President of the United States

Kamala Harris

• We now have historic low unemployment in America among all groups of people

  An interview on 60 Minutes · October 7, 2024

  PolitiFact rated this Half True, October 8, 2024 · the check

• Donald Trump left us the worst unemployment since the Great Depression

  The September 10, 2024 presidential debate · September 10, 2024

  PolitiFact rated this False, September 11, 2024 · the check

• As of today, there is not one member of the United States military who is in active duty in a combat zone, in any war zone around the world, [for the] first time this century.

  The September 10, 2024 presidential debate · September 10, 2024

  PolitiFact rated this Mostly False, September 11, 2024 · the check

Donald Trump

• No judge looked at it

  The September 10, 2024 presidential debate · September 10, 2024

  FactCheck.org published no rating scale, September 11, 2024 · the check

• In Springfield, they're eating the dogs. The people that came in, they're eating the cats... they're eating the pets of the people that live there

  The September 10, 2024 presidential debate · September 10, 2024

  PolitiFact rated this Pants on Fire, September 11, 2024 · the check

• coming from prisons, they're coming from jails, they're coming from mental institutions and insane asylums

  The Republican National Convention · July 18, 2024

  PolitiFact published no rating scale, July 19, 2024 · the check

• wants to defund the police

  Campaign statements about Kamala Harris · 2024

  PolitiFact rated this Mostly False, July 30, 2024 · the check

• Our doctors get more money if somebody dies from COVID

  A statement as president · 2020

  PolitiFact rated this False, November 1, 2020 · the check

• Only 6% of the people actually died from COVID

  A statement as president about a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data note on comorbidities · 2020

  PolitiFact rated this Pants on Fire, September 29, 2020 · the check

• We inherited a broken test

  A statement about COVID-19 testing as president · 2020

  PolitiFact rated this Pants on Fire, May 1, 2020 · the check

Kamala Harris

1. August 7, 2022 · vote

   Cast the deciding vote to pass the Inflation Reduction Act, which capped insulin at $35 a month for people on Medicare and capped out-of-pocket drug costs at $2,000 a year. She cast 33 tie-breaking votes in the Senate, the most of any vice president.

   Sources: ballotpedia.org · ballotpedia.org

2. March 24, 2021 · action

   As vice president she was assigned the diplomatic effort on the root causes of migration from Central America, including a 2021 agreement that helped bring about $4 billion in pledged private investment to the Northern Triangle. An NBC News investigation found the initiative's public-facing activity largely stopped within months and that she had not visited the southern border or those countries since January 2022. Fact-checkers at Time and PBS note her assignment did not cover border enforcement.

   Sources: time.com · nbcnews.com

3. 2014 · action

   As attorney general she appealed a federal ruling that California's death penalty was unconstitutional, saying she was bound by a duty to defend state law, while personally opposing capital punishment.

   Sources: ballotpedia.org · cbsnews.com

4. February 9, 2012 · action

   As attorney general of California she negotiated a $25 billion multistate settlement with major banks over foreclosure practices after the 2008 financial crisis.

   Sources: ballotpedia.org · britannica.com

5. 2010 · action

   As district attorney and later attorney general she backed a 2010 California truancy law allowing criminal charges against the parents of chronically truant children. Critics said it fell hardest on low-income and minority families, and she later said she regretted its unintended consequences.

   Sources: cbsnews.com · capitalbnews.org

6. 2005 · action

   As San Francisco district attorney she created Back on Track, a reentry program for people convicted of low-level drug offenses.

   Sources: cbsnews.com · capitalbnews.org

Donald Trump

1. September 18, 2026 · ruling

   As of mid-September 2026 the New York civil-fraud case is pending before the New York Court of Appeals on the state's cross-appeal. The fraud liability finding against him, the Trump Organization and two of his sons stands, as do the injunction and the independent monitorship; the roughly $464.6 million penalty remains vacated and unenforced. No argument date has been set.

