2019 Day 1019: Interview notes from Robert Mueller's special counsel investigation were released; Paul Manafort pushed the unproven theory that Ukrainians might have been responsible for hacking the Democratic National Committee at least five months before the 2016 election; the former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine told House impeachment investigators that she felt "threatened" by Trump; four White House officials scheduled to give depositions today as part of the House's impeachment inquiry refused to show up and testify; Trump's accounting firm must turn over eight years of his personal and corporate tax returns to Manhattan prosecutors; and the Trump administration formally notified the United Nations that the U.S. is withdrawing from the Paris climate agreement. Nov 4, 2019
2020 Day 1385: Biden holds a 253 to 213 Electoral College advantage over Trump after narrowly winning both Wisconsin and Michigan; the Trump campaign, however, said it would request a recount; Biden holds a lead in Arizona and Nevada, while Trump is up in Alaska, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, and Georgia; Democrats are still projected to win the House but in the Senate, Democrats have only gained one seat, with five races yet to be called; Biden is currently winning the popular vote by nearly 3 million; and Trump falsely claimed he won the presidential election and vowed to take legal action to stop "all voting." Nov 4, 2020
2024 Day 1385: Trump, who tried to overturn his 2020 election loss, said he “shouldn’t have left” the White House; Trump suggested that Liz Cheney should have guns “trained on her face," wondering how his prominent Republican critic would fare “with a rifle standing there with nine barrels shooting at her”; Trump said he wouldn't "mind" if someone had to "shoot through the fake news" to get to him; Trump didn’t rule out banning vaccines if he becomes president and said Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s plan to remove fluoride from public water "sounds OK to me"; House Speaker Mike Johnson said Republicans “probably will” try to repeal the CHIPS and Science Act if they control Congress and Trump wins the White House; and at a rally hours before the election, the Republican Party’s presidential candidate used a microphone holder on his podium to pantomime the act of giving fellatio. Nov 4, 2024
2025 Day 1750: At 35 days, the federal shutdown has tied the record for the longest in U.S. history; Trump is preparing to make life “a living hell” for Senate Republicans who refuse to eliminate the filibuster; the White House walked back Trump’s threat to block SNAP payments “until the Radical Left Democrats open up government [...] and not before!” in defiance of a federal court order to keep the program running during the shutdown; Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy warned that parts of U.S. airspace may be closed next week if the government shutdown continues; the Pentagon credentialed far-right activist Laura Loomer to its press corps after nearly all mainstream reporters resigned over new rules requiring preapproval for coverage not cleared by the Defense Department; Heritage Foundation chief of staff Ryan Neuhaus resigned after President Kevin Roberts defended Tucker Carlson’s interview with white nationalist Nick Fuentes; and a Wyoming man who helped convince the world to invade Iraq on the false pretense that “there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction” (he didn’t), that Iraq had “reconstituted nuclear weapons” (it hadn’t), and that Americans would be “greeted as liberators” (they weren’t), died November 3, 2025, at 84 from pneumonia and heart complications. Nov 4, 2025