2018 Day 684: The National Republican Congressional Committee suffered a major hack during the 2018 election; senators accused the Saudi crown prince of complicity in the murder of Jamal Khashoggi; Mueller's prosecutors are "tying up loose ends" in their investigation; and Maryland and the District of Columbia issued subpoenas for Trump's financial records related to his D.C. hotel. Dec 4, 2018
2019 Day 1049: Trump committed impeachable offenses, according to three constitutional scholars who testified during the House Judiciary Committee's first impeachment hearing; House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler suggested that Democrats could link Mueller's findings to the House's impeachment inquiry; Trump called the House Intelligence Committee's impeachment report "a joke." Dec 4, 2019
2020 Day 1415: Biden will ask all Americans to wear masks for 100 days after he is inaugurated; the U.S. economy added 245,000 jobs in November; Trump could preemptively pardon as many as 20 aides and associates before leaving office; Trump’s campaign and its related committees spent more than $1.1 million at Trump’s own properties in the last weeks of his losing 2020 campaign; and the House voted to remove marijuana from the federal schedule of controlled substances. Dec 4, 2020
2023 Day 1049: Trump does not have "absolute immunity" from lawsuits seeking to hold him accountable for the Jan. 6 Capitol violence; Israel resumed its air raids and ground operation in the Gaza Strip after the temporary cease-fire between Hamas and Israel collapsed; Israel reportedly knew that Hamas was planning a major terror attack more than a year in advance; the White House warned it'll be unable to continue providing weapons and assistance to Ukraine if Congress doesn’t approve additional funding by the end of the year; the House voted to expel George Santos; the EPA issued new regulations to reduce methane emissions from oil and gas industry operations by nearly 80% over the next 15 years; and the president of the global climate summit claimed there is “no science” that fossil fuels must be phased to avoid catastrophic warming and keep global temperatures from rising above 1.5 degrees Celsius over preindustrial levels. Dec 4, 2023
2024 Day 1415: Trump is considering replacing his choice for defense secretary with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis; Trump selected Peter Navarro to serve as his senior counselor for trade and manufacturing; Trump tapped an outspoken critic of the Securities and Exchange Commission to run the agency; Trump picked a billionaire with extensive financial ties to Elon Musk’s SpaceX to be the next administrator of NASA; Trump already replaced his White House counsel 48 days before taking office; Trump's selection to lead the Drug Enforcement Administration withdrew his name from consideration three days after he was nominated; Democrats won the final uncalled U.S. House race in California, leaving Republicans with a one seat margin; Jerry Nadler will step down as the top Demcorat on the House Judiciary Committee; Kash Patel, Trump’s nominee to run the FBI, was recently hacked by Iran; and the Supreme Court’s conservative majority seemed ready to uphold Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming care for minors. Dec 4, 2024
2025 Day 1780: The Supreme Court allowed Texas to use its new congressional map for the 2026 elections, blocking a lower court ruling that found the plan was likely a racial gerrymander; federal agents arrested the man accused of planting pipe bombs outside the RNC and DNC offices the night before Jan. 6 Capitol attack; the Government Accountability Office opened an investigation into Bill Pulte after Senate Democrats accused the Federal Housing Finance Agency director of abusing his position to target Trump’s perceived political enemies with criminal referrals; the Trump administration renamed the U.S. Institute of Peace to the “Donald J. Trump Institute of Peace”; 98% of more than 2,100 Foreign Service employees reported lower morale this year; 46% of Americans say the cost of living in the U.S. is worst than than they can ever remember; and U.S. economic confidence fell to negative 30 in November – its lowest level since July 2024. Dec 4, 2025