2018 Day 610: Trump questioned Dr. Ford's credibility; the Senate Judiciary Committee agreed to meet some but not all of Dr. Ford's conditions in order for her to testify next week; Mitch McConnell predicts that Kavanaugh will be confirmed "in the very near future"; Rod Rosenstein raised the idea of wearing a wire last year to secretly record Trump in the White House and expose the chaos in the administration; and Robert Mueller is investigating $3.3 million in bank transactions between two of the men who orchestrated the Trump Tower meeting. Sep 21, 2018
2020 Day 1341: Trump urged Senate Republicans to replace Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg "without delay"; by the time you read this, 200,000 people will be dead from the coronavirus in the United States; Trump's political appointees tried to silence a top official at the CDC after she warned "we have way too much virus across the country"; the CDC reversed its previous guidance about how the coronavirus is transmitted; and 62% of Americans want the winner of the November presidential election to name a successor to Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the Supreme Court. Sep 21, 2020
2022 Day 610: New York Attorney General Letitia James sued Trump, Trump Jr., Ivanka Trump, Eric Trump, and executives at the Trump Organization; the special master tasked with reviewing documents seized from Mar-a-Lago repeatedly challenged Trump's lawyers refusal to offer proof that Trump had declassified any of the 100 documents that the FBI recovered from his estate; Biden condemned Russia's efforts to “erase” Ukraine from the map after Putin threatened to use nuclear weapons if Kyiv continues its efforts to reclaim occupied territory; the Federal Reserve approved its third consecutive 75-basis-point interest-rate hike as inflation remains near a 40-year high; and sales of existing U.S. homes fell for the seventh straight month in August as mortgage rates climbed toward their highest level in 14 years. Sep 21, 2022
2023 Day 975: Kevin McCarthy canceled House votes and sent members home for the weekend despite nine days remaining until a shutdown and no plan to fund the government; the Senate voted to confirm three key military promotions despite a monthslong blockade by Sen. Tommy Tuberville; the Biden administration will offer temporary legal status to about 472,000 Venezuelan migrants who arrived in the U.S. before July 31; Trump instructed a former assistant to tell federal investigators that she didn't know anything about the boxes containing classified documents at Mar-a-Lago; a former White House aide accused Rudy Giuliani of groping her on the day of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot; and 28% of Americans say they don't like either political party – more than quadruple the share that said the same thing 30 years ago. Sep 21, 2023