| Oct 2026 | Kushner's $1 billion stake in an Israeli firm invested in arms makers
Kushner, Israel & Gaza | $1B+ stake; $340M+ realized | Reported | CNN |
| Oct 2026 | Two more paid-access events for his memecoin’s top holders: Mar-a-Lago in April, his D.C. club in November
Crypto ventures | Top 297 holders invited; the coin is down 97% | Reported | Forbes (Oct. 1, 2026) |
| Oct 2026 | Putin asked Trump’s envoys to close a Lukoil sale to a group tied to their own business partners
Russia: peace talks & business | $20B: Lukoil’s own valuation of the assets; price not disclosed | Reported | New York Times (Oct. 3, 2026) |
| Oct 2026 | Phoenix owns shares in Israeli arms makers, about $380 million traced by CNN; it does not sell weapons
Kushner, Israel & Gaza | About $380M in arms-maker shares traced by CNN (six stakes, summed) | Reported | CNN investigation (Oct. 1, 2026) |
| Oct 2026 | Housing regulator’s acting watchdog was removed in 2025; in 2026 the agency cut the watchdog’s budget 64%
Investigators removed | Watchdog budget cut from $55M to $20M | Reported | FHFA Office of Inspector General letter to Congress (Sept. 30, 2026) |
| Oct 2026 | ProPublica count: immigration agents have held 506 U.S. citizens since January 2025
Citizens detained by ICE | 506 citizens held, Jan. 2025 to Sept. 2026 (ProPublica count) | Reported | ProPublica, “Federal Agents Have Detained More Than 500 American Citizens” (Oct. 6, 2026) |
| Oct 2026 | Trump says it is “imperative that CNN be sold”; an ally’s family takes control of CNN’s parent
War on the press | $111B deal (private money) | Alleged | NPR (Trump on CNN’s sale, Dec. 12, 2025) |
| Oct 2026 | 250-foot triumphal arch near Arlington: no budget, no vote in Congress, review cut short
His name on everything | $15M reserved for planning (PBS News); no published budget | Reported | PBS News: how Trump’s construction projects are costing taxpayers (Aug. 13, 2026) |
| Sep 2026 | Pentagon took a stake in a Venezuelan oil firm whose owner was drawn into graft probes, never charged
Foreign money & deals | n/a | Reported | The Guardian (Sept. 26, 2026) |
| Sep 2026 | A federal agency would take a stake in the Lukoil deal; the two envoys negotiated its terms
Russia: peace talks & business | n/a | Reported | Financial Times (Sept. 22, 2026) |
| Sep 2026 | White House weighed signing business deals with Russia before the war ends, reversing Trump’s pledge
Russia: peace talks & business | n/a | Reported | New York Times (Sept. 17, 2026) |
| Sep 2026 | Putin was formally invited to the G20 summit being held at Trump’s own Doral resort
Russia: peace talks & business | n/a | Documented | The Moscow Times (Sept. 24, 2026) |
| Sep 2026 | Trump on the $403 million in his super PAC: “This is my money, that I control”
Paying for access | $403M on hand in his super PAC (FEC filing, via HuffPost); donor money | Documented | HuffPost (Sept. 5, 2026) |
| Sep 2026 | Trump dropped whiskey tariffs after a royal visit, then at his own Irish golf course: “been bugging me”
Policy for sale | n/a | Documented | AP via PBS News (Sept. 14, 2026) |
| Sep 2026 | Trump promised every adult a $5,000 “Trump dividend” from tariff money if Republicans win the midterms
Policy for sale | $1.2T estimated cost (PBS News) | Documented | PBS News (Sept. 10, 2026) |
| Sep 2026 | Homeland Security money paid for campaign-style TV ads starring Trump before the midterms
Taxpayer money on himself | $20M ad contract | Reported | ABC News: pro-Trump ad campaign financed by DHS |
| Sep 2026 | Senate Democrats’ report: oil money helped elect Trump, and his agencies delivered the industry’s wish list
Oil, gas & coal | $96M from oil and gas to his campaign and super PACs (Climate Power count) | Alleged | Senate EPW Committee minority, press release (Sept. 24, 2026) |
| Sep 2026 | Kennedy’s stake in Gardasil suits went to the law firm, not his son as he told senators; Merck paid $50M
Health officials & drug deals | $856,559 in referral fees he reported, 2023 to 2024 | Alleged | The Hill (Sept. 25, 2026) |
| Sep 2026 | Kennedy named a co-founder of a leucovorin telehealth startup to chair the federal autism panel
