2019 Day 963: An Air National Guard crew stayed at Trump's Turnberry golf resort in Scotland in March; Trump denied being involved in the stays at Turnberry; the U.S. extracted one of its highest-level covert spies from inside the Russian government in 2017 because of Trump; Wilbur Ross threatened to fire NOAA employees after the agency's Birmingham office contradicted Trump's claim that Alabama would be hit "harder than anticipated" by Hurricane Dorian; and the House Judiciary Committee will vote this week to define its ongoing "impeachment investigation.". Sep 9, 2019
2020 Day 1329: Top Trump appointees at the Department of Homeland Security repeatedly tried to “censor or manipulate” reports on Russia’s interference in the U.S. elections because it "made the President look bad"; Trump admitted weeks before the first confirmed U.S. COVID-19 death that he knew the coronavirus "is deadly stuff [...] more deadly" than the flu, but he "wanted to always play it down" because "I don't want to create a panic"; Trump claimed that he's "taking the high road" by not meeting with top Democrats to discuss the next coronavirus relief package; The Justice Department will represent Trump in a defamation suit brought by columnist E. Jean Carroll, who accused Trump of raping her in a Manhattan department store in the 1990s; Postmaster General Louis DeJoy pressured employees at his former company to make donations to Republican candidates and then reimbursed them through bonuses; and Michael Cohen claimed that Trump is an authoritarian, racist sexual predator who "loved Putin." Sep 9, 2020
2024 Day 1329: Trump’s sentencing for his criminal conviction related to orchestrating an illegal conspiracy to influence the 2016 election will be delayed until after Election; Trump – baselessly suggesting without evidence that the 2024 election could be stolen from him – threatened to jail his political enemies at a level "never seen before in our Country"; JD Vance called school shootings “a fact of life” and argued that schools need to do more to harden their security; Trump held a “press conference” to attack three women who claim he sexually abused them; and Dick Cheney said he would be voting for Kamala Harris, because "there has never been an individual who is a greater threat to our republic than Donald Trump." Sep 9, 2024
2025 Day 1694: The Supreme Court agreed to fast-track Trump’s appeal over his global tariffs; U.S. employers added 911,000 fewer jobs than first estimated in the year ending in March; a Michigan judge dismissed criminal charges against 15 Republicans who signed false certificates claiming to be Trump electors in 2020, ruling that prosecutors failed to prove they intended to defraud voters; the Missouri House approved a new congressional map designed to erase a Democratic seat; the Justice Department is seeking to build a national voter roll database and share it with Homeland Security Investigations for criminal and immigration probes; Trump dismissed the release of his 2003 birthday letter to Jeffrey Epstein as a “dead issue” while a bipartisan House petition to force the release of Epstein files moved toward likely passage; Democrats on the House Oversight Committee released a photo from Jeffrey Epstein’s 2003 “birthday book” showing Epstein holding a novelty check selling a “fully depreciated” woman to Trump for $22,500; and Trump dismissed domestic violence as “a little fight with the wife” and said crimes that “take place in the home” shouldn’t be counted in crime statistics. Sep 9, 2025