2020 Day 1321: Trump compared police officers who shoot unarmed people to golfers who "choke" while putting; Trump defended the Kenosha gunman charged with murdering two people; Trump spread a baseless conspiracy theory that “people that are in the dark shadows” are “controlling the streets” in Kenosha and other cities; Acting DHS Secretary Chad Wolf said Attorney General William Barr is "working on" conspiracy charges against leaders of the Black Lives Matter movement; Trump denied that his unscheduled visit Walter Reed National Military Medical Center last November was because he had "suffered a series of mini-strokes"; and Pence was put on “standby to take over the powers of the presidency temporarily” if Trump needed to be anesthetized during the unscheduled hospital visit. Sep 1, 2020
2021 Day 225: Texas enacted the nation’s the most restrictive abortion ban; Texas Republicans passed new restrictions on the state's voting process; Kevin McCarthy threatened telecommunication companies that a future "Republican majority will not forget" if they cooperate with the January 6 investigation; and the Florida Department of Health changed the way it reported Covid-19 death data to the CDC as cases ballooned in August, giving the appearance that the pandemic was in decline. Sep 1, 2021
2022 Day 590: The wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas pressed lawmakers to overturn Biden’s 2020 victory in both Arizona and Wisconsin; a federal judge ordered Lindsey Graham to testify before a grand jury investigating efforts to overturn Trump’s election loss in Georgia; Trump and the Mazars USA accounting firm agreed to turn over some "key financial documents" to the House Oversight and Reform Committee; 2021 was one of the hottest years on record; Republicans are exploring potential lawsuits to block Biden’s plan to cancel some student debt for tens of millions of Americans; math and reading scores for elementary school students fell to their lowest levels in two decades during the pandemic; and 52% of voters agree that the FBI search of Mar-a-Lago “was part of a legal and proper investigation to determine" whether Trump was involved in any wrongdoing. Sep 1, 2022