On This Day: November 17

5 posts spanning 2017–2025

2017

• Day 302 Nov 17, 2017

2020

• Day 1398: The leaders of three major medical associations urged Trump to share "all critical information related to COVID-19" with the incoming Biden administration “as soon as possible” in order to "save countless lives"; the Pennsylvania Supreme Court rejected the Trump campaign’s claim that election observers were improperly denied access to watch ballot counting in Philadelphia; Lindsey Graham proposed throwing out legally mailed ballots to Georgia’s top elections official; Biden told aides that he's concerned that Trump investigations would consume his presidency and divide the nation; and Trump asked his top national security aides what options were available to taking action against Iran’s main nuclear site in the coming weeks. Nov 17, 2020

2021

• Day 302: The House voted to censure Rep. Paul Gosar for posting an animated video that depicted him killing Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and attacking Biden; Trump asked a federal appeals court to block the National Archives from sending his White House records related to the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol to Congress; the now-infamous shirtless insurrectionist wearing face paint and a horned helmet during the Jan. 6 Capitol riot was sentenced to 41 months in prison for his role in the attack; the Commission on Civil Rights appointed the Republican attorney who helped Trump attempt to overturn the 2020 presidential election to a federal election advisory board; and the seven-day average of new hospital admissions with Covid-19 climbed in 25 states from a week earlier. Nov 17, 2021

2022

• Day 667: Nancy Pelosi will not seek a Democratic leadership role in the next Congress after Republicans take control of the House; the Biden administration will ask the Supreme Court to revive its student loan debt relief program; the Jan. 6 committee interviewed the lead Secret Service agent in Trump’s motorcade on the day of the insurrection; Michael Flynn was ordered to testify before a special grand jury investigating whether Trump and his allies tried to overturn the 2020 election in Georgia; and the Trump Organization’s longtime chief financial officer testified that he committed tax crimes and that the company stopped several illegal tax practices after Trump became president. Nov 17, 2022

2025

• Day 1763: Trump rolled back reciprocal tariffs on beef, coffee, bananas, tomatoes, tea, cocoa and fruit juices to ease grocery prices that increased as a result of his tariffs; Trump threatened to back primary challengers against Indiana state lawmakers who oppose his mid-cycle congressional redistricting plan; Trump urged House Republicans to vote for the release of Justice Department files on Jeffrey Epstein, after weeks of trying to stop the vote; Trump directed Attorney General Pam Bondi to open a Justice Department investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s relationships with Bill Clinton, Larry Summers, Reid Hoffman and JPMorgan Chase; Trump withdrew his endorsement of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene and called her a “traitor” after she joined the bipartisan effort to force a House vote on releasing Justice Department files on Jeffrey Epstein; the U.N. Security Council approved Trump’s 20-point Gaza peace plan; Trump will host Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman at the White House for the first time since the 2018 killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, which a CIA assessment said the prince likely ordered; the Trump administration will designate Venezuela’s Cartel de los Soles as a foreign terrorist organization on Nov. 24; and Trump defended Tucker Carlson interviewing white nationalist Nick Fuentes, saying “you can’t tell him who to interview” and that “people have to decide,” while adding he didn’t “know much about him.” Nov 17, 2025