2018 Day 683: Trump called for a "full and complete" sentence for Michael Cohen while praising Roger Stone for not cooperating with Robert Mueller; Kellyanne Conway's husband accused Trump of witness tampering; and the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee said the committee has made "a number of referrals" to Mueller's office for prosecution Dec 3, 2018
2019 Day 1048: The House Intelligence Committee concluded that Trump tried to "use the powers of his office to solicit foreign interference on his behalf in the 2020 election"; House Democrats are considering expanding their articles of impeachment; Ukraine knew about Trump's hold on military aid in July; and Rudy Giuliani repeatedly called the White House the same day that the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine was abruptly recalled. Dec 3, 2019
2020 Day 1414: The U.S. recorded over 3,100 COVID-19 deaths in a single day; Trump released a 46-minute video rant denouncing the election as "rigged" while repeating his baseless allegations of voter fraud that – he claims – was "massive" and "on a scale never seen before"; Trump and Attorney General William Barr had a "contentious," two and a half hour meeting at the White House after Barr disclosed that the Justice Department had not uncovered evidence of widespread voter fraud that would change the election results; and the White House liaison to the Justice Department has been banned from the building after trying to pressure staffers to give up information about election fraud. Dec 3, 2020
2021 Day 318: Biden signed legislation to keep the government funded through Feb. 18 after Republicans dropped a threat to force a shutdown over the administration’s vaccine mandates; the U.S. added 210,000 jobs to the economy in in November – the smallest gain since December 2020 – while the unemployment rate fell to 4.2% from 4.6% – a new pandemic-era low; new research indicates that the Omicron variant is spreading more than twice as quickly as Delta; the Biden administration reinstated the Trump-era "Remain in Mexico" policy; and the attorney who helped Trump pressure Pence to overturn the 2020 election asserted his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination. Dec 3, 2021
2024 Day 1414: Trump – citing the language Biden used to pardoned his son – urged a judge to dismiss his 34 felony convictions of orchestrating an illegal conspiracy to influence the 2016 presidential election by falsifying business records; Fox News has avoided reporting on recent allegations of financial mismanagement, sexism, sexual misconduct, and alcohol abuse against Pete Hegseth; Senate Republicans are prepared to allow Trump to fire FBI Director Christopher Wray before his 10-year term expires and replace him with loyalist Kash Patel; Trump "joked" to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau that Canada should become the 51st U.S. state if it can't handle the economic consequences of his 25% tariff on all goods; and the Democratic-led Senate and Republican-controlled House face a Dec. 20 deadline to prevent a government shutdown. Dec 3, 2024
2025 Day 1779: Republican Matt Van Epps won a House special election in Tennessee’s deep-red 7th District by roughly nine points, far below Trump’s 22 point margin there last year; a Pentagon watchdog concluded that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth risked endangering U.S. troops by using his personal device and the Signal app to share sensitive operational details about planned strikes in Yemen; the Trump administration launched a broad immigration sweep in New Orleans; House Democrats released photos and videos from Jeffrey Epstein’s private island in an effort to pressure on the Justice Department to disclose its Epstein files by the Dec. 19 deadline; Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee subpoenaed former special counsel Jack Smith for a closed-door deposition about his prosecutions of Trump; and Trump rolled back Biden-era fuel economy and tailpipe emission rules for cars and light trucks, cutting the 2031 target from about 50 miles per gallon to 34.5 miles per gallon and reducing pressure on automakers to sell electric vehicles. Dec 3, 2025