   Source: ms.now

2. August 28, 2026 · ruling

   The Manhattan conviction and its sentence remain in place. He is appealing to the Appellate Division, First Department, arguing that the district attorney wrongly used an alleged federal campaign-finance violation to raise misdemeanor counts to felonies, with briefing under way through mid-2026; and his repeated attempts to move the case into federal court were rejected again on August 28, 2026.

   Sources: axios.com · usnews.com · thehill.com

3. February 23, 2026 · ruling

   Judge Cannon blocked the public release of the volume of Jack Smith's final report covering the classified-documents investigation, holding that because she had found his appointment unconstitutional the report carries no authority to be released. That volume remains unpublished.

   Source: cnbc.com

4. February 19, 2026 · appointment

   Named Jared Kushner special envoy for peace on February 19, 2026, formalizing an advisory role he had held since 2025 and making him a lead United States negotiator on Gaza and later on Ukraine; he met President Zelensky in Kyiv on September 6, 2026. He remained founder, chief executive and sole owner of Affinity Partners, which reported regulatory assets under management of $6,160,297,411 in an April 2026 filing, $6,097,061,904 of it, about 99 percent, from foreign sources.

   Sources: bloomberg.com · citizensforethics.org

5. January 7, 2026 · action

   Asked the Georgia courts to award him about $6.26 million in legal fees and costs under a state law enacted in May 2025 that requires fees to be awarded to defendants whose charges are dismissed after a prosecutor is disqualified for improper conduct. The request had not been reported as resolved.

   Sources: bloomberg.com · usnews.com

6. November 26, 2025 · ruling

   Judge Scott McAfee of the Fulton County Superior Court dismissed the Georgia case in full. After no other attorney would take over, Peter Skandalakis of the Prosecuting Attorneys' Council of Georgia named himself special prosecutor and moved to dismiss, arguing the conduct alleged was conceived in Washington rather than in Georgia and belonged in federal court.

   Sources: npr.org · cnbc.com · georgiarecorder.com

7. November 20, 2025 · action

   In late 2025 and January 2026 the Commerce Department moved chip-export licensing for Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates from a presumption of denial to case-by-case review, approving sales of tens of thousands of advanced Nvidia and AMD chips including previously restricted models, with a stated path toward newer ones, to a Saudi state artificial-intelligence company and an Emirati one, including, on one account, a $1 billion approval for 35,000 chips.

   Sources: cnbc.com · justsecurity.org

8. September 6, 2025 · action

   Announced that Trump National Doral, the resort he owns near Miami, would host the 2026 G20 leaders' summit on December 14 and 15, 2026, the property he had proposed and then withdrawn for the 2020 G7. The White House said Doral would host the summit at cost with no profit to him or his company.

   Sources: cnn.com · citizensforethics.org · nbcnews.com

9. August 21, 2025 · ruling

   A five-judge panel of the Appellate Division, First Department, unanimously vacated the whole disgorgement award, by then about $464.6 million, as an excessive fine under the Eighth Amendment, while dividing on the merits: two judges voted to affirm the fraud liability findings and two to strike them. Attorney General Letitia James appealed the vacated penalty to the New York Court of Appeals on September 4, 2025.

   Sources: nycourts.gov · npr.org · ag.ny.gov · cnbc.com

10. June 5, 2025 · statement

    After Elon Musk left the department and opposed the administration's tax-and-spending bill, the two fell out in public. He told reporters that Musk had gone crazy and suggested cutting his companies' government contracts. At a White House farewell event days earlier he had said Musk was not really leaving.

    Sources: cnbc.com · aljazeera.com

11. May 22, 2025 · action

    Held a private dinner at his Virginia golf club for the 220 largest holders of the $TRUMP coin he had launched days before his second inauguration, with the top 25 also given a White House tour. Reporting said the guests included foreign nationals, among them the coin's largest holder. A Washington Post analysis found entities affiliated with him had taken about $312 million from coin sales and $43 million in fees since the launch, and the coin's market value rose more than 50 percent, to about $2.7 billion, after the dinner was announced.