Health officials & drug deals | n/a | Reported | STAT (Sept. 22, 2026) |
| Sep 2026 | Hegseth put Musk and Anduril’s founder, both Republican donors with Pentagon contracts, on a future-war panel
War & the Pentagon | n/a | Reported | The Guardian (Sept. 30, 2026) |
| Sep 2026 | A Putin-linked Russian oligarch paid for part of Donald Trump Jr.’s wedding celebrations
The family business | Hundreds of thousands of dollars (ProPublica) | Reported | ProPublica (Sept. 14, 2026) |
| Sep 2026 | FEMA awarded Florida $608 million for “Alligator Alcatraz” with no contract or negotiated price, GAO found
Friends, donors & officials | $608.4M FEMA award (GAO) | Documented | GAO-26-108663 (Sept. 24, 2026) |
| Sep 2026 | ICE spent $1.07 billion on 11 warehouses, then moved to sell seven; watchdog is auditing $9 billion in awards
Friends, donors & officials | $1.07B for 11 warehouses (GAO) | Documented | GAO-26-108663 (Sept. 24, 2026) |
| Sep 2026 | Watchdog audit opens while lawmakers say millions of files are still withheld
The Epstein files | n/a | Documented | DOJ Office of the Inspector General announcement (PDF) |
| Sep 2026 | On appeal, the government joined Trump against the ruling; two courts refused to pause it
His own Justice Department | n/a | Documented | Order denying stay, Eleventh Circuit No. 26-12692, Doc. 68 (Sept. 29, 2026) |
| Sep 2026 | “Grand conspiracy” grand jury in Judge Cannon’s courthouse: three prosecutors out, no charges
His own Justice Department | n/a | Reported | NBC News (Sept. 10, 2026) |
| Sep 2026 | Prosecutor who withdrew from the dropped Adani bribery case was fired a month after the dismissal
Investigators removed | n/a | Alleged | NBC News (Sept. 9, 2026) |
| Sep 2026 | Hatch Act complaints against senior Trump officials sit unresolved while rank-and-file staff are charged
Investigators removed | n/a | Reported | Government Executive (Sept. 14, 2026) |
| Sep 2026 | Justice leaders blocked civil-rights charges against an ICE agent; the prosecutor who objected was fired
The Minnesota surge | n/a | Reported | ProPublica (Sept. 3, 2026) |
| Sep 2026 | AP: none of 102 felony assault cases against immigration protesters ended in a trial conviction
Citizens detained by ICE | 0 trial convictions in 102 felony assault cases (AP analysis) | Reported | Associated Press via Los Angeles Times, “DOJ went after protesters for felony assault, but juries, judges were unconvinced” (Sept. 12, 2026) |
| Sep 2026 | The Trace: immigration agents have shot at people in 32 incidents, killing nine
Citizens detained by ICE | 32 shootings, 9 killed, 15 injured (The Trace count) | Reported | The Trace, “How Many People Have Been Shot in ICE Raids?” (updated Oct. 9, 2026) |
| Sep 2026 | The scorecard: 976 lawsuits, and 24 wins in 32 emergency rulings at the Supreme Court
Breaking the Constitution | n/a | Reported | Brennan Center, Supreme Court shadow docket tracker (updated Sept. 29, 2026) |
| Sep 2026 | Judges throw out Trump’s suit against an Iowa pollster and his company’s $3.8 billion suit against the Post
War on the press | $3.8B sought from the Washington Post; $0 awarded | Documented | CNN (Selzer suit dismissed, Sept. 23, 2026) |
| Sep 2026 | Kennedy Center under his chairmanship: sales fell, staff were cut, and his board voted to close it
His name on everything | $257M in repair money on hold over the name | Reported | PBS News / AP: board votes to close over naming dispute and financial trouble (Sept. 15, 2026) |
| Sep 2026 | His portrait and name on a $1 coin, the parks pass, passports and federal programs
His name on everything | n/a | Documented | CoinNews: Treasury unveils Trump $1 coin (July 16, 2026) |
| Sep 2026 | White House launched “Trump TV”, a 24-hour government stream of his “greatest hits”
His name on everything | n/a | Reported | Axios: Trump TV is live. Here’s what it’s actually showing (Sept. 22, 2026) |
| Aug 2026 | $1.65 billion in restitution, fines, and forfeitures wiped out
Pardons & dropped cases | $1.65B (partisan estimate) | Alleged | House Judiciary Democrats staff report, Aug 2026 (partisan) |
