On This Day: November 13

7 posts spanning 2017–2025

2017

• Day 298 Nov 13, 2017

2018

• Day 663: CNN sued Trump to restore Jim Acosta's access to the White House; Maryland asked a federal judge to declare Rod Rosenstein the acting attorney general instead of Matthew Whitaker; Trump is considering replacing John Kelly and Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen; and a Roger Stone associate expects to be indicted by Robert Mueller soon. Nov 13, 2018

2019

• Day 1028: The first public hearings in the Trump impeachment inquiry started today as the House Intelligence Committee heard testimony from Bill Taylor and George Kent; Taylor testified that "Trump cares more about the investigations of Biden" than Ukraine and that a member of his staff overheard the U.S. ambassador to the European Union mention "the investigations" during a July 26 phone call with Trump; Kent, meanwhile, testified that Rudy Giuliani conducted a "campaign to smear" the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine by leading an effort to "gin up politically motivated investigations"; and Trump told reporters that he was "too busy" to watch the impeachment hearings. Nov 13, 2019

2020

• Day 1394: The U.S. topped more than 153,000 coronavirus cases for the first time, hospitalizations hit another all-time high, and New Mexico and Oregon issued new lockdown orders; more than 130 Secret Service officers are quarantining due to positive coronavirus tests or exposure stemming from Trump's campaign rallies before Election Day; Trump’s efforts to overturn President-elect Joe Biden’s victory suffered three major setbacks in Arizona, Michigan, and Pennsylvania; the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency reported that the presidential election was "the most secure in American history"; and Trump continues to insist to aides that he beat Biden and has asked advisers whether he could pressure Republican legislatures to pick pro-Trump electors in key states to steal the electoral votes needed to change the math and give him a second term. Nov 13, 2020

2023

• Day 1028: With four days until a government shutdown, House Republicans, Democrats, and the White House have all panned House Speaker Mike Johnson’s complex two-tiered plan to temporarily fund the government; the Supreme Court issued its first-ever code of conduct following months of ethical controversies; Biden urged Israel to take “less intrusive action” at the Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza, saying hospitals “must be protected”; Trump Jr. returned to the witness stand in the $250 million civil fraud trial, calling his father a "genius," a “visionary,” and “an artist with real estate” who “creates things that other people would never envision”; and Trump – echoing fascist dictators like Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini – "pledged" to "root out" his political opponents, which he called "vermin" and claimed they “lie, steal and cheat on elections. Nov 13, 2023

2024

• Day 1394: Trump named Matt Gaetz his pick as attorney general, Fox News Host Pete Hegseth his choice for secretary of defense, John Ratcliffe to lead the CIA, Tulsi Gabbard to serve as the director of national intelligence, and billionaires Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy as co-heads of the new Department of Government Efficiency; Republicans will keep control of the House of Representatives; Senate Republicans chose Sen. John Thune to be their new leader, while House Republicans unanimously nominated Speaker Mike Johnson to lead their conference again when the new Congress convenes in January; House Democrats will introduce a resolution clarifying that the Constitution’s two-term limit for presidents applies even if the terms are not consecutive after Trump quipped he can't run in 2028 unless Republicans "do something"; special counsel Jack Smith plans to finish his report and resign before Trump takes office; and consumer prices rose 2.6% in October compared to a year ago. Nov 13, 2024

2025

• Day 1759: The Justice Department sued to block California’s new voter-approved congressional map, which created five Democratic-leaning districts ahead of the 2026 midterm elections; Trump signed the House-passed funding bill last night to end the longest government shutdown in American history; a federal judge said he would release at least 313 low-risk detainees from Trump’s recent immigration crackdown in the Chicago area after finding that many arrests likely violated a 2022 consent decree limiting warrantless arrests; Speaker Mike Johnson said he would hold a vote next week on releasing the Justice Department files on Jeffrey Epstein after Rep. Adelita Grijalva became the 218th signer on a discharge petition; 24% of US households currently spend over 95% of their income on basic needs; Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Bill Pulte referred Rep. Eric Swalwell to the Justice Department for a potential criminal investigation over alleged mortgage, tax, and insurance fraud tied to his Washington home; a federal judge questioned whether Lindsey Halligan was lawfully appointed as interim U.S. attorney, putting the indictments of James Comey and Letitia James at risk; Trump’s former nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel, who sent text messages saying the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday should be “tossed into the seventh circle of hell” and admitted he had “a Nazi streak,” moved to the General Services Administration as deputy general counsel; and 40% of U.S. women aged 15 to 44 say they want to leave the country permanently. Nov 13, 2025