defeat our [[Democrat]] opponent in the general election is made that much more difficult. Regardless, I will not relent and I will make sure we remained focused on implementing the America First agenda.”}}

===CCP propaganda and covid coverup===
{{See also|CCP propaganda war|Covid coverup}}

In 2019, leading up to the 30th anniversary of the [[Tiananmen Square massacre]], Twitter suspended multiple accounts critical of China's Communist regime.<ref>Zeng, Jennifer (June 1, 2019). [https://www.theepochtimes.com/twitter-suspends-accounts-critical-of-chinese-regime-days-before-tiananmen-anniversary_2947359.html Twitter Suspends Accounts Critical of Chinese Regime Days Before Tiananmen Anniversary]. ''The Epoch Times''. Retrieved June 2, 2019. See also:
*Klar, Rebecca (June 2, 2019). [https://thehill.com/homenews/media/446534-twitter-apologizes-for-blocking-accounts-ahead-of-tiananmen-square-anniversary Twitter apologizes for blocking accounts ahead of Tiananmen Square anniversary]. ''The Hill''. Retrieved June 2, 2019.</ref>

In December 2021, [[Alex Berenson]], a former science writer for the ''New York Times'', filed a lawsuit against Twitter after he was suspended for posting the results of [[Pfizer COVID vaccine]] clinical tests.<ref>https://jonathanturley.org/2021/07/31/twitter-suspends-science-writer-after-he-posts-results-of-pfizer-clinical-test/</ref>

Dr. [[Robert Malone]] is the inventor of the nine original mRNA vaccine patents, which were originally filed in 1989, including both the idea of mRNA vaccines and the original proof of principle experiments, and RNA transfection. Dr. Robert Malone has close to 100 peer-reviewed publications which have been cited over 12,000 times.

Since the [[CCP pandemic]] outbreak in January 2020, Dr. Malone has been lead a large team focused on clinical research design, drug development, computer modeling and mechanisms of action of repurposed drugs for the treatment of [[COVID-19]].

Dr. Malone is the Medical Director of The Unity Project, a group of 300 organizations across the United States standing against mandated Covid vaccines for children. Dr. Malone is also the President of the Global Covid Summit, an organization of over 16,000 doctors and scientists committed to speaking truth to power about Covid pandemic research and treatment.

In December 2021, Dr. Malone was banned for life by Twitter.

===Antifa riots===
{{see also|2020 Antifa riots}}
Twitter facilitated communications between [[leftwing]] [[terrorist]]s during the [[2020 Antifa riots]] and blocked or restricted tweets in support of restoring law and order and protecting innocent lives.

In 2020, Twitter was listed as one of numerous leftist-controlled companies that went "[[woke]]" and began supporting the criminal rioters of [[Antifa]] and [[Black Lives Matter]] in the wake of the [[2020 leftist riots]].<ref>[https://gab.com/a/posts/104311289660016704 Here Are The Companies That Support Antifa, Black Lives Matter, and Want You Dead] at Gab.com</ref>

===2020 Presidential election interference===
{{See also|2020 Presidential election}}
Twitter imposed new [[draco]]ian censorship measures aimed at [[conservative]] users in October 2020.<ref>https://markzuckerberg.news/2020-09-30-doj-targets-big-tech-censorship-election-meddling-racketeering.html</ref> One example is labeling criticism of mail-in balloting as ‘misinformation’. [[James Woods]] commented the new labeling is clear:
{{quotebox-float|“They are closing down conservative voices completely now. Be prepared that you will no longer be able to see most of my communications, if indeed my account remains open at all. Sorry, folks, but it’s over. And they couldn’t care less what you think. This is the face of [[tyranny]].”<ref>https://www.bizpacreview.com/2020/10/12/twitters-new-policy-sparks-sad-warning-from-james-woods-sorry-folks-but-its-over-983577</ref>}}
For the first time in [[American history]] social media companies took [[direct action]] against a major U.S. publisher,<ref>https://www.theepochtimes.com/twitter-and-facebooks-assault-on-freedom-of-the-press_3540670.html</ref> ''[[The New York Post]]'' when it published a story on [[Biden-Burisma]] scandal.<ref>*https://nypost.com/2020/10/14/email-reveals-how-hunter-biden-introduced-ukrainian-biz-man-to-dad/ *https://youtu.be/r4Kcc7a114I *https://youtu.be/89ByR-vrnc4</ref> ''The Post'' is among the top five newspapers by circulation in the United States. Twitter locked the account of the ''New York Post'', banning the paper from posting any content at all. ''The Post's'' remained locked out of its account for 16 days. account remained locked.<ref>https://www.zerohedge.com/political/twitter-capitulates-reinstates-nypost-account-after-16-day-suspension</ref> These actions raised serious questions about many social media platforms future [[Section 230]] immunity status.

Twitter and Facebook interfered in the [[2020 presidential election]] by blocking links to the article.<ref>https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2020/10/14/election-interference-facebook-suppressing-new-york-post-bombshell-story-of-damaging-hunter-biden-emails/</ref><ref>https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/10/14/bookmark-todays-date-big-tech-has-crossed-the-event-horizon-to-protect-joe-biden/</ref> Twitter and Facebook both had many foreign stockholders.<ref>"Finalized January of 2011, the transaction included a $450 million investment from Goldman Sachs, $50 million from DST, and $1 billion from unnamed foreign investors." http://whoownsfacebook.com/#Goldman *https://qz.com/519388/this-saudi-prince-now-owns-more-of-twitter-than-jack-dorsey-does/</ref> Twitter banned people who posted ''The New York Post'' story,<ref>https://www.wnd.com/2020/10/twitter-now-banning-users-posting-ny-post-story-hunter-biden/</ref> including [[White House]] Press Secretary [[Kayleigh McEnany]] for sharing the article,<ref>https://thefederalist.com/2020/10/15/twitter-bans-white-house-press-secretary-for-sharing-hunter-and-joe-biden-corruption-article/</ref> locked the Trump Campaign account less than 3 weeks before the 2020 Presidential election.<ref>https://creativedestructionmedia.com/news/politics/2020/10/15/twitter-locks-trump-campaign-account-less-than-3-weeks-before-presidential-election/</ref> Rep. Jim Jordan posted the Biden-Burisma story on a federal government website after Twitter censored the House Judiciary GOP, at which point the link was promptly censored by Twitter.<ref>https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2020/10/15/jim-jordan-posts-hunter-biden-burisma-story-twitter-censors-house-judiciary-gop/</ref> [[Wikipedia]] editors censored the [[Hunter Biden]] bombshell, and called the ''New York Post'' an ‘unreliable’ source.<ref>https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2020/10/15/wikipedia-editors-censor-hunter-biden-bombshell-call-new-york-post-unreliable-source/</ref> [[Google]] also was reported to be meddling in [[U.S. Senate]] elections.<ref>https://patriotdailypress.org/2020/10/13/google-researcher-warns-google-may-be-shifting-power-to-flip-senate/</ref> The [[Senate Judiciary Committee]] announced that Twitter CEO [[Jack Dorsey]] would be [[subpoena]]ed to explain the meddling.<ref>https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2020/10/15/senate-judiciary-committee-will-subpoena-twitter-ceo-jack-dorsey-over-ny-post-censorship/</ref> Former [[James Comey]] general counsel [[James A. Baker (DOJ)]], who was complicit in the [[Obamagate timeline|Obamagate]] and [[FISA abuse]] scandals, is Twitter's lead counsel.<ref>https://nypost.com/2020/06/16/twitter-hires-former-fbi-chief-counsel-as-deputy-lawyer/</ref> The [[RNC]] made a formal complaint to the [[Federal Elections Commission]] which reads in part,
{{quotebox-float|"Respondent’s feud with President Trump is well known, as are its frequent efforts to censor the President’s tweets and the “shadow banning” of prominent Republicans, including RNC’s Chair, [[Ronna McDaniel]], and several Republican Members of Congress. Respondent’s CEO, Jack Dorsey, and other senior executives are prolific donors to the Democrat party and other left-wing causes, with 98.7% of the company’s total political contributions going to Democrats. In addition, there appears to be a revolving door between the Biden campaign and the company, with Respondent’s Public Policy Director recently leaving to join the Biden transition team and [[Senator Kamala Harris]]’s former Press Secretary now serving as Respondent’s Senior Communications Manager."<ref>https://www.scribd.com/document/480341244/RNC-Complaint-Against-Twitter-Inc-Web#from_embed</ref>}}
Twitter failed to act on a viral message posted on its platform containing a doctored image purporting to be a text message between [[Rudy Giuliani]] and [[Ivanka Trump]].<ref>https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2020/10/21/twitter-allows-rachel-maddow-and-an-army-of-leftists-to-spread-rudy-giuliani-misinformation/</ref> The ''New York Post'', [[Gateway Pundit]]'', and Big League Politics all were placed on Twitter's suspension hit list the final week before election day.<ref>https://bigleaguepolitics.com/big-league-politics-gateway-pundit-new-york-post-among-news-outlets-placed-on-twitter-suspension-weeks-before-election/</ref>

====Laptop from Hell====
{{See also|Laptop from Hell}}
Twitter justified blocking the ''New York Post's'' scoop on the Biden Burisma scandal claiming it violated Twitter's "Hacked Material Policy." The policy “prohibits the use of our service to distribute content obtained without authorization” because, they said, they “don’t want to incentivize hacking by allowing Twitter to be used as distribution for possibly illegally obtained materials.” That standard would result in the banning from the platform the ''[[Pentagon Papers]]'' which ultimately toppled [[Richard Nixon]], the [[Snowden]] reporting, the [[Panama Papers]], the [[DNC]] and [[John Podesta|Podesta emails]] that exposed corruption and forced the 2016 resignation of the top five officials of the [[Democratic National Committee]], and President Trump's tax returns.

====Violations of Section 230====
{{see also|Social media censorship}}

In May 2020, Twitter and its CEO Jack Dorsey came under heavy criticism for the company's recent decision to begin inserting "[[fact-checking]]" links into the tweets made by President Trump, with the company claiming those tweets to be "misleading" despite the exposure by [[Project Veritas]] of Democrat-led [[voter fraud]] proving otherwise,<ref>[https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2016/10/18/commit-voter-fraud-massive-scale-part-ii-project-veritas-investigation-clinton-network/ "How to Commit Voter Fraud on a Massive Scale": Part II of Project Veritas Investigation into Clinton Network] at Breitbart News Network</ref><ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDc8PVCvfKs Rigging the Election - Video II: Mass Voter Fraud] at Project Veritas Action YouTube channel</ref> after Trump tweeted about recent concerns over the intent by the Democrat Party to commit voter fraud at the federal, state and local levels through the use of mail-in ballots during the [[2020 Presidential election]].<ref>[https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/leave-our-employees-out-of-this-twitter-ceo-jack-dorsey-responds-to-trump-broadside 'Leave our employees out of this': Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey responds to Trump broadside] at the Washington Examiner</ref> The "fact-checking" links in question lead to an "information" page containing links from liberal media outlets such as [[CNN]], [[MSNBC]], the ''[[New York Times]]'' and the ''[[Washington Post]]'', all of which indulge in publishing factually-devoid and misleading [[fake news]] hit pieces and opinion pieces masquerading as "news" regarding the mail-in vote scandal<ref>[https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/05/twitter-falsely-undermined-truth-thereby-misleading-american-public-senior-legal-adviser-trump-campaign-responds-twitters-blatantly-partisan-attack-president/ "Twitter Falsely Undermined the Truth... Thereby Misleading the American Public" – Senior Legal Adviser to @TeamTrump Responds to Twitter’s "Blatantly Partisan" Attack on President] at the Gateway Pundit</ref> to fit their anti-Trump narratives.<ref>[https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/twitter-slaps-fact-checking-alert-to-trump-tweets Twitter slaps fact-checking alert on Trump tweets] at the Washington Examiner</ref> This decision also had the inadvertent outcome of embarrassing Twitter employee Yoel Roth, who was outed as having falsely accused Trump officials, including Presidential counselor [[Kellyanne Conway]], of being "Nazis" in past tweets he posted.<ref>[https://www.wnd.com/2020/05/twitters-chief-fact-checker-called-trump-officials-nazis/ Twitter's chief "fact-checker" called Trump officials "Nazis"] at WorldNetDaily</ref> Trump, who accused Twitter of openly trying to interfere with free elections and illegally impeding free speech, responded to Twitter's tampering with his tweets by announcing that he may place Twitter and similar social media companies under heavy regulation or shut them down altogether to punish them for their extreme liberal bias and illegal censorship (in violation of the [[First Amendment]]) of conservative speech and thought.<ref>[https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/close-them-down-trump-threatens-to-regulate-or-shutter-social-media-platforms-after-twitter-fact-check 'Close them down': Trump threatens to regulate or shutter social media platforms after Twitter fact-check] at the Washington Examiner</ref> Republican Florida senator [[Marco Rubio]] also weighed in on the controversy, saying that Twitter could lose its liability protections for choosing to act as a publisher by exercising editorial control through its tampering with Trump's tweets.<ref>[https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/rubio-warns-twitter-after-it-puts-fact-check-label-on-trump-tweet Rubio warns Twitter after it puts fact-check label on Trump tweet] at the Washington Examiner</ref><ref>[https://www.wnd.com/2020/05/u-s-senator-warns-twitter-lose-shield-liability/ U.S. senator warns Twitter could lose shield from liability] at WorldNetDaily</ref>

Twitter's illegal actions led directly to Trump signing an Executive Order on May 28, 2020 with the intent of bringing Twitter, Facebook, Google (and its YouTube subsidiary) and other leftist-controlled social media companies to heel with a new policy on the conduct of those companies and putting an end to both their illegal censorship and silencing of conservatives and their liberal bias in allowing violent leftists to basically have the run of those sites without consequence or responsibility.<ref>[https://www.conservativenewsandviews.com/2020/05/29/accountability/news-media/social-media-meet-their-match/ Social media meet their match] at Conservative News and Views</ref> Predictably, Twitter and Facebook reacted negatively toward the Trump Executive Order, with Twitter accusing the order of being "a reactionary and politicized approach to a landmark law (Section 230(c) of the Communications Decency Act)" and claiming, without evidence, that "Attempts to unilaterally erode (Section 230(c)) threaten the future of online speech and Internet freedoms" while ignoring that, under the [[Obama regime]], Section 230(c) had been perverted and used by liberals in public office to impose acceptance of liberal agendas such as [[abortion on demand]], [[gender confusion]], "[[climate change]]", unfair taxation of wealth and the [[homosexual agenda]] on the American public and to themselves threaten online speech and Internet freedoms by ordering Twitter and other social media companies to illegally censor, silence, persecute and punish dissenting voices who disagreed with and opposed the imposition of those agendas. President Trump responded to Twitter's irresponsible actions with a strong rebuke directed at the company in a tweet on his Twitter account:
{{quotebox|Twitter is doing nothing about all of the lies & [[CCP propaganda war|propaganda being put out by China]] or the Radical Left Democrat Party. They have targeted Republicans, Conservatives & the President of the United States. [[Section 230]] should be revoked by Congress. Until then, it will be regulated!<ref>https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1266326065833824257</ref>}}
Despite the Trump Executive Order, however, Twitter and its employees continued to openly defy the President and engage in illegal censorship and lawless behavior by hiding visibility of the content of two tweets by Trump (and later, taking things even further by illegally deleting recent Trump tweets entirely<ref>[https://nationalfile.com/breaking-twitter-censors-trump-by-completely-removing-his-tweet-for-first-time/ BREAKING: Twitter Censors Trump By Completely Removing His Tweet For First Time]</ref>) while hypocritically continuing to allow openly violent leftist tweets to remain intact,<ref>Multiple references:
*[https://www.wnd.com/2020/05/twitter-censors-trump-countless-violent-tweets-remain-active/ Twitter censors Trump while countless violent tweets remain active] at WorldNetDaily
*[https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/05/29/twitter-hides-trump-minneapolis-tweet-accuses-him-glorifying-violence/ Twitter Censors Trump Minneapolis Tweet, Accuses Him of "Glorifying Violence"] at Breitbart News Network
*[https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2020/06/23/twitter-censors-president-trump-again-over-warning-to-lawless-agitators/ Twitter Censors President Trump (Again) over Warning to Lawless Agitators] at Breitbart News Network</ref> even allowing criminal looters and rioters to use the site to openly coordinate their criminal behavior while their supporters advised them of looting targets<ref>[https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2020/05/31/twitter-allows-looters-to-coordinate-criminal-behavior-while-it-declares-blacklivesmatter/ Twitter Allows Looters to Coordinate Criminal Behavior While It Declares ‘#BlackLivesMatter’]</ref> and while Twitter did nothing to stop them despite numerous reports against those tweets, which left Twitter and its employees, including Jack Dorsey himself, open to criminal, civil and regulatory liability for their defiant and irresponsible actions.

