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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.
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.
Trump faces new congressional rebuke over Iran hostilities
The White House said on April 8 that Iran had agreed to a ceasefire after Operation Epic Fury, and the House voted 215-208 on June 3 to direct the president to end U.S. military involvement in Iran without explicit congressional authorization.
Trump tries to declare the Iran war finished to sidestep Congress
The White House told Congress that hostilities with Iran had “terminated” right as the War Powers deadline hit, a move that looks designed to avoid a vote on continued military action. The administration says the ceasefire is enough; critics say it is a legal…
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 Iran brinkmanship keeps widening the blast radius
By March 15, Trump’s Iran posture had become a live political and security liability, with his threats and escalating military messaging drawing sharper criticism over legality, strategy, and the risk of a wider war.
Trump’s Iran strike launch triggers an immediate war-powers blowback
The White House tried to frame the opening attacks on Iran as decisive strength, but the first big aftershock was a familiar one: lawmakers and legal critics questioning whether Trump had the authority to light the fuse without a proper congressional green li…
Hegseth Faces Blowback After Report on Alleged Follow-On Strike in Sept. 2 Boat Attack
Reporting on Nov. 28 raised allegations that a Sept. 2, 2025 U.S. strike on a boat in the Caribbean was followed by a second attack that may have killed survivors. The claim was disputed, but it quickly intensified scrutiny on Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth a…
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,…
Judges force Trump to keep SNAP food aid flowing during shutdown
Two federal judges ordered the Trump administration to keep SNAP funded with emergency reserves, stopping a plan to freeze benefits at the start of November. The ruling undercut an administration argument that the shutdown left it no choice, and it immediatel…
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…
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 jumps into Iran and pretends Congress is a courtesy line
Trump ordered U.S. strikes on three Iranian nuclear sites and immediately set off a constitutional fight over war powers, with Democrats blasting him for acting without congressional authorization and allies abroad bracing for retaliation. The White House fra…
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 calls Iran strikes a path to peace after hitting nuclear sites
On June 21, 2025, Trump announced U.S. strikes on Iran’s Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan nuclear sites and said the mission was a success that should force peace. The White House transcript said the facilities were hit, but independent damage assessments were stil…
Trump’s Iran Bluster Pushed the U.S. Closer to the Edge
Trump spent June 18 keeping the Iran crisis on a hair trigger, after days of threats that included demands for “unconditional surrender” and public musings about the supreme leader’s fate. He met with senior advisers in the Situation Room while refusing to cl…
California Challenges Trump Tariff Plan In Court
California sued on April 16, 2025, arguing that President Donald Trump’s use of emergency powers to impose a 10% baseline tariff and higher reciprocal tariffs on selected trading partners goes beyond what Congress allowed.
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…
Signal leak fallout keeps spreading as Trumpworld tries to shrug it off
A leak of sensitive war-planning chatter on Signal kept dominating the day as senior Trump officials were pressed to explain why top national-security business was being conducted in an app that auto-deletes messages. The public defense was basically a shrug,…
Trump’s wartime-law deportation push instantly ran into the Constitution
Trump’s invocation of the Alien Enemies Act set off a fast-moving legal fight over deportations of Venezuelans, with judges and lawyers immediately zeroing in on due process and the limits of wartime authority. By March 16, the administration’s effort to move…
Trump’s alien-enemies deportation gamble sparks instant constitutional alarm
Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act to target alleged Tren de Aragua members, a move that immediately drew emergency litigation and revived fears he was trying to use wartime authority as a peacetime immigration shortcut.
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…
Trump Issues Jan. 6 Pardons, Commutations on First Day Back in Office
On Jan. 20, 2025, Trump signed a proclamation commuting 14 Jan. 6 sentences, pardoning other people convicted of offenses related to events at or near the U.S. Capitol, and directing the Justice Department to seek dismissal of pending Jan. 6 indictments.
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.