| Aug 2026 | Trump’s bank regulator approved a bank for the family crypto firm that a UAE royal bought into
Crypto ventures | n/a | Reported | The Guardian (Aug. 20, 2026) |
| Aug 2026 | Trump and his firm are suing two banks his government regulates; one cites a money-laundering review
His businesses & merchandise | $5B sought from JPMorgan; nothing awarded | Documented | The Guardian, Reuters report (Aug. 1, 2026) |
| Aug 2026 | Ballroom billed as donor-funded is drawing hundreds of millions in public money
Taxpayer money on himself | ~$300M taxpayer share (Washington Post reporting) | Reported | New York magazine (Sept. 4, 2026) |
| Aug 2026 | Pentagon’s No. 2 picked his own trust’s lawyer to represent the department in a $550 million minerals deal
War & the Pentagon | $550M Pentagon stake and loan in MP Materials | Reported | The American Prospect (Aug. 21, 2026) |
| Aug 2026 | Congress’s watchdog found DOGE’s posted savings unreliable; Musk had promised $2 trillion
Elon Musk & DOGE | $110B in claimed savings examined and found unreliable (GAO) | Documented | GAO-26-108615, DOGE Wall of Receipts (Aug. 6, 2026) |
| Aug 2026 | Auditors for Congress could not confirm DOGE staff met ethics rules; 10 agencies did not answer
Elon Musk & DOGE | n/a | Documented | Government Executive (Aug. 5, 2026) |
| Aug 2026 | Trump’s teleprompter operator bet on the words in his speeches and was ordered to pay $172,000
Stock trades & market timing | $172,539 ordered: profit plus penalty (CFTC) | Documented | CFTC press release 9289-26 (August 21, 2026) |
| Aug 2026 | Don Jr.’s venture fund grew from $150 million to $3.5 billion; about 40% is foreign money
The family business | $3.5B under management, about 40% of it foreign | Reported | CNN (July 20, 2026) |
| Aug 2026 | Bribery charges against Indian billionaire Gautam Adani were dropped after he hired Trump’s personal lawyer
Pardons & dropped cases | $10B U.S. investment offered (not a payment to Trump) | Alleged | NBC News (May 18, 2026) |
| Aug 2026 | State fake-elector prosecutions have mostly collapsed
Overturning the 2020 election | n/a | Documented | Bridge Michigan, Sept. 9, 2025 |
| Aug 2026 | Maxwell takes the Fifth, seeks clemency, and loses her bid for release
The Epstein files | n/a | Documented | PBS News (Fifth Amendment) |
| Aug 2026 | More Trump-orbit lawyers got top posts: solicitor general, No. 3 at Justice, White House counsel
His own Justice Department | n/a | Documented | Justice Department, Solicitor General D. John Sauer |
| Aug 2026 | Street surges went to Democratic-led cities, while the most ICE arrests came in Texas and Florida
The Minnesota surge | 24% of ICE arrests were in Texas, Jan.-July 2025 (Texas Tribune) | Reported | Texas Tribune (Nov. 3, 2025) |
| Aug 2026 | Court filings: agents ran an undercover surveillance program on unions and groups protesting the surge
The Minnesota surge | n/a | Documented | AP (Aug. 14, 2026) |
| Aug 2026 | ICE told Congress it arrested 131 U.S. citizens in the Minnesota surge; 14 cases were still active
Citizens detained by ICE | 131 citizens arrested, Jan. 8 to May 20, 2026 (ICE’s own count) | Documented | ICE letter to Reps. Craig and Omar, signed by acting head David Venturella (Aug. 18, 2026) |
| Aug 2026 | Pentagon takes control of Stars and Stripes and fires its editor after he objected on television
War on the press | n/a | Documented | PBS / AP (firings, Aug. 21, 2026) |
| Jul 2026 | Adam Kidan: a donor from the Abramoff scandal
Pardons & dropped cases | $21.7M restitution; $200K+ donated | Reported | NOTUS |
| Jul 2026 | Korean firm paid Trump’s company $2 million while its aluminum unit fought a Commerce trade case
Foreign money & deals | $2M “non-refundable development fee” (his own disclosure) | Alleged | Trump annual financial disclosure, OGE Form 278e, line 267 (filed 2026) |
| Jul 2026 | Antwerp diamond group made Trump a jeweled ring months after U.S. tariffs on its diamonds went to zero
Foreign money & deals | $25,000 to $35,000 (two jewelers’ estimates for AP) | Reported | Associated Press (July 3, 2026) |