Rep. [[Matt Gaetz]] filed a complaint with the [[Federal Election Commission]] alleging election meddling in the [[2020 presidential election]]. The complaint reads,
{{quotebox|Twitter has taken upon itself to free ride on one of the President’s Tweets as a campaigning activity. The social media platform is overstepping boundaries and setting aside its privileged role as a mere ‘interactive computer service,’ and instead acting as a ‘shadow contributor’ to the [[Democratic National Committee]]. By trespassing its role as a [Section] 230 protected forum, Twitter has acted as a campaign contributor, and not as a mere interactive computer service.<ref>https://dailycaller.com/2020/05/29/matt-gaetz-shadow-contributor-twitter-democrats-fec-complaint-fact-check/</ref>}}
A study from the [[Media Research Center]] showed that Twitter and Facebook censored President Donald Trump and the president’s affiliated campaign accounts at least 65 times in 2019 and 2020, while leaving Biden untouched.<ref>https://thefederalist.com/2020/10/19/new-study-shows-facebook-and-twitter-censored-trump-65-times-biden-zero/</ref>

====Potential revocation of non-publisher immunity====
On May 15, 2021, federal judge Mark L. Wolf announced that he would hold a hearing on May 20 and ordered Twitter executives to appear at the hearing to make Twitter explain whether it is a truly private company or is acting on behalf of the State to illegally censor conservative voices.<ref name="Speech Police">[https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/05/federal-judge-signals-may-end-twitters-immunity-speech-police-worried/ HUGE BREAKING NEWS: Federal Judge Signals He May END Twitter’s Immunity in Dr. Shiva Case – Speech Police in Panic — Watch Hearing Live on May 20] at the Gateway Pundit</ref> The hearing comes in the wake of a lawsuit filed against Twitter by Dr. [[Shiva Ayyadurai]], who ran as the Republican candidate for the US Senate in Massachusetts in the [[2020 presidential election]] and whose tweets pointing out [[Democrat election fraud]] were censored by Twitter; it was later discovered that the tweets were deleted on orders from employees of the Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, leading Ayyadurai to file the suit, pointing out that his First Amendment rights were violated when the Democrat-controlled Massachusetts government silenced him to affect an election. By quoting the connected cases of ''Manhattan Cmty. Access Corp. v. Halleck''<ref>[https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/587/17-1702/ Manhattan Community Access Corp. v. Halleck]</ref> and ''Blum v. Yaretsky''<ref>[https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/457/991/ Blum v. Yaretsky]</ref> in the upcoming hearing, this could have spelled the end of Section 230 immunity protections for Twitter and other liberal Big Tech companies (which has given Big Tech immunity from lawsuits, but has allowed them to abuse that immunity at will through its illegal censorship of conservative voices and factual information while allowing liberal views (including violent posts, liberal hate speech and even death threats) and [[fake news]] from the [[liberal media]] free reign, as well as allowing liberal politicians to use Big Tech as a conduit to silence political opponents via special portals offered to government officials, which they then use to flag and delete any content they do not like). The Gateway Pundit pointed out in its report on this story:
{{cquote|Dr. Ayyadurai is claiming that the Constitution trumps CDA 230 and the government cannot outsource to private actors to silence people’s speech they disagree with, and that the government and Twitter are acting together as one: that Twitter is essentially a state actor.<ref name="Speech Police"/>}}

===President Trump banned===
[[President Donald Trump]] brought even more attention to the social networking site, and drew both more conservatives and critics. He was well-known for his plentiful, blunt, and oft humorous tweets, and made it a regular practice to communicate with the public using Twitter, even before his political career. He became quite popular on Twitter, with over 26 million followers. He became so popular, in fact, that searching just the letter "r", the fist letter of his username,"@realDonaldTrump" returned him as the first search suggestion. He was illegally banned from Twitter on January 6th, 2021, after the mostly peaceful Capitol building protests.

In the case of ''Trump v. Twitter'', filed in July 2021, attorneys for President Trump argued,
[[File:Twitter content moderator.PNG|right|300px|thumb|A Twitter content moderator in the Dorsey/Argawal era.<ref>https://www.bitchute.com/video/khMrHq8lbECT/</ref>]]
{{quotebox-float|"[The companies have] unprecedented power over the content of public discourse to censor constitutionally protected speech with impunity, resulting in a grave threat to the freedom of expression and to democracy itself."<ref>https://www.courthousenews.com/trump-sues-tech-giants-for-booting-him-from-their-sites/</ref>}}

===Transgenderism and misogyny===
Under liberal control, Twitter was used as a prominent platform used by [[transgender]] extremists and [[misogynist]]s for the promotion of [[discrimination]] against women, particularly in the area of girls' and women's athletic competition.

===Iranian protesters===
Iranian protesters angered by the results of [[Iran]]'s disputed presidential election started to tweet marches on the government. This forced the oppressive Islamic Republic dictatorship block all cell phone messaging in June 2009, as tweets can also be submitted via text message. At the request of the U.S. State Department, Twitter delayed scheduled maintenance to allow tweets from Iranians.

In a separate incident, a group calling itself "Iranian Cyber Army", hacked into Twitter and defaced their homepage. They replaced the page with a bold pro-Iranian and anti-American message.<ref>[http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/12/18/twitter-dns-attack-iran/ Twitter Hack: Part Of Broader Iranian Strategy, Techcrunch.com, December 18, 2009]</ref>

===Loss of immunity in India===
Twitter lost its immunity as an intermediary in [[India]] and became exposed to legal liability for any content published on its platform in June 2021.<ref>https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/india-business/twitter-loses-legal-shield-in-india-for-3rd-party-content/articleshow/83556056.cms</ref> Twitter's snubbing of Indian law has been described as "neo-colonialist."

===Agrawal regime===
[[File:Agrawai_tweet.PNG|right|300px|thumb|Parag Agrawal - New chief at Twitter in 2021<ref>Alexander Hall, [https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/free-speech/alexander-hall/2021/11/29/bad-worse-conservatives-slam-incoming-leftist-twitter From Bad to Worse! Conservatives SLAM Incoming Leftist Twitter CEO], News Busters, Nov 29, 2021</ref>]]
Dorsey eventually resigned from running the site, although his replacement was even more radical than him. Parag Agrawal was considered even a greater totalitarian fascist than Dorsey. Agrawal clearly stated that he was against the First Amendment and against freedom of speech.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaJvT1c4XGE Parag Agrawal, Twitter's CEO, is SICK of All These Uncensored Opinions! | Louder With Crowder]</ref>

Agrawal was the first to be fired on the first day Elon Musk began attempting to salvage the project and started cleaning house.

== See also ==
* [[Truth Social]] (by [[Trump]])
*[[Gab]] (conservative-friendly alternative to Twitter)
* [[Tweet]]
* [[Social media]]
* [[Facebook]]
* [[MySpace]]
* [[Google Plus]]
* [[Donald Trump and social media]]
* [[Voter suppression]]
* [[Biden Putsch]]
* [[2020 Election fraud timeline]]

== References ==
{{Reflist|colwidth=35em}}

== External links ==
*[http://www.twitter.com Twitter Home Page]
*[http://twitchy.com Twitchy.com: compiler of hilarious conservative and numskull liberal tweets]
*[http://www.twulitzerprize.com/ Twulitzerprize.com; Daily best, worst, obvious tweets]
*[https://www.foxnews.com/video/index.html?playerId=videolandingpage&streamingFormat=FLASH&referralObject=3955253&referralPlaylistId=playlist Video - Social Networking - Twitter can get you fired], ''Fox News'', March 24, 2009
*[https://lauraloomer.us/2019/08/27/exclusive-the-roots-of-twitters-shadowbanning-operation/#.XWaPQZNKjUI The Roots of Twitter’s Shadowbanning Operation], lauraloomer.us
*[http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-10075487-83.html?tag=mncol;txt U.S. Army warns of twittering terrorists]
*[http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-10439573-36.html Astronaut sends first live tweets from space]
*[https://twitter.com/almightygod The Twitter account of Almighty God]
*[https://thehill.com/blogs/twitter-room Congressional Twitter accounts]
*[https://youtu.be/msYRT21FYoQ Elon Musk Buying Twitter: Why It's a Bigger Battle Than You Think], The New Atlas, Apr 17, 2022.
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1776 Commission

2025-08-31T17:02:51Z

GilS: Change from "https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/The-Presidents-Advisory-1776-Commission-Final-Report.pdf" >>>>> "https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/The-Presidents-Advisory-1776-Commission-Final-Report.pdf"

The '''1776 Commission''' is a proposed project created in response to the [[1619 Project]] of [[The New York Times]], as well as the larger trend of education that promotes communism, anti-Americanism, [[Postmodernism]], and statist progressive doctrines.<ref>[https://dailycaller.com/2020/09/17/trump-constitution-day-education-history/ ‘The 1776 Commission’: Trump To Sign Executive Order Combating Schools Teaching Students To Be ‘Ashamed’ Of America]</ref>

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
* [https://archive.org/details/MakingSocialistsOutOfCollegeStudentsAStoryOfProfessorsAndOther Making socialists out of college students; a story of professors and other collegians who hobnob with radicals], 1920
* [https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/The-Presidents-Advisory-1776-Commission-Final-Report.pdf The President’s Advisory 1776 Commission], Official Report, '''''PDF'''''

[[Category:2020s]]

Wikipedia

2025-08-27T18:10:18Z

GilS: Category:Secular History/Evolutionism because wikipedia are owner of evolutionist who hold their darwinism ideological by labelling creationism, Noah's Ark, Genesis as myth, full of psuedoscience and fringe theories after I check that

[[File:Wpp.png|thumb|The multilingual Wikipedia home page]]
'''Wikipedia''', is an [[internet|online]] [[wiki]]-based [[encyclopedia]] hosted and owned by the non-profit organization [[Wikimedia Foundation]] and financially supported by grants from left-leaning foundations plus an aggressive annual online fundraising drive.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20180527010133/http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/Wikimedia_Foundation_announces_tenth_annual_fundraising_campaign</ref> [[Big Pharma]] pushes its agenda and profits by paying anonymous editors there, while others are moronic [[internet trolls]] who include teenagers and the unemployed.<ref name="theregister.co.uk">http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/09/18/sanger_forks_wikipedia/</ref> As such, it projects a [[liberal]]—and, in some cases, even [[socialist]], [[Communist]], and [[Nazi]]-sympathizing—worldview, which is totally at odds with [[conservative]] [[reality]] and rationality.<ref>https://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=9856155&threshold=1&commentsort=0&mode=thread&cid=53229619</ref>

Wikipedia was co-founded in 2001 by [[Jimbo Wales]] (an [[Atheism|atheist]] and [[objectivist]]), and philosophy professor [[Larry Sanger]] who has since criticized the directions others have taken it. The website was originally created to complement the now-defunct peer-reviewed online encyclopedia [[Nupedia]] as a way for collaboration on articles. However, Wikipedia overtook Nupedia and became an independent project hosted by the [[Wikimedia Foundation]], which also hosts various related websites, known as "sister projects", such as ''Wikinews'' and ''Wikibooks''. Co-founder [[Larry Sanger]] later acknowledged that Wikipedia does not follow its own neutrality policy.<ref name="SangerNeutrality">[https://uncommondescent.com/intelligent-design/larry-sanger-co-founder-of-wikipedia-agrees-that-it-does-not-follow-its-own-neutrality-policy/ Uncommon Descent, December 1, 2016, Posted by Barry Arrington]</ref>

Critics of Wikipedia state that Wikipedia's articles contain [[Examples of bias in Wikipedia|systemic bias]],<ref name=howtheleft>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2011/david-swindle/how-the-left-conquered-wikipedia-part-1/</ref> and that the information included within its articles are a mixture of truths, [[half-truth]]s, and falsehoods. It is also used to discredit conservative politicians and organisations.<ref name=hnn>http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/125437</ref> The nature of Wikipedia also makes it subject to spin and [[bias]], examples of which include paid public relations advocacy and inserting libelous content into the biographies of politicians and even into the descriptions of classic or older movies for a political purpose.<ref name=hnn/> Wikipedia was also criticized for having a [[liberal bias]] in its articles about politics, despite Wikipedia's "neutral point of view" policy.<ref name=howtheleft/>

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== Continuing loss of influence ==

Wikipedia's traffic level stems from its high placement in Google searches, and that many people rely upon it for quick research regarding trivial facts. However, users are turning to alternatives such as the voice-based iPhone application [[Siri]] or the Knowledge Graph display on Google search result pages of key facts about search targets.<ref name=timesindia>{{cite news|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tech/tech-news/internet/Google-eating-into-Wikipedia-page-views/articleshow/29072825.cms?referral=PM|title=Google eating into Wikipedia page views?|work=Times of India|first=Subodh |last=Varma|date=January 20, 2014|accessdate=March 20, 2014}}</ref> Wikipedia page-views dropped by 2 billion between December 2012 and December 2013. Wikipedia's most popular versions are leading the decline: page-views of the English Wikipedia dropped by 12 percent, those of German version slid by 17 percent and the Japanese version lost 9 percent.<ref name=timesindia/>

In addition to the number of visitors declining, there continues to be a drop in active editors as well. In August 2012, it was reported that Wikipedia has a shrinking base of editors.<ref>[http://questionevolution.blogspot.com/2012/08/pro-evolution-wikipedia-has-shrinking.html Pro-evolution Wikipedia has a shrinking base of editors plus [[Quora]] is Wikipedia's worst nightmare]</ref> At the same time, ''Business Insider'' indicated [[Quora]] was "Wikipedia's worst nightmare".<ref>[http://questionevolution.blogspot.com/2012/08/pro-evolution-wikipedia-has-shrinking.html Pro-evolution Wikipedia has a shrinking base of editors plus Quora is Wikipedia's worst nightmare]</ref>

== Unreliability of Wikipedia ==
Wikipedia relies on self-selected "editors" to write and compile articles, with no preference given for scholars in the fields about which they are writing. This fact may disqualify Wikipedia from being considered a genuine encyclopedia, ironically even by its own standards. An encyclopedia is supposed to be a collection of articles by "well-educated, well-informed content experts."<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encyclopedia</ref> Theoretically, Wikipedia is supposed to compensate for this weakness by requiring references to reputable secondary sources. But editors can delete, without collaboration, any text or entry they dislike, citing one of the many Wikipedia guidelines for doing so. Entries posted by scholars in the field, based on peer-reviewed, academic articles are deleted by editors with an ideological bias. Wikipedia, then, only represents the majority view of its editors.

As the contribution of volunteer editors has declined, some of the void has been replaced by paid public relations professionals. These paid editors seek to present their client companies or individuals in the best possible light. This has resulted in many articles being transformed into paid advertising pieces that take advantage of the English Wikipedia's high placement on Google search results. This chronic problem has become so severe that the Wikimedia Foundation has proposed amending its terms of service to require disclosures of paid editing conflicts of interest.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Terms_of_use/Paid_contributions_amendment|title=Terms of use/Paid contributions amendment|date=February 21, 2014|accessdate=March 20, 2014}}</ref> In the competition to control content, the paid PR editors win out because they are monitoring pages as a full-time job, while editors seeking to keep content more balanced are only part-time volunteers.

In 2008, the ''American Journalism Review'' declared concerning Wikipedia:
{{cquote|"An even more blunt assessment appears in the encyclopedia's "Ten things you may not know about Wikipedia" posting: "We do not expect you to trust us. It is in the nature of an ever-changing work like Wikipedia that, while some articles are of the highest quality of scholarship, others are admittedly complete rubbish." It also reminds users not to use Wikipedia as a primary source or for making "critical decisions."<ref>http://www.ajr.org/Article.asp?id=4461</ref>}}
Despite its official "neutrality policy," [[Examples of Bias in Wikipedia|Wikipedia has a strong liberal bias.]] In an article entitled "Wikipedia Lies, Slander Continue," [[journalism|journalist]] [[Joseph Farah]] stated Wikipedia "is not only a provider of inaccuracy and bias. It is a wholesale purveyor of lies and slander unlike any other the world has ever known."<ref name="wnd.com">http://wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=83640</ref> Mr. Farah has repeatedly been the victim of defamation on Wikipedia.<ref name="wnd.com"/> In December 2010, [[Christian apologetics|Christian apologist]] [[JP Holding]] called Wikipedia "the abomination that causes misinformation".<ref>http://tektonticker.blogspot.com/search/label/Wikipedia</ref>

Some say that Wikipedia's unreliability is systemic, citing Douglas Adams: "''In other words—and this is the rock-solid principle on which the whole of the Corporation’s Galaxywide success is founded—their fundamental design flaws are completely hidden by their superficial design flaws.'' Wikipedia, which is written by anyone, still struggles to solve the need for traditional quality controls characteristic of conventional [[encyclopedia]]s. The self-policing practices have produced results and accuracy some claim is far better than originally expected but still widely questioned. Research released in April 2012 claimed 60% of Wikipedia articles contain "inaccuracies", leading the ''[[Daily Mail]]'' to dub it "Iffy-Pedia".<ref>https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2131458/Up-articles-Wikipedia-contain-factual-errors.html</ref> The lack of consistency and uniform supervision leaves an ever-present shadow over any given piece of information. Many in the [[College|academy]] insist that it is an unreliable source for [[research]] and an unacceptable reference in many classrooms. However, Wikipedia steers people to original [[Source|source material]], and with the use of hyperlinks and [[search engine]]s, it has become the most widely used intermediary reference tool on the [[Internet]].

