08/18/2026 · 11:07 AM CDT
Sworn Greg Jacob testimony now distinguishes an approximately 11 a.m. meeting where John Eastman asked Pence’s counsel to reject electors in disputed states from a later approximately 5 p.m. call where Eastman asked whether the joint session could instead be suspended so state legislatures could reexamine certifications. The site preserves the testimony as testimony and keeps the Select Committee’s legal and intent conclusions separately labeled.
The Justice Department formally asserted presidential communications privilege over identities of non-public White House advisers involved in drafting, reviewing or approving the 2025 executive orders targeting major law firms. The filing responds to a discovery order in the American Bar Association lawsuit; the court has not yet ruled on the August 17 privilege assertion.
Reuters now documents an August 18 direct call between President Trump and Prime Minister Mark Carney while U.S. and Canadian negotiators continue last-minute talks ahead of the scheduled August 19 Section 338 duties; no agreement was announced in the reporting reviewed for this build. The January 6 hub adds adjudicated DOJ records placing a growing crowd at the House Main Door at about 2:28 PM while members, staff and press remained inside, and Anthony Peterson in the Speaker’s Lobby at about 2:42 PM as the doorway crowd formed and glass was broken. Each defendant’s conduct remains individualized.
Corrected the July 20 Canada Section 338 record to include all three White House proclamations: specified dairy, alcoholic-beverage and motor-vehicle products. The August 19 effective date remains described as scheduled while last-minute negotiations continue.
The January 6 main chronology now separately surfaces Capitol Police testimony that the RNC device was disrupted and cleared at approximately 3:00 PM and the DNC scene at approximately 4:36 PM. The 2:45 PM Senate Gallery and 2:57 PM Speaker-corridor records were also restored to their correct chronological positions.
Open the Canada record → · Open the pipe-bomb evidence lane →
Added the August 18 Disney/ABC federal lawsuit challenging the FCC’s accelerated review of eight ABC-owned broadcast-station licenses. The record keeps Disney’s First Amendment retaliation allegations separate from the FCC’s stated public-interest and unlawful-discrimination review rationale and labels the dispute as pending litigation, not a court finding.
The January 6 hub now separately anchors entry into the Speaker of the House office suite at approximately 2:32 PM using Rafael Rondon’s adjudicated guilty-plea record, and an approximately 2:38 PM interior effort to reopen the East Rotunda Doors using a separate federal case record. Each defendant’s conduct remains tied to the corresponding case.
Open the FCC litigation record → · Open the January 6 chronology →
Added former Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund’s later House oversight testimony placing the start of House Chamber evacuation at about 2:28 PM and saying it should have been called earlier. Separate adjudicated DOJ records now continue the House-side timeline through crowd pressure at the House Chamber and Speaker’s Lobby and body-camera evidence near the Speaker’s office corridor by 2:57 PM. Retrospective oversight testimony remains labeled separately from criminal-case evidence.
Added Leavitt’s April 15 statement that every congressional Democrat voted against the tax refunds highlighted by the White House. Official House and Senate roll calls confirm unanimous Democratic opposition to final H.R. 1 passage, while the review distinguishes that broad reconciliation-package vote from a stand-alone vote on refunds.
Added DOJ’s adjudicated Mark Pruitt record to the January 6 minute chronology, showing Schumer’s security detail reversing course in the Capitol Visitor’s Center as Pruitt approached, and paired it with Schumer’s later first-person distance recollection without treating the two records as identical measurements. Also corrected the 2:42/2:44/2:45 room chronology ordering and updated the existing Canada tariff record through August 18 as last-minute negotiations continued before the scheduled August 19 duties.
Added an unrated Trump/Pentagon public-record item documenting the later Pentagon assessment that three April 2025 U.S. strikes in Yemen more likely than not killed 153 civilians and injured 243, while keeping CENTCOM’s contemporaneous targeting rationale and intent statement separate. Expanded the January 6 Guard timeline to distinguish Sund’s 12:58 PM request through the Capitol Police Board authorization chain from his 1:49 PM direct request to D.C. Guard commander William Walker, using official House and Senate hearing records.
The White House-confirmed August 13 mail ballot is now documented beside Trump’s July statement that mail ballots are “inherently corrupt,” while preserving his proposed exceptions for travel, illness, disability and military deployment instead of rating political “hypocrisy” as a factual claim.
Added the 2:44 PM Speaker’s Lobby shooting to the main and primary-media chronologies. DOJ’s April 2021 criminal declination, Capitol Police’s August 2021 administrative finding, and the Trump administration’s 2025 civil settlement are now displayed as distinct legal events rather than treated as interchangeable conclusions.