    Sources: washingtonpost.com · nbcnews.com · axios.com

12. May 21, 2025 · action

    Accepted a Boeing 747-8 reported to be worth about $400 million as a gift from the government of Qatar, to be fitted out as a temporary Air Force One and later transferred to his presidential library foundation. He said the plane was a gift from a nation, Qatar, to the Department of Defense and not to him. Ethics specialists and members of Congress of both parties said it was likely to breach the Foreign Emoluments Clause, which bars a federal officeholder from accepting a gift from a foreign state without the consent of Congress.

    Sources: npr.org · npr.org · foxnews.com

13. May 15, 2025 · action

    On the Qatar leg of the same trip he told American troops at Al Udeid Air Base that Qatar had signed defense purchases worth $42 billion, and Qatar Airways agreed to buy up to 210 Boeing widebody aircraft. On the United Arab Emirates leg he said the country would invest $1.4 trillion in the United States over the following decade, largely in artificial-intelligence infrastructure, and the visit produced an agreement letting the country import up to 500,000 of Nvidia's advanced chips a year from 2025 to 2027, potentially worth about $15 billion, reversing tighter Biden-era limits that had been set over the risk of the chips reaching China.

    Sources: aljazeera.com · cnbc.com · bloomberg.com · restofworld.org

14. May 13, 2025 · action

    On the first major foreign trip of his second term, May 13 to 16, 2025, he visited Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates. In Riyadh the White House announced a $600 billion Saudi investment commitment in the United States and a $142 billion arms package it called the largest single defense sales agreement in American history. Outlets put the total announced across the three countries at roughly $2 trillion, spanning energy, defense, technology, infrastructure and critical minerals.

    Sources: cnbc.com · washingtoninstitute.org · npr.org

15. February 11, 2025 · ruling

    After his election the Justice Department moved to drop the pending appeal of that dismissal as it applied to him, again citing the department's policy against prosecuting a sitting president, and the Eleventh Circuit dismissed that part of the appeal. The remaining appeal concerned two co-defendants who, as private citizens, were not covered by presidential immunity.

    Sources: npr.org · abcnews.com

16. February 2025 · appointment

    Appointed Robert F. Kennedy Jr. secretary of health and human services; the Senate confirmed him and he was sworn in in February 2025.

    Sources: npr.org · biopharmadive.com

17. February 2025 · appointment

    Appointed Howard Lutnick secretary of commerce; the Senate confirmed him in February 2025.

    Sources: cantor.com · cnbc.com

18. January 27, 2025 · appointment

    Appointed Scott Bessent secretary of the Treasury; the Senate confirmed him by 68 votes to 29 on January 27, 2025.

    Sources: aljazeera.com · hedgeweek.com

19. January 20, 2025 · order

    Signed Executive Order 14148 on the first day of his second term, rescinding a series of Biden administration orders including the executive-branch ethics pledge, which had barred incoming appointees from taking gifts from registered lobbyists and imposed a two-year wait before they could work for or lobby on behalf of foreign governments. He had revoked his own 2017 ethics pledge on the last day of his first term.

    Sources: cossa.org · thehill.com · pillsburylaw.com

20. January 20, 2025 · appointment

    Named Stephen Miller, an aide from his first term, White House deputy chief of staff for policy and the twelfth homeland security adviser, a role at the centre of immigration and domestic policy in the second term.

    Sources: en.wikipedia.org · legistorm.com

21. January 20, 2025 · appointment

    His second cabinet as of September 2026: Marco Rubio at State, Scott Bessent at the Treasury, Pete Hegseth at Defense, Doug Burgum at the Interior, Brooke Rollins at Agriculture, Howard Lutnick at Commerce, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. at Health and Human Services, Scott Turner at Housing, Sean Duffy at Transportation, Chris Wright at Energy, Linda McMahon at Education and Doug Collins at Veterans Affairs. Three posts turned over: the attorney general was dismissed in April 2026 and replaced, after Senate confirmation, by Todd Blanche in August 2026.

