2019 Day 970: The Manhattan District Attorney subpoenaed eight years of Trump's "personal and corporate tax returns"; the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee accused the the acting director of national intelligence of withholding a whistleblower complaint in order to protect a "higher authority" official; a previously unreported story about Brett Kavanaugh in college echoes Deborah Ramirez's allegation that he pulled down his pants at a party and thrust his penis at her; and Trump threatened military action in response to an attack on Saudi Arabian oil facilities. Sep 16, 2019
2020 Day 1336: Trump – again – claimed that the coronavirus will "disappear" without a vaccine and that the U.S. would develop "herd mentality"; CDC Director Dr. Robert Redfield testified that a COVID-19 vaccine won't be widely available until late spring or summer 2021 and that Americans will not return "our regular life" until then; Trump criticized Biden for not implementing a national mask mandate, even though Biden is not the president and has no authority to do so; a whistleblower complaint accused an ICE detention center of performing unnecessary hysterectomies on immigrant women; and Attorney General William Barr encouraged federal prosecutors to consider charging violent protesters with sedition. Sep 16, 2020
2024 Day 1336: A man waited with a rifle for 12 hours at Trump’s golf course in West Palm Beach, Florida before a Secret Service agent spotted him and opened fire; Elon Musk deleted his post wondering why "no one is even trying to assassinate" Biden and Kamala Harris; and JD Vance admitted that he has to "create stories" – like the debunked claim that Haitians in Ohio are killing and eating pets – to get media attention. Sep 16, 2024
2025 Day 1701: House Republicans released a stopgap bill to fund the government through Nov. 21, but excludes Democrats’ demands to extend Affordable Care Act subsidies and reverse Medicaid cuts; the person accused of fatally shooting conservative activist Charlie Kirk was formally charged with seven counts, including aggravated murder; Attorney General Pam Bondi, contradicting the First Amendment, said the Justice Department would “absolutely target” people for “hate speech” after Charlie Kirk’s killing; Trump filed a $15 billion defamation lawsuit against The New York Times, four of its reporters, and Penguin Random House, calling the paper a “full-throated mouthpiece of the Democrat Party” engaged in a “decades-long pattern” of defamation; and the Justice Department deleted a study that found white supremacist and far-right violence “continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism” in the U.S. Sep 16, 2025