On This Day: October 9

6 posts spanning 2017–2025

2017

• Day 263 Oct 9, 2017

2018

• Day 628: Rick Gates requested proposals in 2016 from an Israeli company to create fake online identities and use social media to manipulate and influence the election; Nikki Haley resigned as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations; The acting EPA administration repeatedly engaged with racist and conspiratorial content on Facebook and Twitter; and Trump's trade war with China has cost Ford $1 billion. Oct 9, 2018

2019

• Day 993: Turkey launched an attack on the Kurds after Trump pulled U.S. troops from northeastern Syria; Trump invited Turkish President Erdogan to visit the White House in November; Trump told Rick Perry and two top State Department officials to go exclusively through Giuliani to set up a meeting with Ukrainian President Zelensky; U.S. diplomats were told to downplay the release of U.S. military aide to Ukraine; and a new book includes 43 new allegations of misconduct – 26 of which involve unwanted sexual contact – by Trump. Oct 9, 2019

2020

• Day 1359: House Democrats introduced legislation to create a bipartisan commission to review whether Trump and future presidents are capable of carrying out their duties; the White House is preparing a $1.8 trillion coronavirus relief offer despite Mitch McConnell indicating that a stimulus deal was "unlikely" before the election; Trump's tax records show that more than $21 million in unusual payments were routed from a Las Vegas hotel Trump owns with Phil Ruffin through other Trump companies and paid out in cash; Trump received a $21.1 million tax break for preserving the forest around his New York mansion after a 2016 appraisal valued the estate at more than double the value assessed by three other counties; Dr. Sean Conley reported that Trump "has completed his course of therapy for COVID-19," and he expects Trump to "return to public engagements" on Saturday; Trump will host an event on Saturday at the White House; and Trump will receive a “medical evaluation” during Tucker Carlson Tonight by Dr. Marc Siegel, a Fox News contributor. Oct 9, 2020

2024

• Day 1359: With landfall by Milton, a major Category 3 hurricane, hours away and nearly 7.3 million Floridians facing mandatory evacuation orders, Marjorie Taylor Greene continued to promote her false conspiracy theory that the government can control the weather; the Kremlin confirmed that Trump secretly sent Putin Covid-19 testing equipment during the height of the pandemic when the machines were in short supply; Republicans are challenging all aspects of mail-in voting in battleground states; and Trump plans rallies in solidly Democratic states in an unorthodox strategy for the election's final weeks. Oct 9, 2024

2025

• Day 1724: Trump threatened to use the ongoing government shutdown, now in its ninth day, to make permanent cuts to “Democrat programs”; U.S. District Judge April Perry temporarily blocked Trump from deploying or federalizing National Guard troops in Illinois for 14 days; Senate Republicans blocked a bipartisan resolution to limit Trump’s authority to order military strikes on alleged drug-smuggling boats in the Caribbean; Trump tried to privately message Attorney General Pam Bondi on social media to demand she prosecute his political opponents, but instead he posted it publicly; a federal grand jury indicted New York Attorney General Letitia James, who won a civil fraud judgment against Trump last year, on one count of bank fraud and one count of making false statements to a financial institution; Israel and Hamas agreed to the first phase of Trump’s Gaza peace plan; and Trump’s push for a Gaza ceasefire came as he publicly campaigned for the Nobel Peace Prize, which will be announced Friday, prompting concern in Norway that he could retaliate if he doesn’t win Oct 9, 2025