Springfield smear keeps blowing up in Trump’s face
Trump’s false debate claim about Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, was still ricocheting through the city, with officials dealing with bomb threats, school disruption, and fresh anger at the campaign’s willingness to set off a panic and call it politic…
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 Rally Shooting Raised Immediate Security Questions
The July 13 shooting at Donald Trump’s Butler, Pennsylvania, rally left one spectator dead, two others critically injured and Trump wounded. By July 14, the facts still under investigation were less about blame than about how a gunman was able to fire from ou…
Butler Rally Shooting Left a Dead Attendee and a Protection System Under Scrutiny
At Donald Trump’s July 13, 2024 rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, one attendee was killed and others were wounded. Later Secret Service testimony and a September 2024 mission assurance summary described serious failures in planning, communications, and site secu…
The conviction hangover starts setting in
Trump spent May 31 trying to turn the May 30 jury verdict into a political asset, but the immediate aftermath showed a campaign still forced to operate with sentencing ahead on July 11, 2024.
Trump asks Supreme Court to review Colorado ballot ruling
Trump filed a U.S. Supreme Court petition on Jan. 3, 2024, seeking review of Colorado’s stayed ruling that he is disqualified under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment.
Georgia indictment sharpens the Republican split
Donald Trump and 18 allies were indicted in Fulton County on Aug. 14, 2023, and the next day Republicans were already dividing over how hard to defend him. Georgia officials, including Gov. Brian Kemp, were pushing back on Trump’s election-fraud claims while …
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…
Trump’s Washington arraignment puts the election case under court control
Donald Trump appeared in federal court in Washington on Aug. 3, 2023, pleaded not guilty to charges tied to efforts to overturn the 2020 election, and a status hearing was set for Aug. 28. The case was officially underway in court, with the defense already si…
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-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…
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.
Historic New York indictment turns Trump into a criminal defendant
A Manhattan grand jury indicted Donald Trump on March 30, 2023, making him the first former U.S. president to be criminally charged. The case arose from the hush-money investigation tied to the 2016 campaign, and the immediate political reaction split along f…
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 Report Puts Trump at the Center of a Multi-Part Conspiracy
The House Jan. 6 committee’s final report, filed and released on Dec. 22, 2022, said Donald Trump was central to the effort to overturn the 2020 election. The committee said it reviewed more than 630,000 documents and millions of pages of material, along with…
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.
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 Search Turns Trump’s Records Fight Into a Bigger Problem
The FBI searched Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago property on Aug. 8, 2022, escalating an already existing fight over presidential records and classified-marked material. The public record showed the dispute had been underway for months, and the search warrant affid…
Hutchinson testimony turns Jan. 6 into fresh Trump liability
Cassidy Hutchinson’s surprise appearance before the Jan. 6 committee became the day’s dominant Trump-world screwup. Her account added a pile of damaging new detail about Trump’s behavior on January 6, including claims that he knew armed supporters were headed…
Hutchinson’s testimony sharpens the Jan. 6 case against Trump
Cassidy Hutchinson’s June 28 testimony added new details to the Jan. 6 record, including her account that Trump wanted to go to the Capitol and allegedly reacted angrily when told he could not be driven there. The hearing also renewed scrutiny of Trump’s alli…
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…
Trump’s Pence Pressure Campaign Gets Dragged Into the Light
The January 6 committee’s June 16 hearing put Trump’s pressure campaign on Mike Pence front and center, with testimony and documentary evidence showing how far the former president pushed to get the vice president to block or delay the electoral count. The da…
Jan. 6 hearing keeps Trump’s election-lie machine on fire