According to the style manual for the [[Associated Press]], the largest news agency in the United States, Wikipedia should not be used as a primary source, but the hyperlinks in articles may be helpful as sources.

Wikipedia has millions of entries on trivia and mundane topics ranging from an explanation for "duh"<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duh (only after Conservapedia criticized the entry on the English word "duh" did Wikipedia eventually remove it)</ref> to singles by obscure rock bands<ref>such as ''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honk_If_You_Love_Fred_Durst Honk If You Love Fred Durst]'' (accessed April 1, 2007)</ref> to arcane British nobility.<ref>Part of the article about [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Liddell Henry Liddell], a 19th-century Vice-chancellor of Oxford University and author, includes that his grandfather was the youngest son of the 8th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, and that his daughter was the child ''Alice in Wonderland'' was written for (accessed April 1, 2007)</ref> There are editions of Wikipedia in 250 languages, and 130 have more than 1000 articles.<ref>[http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias List of Wikipedias - Wikimedia], accessed April 1, 2007.</ref> After about four years Wikipedia had about 450,000 entries,<ref>Aaron Weiss, The Unassociated Press, N.Y. Times, Feb. 10, 2005, at G5.</ref> and after six years it had about 1.7 million entries.<ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Statistics English Wikipedia statistics] accessed April 1, 2007</ref> Four years later this number had more than doubled again: in November 2011, there were more than 3.8 million content pages.<ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Statistics English Wikipedia statistics] accessed May 6, 2011</ref> As of February 2014, there are more than 4.4 million "content" pages, many of which lack educational value. On important topics, the information is often misleading due to the unchecked, [[Wikipedia#Leftist bias|systematic liberal bias]] that dominates Wikipedia.

The quality of Wikipedia articles can vary greatly. Some articles, particularly about narrow topics and those of little interest, are well written and appear to have input from one or more subject matter experts. Articles about broader topics and with high viewership naturally have more editors, many of whom are not well versed in the subject matter. In determining the quality of an article it is helpful to check the sources or references to see if one or more of the standard references for the topic is frequently cited. Often the most valuable feature of an article will be to direct the reader to good quality references, if they exist.

==Origins==
Initially, Wikipedia was hosted on servers operated by Bomis, Inc., a company that also sold pornographic pictures.<ref>Martin Hickman and Genevieve Roberts, "WIKIPEDIA," The Independent (London) p. 12 (Feb 13, 2006)</ref> The majority owner of Bomis had lost his fortune in a lawsuit, and the Wikipedia volunteers feared that if all of Bomis' assets were seized, ownership of Wikipedia would be transferred. In 2003, Jimbo Wales addressed this risk by founding the Wikimedia Foundation to take control of Wikipedia's assets. The Wikimedia Foundation is a non-profit organization that provides support for Wikipedia and other similar projects,<ref>[http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Home Wikimedia Foundation] accessed April 7, 2007</ref> and also the free MediaWiki software that runs Wikipedia and Conservapedia.<ref>[http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki MediaWiki home] accessed April 7, 2007</ref> It also gives out millions of dollars in grants each year to liberal causes that recruit liberals to edit Wikipedia so as to reflect their biases.

== Leftist bias ==

{{See also|Leftist roots of Wikipedia}}

''See also:'' [[Examples of Bias in Wikipedia]]

Wikipedia shows a systematic bias in the proportion of articles which treat controversial issues. It ignores its own [[NPOV]] policy when it allows contributors to "delete well-referenced information" merely because it comes from a [[scientist]] who holds a minority view. It would only be a violation, if the article used the information to give a false impression of the proportion of scientists adhering to that view, but liberals use "undue weight" like a sledge hammer. They are either unaware or unconcerned about their bias.

This is not surprising, given this [[Zogby]] poll:

While 97% of [[Republican]]s surveyed said the media are [[liberal]], two-thirds of [[political independent]]s feel the same, but fewer than one in four independents (23%) said they saw a "conservative bias". [[Democrat]]s, while much more likely to perceive a conservative bias than other groups, were not nearly as sure the [[media]] was against them as were the Republicans. While Republicans were unified in their perception of a [[left-wing]] media, just two-thirds of Democrats were certain the media skewed [[right-wing|right]] – and 17% said the bias favored the left.<ref>http://www.zogby.com/news/ReadNews.dbm?ID=1262</ref>

David Swindle writes at [[FrontPage Magazine]]:
{{cquote|There was not a single ideological vision driving Wikipedia’s founders and core contributors as they launched the project. Jimmy Wales, who would become the face of the project and its “benevolent dictator,” according to Andrew Lih’s ''The Wikipedia Revolution'', is a libertarian and [[Ayn Rand|Ayn Randian]] [[Objectivism|Objectivist]]. Also important in shaping Wikipedia was the so-called “hacker ethos,” the culture that has developed amongst computer programmers over the last 40 years and been shaped by the Left, the counterculture, popular culture, and [[anarchism|anarchist]] thought.

What binds together these ideologies is a [[utopia]]n ideal that human beings are more prone to [[altruism]] rather than self-interest. In Wikipedia Revolution Wales is quoted as saying, “Generally we find most people out there on the internet are good… It’s one of the wonderful humanitarian discoveries in Wikipedia, that most people only want to help us and build this free nonprofit, charitable resource.” Ward Cunningham was the programmer who created the wiki concept and software. According to Lih, he believed in the Wiki because “People are generally good.”

Lih explains how this philosophy is embedded within Wikipedia’s rules:

A core idea Wikipedia embraced.. was to assume good faith when interacting with others. The guideline promoted optimistic production rather than pessimistic nay-saying, and reads, “Unless there is strong evidence to the contrary, assume that people who work on the project are trying to help it, not hurt it; avoid accusing others of harmful motives without particularly strong evidence.

But as it worked out, Wikipedia in practice has strayed from these utopian ideas because of the ease with which political and social bias trumps altruism.

After almost a decade of rapid growth and free-wheeling experimentation the situation at the site by the Summer of 2009 was chaos. Political operatives would sabotage one another in electoral contests by vandalizing pages. More malicious misinformation filtered in freely, with living historical figures accused of involvement in conspiratorial plots.<ref>http://frontpagemag.com/2011/08/23/how-the-left-conquered-wikipedia-part-1/</ref>}}

Wikipedia co-founder [[Larry Sanger]], who left the site, later acknowledged that Wikipedia does not follow its own neutrality policy.<ref name="SangerNeutrality"/>

[[File:Peter-Singer.jpg|right|thumbnail|250px|The atheist philosopher [[Peter Singer]] defends the practice of [[bestiality]] (as well as [[abortion]], infanticide and [[euthanasia]]). Despite holding these immoral views the [[liberal]] and pro-[[evolution]] academic establishment rewarded his views with a bioethics chair at [[Princeton University]].<ref>
*[https://creation.com/the-basis-of-a-christian-worldview The Basis of a Christian Worldview - Creation Ministries International]
*[https://creation.com/answer-to-philosophy-religion-professor-on-biblical-exegesis-and-the-problem-of-evil CMI answers philosophy/religion professor on biblical exegesis and the problem of evil]
*[http://www.firstthings.com/onthesquare/2011/06/the-dangerous-mind-of-peter-singer ''The Dangerous Mind''] by Joe Carter, ''[[First Things]]''</ref> See: [[Atheism and bestiality]] and [[Wikipedia on bestiality]] ]]

Wikipedia also has an automatic Wikimedia Commons editing software called "Commonist," which allows the user to upload multiple files at once. The symbol of [[communism]] - the "hammer and sickle" of the leftist ideology which murdered millions in the former [[Soviet Union]] - is featured prominently on the instruction page as well as the tags that mark each uploaded image.<ref>https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Commonist</ref>

=== Research ===

On August 23, 2011, David Swindle published an article at ''[[FrontPage Magazine]]'' detailing how Wikipedia has been taken over by the [[Leftist|political left]] and he cited statistics relating to Wikipedia's articles on [[Anne Coulter]], [[Michael Moore]], [[Glenn Beck]] and [[Keith Olbermann]] which helped demonstrate the Wikipedia has a leftist/liberal bias plus he discussed the liberal/leftist cultural foundations of Wikipedia.<ref name="frontpagemag.com">[http://frontpagemag.com/2011/08/23/how-the-left-conquered-wikipedia-part-1/ How the left conquered Wikipedia - Part 1]</ref>

For example, Swindle wrote:

<blockquote>"Consider Ann Coulter versus Michael Moore. Coulter’s entry (on August 9, 2011) was 9028 words long.* Of this longer-than-usual entry, 3220 words were devoted to “Controversies and criticism” in which a series of incidents involving Coulter and quotes from her are cited with accompanying condemnations, primarily from her opponents on the Left. That’s 35.6 percent of Coulter’s entry devoted to making her look bad. By contrast, Moore’s entry is 2876 words (the more standard length for entries on political commentators), with 130 devoted to “Controversy.” That’s 4.5% of the word count, a fraction of Coulter’s. Does this mean that an “unbiased” commentator would find Coulter eight times as “controversial” as Moore?"<ref name="frontpagemag.com"/></blockquote>

=== Talk Pages ===

A lot of Wikipedia's leftist bias is clearly evident from their talk pages.

For example, when an article about the Barcelona May Days<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:May_Days&oldid=903699178</ref> (an event during the Spanish Civil War where hundreds of anti-Stalinist Trotskyists and anarchists were gunned down by the pro-Stalin Republican government) portrayed the anti-Stalinist side, which contained author George Orwell, in a generally favourable light, Stalinists filled the talk page with childish attacks on the authors of the article, including expletives, as is characteristic of Wikipedia.

==Purported "Tertiary" Source and Arbitrary Standards==
Wikipedia purports to be a "tertiary" source, relying on edited work from reputable sources. The policy is meant to build on the work of qualified editors of secondary sources. Some accuse Wikipedia, therefore, of relying on [[hearsay]], and discouraging the application of [[logic]] and new development of new insights. The result is an agglomeration of reheated "consensus" with little or no intellectual merit of its own; in particular, it is impossible to challenge orthodoxy, received wisdom or commonly held misconceptions through the Wikipedia system, no matter how factually incorrect those orthodoxies might be.

Supporters of Wikipedia would claim that relying on secondary sources encourages reliability and objectivity. However, there are cases of Wikipedia applying it's standards arbitrarily. For example, the case of Wikipedia editor "Yeoberry" (user ID 3606936), an editor with a Ph.D. in church history who first posted materials about "Icons" on August 6, 2012, with multiple citations to historical documents. The material was removed and Yeoberry was told that Wikipedia is a "tertiary" source and so he needed to find reliable secondary sources. On April 4, 2013, Yeoberry again added largely the same material, this time citing a newly published academic paper in a peer-reviewed journal. The information was again removed, with editors, at least some of whom religiously affiliated with the organization supporting icons, claiming the editor had a "COI" (conflict of interest). Neither time did the editors removing Yeoberry's material consult Yeoberry. But when Yeoberry reverted to his edition, he was charged with "edit warring." When Yeoberry challenged the arbitrary use of Wikipedia criteria he was blocked from editing indefinitely and then his access to his own talk page was also blocked.<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Incidents&oldid=548948980#Proposal:_Indefinite_Block</ref>

Wikipedia articles, especially on controversial or political and religious topics, are often guarded by editors who have an interest in slanting the content of the article, may have no formal education on the topic, and can find a so-called reason for suppressing the information they want to suppress. Editors can claim the source is unreliable (as they interpret that); that information gives "UNDUE" weight to the topic the information is about; peer-reviewed, academic articles written by scholars can be removed by editors if, in the opinion of an editor, the view expressed is "Fringe" or if the contributor has a "COI" (conflict of interest) if he's the author of the secondary source or has an advanced education or other interest in the topic; etc. Editors with advanced education in a topic, citing sources from peer-reviewed journals, can have their contributions deleted and their participation prohibited if a few other editors, without such qualification but with enough knowledge of the Wikipedia jargon, decide to suppress him or her.

Originally, encyclopedias were written by scholars, either by one or a few whose knowledge is considered "encyclopedic" (i.e. very broad) or each article is written by an expert in the field. But in Wikipedia, expertise in a given field can disqualify one from contributing in that field resulting in Wikipedia being accused of being a "[[idiocracy]]".

==Economics==

Though Wikipedia is non-profit, the [[Wikia]] project of its co-founder is very much for-profit and has raised millions of dollars in [[venture capital]]. Already Wikipedia has been criticized for favoring Wikia. When Wikipedia community voted 61-39% percent to treat all links to other sites equally by removing nofollow (Google-ignored) tags for all of them, the Wikipedia co-founder overruled this decision and Wikipedia now favors Wikia in its treatment of nofollow tags.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/04/28/wikipedia-special-treatment-for-wikia-and-other-wikis/|title=Wikipedia: Special Treatment for Wikia and some other Wikis|author=Nik Cubrilovic|date=April 28, 2007|accessdate=July 22, 2012}}</ref><ref>http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/2007-January/061137.html</ref>

''The Register'' said:<ref name="theregister.co.uk"/>
:Wikipedia has tried to balance the Utopian goal of "an encyclopedia anyone can edit" with the more utilitarian goal of "a website anyone would want to read". With over a million articles, and a rulebook almost as dense, Wikipedia has demonstrated an insatiable desire to participate, create lists and generate procedures. The result is a huge silo of recorded trivia, and perhaps the world's largest, most distributed bureaucracy - mostly manned by a casual staff of teenagers and the unemployed.

For the past few years, Wikipedia has added banners begging for money from its viewers. The site claims to be in need of more funding, but in fact it is "awash with cash - and raises far more money each year than it needs to keep operating."<ref>[http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/12/20/cash_rich_wikipedia_chugging/ Wikipedia doesn't need your money - so why does it keep pestering you?], 20 December 2012</ref>

Wikipedia, a registered trademark of Wikimedia Foundation, is used also by services like WikiExperts.us, which is declared as not being affiliated with it.
WikiExperts.us accepts money to write Wikipedia entries for businesses and is included in American business ventures of Alex Konanykhin, the Former Russian oligarch, who has been wanted in Russia since Yeltsin's days to face charges relating to embezzlement and financial fraud.<ref>{{cite web |title='Not terrorists': Hysteria over MH17 fails to take account of both law and facts |author=Roslyn Fuller |date=July 25, 2014 |accessdate=July 26, 2014 |url=http://rt.com/op-edge/175496-hysteria-mh17-ukraine-facts-terrorists/}}</ref>

==Scandals and decline==

[[Image:Wikipedia scandals.jpg|thumb|450px|right|Decline in Wikimedia Foundation donations.<ref>[http://centiare.com/Wikipedia_scandals Wikipedia scandals]. Retrieved from centiare.com October 10, 2007.</ref> Graph courtesy [http://www.centiare.com/Directory:Gregory_J._Kohs Gregory Kohs]. Used with Permission.]]The cumulative effect of multiple scandals and revelations has led to declining activity on the English Wikipedia. The rate of new account creation peaked in early 2007 and has declined ~30% since. Overall editing activity showed a steady decline beginning in February 2007. An independent analysis reported, "The rate at which edits were being made to Wikipedia articles appears to have peaked in February to April 2007 and declined since. This decline is unprecedented in Wikipedia's history.... Though it may be purely coincidental, this time frame also corresponds to the Essjay controversy appearing in the press."<ref>[http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2007-October/033661.html Statistical Decline of the English Wikipedia], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Dragons_flight/Log_analysis Dragons flight/Log analysis], October 9, 2007.</ref>

Even after the hoax was revealed of high level intimates promoted by the Wikimedia Foundation as experts in fields that they were not, to persuade college professors to allow students to cite Wikipedia as a reliable source, and entrusted with the ability to invade users privacy which could affect, in their words, "life and death," Wikipedia still appealed to students with a Jim and Tammy Faye Baker-style fundraising slogan across one million project space pages that read, "OMG! Wikipedia is gone! I’ll flunk my exams!" [http://whygive.wikimedia.org/2007/11/24/omg-wikipedia-is-gone-ill-flunk-my-exams/]

Further evidence of the decline in Wikipedia is that the number of editors who voted in the 2012 Arbitration Committee elections has dropped to 858.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2012#Turnout|title=Arbitration Commitee Elections December 2012|accessdate=December 18, 2012}}</ref> For a website that claims to have thousands of active editors, this is very low. Active editors are discouraged from voting because all voters are subject to automatic investigation and invasion of their privacy to determine if they are "sockpuppets" of other voters.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://archive.is/6tiF8|title=Wikipedia's "scrutineers" snoop on living arrangements of contributors|work=Examiner|first=Greg|last=Kohs|date=December 11, 2013|accessdate=December 15, 2014}}</ref>

==Shane Fitzgerald Hoax==

After the death of composer Maurice Jarre, a Wikipedia editor named Shane Fitzgerald attached a quote to Jarre's page: "One could say my life itself has been one long soundtrack. Music was my life, music brought me to life, and music is how I will be remembered long after I leave this life. When I die there will be a final waltz playing in my head, that only I can hear."<ref>http://hoaxes.org/archive/permalink/the_maurice_jarre_wikipedia_hoax/</ref> The words are poetic, yet were never spoken by Jarre, and meant to appeal to news journalists seeking information. It was cited in many newspapers as a genuine quote before its removal.<ref>https://www.nbcnews.com/id/30699302/ns/technology_and_science-tech_and_gadgets/t/student-hoaxes-worlds-media-wikipedia/#.WLNTW5ArLrc</ref>

Had Fitzgerald not confessed to the lie and informed major newspapers, it is likely that the quote would have been cited to one of them. In the days following, only one newspaper (''[[The Guardian]]'') publicly apologized for the use of a source that can be a tool for duping the public.<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2009/may/04/journalism-obituaries-shane-fitzgerald</ref> Other newspapers, such as the [[Washington Post]], simply deleted their articles from online archives.

