On This Day: June 5

6 posts spanning 2017–2025

2017

• Day 137 Jun 5, 2017

2018

• Day 502: Trump blamed Jeff Sessions for the ongoing Russia investigation into possible collusion, lamented asking Sessions to lead the Justice Department, and suggested that the probe would have been shut down by now if Sessions had not recused himself; Mueller's team accused Paul Manafort of felony witness tampering; McConnell canceled most of the Senate's August recess; and Betsy DeVos told lawmakers that the White House's school safety commission will not examine the role of guns in school violence. Jun 5, 2018

2019

• Day 867: Trump said he believes climate change "goes both ways"; Trump claimed that he is "making up" for not serving in the Vietnam War by proposing to increase the Pentagon's budget; a bipartisan group of senators will try to block the Trump administration's use of emergency authority to sell arms to Saudi Arabia; and the House passed the DREAM and Promise Act of 2019. Jun 5, 2019

2023

• Day 867: Trump's attorneys met with the Justice Department to argue why the government should not charge him in connection with his handling of classified documents after leaving office; Trump’s attorneys haven't been able to find the classified document about a potential attack on Iran that Trump said he had kept after leaving the White House; Pence filed paperwork declaring his campaign for president in 2024; a federal judge ruled that first-of-its-kind Tennessee law that banned drag shows in public or where children could watch them is unconstitutional and can’t be enforced; and Florida reportedly flew three dozen migrants from Texas to Sacramento. Jun 5, 2023

2024

• Day 1233: Convicted felon Trump – again – suggested that he’d prosecute his political opponents if he’s reelected; a Georgia appeals court indefinitely postponed convicted felon Trump’s election subversion case; the federal judge overseeing convicted felon Trump’s trial involving "willful retention" of classified documents in violation of the Espionage Act – again – abruptly changed the court’s schedule; convicted felon Trump asked the judge overseeing his election interference trial involving falsified business records to terminate the gag order because the trial is over; and Senate Republicans blocked a Democratic measure to protect the federal right to access contraception nationwide. Jun 5, 2024

2025

• Day 1598: Trump threatened to cancel Elon Musk’s federal contracts, called him “crazy” and accussed him of suffering from “Trump derangement syndrome”; Musk responded by saying Trump is “in the Epstein files,” floated creating a new political party, predicted a recession from Trump’s tariffs and tax and spending bill, endorsed impeaching Trump, ordered SpaceX to decommission its Dragon spacecraft used by NASA, and claimed that “Without me, Trump would have lost the election"; Trump issued a travel ban blocking immigration and most travel from 12 countries; a federal judge ordered the Trump administration to give over 100 migrants deported to El Salvador a chance to challenge their removals; Trump blocked foreign nationals from entering the U.S. to study at Harvard; and the Supreme Court unanimously ruled that a straight woman passed over for promotions can sue for job discrimination, threw out Mexico’s lawsuit against U.S. gun makers, and ruled that Wisconsin illegally denied the Catholic Charities Bureau and its affiliated groups a religious tax exemption. Jun 5, 2025