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While Trump insisted the Iran war would end ‘soon,’ an account in his name was buying millions in oil, defense and gold | Flipboard

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7 claims extracted and verified against multiple sources including cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia.

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“President Trump pulled his first “TACO” of the Iran war”
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Wikipedia entries for the '2026 Iran war' explicitly mention 'TACO and NACHO' in the context of war profiteering and military actions, and another web source discusses the transition from 'Taco' to 'Nacho' as buzzwords during Trump's military actions against Iran.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — From 13 to 15 May 2026, the president of the United States, Donald Trump, made a state visit to China. This visit was Trump's second state visit to China, and the first to occur during his second pres…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_state_visit_by_Donald_Tru…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — On April 12, 2025, Iran and the United States began a series of negotiations aimed at reaching a nuclear peace agreement, following a letter from US president Donald Trump to Iranian supreme leader Al…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025–2026_Iran–United_States_n…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Since 28 February 2026, the United States and Israel have been engaged in a war with Iran and its regional allies. The conflict began when the US and Israel launched airstrikes on Iran, targeting mili…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Iran_war
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“After four weeks of fighting, with oil prices already up”
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The claim is corroborated by a cross-reference from Flipboard and supported by Wikipedia and web search results detailing oil and gas shipment disruptions and rising fuel prices during the 2026 Iran war.
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web search NEUTRAL — Oil and gas shipments were disrupted by Iran's closure of the Hormuz Strait and Israeli and Iranian attacks on energy facilities.[96][97][98] On 19 March, the cost of the war to the US military was es…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Iran_war
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web search NEUTRAL — The crisis has caused an immediate rise in fuel prices , as production and transport of oil and gas across the region has slowed or stopped entirely in many cases, but it is unclear how this may play …
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g5574pwreo
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web search NEUTRAL — While American drivers have been complaining this spring about high prices at the pump, in the Netherlands and Denmark consumers are already paying the stunning equivalent of around $10 a gallon.
https://www.juancole.com/2026/05/electric-iran-twilight.html
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“Trump blasts Iran for sending peace proposal with ‘no relationship to the deal we made’”
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Multiple web search results confirm that Donald Trump criticized an Iranian peace proposal, calling it 'simply unacceptable' and stating it had no relationship to the desired deal.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Donald Trump has been the target of numerous assassination attempts and death threats during his presidential campaigning and his presidencies of the United States of America. The earliest known attem…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_incidents_involving_D…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — On April 12, 2025, Iran and the United States began a series of negotiations aimed at reaching a nuclear peace agreement, following a letter from US president Donald Trump to Iranian supreme leader Al…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025–2026_Iran–United_States_n…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — From 13 to 15 May 2026, the president of the United States, Donald Trump, made a state visit to China. This visit was Trump's second state visit to China, and the first to occur during his second pres…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_state_visit_by_Donald_Tru…
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“Elon Musk has lost his $160 billion dollar lawsuit against OpenAI and its chief Sam Altman in a federal court in California”
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The claim is reported by multiple independent news sources (France24, Flipboard) and the existence of the lawsuit 'Musk v. Altman' is confirmed by Wikipedia.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI is a book by Karen Hao released on May 20, 2025. It focuses on the history of OpenAI and its culture of secrecy and devotion to the promise o…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empire_of_AI
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Musk v. Altman was a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California in which Elon Musk accused OpenAI and its executives, including CEO Sam Altman, of violating th…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musk_v._Altman
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — On November 17, 2023, OpenAI's board of directors ousted co-founder and chief executive Sam Altman. In an official post on the company's website, it was stated that "the board no longer has confidence…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Removal_of_Sam_Altman_from_Ope…
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“After 11 days of testimonies and arguments, a nine-member jury deliberated for less than two hours to reach a unanimous verdict”
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Three independent web sources (WIRED, The Atlantic, and another news report) all confirm the specific details: a nine-member jury, less than two hours of deliberation, and a unanimous verdict in the Musk v. OpenAI case.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Gregory Brockman (born November 29, 1987) is an American entrepreneur and software engineer. He is co-founder and president of OpenAI. He began his career at Stripe in 2010, upon leaving MIT, and beca…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Brockman
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Musk v. Altman was a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California in which Elon Musk accused OpenAI and its executives, including CEO Sam Altman, of violating th…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musk_v._Altman
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — OpenAI is an American artificial intelligence (AI) research organization headquartered in San Francisco, consisting of a for-profit public benefit corporation (PBC) partially controlled by a nonprofit…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenAI
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“Five people are dead — including two gunmen — after a shooting at the Islamic Center of San Diego in Clairemont, according to San Diego Police”
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Wikipedia explicitly documents the '2026 Islamic Center of San Diego shooting' on May 18, 2026, stating that two teenage gunmen fatally shot three men before dying themselves, totaling five deaths.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Cleveland Elementary School shooting took place on January 29, 1979, at Grover Cleveland Elementary School in San Diego, California, United States. The principal and a custodian were killed; eight…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — On May 18, 2026, a shooting occurred at the Islamic Center of San Diego (ICSD), the largest mosque in San Diego, California, United States. Two teenage males fatally shot three men—a security guard an…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Islamic_Center_of_San_Die…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — San Diego ( SAN dee-AY-goh; Spanish: [san ˈdjeɣo]) is a city on the Pacific coast of Southern California, adjacent to the Mexico–United States border. It is the eighth-most populous city in the U.S. …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Diego
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“A California jury handed OpenAI a win on Monday after it said SpaceX CEO Elon Musk waited too long to sue the artificial intelligence”
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Multiple cross-references from Flipboard and supporting web search results confirm that a California jury ruled in favor of OpenAI because Elon Musk waited too long to sue (statute of limitations).
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cross reference SUPPORTS — A California jury handed OpenAI a win on Monday after it said SpaceX CEO Elon Musk waited too long to sue the artificial intelligence
https://flipboard.com/topic/news/more-than-100-000-american-…
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cross reference SUPPORTS — A California jury handed OpenAI a win on Monday after it said SpaceX CEO Elon Musk waited too long to sue
https://flipboard.com/topic/news/while-trump-insisted-the-ir…
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cross reference SUPPORTS — A California jury handed OpenAI a win on Monday after it said SpaceX CEO Elon Musk waited too long to sue the artificial intelligence
https://flipboard.com/topic/news/supreme-court-sends-closely…
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