==False claim about Brent Bozell==

In March 2007, [[Brent Bozell]] described this falsehood in Wikipedia:<ref>http://archive.mrc.org/BozellColumns/newscolumn/2007/col20070320.asp</ref>

:The other day, [[Bernie Goldberg]] emailed me, upset. He pointed me to his Wikipedia entry. To read what was written was to conclude that apparently I must hate his guts. But we are friends. He is a man for whom I have profound respect, professional and personal. He knew there was foul play.

:Right there on the screen, under the heading "Criticism," it stated that I had attacked him, "claiming that Goldberg merely lifted material he had been producing for years, and only published the book because he had an ax to grind with his former employers and was attempting to make a 'quick buck,' noting that Goldberg never mentioned the alleged liberal bias of the media until it was 'convenient' and 'profitable' for him to do so."...

:In fact, those words have never been uttered by me. The accusation would be false. Back in 1996, Goldberg used the op-ed pages of ''The Wall Street Journal'' publicly to castigate his own network for its one-sided oafish bashing of [[Steve Forbes]]. It was anything but "convenient" or "profitable" for him. It ruined his friendship with [[Dan Rather]] and put him on a path to the outer fringes of CBS News. Ultimately, it ruined his newscaster career.

:My attorney contacted Wikipedia by email demanding the removal of this false entry. No response. So we edited out the offensive material ourselves, after which in writing counsel alerted Wikipedia to the legal action that might befall them should this be repeated. Here's full disclosure, Wikipedia-style: You can see how each article is altered, sometimes hour by hour, in its "History" section. But there is no mention of the attorney's complaints. In the Goldberg article's history, an editor simply now scolds: "Bozell's article is a mock-jealous swipe at Goldberg's opportunism. PLEASE REREAD IT." (Capitals theirs.)

:Goldberg and I are not alone. The website Conservapedia.com has a [[Bias in Wikipedia|long list]] of 41 allegations of bias and factual errors at Wikipedia. You can add to that the problem with the credentials of its staff. One of its editors, named only "Essjay" online and described on his user profile "as a tenured professor of religion at a private university with expertise in canon law," was recently exposed as a 24-year-old college kid in Kentucky. He resigned in disgrace — even though Wikipedia tried to retain him, claiming he'd edited thousands of articles with flair.

Instead of apologizing to Brent Bozell, '''Wikipedia instead says "Bozell points to Conservapedia as a resource that documents Wikipedia's faults in this regard, presumably holding it as a more authoritative reference less vulnerable to vandalism."'''<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brent_Bozell accessed April 1, 2007</ref>

==Rewriting its own history==

The Associated Press and others credit Larry Sanger as the co-founder of Wikipedia.<ref>http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/tech/2007/mar/25/032502465.html
</ref> But the Associated Press quotes Jimmy Wales as denying it:<ref>''id.''</ref>

:"When you write this up please do not uncritically repeat Sanger's absurd claim to be the co-founder of Wikipedia."

:"I know of no one who was there at the company at the beginning who would think it anything other than laughable," he added. This is an interesting comment, considering that Larry Sanger takes credit for coining the name, "Wikipedia."<ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Jimbo_Wales/Archive_20#Sorry.2C_Jimbo.2C_but_not_buying_it. User talk:Jimbo Wales/Archive 20, Larry Sanger 03:26, 5 March 2007 (UTC)]</ref>

:"I am not bent out of shape about it," he wrote. "The facts are on my side, which is why I bother so little about it."

According to the Associated Press, Jimmy Wales "has repeatedly tried to address this - even going so far as editing his own Wikipedia biography to tone down credit for Sanger. Such autobiographical contributions are frowned upon in Wikipedia's community, and Wales apologized after his changes were noticed and publicized by blogger Rogers Cadenhead in 2005."<ref>''id.''</ref> Wales' booking agent for speaking engagements claims that Wales is "the founder" of Wikipedia, which results in surprised clients when that claim is challenged. The false "founder" claim is on Wales' webpage.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://jimmywales.com/about-jimmy/|title=About Jimmy|accessdate=February 6, 2015}}</ref>

Jimmy Wales has admitted that certain administrators, contrary to their own rules, have at times completely removed editing evidence.

== Seigenthaler scandal ==

In early October 2005, a prominent and respected journalist [[John Seigenthaler Sr.]], contacted Wikipedia founder [[Jimmy Wales]] about false and libelous content in his biographical entry. Essjay, a 24-year-old Wikipedia Administrator who was advancing rapidly in the organization, was dispatched to handle the situation.<ref name="User:Essjay/Letter">[http://www.wikitruth.info/index.php?title=User:Essjay/Letter User:Essjay/Letter]. Retrieved from WikiTruth, November 3, 2007.</ref> An anonymous contributor added to Seigenthaler's biography the previous May,
:"John Seigenthaler Sr. was the assistant to Attorney General [[Robert Kennedy]] in the early 1960s. For a short time, he was thought to have been directly involved in the Kennedy assassinations of both [[John F. Kennedy|John]], and his brother, Bobby. Nothing was ever proven," and "John Seigenthaler moved to the [[Soviet Union]] in 1971, and returned to the [[United States]] in 1984. He started one of the country's largest public relations firms shortly thereafter."

Wales told Seigenthaler that Wikipedia is "accountable" and corrects mistakes immediately, but that the internet service provider of the anonymous user probably would not be helpful in identifying who placed the content.<ref name="Seigenthaler's Op-Eds">[http://www.journalism.org/node/1673 Seigenthaler's Op-Eds], October 1, 2005. Retrieved from http://www.journalism.org November 12, 2007.</ref> Accountability activist [[Daniel Brandt]], a victim of a spurious biographical entry by Wikipedia Administrators, identified the place of employment of the anonymous user, and from there the person accountable was identified.<ref>http://www.journalism.cf.ac.uk/2006/online/index.php?id=parse-195-0-0-251&article=336&author=India+Camm</ref>

Seigenthaler returned to the editorial pages of ''USA Today'' from which he retired as its first editorial manager to write an Op-Ed piece critical of Wikipedia and the threat it poses to free speech due of its overt provocation of government regulation, its irresponsible self-regulation and lack of accountability.<ref>[https://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/editorials/2005-11-29-wikipedia-edit_x.htm A false Wikipedia 'biography'], By John Seigenthaler, ''USA Today'', 11/29/2005.</ref>

=== CNN interview ===

On December 5, 2005 Wales and Seigenthaler appeared on [[CNN]]. An exchange between CNN moderator [[Kyra Phillips]] and Wales went like this:
{{Cquote|PHILLIPS:...I ran my name. I was shocked to see what was under my name. ...I'm telling you right now, Jimmy, that's not how I want people to see me and understand me. And what I'm about, and what I write about in my interviews, ''et cetera''. So, you know, it's not just individuals like John, but me and many other people, that just have concerns that this is creating gossip that can be very harmful. And people go to these sites thinking that this is the truth.}}
{{Cquote|WALES: Well, I mean, I think the real key is that the site matures over time, the -- all of the articles are edited over and over and over, and improved. Anyone's free to contribute. You're free to go and contribute.}}

This in fact is not the case. Phillips was not free to remove objectionable content within her biographical entry, as Daniel Brandt at that exact moment was discovering. Not four days prior, Wales told ''Editor & Publisher'' magazine regarding Brandt's objections to a false Wikipedia biography created by Wikipedia Administrators about him, "I find it hard to take him very seriously at all," and libelous slanders remained in Brandt's biography for a year and half. Wales told CNN, "we are very, very responsive to complaints and concerns."

Seigenthaler told the audience "with accountability comes credibility" and expressed fear that, "I'm afraid we're going to get regulated media as a result."<ref>http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0512/05/lol.02.html</ref>

On December 9, Seigenthaler appeared on C-SPAN's ''Washington Journal'' with Brian Lamb and articulated his concern that members of Congress or other powerful figures in government may likewise be targeted. On November 2, 2006, days before the mid-term Congressional elections, an anonymous IP address traced to the ''[[New York Times]]'' changed [[U.S. House of Representatives]] [[Majority Leader]] [[Tom DeLay]]'s Wikipedia biographical entry from "a prominent member of the [[Republican Party]]" to "Grand Dragon of the Republican Party."<ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tom_DeLay&diff=prev&oldid=85320018 Wikipedia/Tom DeLay, Revision as of 20:19, 2 November 2006, IP 199.181.174.146]</ref><ref>[http://wikiscanner.virgil.gr/name2ip.php?orgname=New+York+Times&location= WikiScanner]</ref>

Seigenthaler wrote a more expansive column in the ''The Tennessean'' after the November 30 ''USA Today'' piece appeared,
{{Cquote|a sudden stream of invective — homophobic, anti-Semitic and racist — spilled, as if from a sewer, onto the Wikipedia page under my name. ..It identified me as ...a "Nazi," "fascist-oriented" ....murderer ...there also was the profile picture of Adolf Hitler over the caption, "Press photo of Seigenthaler." The accompanying line: "He is secretly responsible for killing all the Jews." }}

=== Accountability and Section 230 ===
[[Image:Wikifascists.JPG|thumb|275px|right|From Wikipedia Watch. [http://www.wikipedia-watch.org/] The inscription reads, ''"Two wikifascists find someone without a biography."'']]
Upon his retirement from ''USA Today'', Seigenthaler founded the First Amendment Center, an organization dedicated to a national dialogue about [[First Amendment]] rights and values. Seigenthaler criticized passage of [[Section 230]] of the Communications Decency Act of 1996. Section 230 states that "no provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker." Unlike print and broadcast companies, internet service providers (ISP's) cannot be sued for disseminating defamatory attacks on citizens posted by others. Seigenthaler noted [[Jimbo Wales]] told [[Brian Lamb]] in a [[C-SPAN]] interview that Wikipedia is accountable and that mistakes are corrected within minutes, but the false information remained in Seigenthaler's biography for five months. Seigenthaler concluded,
{{Cquote|And so we live in a universe of new media with phenomenal opportunities for worldwide communications and research — but populated by volunteer vandals with poison-pen intellects.<ref>A false Wikipedia 'biography', By John Seigenthaler, ''USA Today'', 11/29/2005.</ref>}}

In the case of ''Zeran v. AOL'', Zeran sued AOL for refusing to screen and remove defamatory messages, even after Zeran notified the ISP of their existence. The lower court ruled for the service provider and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit upheld the decision, noting that the intent of Section 230 was to (1) remove incentives on service providers to restrict speech on the Internet and (2) encourage self-regulation by service providers.<ref>http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=916529</ref><ref>http://www.adl.org/Civil_Rights/newcyber.pdf</ref>

An American citizen who posts material on the Internet that is illegal in a foreign country could be prosecuted if he subjected himself to the jurisdiction of that country. Internet users who export material that is illegal, that is to say, post material that is accessible and illegal in some foreign countries may be subject to prosecution in that country. However, under American law, the United States will not extradite a person for engaging in a constitutionally protected activity even if that activity violates a criminal law elsewhere.<ref>http://www.rjayco.com/obrien/nazism.pdf</ref>

=== Essjay given oversight ===
:''See Main article: [[Wikipedia:The Essjay scandal]]

Essjay wrote a professor to persuade her to allow her students to use Wikipedia as a viable source of information and posted a verbatim copy of the email for others to use. Essjay stated, "I was the administrator who deleted the inappropriate revisions when Mr. Seigenthaler contacted our founder, [[Jimmy Wales]]; it is quite unfortunate that a relatively minor issue on a relatively minor figure has provided so much negative publicity.<ref name="User:Essjay/Letter"/> Seigenthaler noted in his Op-Ed piece, "The motive for the salacious stuff directed at me is reasonably obvious," and quoted some comments, "We all at Wikipedia think he (Seigenthaler) is a horrible, stupid p...k for complaining about small inaccuracies in his biography."<ref name="Seigenthaler's Op-Eds"/>

Others said, "Mr. Seigenthaler's attitude and actions are reprehensible and ill-formed," and “if there is an error whether large or small, he can correct it.” This again, was not true. Even prior to the Wikipedia policy, '''Biographies of Living Persons''', [[conflict of interest]] restrictions existed on the subject of an article editing their own entry. Another wrote: "Rather than fixing the article himself, he made a legal threat."<ref>http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2006/02/12/bias_sabotage_haunt_wikipedias_free_world/?page=3</ref>
[[Image:Seigraph.gif|400px|thumb|right|The Seigenthaler scandal was viewed as "the best thing that ever happened to Wikipedia" as curiosity seekers to view the [[misinformation]] skyrocketed Alexa rankings.]]
Despite the damage to an innocent person and divulgence of Wikipedia's precarious claim as a viable source, the Seigenthaler scandal was viewed as a triumph and considered "the best thing that ever happened to Wikipedia,"<ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:John_Seigenthaler,_Sr.#The_best_thing_that_ever_happened_to_Wikipedia Talk:John Seigenthaler Sr.#The best thing that ever happened to Wikipedia], retrieved 23 March 2007.</ref> catapulting it into a top ten most visited website as curiosity seekers responded to the negative publicity.<ref>[http://wikipediareview.com/lofiversion/index.php?t1100.html Wikipedia: A Nightmare Of Libel and Slander], Joel Leyden, Israel News Agency, 8 May 2006.</ref>

The scandal was originally billed as a "hoax", then "controversy," then downgraded to "incident," and now re-upgraded to "controversy," evidently in response to criticism. The Wikipedia entry on "Seigenthaler controversy" contains [[disinformation]], making the claim, "After the incident, Wikipedia took steps to prevent a recurrence, including barring unregistered users from creating new pages." No actions were ever taken to require disclosure of the real life identities of contributors. Barring unregistered users from creating new pages had nothing to do with the Seigenthaler scandal—the page already existed when an anonymous IP added the false information. Registration of accounts requires no accountability of the real life identity of the contributor. Indeed, many experienced Wikipedia editors and Administrators have dozens of registered accounts, called "sockpuppet accounts." Protecting the identities of anonymous high-level Administrators has always been more of a priority to the WikiMedia Foundation than the propagation of false information about real life persons whose identities are known. Wales was asked by ''BusinessWeek'' magazine, “Why do you feel it is important to allow contributors and site administrators to remain anonymous?” Wales responded, “there are definitely people working in Wikipedia who may have privacy reasons for not wanting their name on the site….there are lots of reasons for privacy online that aren’t nefarious.”<ref>http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/dec2005/tc20051214_441708.htm</ref> In the Seigenthaler case, it was the odd circumstance that a victim of false information had a large enough platform to respond, coupled with the welcome fact that the victim fundamentally opposes government regulation of internet speech.

