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By November 15, 2021, the Trump Organization’s New York legal fight was not in a new phase. The attorney general had already said by May that the inquiry was criminal, the company and CFO Allen Weisselberg were indicted on July 1, and a cou…
Trump had already threatened primary challengers against Republicans who backed the bipartisan infrastructure bill, and his earlier attacks on lawmakers who voted to impeach him in January 2021 kept the party’s internal feud alive.
Trump and his allies tried to lean on two Republican canvassers in Wayne County, Michigan, as the county moved toward certifying the 2020 vote. The pressure campaign did not keep the county from certifying, and the episode was another ugly …
Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court ruled on November 17, 2020, that election watchers had to be allowed in the room during Philadelphia’s ballot canvassing, but the campaign had no right to stand within a fixed distance of the tables. The court v…
On Nov. 17, 2021, the Justice Department’s Chief FOIA Officers Council met with the National Archives, where officials discussed FOIA work and the handling of archival records, including White House records preserved by NARA. The Trump reco…
The Trump Organization’s tax case was still moving through pretrial court proceedings on November 18, 2021, months after a July indictment accused the company and Allen Weisselberg of participating in an off-the-books compensation scheme. T…
By Nov. 18, 2021, Donald Trump was still pressing the false claim that the 2020 election had been stolen, even though state officials had certified the results and his lawsuits had not produced evidence of a different winner.
Trump lost a Nov. 9 ruling that would have let the National Archives turn over some White House records to the House Jan. 6 committee, but an appeals court order on Nov. 11 paused the release. As of Nov. 19, the dispute was still unresolved…
Federal prosecutors in Manhattan unsealed indictments alleging two North Macedonia residents used Trump-branded fake financial products to scam Americans, including older victims. Trump is not charged, but the case shows how his brand keeps…
The Justice Department’s new Anti-Weaponization Fund, announced May 18 as part of the settlement in Trump’s IRS suit, was sued over on May 22 by a coalition of plaintiffs who say it has no lawful basis. DOJ says the fund is open to all clai…
A former Justice Department lawyer is accused of sending a court-sealed special counsel report and a separate internal DOJ compilation to personal email accounts after disguising the files as dessert recipes.
Trump’s false claims about the 2020 election kept producing legal and investigative fallout, including a Nov. 9 ruling that cleared the way for White House records to go to the House Jan. 6 committee.
Rudy Giuliani remained a visible part of Donald Trump’s post-election defense even after New York suspended him from law practice and a federal judge rejected Trump’s bid to block release of presidential records tied to the January 6 inquir…
On Nov. 20, 2021, the fight over Trump-era records was still an ongoing preservation and return dispute, not the later criminal case it would become. The National Archives had been seeking presidential records throughout 2021, and those eff…
By Nov. 21, 2021, the National Archives had already documented unofficial Electoral College certificates and related correspondence from alternate electors in seven states. The public record showed the paperwork existed; the fuller story of…
On November 22, 2020, the Trump campaign said Sidney Powell was practicing law on her own and was not part of the Trump legal team. The statement was a public attempt to put distance between the campaign and one of the loudest promoters of …
New York investigators were digging into whether Trump Organization property values shifted depending on who was asking. On Nov. 23, 2021, the key issue was not a filed fraud case but an active civil probe into whether the company showed le…
The House Jan. 6 select committee issued subpoenas on Nov. 22, 2021, to Roger Stone, Alex Jones, Taylor Budowich, Dustin Stockton and Jennifer Lawrence. The compliance deadline was Nov. 23, underscoring how the panel was turning the post-el…
The pressure campaign around the 2020 election was documented in emails, drafts, and official requests released in June 2021, showing how Trump and his allies kept pushing unproven fraud claims through formal channels after the election was…
On November 24, 2021, the aftermath of Donald Trump’s push to overturn the 2020 election was still working through the political system. A Senate Judiciary Committee report released in October had already laid out how Trump and allies press…
Trump’s 2026 Memorial Day proclamation mixes the usual remembrance language with unusually force-forward military framing, including a reference to Operation Epic Fury.
DOJ’s new antisemitism tour and advisory committee are real civil-rights efforts, but the rollout is drenched in Trump-centric praise that makes the whole thing look like enforcement with a campaign gloss. The policy may be serious; the pac…
Two May 19 executive orders took separate shots at the banking system: one focused on illicit finance, identity abuse, payroll-tax evasion, and credit risks tied to non-work-authorized borrowers, while the other asked regulators and the Fed…
A federal grand jury indicted James Comey over an Instagram post that prosecutors say threatened Trump. The case is still just an accusation, but it guarantees another politically explosive courtroom fight inside Trump’s Justice Department …
One May 19 White House order tightens customer-identification and illicit-finance scrutiny, including immigration-related credit risk. A separate same-day order says regulators should not let banks deny services based on political beliefs, …
A federal grand jury in North Carolina indicted former FBI Director James Comey on April 28 over allegations that he threatened President Donald Trump in a May 2025 Instagram post showing seashells arranged as '86 47.' The indictment charge…
The story date is Nov. 25, 2021, but the Supreme Court action that mattered came on Feb. 22, 2021. That order left in place the lower-court rulings letting New York prosecutors pursue Trump’s financial records, and there was no new Supreme …
As of Nov. 25, 2021, Donald Trump’s fight to block release of Jan. 6-related presidential records was in appellate limbo: a federal judge had rejected his bid on Nov. 9, and the D.C. Circuit had put the order on hold while it prepared for a…
The legal fight over White House records tied to the Jan. 6 investigation kept stretching through November 2021. The key court action came on Nov. 11, when an appeals court temporarily blocked release of the records, and Trump followed with…
Trump tried to frame the border as a bigger crisis than inflation in a holiday-week statement, then promised he could fix inflation “very quickly” if handed power again. The message was classic Trump: blend a real economic concern with a bo…
A federal appeals court rejected the Trump campaign’s Pennsylvania challenge on Nov. 27, 2020, after the state had already certified the election results three days earlier.
