California sues over the administration’s $120 million offshore wind buyout
California filed suit over a federal wind deal that would pay a developer to walk away from an offshore lease, teeing up a fresh climate-and-corruption fight.
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Trump’s disaster-money squeeze triggers a multistate revolt
More than two dozen states sued after the administration tied disaster funding to election and immigration conditions. The legal theory is shaky, the political message is ugly, and the practical risk lands on emergency preparedness and public safety.
Eight men indicted in White House UFC plot case after June event
A federal grand jury on July 9 indicted eight men in a case tied to the June 14 UFC Freedom 250 event at the White House, according to the Justice Department. Prosecutors say the charges include conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists and conspir…
Trump’s Jan. 6 clemency keeps narrowing the case record
A federal judge dismissed the remaining Proud Boys seditious-conspiracy charges on July 11 after the Justice Department sought dismissal in light of Trump’s Jan. 20, 2025 clemency proclamation.
Supreme Court rejects Trump’s bid to narrow birthright citizenship
On June 30, 2026, the Supreme Court held that children born in the United States to parents who are unlawfully or temporarily present are citizens at birth under the Fourteenth Amendment, while also addressing the scope of the injunction in the case.
Comey indicted over Instagram post prosecutors allege threatened Trump
A federal grand jury in North Carolina indicted James Comey on April 28, 2026, over an Instagram post prosecutors say amounted to a threat. The post at issue was made on May 15, 2025 and showed seashells arranged to read “86 47.”
Trump IRS settlement bars audits of covered returns, drawing ethics criticism
A Justice Department settlement announced May 18, 2026, bars the IRS from pursuing covered claims and examinations tied to Donald Trump, Donald Trump Jr., Eric Trump and The Trump Organization for returns filed before that date. Critics say the deal is extrao…
Comey indictment hands Trump a revenge drama — and a constitutional headache
The Justice Department’s indictment of James Comey is a major escalation in Trump’s personal feud with a former FBI director. It also invites immediate questions about selective prosecution, institutional damage, and whether the administration is turning crim…
After White House Correspondents’ Dinner shooting, California man charged with attempted assassination of the president
Federal prosecutors say a California man was arraigned on April 27, 2026, after the April 25 White House Correspondents’ Dinner shooting and was charged with attempting to assassinate the president.
Trump’s tariff refund process is open, but only for some claims
CBP opened a phased tariff-refund claims process on April 20, 2026, for eligible importers tied to the Supreme Court’s Feb. 20, 2026 IEEPA ruling. It is not a blanket repayment program for every duty collected.
Trump’s emergency tariff fight enters the refund phase as CBP opens claims process
The tariff fight is no longer just about presidential power in the abstract. On April 20, U.S. Customs and Border Protection is slated to open the refund process for importers seeking money back on duties tied to the administration’s emergency tariff push, tu…
Trump’s tariff loss keeps mutating into a refund nightmare
The administration spent March 24 trying to contain the fallout from the Supreme Court’s decision striking down Trump’s sweeping tariffs, and the result was more confusion, more legal wrangling, and no clean exit. The government was still resisting the pace a…
Top counterterrorism official quits over Iran war, blasting the threat case
Joe Kent’s resignation as director of the National Counterterrorism Center was the day’s most damaging Trump-world rupture. He said he could not in good conscience support the war against Iran and argued that the administration’s justification did not meet th…
Trump’s tariff collapse kept spreading as states and agencies scrambled to contain the damage
The Supreme Court’s ruling against Trump’s emergency tariff scheme was no longer just a headline on March 13; it was a live administrative disaster. States and businesses kept pushing litigation, customs officials were still warning that refunds would be diff…
Trump’s tariff wreckage keeps getting more expensive
The aftershocks of Trump’s illegal tariff push kept spreading on February 26, with the White House still trapped in damage control after the Supreme Court blew up the core policy and importers kept moving to recover what they paid. The problem for Trump is no…
Tariff blowback keeps growing after Trump’s Supreme Court loss
The February 20 Supreme Court ruling against Trump’s emergency tariff theory was still reverberating on February 7, as importers, trade lawyers, and the White House were left to sort out what gets refunded, what stays in place, and how much legal mess the adm…
Minneapolis turned into a case study in Trump’s immigration overreach
The Trump administration’s enforcement surge in Minneapolis kept spiraling on January 26, with the killing of Alex Pretti deepening criticism of the White House’s tactics, messaging, and handling of evidence. State officials, civil-liberties critics, and loca…
Trump pardons former Honduran president convicted in federal cocaine-trafficking and weapons case
Trump’s pardon of Juan Orlando Hernández erased a 45-year federal sentence for cocaine-trafficking and weapons convictions and set off immediate criticism over the timing and the beneficiary.