    Sources: en.wikipedia.org · abcnews.com

22. January 20, 2025 · appointment

    Appointed Pam Bondi attorney general; the Senate confirmed her in 2025. He dismissed her in April 2026 and, after Senate confirmation, Todd Blanche took the office in August 2026.

    Sources: abcnews.com · rollcall.com · abcnews.com

23. January 20, 2025 · appointment

    Appointed Elon Musk a senior White House adviser and effective head of the new Department of Government Efficiency, a special government employee role capped by law at 130 working days in a year, which he left on May 30, 2025. NPR reported that the tenure was marked by legal setbacks, overstated savings claims and little evidence the department made government more efficient.

    Sources: npr.org · time.com

24. January 10, 2025 · ruling

    Justice Juan Merchan sentenced him to an unconditional discharge in the Manhattan case: the conviction stands with no jail, fine or probation. Merchan said it was the only lawful sentence that allowed a judgment of conviction to be entered without encroaching on the highest office in the land.

    Sources: npr.org · cnbc.com

25. December 19, 2024 · ruling

    The Georgia Court of Appeals ruled 2 to 1 that Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis could not continue prosecuting him and fourteen co-defendants in the 2020-election racketeering case, citing a significant appearance of impropriety arising from her relationship with a special prosecutor she had hired. The charges themselves were not dismissed.

    Sources: d3i6fh83elv35t.cloudfront.net · washingtonpost.com · georgiarecorder.com

26. November 25, 2024 · ruling

    Special Counsel Jack Smith moved to dismiss the four-count federal election-obstruction indictment against him after the election, citing the Justice Department's position that a sitting president cannot be prosecuted federally, and saying the dismissal was not based on the merits or the strength of the case. Judge Tanya Chutkan dismissed it the same day, without prejudice.

    Sources: courtlistener.com · npr.org · washingtonpost.com

27. November 7, 2024 · appointment

    Named Susie Wiles, his 2024 campaign manager, as White House chief of staff, the first woman to hold the post.

    Sources: cbsnews.com · wusf.org · whitehouse.gov · projects.propublica.org

28. July 15, 2024 · action

    Selected Ohio's United States Senator J.D. Vance as his running mate, at the Republican National Convention.

    Sources: ballotpedia.org · en.wikipedia.org

29. July 15, 2024 · ruling

    Judge Aileen Cannon of the Southern District of Florida dismissed the classified-documents indictment against him in a 93-page order holding that Special Counsel Jack Smith's appointment violated the Appointments Clause and that his funding violated the Appropriations Clause. She did not rule on whether the documents had been mishandled.

    Sources: courtlistener.com · npr.org · washingtonpost.com

30. May 30, 2024 · ruling

    A Manhattan jury found him guilty on all 34 felony counts of falsifying business records, over a payment to Stormy Daniels before the 2016 election. He is the first former United States president convicted of a felony.

    Sources: npr.org · cnn.com

31. February 16, 2024 · ruling

    After an eleven-week trial without a jury, Justice Arthur Engoron of the New York Supreme Court found him, the Trump Organization and its executives liable for giving banks and insurers fraudulently inflated financial statements, ordered disgorgement of $363,893,816 plus interest for a judgment of $454,576,230.62, and barred him from serving as an officer or director of a New York company for three years.

    Sources: ag.ny.gov · cnbc.com

32. January 26, 2024 · ruling

    In Carroll's earlier 2019 defamation lawsuit, tried on damages only after liability was settled by the 2023 verdict, a jury awarded her $83.3 million, $65 million of it punitive. A Second Circuit panel rejected his appeal on April 29, 2026, calling the award fair and reasonable; the full court declined to rehear it and he petitioned the Supreme Court on July 29, 2026.

    Sources: law.justia.com · pbs.org · aljazeera.com · scotusblog.com

33. August 24, 2023 · action

    Surrendered at the Fulton County Jail in Atlanta on the Georgia election-racketeering indictment and was booked as inmate P01135809, the first booking photograph taken of a United States president.

