Politico
Our investigations stand on Politico's reporting. This page collects every story of theirs we cite, every page on this site that uses it, and how we graded each claim built on it.
The reporting we cite
18 stories, each opening at its source.
- POLITICO — 'Manafort was grave counterintelligence threat,' Senate panel says
- Sacks–Palihapitiya $12M Trump fundraiser (June 6, 2024) — Politico
- Politico on the missed deadline and Blanche's statement
- Politico on documents posted and removed
- Executive Branch private members' club — $500K/seat Georgetown; co-owned by Don Jr., Witkoff sons, 1789 partners; launched Apr 26, 2025 with Bondi, Atkins, Lutnick, Bessent attending
- Politico, which specifically describes the FBI notes and states it has not verified the allegation
- Politico — 'Just What Were Donald Trump's Ties to the Mob?' (David Cay Johnston, 2016): Cohn's dual role
- Politico Influence — Israel's new US influence strategy (>$100M US-directed under FARA)
- Politico — Black sues Congress over the subpoena, arguing it cannot compel his testimony or the NDAs
- Cicero Institute homeless-encampment model bill — Politico investigation
- Politico — Gorsuch sold Colorado property to a law-firm chief days after confirmation, didn't disclose the buyer (Apr 25, 2023)
- Thiel $15M to Protect Ohio Values / Vance PAC — Politico (May 3, 2022)
- Politico — 'New think tank Searchlight pushes Democrats toward more popular positions' (June 3, 2025)
- 12 state AGs sue to block the merger — Politico, July 13 2026
- Politico · Social Security data chief resigns after filing whistleblower complaint (August 29, 2025)
- Politico Magazine, 'The Man Who Showed Donald Trump How to Exploit Power and Instill Fear' (April 2017)
- Politico — Hope Florida reemerges as a midterm issue with the leaked grand jury report
- Politico (Sept. 1, 2026): 'Two House Democrats vote to salvage GOP agenda'
Where their work appears on this site
- A Crime to Repeat It →
- The Blanche Record →
- Breathless, Then Silent →
- The Roy Cohn Method →
- Not a Hoax: What the Russia Investigation Actually Found →
- The Searchlight and the Shareholder: The 'Moderate' Democratic Think Tank Funded by Nvidia Money →
- Suing the Subpoena →
- The Cover-Up That Didn't End: crime, settlement, and the fight over the Epstein files →
- The Ellison Press →
- The National Design Studio →
- The Rest of the Bench →
- The Fake Opposition: the rented center and the Democrats who rescue the GOP. →
- Trump and the Mob →
- The Epstein Class →
- Fake Opposition →
- Media Ownership →
- The Pretoria Playbook →
- Return on Investment →
- Self-Dealing & Crony Capitalism →
- Surveillance State(s) and the Criminalization of Dissent →
- The Club →
- The Tech Right →
- Too Big to Jail →
- Who Controls What You Get to Know →
How we graded the claims built on their work
21 FACT · 1 PROBABLY TRUE · 1 SOME SMOKE · 2 FALSE / MISLEADING. A grade is our reading of the public record on one claim, not a verdict on the person.
- Not a Hoax: What the Russia Investigation Actually Found →
A bipartisan Senate committee called Manafort's data-sharing with a Russian intelligence officer a 'grave counterintelligence threat.'
FACT - Surveillance States →
David Sacks — from PayPal COO to AI and Crypto Czar
FACT - The Pretoria Playbook →
David Sacks — the $12 million fundraiser and the AI/Crypto Czar seat
FACT - The Cover-Up That Didn't End: crime, settlement, and the fight over the Epstein files →
DOJ missed the December 19, 2025 deadline
FACT - Self-Dealing & Crony Capitalism →
Donald Trump Jr. & Eric Trump
FACT - The Cover-Up That Didn't End: crime, settlement, and the fight over the Epstein files →
Fact-check: the 'judge confirmed Trump assaulted a 13-year-old' claim
FALSE / MISLEADING - The Cover-Up That Didn't End: crime, settlement, and the fight over the Epstein files →
Fact-check: the Epstein 'client list' claim
FALSE / MISLEADING - Trump and the Mob →
His lawyer and mentor, Roy Cohn, represented the bosses of two crime families at the same time he represented Trump.
FACT - Breathless, Then Silent →
Israel's government is running a documented, FARA-disclosed, billion-dollar US influence campaign — a foreign state, not a lobby.
FACT - Suing the Subpoena →
It is a template for how the very rich turn oversight into a waiting game.
FACT - Surveillance States →
Joe Lonsdale — Palantir co-founder, Cicero Institute, and America PAC
FACT - The Blanche Record →
Judge Emmet G. Sullivan — Phang v. Blanche, No. 26-1417 (D.D.C.)
FACT - The Cover-Up That Didn't End: crime, settlement, and the fight over the Epstein files →
Judge Emmet G. Sullivan's June 25, 2026 preliminary injunction
FACT - The Rest of the Bench →
Neil Gorsuch sold a property that had sat unsold for two years — nine days after confirmation, to a major law-firm CEO he didn't name.
FACT - The Pretoria Playbook →
Peter Thiel — the Vance pipeline and the Yarvin consultation
FACT - The Searchlight and the Shareholder: The 'Moderate' Democratic Think Tank Funded by Nvidia Money →
Searchlight is a $10M 'centrist' Democratic think tank founded in 2025 to pull the party toward the middle.
FACT - Media Ownership →
The 12-state antitrust lawsuit to block the WBD deal
FACT - The Ellison Press →
The 12-state antitrust lawsuit to block the WBD deal
FACT - The National Design Studio →
The August 26, 2025 whistleblower disclosure
FACT - The Cover-Up That Didn't End: crime, settlement, and the fight over the Epstein files →
The FBI interview notes referencing a 13-year-old and Trump
SOME SMOKE - The Roy Cohn Method →
The Five Families, the townhouse back room, and the concrete pipe into Trump Tower
FACT - Self-Dealing & Crony Capitalism →
The Method Trump Inherited
PROBABLY TRUE - A Crime to Repeat It →
The underlying finding: a statewide grand jury found the DeSantis administration 'misappropriated' $10 million into Hope Florida.
FACT - Trump and the Mob →
Trump Tower and Trump Plaza were built with concrete from a company the mob controlled.
FACT - The Fake Opposition: the rented center and the Democrats who rescue the GOP. →
Two House Democrats crossed party lines to rescue the GOP’s agenda when five Republicans revolted.
FACT