Open the chronology → · Open the casualty/legal-status record →
Corrected a canonical timing error using the official Congressional Record: 12:59 PM marks the Vice President and Senate entering the House chamber, while the joint session was called to order at 1:05 PM and dissolved at 1:14 PM for separate consideration of the Arizona objection. The hub also adds committee-preserved National Archives material showing Senate Parliamentarian staff tracked official electoral certificates separately from private alternate-elector submissions and identified deficiencies in those submissions. Committee evidence and witness conclusions remain explicitly labeled and are not presented as court findings.
Open the corrected chronology → · Open the alternate-elector document map →
Added a sourced review of Miller’s May 2025 statement that the administration was looking to set a minimum goal of 3,000 ICE arrests per day. The Ninth Circuit later recorded the government’s representation that DHS and ICE had not been directed to meet a numerical quota or target and that the 3,000 figure had not been set as formal policy. The review preserves the distinction between a publicly announced administration goal and a binding agency quota or directive.
Added a current Trump policy-status record documenting the shift toward SEC and CFTC rulemaking as comprehensive crypto market-structure legislation stalls, with primary SEC/CFTC sources separating enacted regulatory actions from proposals still under consideration.
The January 6 hub now also records how Arizona’s and Pennsylvania’s own House delegations voted on objections to their states’ electoral votes, using official House Clerk roll calls and keeping vote facts separate from assumptions about members’ motives.
Open the crypto policy record → · Open the objection record →
Expanded the central chronology with adjudicated federal records covering three distinct early security boundaries. DOJ’s Samsel/Grant/Johnson/Blythe/Randolph trial record places the first entry through the outer restricted-perimeter barricade at Peace Circle at about 12:50 PM. Separate adjudicated records place the larger surge through the Peace Circle police barricade at about 12:53 PM and another police-line collapse at the West Plaza at about 12:59 PM.
The hub now explicitly distinguishes all three from the later breach of the Capitol building after 2 PM. This prevents a common chronology error in which “the first breach” is treated as though it refers to one universally agreed physical boundary and timestamp.
Added a separate historical directory that preserves people after they leave or change roles instead of deleting their profiles. Elon Musk is labeled as a former special government employee and senior adviser, with White House and court records distinguishing that formal status from his public DOGE role. Mike Waltz is labeled as a changed-role official: his White House National Security Advisor service ended in May 2025, and his later Senate-confirmed U.N. ambassador role is tracked separately. Both profiles retain exact-status/service-date fields, sourced biographies, newest-first records, subject filtering, portrait provenance and stable profile routes.
Expanded the central and primary-media chronologies with adjudicated DOJ records that provide room-specific timestamps: the House-side crowd shifting toward the Speaker’s Lobby at 2:41 PM, Christian Secor in the Senate Chamber by about 2:42 PM, Bruno Cua entering the Senate Gallery around 2:45 PM, and law enforcement clearing the Senate Chamber around 3:08 PM.
Each timestamp is tied to the individual adjudicated record that supports it. The hub does not imply that a named defendant was necessarily the first person in a room, and it does not generalize one defendant’s conduct to the entire crowd.
Open the minute-by-minute chronology → · Open primary-media chronology →
Expanded the January 6 Security & Response record with GAO’s implementation follow-up. GAO found that some agencies did not consistently process or share important threat information before January 6. The new post-event layer records that the FBI recommendation was later closed as implemented and that, by July 2025, DHS Intelligence & Analysis had completed internal reviews, revised open-source intelligence procedures, added training/certification requirements and formalized controls for identifying and correcting deficiencies.
The update is explicitly presented as a later process-reform record: it does not erase GAO’s original finding that threat information was not fully processed or shared before the attack.
Added a sourced review of Miller’s January 24 characterization of Alex Pretti after the Minneapolis federal-agent shooting. Reuters’ video review found Pretti was holding a cellphone, not a gun, as agents took him down and that an officer removed his holstered handgun before the first shots; Minnesota BCA records the shooting as an ongoing use-of-force investigation. The review distinguishes those visible facts from unresolved questions of intent and notes Miller’s later statement that officials were evaluating a possible protocol breach.
Added an unrated August 12 Trump policy record describing the White House-reported national-security memorandum authorizing expanded cyber operations against transnational criminal organizations, while grounding the public policy foundation in Executive Order 14390 and clearly noting that the full memorandum was not located in the public presidential-actions archive. The record cross-wires the Justice Department and Homeland Security implementation roles.
The January 6 hub now also answers whether House Republican leadership voted uniformly on the Arizona and Pennsylvania objections. Official House Clerk roll calls show Kevin McCarthy and Steve Scalise voted to sustain both objections while Liz Cheney voted against both; the hub keeps those votes separate from claims about individual motives.
Open the cyber policy record → · Open the January 6 objection record →
Added a dedicated evidence lane separating FBI surveillance timestamps, Capitol Police discovery/response testimony, the 2025–2026 federal charging record, the July 2026 clemency-scope ruling and the February 16, 2027 scheduled trial. Historical facts about the devices remain separate from the still-unadjudicated allegation that Brian J. Cole Jr. planted them.