    Source: en.wikipedia.org

34. May 9, 2023 · ruling

    A federal jury in E. Jean Carroll's Adult Survivors Act lawsuit found him liable for sexual abuse and defamation and awarded her $5 million, about $2.02 million on the sexual-assault claim and about $2.98 million on the defamation claim. The Second Circuit affirmed the verdict on December 30, 2024, declined to rehear it and, on June 29, 2026, the Supreme Court declined to hear a further appeal, ending the case.

    Sources: law.justia.com · nbcnews.com · courthousenews.com · cnbc.com

35. November 15, 2022 · statement

    Days after he announced his 2024 campaign, his daughter Ivanka Trump told Fox News Digital on November 15, 2022 that she did not plan to be involved in politics, saying she was choosing to prioritize her young children and the private life the family was creating in Miami, while saying she loves and supports her father. She did not join the 2024 campaign staff, had no formal role at the 2024 Republican convention and took no position in the second administration.

    Sources: foxnews.com · cbsnews.com

36. January 13, 2021 · action

    The House impeached him a second time, on a charge of incitement of insurrection tied to the January 6 attack on the Capitol. The Senate acquitted him in February 2021. He is the first United States president to be impeached twice.

    Source: pbs.org

37. December 23, 2020 · action

    Pardoned Charles Kushner, the father of his son-in-law Jared Kushner, in a full and unconditional pardon on December 23, 2020. Charles Kushner had been convicted in 2005 on 18 federal charges of illegal campaign contributions, tax evasion and witness tampering, and had served more than a year in prison. On November 30, 2024 he announced his intention to nominate him ambassador to France and Monaco, and the Senate confirmed him 51 to 45 on May 19, 2025.

    Source: en.wikipedia.org

38. September 15, 2020 · action

    Brokered the Abraham Accords, under which Israel normalized relations with the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain.

    Source: en.wikipedia.org

39. July 1, 2020 · action

    Renegotiated the North American Free Trade Agreement into the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement.

    Source: ballotpedia.org

40. May 15, 2020 · action

    Launched Operation Warp Speed, a public-private partnership that helped produce two authorized COVID-19 vaccines, from Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna, within about a year of the virus being sequenced.

    Source: trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov

41. 2020 · statement

    Promoted hydroxychloroquine and other treatments for COVID-19 that trials did not support, and made statements about masks, testing and case counts that PolitiFact rated false through 2020.

    Sources: politifact.com · politifact.com

42. 2020 · action

    Led the federal response to the COVID-19 pandemic. By Election Day the United States had recorded roughly 9.4 million cases and more than 232,000 deaths, among the highest per-capita tolls of any large country at the time, and he told the journalist Bob Woodward that he had deliberately played down the virus in public.

    Sources: politifact.com · link.springer.com · cnbc.com

43. December 18, 2019 · action

    The House impeached him on charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress over a July 2019 call in which he pressed Ukraine's president to investigate Joe Biden. The Senate acquitted him in February 2020 on votes of 52 to 48 and 53 to 47.

    Sources: en.wikipedia.org · ballotpedia.org

44. October 19, 2019 · action

    His acting chief of staff announced on October 17, 2019 that the 2020 G7 summit would be held at Trump National Doral, a resort his family owns. After criticism from members of both parties, he reversed the decision four days later and the summit was moved.

    Sources: en.wikipedia.org · fortune.com · foxnews.com

45. December 21, 2018 · bill

    Signed the First Step Act of 2018, a criminal-justice and sentencing law that passed the Senate 87 to 12 and the House 358 to 36.

    Sources: en.wikipedia.org · ballotpedia.org

46. June 6, 2018 · bill

    Signed the VA Mission Act, which expanded veterans' access to private-sector care outside the Veterans Affairs system.

    Source: ballotpedia.org

47. 2018 · order

    His administration ran a zero-tolerance policy at the United States-Mexico border that separated more than 5,000 children from their parents. He reversed it by executive order after public objection, and many families were not reunited for years.

    Source: en.wikipedia.org

48. December 22, 2017 · bill

    Signed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, which cut the corporate tax rate from 35 percent to 21 percent and doubled the standard deduction and the child tax credit.

