2019 Day 1012: The House of Representatives will vote on the Trump impeachment inquiry; a former deputy national security adviser defied a congressional subpoena and failed to appear for a scheduled closed-door deposition before House impeachment investigators; the White House knew as early as mid-May that Rudy Giuliani and the ambassador to the European Union were pressuring the new Ukrainian president; and Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi died after detonating a suicide vest during a raid by U.S. special forces in northwestern Syria. Oct 28, 2019
2020 Day 1378: The United States reported another record-high average number of new coronavirus cases; Dr. Anthony Fauci warned the U.S. is in a "bad position" as coronavirus cases and hospitalizations surge and that it could be 2022 "before we start having some semblances of normality"; Jared Kushner bragged in mid-April that Trump had cut out the doctors and scientists advising him on the coronavirus pandemic; Trump had more than $270 million in debt forgiven since 2010; and the Trump campaign stranded hundreds of supporters in the freezing cold for hours after a rally at an airfield in Omaha. Oct 28, 2020
2024 Day 1378: Trump called the United States a "garbage can for the world"; at a rally where Trump was expected to deliver his closing argument to voters before Election Day, the event instead devolved into a spectacle of grievances, misogyny, and racism; Mike Johnson and Mitch McConnell – ignoring Trump’s recent comments referring to Kamala Harris as a “fascist,” “marxist,” “communist” and “comrade” – asked Harris to "stop escalating the threat environment" after she agreed that Trump is a fascist; Chinese hackers targeted Trump and JD Vance’s phones; Philadelphia District Attorney sued Elon Musk to stop his $1 million daily giveaways to Pennsylvania voters, calling it an “illegal lottery scheme”; the House Armed Services Committee and NASA Administrator Bill Nelson called for an investigation into Elon Musk after it was reported that Musk has been in regular contact with Putin since late 2022; 49% of voters said Trump is a fascist; and about 40% of voters say they are “extremely” or “very” concerned about attempts to violently overturn the results after the presidential election. Oct 28, 2024
2025 Day 1743: Twenty-five states and the District of Columbia sued the Trump administration for stopping food stamp payments during the government shutdown; Marjorie Taylor Greene confronted Speaker Mike Johnson on a private House Republican call, demanding to know “what the Republican plan for healthcare is”; a federal judge indefinitely blocked the Trump administration from firing federal workers amid the shutdown; Trump threatened to send “more than the National Guard” into U.S. cities; the U.S. military killed 14 people and left one survivor in strikes on four more boats in the eastern Pacific; Trump formally appealed his 2024 criminal conviction on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records to conceal his effort to influence the 2016 presidential election; and House Republicans declared all executive actions signed by Biden’s autopen “void” unless proven to have his direct approval. Oct 28, 2025