2019 Day 728: Rudy Giuliani claimed that "I never said there was no collusion" between the Trump campaign and Russia, but hours later backtracked to say he had "no knowledge" of any collusion by campaign staffers; Trump directed Michael Cohen to hire a company to rig online polls in his favor; the Trump administration separated thousands more migrant children from their parents than previously reported; and Trump postponed Nancy Pelosi's planned trip to abroad in retaliation for her suggesting he delay his State of the Union address. Jan 17, 2019
2020 Day 1093: Trump added celebrity lawyer Alan Dershowitz and former independent counsel Ken Starr to his Senate impeachment trial defense team; Mike Pompeo publicly committed to look into allegations of surveillance of former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch; the Trump administration proposed rolling back school nutrition standards; and the Trump administration is exploring making changes to an anti-bribery law. Jan 17, 2020
2023 Day 728: Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen notified Congress that the U.S. will hit the debt ceiling Thursday; Biden’s aides found five additional pages of classified material at his personal residence in Delaware; House Republicans demanded two years of visitor logs from Biden’s Delaware home and all other information related to the recently discovered classified documents; a failed Republican candidate for the New Mexico House was arrested for orchestrating a series of shootings targeting Democratic state officials; and Marjorie Taylor Greene and Paul Gosar received committee assignments after being removed from their committees in 2021 over violent social media posts. Jan 17, 2023
2024 Day 1093: A Maine judge delayed ruling on whether Trump’s name can appear on that state’s primary ballot; a federal judge threatened to throw Trump out of court for making “disruptive” comments while E. Jean Carroll’s testified at his defamation trial; the Supreme Court’s conservative majority seemed inclined to overturn or limit a 40-year-old precedent that gives federal agencies wide latitude to interpret unclear laws; and the Biden administration put the Houthi militant group back on a global terrorism list in response to their dozens of attacks on merchant and commercial vessels in the Red Sea. Jan 17, 2024