2018 Day 599: The Trump campaign team was "fully aware" of George Papadopoulos' efforts to set up a Trump-Putin meeting; Trump is expected to declassify documents about the government's surveillance of Trump campaign adviser Carter Page; Trump won't enforce the $130,000 hush-money nondisclosure agreement between Stormy Daniels and Michael Cohen; and the Trump administration discussed plans for a coup in Venezuela last year. Sep 10, 2018
2019 Day 964: Trump announced that he fired his national security adviser; Trump called his second national security adviser and told him that he missed him; Trump has repeatedly expressed skepticism about using foreign intelligence from covert sources; and Trump claimed he'll release an "extremely complete" report of his financial records in order to dispel the notion that he's profiting off of his administration. Sep 10, 2019
2020 Day 1330: Russia, China, and Iran have all recently attempted to hack people and organizations involved in the 2020 presidential election; Russian hackers targeted one of Biden's election campaign advisory firms; Senate Republicans failed to advance their coronavirus stimulus bill; Trump bragged that he protected Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman from Congress after ordering the assassination of the American journalist Jamal Khashoggi; and Trump called a reporter a "disgrace" after asking why the president lied to Americans about the severity of COVID-19. Sep 10, 2020
2021 Day 234: The Justice Department sued Texas over its restrictive new abortion law; Biden ordered all businesses with more than 100 employees to require their workers to be vaccinated against the coronavirus or face weekly testing; a Florida appeals court reinstated the state’s ban on school mask mandates; the Biden administration appealed a Texas court ruling that called the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program unlawful; and 49% of Americans disapprove of how Biden is handling his job as president. Sep 10, 2021
2024 Day 1330: House Speaker Mike Johnson doesn’t have the votes to pass a spending bill to avert a government shutdown; the U.S. accused Iran of sending short-range ballistic missiles to Russia to use against Ukraine; U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken called for “fundamental changes” to the way Israeli forces operate in the occupied West Bank; the Biden administration condemned Tucker Carlson after he hosted a Holocaust denier on his podcast; 67% of Republicans trust Trump more on the election results than the official government-certified results; and Harris and Trump will face off for their first presidential debate tonight at 9pm ET on ABC. Sep 10, 2024