The House Jan. 6 committee’s June 15 session kept piling pressure on Donald Trump by highlighting how his own advisers had told him the election-fraud claims were false. The day’s fallout made the former president look less like a misunderstood victim and mor…
Jan. 6 Hearing Turns Trump Into the Defendant Without a Courtroom
The first public Jan. 6 hearing did not invent new Trump problems so much as it reassembled the old ones into a single, punishing public case. On June 9, the committee used testimony from Bill Barr, Ivanka Trump, and other former insiders to show that Trump h…
By March 25, the Mar-a-Lago records dispute already had a classified twist
By March 25, 2022, the public record already showed two key facts about the Mar-a-Lago records dispute: the National Archives had recovered 15 boxes from the Florida club in January, and on February 18 it confirmed that some items in those boxes were marked a…
The House’s second impeachment put Trump on the wrong side of history again
The House moved to impeach Donald Trump over the Capitol attack, locking in a fresh constitutional humiliation just two weeks after his presidency ended. The political significance was bigger than the procedural step itself: Republicans were forced to choose …
January 6 kept widening into a full-scale Trump liability
Even on a day dominated by impeachment, the broader January 6 fallout continued to harden into something uglier for Trump: a growing record of evidence, congressional inquiry, and institutional backlash. The problem was no longer whether he could shrug off th…
Jeffrey Clark’s Dec. 28 Draft Letter Shows DOJ’s Role in the Election Pressure Push
Jeffrey Clark circulated a Dec. 28, 2020 draft DOJ letter to Georgia officials that would have urged a special legislative session to review alleged election irregularities. The letter was never sent, and DOJ leadership rejected it.
Trump’s Election-Overturn Machine Keeps Bleeding Into Public View
Official materials and congressional records kept sharpening the picture of how aggressively Trump and his allies pushed to nullify the 2020 election. The latest documents reinforced that this was not some loose rhetoric problem; it was an organized pressure …
Meadows contempt vote lands amid text-message panic over Jan. 6
The House moved toward holding Mark Meadows in contempt just as newly revealed messages showed Trump allies, administration figures, and Trump’s own son scrambling for someone to make him act during the Capitol attack. The episode underscored that the White H…
January 6 Fallout Kept Closing In On Trump
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 was increasingly beh…
Trump and Giuliani’s Arizona pressure campaign backfires in plain sight
New reporting and later-corroborated court materials point to Trump and Rudy Giuliani pressing Arizona House Speaker Rusty Bowers on November 22, 2021 with false claims about election fraud, trying to get him to help replace the state’s legitimate electors. I…
House votes to hold Steve Bannon in contempt over Jan. 6 subpoena
The House voted 229-202 on Oct. 21, 2021, to hold Steve Bannon in criminal contempt of Congress after he refused to comply with a subpoena from the Jan. 6 select committee. The resolution directs the House to certify the matter to the U.S. attorney in Washing…
Trump’s DOJ pressure campaign gets more receipts
Fresh documents made public on October 8 showed how Trump, Mark Meadows, and outside allies repeatedly pressed senior Justice Department officials to challenge the 2020 election results. The material deepened the record that Trump’s effort to overturn the vot…
The January 6 mess was still metastasizing, and Trump kept acting like there was nothing to answer for
The post-Jan. 6 legal and political fallout remained the defining Trump-world problem on October 3, 2021, with subpoenas, investigations, and public scrutiny continuing to tighten around his conduct and that of his allies. The core screwup was not just the at…
Jan. 6 Scrutiny Kept Closing In on Trump
By June 20, 2021, House investigators were still gathering documents and holding hearings tied to Jan. 6, including a June 15 House Administration hearing and a June 15 Oversight release on Trump’s effort to pressure the Justice Department. The broader select…
House Documents Show Repeated Trump Pressure on DOJ Over Election Results
House investigators released emails, talking points, and a draft Supreme Court filing showing repeated pressure on Justice Department officials to challenge the 2020 election results.
January 6 Fallout Kept Tightening Around Trump World
The January 6 investigation and its surrounding lawsuits kept producing fresh pressure on Trump and his allies, reinforcing that the riot was not fading into the background. The political damage was still growing, and the legal exposure was no longer abstract.