Trump Calls for Fresh Afghan Vetting After D.C. Shooting
On Nov. 27, 2025, Trump used remarks about the Washington shooting of two National Guard members to demand a review of Afghan arrivals. Officials had identified the suspect as an Afghan national, but investigators had not yet established a motive.
Judge orders Trump administration to fully fund November SNAP benefits; White House seeks emergency stay
A Rhode Island federal judge ordered USDA to use available funds to fully cover November SNAP benefits, and the Trump administration quickly asked appeals courts and the Supreme Court to stop the order. The Supreme Court then issued an administrative stay on …
Courts Force Trump to Back Off SNAP Freeze After Threatening Millions
Trump’s USDA had been prepared to let November SNAP payments lapse during the shutdown, but federal judges forced the administration to keep the food-aid program running. By Monday, the White House had been pushed into a partial-funding posture that undercut …
Court orders force Trump’s SNAP cutoff plan into retreat
Two federal judges moved nearly at once to block the administration from cutting off November SNAP benefits during the shutdown, blowing up a plan that would have hit tens of millions of people. The White House tried to frame the problem as a legal gray area,…
Shutdown pressure grows as layoffs loom, troop pay is protected and Smithsonian closures begin
The White House said more than 4,000 federal workers could be fired during the shutdown, a day after President Donald Trump ordered the Pentagon to make sure troops were paid. The Smithsonian then said its museums, research centers and National Zoo would clos…
Shutdown Fight Turns Into A Mass-Layoff Threat
Trump spent the final day of the fiscal year threatening broad federal layoffs if the government shut down, turning a budget standoff into an open warning shot at the civil service. The move made the White House look less like a negotiating partner than a dem…
Comey indicted in Virginia on false-statement and obstruction charges
A federal grand jury in the Eastern District of Virginia indicted former FBI Director James Comey on September 25, 2025, alleging false statements and obstruction tied to his September 30, 2020 Senate testimony. The Justice Department said Comey is presumed i…
Kirk Killing Throws Trump World Into Crisis Mode
Charlie Kirk’s assassination on September 10 detonated a new round of security panic, political hardening, and message-overdrive inside Trump’s camp. The reaction instantly became part of the story, with the president’s circle using the killing to escalate rh…
Appeals Court Says Trump’s Tariff Power Grab Went Too Far
A federal appeals court ruled on August 29 that most of Trump’s sweeping global tariffs exceeded presidential authority, dealing the White House a serious legal defeat even as the ruling was stayed pending possible Supreme Court review.
Trump’s Iran strike launches a war-size gamble without a real public debate
Trump’s decision to hit Iranian nuclear sites dominated the day, but it also blew open the biggest question his team did not want to answer: who authorized this, what comes next, and how much damage is the United States now prepared to absorb? The White House…
Trump’s Los Angeles troop gamble kept colliding with the law
The administration’s decision to federalize California National Guard troops and send Marines into the Los Angeles protest response was still producing legal and political blowback on June 18. The move had already triggered a court fight over whether Trump ha…
Trump Doubles Down on the Los Angeles Troop Showdown
The White House and its lawyers escalated the Los Angeles confrontation instead of de-escalating it, defending the troop deployment, dismissing California’s lawsuit, and leaving the impression that the administration was eager to turn a local protest crisis i…
Trump Leaves Insurrection Act Option Open as Los Angeles Fight Widens
Trump said on June 8 that he would consider invoking the Insurrection Act if he decided the Los Angeles unrest amounted to an insurrection, as California pressed ahead with court challenges to the Guard and Marine deployments.
Trump Turns Los Angeles Into a Federal Power Test
Trump’s decision to federalize California National Guard troops, followed by a Marine deployment, turned the Los Angeles protest response into an immediate legal and political brawl. California sued the same day, calling the move illegal and unnecessary, and …
Trump’s Los Angeles crackdown turns into a constitutional overreach fight
Federalizing the National Guard in Los Angeles over the governor’s objection handed Trump a fresh overreach fight and made the administration look eager to meet civil unrest with military theater.
