2018 Day 487: Trump demanded that the Justice Department investigate whether the FBI "infiltrated" his campaign; Rod Rosenstein, FBI Director Christopher Wray and Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats met with Trump at the White House; and three months before the 2016 election, Trump Jr. met with representatives of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates who offered to help the Trump campaign. May 21, 2018
2019 Day 852: A federal judge ordered Trump's accounting firm to hand over his financial records to Congress; Don McGahn ignored a subpoena and bailed on his scheduled hearing to testify in front of the House Judiciary Committee; Michael Cohen said Trump's attorney told him to lie to Congress and suggested that he would be pardoned if he helped "shut down" the Russia investigation; and one of the hosts of 'Fox & Friends' has been privately lobbying Trump for months to convince him to pardon accused and convicted war criminals. May 21, 2019
2020 Day 1218: Another 2.4 million workers filed new unemployment claims last week; Mitch McConnell promised House Republicans that enhanced unemployment benefits enacted earlier this spring "will not be in the next bill"; the United States could have prevented about 36,000 deaths if social distancing had been put in place seven days earlier; Trump warned Americans that “we are not closing our country” again if the U.S. is hit by a second wave of coronavirus infections; and Trump refused to wear a mask while touring the Ford manufacturing plant in Michigan despite recommendations from federal health officials and an executive order from the state’s governor. May 21, 2020
2024 Day 1218: Israel’s Communications Ministry confiscated camera and broadcasting equipment from the Associated Press; Trump’s campaign adopted Nazi rhetoric in a social media post that referred to “the creation of a unified Reich” if he becomes president again; Trump’s defense team rested its case without calling him to testify; and the U.S. said Russia "likely" launched a counterspace weapon capable of attacking other satellites in low Earth orbit last week. May 21, 2024
2025 Day 1583: Trump warned House Republicans that failure to pass his tax and spending bill would be “the ultimate betrayal”; the Justice Department moved to dismiss police reform agreements in Minneapolis and Louisville – days before the anniversaries of the killings that prompted them; Trump used a televised Oval Office meeting with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa to push false claims that White Afrikaner farmers are facing a “genocide”; a federal judge ruled that the Trump administration “unquestionably” violated a court order by deporting eight men to South Sudan without giving them time to object; the Defense Department accepted a luxury Boeing 747-8 from Qatar for use as Air Force One; and the chief of staff to Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard ordered intelligence analysts to rewrite an assessment that contradicted Trump’s claim that Venezuela directs the criminal gang Tren de Aragua. May 21, 2025