2020 Day 1294: Trump insisted that the coronavirus pandemic "will go away like things go away"; negotiations on a new coronavirus relief bill remain deadlocked with both sides claiming they've made concessions; the State Department’s acting inspector general resigned less than three months after replacing the inspector general Trump fired in May; and the Trump campaign sued the state of Nevada over its plan to send absentee ballots to all active voters this November. Aug 5, 2020
2024 Day 1294: Global stock markets fell sharply as worries about the U.S. economy sparked a world-wide sell-off; after weeks of being noncommittal over the Sept. 10 ABC News debate he previously agreed to, Trump said he’ll instead debate Harris on Fox News – or not at all; Justice Clarence Thomas failed to publicly disclose additional private travel provided by Republican megadonor Harlan Crow in 2010; Justice Neil Gorsuch warned Biden about his Supreme Court reform proposals: “Be careful”; former Trump campaign attorney Jenna Ellis agreed to cooperate with prosecutors in Arizona as part of the state's "fake elector" case; and a Los Angeles man, who launched an independent campaign for president after discovering a dead worm in his brain, confessed to Roseanne Barr that he left a dead bear cub in Central Park in 2014 because he thought it would be “amusing." Aug 5, 2024
2025 Day 1659: The House Oversight Committee subpoenaed the Justice Department for all unredacted records related to Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell; Ghislaine Maxwell asked a federal judge to block the Justice Department from unsealing grand jury transcripts in her sex trafficking case, saying the release would “severely and irrevocably” damage her Supreme Court appeal; Attorney General Pam Bondi ordered a grand jury investigation into Obama-era officials, reviving long-debunked claims that they faked intelligence to tie Trump to Russian election interference; Texas Sen. John Cornyn asked the FBI to help locate and arrest Democratic lawmakers who fled the state to block a Republican redistricting plan that could give the Republicans five more U.S. House seats; Trump claimed JPMorgan Chase and Bank of America refused to accept over $1 billion in deposits from him after his presidency; Trump said he would “probably not” run for a third term, even though the Constitution doesn’t allow it; and a man convicted of interstate prostitution is seeking a pardon from a man found liable for sexual abuse. Aug 5, 2025
2026 Day 2024: Progressive candidates won Michigan’s Democratic Senate primary and two closely watched House primaries, while establishment-backed Democrats won key races in Missouri and Virginia; the Senate confirmed Erica Schwartz as CDC director; the House Ethics Committee opened an investigation into allegations that Rep. Max Miller abused his ex-wife and toddler daughter, and used illegal drugs; Trump still hasn’t "made a determination" on whether to fire U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro; Iran and Oman are finalizing a temporary deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz; the White House declassified memos showing that the FBI investigated whether Trump fired James Comey in 2017 while acting as a Russian asset; and a federal judge “reluctantly” granted the Justice Department’s request to dismiss the final Jan. 6 indictments, including the seditious conspiracy conviction against Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes and seven others. Aug 5, 2026