    Sources: ballotpedia.org · en.wikipedia.org

49. May 20, 2017 · action

    On his first foreign trip as president the United States and Saudi Arabia signed defense agreements of nearly $110 billion at a ceremony with King Salman, described as expandable to $350 billion over ten years. Jared Kushner, then a senior White House adviser, helped negotiate it, which the reporting says included a call to Lockheed Martin's chief executive to lower the price of a missile-defense radar.

    Sources: trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov · 2017-2021.state.gov · fortune.com

50. January 20, 2017 · action

    Pledged before his first inauguration to give the United States Treasury all profits his hotels earned from foreign-government patrons instead of divesting. The Trump Organization reported donating $151,470 for 2017 and $191,000 for 2018, both figures self-calculated and not audited. The company declined to publish its method, and government-ethics groups including Public Citizen said the accounting standard it cited does not define profit.

    Sources: abcnews.go.com · cbsnews.com · nbcnews.com

51. 2017 · order

    Signed 225 executive orders in his first year and ran a deregulatory program across federal agencies.

    Source: ballotpedia.org

52. 2017 · appointment

    Appointed three Supreme Court justices, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett, and more than 200 other federal judges.

    Sources: ballotpedia.org · en.wikipedia.org

53. September 16, 2016 · statement

    Said at a Washington event, as the Republican nominee, that President Barack Obama was born in the United States, period. He offered no apology for the preceding years and said, incorrectly, that Hillary Clinton's 2008 campaign had started the claim.

    Sources: npr.org · pbs.org · aljazeera.com

54. June 29, 2015 · action

    In the two weeks after that speech, NBCUniversal ended its business relationship with him, including the Miss USA and Miss Universe pageants; Macy's ended an eleven-year Trump menswear line; Univision cancelled its Miss USA broadcast; and NASCAR moved its post-season awards banquet away from Trump National Doral.

    Sources: globalnews.ca · dallasnews.com · gulfnews.com · deadline.com

55. June 16, 2015 · statement

    Announced his 2016 candidacy at Trump Tower in Manhattan. In the speech he said of Mexican immigrants, in his own words, that they are not sending their best, that they are bringing drugs and crime and that they are rapists, and pledged to build a wall on the southern border paid for by Mexico.

    Sources: en.wikipedia.org · washingtonpost.com

56. October 24, 2012 · statement

    Offered to give $5 million to a charity of Obama's choosing if Obama released his college and passport applications by October 31, 2012. Obama did not take up the offer and no payment was made.

    Sources: en.wikipedia.org · abcnews.go.com

57. 2012 · statement

    Wrote on Twitter that an extremely credible source had told him Obama's birth certificate was a fraud, and suggested as late as 2014 that Obama's college records would show a different birthplace. Fact-checkers found no evidence for any of it.

    Sources: edition.cnn.com · factcheck.org

58. April 27, 2011 · statement

    After the White House released Obama's long-form Hawaii birth certificate, he told reporters he was honored and proud to have done something nobody else could do, and that Obama should have done it long before. He went on questioning the document in later years.

    Sources: en.wikipedia.org · abcnews.com · obamawhitehouse.archives.gov

59. April 2011 · statement

    Said publicly that he had sent private investigators to Hawaii to look into Obama's birth records and that they could not believe what they were finding. No evidence of any findings was produced.

    Sources: abcnews.go.com · edition.cnn.com

60. March 2011 · statement

    Began questioning Barack Obama's birthplace on national television, saying on Good Morning America that he was a little skeptical, that people who doubted the account should not be dismissed, and that growing up nobody knew Obama, a claim fact-checkers rated false. He repeated the demand that Obama show his birth certificate in later appearances.

    Sources: en.wikipedia.org · abcnews.go.com

61. February 10, 2011 · statement

    Spoke at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, testing support for a 2012 presidential run, in the same period he began raising questions about Barack Obama's birthplace in other appearances.