Wikipedia's "Seigenthaler controversy" also states, "The Foundation added a new level of "oversight" features to the MediaWiki software,[12] accessible as of 2006 to around 20 experienced editors nominated by Wales,"<ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Seigenthaler_Sr._Wikipedia_biography_controversy#Wikimedia_Foundation_reaction Seigenthaler controversy#Wikimedia Foundation reaction].</ref> one of whom was Essjay.

This ban on anonymous page creation “reform” was abandoned less than two years later as Wikipedia's usage and ratings slumped in the wake of yet more scandals and questions about Wikipedia's culture, core content policies, and endemic lack of accountability.<ref>http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/2007-October/084292.html</ref>

==Brandt / Berlet feud==
:''See Main article: [[Wikipedia:The Daniel Brandt controversy]]
An ugly [[far-left]] sectarian dispute<ref>[http://spencer.lib.ku.edu/exhibits/wilcox/5.html Laird Wilcox], ''The Watchdogs: A Close Look at Anti-Racist "Watchdog" Groups'', Second Edition, Part 2, Editorial Research Service, 1999, p. 21. ISBN 0-993592-96-5.</ref> reared its head in 2005 with disastrous consequences for the site's credibility. The feud had been dormant for many years until the need to elevate a “controversial and notable expert” above the level of “partisan and extreme” defined by its own policies became apparent which would have precluded the so-called “expert” as "a source for anything other than himself,” as Wikipedia's ever fluid policies dictate.

Daniel Brandt, founder of Namebase,<ref>http://www.namebase.org/</ref> Google Watch, and Wikipedia Watch, removed Chip Berlet from his Board of Advisors in 1991 when Berlet refused to sit on the same Board which included Fletcher Prouty." Prouty, a retired Air Force colonel whose intelligence career stretched back to accompanying President [[Franklin Roosevelt]] to the [[Teheran conference]], was allegorically portrayed as the mysterious “Man X”<ref>[http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/lfprouty.htm Leroy Fletcher Prouty, Jr., Colonel, United States Air Force], [[Arlington National Cemetery]] Website, Retrieved November 4, 2007.</ref> by Donald Southerland in [[Oliver Stone]]'s film, [[JFK]]. A Brandt biographical page was created using Berlet as the source for unsavory attacks on Brandt. Brandt describes himself as an "accountability activist"<ref>[https://www.pbs.org/mediashift/2006/04/your_take_roundupbelievers_neg.html Believers, Negativists Debate Wikipedia’s Trustworthiness], by Mark Glaser, 20 April 2006. Retrieved from pbs.org October 29, 2007.</ref><ref>[http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Daniel_Brandt Wikiquote/Daniel Brandt#Sourced]</ref> and claims he originally began working with Wikipedia editors in good faith during October 2005 but any biographical information he revealed was spun against him to depict him in a negative light. Brandt states,
{{Cquote|I soon realized that it was also about Berlet, who was still bent on undermining me. Berlet was using Wikipedia as part of his political agenda, and he was successful in this.<ref>http://wikipediareview.com/index.php?showtopic=5641&st=40&p=21441&mode=linear#entry21441</ref>}}
Berlet's biography underwent an extensive revision with most of the substantive NPOV criticism cut out. The revising editor commented, "I kept Daniel Brandt, not because I feel he's a credible source, but because there's so little published criticism of Berlet, that I felt I had to retain something."<ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Chip_Berlet&diff=prev&oldid=9161554 Chip Berlet/Talk, SlimVirgin 00:19, 7 January 2005].</ref> This is an extraordinary statement and raises the question why the same high-level Administrator and author of several of Wikipedia's core content and citation policies, including '''Wikipedia:Reliable Sources''' and '''Wikipedia:Biographies of Living Persons''' ('''BLP'''),<ref name="en.wikipedia.org">https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Biographies_of_living_persons&diff=31947681&oldid=31753956</ref> would use a source she did not consider credible.

===Biographies of living persons===

Wikipedia:Biographies of Living Persons (WP:BLP) policy did not come into being because of the Seigenthaler scandal, but rather over the Brandt controversy, as the originating editor noted in an edit summary.<ref name="en.wikipedia.org"/> Brandt requested Wikipedia delete his biographical entry, and ceased working with editors he suspected of working to further the propagation of false information about him.

''Editor & Publisher'' magazine bills itself as the nation's oldest trade journal serving the newspaper industry with roots dating back to 1884. Wikipedia founder [[Jimmy Wales]] responded to questions from ''Editor & Publisher'' in a prepared statement on December 1, 2005 about Daniel Brandt saying,
{{Cquote|I don't regard him as a valid source about anything at all<ref>[http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/article_brief/eandp/1/1001612839 Wikipedia Founder, Readers Respond to Seigenthaler Article], Jay DeFoore, ''Editor & Publisher'', December 01, 2005.</ref>}}

Wales comments added '''undue weight'''<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:UNDUE#Undue_weight</ref> ('''WP:UNDUE''') to criticism of Brandt when placed within his biographical entry. Brandt demanded accountability from the army of unidentified Wikipedia Administrators furthering Chip Berlet's agenda to destroy Brandt's credibility, and elevate Berlet's own as a Wikipedia "expert."
[[Image:294577483 90fd22f5cd m.jpg|thumb|300px|right|From '''WikiTruth''', the inscription reads, 
"''The Big Bad Brandt is Gonna Getcha!'']]
Brandt became known as the scourge of the Wikipedia Admin community. WikiTruth says in its ''Brandt the Boogeyman'' entry,
{{Cquote|he dates back to a time when people would look up facts in books and would verify information without just doing a copy and paste from an AP news article and thinking they were done. He compares writing styles, he calls government agencies, and he writes letters. And when he's done, he tends to know. Or at least, he knows where he stands in terms of information. He's rather tenacious about getting stuff right.

Wikipedia, of course, doesn't do this much at all: depending on the day, they'll laud a link to a website as being absolutely useless (it's on the WEB, of course) and then the next minute link to a different website to back a "fact" up. Citing books and printed materials is often a no-go, because nobody can read the original citation, so it gets swept away as well. Really, you have no idea what's good and what's bad, and it's all one big happy soup-hug.

Therefore, guys like Daniel Brandt are horrible for Wikipedia: he researches. He finds laws that pertain to situations. He asks the tough questions that could upset the whole Wiki-cart.}}

Wikipedia continues to publish inaccurate and defamatory articles about living persons, written by anonymous contributors, based on other unreliable sources, and refuses to withdraw or change them. The victims of its libels have no legal means of compelling Wikipedia to make any changes. It is not answerable to any court or libel laws and simply behaves as if it is above the law.

==The Wordbomb Saga==
[[Image:Patrick byrne overstock small.jpg|thumb|right|Overstock.com CEO Patrick Byrne [http://www.overstock.com/Patrick-Byrne-and-naked-short-selling/7371/static.html]]]
One of Wikipedia's most bitter and drawn-out disputes, chronicled in ''The Register,''<ref>http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/12/06/wikipedia_and_overstock/</ref> centers around the assertion by representatives of Overstock.com<ref>http://www.overstock.com/community</ref> that a [[Mainstream media|mainstream financial journalist]] Gary Weiss had been editing Wikipedia to impose his point of view on a series of articles relevant to the company. Weiss was once a reporter with BusinessWeek, in 2007 became a columnist with Forbes, and had for over 10 years been posting under fake names to confuse, distort, hijack Usenet groups, stock message boards, and Wikipedia, to prevent the public from understanding criminal activity.<ref>http://www.deepcapture.com/gary-weiss-scaramouch-psychopath/</ref> Weiss was notorious around the Internet for his public feud with Overstock<ref>http://garyweiss.blogspot.com/2007/05/overstockcoms-ethical-dilemma.html</ref> and its CEO [[Patrick Byrne]],<ref>http://allantyoung.com/2008/09/22/patrick-byrne-vindicated/</ref> ridiculing their campaign against the controversial practice of [[Naked Short Selling]].

In 2006, Judd Bagley, an ally of Overstock's Patrick Byrne having interviewed the CEO for a personal project, began editing Wikipedia to counter what was perceived to be a skewed representation of Naked Short Selling and Overstock.com. He was swiftly dispatched by influential Wikipedia administrators.

Shortly after, Bagley became Overstock's Director of Communications, and embarked on an aggressive campaign to publicize the dispute on various websites, aiming to expose the administrators he held responsible for protecting Weiss. Using the moniker “Wordbomb”, Bagley presented evidence<ref>http://antisocialmedia.net/final-word-on-weiss/</ref> suggesting that not only was Gary Weiss editing Wikipedia using the name “User:Mantanmoreland“,<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Mantanmoreland</ref> but that he was operating other accounts to manipulate consensus and protect his interests in the dispute. Mantanmoreland violated Wikipedia policies against Conflict of Interest and No Self Promotion by creating an article about himself.<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gary_Weiss&diff=prev&oldid=48341962</ref> Bagley proved Weiss had edited Wikipedia from one of two main IPs used by the Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation (DTCC),<ref>http://www.dtcc.com/about/business/index.php</ref> the organization charged with settling about a quadrillion stock trades each year. The DTCC is also the organization Overstock.com CEO Patrick Byrne said acts an enabler of perpetrators of illegal naked short selling of many public companies.<ref>http://wikipediareview.com/index.php?showtopic=10360&st=0&p=36485&mode=linear#entry36485</ref>

Wikipedia responded to Bagley's campaign in typical schoolyard fashion. The dispute was escalated by a small clique of powerful Wikipedians who seemed less interested in the truth of Bagley's assertions, and more concerned with attacking perceived threats to the status quo at Wikipedia. With the approval of [[Jimbo Wales]], administrators sided with “Mantanmoreland” / Gary Weiss, and anointed Bagley / Wordbomb an “Enemy Of The Wiki” who needed to be silenced — a “stalker” and a “harasser” for publicizing the details of the person who had been editing relevant articles on Wikipedia, and the people who had been stopping him from doing the same.

For nearly two years, Bagley's name was invoked to inspire paranoia in the Wikipedia Admin Community to keep questioning editors in line. It became a textbook case for analysis of the intense group-think Wikipedia has become notorious for.
[[Image:Judd bagley overstock.jpg|thumb|left|175px|Judd Bagley was made a target at the highest levels of Wikipedia and became a victim of a global [[witchhunt]] by the Wikipedia Admin Community for daring to expose an unholy alliance of abuse and [[corruption]] on [[Wall Street]] and in the Wikipedia cabal. [http://antisocialmedia.net/] ]]
Bagley was repeatedly disparaged<ref>http://wikipediareview.com/index.php?showtopic=15897</ref> by a cabal of out-of-control administrators such as Guy Chapman, who denounced Bagley as “lunatic” and “evil” when it suited. UK Wikimedia representative David Gerard banned an entire area of Utah to prevent Bagley raising his issues and made personally disparaging remarks.<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:David_Gerard/archive_5#User:204.15.84.2</ref> Wikipedia Arbitrator Fred Bauder claimed that Bagley's blog AntiSocialMedia.net showed “moral depravity”<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/Attack_sites/Proposed_decision&diff=158954587&oldid=158809362</ref> for challenging the Wiki-elite. Administrator Phil Sandifer dismissed Bagley in highly personal and offensive language while boasting<ref>http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/2007-October/083509.html</ref> that he himself had become a “powerful and trusted administrator on the 9th biggest website in the world.”

Other editors who raised Overstock's quite legitimate complaints were banned as proxies of Judd Bagley. Paranoia had taken such a hold that editors with productive records from all over the US, and as far afield as Europe and Asia found themselves accused of being Bagley. When the editor Cla68<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/Mantanmoreland/Evidence#Evidence_presented_by_Cla68</ref> questioned the issue of Gary Weiss editing Wikipedia, he was swiftly blocked by administrator Durova on the orders of Jimbo Wales who wrote,<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Gary_Weiss&diff=165916446&oldid=165916313</ref> “Durova and Guy have my full support here. No nonsense, zero tolerance, shoot on sight. No kidding, this has gone on long enough”.

A study<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:SirFozzie/Investigation</ref> undertaken by concerned administrators into the editing patterns of “Mantanmoreland” came to fruition. Despite the “Mantanmoreland” account ceasing edits on Overstock / Naked Short Selling articles in September 2007, the study revealed evidence beyond reasonable doubt that the same person had been operating several accounts to “control” articles. Thus affirming Bagley's claims.

More worryingly for good faith Wikipedians was the revelation<ref>http://www.wikback.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=2762#Post2757</ref><ref>http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/10/01/wikipedia_and_naked_shorting/print.html</ref> that Jimbo Wales, alongside leading administrators, had considered that this person was almost certainly Gary Weiss in a private discussion as long ago as September 2007 (the same month the “Mantanmoreland” account quit editing the relevant articles). Meaning that behind the scenes, they were admitting that Bagley was probably right all along, yet in public were vilifying or blocking anyone who publicly stated so.

After the [[financial meltdown of 2008]], the [[Securities and Exchange Commission]] issued directives aimed at curbing abusive naked short selling.<ref>[http://www.philly.com/inquirer/business/20090728_SEC_short-selling_rule_is_permanent.html]</ref> Patrick Byrne has been widely recognized as in the forefront of the movement aimed at curbing such abuses.<ref>http://www.investigatethesec.com/drupal-5.5/?q=node/425</ref>

==Michael Moore==
[[Image:Moorecagan.JPG|right|thumb|200px|Moore with [[Leslie Cagan]] [[United For Peace and Justice]] [http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=629] ]]
The website MichaelMoore.com, dissatisfied with a Wikipedia editor's edits to ''[[Sicko]]'', published an image of a Wikipedia user on its main page. This was combined with links to edit both ''Sicko'' and the editor's user page.[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/Attack_sites/Proposed_decision#Michael_Moore] Several Wikipedia editors and Administrators regarded this action on the part of [[Michael Moore]]'s official website as an egregious violation of a well publicized ruling to protect Wikipedia editors from outside harassment. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/Attack_sites/Evidence#Michael_Moore][https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/Attack_sites/Evidence#Michael_Moore_2] The consensus, per Wikipedia's policy was to remove links from Wikipedia to Michael Moore's attack site which was urging vengeance and reprisals against an editor who posted criticism of Moore's film.

In Arbitration, Wikipedia's internal policy making and dispute resolution arm, the Arbitration chairman publicly admitted,
{{Cquote|No question it contained an attack, including a link to edit our user's page. The problem is that many of us like Michael Moore very much and don't care much for the viewpoint of the user involved. Applying our policy in a rote manner (Without consideration of '''the unwritten rule that we support prominent subjects that we like''') yields removal of the link (At least while it contained the personal attack).<ref>Wikien-1 [http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/2007-October/082980.html Harassment sites], Fred Bauder, Sun Oct 14 19:03:28 UTC 2007.</ref>}}

Wikipedia's Neutral Point of View (NPOV), laid down by founder Jimbo Wales allegedly is "absolute and non-negotiable." Few people find the claim convincing.[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_view][https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_view#_note-0] The ArbCom chairman further stated, "Obviously we need to make an exception for prominent people whose viewpoint we support." [http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/2007-October/082987.html] When asked, "How, then, is this remotely compatible with NPOV?", the ArbCom chairman responded, "Not at all." [http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/2007-October/082993.html] The editor whom Michaelmoore.com was urging its viewers to attack and harass is described as "a Fellow at the [[American Enterprise Institute]], a [[conservative]] [[think tank]]."[http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/2007-October/083230.html]

==Sinbad hoax==
On March 16, 2007, Wikipedia entry on the 50-year old entertainer Sinbad, born David Adkins, stated: "He succumbed to a fatal heart attack on the morning of March 14, 2007." This hoax was widely reported in the media.<ref>http://www.ioltechnology.co.za/article_page.php?iSectionId=2891&iArticleId=3734818</ref>

==Robert Clark Young revenge edits==
From 2006 to 2013, Robert Clark Young, an author who had only published one novel to mixed reviews, edited Wikipedia extensively with 13,000 edits under username "Qworty." He engaged in aggressive behavior making revenge edits to biographical articles of his rival authors and other people against whom he held grudges. He also puffed up his own Wikipedia autobiography, and repeatedly denied that he was connected to Young. He also created other single purpose accounts to further his campaign.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_checkuser/Case/Geri_Litton|title=Geri Litton sockpuppet investigation|date=2007|accessdate=July 11, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/Qworty/Archive|title=Quorty sockpuppet inviestigant|date=2013|accessdate=July 11, 2013}}</ref> Only after his true identity was revealed in a salon.com article,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.salon.com/2013/05/17/revenge_ego_and_the_corruption_of_wikipedia/|title=Revenge, ego and the corruption of Wikipedia|date=May 17, 2013|work=salon.com|accessdate=July 9, 2013}}</ref> was Young banned<ref>{{cite web|url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/IncidentArchive797#User:Qworty|title=Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive797|accessdate=July 9, 2013}}</ref> and efforts made to reverse his vindictive edits. In essence, he would remove favorable items from the biographies of his enemies or nominate them for deletion. The salon.com article concluded,
<blockquote>But Qworty’s example tells us that even when people call attention to a rogue editor, even when that editor’s temper tantrums come to the attention of the founder of Wikipedia, it’s quite possible that no action will be taken.</blockquote>

