2019 Day 762: The Justice Department will potentially announce the completion of Robert Mueller's Russia investigation as early as next week; Democratic 2020 candidates are already social media disinformation attacks; CNN hired a longtime Republican operative as a political editor responsible with shaping the network's 2020 campaign coverage; and Trump – angered by a New York Times report that he tried to influence and undermine the investigations surrounding him – attacked the New York Times as the "true ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE" Feb 20, 2019
2020 Day 1127: An intelligence official in charge of election security warned the House Intelligence Committee last week that Russia was interfering in the 2020 campaign to try to get Trump re-elected; Trump’s reelection campaign and the Republican National Committee will spend more than $10 million to challenge Democratic voting-related lawsuits; Roger Stone was sentenced to 40 months in prison; and Trump said he wouldn’t immediately pardon Stone but would intervene if courts don’t overturn his conviction. Feb 20, 2020
2024 Day 1127: For the third time, the U.S. vetoed a United Nations Security Council resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza; the Biden administration is preparing “major sanctions” against Russia in response to the death of opposition leader Alexei Navalny; the Supreme Court declined to take up a case challenging an admissions policy aimed at encouraging diversity at a Virginia high school; an FBI informant was indicted on two counts for providing agents allegedly false information about Biden and his son Hunter Biden during the 2020 presidential campaign; and a Manhattan judge ordered Trump to pay $355 million (plus interest) and barred him from serving in a top role of any New York company for three years for fraudulently inflating the values of his properties. Feb 20, 2024