The Qatar Jet Gift Keeps Looking Like a Bribe With Wings
Trump’s plan to accept a luxury Boeing 747 from Qatar kept drawing fierce scrutiny on May 14 as senators, ethics watchdogs, and national-security hawks warned that the gift looked like a foreign influence nightmare in slow motion. The White House was already …
Trump turns the Justice Department into a grievance outlet
Trump’s fresh push to investigate Chris Krebs and Miles Taylor landed like a public demonstration of how far he is willing to bend the presidency toward revenge. The action triggered immediate alarm because the memoranda did not point to a specific crime so m…
Trump stands by tariffs as market turbulence continues
On April 6, 2025, Trump defended his tariff strategy aboard Air Force One, saying he would not back down even as the market selloff set off by his April 2 announcement kept rolling through Wall Street. The White House video and AP reporting show a president s…
China fires back, and Trump’s tariff spiral starts paying rent
China’s retaliation against Trump’s sweeping new tariffs was the clearest sign yet that the White House had kicked off a global trade fight it may not be able to control. The answer from Beijing was immediate, blunt, and big enough to deepen the fear that thi…
China answers Trump with a bigger hammer
Beijing hit back at Trump’s new tariff barrage with a 34 percent tax on U.S. imports, plus export controls and other penalties. That made clear the White House had not projected strength so much as invited escalation.
Trump Election Order Triggers Fast Legal Backlash
President Donald Trump’s March 25, 2025 elections executive order directs federal agencies to require documentary proof of U.S. citizenship on the federal voter registration form, presses officials to treat ballots received after Election Day as late in feder…
The Abrego Garcia arrest showed Trump’s immigration machine can still make a disaster worse
Kilmar Abrego Garcia was detained by ICE on March 12, 2025, the same case that would soon become a national symbol of Trump’s deportation chaos. The arrest fed a fast-moving disaster in which the administration’s own actions collided with court protections, t…
Trump, Zelenskyy Clash in Oval Office as Planned Signing, News Conference Are Canceled
A Feb. 28 Oval Office meeting between President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy turned into a heated public confrontation. The White House then canceled the planned signing of a minerals agreement and the sche…
Civil-rights groups sue over migrant transfers to Guantánamo and restricted access to lawyers, family
Civil-rights lawyers filed suit Feb. 12 challenging the Trump administration’s transfer of migrants to Guantánamo Bay and alleging the detainees lacked regular access to counsel and relatives. The filing says the government’s setup at the base is blocking nor…
Trump’s anti-bribery freeze sent the wrong signal
On February 10, 2025, Trump paused new Foreign Corrupt Practices Act enforcement, pardoned Rod Blagojevich, and the Justice Department directed prosecutors to seek dismissal of the Eric Adams case. Those were separate actions, but taken together they sharpene…
Trump’s funding-freeze stunt collapses into a cleanup memo
The White House rescinded a memo freezing federal loans and grants after it triggered confusion, alarm, and legal challenges across the country. Even after the reversal, officials insisted the underlying policy goals still stood, which only underscored how li…
Musk Turns the Transition Into a Budget Bomb
Elon Musk’s escalating attack on a bipartisan spending deal kept dragging Trump into a self-inflicted funding crisis, turning the transition into a pressure campaign against Congress rather than a handoff to governing.
Jack Smith Moves to End the Federal Trump Cases, Exposing How Much Damage the Supreme Court Did
The special counsel took steps to dismiss the federal election-interference and classified-documents cases, a dramatic legal retreat driven by Trump’s return to power and the Justice Department’s rule against prosecuting a sitting president. The move did not …
Trump’s reelection freezes the federal cases that once threatened him most
The special counsel moved to dismiss the federal election-interference and classified-documents cases after Trump’s reelection made continued prosecution impossible under Justice Department policy. It was a giant legal escape hatch for Trump, but also a vivid…
Iran’s Trump hack turned into a live-election humiliation
The Iran-linked hack-and-leak story kept escalating on September 18, with federal officials publicly warning that stolen Trump campaign material had been used in an effort to influence the election. That turned the campaign into a target and a source of natio…
Trump’s second assassination scare exposes another security failure
The attempted attack on Trump in Florida kept deepening into a major security embarrassment, as official details and reporting on September 16 underscored how close the former president came to real danger and how little control the system had over the threat…
The Butler aftermath keeps shredding Trump’s aura of invincibility
The Trump campaign spent July 29 still living inside the fallout from the Pennsylvania rally shooting, with the basic question unchanged: how did a protectee at a major campaign event end up exposed to a gunman in the first place? The more official accounts a…
Butler Shooting Keeps Trump Campaign on Defensive Over Security and Events
After the July 13 shooting in Butler, Pennsylvania, Trump’s campaign has faced fresh scrutiny over security, messaging, and rally planning.
