On This Day: January 14

5 posts spanning 2019–2026

2019

• Day 725: The FBI opened a counterintelligence investigation into whether Trump had been working on behalf of Russia in May 2017; Trump concealed details about his conversations with Putin from administration officials; Trump wouldn't directly answer if he was a Russian agent; and Trump rejected Lindsey Graham's proposal to reopen the government as the shutdown entered its 24th day. Jan 14, 2019

2020

• Day 1090: The House will vote on Wednesday to transmit articles of impeachment against Trump to the Senate; senior Senate Republicans rejected Trump's call to dismiss impeachment charges against him; the Russian military hacked into the Ukrainian gas company at the center of the Trump impeachment inquiry; and Trump is preparing to divert another $7.2 billion in Pentagon funding to pay for his border wall. Jan 14, 2020

2021

• Day 1456: Biden released a $1.9 trillion economic and health care rescue package; Biden urged the Senate to balance the impeachment trial of Trump with the "other urgent business of this nation"; Trump is reportedly in "self-pity mode" after becoming the only U.S. president to be impeached twice; Trump issued an appeal for nonviolence after the House voted to impeach him for "incitement of insurrection"; Democratic lawmakers accused Republican colleagues of leading groups on “reconnaissance” tours of the Capitol the day before Trump supporters stormed the building; and 2020 was the second-hottest year in recorded history and the last decade was hotter on average than any time in at least 2,000 years. Jan 14, 2021

2025

• Day 1456: Special Counsel Jack Smith's final report made clear that Trump has not been exonerated for his “unprecedented criminal effort to overturn the legitimate results of the election in order to retain power” and that the evidence would have secured a conviction had the case gone to trial; Special Counsel David Weiss criticized Biden for calling the prosecution of his son, Hunter Biden, politically motivated; Pete Hegseth, Trump’s nominee for defense secretary, faced a contentious confirmation hearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee; the Republican-led House banned transgender women and girls from participating in female sports categories; House Speaker Mike Johnson suggested tying federal aid for California wildfire recovery to debt ceiling negotiations; Mike Johnson ordered flags at the Capitol to be raised to full staff for Trump’s inauguration, temporarily overriding Biden’s directive to keep flags at half-staff for a 30-day mourning period honoring Jimmy Carter; the Biden administration moved to remove Cuba from the U.S. list of state sponsors of terrorism, citing a lack of credible evidence to support the designation; and Trump announced plans to create an “External Revenue Service” to collect tariffs and other forms of revenue that come from foreign sources. Jan 14, 2025

2026

• Day 1821: FBI agents searched the Virginia home of a Washington Post reporter; Denmark said it still had a “fundamental disagreement” with the Trump administration over Greenland; the Pentagon began evacuating nonessential personnel from Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar as a precaution while Trump weighs possible military strikes over Iran’s crackdown on protests; the State Department said it will indefinitely pause immigrant visa processing for people from 75 countries; Trump gave an autoworker who called him a "pedophile protector" the middle finger and twice mouthed “fuck you” while touring a Ford plant in Michigan; and 2025 was the third-warmest on record, and the past 11 years have been the 11 warmest. Jan 14, 2026