2019 Day 851: Deutsche Bank staff flagged multiple suspicious transactions made in 2016 and 2017 by legal entities controlled by Trump and Kushner that were ignored by bank executives; Trump directed Don McGahn to ignore a congressional subpoena and skip a hearing before the House Judiciary Committee; Justin Amash became the first GOP lawmaker to publicly declare that Trump's actions meet the threshold for impeachment; and federal prosecutors in New York are going through tens of thousands of documents related to Trump's record-setting $107 million inauguration. May 20, 2019
2020 Day 1217: Trump threatened to "hold up" federal funds from Michigan and Nevada because they are expanding mail-in voting to make it easier to vote during the coronavirus pandemic; the CDC released its reopening guidance that the White House had shelved; the Supreme Court blocked Congress from seeing secret grand jury material from Robert Mueller's investigation; Mike Pompeo declined to be interviewed by the State Department inspector general about the Trump administration's arms sales to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates; and Republican political operatives are recruiting "extremely pro-Trump" doctors to go on TV and make the case for reopening the U.S. economy as quickly as possible. May 20, 2020
2021 Day 121: The House voted to create an independent commission to investigate the Jan. 6 Capitol assault and narrowly approved a $1.9 billion spending bill to fortify security at the Capitol; Israel and Hamas agreed to a tentative cease-fire; Bernie Sanders will introduce a resolution disapproving of the U.S. sale of $735 million in weapons to Israel; the Biden administration reinstalled the scientist responsible for producing the federal government’s definitive reports on climate change; and Iowa and Texas both banned mask mandates in public schools. May 20, 2021
2024 Day 1217: The International Criminal Court will seek arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar for alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza; prosecutors, who charged Trump with 34 felony counts, rested their case in the election interference trial involving falsified business records; Rudy Giuliani was served notice of his Arizona indictment related in the scheme to overturn the 2020 election results; Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito sold shares of Anheuser-Busch during last year’s conservative boycott of Bud Light over its partnership with a transgender social media influencer; and Alito flew an upside-down American flag at his home after the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol. May 20, 2024
2025 Day 1582: Trump demanded that House Republicans support his tax and spending bill or risk facing primary challengers backed by him; Elon Musk will cut back on political donations after spending nearly $300 million to help Trump win the 2024 election; Trump abandoned his pledge to broker an immediate ceasefire between Russia-Ukraine after a two-hour call with Putin; Trump reportedly instructed aides to tell Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu to “wrap it up” and end the war in Gaza; the Justice Department charged Rep. LaMonica McIver with assaulting federal law enforcement officers during a confrontation outside a Newark ICE facility; and Trump’s nominee to lead the IRS promoted a tax credit the IRS confirmed does not exist. May 20, 2025