2018 Day 685: Mueller's office recommended that Michael Flynn serve no jail time because he provided "substantial assistance"; global emissions of carbon dioxide have reached the highest levels on record; and Trump traveled 250 yards in a limo with an eight-vehicle motorcade to visit with George W. Bush for 23 minutes across the street. Dec 5, 2018
2019 Day 1050: Speaker Nancy Pelosi instructed the key chairmen in the House of Representatives to begin drafting impeachment articles against Trump; Trump to accused Pelosi of having "a nervous fit" after a reporter asked if she hated Trump; Attorney General William Barr's handpicked prosecutor told the Justice Department's inspector general that he found no evidence that U.S. intelligence agencies had planted spies in the Trump campaign; and North Korea threatened to resume calling Trump a "dotard" if he keeps referring to Kim Jong Un as "rocket man." Dec 5, 2019
2022 Day 685: Early turnout in Georgia's Senate runoff between Raphael Warnock and Herschel Walker has broke daily voting records three times since polls opened; the Supreme Court seemed sympathetic to an evangelical Christian graphic designer in Colorado who doesn't want to create wedding websites for same-sex couples despite the state's anti-discrimination law; Chinese government-linked hackers stole at least $20 million in U.S. Covid relief benefits; the Manhattan district attorney hired a former Justice Department official who led the New York attorney general’s civil inquiry into Trump and the Trump Organization; and Trump, falsely citing “massive fraud” in his 2020 loss to Biden, called for the "termination" of the Constitution and "all rules" to declare himself the "RIGHTFUL WINNER." Dec 5, 2022
2023 Day 1050: Special counsel Jack Smith accused Trump of a pattern of lying about electoral fraud since at least 2012 and "encouragement of violence"; House Republicans are blurring surveillance footage from the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol because they don't want the rioters to be charged with crimes; Tommy Tuberville dropped his one-man blockade of more than 450 military promotions, ending his nearly 10-month protest to an unrelated Pentagon policy that ensures abortion access for service members; the Israel Defense Forces advanced deeper into Gaza in what the military called "the most intense day since the beginning of the ground operation"; and 49% of Americans between 18 and 29 years old “definitely” plan to vote in 2024 – down from 57% relative to this point in the 2020 election cycle. Dec 5, 2023
2024 Day 1416: The Biden administration is in the process of extending contracts for private immigration detention centers, expanding capacity ahead of Trump’s promised “largest deportation operation in American history”; Biden and his staff have discussed whether to grant preemptive pardons to current and former public officials who could be targeted by Kash Patel and the incoming Trump administration; Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy met with House and Senate Republicans about Trump’s plans to “dismantle” the federal government; Tulsi Gabbard, Trump’s choice for director of national intelligence, regularly read and shared Russian propaganda; the Heritage Foundation – the architect of Project 2025 – is spending $1 million to pressure Republican senators to confirm Pete Hegseth as secretary of defense; the House Republicans blocked the release of an Ethics Committee report on allegations against Matt Gaetz; and 88% of voters believe elections were well-run in 2024 – up from 59% in 2020. Dec 5, 2024