A new August 7 public-record entry ties Pirro’s USAO-DC litigation statement to the Supreme Court docket confirming the June 25 reversal/remand and July 27 judgment issuance in the consolidated Haiti TPS cases; it is presented as court record rather than a Truthscope-rated controversy.
Added Executive Order 14415 as an unrated policy/public-record item and surfaced its implementation role on Pete Hegseth’s profile. The January 6 minute chronology now separately records the 1:49 PM Guard request, 3:04 PM mobilization decision, 5:08 PM communication point and roughly 5:20 PM arrival, keeping request, authorization, deployment instruction and arrival distinct.
Open the defense supply-chain record → · Open the Guard timeline →
GAO found DHS received no request to designate the January 6, 2021 events as a National Special Security Event or Special Event Assessment Rating. The hub now records the process confusion and keeps the later reforms separate: the January 6, 2025 electoral count was designated an NSSE and DHS clarified the D.C. mayor’s authority to request one for federal property.
August 18, 2026 · 1:54 AM CDT
Converted the August 16 Attorney General Todd Blanche response into a dated, subject-tagged role/evidence development on Jeanine Pirro’s profile. The record distinguishes the existence of a reported witness account from whether prosecutors had enough evidence to sustain charges and notes the separately reported White House request that DOJ examine possible new charges.
August 18, 2026 · 1:54 AM CDT
Added source-backed editorial biography and current-role reviews for Representatives Nancy Pelosi, Dan Crenshaw and Rashida Tlaib and Senators John Cornyn, Tammy Duckworth and Mark Kelly. The additions preserve the public-record/editorial separation: routine votes, sponsorships, disclosures and official statements remain in the automatic public-record layer, and no controversy was created merely to fill a field.
August 18, 2026 · 1:40 AM CDT
Expanded the Clark/Justice Department evidence file with the June 23, 2022 sworn hearing record and Richard Donoghue’s transcribed interview. The hub now separately documents the December 28 draft Georgia letter that Rosen and Donoghue refused to sign and the January 3 Oval Office meeting over whether Clark should replace Rosen. Committee-presented call-log evidence and witness testimony remain labeled as such rather than converted into a criminal conviction or judicial finding.
August 18, 2026 · 1:14 AM CDT
Added precise committee-preserved timestamps for Secret Service moving Vice President Pence down stairs at 2:26 PM and archival photographs showing him in the secure location at 4:19 PM viewing Trump’s go-home message. The Trump–Pence pressure timeline and John Eastman evidence file now also record Greg Jacob’s testimony that Eastman emailed at 11:44 PM—after Congress had reconvened—again asking Pence’s team to delay certification for 10 days. Committee characterizations remain explicitly labeled as committee findings or witness testimony rather than court findings.
Open the minute chronology → · Open the Pence pressure timeline →
August 18, 2026 · 12:38 AM CDT
Updated the Proud Boys evidence tree to separate the May 2023 jury verdicts and sentences, Trump’s January 2025 pardon/commutations, and Judge Timothy Kelly’s July 2026 approval of vacatur/dismissal for the four defendants whose sentences had been commuted. The original verdicts remain documented as historical court record while the later court action is shown as current legal status.
August 18, 2026 · 12:10 AM CDT
Expanded the January 6 injury/casualty section with separate first-person records for Aquilino Gonell, Michael Fanone, Daniel Hodges and Harry Dunn, keeping sworn testimony distinct from institutional aggregate counts and independent medical-record review. Added Marco Rubio’s August 12 State Department birth-tourism task-force action and the reported 600-plus visa revocations, alongside State Department visitor-visa guidance and an explicit note that the enforcement count is an agency-reported figure. Concurrent Trump/Miller and mail-ballot research already present in the newer canonical package was preserved.
Open January 6 officer records → · Open Marco Rubio record →
Added President Trump’s August 17 statement that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un had responded to his outreach. Reuters reported that Trump gave no details and that neither the White House nor North Korea’s U.N. mission immediately confirmed the exchange. The record therefore treats the response claim as publicly unverified rather than disproved, and links it to the existing military-alliance subject hub and August claims archive.
Added the DOJ Office of Information Policy’s direct Meadows–Rosen production: a Dec. 21 phone call, Dec. 29 West Wing meeting with Rosen and Donoghue, and Jan. 3 logistics messages. The hub explicitly limits what those records establish—dates, participants and logistics—and does not treat contact itself as proof of criminal conduct.
Expanded the Giuliani, Eastman, Meadows and Jeffrey Clark evidence files with Trump’s November 7, 2025 proclamation granting full federal pardons for covered 2020-election conduct. The hub keeps that action separate from the January 20, 2025 Capitol-rioter clemency, state criminal proceedings, professional-discipline outcomes and the historical evidence record. Giuliani’s evidence file also now links directly to the New York Appellate Division’s 2024 disbarment opinion.
