Trump’s lies about courts & investigations

17 lies about courts & investigations, out of 17 false or misleading claims on the topic (100% rated lies). Each one links to the fact-check.

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1. Dec 2, 2025 · Social postAny pardon signed with an autopen is now “fully and completely terminated, and is of no legal effect.”
2. Jul 22, 2025 · Press conferenceIn 2016, after Donald Trump won the presidency, then-President Barack Obama was “trying to lead a coup” with Trump’s opponent, Hillary Clinton.
3. Jul 15, 2025 · RemarksThe Jeffrey Epstein files “were made up by Comey. They were made up by Obama. They were made up by Biden.”
4. Mar 17, 2025 · Social postFormer President Joe Biden’s pardons of lawmakers on the committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol attack “are hereby declared void, vacant, and of no further force or effect,” because “they were done by…
5. Jun 2, 2024 · InterviewSpeaking about Hillary Clinton: “I didn’t say, ‘Lock her up.’ ”
6. May 21, 2024 · Statement or ad“Biden’s DOJ was authorized to use DEADLY FORCE” in Mar-a-Lago raid. Biden was “locked and loaded” and “ready to take me out.”
7. May 2, 2024 · Remarks“I’m not allowed to testify” because of a gag order.
8. Apr 16, 2024 · Statement or ad“This trial that I have now, that’s a Biden trial.”
9. Mar 22, 2024 · Social postThe New York civil fraud judgment against Trump and a plan to seize Trump-owned property “is simply a ‘taking.’ Much like what is done in communist countries.”
10. Feb 20, 2024 · InterviewDonald Trump’s fine in the New York fraud case “is a form of Navalny, it is a form of communism or fascism.”
11. Feb 16, 2024 · Statement or adPresident Joe Biden “directed New York AG Witch Hunt” into Donald Trump’s real estate.
12. Feb 8, 2024 · Statement or ad“I cooperated far more” than Joe Biden in the classified documents investigations.
13. Nov 8, 2023 · Rally“Just like the Cuban regime, the Biden administration is trying to put their political opponents in jail, shutting down free speech.”
14. Aug 15, 2023 · Social postFulton County District Attorney Fani Willis “campaigned and raised money on, ‘I will get Trump.’”
15. Jan 10, 2023 · InterviewJoe Biden as vice president didn’t “have the right to declassify” documents.
16. Aug 12, 2022 · Statement or ad“President Barack Hussein Obama kept 33 million pages of documents, much of them classified. How many of them pertained to nuclear? Word is, lots!”
17. Feb 16, 2022 · Statement or ad“Hillary Clinton spied on President Trump.”