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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 and document demands.
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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 and document demands.
A year-end look at the Trump Organization’s legal and ethics problems: New York’s attorney general was still pressing subpoena compliance, and an outside watchdog had asked federal suspension officials to act.
On the first anniversary of Jan. 6, Trump kept pushing election-fraud claims and making the riot’s politics part of his fundraising machine. The move kept his base fired up, but it also kept dragging the attack back into the center of Republican politics.
On Jan. 11, 2022, the House Jan. 6 committee’s records request was still in motion, but Trump had not yet filed his Jan. 18 executive-privilege letter and the Supreme Court had not yet acted.
Federal prosecutors in Manhattan say two North Macedonia nationals were charged in an alleged scheme that falsely claimed “Trump Bucks” were tied to Donald Trump, his family, the Trump Organization and Trump administration figures.
Federal prosecutors in New York say two North Macedonian nationals sold fake ‘Trump Bucks’ and related products to victims across the U.S. in a scheme that allegedly ran from 2023 through the present.
In late January 2022, federal officials said they were already tracking hundreds of threats against election workers and had brought an initial interstate threats charge.
The Justice Department filed a complaint on May 13 challenging the D.C. bar’s handling of Jeffrey Clark’s discipline case and explicitly framed it as a fight against the “weaponization” of legal process. The move gives Trump another chance to cast oversight of his allies as persecution, but it also invites a fresh round of criticism that the government is using power to relitigate old loyalty fights.
The Feb. 11, 2022 Durham filing in the Michael Sussmann case was quickly spun into a bigger claim than it supported. The filing did not prove that Hillary Clinton’s campaign spied on Donald Trump, even as allies and conservative media used it to push that story anyway.
The administration’s Cuba sanctions package keeps expanding, but the official documents still leave the most important question unanswered: what would success actually look like?
On May 1, 2026, the White House said President Donald Trump signed an executive order expanding sanctions on Cuba, including blocking measures, travel restrictions and authority to hit foreign financial institutions that facilitate covered transactions. The order is explicit about pressure; it is not explicit about what success would look like.
The White House announced new sanctions on Cuban officials and entities on May 1, escalating pressure while reviving questions about whether the administration is building policy or just stacking punishment for headlines.
CREW and the Freedom of the Press Foundation filed suit on April 24, 2026, after an April 1 DOJ legal opinion said the Presidential Records Act is unconstitutional and an April 2 White House memo followed with revised records guidance.
Trump’s May 1 Cuba order widens sanctions under the January 29, 2026 emergency framework aimed at the Cuban government.
Trump’s May 1 Cuba sanctions order widens the pressure campaign and leaves the administration without a public benchmark for easing it.
Trump signed an executive order on May 1 expanding Cuba sanctions under IEEPA. The White House says the move targets repression, corruption and support networks tied to the Cuban government, but the public order and fact sheet do not spell out a benchmark for easing the pressure.
The House Jan. 6 committee was probing whether Trump, the RNC and allied fundraising groups used false election claims to solicit donations and route money elsewhere. The reporting was from March 8, 2022; there was no new March 19 breakthrough.
House Judiciary Democrats filed two resolutions on April 16 asking Congress to press President Trump on the Constitution’s foreign and domestic emoluments clauses, citing what they describe as presidential profiteering and conflicts tied to his business interests.
On March 29, 2022, Trump repeated an unproven claim that Elena Baturina, the widow of Moscow’s former mayor, sent $3.5 million to a company he said was linked to Hunter Biden. He offered no new evidence in the interview and did not substantiate the allegation.
Jared Kushner’s post-White House firm drew fresh scrutiny after reporting in April 2022 showed that Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund had committed $2 billion to Affinity Partners in July 2021. House Democrats later opened a probe into the investment and the questions it raised about influence, access, and timing.
The District of Columbia, the Trump Organization and the 58th Presidential Inaugural Committee reached a $750,000 settlement over 2017 inauguration spending tied to the Trump International Hotel. The court entered the settlement order on May 6, 2022, and the money is to be paid to the District and then split between Mikva Challenge DC and DC Action for Children.
House Oversight Democrats on May 6, 2022, asked CGI Merchant Group for more information about the investors behind its planned $375 million purchase of the Trump hotel lease in Washington, saying the disclosure gap left open questions about who would benefit from the deal.
Trump’s lawyers asked a federal judge to stay his $10 billion suit against the IRS and Treasury Department for 90 days while settlement talks continue.
Trump’s lawyers asked a federal judge to pause his $10 billion IRS lawsuit for 90 days while settlement talks continue.