Two new canonical reviews compare Miller’s July 17 statements with Executive Order 14406, Treasury/CFPB banking rules and FMCSA/DOT CDL audits; related records now surface on Miller, Bessent and Duffy profiles.
Open the banking-order evidence review → · Open the CDL evidence review →
Added a July 23 review of Karoline Leavitt’s description of the U.S.–Saudi civil nuclear arrangement after President Trump added an Abraham Accords condition: DOE confirms Energy Secretary Chris Wright and his Saudi counterpart had already signed a Section 123 agreement, while congressional review and the newly announced condition still stood between signature and effect. Added a July 16 review of Leavitt’s “largest tax cuts in American history” claim using CBO’s roughly $4.5 trillion present-law revenue estimate, JCT’s dual-baseline analyses and CRS’s explanation that many provisions extend or modify the 2017 tax law. Both records are stored canonically in Trump’s July archive and surface on directly related profiles.
Added a July 16 evidence review separating President Trump’s broad “zero illegal aliens being admitted” wording from CBP’s narrower zero-release metric and continuing nonzero encounters. Added a July 1 Stephen Miller cross-profile record after the Supreme Court birthright-citizenship ruling, documenting that State Department visitor-visa policy already bars travel whose primary purpose is birth tourism while Miller floated a potentially broader pregnancy-based entry restriction.
Added Trump’s 2:38 PM “stay peaceful” and 3:13 PM “No violence!” January 6 posts to both the main chronology and primary-media index, keeping those communications distinct from the later 4:17 PM go-home video and keeping Select Committee interpretations explicitly labeled. Added the July 31 Section 201 quartz-surface-products safeguard as an unrated policy record, including its August 15 effective date, four-year tariff-rate-quota structure, country exclusions and USTR implementation authority. The record is cross-wired to Jamieson Greer. The homepage Deep Research rail is explicitly locked into the right-hand column on desktop/tablet and below the profiles only on narrow mobile screens.
Open January 6 primary-media chronology → · Open quartz safeguard record →
08/17/2026 · 9:55 PM CDT
The Oath Keepers case tree now separates the original 2022–23 jury verdicts from Trump’s January 20, 2025 commutations, the government-backed appellate vacatur in May 2026, and Judge Amit Mehta’s August 4, 2026 order dismissing the indictment. The court record is explicit that the commutations initially left convictions intact; the later vacatur and Rule 48(a) dismissal were distinct judicial proceedings.
08/17/2026 · 9:47 PM CDT
The seven NARA certificate cards now separate the December 2020 document record from later criminal-case outcomes. Nevada’s six-elector case was dismissed August 13, 2026 with an appeal planned; Arizona’s 2024 indictment was dismissed in June with a new grand-jury presentation announced; Michigan’s elector charges and Georgia’s broader election-interference case were dismissed; New Mexico’s attorney general concluded then-current state law did not permit prosecution; Wisconsin’s pending case is against Troupis, Chesebro and Roman rather than the 10 electors themselves; Pennsylvania’s contingent certificate remains separately documented.
08/17/2026 · 9:12 PM CDT
Added a sourced Trump policy record for the July 20 aluminum onshoring incentive, including direct Howard Lutnick cross-profile evidence because Commerce administers the program. The January 6 hub now separately records the November 20, 2020 White House meeting with Michigan Senate Majority Leader Mike Shirkey and House Speaker Lee Chatfield and their contemporaneous statement that they had not been shown information that would change Michigan's election outcome.
Open the aluminum policy record → · Open the state-contact chronology →
Added curated biography and current-office research for Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ro Khanna, Thomas Massie, Chip Roy, Cory Booker, Chris Murphy, Katie Britt and John Fetterman. Official congressional/member sources document service history, current committee or leadership roles, and selected legislation where directly supported. No controversy or Truthscope score was created merely from party affiliation, committee work, sponsorship, votes or policy positions.
Added a congressional evidence record documenting the Ethics Committee review of sexual-misconduct allegations involving Rep. Jimmy Gomez. The record includes Gomez’s denial of violating law or House ethics rules, his statement that the relationship was consensual, and an explicit warning that an open ethics review is not a finding that misconduct occurred. The congressional claim renderer was also corrected so unrated public-record proceedings no longer display a default 50% Evidence Gap.
Expanded the John Eastman evidence file with the California Supreme Court’s April 15, 2026 disbarment and the U.S. Supreme Court docket extending his deadline to seek certiorari to September 12, 2026. Expanded Jeffrey Clark’s evidence file with the D.C. Board on Professional Responsibility’s July 31, 2025 disbarment recommendation, the D.C. Bar’s current pending-case status, and DOJ’s May 13, 2026 federal challenge to the disciplinary process. Professional discipline, pending review, DOJ litigation positions and criminal guilt remain explicitly separate.