Trump’s 34-count conviction detonates the campaign’s legal shield
A Manhattan jury found Donald Trump guilty on all 34 felony counts in his hush-money trial, delivering the most damaging legal blow of his political career. The verdict immediately undercut his “witch hunt” posture, handed critics a clean and concrete fact pa…
Trump’s Hush-Money Case Was About to Get Harder as Cohen Prepared to Take the Stand
On May 12, the New York hush-money case was headed toward Michael Cohen’s May 13 testimony, a stretch that could sharpen the prosecution’s account of Trump’s role in the reimbursement scheme.
New York Starts Coming for Trump’s Assets
The clearest Trump-world screwup on March 23 was the growing threat that New York would begin collecting on his massive civil-fraud judgment by targeting property. The attorney general’s office had filed judgments in Westchester County, a concrete step that m…
Trump’s New York fraud judgment was already accruing interest before the paperwork was done
Donald Trump’s New York civil fraud case was still in a pre-final-judgment phase on Feb. 21, 2024, but the tab was already rising. Judge Arthur Engoron had issued the ruling on Feb. 16, and interest kept running until the judgment was formally entered on Feb.…
Judge Chutkan imposes limited gag order in Trump election case
On October 16, 2023, Judge Tanya Chutkan put a narrow gag order on Donald Trump in the federal election interference case, limiting public attacks on prosecutors, potential witnesses, and court staff.
Sept. 26 Fraud Ruling Put Trump’s Business Claims on the Record
A New York judge’s Sept. 26, 2023 ruling found Donald Trump and top Trump Organization executives liable for fraud and ordered major business remedies that were later stayed and modified on appeal.
Trump’s fraud ruling turns into a business-control scramble
A day after the judge’s sweeping fraud finding, Trump’s lawyers were already back in court trying to pin down what parts of his New York empire could be stripped from his control. The political problem is obvious: the former real-estate mogul spent years bran…
Judge hands Trump a brutal fraud-case loss
A New York judge granted the attorney general partial summary judgment in the civil fraud case, finding the defendants had repeatedly submitted fraudulent financial documents to get business advantages they otherwise would not have received.
Georgia Case Turns Into Booking Day for Trump Allies
Several Trump co-defendants surrendered to Fulton County authorities on Aug. 23, 2023, a day that put the Georgia election-interference case on public display. Trump’s own booking came the next day.
Trump’s Georgia mug shot becomes instant campaign content
Trump’s surrender at the Fulton County Jail produced the first mug shot of a former U.S. president and a staggering self-inflicted image problem. Instead of treating it like a legal disaster, his operation rushed to exploit it for political and fundraising pu…
Trump surrenders in Georgia, gets historic mug shot
Donald Trump surrendered and was booked at Fulton County Jail on Aug. 24, 2023, and officials took what became the first mug shot of any former U.S. president. The booking capped a day that put the Georgia election case into a stark, public image.
Georgia indictment ties Trump’s election-fraud push to a sprawling racketeering case
A Fulton County grand jury in Atlanta returned a 41-count indictment on Aug. 14, 2023, naming Donald Trump and 18 others in a case built around Georgia racketeering and related charges. Trump was charged in 13 counts of the indictment, which accuses the defen…
Georgia officials investigate threats against grand jurors after Trump indictment
Fulton County officials said they were investigating threats against grand jurors in the days after the Aug. 14 indictment of Donald Trump and 18 co-defendants, after juror names and personal details circulated online.
Fulton County indictment puts Trump’s Georgia election claims in a criminal case
The Fulton County case against Donald Trump and 18 co-defendants was still in its first week on August 17, 2023, after a grand jury returned the indictment on August 14 and the clerk’s office said an earlier docket sheet was only a test document. Authorities …
Trump documents case hits a procedural snag as De Oliveira arraignment is delayed again
Carlos De Oliveira’s arraignment in the Mar-a-Lago documents case was delayed again on Aug. 10, 2023, because he still had not retained Florida counsel. The superseding indictment naming him had already been filed on July 27.
The Fake-Electors Scheme Is Looking Less Like Spin and More Like Evidence
On August 9, the record around Trump’s alternate-electors strategy was becoming harder to wave away as harmless legal theory. Reporting that day laid out how the plan was built, how it moved, and why it now looked like a live liability in the broader effort t…
Five days after the Jan. 6 indictment, Trump was campaigning under a federal case
Five days after the Aug. 1, 2023 indictment was unsealed, Trump was campaigning with a federal Jan. 6 case now part of the backdrop.
