2018 Day 634: Trump suggested that "rogue killers" may be responsible for the disappearance of Jamal Khashoggi; the Saudis plan to admit that Khashoggi's death was the result of an interrogation gone wrong; Jared Kushner appears to have paid almost no federal income taxes from 2009 to 2016; and Trump denied offering Elizabeth Warren $1 million to take a test proving her Native American heritage. Oct 15, 2018
2019 Day 999: The White House's former top Russia adviser told impeachment investigators that Rudy Giuliani ran a shadow foreign policy in Ukraine that circumvented U.S. officials and career diplomats in order to personally benefit Trump; John Bolton was so alarmed by Giuliani's politically motivated activities to get the Ukrainians to investigate Trump's political opponents that he called it a "drug deal"; the former U.S. ambassador to the European Union intends to tell Congress that Trump personally assured him that there was no quid pro quo relationship; Rudy Giuliani was paid $500,000 to consult for a company co-founded by the Ukrainian-American businessman arrested last week on campaign finance charges; and Trump authorized "powerful" sanctions against Turkey for its invasion into northeast Syria. Oct 15, 2019
2020 Day 1365: Another 898,000 workers filed for unemployment benefits last week; Mitch McConnell won't bring the White House's proposed $1.8 trillion coronavirus stimulus package to the Senate floor; Trump's aides privately warned Republican party donors in February about the potential impact of the coronavirus at a time when Trump was publicly insisting that the virus was “very much under control” in the United States; the Senate Judiciary Committee will formally vote on Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s nomination to the Supreme Court on Oct. 22; and Trump and Joe Biden will face off tonight in dueling town halls on different networks at the same time. Oct 15, 2020
2021 Day 269: The Justice Department will ask the Supreme Court to block enforcement of a restrictive Texas abortion law while a legal challenge moves forward; a Capitol Police officer was indicted on obstruction of justice charges in connection to the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection; the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol will move to hold Stephen Bannon in criminal contempt for not complying with its subpoena; Biden’s commission studying potential reforms to Supreme Court warned that there are “considerable” risks to expanding the number of justices; and a judge in New York ordered Trump to sit for a videotaped deposition. Oct 15, 2021
2024 Day 1365: The Biden administration threatened to suspend military assistance if Israel doesn’t improve the “increasingly dire” humanitarian crisis in Gaza – but then sent Israel an advanced missile defense system and the American troops needed to operate it; Trump called for the National Guard or U.S. military to be deployed on American soil to handle what he called “the enemy from within” on Election Day, claiming that "radical left lunatics” are more dangerous than foreign adversaries like Russia and China; JD Vance refused five times to acknowledge that Biden won the 2020 election and that Trump lost; Kamala Harris agreed to an interview with Fox News; Kamala Harris released her medical report, which says she’s in “excellent health” and “possesses the physical and mental resiliency” required to serve as president; and Trump ended his town hall with voters early to listen to music for 39 minutes on stage. Oct 15, 2024
2025 Day 1730: The Senate failed to pass funding bill for the ninth time as the shutdown entered its third week; a federal judge temporarily blocked the Trump administration from firing more than 4,000 federal workers during the government shutdown; the Trump administration blamed the ongoing government shutdown on Saturday’s “No Kings” protests; the Supreme Court’s conservative majority appeared ready to limit the Voting Rights Act; Trump authorized the CIA to conduct covert operations in Venezuela; House Speaker Mike Johnson called Portland’s naked bike protest “the most threatening thing I’ve seen yet”; and JD Vance brushed off the leaked Young Republican chats that praised Hitler and used racist and violent language, saying “kids do stupid things." Oct 15, 2025