2018 Day 687: Mueller's office is expected to reveal details about Michael Cohen and Paul Manafort today; Trump kicked off the day by attacking the Mueller investigation in a series of angry, error-laden tweets; Tillerson called Trump "undisciplined"; Trump claimed that his lawyers are preparing a "major Counter Report" to rebut Mueller's findings, which contradicts Rudy Giuliani's statements; and CNN received a bomb threat and had to be evacuated as Trump attacked the media on Twitter as "the enemy of the people." Dec 7, 2018
2020 Day 1418: Trump called Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp and urged him to call a special session of the state legislature so lawmakers could appoint electors who would back him at the electoral college and overturn Biden's win in the state; Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger recertified the state’s election results and reaffirmed Biden’s victory; the Trump administration rejected requests from Biden’s transition team to meet with officials at the National Security Agency, the Defense Intelligence Agency, and other intelligence agencies; Biden selected California Attorney General Xavier Becerra to serve as his secretary of Health and Human Services; and Rudy Giuliani tested positive for the coronavirus. Dec 7, 2020
2022 Day 687: The Supreme Court appeared split on whether state legislators can set voting rules for federal elections without oversight from state courts; Democrat Raphael Warnock defeated Republican Herschel Walker in Georgia's Senate runoff election; and Trump's lawyers found at least two classified documents in a Florida storage unit. Dec 7, 2022
2023 Day 1052: Prosecutors in the Georgia election fraud case signaled they're seeking prison sentences for Trump and his top allies; Georgia’s Republican-controlled Legislature approved a new congressional map that likely violates a federal judge’s order requiring an additional majority-Black district; Trump appealed a judge's ruling that he doesn't have “absolute immunity” from prosecution in his federal election case and demanded that all proceedings be halted while a higher court considers his appeal to dismiss the criminal case; Kevin McCarthy will resign and leave Congress at the end of the year; a Texas judge granted an emergency order to allow an abortion despite state law banning nearly all abortions with limited exceptions; and one of the world's largest oil producers suggested that renewable energy is a threat to Earth's climate. Dec 7, 2023