Georgia’s Trump probe was still open on Aug. 2, with no indictment yet
On Aug. 2, 2023, the Fulton County election-interference investigation was still just that: an open probe, not a charged case. Trump was not indicted in Georgia until Aug. 14, and the later charge filing came after the earlier August speculation had already s…
Trump Gets Hit With Federal Charges Over His Election Subversion Scheme
A federal grand jury in Washington indicted Donald Trump on four charges tied to his effort to reverse the 2020 election, making August 1 a brutal milestone in the post-January 6 reckoning. The indictment described a pressure campaign built on false fraud cla…
Trump’s classified-docs case was already a hard record to shake
The federal classified-documents case against Donald Trump was unsealed on June 9, 2023, and the public filing laid out allegations of retention, concealment, and obstruction that were already in the record by late July.
The Classified-Docs Case Tightened Its Grip on Trump
Two days after the July 27 superseding indictment in the Mar-a-Lago documents case, Trump and his allies were left answering a filing that added a co-defendant and new obstruction allegations.
Trump’s Classified-Docs Case Lands As A Full-Blown Political Liability
The federal documents indictment remained the dominant Trump-world story on June 11, with the special counsel’s case forcing a new round of scrutiny over Mar-a-Lago, obstruction, and how Trump handled national security material after leaving office.
Trump’s Classified-Documents Case Finally Hits the Public Square
The federal indictment against Donald Trump was unsealed on June 9, turning a sealed legal threat into a very public account of alleged obstruction, false statements, and the improper retention of classified material. The details were ugly, the political opti…
Trump’s Mar-a-Lago scandal turns into a federal indictment
A federal grand jury in Miami indicted Donald Trump on charges tied to the classified-documents stash at Mar-a-Lago, escalating a long-running national-security mess into a formal criminal case. The move put a former president under federal indictment for the…
Jury Finds Trump Liable for Sexual Abuse and Defamation in Carroll Case
A New York jury found Donald Trump liable for sexual abuse and defamation in E. Jean Carroll’s civil case and awarded $5 million in total damages. Jurors did not find that Carroll proved rape.
Trump’s Manhattan arraignment turns scandal into a live criminal case
The hush-money case stopped being a campaign talking point and became an actual criminal proceeding, with Trump arraigned in New York on 34 felony counts. That matters because it locked his legal exposure into the 2024 race and gave prosecutors a formal platf…
Manhattan Grand Jury Nears Decision in Trump Hush-Money Case
On March 29, 2023, the Manhattan grand jury hearing evidence in the hush-money case against Donald Trump was nearing a decision, but no indictment had been returned yet. The charge came the next day, on March 30, followed by arraignment on April 4.
Jan. 6 Fallout Still Dogs Trump After Committee’s December Referral
The House Jan. 6 committee’s December referral of Donald Trump to the Justice Department is still shaping the politics and the legal record around the Capitol attack. The panel has finished its work, but its report, transcripts and evidence remain part of the…
Jan. 6 panel hands Trump a criminal-referral package that won’t go away
The House Jan. 6 committee’s final public meeting on December 19 kept driving the news cycle on December 20, as lawmakers formally recommended criminal referrals for Donald Trump and sharply widened the case that his effort to stay in power crossed into crimi…
Jan. 6 Committee Sends Trump to DOJ in Historic Criminal Referral
The House Jan. 6 committee unanimously voted to refer Donald Trump for criminal prosecution after concluding there was enough evidence to support charges tied to the effort to overturn the 2020 election. The referral was not itself a prosecution, but it was a…
A Dec. 13 Email Captured the Fake-Elector Strategy in Motion
On Dec. 13, 2020, Kenneth Chesebro emailed Rudy Giuliani about a plan involving alternate electors, and later congressional and Justice Department records described it as part of the effort to complicate the Jan. 6 certification.
Judge’s Eastman order puts more election emails on the table
A federal judge found some John Eastman emails fell within the crime-fraud exception and had to be turned over to the House Jan. 6 committee, a ruling that sits alongside a separate finding that Trump signed off on false election-fraud claims.
Judge ties Trump to false fraud claims in election overturn effort
A federal judge said Trump had signed off on legal claims about Georgia election fraud that he knew were false, strengthening the case that his post-2020 election effort was not just aggressive but knowingly deceptive.
