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
2026 Day 2059: The Census Bureau proposed excluding undocumented immigrants and other noncitizens from the 2030 count; Trump predicted that his war with Iran would end “immediately after” the midterm elections; a federal appeals court in Louisiana heard arguments over the state’s effort to restrict mail-order mifepristone nationwide; an Anthropic researcher quit over “out-of-control” AI fears while another warned that there's a more than 10% chance that AI “could kill all humans” within the next decade; the emergency slide on the Qatari-gifted Air Force One was accidentally deployed; Trump gave three White House aides $45,000 each in cash holiday gifts; and during a 9/11 tribute, Trump claimed two firefighters carried him to safety near Ground Zero and that he brought a construction crew to help “right after” the attacks despite no public evidence corroborating either story. Sep 9, 2026