Trump’s election lies keep boomeranging back into the room
The day’s most important Trump-world story was not a new tweet or a new tantrum. It was the continuing, documented fallout from the effort to overturn the 2020 election, with House investigators and federal prosecutors still assembling the paper trail around …
Trump’s Post-White House Problem: The January 6 Wreckage Was Still Spreading
On April 7, the Trump operation was still trapped under the weight of January 6, with the legal and reputational consequences continuing to spread well beyond the Capitol attack itself. The day did not bring a single dramatic new collapse so much as a grim co…
The January 6 liability case keeps getting worse for Trump
A new round of legal and public scrutiny kept tightening around Trump’s role in the January 6 attack, with federal litigation and official findings continuing to undermine his claim that the violence was somebody else’s problem. The post-riot defense that he …
The DOJ Pressure Campaign Still Looked Worse With Every New File
Fresh reporting and committee records kept showing how Trump and his allies pushed the Justice Department to help overturn the election. What was already a wild abuse-of-power story was becoming a documentary record of a president trying to bend law enforceme…
Trump’s Pandemic Legacy Still Read Like a Draft Written by Denial
The Trump administration’s pandemic response was still being picked apart for its delays, improvisation, and refusal to treat early warnings with urgency. By March 19, 2021, the story had moved well beyond hindsight: officials and investigators were laying ou…
Trump impeachment trial opens in Senate on Jan. 6 case
The Senate opened Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial on Feb. 9, 2021, with lawmakers set to decide whether the chamber could try a former president for conduct tied to the Capitol attack. After debate over jurisdiction, senators voted to move ahead with …
Senate lock-in for Trump impeachment trial came Feb. 8, not Jan. 30
The Senate agreed on Feb. 8, 2021, on the structure and timing of former President Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial, with the trial itself beginning the next day. The deal settled a fight over whether the Senate would proceed after Trump had already le…
The impeachment trial is forcing Trump to live inside the January 6 record
House managers were building a public case that tied Trump’s election lies, his rally speech, and the Capitol attack into one sequence. That did not settle the legal fight, but it kept the focus on what the record already showed.
Trump’s Impeachment Was Already On Its Way to the Senate, and Republicans Still Couldn’t Sound Like They Meant It
By January 28, the House’s second impeachment of Trump was headed to the Senate, but Republican leadership was already hedging, delaying, and preparing excuses. The party that had spent months enabling his election lies was now trying to split the difference …
House delivers Trump impeachment article to the Senate, pushing the trial timeline forward
House impeachment managers delivered the article against Donald Trump to the Senate on Jan. 25, 2021. The chamber then turned to trial procedures the next day, Jan. 26, after the House had impeached him on Jan. 13.
Trump impeachment debate turns on procedure as Senate trial nears
With the House already having impeached Donald Trump on an article charging incitement of insurrection, the fight heading into late January centered less on the attack itself than on how — and whether — the Senate could try a former president.
Trump’s impeachment trial stops being hypothetical and starts becoming the week’s headline
The Senate had already set the machinery in motion for a second Trump impeachment trial, making clear that the Capitol riot was not going to vanish into the normal wash of partisan noise. That mattered because Trump’s attempt to overturn the election was now …
Trump’s Impeachment Was Set to Move, But the Trial Hadn’t Started Yet
By Jan. 23, 2021, Senate leaders had agreed to a trial schedule for Donald Trump’s second impeachment and were still working out the organizing resolution. The trial itself had not begun, but the calendar already put his role in the Jan. 6 attack on a formal …
The Record of Trump’s Election Subversion Was Becoming Harder to Deny
By this date, the emerging documentary trail was showing a president who had spent his final weeks in office trying to reverse a lawful election result through pressure, intimidation, and official channels. The story was shifting from allegations to a concret…
Trump’s Exit Couldn’t Erase the Jan. 6 Shadow Hanging Over Inauguration Day
On the day Joe Biden was sworn in, Trump’s presidency was still defined by the Capitol attack, the unfinished accountability fight, and the political wreckage that had built up around him. Even without a fresh Trump action dominating every headline, January 2…
Justice Department and FBI Put Inauguration Security on High Alert
On January 19, 2021, Acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen said federal, state and local agencies were working to secure Inauguration Day, while FBI Director Christopher Wray had already laid out the bureau’s expanded security posture days earlier.