    Source: commons.wikimedia.org

62. January 8, 2004 · action

    The Apprentice premiered on NBC, executive-produced by Mark Burnett, Jay Bienstock and him, with him as host. It drew more than 20 million viewers an episode in its first season and nearly 28 million for the finale. Ratings fell through the run, to about 7.5 million by the 2006-2007 season, and NBC launched The Celebrity Apprentice in August 2008, which kept him on television until 2015.

    Sources: en.wikipedia.org · washingtonpost.com

63. February 22, 2000 · action

    Won the Reform Party's Michigan primary with about 2,164 votes, roughly 70 percent against an uncommitted line, and the California primary on March 7, both after withdrawing and without campaigning in either state. Sources differ on the California totals.

    Sources: en.wikipedia.org · ballot-access.org

64. February 14, 2000 · statement

    Ended his Reform Party campaign in a Today Show interview and a written statement, saying the party was a total mess and incapable of mounting an effective campaign for the White House that year. Jesse Ventura had left the party days earlier and a national committee meeting in Nashville had removed the party chairman.

    Sources: theglobeandmail.com · cnn.com

65. January 2000 · statement

    Published The America We Deserve, written with the journalist Dave Shiflett, proposing a one-time 14.25 percent tax on the net worth of individuals with assets over $10 million, which he said would raise about $5.7 trillion and clear the national debt, along with universal health care and changes to international trade.

    Sources: en.wikipedia.org · en.wikipedia.org

66. October 7, 1999 · action

    Formed a presidential exploratory committee on CNN's Larry King Live and joined the Reform Party on October 25, 1999, the same day as his rival Pat Buchanan, after Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura encouraged him to run.

    Sources: en.wikipedia.org · talkingpointsmemo.com

67. October 1999 · statement

    During the contest for the Reform Party nomination he said Pat Buchanan was enamored with Adolf Hitler and questioned whether Buchanan was an anti-Semite. Buchanan answered that the presidency cannot be bought.

    Sources: en.wikipedia.org · thedailybeast.com

Kamala Harris

FEC, as of December 31, 2024: raised $1,175,189,365, spent $1,175,000,000, cash on hand $1,760,000.

Sources: fec.gov · fec.gov · opensecrets.org · aljazeera.com

Top donors, as filed

• Bill Gates · $50,000,000 · super PAC · Out of state

  co-founder of Microsoft; to Future Forward USA Action

  Sources: foxnews.com · qz.com

• Michael Bloomberg · $50,000,000 · super PAC · Out of state

  founder of Bloomberg LP and former mayor of New York City; to Future Forward USA Action, the main super PAC supporting her

  Sources: foxnews.com · qz.com

• Chris Larsen · $11,800,000 · super PAC · Out of state

  co-founder of Ripple; to Future Forward and the Harris Victory Fund between August and October 2024, including an initial $1 million donation in XRP

  Sources: cnbc.com · cnbc.com

• Reid Hoffman · $11,600,000 · super PAC · Out of state

  co-founder of LinkedIn

  Source: qz.com

• Reed Hastings · $7,000,000 · super PAC · Out of state

  co-founder of Netflix; described as the largest single-candidate donation of his career

  Source: qz.com

• Silicon Valley technology employees · $3,800,000 · campaign committee · Out of state

  employees of Alphabet, Meta and Apple, as of August 21, 2024

  Sources: sfgate.com · opensecrets.org

• Oil and gas industry contributors · $900,000 · campaign committee · Out of state

  itemized contributions from the oil and gas industry across the 2023-2024 cycle, against more than $1.6 million to Donald Trump

  Source: statista.com

Outside spending

• supporting $850,000,000 · as of February 6, 2025

  Future Forward PAC · $700,000,000 · support

  Sources: opensecrets.org · opensecrets.org · en.wikipedia.org

Donald Trump

FEC, as of October 14, 2020: raised $811,898,514.

Sources: docquery.fec.gov · fec.gov

FEC, as of December 31, 2020: raised $552,108,397.

Sources: opensecrets.org · npr.org · ballotpedia.org

FEC, as of November 25, 2024: raised $463,662,725, spent $448,966,052, cash on hand $9,870,000.