| Jul 2026 | Health advisory panel includes a pardoned man’s fundraiser mother and an investor in Don Jr.-linked BlinkRx
Health officials & drug deals | n/a | Alleged | Senate Finance Committee Democrats, Wyden and Merkley letter (July 14, 2026) |
| Jul 2026 | SEC settled its $150 million case against Musk for a $1.5 million fine paid by his trust
Elon Musk & DOGE | $150M sought by the SEC; settled for $1.5M | Documented | U.S. District Court (D.D.C.), memorandum opinion and order, SEC v. Musk (July 8, 2026) |
| Jul 2026 | He praised 21 companies on Truth Social within a week of his account buying their stock, CNN found
Stock trades & market timing | 44 purchases in 21 companies (CNN analysis) | Reported | CNN (July 16, 2026) |
| Jul 2026 | White House, Trump Organization and Trump gave three different accounts of who controls his trades
Stock trades & market timing | n/a | Documented | ABC News (July 3, 2026) |
| Jul 2026 | Trump Media began selling trading firms the fastest access to his market-moving posts
Stock trades & market timing | Up to $100,000 a month per firm (Reuters) | Documented | Reuters (July 16, 2026) |
| Jul 2026 | Ten companies backed by Don Jr.’s fund got $1.6 billion in federal awards in 500 days
The family business | $1.6B in federal awards to 10 fund-backed firms in 500 days (CNN) | Alleged | CNN (July 20, 2026) |
| Jul 2026 | Donor who gave $11 million to Trump’s super PAC was named to chair a $201 million “Trump Route” fund
Friends, donors & officials | $201M in public money in the fund (State Department) | Reported | The Guardian (July 14, 2026) |
| Jul 2026 | FBI director kept up to $5 million of Shein’s parent and reported a six-figure stock buy six months late
Friends, donors & officials | $1M to $5M in stock of Shein’s parent (his disclosure, per AP) | Documented | NOTUS (July 1, 2026) |
| Jul 2026 | The judge’s findings in full: no real dispute, bad faith, a bar referral, and copies to two bar authorities
His own Justice Department | n/a | Documented | Order, Trump v. IRS, S.D. Fla. No. 26-cv-20609, Doc. 106 (July 13, 2026) |
| Jul 2026 | Count: Cabinet watchdog offices are 19% smaller and issue 25% fewer investigative reports
Investigators removed | n/a | Reported | Partnership for Public Service report (July 29, 2026) |
| Jul 2026 | Justice Department subpoenas New York Times reporters over Air Force One story, then backs down
War on the press | n/a | Documented | NPR (subpoenas dropped, July 23, 2026) |
| Jul 2026 | Homeland Security cuts foreign journalists’ visas from five years to 240 days; a judge blocks it
War on the press | n/a | Reported | The Guardian (rule announced, July 17, 2026) |
| Jul 2026 | Palm Beach airport renamed for him while in office; his company trademarked the name first
His name on everything | $5.5M renaming cost; $2.75M from the state | Documented | NPR: Florida airport officially renamed for Trump (July 9, 2026) |
| Jun 2026 | $1.4 billion in crypto income in one year, by his own filing
Crypto ventures | $1.4B+ crypto income reported for 2025 | Documented | Reuters |
| Jun 2026 | Foreign licensing income up 71% in his first year back
Foreign money & deals | $59.5M foreign licensing income, 2025 | Documented | CNBC |
| Jun 2026 | Watches, books, Bibles, sneakers, guitars, and digital trading cards
His businesses & merchandise | ~$8.5M in royalties, plus $8.4M in Trump Store sales (2025) | Documented | Trump's 2026 financial disclosure (OGE Form 278e) |
| Jun 2026 | Mar-a-Lago revenue up more than 50%
His businesses & merchandise | $77.5M Mar-a-Lago revenue, 2025 | Documented | Trump's 2026 financial disclosure (OGE Form 278e) |
| Jun 2026 | More than 14,000 stock and bond trades in a year
Stock trades & market timing | 14,000+ trades in 2025 | Documented | Trump's 2026 financial disclosure (OGE Form 278e) |
| Jun 2026 | Fighters at the White House UFC event were paid bonuses in the Trump family’s own stablecoin
Crypto ventures | $250,000 bonus pool paid in the family’s stablecoin | Documented | The Guardian (June 14, 2026) |
| Jun 2026 | Draft Board of Peace resolution would give its members and contractors legal immunity in Gaza
