On This Day: February 2

6 posts spanning 2017–2026

2017

• Day 14 Feb 2, 2017

2018

• Day 379 Feb 2, 2018

2021

• Day 14: House impeachment managers accused Trump of whipping the crowd in Washington, D.C. on Jan. 6 "into a frenzy" and then aiming them "like a loaded cannon" at the Capitol; Trump’s lawyers denied that he sought to subvert the election results and incite the deadly assault on the Capitol; the Biden administration will distribute Covid-19 vaccine doses to retail pharmacies across the nation; Biden will form a task force to reunite families separated at the southern border under Trump's zero-tolerance immigration policy; and a post-mortem by Trump's chief pollster shows that Trump lost the 2020 election largely due to his handling of the coronavirus pandemic and voter perception that he wasn’t honest or trustworthy. Feb 2, 2021

2022

• Day 379: Biden directed the Pentagon to deploy more than 3,000 American troops to Eastern Europe; the EPA urged Postmaster General Louis DeJoy to reconsider his plan to spend up to $11.3 billion on as many as 165,000 new mostly gas-powered delivery vehicles; Biden relaunched the White House's "Cancer Moonshot" initiative; a member of the House Jan. 6 committee accused Trump of tampering with witnesses by promising pardons; a witness during Trump's first impeachment sued Trump Jr., Rudy Giuliani, and two former Trump White House staffers; and more than 100 far-right candidates are running for political office as Republicans. Feb 2, 2022

2023

• Day 744: The FBI plans to search Pence's Indiana home for classified material in the coming days; House Republicans removed Ilhan Omar from the Foreign Affairs Committee; Mitch McConnell removed Rick Scott from the Senate Commerce Committee as retribution for trying to replace him as leader of the GOP conference; Trump invoked the Fifth Amendment and declined to answer questions more than 400 times during an August deposition; Hunter Biden’s lawyers demanded that state and federal prosecutors open criminal investigations into who accessed and disseminated his personal data; and a federal judge ruled that a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the father of a man shot and killed by Kyle Rittenhouse can proceed. Feb 2, 2023

2026

• Day 1840: The partial federal government shutdown entered its third day after funding lapsed Saturday morning, and the House still doesn’t have the votes needed to pass the Senate-approved bill to reopen agencies; attorneys representing victims of Jeffrey Epstein asked two federal judges to order the Justice Department to take down its Epstein-files website, saying the release exposed victims’ names and other identifying details and created an “unfolding emergency”; the Justice Department opened a federal civil rights investigation into the killing of Alex Pretti; Fulton County, Georgia, plans to sue the FBI and the Justice Department over a search warrant that county officials said resulted in the seizure of 2020 election records; Trump called on Republicans to “nationalize the voting” and seize control of election administration from states; and 44% of voters approve of Trump’s job performance, while 56% disapprove. Feb 2, 2026