2020 Day 1412: Attorney General William Barr said the Justice Department has “not seen fraud on a scale that could have affected a different outcome in the election”; Trump’s political operation has raised between $150 million and $170 million since Election Day, using misleading appeals about voter fraud to fund his failed attempts to overturn the election; an attorney for the Trump campaign called for the former head of U.S. cybersecurity to be executed for saying that the election was the “most secure in United States history”; Trump and Rudy Giuliani discussed a pardon preempting any charge or conviction before Trump leaves office; scientists at the CDC found evidence that the coronavirus was present in the U.S. weeks earlier previously thought; and a bipartisan group of senators introduced a coronavirus aid proposal worth about $908 billion, which Mitch McConnell immediately rejected. Dec 1, 2020
2021 Day 316: The Supreme Court appeared likely to uphold a Mississippi law that bans almost all abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy; the first confirmed U.S. case of the coronavirus omicron variant was detected in California; the House Freedom Caucus is urging Mitch McConnell to force a government shutdown in an effort to defund the Biden administration’s vaccine mandates; Trump tested positive for the coronavirus three days before his first debate against Biden in 2020; Mark Meadows agreed to cooperate with the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol; and 52% of 18-to-29-year-olds believe that American democracy is either “in trouble,” or “failing.” Dec 1, 2021
2022 Day 681: The Supreme Court agreed to an expedited review of the Biden administration's plan to cancel student-loan debt; the Senate passed legislation that would force a labor agreement between freight railroad companies and their workers; the latest projections from the Bureau of Reclamation show that by July water levels at Lake Powell could fall to the point that the dam no longer has enough water to generate hydroelectricity; the House Ways and Means Committee received six years of Trump’s returns from the Treasury; a federal appeals court halted the special master review thousands of documents seized from Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate; and Kevin McCarthy demanded that the Jan. 6 committee chairman preserve all records and transcripts from the investigation into the attack on the U.S. Capitol. Dec 1, 2022
2025 Day 1777: The White House said Navy Adm. Frank Bradley ordered a second strike on a suspected drug-smuggling boat on Sept. 2 that killed survivors of an initial U.S. attack; Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said investigators believe Rahmanullah Lakanwal was radicalized after arriving in the U.S.; Trump called the shooting of two National Guard members an “act of terror,” saying the U.S. “must now re-examine every single alien who has entered our country from Afghanistan under Biden”; a federal appeals court ruled that Alina Habba has been serving unlawfully as the U.S. attorney in New Jersey; Trump said he was canceling all Biden executive orders that were signed using an autopen, claiming without evidence that aides operated the device without Biden’s approval; the White House said Trump’s October MRI was a “preventative” scan and reported “perfectly normal” cardiovascular and abdominal results with “no evidence of arterial narrowing” or other problems; and 36% of Americans approve of the job Trump is doing as president – his lowest level of his second term. Dec 1, 2025