GAO’s implementation record now shows how Capitol emergency-assistance authorities and procedures were changed after January 6, while preserving the separate finding that planning and response procedures were inadequate on the day of the attack. The Canada tariff record now also reflects August 17 reporting that negotiations remained unresolved ahead of the August 19 effective date, including separate talks over a possible auto-tariff reduction that had not become an agreement.
Open the January 6 security record → · Open the Canada tariff record →
Added a neutral court/public-record entry for United States v. Jackson. The Ninth Circuit held that the Attorney General could not make Sigal Chattah Acting U.S. Attorney by naming her first assistant after the vacancy already existed, and could not recreate the office by delegating all U.S. Attorney functions to one person. The panel affirmed her disqualification from supervising three prosecutions but did not dismiss the indictments.
Added a neutral Trump executive-action record for Executive Order 14416. The entry distinguishes the White House Domestic Policy Council’s ideological-bias findings from Smithsonian leadership’s documented response and notes the jurisdictional detail that the temporary warning signs are directed to National Park Service-controlled approaches rather than treating the Smithsonian as a cabinet agency.
Expanded the January 6 congressional-objections record with member-level House Clerk evidence: Cindy Axne, Randy Feenstra, Ashley Hinson and Mariannette Miller-Meeks all voted against sustaining both the Arizona and Pennsylvania objections. The chamber totals and official roll-call links remain intact.
Open the Smithsonian policy record → · Open the January 6 objections record →
Judge Theodore Chuang ruled that the administration could not replace the congressionally constrained Greenbelt headquarters selection with the Ronald Reagan Building and could not redirect $555 million in appropriated funds to prepare that site. The site now separates the FBI/GSA cost-saving rationale from the court’s statutory ruling.
Added the July 20 U.S. proclamations imposing additional 50% duties on specified Canadian dairy and motor-vehicle products effective August 19, alongside Prime Minister Mark Carney’s formal objection and Canada’s documented auto countermeasures. The record is not Truthscope-rated because treaty interpretation and trade-law authority remain disputed policy/legal questions. Also corrected the Trump archive builder so the July record lives in a real July archive instead of leaking into August.
Expanded the January 6 hub with a source-attributed 2:13–2:25 PM micro-timeline: the Senate recess, Pence evacuation, Trump’s 2:24 PM criticism of Pence, and the Select Committee reconstruction placing East Rotunda and Crypt breaches immediately afterward. Added separate 4:17 PM and 6:01 PM presidential media records while keeping committee interpretations explicitly attributed.
Added all eight senators who voted to sustain at least one Arizona or Pennsylvania objection, with both votes shown side by side; added official House Clerk party breakdowns for both objection votes; and added a separate current Trump public-record entry covering the August 13 drone-import tariffs.
Added a six-stage command-and-response chronology using bipartisan Senate oversight records and the Defense Department Inspector General review. The page now distinguishes the 1:49 PM assistance request, the 3:04 PM mobilization decision, the mission-planning period, Major General William Walker’s account that deployment instruction reached him at 5:08 PM, and the roughly 5:20 PM arrival of Guard personnel. The conflicting milestones are preserved rather than collapsed into one claim about when the Guard was “called.”
Added a six-card media/source chronology that distinguishes government-originated records, committee-preserved third-party footage, official Senate activity timestamps, later court descriptions of body-camera/open-source trial evidence, Trump’s January 6 recorded remarks, and the official January 7 presidential record.
Expanded the main chronology with precise 2:13 PM Senate recess and Senate Wing breach anchors, a 4:20–4:35 PM police-clearing sequence tied to adjudicated trial evidence, and the Senate’s 8:06 PM return from recess. The source type is stated on each media card so committee-preserved footage is not mislabeled as government-authored material.
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Added structured Proud Boys and Oath Keepers case trees from DOJ verdict and sentencing records. Each tree preserves who was convicted of seditious conspiracy, who was convicted of other felonies, the historical sentences, and the later January 20, 2025 commutations or pardons as separate legal events.
Added an officer-injuries/deaths evidence section that distinguishes approximately 140 officers assaulted, Brian Sicknick’s natural-cause medical-examiner finding and line-of-duty recognition, post-January-6 officer suicides, and congressional casualty language that is often compressed into misleading slogans. Added a separate clemency implementation layer using the White House proclamation and DOJ Pardon Attorney records.
Added a six-step Trump–Pence pressure sequence grounded in the congressional count procedure, National Archives/Senate Parliamentarian records, the January 4 Chesebro-to-Eastman email, Pence’s January 6 letter and the Congressional Record. Committee interpretations remain explicitly labeled as committee findings.
