2018 Day 642: Trump called the Saudi operation to kill Jamal Khashoggi one of "worst cover-ups in the history of cover-ups"; the Saudi cover story fell apart because the Khashoggi "body double" wore the wrong shoes; Khashoggi's remains were found in the garden of the Saudi consul general's home in Istanbul; Trump declared himself a nationalist; Putin wants to meet with Trump; and the FBI has not been able to locate any photos of Robert Mueller and James Comey "hugging and kissing each other." Oct 23, 2018
2019 Day 1007: Ukraine knew that Trump had frozen $391 million in security assistance by early August; the Trump administration repeatedly tried to cut foreign aid programs tasked with combating corruption in Ukraine; toughly 30 House Republicans forced entry into a closed-door deposition and refused to leave; House impeachment investigators are scrutinizing a National Security Council aide suspected of operating a second Ukraine backchannel; and Trump's lawyer argued that Trump is immune from prosecution while in office – even if he shot someone. Oct 23, 2019
2020 Day 1373: The United States coronavirus cases set new a daily record; Trump almost took responsibility for his administration's failure on COVID-19 during the second and final debate; and the Trump administration pressured the CDC to support the use of hotels to hold migrant children before deporting them. Oct 23, 2020
2023 Day 1007: The House entered its third week without a speaker after Republicans dropped Jim Jordan as their nominee while nine other Republicans have lined up for the speakership; Hamas released two more hostages for “humanitarian and health reasons”; Biden asked Congress for $105 billion in national security funding for Ukraine, Israel, humanitarian aid, border security, and countering China in the Indo-Pacific; a third Trump co-defendant pleaded guilty to illegally conspiring to overturn Trump’s 2020 election loss in Georgia; the Supreme Court temporarily allowed the White House to continue its efforts to pressure social media companies to remove misinformation from their platforms; Trump was fined $5,000 for a “blatant violation” of a gag order in his New York civil fraud trial; and Trump denied that he shared U.S. national security secrets with an Australian billionaire. Oct 23, 2023
2024 Day 1373: The presidential election is 13 days away; Trump’s longest-serving chief of staff warned that Trump meets the definition of a “fascist” and once said he wanted the “kind of generals Hitler had”; Kamala Harris called Trump "increasingly unhinged and unstable"; the Justice Department warned Elon Musk that his $1 million sweepstakes giveaway to registered voters in swing states may violate federal law; and a federal judge ordered Rudy Giuliani to turn over most of his possessions, including cash, jewelry and his New York apartment, as part of the $148 million defamation judgement he owes to two former Georgia election workers. Oct 23, 2024
2025 Day 1738: The Senate rejected two bills to pay federal workers during the shutdown, which is now in its 23rd day; at least 25 states warned that food aid benefits will stop in November if the federal government shutdown continues; Trump called off a planned “surge” of federal immigration agents in San Francisco after a late-night calls with Mayor Daniel Lurie and tech executives; Virginia Democrats plan to call a special legislative session to redraw the state’s congressional map in an effort to add up to three Democratic seats; House Democrats opened an investigation into Trump’s demand that the Justice Department pay him $230 million for past criminal investigations; the U.S. national debt surpassed $38 trillion, the fastest $1 trillion increase in history outside the pandemic; Trump pardoned the Binance founder who promoted the Trump family’s meme coin and crypto venture; and Russia denounced Trump’s sanctions on its top oil companies, calling them “an unfriendly act” and warning that they would damage U.S.-Russia relations. Oct 23, 2025