A federal appeals court rejected the Trump campaign’s Pennsylvania election challenge on Nov. 27, 2020, saying the claims did not justify the relief the campaign wanted.
Fresh reporting on November 27 reinforced that Trump’s business empire had spent years telling different versions of its own finances to different audiences, a pattern that was becoming harder to explain as a one-off mistake.
By Nov. 28, 2021, the New York attorney general’s probe into Donald Trump and the Trump Organization was still active and still moving through court fights over records and testimony. The legal threat was real, but the lawsuit Trump would l…
As of Nov. 28, 2021, Donald Trump’s bid to block release of White House records tied to the Jan. 6 investigation was still pending. A D.C. Circuit panel had already issued a temporary administrative block on Nov. 11, and oral argument was s…
Documents and reporting around the post-2020 false-elector effort suggest Wisconsin was an early piece of a broader plan, not a lone origin point. The scheme later surfaced across multiple battleground states and drew further scrutiny from …
A D.C. Circuit panel heard oral argument on Nov. 30, 2021, in Donald Trump’s bid to stop the release of presidential records held by the National Archives and sought by the House Jan. 6 committee. The case turned on whether a former preside…
Trump’s May 19 financial executive orders claim to fight fraud and strengthen the system, but they also press a sweeping anti-immigrant and deregulatory agenda. The result is a familiar Trump move: rebranding ideological policy as neutral t…
Federal prosecutors say two North Macedonia residents helped run a Trump Bucks fraud that sold fake legal-tender-style products and other bogus merchandise to victims across the country. The case shows how easily the Trump name can be turne…
A May 24 review of White House pages found documents already posted earlier in the month: executive actions dated May 19, 2026, plus a Sweden technology agreement and a Memorial Day proclamation dated May 22, 2026. The pages establish publi…
A federal grand jury in North Carolina indicted former FBI Director James Comey on April 28, 2026, over a May 15, 2025 Instagram post. The indictment contains two counts and alleges the post threatened President Donald Trump; Comey is presu…
As of Dec. 3, 2021, the Trump Organization remained under a July criminal indictment in New York, while a separate civil investigation by Attorney General Letitia James was still active. The criminal case involved alleged tax-related perks …
On Dec. 3, 2021, the fallout from Donald Trump’s effort to overturn the 2020 election was still running through Congress and the Justice Department. Officials and investigators were continuing to examine the pressure campaign around the ele…
Georgia’s 2020 presidential vote was first reaffirmed in a Nov. 19 statewide audit, then recertified on Dec. 7 after recounts, and later reinforced by a Dec. 29 signature audit. A 2023 fake-elector fight did not alter the underlying result.
The January 6 investigation was still tightening around Trump-world on December 5, 2021, and every new document, public statement, and legal move made the former president look more exposed. What had once been sold as a political squabble w…
By Dec. 5, 2021, Donald Trump’s false election claim was still shaping public politics and lingering in the legal aftermath, even as courts had repeatedly rejected many of the post-2020 fraud allegations.
By Dec. 5, 2021, Donald Trump and much of his political orbit were still pressing false claims about the 2020 election, even as courts and officials had long since rejected the underlying narrative. The movement kept generating noise, but i…
As of Dec. 6, 2021, Jan. 6 prosecutions were still producing arrests and pleas, while the House select committee was already advancing its own inquiry.
The House Jan. 6 investigation was no longer just collecting records by early December 2021. The committee was moving into enforcement, with contempt proceedings against Mark Meadows and related fights over whether former Trump aides would …
Trump postponed a planned White House signing ceremony for an AI executive order on May 21 after saying he did not want to do anything that could hurt the U.S. lead in artificial intelligence.
The White House on May 19, 2026, ordered Treasury to revisit illicit-finance, identity, and credit-risk controls tied to non-work-authorized populations, while separately telling regulators and the Fed to review barriers to fintech and digi…
Mark Meadows sued the House Jan. 6 committee on Dec. 9, 2021 after stopping cooperation two days earlier, while the panel moved toward a contempt recommendation over his subpoena. The day also brought a separate appeals-court ruling in Dona…
On December 9, 2021, reporting said New York Attorney General Letitia James was seeking Donald Trump’s deposition in her civil fraud investigation. Trump later filed suit in December 2021 to try to stop the inquiry.