Added a Georgia/state-contact chronology covering the Meadows audit-site visit and Trump–Frances Watson call as reported by AP, the archived December 31 Herschmann email copied to Meadows, the recorded January 2 Trump–Raffensperger call, and later congressional testimony. Added structured evidence indexes for Rudolph Giuliani, John Eastman, Mark Meadows and Jeffrey Clark so future passes can expand testimony, litigation, discipline and court outcomes without collapsing them into one narrative.
Added the Supreme Court’s August 17 denial of Trump’s rehearing petition in the $5 million E. Jean Carroll civil case, grounded in docket No. 25-573 and separated from the distinct $83.3 million defamation appeal. Updated the USS Abraham Lincoln evidence record with Trump’s August 17 description of condition reports as “fake,” while preserving documented family concerns and military leadership’s countervailing statements.
Open the Carroll court record → · Open the USS Lincoln evidence record →
Added a new reverse-chronological Trump evidence record for his August 17 call that Iran should put up a “white flag of surrender.” The entry documents the statement without assigning a numerical Truthscope score because it is a military/policy demand rather than a true-or-false factual proposition.
The record separately checks the surrounding chronology: the White House documented the June U.S.–Iran memorandum, Reuters reported that its 60-day final-deal window expired August 17 without a final agreement, and Oman continues to describe Hormuz navigation talks in terms of safe passage and applicable international law.
Expanded the hub with GAO findings on pre-January-6 threat information, Capitol Police planning, information-sharing gaps and emergency-assistance procedures. The new security section keeps those documented oversight findings separate from broader political claims about responsibility for every security or National Guard decision.
Added the official congressional roll calls after the Capitol was cleared: Arizona was rejected 6–93 in the Senate and 121–303 in the House; Pennsylvania was rejected 7–92 in the Senate and 138–282 in the House. The chronology now links directly to the Senate and House Clerk records.
Also permanently disabled the obsolete .brand-mark:before/.brand-mark:after decorative layers that caused the unwanted gold rectangle around the approved crest, while preserving the locked crest and Truthscope dimensions.
Open the security and response record → · Open the objection votes →
Added the December 2025 arrest, January 2026 federal indictment and July 2026 trial-status rulings in the long-running pipe-bomb case. Federal prosecutors allege Brian J. Cole Jr. placed the two devices near the RNC and DNC on January 5, 2021; Cole has pleaded not guilty, so the hub labels the matter as a pending criminal case rather than a conviction.
The hub now also records that a federal judge ruled Trump’s January 2025 January 6 clemency proclamation does not cover Cole’s case and set trial for February 16, 2027. Jeanine Pirro’s profile cross-references her office’s January 2026 indictment announcement as public-record prosecutorial activity, not a Truthscope-rated claim.
Added a new August 17 Trump record documenting his renewed threat of military action against Oman during Strait of Hormuz negotiations. The entry is deliberately not given a numerical Truthscope score because the threat is a documented policy statement rather than a true-or-false factual proposition; it instead separates the statement from Oman’s official navigation and international-law position.
Also restored the final approved main-header crest size and enlarged crest position marker on every Truthscope meter, refreshed Stephen Miller and Susie Wiles portrait cache/version tokens, and added build-time locks so later generators cannot silently revert those presentation choices.
Added three sourced Jeanine Pirro evidence reviews covering the Reflecting Pool prosecution reversal, Scam Center Strike Force cryptocurrency enforcement figures, and the Federal Reserve/Jerome Powell investigation. The reviews distinguish supported enforcement records from disputed legal or evidentiary claims and preserve material responses and limitations.
This pass also repaired a schema-compatibility defect between newer research records and the older front-end claim renderer, and updated the static profile generator so canonical /people/…/ pages display the actual Claims & Evidence records rather than only a placeholder panel.
Completed source-backed editorial reviews for Virginia Foxx, Michael Guest, Bryan Steil, Eric A. “Rick” Crawford, Lindsey Graham, Lisa Murkowski, Rick Scott and Alex Padilla, bringing the curated congressional backlog to 72 reviewed profiles. The new records cover current committee leadership and selected legislative or oversight work using official committee and Congress.gov sources.
The public-record/editorial separation remains intact: committee service, procedural activity, sponsorship and oversight are not treated as controversies or assigned Truthscope ratings without a specific fact-checkable claim.
Completed source-backed editorial reviews for Brian Babin, Zoe Lofgren, Roger Williams, Nydia M. Velázquez, Martin Heinrich, Bernard “Bernie” Sanders, Sheldon Whitehouse and Jerry Moran, bringing the curated congressional backlog to 64 reviewed profiles. The entries document current committee leadership and selected legislative work from official committee and Congress.gov records.
The public-record/editorial separation remains intact: routine sponsorship, committee leadership and policy positions are not treated as controversies and are not assigned Truthscope ratings without a specific fact-checkable claim.