==Rutgers-Ivy League hoax==
A Wikipedia entry falsely stated that Rutgers was once invited to join the Ivy League. Although that false statement was eventually removed from Wikipedia, it was not removed before the ''Daily News'' relied on it in this story:

:You don't have to define your college with your football team, but Rutgers long ago decided to give it a try. Back in 1954, when it was considered a 'public Ivy,' Rutgers might have joined the fledgling Ivy League and altered its destiny. But the school declined the offer - arguably the dumbest mistake in its history. Ever since then, Rutgers has scrambled to prove itself worthy of playing football with the big boys."<ref>Bondy, Filip. "They Can Finally Say They Belong Here", New York Daily News, 2006-11-10, p. 92. Retrieved on 2006-12-13.</ref>

==Barbara Bauer vs. Wikimedia Foundation==
Wikimedia Foundation is one of 17 defendants in a lawsuit suit filed in New Jersey, by Barbara Bauer and her literary agency. Her Wikipedia article was deleted on March 25, 2007 by Wikipedia administrator Doc Glasgow as a "bloody disgrace".<ref name="wikipedia-watch.org">http://www.wikipedia-watch.org/bauertc.html</ref>{{dead link}}<ref name="wikipedia-watch.org"/><ref>http://www.wikipedia-watch.org/bauert1.html</ref><ref>http://www.wikipedia-watch.org/bauert2.html</ref>{{dead link}}

==GFDL License Issue==
Wikipedia's practice of complete deletion of articles<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&page=Brian+Peppers</ref> without reference to the original article, the author(s)/publisher(s) of the article, and the history and title(s) of the article, including modification history, description and appropriate dates, is a direct violation of at least GFDL version 1.2. Additionally, the GFDL License states that if the article/document contains Copyright notices, that said notices must be preserved at all times. If those notices are removed, then they are in violation of Copyright Law, as well as the terms of the GFDL license. Furthermore, the question of them removing anything outright at all comes into quite a grey area. If one reads the GFDL License literally, then it implies that once the article document is posted, it is in distribution, and technical measures are not allowed to be taken to prevent the use of the document in question, and that no other conditions whatsoever can be added by the user to those of the GFDL license.<ref>http://www.wikitruth.info/index.php?title=Wikipocalypse:GF'DL</ref><ref>http://www.gnu.org/licenses/fdl.html#TOC1</ref>

However, beginning June 15, 2009, the Wikimedia Foundation began transitioning content on Wikipedia to be dual-licensed under both the GFDL and Creative Commons CC-BY-SA 3.0.<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2009-06-15/News_and_notes</ref>

==Censorship==
Among the many userboxes that are used by editors in Wikipedia, there is one that claims "Wikipedia is not censored".<ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Disavian/Userboxes/Not_Censored "Wikipedia is not censored" userbox] at Wikipedia</ref> This is a lie, as Wikipedia routinely engages in censorship against any edits [[Examples of Bias in Wikipedia|its editors and administrators do not like for political/ideological reasons]] (particularly involving political articles, [[ivermectin]] and prophylaxis and early treatment for COVID-19 generally, the "[[global warming]]" article, the [[GamerGate]] controversy article and articles involving gender-confused individuals and those claiming to be "non-binary") and its leftist editors/administrators have been very quick to revert/censor such edits and to quickly block editors who make such edits to fit reality instead of the leftist editors' personal and ideological preference, wishful thinking and political correctness in defiance of reality and logic.

==Cyberbullying==
The press have reported on incidents of [[cyberbullying]] on Wikipedia.<ref name="LATimes">{{cite news| url=http://articles.latimes.com/2008/apr/29/local/me-wikipedia29 | work=Los Angeles Times | first=Molly | last=Hennessy-Fiske | title=Wikipedia threats went unchecked – Los Angeles Times | date=29 April 2008}}</ref><ref name="ABCLocal">[http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=news/local&id=6087243 Hacienda Heights school receives possible threat | abc7.com]</ref><ref name="LATimes2">{{cite news |title=Student arrested for violent threats on Wikipedia |first= |last= |url=http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2008/04/wiki.html?cid=6a00d8341c630a53ef011571abd811970b |work=[[Los Angeles Times]] |date=29 April 2008}}</ref> An editor threatened an Asian student at the Glen A. Wilson High School in 2008,<ref name="LATimes" /><ref name="ABCLocal" /><ref name="LATimes2" /> and a 14-year-old boy was arrested for making a threat against Niles West High School on Wikipedia in 2006.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.pantagraph.com/news/article_baef01f3-e56f-52e1-b9af-e90eb83e811b.html|title=Teen charged after threat to school on Wikipedia|date=31 October 2006|agency=Associated Press |publisher=Pantagraph.com|accessdate=26 January 2011|location=Bloomington, IL}}</ref>

María Sefidari, the female Chair of the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Directors, is involved in a lesbian relationship with Wikipedia editor Laura Hale, which creates an inherent conflict of interest in the following controversy.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.canberra.edu.au/researchrepository/items/d2d1d08e-20c3-4781-9072-57c8960c6c91/1/introductory_pages.pdf?attachment.uuid=a046d5df-9395-4700-a345-ebda1f122cc6|title=Thesis Acknowledgements|page=4|accessdate=July 15, 2019}}</ref> Ms. Hale has a long history, dating back to 2011 of incompetent edits and abusing male editors while making false accusations of "misogyny" against editors who correct her edits. A long-time male administrator, Fram, followed Ms. Hale around making corrections to her problematic edits. In turn, Ms. Hale complained to the Trust & Security staff of the Wikimedia Foundation, rather than to the volunteer-staffed complaint mechanisms on Wikipedia. Although the Trust & Security staff has previously banned a few editors for problems involving illegal conduct such as pedophilia, in June 2019, for the first time, they suspended Fram for one year for alleged "incivility". In response, an English Wikipedia administrator lifted the block and was in turn stripped of his administratorship by the Foundation, and several other administrators resigned in protest.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Community_response_to_the_Wikimedia_Foundation%27s_ban_of_Fram|title=Wikipedia:Community response to the Wikimedia Foundation's ban of Fram|accessdate=June 24, 2019}}</ref> In response to a Buzzfeed article about the controversy,<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/josephbernstein/wikipedia-ban-editor-culture-war|title=The Culture War Has Finally Come For Wikipedia|date=July 27, 2019|accessdate=July 28, 2019|work=Buzzfeed News}}</ref> Wikimedia Foundation executive director Katharine Maher sent a tweet calling the article "s***ty", which drew heavy criticism against her on her Twitter account from other Wikipedia editors for what they indicated was her dismissive and elitist attitude toward those opposed to the Foundation's unilateral abuse of power.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://twitter.com/krmaher/status/1144394019893460993|title=tweet|accessdate=June 28, 2019}}</ref> As more Wikipedia Administrators and Bureaucrats resign or go on strike, the crisis has also been reported by Breitbart.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2019/06/28/wikipedia-editors-revolt-over-sites-ban-of-veteran-administrator/|title=Wikipedia Editors Revolt over Site’s Ban of Veteran Administrator|date=July 28, 2019|work=Breitbart|accessdate=July 28, 2019}}</ref>

== Wikipedia on bestiality ==

''See also:'' [[Wikipedia on bestiality]] and [[Atheism and bestiality]]

As noted earlier, the Wikipedia project was initiated by [[atheism|atheist]] and [[entrepreneur]] Jimmy Wales and the [[agnosticism|agnostic]] [[philosophy]] [[professor]] [[Larry Sanger]] on January 15, 2001.<ref>http://www.nndb.com/lists/288/000092012/</ref> Sanger refound his [[Christian]] faith in 2020.<ref>https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/09/alert-ex-wikipedia-co-founder-says-site-hijacked/</ref>

[[Bestiality]] is the act of engaging in sexual relations with an animal. As of July 18, 2012, Wikipedia's article on [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoophilia zoophilia/bestiality] has an entire section on "arguments for zoophilia" plus pictures depicting zoophilia as well as a section on "arguments against zoophilia". As of September 24, 2011, Wikipedia has a "[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoophilia_and_the_law Zoophilia and the law"] article which has a section on the impact of zoophilia laws where eight alleged negative impacts of zoophilia laws are given, but no positive impacts of the laws are given.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoophilia_and_the_law#Impact_of_laws|title=Impact of laws section of "Zoophilia and the law"|date=July 17, 2012|accessdate=July 18, 2012}}</ref>

See also: [[Atheism and bestiality]] and [[Evolutionary belief and bestiality]]

== Trademarks and domain names ==
The Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) uses the licensing of its trademarks as a tool to control local chapters. Although each local chapter is in theory an autonomous organization, each chapter signs a contract with the WMF as a condition for using its trademarks. The WMF also tried to stake out control over many domain names that contain the word "wiki" including "[[wikileaks]]". WikiLeaks and Wikipedia have no affiliation with each other. ("Wiki" describes a type of website and is not a trademark.)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiLeaks_is_not_part_of_Wikipedia |title=Wikipedia:WikiLeaks is not part of Wikipedia |work=Wikipedia |publisher=[[Wikimedia Foundation]] |accessdate=September 17, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |url=http://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/online/wiki-giants-on-a-collision-course-over-shared-name-2065561.html |title=Wiki giants on a collision course over shared name |last1=Rawlinson |first1=Kevin |first2=Tom |last2=Peck |date=30 August 2010 |work=The Independent |location=London |accessdate=September 17, 2012}}</ref> Wikia did purchase several WikiLeaks-related domain names (including wikileaks.com and wikileaks.net) as a "protective brand measure" in 2007.<ref name=wikia>{{cite web |url=http://www.wikia.com/Press:Wikia_Does_Not_Own_Wikileaks_Domain_Names |title=Press:Wikia Does Not Own Wikileaks Domain Names |work=[[Wikia]] |publisher=[[Wikia]] |accessdate=September 17, 2012}}</ref> Wikia started to transfer those domain names to WikiLeaks on June 14, 2007, but the transfer was never completed, and Wikia held those domain names when the "Wikileaks scandal" broke.<ref name=wikia/>

== Humorous quotes concerning Wikipedia ==

"...dealing with the Wikipedians is like walking into a mental hospital: the floors are carpeted, the walls are nicely padded, but you know there’s a pretty good chance at any given moment one of the inmates will pick up a knife.” - quote from a ''[[New York Times]]'' article on Wikipedia written by the journalist and author Judith Newman<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/09/fashion/Wikipedia-Judith-Newman.html?smid=pl-share Wikipedia-Mania: Wikipedia, What Does Judith Newman Have to Do to Get a Page?]</ref>

An article entitled ''Wikipedia Gridlocked by Wikipedia Nerds'' declared:
{{Cquote|So who are these Gatekeepers to all the internet's knowledge?

A survey the foundation conducted last year determined that the average age of an editor is 26.8 years, and that 87% of them are men.

As you suspected: [[nerd]]s.<ref>http://gawker.com/5410917/wikipedia-gridlocked-by-wikipedia-nerds</ref>}}

Jimmy Wales said the typical profile of a Wikipedia contributor is "a 26-year-old geeky male" who moves on to other ventures, gets married, and leaves the website.<ref>[http://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/digital-living/5397593/Wikipedia-losing-contributors-founder-says Wikipedia losing contributors, founder says]</ref>

Seth Meyers noted on his ''Late Night'' program, "Wikipedia is now accepting donations using the online currency Bitcoin. So now you can support information you're not sure is true with currency you're not sure is money."<ref>http://www.thespec.com/living-story/4733681-tuesdayfile/ Retrieved August 8, 2014</ref>

When obscure author Patrick Modiano was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in October 2014, few journalists knew much about him. The person updating his Wikipedia biography to reflect the prize added this warning to the article, "To the Reporter Now Copying From Wikipedia: Be careful boy. Primary sources are still best for journos."<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2014/10/09/nobel_prize_winner_patrick_modiano_s_wikipedia_page_changed_to_add_note.html|title=A Reminder to Journalists Writing About the New Nobel Prize Winner, From Wikipedia|first=Forrest |last=Wickman|date=October 9, 2014|work=Slate|accessdate=October 10, 2014}}</ref><ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Patrick_Modiano&diff=prev&oldid=628920987</ref>

==Unbiased editor recruitment==
Wikipedia claims that anyone can edit it. That is true to an extent, but its editor pool is self-selecting. However, on January 25–29, 2012, the Wikimedia Foundation paid for Gregory Varnum and others to attend and staff a booth at the "24th National Conference on LGBT Equality: Creating Change" conference in Baltimore, Maryland. The purpose of the Wikimedia booth was to recruit more LGBT activists to edit Wikipedia. Although Wikimedia has outreach efforts at other conferences, there has been no outreach at conservative events.

Wikipedia editor [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:SarahStierch Sarah Stierch] was the volunteer moderator of the Gender Gap email list where she departed from discussing Wikipedia to freely share her negative experiences with men in her life. In fall 2011, she was hired by the WMF as a Community Fellow to work on creating a "Teahouse" for newer Wikipedia editors. The report on the Teahouse Pilot Project<ref>{{cite web|url=http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Research:Teahouse/Pilot_Report&oldid=3832292|title=Teahouse: Pilot Report|date=June 14, 2012}}</ref> explained, "If you click through to the Teahouse, it’s clearly aiming to broaden female participation - just look at the pastel background and references to tea." Stierch tried to use Twitter to recruit more female editors into Teahouse and the English Wikipedia. The report concluded, "Because so much time and energy needed to be spend during the pilot on setting up and maintaining the space, we weren't able to focus as much as we'd have liked on gender-targeted strategies for recruiting female guests and hosts. There are clearly more experiments that need to be run in order to better integrate the space with other gender gap efforts and WikiWomen's calls to actions." The WMF terminated Stierch on January 9, 2014 following complaints of her moonlighting as a paid editor.<ref>http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2014-January/129466.html</ref>

On August 18, 2014, during the Congressional summer recess, the [[Cato Institute]] and Wikimedia DC jointly conducted a seminar to encourage Congressional staff members to edit Wikipedia about pending legislation and policy issues.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/08/18/a-call-to-edit-congress-and-wikipedia-told-to-peacefully-co-exist/|title=A call to edit: Congress and Wikipedia told to peacefully co-exist|first=Nancy|last=Scola|date=August 18, 2014|accessdate=August 22, 2014|work=Washington Post}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.c-span.org/video/?321030-1/discussion-wikipedia-government-transparency|date=August 18, 2014|accessdate=August 22, 2014|title=Wikipedia and Congress|work=C-SPAN}}</ref> The panel discussion included Michelle Newby, a full-time Cato employee who edits Wikipedia as a part of her job. She promised to work with any Congressional Staff that would be interested in editing.

==Flaws in governance structure==
Perhaps Wikipedia's greatest structural problem is Jimmy Wales' inability to remove himself from the process. He calls himself a "God-King" and rules the site with the style of [[monarchy]], robbing it of its potential to achieve some form of [[Jeffersonian]] [[democracy]] and accountability. Wales once speculated that all significant productivity emerged from his circle of a few hundred personal friends while the rest of the world groped along doing only spelling and punctuation mark corrections and other trivial modifications. The computer programmer and activist Aaron Swartz did a proper analysis and showed that the productivity was the results of many, many thousands of anonymous users. Swartz later committed [[suicide]].

Wales delegated the run-of-the-mill decision-marking to a hand-picked group he called the Arbitration Committee. They take months to make any decisions and dole out multi-month to multi-year or permanent intervention solutions. A reputable encyclopedia usually simply chooses an Editor-in-Chief, i.e. one reputable, mature and experienced person with one mind to make high-quality decisions rapidly and perhaps dispense moderate penalties when needed. Sanger served as such, but Wales, an [[Objectivist]] economics major and former stock options trader, opted to drastically reduce his salary when it became clear that the project would be a success, thus forcing him out. Wales has since been making a living, in part, by promoting his notions of governance of Internet-based projects, often emphasizing that users should remain anonymous and thus without any serious form of credential or reputation.

The problems are in the structure and in the personality flaws of Wales himself. Wales takes advantage of this vast pool of free labor to hunt his perceived enemies, somewhat in the style of [[L. Ron Hubbard]] or other such supposed founders of movements.{{fact}}

Equally important are the flawed steps that Wales took to separate the community of volunteer Wikipedia editors from the financial control of the enterprise. The servers and software are owned by the [[Wikimedia Foundation]] (WMF), a non-profit organization that at first was set up as a membership organization, but quickly changed to a non-membership organization so that members would not have any legal say regarding the organization. Although people who have made a required minimum number of edits per year can vote for members of the Arbitration Committee and for a minority of the WMF Board seats, at least one community-elected Board member was removed because he did not agree with the majority of the Board. Of course, Wales is guaranteed a perpetual WMF Board seat as a co-founder.