Kushner, Israel & Gaza | n/a | Reported | The Guardian (June 27, 2026) |
| Jun 2026 | Nearly $2.6 billion in federal money paid to cancel offshore wind leases, with firms steered to gas
Oil, gas & coal | $2.6B paid to cancel offshore wind leases (AP tally) | Reported | Associated Press (June 17, 2026) |
| Jun 2026 | Trump’s account bought tobacco stock as donors gave millions and his FDA cleared flavored vapes
Health officials & drug deals | $20M+ from tobacco interests to MAGA Inc. since late 2023 (FEC, per KFF) | Alleged | KFF Health News (June 11, 2026) |
| Jun 2026 | Trump said the U.S. would “assume total control” of Iran’s oil and gas, “much like” Venezuela
War & the Pentagon | n/a | Reported | The Guardian (June 11, 2026) |
| Jun 2026 | His own ethics filings record late fees for stock trades not reported within the 45-day deadline
Stock trades & market timing | $200 late fee (Washington Post) | Documented | OGE Form 278e annual report for 2025, Donald J. Trump (received June 29, 2026) |
| Jun 2026 | Up to $1.6 billion in U.S. financing lined up for a Kazakh tungsten mine tied to a firm Trump’s sons part-own
The family business | Up to $1.6B in U.S. letters of interest (SEC filing); not final loans | Reported | Skyline Builders / Cove Kaz press release, SEC Form 6-K exhibit (Apr. 30, 2026) |
| Jun 2026 | ProPublica: Don Jr. secretly held a stake in a Texas refinery startup that then drew Ambani money
The family business | $100M+ from Reliance (“nine-figure”, per ProPublica) | Alleged | ProPublica (June 9, 2026) |
| Jun 2026 | Albania cleared protected coast for a Kushner and Ivanka Trump resort; mass protests followed
The family business | $1.6B planned resort (private investment) | Reported | The Guardian (June 4, 2026) |
| Jun 2026 | The Reflecting Pool: no-bid contracts to firms found by the manager of his golf club
Friends, donors & officials | $16M+ in no-bid contracts (AP) | Reported | AP fact check (Aug. 2026) |
| Jun 2026 | Justice Department leaders shut down a criminal pollution probe of a GOP senator’s family coal firms
Pardons & dropped cases | n/a | Reported | ProPublica (June 8, 2026) |
| Jun 2026 | Republicans joined Democrats against the fund, then voted down every attempt to ban it by law
His own Justice Department | n/a | Reported | AP (May 19, 2026) |
| Jun 2026 | A Virginia judge froze the fund; the department refused to swear it was dead, then rescinded it
His own Justice Department | $0 paid before the fund was rescinded | Documented | Preliminary injunction order, Floyd v. Department of Justice, E.D. Va. No. 26-cv-1399, Doc. 85 (June 12, 2026) |
| Jun 2026 | With the $1.8 billion fund shelved, Jan. 6 defendants press damage claims and Trump says pay them
His own Justice Department | n/a | Reported | ABC News (June 3, 2026) |
| Jun 2026 | Minneapolis put the local cost near $700 million; no federal cost figure has been published
The Minnesota surge | $700M in local costs through April 2026 (city estimate) | Documented | City of Minneapolis, Updated Impact Assessment and Recovery Needs Overview (June 10, 2026) |
| Jun 2026 | Supreme Court voided his order ending birthright citizenship, 6-3
Breaking the Constitution | n/a | Documented | Supreme Court opinion, Trump v. Barbara (June 30, 2026) |
| Jun 2026 | Congress voted to end the Iran war under the War Powers Resolution; the war continued
Breaking the Constitution | n/a | Documented | U.S. Senate roll call vote 184, H.Con.Res. 86 (June 23, 2026) |
| Jun 2026 | He fired officials Congress had protected; lower courts called it illegal, the Supreme Court sided with him
Breaking the Constitution | n/a | Documented | Supreme Court opinion, Trump v. Slaughter (June 29, 2026) |
| Jun 2026 | Supreme Court declined to let him remove the head of the Copyright Office
Breaking the Constitution | n/a | Documented | Supreme Court docket 25A478, Blanche v. Perlmutter |
| Jun 2026 | UFC cage fights on the White House lawn for his 80th birthday, with $1 million sponsor packages