Started Stephen Miller’s high-priority newest-first Claims & Evidence archive with his August 10 assertions about simultaneous childhood vaccination, checked against CDC vaccine-safety guidance and American Academy of Pediatrics recommendations. Added Senate-confirmed D.C. U.S. Attorney Jeanine Ferris Pirro to the main administration roster with an official DOJ portrait and biography.
Also strengthened the existing Reflecting Pool evidence record: Pirro’s office said newly disclosed Interior Department materials showed widespread damage from rushed, flawed installation, while President Trump continued to attribute the major damage to vandalism. Attorney General Todd Blanche publicly defended Pirro’s evidentiary judgment on August 16 while noting a witness allegation that leaves open a narrower unresolved vandalism question. The canonical Trump record now cross-surfaces on both Pirro’s and Blanche’s profiles.
Open Stephen Miller’s newest evidence record → · Open Jeanine Pirro’s Reflecting Pool evidence →
Prioritized Karoline Leavitt’s profile for a newest-to-oldest statement review. Added seven sourced evidence records covering her August 11, 2026 affordability claim; July 23 tax-refund and “No Tax” figures; July 16 “prices are falling” claim; April 27 characterization of Democratic rhetoric as inspiring violence; May 19, 2025 reconciliation-bill deficit claim; March 11 tariff-as-tax-cut claim; and January 28 Gaza-condoms claim. Statements are separated from policy opinion, contextualized with primary records and independent verification, and Truthscope-rated only when fact-checkable.
Also corrected the shared profile chronology sorter to use ISO dates rather than alphabetically sorting human-readable month names, so all high-volume person pages remain genuinely newest-first as their archives grow.
Completed source-backed editorial reviews for Jodey Arrington, Brendan Boyle, Tim Walberg, Robert C. “Bobby” Scott, Tom Cotton, Mark Warner, Gary Peters and Maria Cantwell, bringing the curated congressional backlog to 56 reviewed profiles. The entries document current committee leadership and selected legislative work from official committee, member-office and Congress.gov records. No controversy or Truthscope rating was manufactured from routine sponsorship, committee service, votes or policy positions.
This pass preserves the newly deployed ticker/RSS deep-link repair, including exact record anchors, sticky-header-safe scroll offsets and blocking feed-anchor validation.
Completed source-backed editorial reviews for J. French Hill, Glenn “GT” Thompson, Bruce Westerman, Sam Graves, John Boozman, Ted Cruz, Bill Cassidy and Mike Lee, bringing the curated congressional backlog to 48 reviewed profiles. The new entries document current committee leadership and selected legislative work using official committee and Congress.gov records. No controversy or Truthscope rating was manufactured from routine sponsorship, committee service or policy positions.
Added the omitted August 10 childhood-vaccine record, distinguishing the documented federal policy shift from the unsupported implication that splitting MMR into three individual shots has a demonstrated health benefit. CDC states no published scientific evidence shows a benefit from splitting MMR and summarizes extensive evidence finding no MMR-autism link. The congressional editorial backlog also advanced from 32 to 40 reviewed profiles with Tom Cole, Rosa DeLauro, Brian Mast, Gregory Meeks, Patty Murray, Jim Risch, Jeanne Shaheen and Rand Paul. No claim controversy was manufactured from routine public records.
Added Jared Kushner’s August 16 participation in a Cairo mediation round on implementation of the Gaza framework, with Reuters used for current chronology and the White House January Board of Peace announcement retained as the primary source for his formal Board roles. The update treats the meeting as a diplomatic activity record, not proof that disputed terms have been accepted or implemented. Completed source-backed editorial reviews for Jason Smith, Brett Guthrie, James Comer, Mike Rogers, Mike Crapo, Ron Wyden, Roger Wicker and Jack Reed. No congressional controversy was manufactured.
Completed source-backed editorial reviews for Lisa McClain, Jay Obernolte, Joe Neguse, Ted Lieu, Shelley Moore Capito, Mitch McConnell, Amy Klobuchar and Joni Ernst. The pass also aligns House leadership with the current Clerk record, which lists Obernolte as Republican Policy Committee Chair. Public-record material remains separate from claim reviews; no controversy was manufactured.
Added the August 16 U.S.–South Korea exercise order as the newest record; separated the confirmed policy action from the disputed “unthreatening” characterization of North Korea and the uncorroborated “No thanks!” account. Rebuilt the Turkey aircraft item as a dated claim-evolution timeline, corrected the Jones Act entry to its August 10–13 chronology, added credited official military context media and a third embedded primary-video card, and created subject hubs for large controversies while keeping the canonical archive newest-first.
