2018 Day 580: Michael Cohen has "knowledge" implicating Trump in a "criminal conspiracy" to hack the Democratic emails during the 2016 election; Trump's real estate company approved $420,000 in "election-related" expenses to Cohen for his effort to silence Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal; Trump, however, denied that he directed Cohen to buy the silence of Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal; and the DNC contacted the FBI after detecting an unsuccessful attempt to hack into its voter database. Aug 22, 2018
2019 Day 945: The economy added 501,000 fewer jobs since 2018 than previously reported; Trump dropped his plan to eliminate more than $4 billion in foreign aid funding without congressional approval; Trump said he's considering ending birthright citizenship; and Sarah Huckabee Sanders will join Fox News as a contributor. Aug 22, 2019
2022 Day 580: Dr. Anthony Fauci will leave the federal government in December to “pursue the next chapter” of his career; Texas, Tennessee, and Idaho will enact abortion trigger laws this week; Louisiana state officials denied funding a New Orleans flood control project because of the city's opposition to the state’s near-total abortion ban; a federal appeals court temporarily paused an order requiring Lindsey Graham to testify before a Georgia grand jury investigating efforts to reverse the 2020 election; the federal magistrate judge who authorized the warrant to search Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate suggested that the redacted version of the affidavit could make for “a meaningless disclosure”; and 5.6% of Americans described their current life situation as "suffering." Aug 22, 2022
2023 Day 945: The Trump lawyer who led efforts to overturn the 2020 election surrendered at the Fulton County jail; the former chairman of the Georgia Republican Party – and one of the 19 co-defendants in the election interference case – claimed that he "acted at the direction" of Trump; Mark Meadows asked a federal court in Georgia to block state authorities from arresting him and to "immediately" move his criminal election interference case to federal court; a federal judge temporarily blocked part of a Georgia's ban on gender-affirming care for transgender youth; a federal appeals court ruled that Alabama can enforce a ban on hormone treatments and puberty blockers for transgender youth; and 51% of likely Iowa Republican caucusgoers believe Trump’s claims that he won the 2020 presidential election despite no evidence of widespread election fraud. Aug 22, 2023
2024 Day 1311: Tim Walz formally accepted the Democratic nomination for vice president and thanked the party for “bringing the joy to this fight”; Trump, calling himself "the best friend that Israel, and the Jewish people, ever had," referred to Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro as the “highly overrated Jewish Governor” and criticized him for supporting Kamala Harris; the Supreme Court partly granted the Republican National Committee’s request to enforce an Arizona law requiring proof of citizenship for voter registration in some cases; and the Arkansas Supreme Court block an abortion-rights initiative from appearing on the state's ballot. Aug 22, 2024