Appeals court narrows Trump’s Mar-a-Lago shield, clears DOJ to use classified-marked documents
The Eleventh Circuit on Sept. 21, 2022, granted the Justice Department a partial stay, letting investigators use the roughly 100 documents with classification markings seized from Mar-a-Lago while the special-master review continued for the rest.
New York Attorney General Sues Trump, Children and Trump Organization Over Fraud Claims
On Sept. 21, 2022, New York Attorney General Letitia James filed a civil fraud lawsuit accusing Donald Trump, the Trump Organization and three of his adult children of years of misleading asset valuations and financial statements. The suit seeks at least $250…
Mar-a-Lago papers keep turning into a bigger Trump liability
The documents saga around Mar-a-Lago kept getting worse on September 10, with Trump-world still trying to reframe a materials case that was increasingly looking like a broad institutional mess. The public record from the prior days had already laid out the ba…
Mar-a-Lago Docs Mess Keeps Getting Worse
Official NARA records and congressional correspondence kept the Mar-a-Lago documents story alive, underscoring that the government had been pressing for the return of presidential records well before the search.
Mar-a-Lago docs fight turns into an obstruction problem
The Justice Department used an August 31 filing to argue that the Mar-a-Lago documents case was no longer just about missing records. Prosecutors said there was evidence government records were likely concealed and removed from a storage room, and that effort…
Mar-a-Lago Fallout Kept Growing, and Trump’s Story Kept Getting Harder to Sell
By August 18, the Mar-a-Lago search was no longer just a single shocking event. It had turned into a wider legal and political problem, with the Justice Department defending the search, critics pressing for more disclosure, and Trump’s own public posture maki…
Mar-a-Lago’s records fight was still in the dark on August 17
As of August 17, 2022, the public record around the Mar-a-Lago search still consisted of the warrant, the property receipt, and official statements. The affidavit supporting probable cause remained sealed, and the investigation was ongoing.
Mar-a-Lago records fight was still widening a week after the search
A week after the FBI searched Mar-a-Lago, the fallout kept growing as officials and Trump’s team fought over the records dispute, the scope of the search, and what the government had already tried to recover. The public record by August 15 showed a court-appr…
Mar-a-Lago Search Puts Trump’s Documents Fight on a National-Security Track
On Aug. 13, 2022, lawmakers pressed for a damage assessment after reports that highly classified material had been recovered from Mar-a-Lago. The public record at the time showed a court-authorized search, months of disputes over presidential records, and gro…
The Mar-a-Lago records dispute was still widening on Aug. 3
On Aug. 3, 2022, the Mar-a-Lago records fight was still unresolved: the National Archives had recovered 15 boxes from Florida and was still pressing for additional presidential records to be returned.
Judge approves Mar-a-Lago search warrant as records probe turns legal
A federal magistrate judge approved a search warrant for Mar-a-Lago on August 5, 2022. The FBI later executed that warrant on August 8, making the records investigation far more public and far more serious. The warrant approval did not itself prove wrongdoing…
DOJ investigators reportedly widen January 6 questions to Trump’s role
Reporting on July 26, 2022 said Justice Department investigators were asking about Donald Trump’s own conduct in the January 6 election-subversion probe, including pressure on Mike Pence and the fake-elector effort. The reports did not say the department had …
Trump’s documents mess kept drifting toward obstruction territory
Newly reported details around the Mar-a-Lago records saga kept pushing the story beyond sloppy handling and into the far uglier question of whether Trump’s side was hiding material from investigators. The day’s significance was less about one dramatic reveal …
The January 6 record keeps tightening around Trump
By late June 2022, the January 6 committee was still building its case with hearings on June 21, June 23, and the upcoming June 28 session, adding more testimony about pressure on officials and efforts to keep Donald Trump in power.
Jan. 6 Hearing Shows Trump’s DOJ Pressure Campaign on the Public Record
The House Jan. 6 committee’s June 23 hearing put former top Justice Department officials under oath and detailed Donald Trump’s push to get the department to bless false election-fraud claims, including his effort to replace acting Attorney General Jeffrey Ro…
Jan. 6 Panel Replayed Trump’s Push to Bend DOJ to His Election Claims
The House Jan. 6 committee’s June 23, 2022 hearing laid out evidence that Donald Trump pressed Justice Department officials to back his false election-fraud claims and tried to elevate Jeffrey Clark into a position that could help carry them out from inside t…