Originally, revenue from fundraising banners in the United States went to the WMF, but banner revenue in foreign countries went to the chapters located in those countries. In recent years, the WMF has consolidated all fundraising revenues, with national chapters being forced to apply for specific grants from the WMF.

To further complicate the financial controls, the WMF established a separate endowment at the [[Tides Foundation]] which is controlled by that foundation in consultation with an advisory board. Instead of having a community-selected advisory board or the entire WMF Board serving as the advisory board, the Tides Foundation appointed a new group with Wales and large donors serving. When the endowment reaches its fundraising target, the advisory board decides whether the funds should stay at the Tides Foundation, be transferred to the WMF, or used in some other way. So, if Wales has a falling out with the WMF Board over the next ten years, he and his hand-picked advisory board could take the Wikipedia endowment somewhere else. The editing community has no say in the endowment—who manages it or how the income will be spent.

==Core policies==
Wikipedia has three policies that it calls its core policies. These are Neutral Point of View, Verifiability, and No Original Research. Despite designating these three policies as "core", Wikipedia barely even cares about them, especially with cases in regard to atheism. Wikipedia has reverted well-substantiated edits for disagreeing with atheism numerous times, gone several paragraphs on pro-atheism topics without citing a single source, banned Creation Ministries International employees for an indefinite amount of times despite said employees having not violated any written policy, and more.

==Hunter Biden==
[[The Federalist]] revealed emails of [[Hunter Biden]] that he paid thousands of dollars to a public relations firm to scrub his Wikipedia page of several unflattering details about his personal life and business ties. The writer said extensive edits to Hunter Biden’s Wikipedia page prove site’s extreme bias.<ref>https://thefederalist.com/2023/08/17/extensive-edits-to-hunter-bidens-wikipedia-page-prove-sites-extreme-bias/</ref>

==See also ==
*[[Examples of Bias in Wikipedia]]
*[[Previous Breaking News/Wikipedia|Articles about '''Wikipedia''' from previous "Breaking News"]]
*[[Essay:The Protocols of Ritual Defamation]]
*[[Wikipedia prejudice and KAL 007]] (Wikipedia deletion material related to [[New World Order]] and [[Larry McDonald]], touching [[Korean Airlines Flight 007]])
*[[Deletionpedia]]
*[[Essay:Wikipedia and Citizendium]]
*[[Wikipedia Governor Impeachment Cover-Up]]
*[[Elijahandskip|Elijahandskip - A Wikipedia Editor and Conservapedia Editor]]
*[[Wikipedia's atheism page - monthly page views]]

==Further reading==
*[https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/aug/21/conservatives-miss-wikipedias-threat/ SHEFFIELD: Conservatives miss Wikipedia's threat] by [[Washington Times]], August 21, 2008
*[http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/12/06/wikipedia_and_overstock/print.html Wikipedia black helicopters circle Utah's Traverse Mountain], By Cade Metz, ''The Register'', 6 December 2007.
*[http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/06/15/wikipedia_can_damage_your_grades/ Avoid Wikipedia, warns Wikipedia chief - It can seriously damage your grades] by Andrew Orlowski, ''The Register'', June 15, 2006
*[http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/10/18/wikipedia_quality_problem/ Wikipedia founder admits to serious quality problems] by Andrew Orlowski, ''The Register'', October 18, 2005
*[http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/whowriteswikipedia Who Writes Wikipedia?] by Aaron Swartz, 2006
*[https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2016/07/05/wikipedias-seven-worst-moments/ Wikipedia’s Seven Worst Moments] by Charlie Nash, ''Breitbart News'', July 5, 2016.
*[https://evolutionnews.org/2017/11/wikipedia-and-astroturf/ Wikipedia and “Astroturf”] Sarah Chaffee, Evolution News. November 30, 2017 (Journalist [[Sharyl Attkisson]]).
*[https://oedb.org/ilibrarian/top-7-alternatives-to-wikipedia/ Top 7 Alternatives to Wikipedia] Open Education Database. (Includes Conservapedia along with six other online encyclopedias, criticizes Wikipedia for inaccuracies and hypocrisy.)
*https://notthebee.com/article/wikipedia-is-considering-the-deletion-of-the-page-titled-mass-killings-under-communist-regimes-
*https://notthebee.com/article/this-is-how-wikipedia-is-referring-to-the-waukesha-christmas-parade-attack
==References==
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==External links==
*[https://www.wikipedia.org Wikipedia]
*[http://questionevolution.blogspot.com/2013/01/2013-is-starting-off-to-be-bad-year-for.html Study shows that the world's biggest pro-evolution website is driving away newcomer editors! Also, video shows evolutionists at Wikipedia are clowns!]
*[http://www.wikipediocracy.com Wikipediocracy]
*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedia_controversies Wikipedia's List of Wikipedia controversies]
*[http://www.mises.org/story/2704 Wikipedia: What Is It Good For?], By Dick Clark, 9/19/2007. Retrieved from The Ludwig von Mises Institute, http://www.mises.org/ November 5, 2007.
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MoVLl_ne2Y Wikipedias' Own Cofounder Lambastes the Site for Bias]
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Shroud of Turin

2025-08-05T19:22:48Z

GilS: Added external links from some 3 credible news and official scientific research support authentic shroud of turin from 2024, 2025 year

[[image:Shroud of Turin face.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Negative image of the face of the Shroud; the photographic qualities of the Shroud were unknown until 1898.]]
<center>''A million-dollar, widely publicized offer to recreate an image as found on this Shroud has gone uncollected.''<ref>https://www.detroitcatholic.com/news/1-million-challenge-to-replicate-shroud-of-turin-is-expanded-to-u-s</ref></center>
The '''Shroud of Turin''' (in Italian, ''la Sacra Sindone'') is the most studied artifact in the history of the world. It is a burial cloth almost precisely 14.5' long by 4' wide, having attributes from the time and place of [[Jesus]], with blood stains and the image of an executed man. Scientific study has exceeded 600,000 hours in reinforcing its authenticity.<ref>[https://mycharisma.com/culture/new-evidence-for-shroud-of-turin-expert-says-its-beyond-all-doubt/ New Evidence for Shroud of Turin: Expert Says It’s ‘Beyond All Doubt’], CBN News, 2025, citing [[New Testament]] scholar Jeremiah J. Johnston.</ref> [[Liberal denial]] requires implausible conspiracy theories.

[[Forensic]] evidence indicates that this image is of man [[scourge]]d and crucified, and yet (as described of Jesus in the [[Bible]]) without breaking the victim's legs as typically done to expedite a [[Roman Empire|Roman]] execution.<ref name="Forensics">http://www.shroudstory.com/forensics.htm</ref> The image was formed after the blood staining, suggesting that there was a flash of light at the [[Resurrection]] -- analogous to the flash of light at [[conception]] -- such that the image is like a negative in photography.<ref>"The Shroud of Turin is a negative image." [https://www.shroud.com/piczek3.htm]</ref> The image is scientifically precise in ways unknown to medieval forgers; the thumbs are not visible because the nails were through the wrists,<ref name="BBC"/> not through the hands as mistakenly thought until the 20th century<ref name="Forensics"/> and mistranslated from the [[Bible]].<ref>In {{bibleref|John|20|27}}, the Greek term χερσὶν (chersin) actually includes "wrists", not merely hands. [[Strong's]] narrow definition is incomplete, and at {{bibleref|Acts|12|7|version=NIV}} the same term must mean "wrists" because chains fell off them. [https://biblehub.com/greek/5495.htm]</ref> The disciples on the [[Road to Emmaus]] did not notice any wounds in Jesus's hands, which further suggests the nail wounds were in his wrists.

The Shroud of Turin Research Project was led by "35 physicists, chemists, NASA image specialists, electrical engineers, a forensic pathologist,"<ref name="AMAC">https://amac.us/newsline/lifestyle/the-shroud-of-turin-gods-gift-to-all-people/</ref> concluding that:
<blockquote>The Shroud’s image appears to be created by an oscillating strobe of high-intensity light coming from inside the body;
 The burning event happened in 1/40 of a billion of a second, like a laser beam, moving 2.5 billion watts of electricity; ''to create a similar light, one would need all the electric power generated on Earth.''<ref name="AMAC"/></blockquote>

An [[agnostic]] [[British]] scholar studied the Shroud and concluded in his book, ''The Sign'' (2012), that the Shroud is authentic and was even the basis of [[disciples]]' acceptance of the [[Resurrection]].<ref>https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/9162459/Mystery-solved-Turin-Shroud-linked-to-Resurrection-of-Christ.html</ref> The shroud has caused some [[agnostic]] or [[Atheism|atheist]] [[scientist]]s to convert to [[Christianity]].<ref>[http://www.shroud.com/mrinobnf.pdf]</ref> Other scientists, who have not converted, still consider the Shroud to be the authentic burial cloth for [[Jesus Christ]]. Some refer to the Shroud as the "Fifth [[the Gospels|Gospel]]."

Today the Shroud is in the Cathedral of Saint [[John the Baptist]] in [[Turin]], [[Italy]],<ref>[http://www.shroud.com/]</ref> its same location since 1578.<ref>In 1578 the Shroud was moved by the House of Savoy to Turin from Chambery [https://www.thetravel.com/where-is-the-shroud-of-turin/].</ref> In January 2023 it went on public display for the first time in a decade.<ref name="BBC">http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8612315.stm</ref>

==Proof of authenticity==
Among various ways to prove authenticity is this compelling approach: ask if the Shroud can be replicated today. '''''The answer is that it cannot'''''. No skeptic of the Shroud has been able to produce a replica with all of its remarkable features. '''''Given that a forgery is impossible today, amid all our technological advances, a forgery to produce the Shroud long ago was impossible'''''. This suggests its authenticity.

==Description==
[[File:Shroud pos-neg.jpg|left|500px|thumb|The full-length Shroud, seen in positive (top) and in its negative (bottom).]]
The Shroud is about 14 feet 3 inches long by 3 feet 7 inches wide, consisting of a single piece of fine [[linen]] cloth made from fibers of the flax plant (''Linum usitatisismum''), and woven in a 3-over-1 herringbone twill.<ref name="news.bbc.co.uk">[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/3624753.stm]</ref> Centered on the cloth is the front and back images of a man who is pictured as if in a burial repose; the man's estimated height is somewhere between 5'8" to 6'1".<ref>[http://www.shroudofturin4journalists.com/Details/howtall2.htm]</ref> He is rather powerfully built, with classical eastern Mediterranean features. The images of the feet are at both ends of the cloth, indicating that if it was a burial linen the body was placed on one end with the other end brought over the head to cover the body. On either side of the image is a series of triangular patches, covering much of the damage from a fire that took place in 1532.

The image of the body shows a man who had died a violent death. Upon both front and back are dumbbell-shaped markings; approximately 140 such marks were applied upon the back, chest, and legs. Roman soldiers involved in "[[Scourge|scourging]]" as a form of punishment for offenders employed a whip called a "[[flagrum]]",<ref>[http://www.shroudofturin4journalists.com/terms/flagrum.htm]</ref> which was studded with either bone or lead knobs, and when used it tore into flesh and muscle.

The wrists and feet bear large bloodstains consistent with historical descriptions of [[crucifixion]]. The feet themselves are placed one on top of the other within the image; both front and dorsal images display a single large bloodstain, indicating one nail was driven through both feet upon the cross. The left wrist likewise displays a large bloodstain; however, the left-hand covers the right, preventing a view of the wound there. Blood flows are present on both lower arms, displayed to flow in a direction as if the victim was hanging on a cross. A single large bloodstain is also present on the right side of the chest - nearly obliterated by the 1532 burn damage - and appears to have been mixed with a clear liquid from the body. Blood stains are also present about the [[scalp]], and the marks of a severe beating are evident on the face.

The Shroud contains blood stains consisting of human male [[DNA]], and a [[blood type]] that is AB - the same rare blood type<ref>Less than 5% of Europeans have AB blood type.</ref> found on the [[Sudarium of Oviedo|face covering for Jesus]] preserved in Spain,<ref name="Oviedo">The [[Shroud of Oviedo]].</ref> and the same rare blood type common in "68 skeletons of Jewish residents from 1,600 to 2,000 years ago in and around [[Jerusalem]]."<ref>http://www.rhesusnegative.net/staynegative/blood-types-ancient-hebrews/</ref> The height of the man was between 5'9" and 5'11"; his weight, 168-180 pounds; his age, between 30 and 45 years old.<ref>[https://www.shroud.com/meacham2.htm Excellent scientific article about the Shroud]</ref> Coins visible only to modern technology had been placed over the man's eyes, an ancient Roman tradition not known to historians until modern archaeological excavations revealed the practice.<ref>Coins over the eyes were particularly necessary to keep the eyes shut if the person died with his eyes open.</ref> The coin over the right eye was minted by [[Pontius Pilate]], and the coin over the left eye was minted only in A.D. 29, merely a few years before the estimated date of the [[Crucifixion]].<ref name="Coins">http://www.shroudstory.com/faq-coins.htm</ref> The angle of the man's arms during the [[crucifixion]] can be inferred from the flow of blood seen on the Shroud: 65° for one arm; 55° for the other. The cloth was a finely woven linen that would have been available to a wealthy man as described in the [[Gospels]], and was cut from the same fabric containing the same pollen as the face covering preserved separately in Spain.<ref name="Oviedo"/>

== DNA Testing ==

DNA testing of material on the Shroud may prove to be the most reliable measure of its authenticity, and already preliminary results point to a legitimate Middle Eastern, rather than fake European, origin for the Shroud.<ref>http://www.livescience.com/52567-shroud-of-turin-dna.html</ref>

== Dating the Shroud ==

Raymond N. Rogers, a retired [[chemist]] from the [[Los Alamos National Laboratory]] in [[New Mexico]], studied the Shroud and declared, "The chemistry says it was a real shroud, the blood spots on it are real blood, and the technology that was used to make that piece of cloth was exactly what [[Pliny the Elder]] reported from his time," about A.D. 70. "It's a shroud from the right time, but you're never going to find out (through science) if it was used on a person named [[Jesus]]," Rogers said.<ref>http://bibleprobe.com/</ref>

Meanwhile, radiocarbon dating "is vulnerable to contamination, and often yields imprecise results, particularly for the period" of [[Jesus]] because "[t]here are fewer artefacts with known dates to calibrate the scrolls' age against."<ref>https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2025-06-05/dead-sea-scrolls-ai-dating-palaeography/105374410</ref> [[Carbon dating]] test results of the Shroud conflict with each other and thus are not credible. In 1988, a small snippet of the Shroud was extracted, '''''but the "C-14 results of the three labs fall outside the bounds of the Pearson's chi-square test," illustrating a flaw in the dating''''' that was likely due to a repair seam that ran diagonally "through the area from which the sample was taken."<ref>http://www.juliantrubin.com/encyclopedia/bible/shroud_of_turin.html</ref> A peer-reviewed scientific paper later demonstrated the invalidity of those results, suggesting instead that the Shroud is between 1,300 and 3,000 years old,<ref>Rogers, Raymond N., "Studies on the radiocarbon sample from the Shroud of Turin". Thermochimica Acta, Volume 425 Issue 1–2, pp. 189-194 (Jan. 20, 2005)[http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6THV-4DTBVHC-1&_user=10&_handle=B-WA-A-W-WE-MsSAYWA-UUA-AAUYYDZUYC-AAUZVCZYYC-YZEWAVVVC-WE-U&_fmt=full&_coverDate=01%2F20%2F2005&_rdoc=26&_orig=browse&_srch=%23toc%235292%232005%23995749998%23553672!&_cdi=5292&view=c&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=3d89246a5d4144616be7657f0d83b6cf]</ref><ref>Mark Antonacci "Resurrection of the Shroud: New Scientific, Medical, and Archeological Evidence"</ref> disproving the 1988 results that claimed that the Shroud originated between A.D. 1238 and 1430.