Completed source-backed editorial reviews for Tom Emmer, Pete Aguilar, Jim Jordan, Jamie Raskin, Tim Scott, Elizabeth Warren, Chuck Grassley and Richard J. Durbin. The new records preserve the separation between curated biography/roles and the automatic public-record layer; congress-claims.json remains unchanged because no claim-specific controversy was manufactured.
Added a not-rated public-record record documenting the new 90-day Jones Act waiver extension, its reported August 17 effective date, the narrowed energy/agriculture scope, MARAD’s underlying waiver record and the earlier House Republican request to let the waiver expire.
Updated Blanche from Acting Attorney General to Attorney General after AP and Reuters reported his Senate confirmation and swearing-in. The profile preserves a source-quality note that some accessible DOJ/White House biography pages were still carrying the earlier acting title when checked, rather than hiding the discrepancy.
Updated Karoline Leavitt’s profile to record President Trump’s announced August 12 plan for her to leave the White House press secretary role at the end of August, while keeping her listed in the current role until the transition actually occurs. Updated Will Scharf as White House Staff Secretary and White House Counsel-designate, with the announced counsel transition dated September 1. The pages distinguish current formal office from announced future office and cite the reporting that carried Trump’s announcements.
Restored the separated congressional research architecture with data/congress-editorial.json, data/congress-claims.json and inc/congress-research.php. Completed sourced editorial biography/leadership reviews for Mike Johnson, Hakeem Jeffries, Steve Scalise, Katherine Clark, John Thune, Charles E. Schumer, John Barrasso and Susan Collins. Their pages now distinguish reviewed biography/leadership and curated legislation from the automatic public-record layer; no controversy was fabricated for members without a fair claim-specific record.
Added the first newest-to-oldest Trump claims pass covering current August 2026 disputes and media: the Reflecting Pool prosecution dispute, George Washington/ballroom AI imagery, USS Abraham Lincoln family concerns, Strait of Hormuz territory claim, D.C. and national crime claims, White House ballroom authority litigation and the security-driven Turkey aircraft switch. Added source-linked fact checks, photo credits/context imagery, dedicated monthly archive pages and embedded official White House video.
Standardized White House, adviser/envoy, world-leader and congressional directory portraits to one consistent 4:5 presentation viewport without stretching source images. Removed biography excerpts from directory cards so cards show only identity, position/relationship and affiliation. Replaced Wikimedia redirect dependencies with direct image sources, invalidated stale portrait caches after source changes, added a trusted-source fallback when local WebP creation is temporarily unavailable, and corrected several portrait assignments. Rebuilt featured profile heroes so they no longer inherit the older multi-column profile grid, and strengthened House/Senate member profiles with official legislative, roll-call, campaign-finance and source-ledger links.
Separated the House and Senate into independent directory pages, made House state and party selections auto-apply, strengthened every current member link around a Bioguide-keyed profile engine, and added physical profile stubs as a hosting fallback. Replaced arbitrary image-page scraping with an explicit portrait manifest, source-versioned local WebP caching and aspect-ratio-preserving display rules. Expanded the adviser/envoy directory to 21 profiles and rebuilt all 14 World Leader profiles around selected portrait/headshot sources, deeper biographies, source ledgers and photo provenance.
Expanded TrumpsMouth beyond the administration roster with separate U.S. Senate and House directories, family/key-adviser profiles and a selected World Leaders directory. Added permanent crawlable profile pages, party/affiliation labels, official-source biography links, portrait provenance, WebP portrait delivery, photo credits and dynamic congressional sitemap coverage.
Created the initial White House, Cabinet/Cabinet-level and national-security profile framework while preserving the evidence-gap thermometer, source-audit mechanics, stable profile routing and continuous Recent Updates ticker.
08/17/2026 · 8:44 PM CDT
The canonical January 6 dataset again includes the recorded November 17, 2020 Wayne County contact involving Trump, Ronna McDaniel, Monica Palmer and William Hartmann, plus sworn Rusty Bowers testimony about Arizona contacts with Trump and Giuliani. A separate current-status record explains that Arizona’s 2024 alternate-elector indictment was dismissed June 18, 2026 and that the attorney general’s announced intent to return to a grand jury is not itself a new indictment.
08/17/2026 · 2:41 PM CDT
Deep Research Hubs are now segregated into a right-hand homepage rail; the January 6 hub adds credited documentary photography, a micro-timeline and direct National Archives document links for seven states.
EO 14399, the nationwide USPS injunction and pending Supreme Court stay application are separated into distinct legal-status layers; the January 6 hub now marks when the Arizona and Pennsylvania objections were formally raised.
08/17/2026 · 12:41 PM CDT
A new cross-profile hub now organizes the official 2020 Electoral College result, certification timeline, Capitol breach, alternate-elector records, key people, federal criminal cases, House Select Committee materials and the January 2025 clemency proclamation. Committee conclusions, court outcomes and later pardons are labeled separately.