Sources: opensecrets.org · fec.gov · opensecrets.org

Top donors, as filed

• Elon Musk and SpaceX employees · $276,275,595 · super PAC

  bundled by employer; overwhelmingly through America PAC, the single largest contributor bloc of the race

  Sources: opensecrets.org · opensecrets.org

• Timothy Mellon · $150,000,000 · super PAC

  heir to the Mellon banking and rail fortune; almost entirely to Make America Great Again Inc.

  Sources: opensecrets.org · opensecrets.org

• Miriam Adelson · $106,019,900 · super PAC

  widow of the Las Vegas Sands chairman Sheldon Adelson; largely through Preserve America PAC, reported as a fulfilled $100 million pledge

  Sources: opensecrets.org · opensecrets.org

• Sheldon and Miriam Adelson · $75,000,000 · super PAC · Out of state

  Las Vegas Sands; the single largest 2020 gift to a pro-Trump vehicle

  Sources: bloomberg.com · forbes.com · opensecrets.org

• Securing American Greatness · $67,558,284 · super PAC

  a political action committee supporting him

  Sources: opensecrets.org · opensecrets.org

• Building America's Future · $23,640,000 · super PAC

  a political action committee supporting him

  Sources: opensecrets.org · opensecrets.org

• America First Action and America First Policies · $21,558,703 · super PAC

  political action committees supporting him

  Sources: opensecrets.org · opensecrets.org

• Hendricks Holding Co. · $15,000,000 · super PAC

  Diane Hendricks, ABC Supply

  Sources: opensecrets.org · opensecrets.org

• Bigelow Aerospace · $14,200,000 · super PAC

  Robert Bigelow

  Sources: opensecrets.org · opensecrets.org

• Uline Inc. · $13,000,000 · super PAC

  Richard and Elizabeth Uihlein

  Sources: opensecrets.org · opensecrets.org

• Energy Transfer LP · $12,500,000 · super PAC

  Kelcy Warren

  Sources: opensecrets.org · opensecrets.org

• Laura and Isaac Perlmutter Foundation · $12,450,000 · super PAC

  Isaac Perlmutter

  Sources: opensecrets.org · opensecrets.org

• ABC Supply · $11,000,000 · super PAC

  Diane Hendricks' company

  Sources: opensecrets.org · opensecrets.org

• Cantor Fitzgerald · $11,000,000 · super PAC

  Howard Lutnick

  Sources: opensecrets.org · opensecrets.org

• British American Tobacco and Reynolds American · $10,000,000 · super PAC

  tobacco; mostly to Make America Great Again Inc.

  Sources: opensecrets.org · opensecrets.org

• Kelcy Warren · $10,000,000 · super PAC · Out of state

  co-founder, chairman and chief executive of Energy Transfer LP, operator of the Dakota Access Pipeline

  Sources: opensecrets.org · cbsnews.com · therevolvingdoorproject.org

• Pratt Industries · $10,000,000 · super PAC

  Anthony Pratt

  Sources: opensecrets.org · opensecrets.org

• Timothy Mellon · $10,000,000 · super PAC · Out of state

  chairman and majority owner of Pan Am Systems

  Source: opensecrets.org

• Elliott Management · $7,500,000 · super PAC

  Paul Singer

  Sources: opensecrets.org · opensecrets.org

• Andreessen Horowitz · $7,000,000 · super PAC

  venture capital

  Sources: opensecrets.org · opensecrets.org

Outside spending

• supporting $255,945,422 · as of December 31, 2020

  America First Action · $126,059,217 · support

  Committee to Defend the President · $14,504,269 · support

  Great America PAC · $9,881,272 · support

  Sources: opensecrets.org · opensecrets.org

• supporting $989,000,000 · as of February 6, 2025

  Make America Great Again Inc. · $410,500,000 · support

  America PAC · $263,500,000 · support

  Preserve America PAC · $114,800,000 · support

  Save America · $99,700,000 · support

  Sources: opensecrets.org · opensecrets.org