Indeed, the sample for the 1988 analysis had actually been taken from cloth woven into the Shroud during the [[Middle Ages]], thereby giving a false result. Moreover, "the 12th Century Hungarian 'Pray Manuscript' come to depict Jesus being wrapped in the shroud - with authentic herringbone pattern and burn marks - 100 years before carbon-dating says the material originated."<ref name="news.bbc.co.uk"/>

The defect in the carbon dating was that the samples were "uniquely coated with a yellow–brown [[plant]] gum containing dye lakes. [[Pyrolysis-mass-spectrometry]] results from the sample area coupled with microscopic and microchemical observations prove that the radiocarbon sample was not part of the original cloth of the Shroud of Turin. The radiocarbon date was thus not valid for determining the true age of the shroud."<ref>http://greatshroudofturinfaq.com/Definitions/Thermochimica-Acta.html</ref> Instead, "[e]stimates of the kinetics constants for the loss of vanillin from lignin indicate a much older age for the cloth than the radiocarbon analyses."<ref>http://shroudencounter.com/thermochimicaabstract.php</ref>

More generally, [[carbon dating]] provides less accurate results compared with other techniques for dating artifacts, as demonstrated by multiple failures in carbon dating of the [[Dead Sea Scrolls]]. In addition, many materials cannot be reliably carbon dated, such as marine shells, due to background effects.<ref>https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0305440309003306#:~:text=C%20dates%20on%20marine%20shells,known%2C%20the%20knowledge%20of%20its</ref>

Finally, dating the cloth is of limited significance in analyzing a potential [[miracle]], which [[logic]]ally could have happened (and still could) at any time. A miraculous imprint of an image could have slowed ordinary decay on which carbon dating is based, so it is flawed [[circular logic]] to try to determine by carbon dating whether the shroud is miraculous.

==History==

Historians and authors of written works on the Shroud have generally divided its history into two periods of time: a first period, from the time of the [[Resurrection]] ca. 33 A.D. to the fall of [[Constantinople]] in 1204; and the second period from about 1349 to present. The first version is based largely on circumstantial evidence.

===First Period: A.D. 33 to 1204===
====Gospels====
The ''[[Gospel of John]]'' contains the first description of what is today regarded as the Shroud of Turin (the "linen clothes"), and the "napkin", a small head wrap that may be a relic known as the Sudarium of Oviedo, Spain.<ref>http://www.shroud.com/guscin.htm</ref>

:''On the first day of the week, [[Mary Magdalene]] came early, while it was still dark, to the tomb, and saw that the stone had been taken away from the tomb.
:''She ran and came to [[Saint Peter|Simon Peter]], and to the other student, whom Jesus loved, and told them, "They have taken away the Lord out of the tomb, and we don't know where they have laid Him!"
:''So Peter went out, and that other disciple, and came to the tomb.
:''They both ran together, and the other disciple outran Peter, and came to the tomb first.
:''He stooped down and looked in, and saw the shroud stretched around nothing, but did not go in.
:''Then Peter came after him, and went into the tomb, and saw the empty shroud lying there, and the facecloth, that had been around His head. The facecloth was not lying with the shroud, but was rolled up in a place apart from them.
:''Then that other student went in also, the one who had come to the tomb first. He saw, and believed. For they still did not know the Scripture that said that He must rise again from the dead.'' - [[John 15-21 (Translated)#Chapter 20|John 20:1-9]]<ref>(retrieved: May 25, 2010).</ref>

====Bardesane of Edessa====
The earliest possible extra-Biblical reference to the Shroud is found in a second-century poem by Bardesane of Edessa. Called the "Hymn of the Pearl", it was embedded within the non-canonical ''Acts of Thomas'', and tells the story of a boy - apparently the figure in the poem - to retrieve a pearl from Egypt. He describes the "mirror of myself" embedded in his robe in some detail similar to the Shroud:
:''"And because I remembered not its fashion / for in my childhood I had left it in my father's house, / on a sudden, when I received it, / the garment seemed to me to become like a mirror of myself. / I saw it all in all, / and I to received all in it, / for we were two in distinction / and yet gain one in one likeness. / And the treasurers too, / who brought it to me, I saw in like manner / to be two (and yet) one likeness, for one sign of the king was written on them (both), / of the hands of him who restored to me through them / my trust and my wealth"''<ref>[http://www.gnosis.org/library/hymnpearl.htm]</ref>

====Image of Edessa/Mandylion====
[[File:Image of Edessa.jpg|right|300px|thumb|The Image of Edessa, the "All-Merciful Savior" flag with which Czar [[Ivan IV]]'s troops went to [[Kazan]] in 1552.]]
According to [[Eusebius]], King Abgar of Edessa was afflicted with an illness, and hearing of the miracles of Jesus as a healer he sent a letter to Him, asking if He would come to his aid. Jesus responded that He could not come, but would send his disciple Thaddeus, who comes and heals him;<ref>http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/npnf201.iii.vi.xiii.html</ref> according to variants of this story King Abgar is left with the cloth image of Jesus, beginning with the ''Doctrine of Addai'' (ca. 400 A.D.) in which a court painter created an image of the Lord and "brought with him to Abgar the king, his master. And when Abgar the king saw the likeness, he received it with great joy, and placed it with great honor in one of his palatial houses."<ref>http://www.tertullian.org/fathers/addai_2_text.htm</ref> Artistic works of this relic - called either the "Image of Edessa" or the "[[Mandylion]]" - generally have it portrayed as the face of Christ upon a towel or kerchief.

The Mandylion would surface again around 525 when Edessa was flooded by the Daisan River. Workmen repairing one of the city's gates discovered a niche with the cloth inside; the mandylion was declared to be ''Acheiropoietos'' (Greek: Αχειροποίητος), "not made by hands", meaning that it was a miraculous image created supernaturally and not by man. The Mandylion stayed in Edessa as a means of protection for the city from harm until forcibly taken to [[Constantinople]] in 944, where it was received with great fanfare by Emperor Romanus I. Placed within the church of Saint Mary of Blachernae, it stayed there as a Christian relic until disappearing in the sack of the city during the [[Fourth Crusade]] in 1204. One of the knights who participated in the sacking of Constantinople, Robert de Clari, left a detailed letter of what he observed at the time, and he referred to this relic as being more than a facial image:
:''"But among the rest, there was also another of the ministers, which was called the Church of my Lady Saint Mary of Blachernae, within which was the shroud wherein Our Lord was wrapped. And on every Friday that shroud did raise itself upright, so that the form of Our Lord could clearly be seen. And none knows - neither Greek nor Frank - what became of that shroud when the city was taken."''<ref>http://www.deremilitari.org/resources/sources/clari4.htm</ref>

====Geoffroi de Charney====
Geoffroi de Charney was a French knight, the Preceptor of Normandy for the [[Knights Templar]], who was executed by burning at the stake in 1314. His crimes are disputed, but during that time there was a backlash directed against the Templars; the King of France apparently either feared the power they wielded, or coveted their hidden wealth. But to march against them it was necessary to have the Pope (Clement V) declare them heretics, based on their alleged worship of a "bearded head"; in one account (1287), a French applicant named Arnaut Sabbatier was taken into a "a secret place to which only the brothers of the Temple had access" where he was instructed to venerate the image of a man on a long linen cloth.<ref>http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article6040521.ece</ref>

Little is known of Geoffroi de Charney. He participated in the sack of Constantinople in 1204, and may have been a witness with Robert de Clari when he first saw the shroud at the Blachernae Church. He certainly could have been well-placed to have taken the Shroud back to France for veneration. On March 19, 1314, he was burned at the stake, along with the leader of his order.<ref>141.—Stemler, Contingent zur Geschichte der Tcmplcr, pp. 20-1.—Raynouard,pp. 213-4, 233-5.—Wilcke, II. 236, 240.—Anton, Vcrsuch, p. 142</ref><ref>A History of the Inquisition of the [[Middle Ages]], Vol III by Henry Charles Lea, NY: Hamper & Bros, Franklin Sq. 1888 p.324. Not in copyright.</ref>

===Second Period: 1349 to present===
In 1389 the French Bishop of Troyes, Pierre D'Arcis, wrote a letter to the Pope (Antipope Clement VII) detailing his complaints of a shroud "...upon which the whole likeness of the Saviour had remained thus impressed together with the wounds which He bore" was being exhibited at nearby Lirey; he further stated to the Pope of his belief that the shroud was a fraud, having found "[a man] procured for his church a certain cloth cunningly painted, upon which by a clever sleight of hand was depicted the twofold image of one man… falsely declaring and pretending that this was the actual shroud in which our Savior Jesus Christ was enfolded in the tomb." D'Arcis' predecessor, Henri de Poitiers, likewise was in a similar situation 35 years before, but did not launch an investigation into the matter; in his time he had concerns that the knight Geoffrey de Charny - who had just built the church at Lirey - was passing the relic off as the real shroud of the Lord. Whether or not de Charny was questioned about it is conjecture; he was killed in the Battle of Poitiers in 1356. Also undetermined is his relationship with the earlier Templar knight. But the one thing that is certain is de Charny is the first documented owner of the Shroud.

His church at Lirey continued to exhibit the Shroud despite Bishop D'Arsis and those within the Church demanding that it cease displaying a "false relic," as they claimed. The Church would eventually - grudgingly - allow the exhibitions to continue, provided that they billed the cloth as a "representation" of Christ, and not the true burial shroud. A century after his death the Shroud was sold to the Savoy family of Italy, who had it brought to Turin where it resided ever since.<ref>http://www.shroudofturin4journalists.com/geoffrey.htm</ref> It was willed in the late 20th century to the [[Roman Catholic Church]], which has never taken a position for or against its authenticity.

== The Lamb ==
According to a paper by Dr. Petrus Soons, scientific research of some of the photographs of the shroud shows an oval object under the beard of the image. After much research, three cursive letters were identified and translated from Hebrew. The meaning of the translation was, "The Lamb," a name to which Jesus was referred in the New Testament.<ref>[http://74.125.93.132/search?q=cache%3ACtDFWbA8AfIJ%3Awww.ohioshroudconference.com%2Fpapers%2Fp24.pdf+THE+SHROUD+OF+TURIN%2C+THE+HOLOGRAPHIC+EXPERIENCE+By+DR.+PETRUS+SOONS&hl=en&gl=us Dr. Soons Paper]</ref> This finding now makes the person on the shroud exclusively identified with Christ.

== Criticisms ==

There have been many arguments against the authenticity of the Shroud, some of which have been disproved. For example, some claimed that a misspelling on one of the coins over an eye could not be authentic, but in fact several other coins having the same misspelling have since been found.<ref name="Coins"/>

Over the centuries there have been critics and doubters of the Shroud being the authentic burial cloth of Jesus. One of the earliest known critics was Pierre d'Arcis, Bishop of Troyes who wrote a scathing letter to the pope in 1389 claiming that the Shroud was a "cunning" painting and that the artist had been discovered.<ref>The Shroud, Ian Wilson, 2010, page 102.</ref> A harsh critic of the Catholic Church, [[John Calvin]], repeatedly ranted against relics and he wrote against the Shroud in 1543:

:''"How is it possible that those sacred historians, who carefully related all the miracles that took place at Christ's death, should have omitted to mention one so remarkable as the likeness of the body of our Lord remaining on its wrapping sheet? This fact undoubtedly deserved to be recorded. St John, in his Gospel, relates even how St Peter, having entered the sepulchre, saw the linen clothes lying on one side, and the napkin that was about his head on the other; but he does not say that there was a miraculous impression of our Lord's figure upon these clothes, and it is not to be imagined that he would have omitted to mention such a work of God if there had been any thing of this kind."''<ref>[[John Calvin]]: ''Traité des Reliques'', Geneve 1543, translated by '''Valerian Krasinski''': ''A treatise on Relics'', Edingburgh 1854</ref>

However, it is also reasonable to say that the disciples had no reason to study the Shroud at the time, and no access to modern photographic equipment; they had far greater concerns during the chaotic period after Christ's [[Resurrection]].

Another argument against the legitimacy of this artifact is based on John's account, as Calvin mentioned above.
{{cquote|...[Simon Peter] saw the linen cloths lying there, and the handkerchief that had been around His head, not lying with the linen cloths, but folded together in a place by itself. -{{Bible ref|John|20|6-7|version=NKJV}}
This account clearly says that the cloth around his head was separate from the cloth around the rest of his body. Some translations even refer to strips of cloth that had been wrapped around him, rather than one solid cloth.
{{cquote|[Simon Peter] saw the strips of linen lying there, as well as the cloth that had been wrapped around Jesus’ head -{{Bible ref|John|20|6b-7a|version=NIV}}

These arguments have been used by a variety of people to say that scripture itself disproves the claims of the Catholic church. 

Another critic was the scientist Walter McCrone (1906-2002), who insisted that it was a painting; this possibility has been thoroughly disproven.<ref>[http://www.shroud.com/piczek.htm Disproof that the Shroud is a painting, as explained by a professional artist]</ref>

== Replication ==
Luigi Garlaschelli, professor of organic chemistry at the University of Pavia, announced that he had made a full-size reproduction of the Shroud of Turin using only medieval technologies on October 5, 2009. Garlaschelli placed a linen sheet over a volunteer and then rubbed it with an acidic pigment. The shroud was then aged in an oven before being washed to remove the pigment. He then added blood stains, scorches and water stains to replicate the original. The image on the reproduction would closely match that of the Turin Shroud with differences explained as the result of natural fading over the centuries.<ref>[https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE5943HL20091005 Italian scientist reproduces Shroud of Turin]</ref> But according to noted sindonologist Giulio Fanti, "the image in discussion does not match the main fundamental properties of the Shroud image, in particular at thread and fiber level but also at macroscopic level."<ref>[http://www.acheiropoietos.info/abstracts/talks-image_formation.html]</ref> Further criticism of Garlaschelli's replica has come from shroud scholars Peter Soons <ref>[http://shroudofturin.wordpress.com/2009/10/09/why-the-italian-fake-does-not-reproduce-the-shroud-of-turin/]</ref> and Thibault Heimburger.<ref>[http://www.shroud.com/pdfs/thibault-lg.pdf]</ref>

== See also ==
*[[Essay:Quantifying Openmindedness]]
*[[Mystery:Did Jesus Write the Epistle to the Hebrews?]]
*[http://www.shroud.com/pdfs/guscin3.pdf Sermon of Gregory Referendarius, Archdeacon of Hagia Sophia in Constantinople, August, 944]
*[http://www.shroudstory.com/shroud-of-turin-picture-01.htm Amazing Details about the Shroud]
*[https://triablogue.blogspot.com/2014/04/the-1982-carbon-dating-of-shroud-of.html Analysis of the 1982 carbon dating of the Shroud]
*[http://www.shroud.com/faq.htm FAQs about the Shroud]
*[https://denvercatholic.org/mounting-evidence-for-the-shroud-of-turins-authenticity/ Turin Shroud Center of Colorado, which has hosted an exhibit at St. Gabriel’s Church in Colorado Springs]

== External links ==

*[https://www.shroud.com/latebrak.htm#:~:text=FB%20posting%20by%20sindonologist,by%20the%20available%20evidence The Cumulative Probability of the Shroud of Turin's Authenticity] by [[Sindonologist Otangelo Grasso]], September 28, 2024
*[https://shroudencounter.com/what-is-the-shroud-of-turin/ What is the Shroud?] by [[Shroud Encounter]], 2022
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E89eQ67-59I New Discovery in the Shroud of Turin SHOCKS EVERYONE!] by [[Steve Turley]], 2024
*[https://www.researchgate.net/scientific-contributions/Giulio-Fanti-2216677126 Giulio Fanti’s research] by [[Associate Professor Scientist, Giulio Fanti]], 2025
*[https://www.signfromgod.org/shroud_of_turin_facts Shroud of Turin Facts] by [[The Sign From God Board of Directors - Myra Kahn Adams, Russ Breault, David Adams, Mark Antonacci & Joe Marino]], 2025
*[https://www.mercatornet.com/new_research_shows_that_the_carbon_dating_of_the_shroud_is_fake New research shows that the carbon dating of the Shroud of Turin is fake] by [[William West]], January 14, 2025
*[https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-860551 Study: Body image on Shroud of Turin best explained by a burst of radiation] by [[Professor Emeritus the highest honorary titles a scientist, Thomas McAvoy, SciencePG]]], June 10, 2025
*[https://sciencepublishinggroup.com/article/10.11648/j.ija.20251301.17 Artificial Intelligence Analysis of Images of the Shroud of Turin] by [[Professor Emeritus the highest honorary titles a scientist, Thomas McAvoy, SciencePG]], June 18, 2025
*[https://www.theblaze.com/align/shroud-of-turin-debunked-not-even-close-heres-the-truth Shroud of Turin debunked? Not even close — here's the truth] by [[Jeremiah J. Johnston]], August 5, 2025
*[https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/265787/shroud-of-turin-center-disputes-new-study-that-challenges-authenticity-of-burial-cloth Shroud of Turin center disputes new study that challenges authenticity of burial cloth] by [[Daniel Payne]], August 5, 2025

Video:

*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAbuG-oVq1Q New Evidence for the Shroud of Turin w/ Fr. Andrew Dalton], video

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