By Dec. 9, 2021, Steve Bannon’s refusal to cooperate with the House Jan. 6 committee remained a legal and political problem for Donald Trump’s allies, keeping attention on the subpoena fight and the contempt case that followed.
A federal appeals court rejected Donald Trump’s bid to block the release of White House records sought by the House committee investigating January 6, keeping his executive-privilege argument on life support and pushing the fight toward the…
On December 10, 2021, the Trump Organization was already tangled in New York investigations over its finances, payroll practices, and document production. The public record then centered on prosecutors’ allegations and court fights over sub…
Donald Trump and the Trump Organization filed a lawsuit on Dec. 20, 2021, seeking to stop New York Attorney General Letitia James’s investigation into the company’s financial practices and asset valuations.
Wisconsin’s 2020 alternate-elector scheme left behind signed certificates, meeting records, and court filings that later became evidence in civil litigation. The basic facts are straightforward: the slate met at the Capitol on Dec. 14, 2020…
Trump’s May 19 order keeps pushing the Fed and other regulators to rethink who gets direct access to payment infrastructure, but the central bank’s response makes clear the legal gate is still there. The fight now is over whether the White …
Trump’s May 19 executive order tells regulators to review barriers facing fintech firms and asks the Fed to examine access to Reserve Bank payment accounts and services. The Fed’s May 20 proposal would keep legal eligibility unchanged but c…
A federal judge on May 20 issued a preliminary injunction requiring covered White House offices and advisers to keep preserving presidential records under the Presidential Records Act while a constitutional challenge to the law moves ahead.…
Former President Donald Trump lost a key appeal on Dec. 9, 2021, in his bid to block release of White House records sought by the House Jan. 6 committee. The White House had already declined to back his privilege claim, and Trump was expect…
On Dec. 13, 2021, New York’s investigation into the Trump Organization was still open and still aimed at getting testimony and records, not handing down findings. The later civil fraud case that put Trump Tower’s triplex square footage in t…
The House voted on Dec. 14, 2021, to hold Mark Meadows in criminal contempt after the Jan. 6 committee recommended the move the day before and Meadows said he would not fully comply while asserting executive privilege.
The House Jan. 6 committee disclosed Meadows text messages during its Dec. 14 contempt action, including urgent pleas for Trump to tell people at the Capitol to leave and other messages tied to the broader election fight. The texts did not …
A federal appeals court on Dec. 9, 2021, ruled that White House records sought by the Jan. 6 committee can be released after President Joe Biden declined to back Donald Trump’s executive-privilege claim. The panel said Trump had shown no ba…
On Dec. 16, 2021, the House Jan. 6 select committee subpoenaed Phil Waldron, a retired Army colonel the panel said was involved in pushing claims of election fraud and circulating strategies for challenging the 2020 result. The committee sa…
The House select committee voted on Dec. 1, 2021, to recommend contempt charges against Jeffrey Clark, and the full House voted on Dec. 14. Dec. 16 was the date his postponed deposition was due — not another contempt milestone.
By Dec. 16, 2021, the Trump Organization was already deep into a New York civil investigation, with related criminal proceedings in the background and a fresh fight over whether Donald Trump and his company would keep resisting testimony an…
The Justice Department made three separate announcements on May 8, May 11, and May 13, 2026: a denaturalization push, a Tren de Aragua case sweep, and charges in a Trump-name scam. The substance was real; the packaging was unmistakably poli…
The Justice Department’s May 18 settlement establishes an Anti-Weaponization Fund for other claimants and requires the Trump plaintiffs to dismiss their case. Donald Trump and the other named plaintiffs receive a formal apology under the ag…
A Sept. 24, 2021 court order in New York required the Trump Organization to comply with subpoenas in the attorney general’s civil probe, keeping pressure on the company’s records and finances as related litigation continued.
On Dec. 19, 2021, Donald Trump was still facing the New York attorney general’s investigation into the Trump Organization’s finances and was preparing to file a federal lawsuit the following day to try to stop it. The dispute centered on al…
On Dec. 9, 2021, a federal appeals court rejected Donald Trump’s request to stop release of White House records tied to the House Jan. 6 inquiry. The ruling favored disclosure, but Trump then sought emergency review at the Supreme Court.
As the first anniversary of Jan. 6 neared, Trump kept leaning on the same stolen-election claims that fueled his response to the attack. A Dec. 9, 2021 appeals-court ruling also cleared the way for release of more Trump White House records …
Donald Trump and the Trump Organization filed a federal lawsuit on December 20, 2021, seeking to stop New York Attorney General Letitia James’s civil investigation into the company’s financial practices.
Trump signed an order directing Treasury and banking regulators to issue guidance on fraud flags, customer due diligence and credit risks tied to lending to people without work authorization.
Trump’s May 19 orders direct regulators to review barriers facing fintech firms and to issue a Treasury advisory on fraud and money-laundering red flags tied to non-work-authorized populations.