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True68% confidence6 sourcesSep 24, 2026A group of Donald Trump's outside advisors have been pushing him to declare martial law to take over the midterm elections.Said by AThe Atlantic's September 23, 2026 report, which the claim attributes, states that outside advisers such as attorney Peter Ticktin were urging Trump to seize control of the midterm elections, with martial law as a stated scenario. Secondary outlets repeat the report, and a September 27 article notes no official step toward martial law had followed, but the claim's central assertion is supported as of 2026-09-24.Reported in the post, not stated as its own.True68% confidence7 sourcesSep 24, 2026Congress has not suspended habeas corpus.Said by 3CAs of 2026-09-24, sources show Congress had not suspended habeas corpus in the current situation: Lawfare (Sept 2026) says Trump 'has yet to suspend habeas,' and reporting on the Stephen Miller proposal says the idea was nixed and never enacted. The claim's extraction is faithful to the post's 'Congress hasn't done it,' but the Fordham source notes Grant's 1871 suspension was made under congressional authorization, so the claim holds only for the present period, not as an unqualified historical statement.True60% confidence4 sourcesSep 24, 2026Donald Trump previously banned a member of the news media from the White House following a midterm election.The claim's referent is Trump's first-term attempt to ban CNN's Jim Acosta by revoking his credentials after a contentious news conference about the 2018 midterm elections, which the sources place after that midterm. Only two sources (the same article syndicated by The Conversation and the Daily Gazette) address this, so confidence is moderate, and the sources describe it as an attempt to ban rather than a completed ban.True85% confidence7 sourcesSep 24, 2026Republicans in Congress have repeatedly voted against War Powers resolutions regarding the war in Iran.Said by 3CMultiple reliable sources show Republicans, as a majority, repeatedly voted against Iran war powers resolutions: the Senate has held 14 votes and passed only twice, mostly on party lines, and the House has held six. Some Republicans (Collins, Murkowski, Paul, Tillis, and in the House seven GOP members in one vote) broke with the party, so the claim holds as a majority pattern rather than a unanimous one.True85% confidence6 sourcesSep 24, 2026The Supreme Court previously blocked Donald Trump's attempt to have the Post Office take over the electoral process.Said by 3CThe Supreme Court on September 14, 2026 declined to let the Postal Service enforce Trump's mail-ballot rule, leaving a lower-court block in place, which is the earlier blocking the post refers to. The sources describe this as a restriction on mail ballots rather than a literal Post Office takeover of elections, but the core assertion that the Court blocked the Post Office's role in this effort holds.True90% confidence7 sourcesSep 24, 2026Donald Trump has attempted to interfere in states' elections.Multiple tier-1 and tier-2 sources (AP, Reuters, NPR, NYT, NBC, Stateline) document Trump administration actions to intervene in state elections, including DOJ civil suits against Alaska and California to block ballots from being counted, a DHS purge effort, and orders from federal judges against intimidating election officials. The extracted claim matches the passage's wording and the sources show these attempts, though courts have largely blocked them.True92% confidence7 sourcesSep 24, 2026Jim Acosta challenged being banned from the White House during Donald Trump's first term.Multiple tier1 and tier2 sources (AP, Reuters, Politico, CNN) report that a federal judge ordered the White House to restore Jim Acosta's press pass in November 2018 after his ban, and the White House later fully restored it, confirming Acosta successfully challenged the ban during Trump's first term. The claim matches the passage's own description, and the 2026 NPR interview confirms the outcome.Can’t tell15% confidence5 sourcesSep 24, 2026The Nixon White House denied Thomas Forsyth a press pass in 1971.Said by ANone of the provided sources mention Thomas Forsyth or any 1971 White House press-pass denial to him; the only support is the claimant's own passage, which cannot corroborate the claim. Sources on Nixon's hostility to the press (e.g., the Washington Post exclusion) are about different referents and do not confirm or refute this specific denial.Can’t tell45% confidence5 sourcesSep 24, 2026Donald Trump has violated court orders a thousand times.Said by AThe claim is a rhetorical figure from a guest's remarks ('we've seen him do it a thousand times'), and sources do not count violations to a thousand: AP counts 31 lawsuits plus more than 250 immigration noncompliance instances, and Just Security lists 60 cases. Because the 'thousand' is hyperbole rather than a checkable count, the verdict is unverifiable, though the sources document a large, real pattern of noncompliance.