2018 Day 694: Prosecutors are investigating whether Trump's inaugural committee and a pro-Trump super PAC received illegal donations; Sarah Huckabee Sanders claimed that Trump had nothing to do with his inaugural committee's spending; Ivanka Trump negotiated the prices that Trump's inauguration committee paid the Trump Organization for rooms, meals, and event space at the Trump International Hotel in Washington; and Michael Cohen says "of course" Trump knew it was wrong to make the hush-money payments to Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal. Dec 14, 2018
2020 Day 1425: The Electoral College affirmed Joe Biden as the 46th president of the United States after the Supreme Court rejected a lawsuit by Texas seeking to throw out the election results in Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin that Trump lost in November; the United States administered the first shots of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine to health care workers as the U.S. topped 300,000 total deaths since the pandemic began; Trump delayed a plan for senior White House staff members to receive the coronavirus vaccine early; Russian government hackers breached the Treasury, Commerce, and Homeland Security departments; and Attorney General William Barr resigned. Dec 14, 2020
2022 Day 694: The House is expected to pass a temporary spending measure tonight that would fund the government through through Dec. 23 and avert a shutdown; the Federal Reserve raised interest rates by half a point – the highest level in 15 years – and signaled that rates still have a "ways to go"; the Republican congressman who suggested that Trump declare martial law in a text message to Mark Meadows said his only regret is that he misspelled the word "martial"; the Trump Organization was found to have been “willfully disobeying” four grand jury subpoenas and three court orders during a criminal contempt trial held in secret last year; and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton asked the Department of Public Safety for a list of transgender individuals in the state.. Dec 14, 2022
2023 Day 1059: The White House warned Israel that its "high intensity" war in Gaza needs to "transition to the next lower intensity phase in a matter of weeks, not months"; Putin suggested that Western support for Ukraine is collapsing and that there would be no peace until Russia achieves its goals; the House and Senate have approved a $886 billion defense policy bill; and without evidence of high crimes or misdemeanors, House Republicans voted to authorize a bogus impeachment inquiry into Biden. Dec 14, 2023