The Capitol Riot Fallout Is Swallowing Trump’s Final Days
The January 6 attack was still dictating the news cycle on January 18, with resignations, security failures, and impeachment consequences continuing to ricochet through Washington. Trump’s last stretch in office was no longer about a transition or a policy ag…
Trump’s Second Impeachment Puts Jan. 6 Back at the Center of Washington
By Jan. 15, 2021, the House had already impeached Donald Trump a second time on a single article charging incitement of insurrection, and the Senate was preparing for the next step in the case.
House impeachment puts Trump on the record over the Capitol attack
The House impeached Donald Trump for a second time after the Capitol riot, with Democrats saying his months of election lies and Jan. 6 remarks helped trigger the assault. Some Republicans broke with him, but many still split between blame and resistance to i…
House Makes Trump the First President Impeached Twice After Capitol Riot
The House voted 232-197 to impeach Donald Trump for incitement of insurrection, making him the first president in U.S. history to be impeached twice. The charge was built around his role in the January 6 Capitol attack and the violent attempt to block the tra…
House Goes After Trump With 25th Amendment Push
The House moved toward a resolution urging Mike Pence and the Cabinet to strip Trump of power under the 25th Amendment, a stunning sign that lawmakers believed the president had become too dangerous to remain in office. The move came in the immediate aftermat…
Pelosi Keeps the Pressure On as Trump Faces Both Impeachment and the 25th Amendment
Nancy Pelosi said the House would move on a resolution pressing Mike Pence and the Cabinet to invoke the 25th Amendment, while impeachment advanced in parallel. The dual-track response reflected just how badly Trump had blown up confidence in his own presiden…
House Democrats File a Fresh Impeachment Charge as Trump’s Capitol Disaster Gets Its Own Paper Trail
House Democrats introduced a new article of impeachment accusing Trump of inciting the mob that attacked the Capitol, turning the January 6 assault into an explicit constitutional case against him. The move marked a rapid escalation from outrage to formal con…
House Democrats Set Up Second Trump Impeachment After Capitol Attack
On Jan. 10, 2021, House Democrats were lining up a second impeachment push after the Capitol attack. The article itself was introduced on Jan. 11, and the House voted on it Jan. 13.
Twitter cuts off Trump’s account after Jan. 6 violence
Twitter permanently suspended Donald Trump’s account on Jan. 8, 2021, after reviewing recent tweets and surrounding context and citing the risk of further incitement of violence.
House Democrats Move Toward Swift Impeachment Push Against Trump
House Democrats on Friday laid plans for a swift impeachment push after the Capitol attack, while saying the House needed to act quickly on Trump’s conduct.
Pelosi keeps removal options alive in Capitol attack fallout
In the days after the Capitol attack, Speaker Nancy Pelosi kept pressure on President Donald Trump by backing the 25th Amendment and leaving impeachment on the table. Her January 8 remarks followed a more explicit January 7 call for removal.
Congress Certifies Biden's Win After the Capitol Was Cleared
Congress finished certifying Joe Biden’s Electoral College victory on January 7, 2021, after lawmakers were evacuated during the Capitol attack and later returned to resume the count.
Removal Talk Goes Mainstream as Trump Becomes a Liability to His Own Party
By January 7, calls to remove Trump had moved from fringe outrage to serious congressional discussion. The 25th Amendment and impeachment were suddenly being treated as live options because the president’s conduct after the Capitol attack was so damaging that…