His name on everything | $60M+ put into the event (Park Service filing); public share undisclosed | Documented | PBS News / AP: Trump celebrates 80th birthday ahead of UFC fights on South Lawn (June 14, 2026) |
| Jun 2026 | His own 250th-anniversary group got $68 million in public money and sold donors access to him
His name on everything | $68.3M in Interior grants (federal grant records) | Documented | ABC News: who is paying for America’s 250th celebrations (July 3, 2026) |
| Jun 2026 | Order stripped job protections from about 8,000 senior career officials (the former “Schedule F”)
Loyalty over law | About 8,000 positions (administration figure) | Documented | Federal News Network (June 3, 2026) |
| May 2026 | Quiet private token sales added an estimated $660 million
Crypto ventures | ~$660M estimated family proceeds (Bloomberg) | Reported | Bloomberg |
| May 2026 | Bosnia wrote a firm run by two Trump allies into law as builder of a gas pipeline, with no tender
Foreign money & deals | $1B+ in contracts (Guardian estimate) | Reported | The Guardian (May 30, 2026) |
| May 2026 | Trump Tower Tbilisi is planned on land part-owned by the son of Georgia’s U.S.-sanctioned leader
Foreign money & deals | n/a | Reported | The Guardian (May 25, 2026) |
| May 2026 | Trump pledged $10 billion of U.S. money to his Board of Peace; its World Bank fund stayed empty
Kushner, Israel & Gaza | $10B pledged by Trump; not appropriated or paid | Reported | AP (Feb. 19, 2026) |
| May 2026 | Trump exempted more than 180 polluting plants from air-toxics rules; the application was an email
Oil, gas & coal | n/a | Documented | White House proclamation, coal plant exemptions (April 8, 2025) |
| May 2026 | Trump’s account bought up to $680,000 of Eli Lilly stock as his agencies advanced its obesity drugs
Health officials & drug deals | Up to $680,000 of Eli Lilly stock (his filing, via KFF) | Alleged | KFF Health News (May 18, 2026) |
| May 2026 | More than 3,600 trades worth at least $220 million in the first three months of 2026
Stock trades & market timing | At least $220M traded in three months (Reuters tally) | Documented | OGE Form 278-T, Donald J. Trump, certified May 13, 2026 |
| May 2026 | A one-commissioner regulator sued nine states to shield prediction markets tied to Trump’s family
Stock trades & market timing | 9 states sued by the CFTC (CNBC count, August 2026) | Documented | CFTC press release 9220-26 (April 28, 2026) |
| May 2026 | Interior ended a nonprofit’s lease on a public D.C. golf course and brought in Trump’s own course designer
Friends, donors & officials | Up to $49M construction contract forecast (House Democrats) | Reported | House Natural Resources Democrats letter (Sept. 16, 2026) |
| May 2026 | A $1.8 billion taxpayer fund, created by settling his own lawsuit
His own Justice Department | $1.776B fund announced; $0 paid | Documented | Justice Department |
| May 2026 | Both sides of the IRS deal were signed by lawyers with prior ties to Trump or his co-defendant
His own Justice Department | No cash to Trump under the agreement | Documented | Settlement Agreement, Trump v. IRS, posted by the Justice Department (May 18, 2026) |
| May 2026 | A day after the deal, a one-page order released Trump, his family and his companies from tax claims
His own Justice Department | A 2024 report put the audit’s possible bill at $100M+ (ProPublica/NYT) | Documented | Order of the Acting Attorney General releasing claims against the plaintiffs (May 19, 2026) |
| May 2026 | The $1.776 billion fund: five appointees Trump could fire, secret procedures, no court review
His own Justice Department | $1.776B ordered from the Judgment Fund; $0 transferred | Documented | Settlement Agreement, Trump v. IRS, posted by the Justice Department (May 18, 2026) |
| May 2026 | Reports: Justice Department opened a criminal inquiry tied to E. Jean Carroll’s suits against Trump
His own Justice Department | n/a | Alleged | CNN (May 27, 2026, updated May 28) |
| May 2026 | Blanche was told in 2025 to recuse from Trump matters; as attorney general he faces bar complaints
His own Justice Department | n/a | Reported | U.S. Senate roll call vote 230, 119th Congress, 2nd session (Aug. 8, 2026) |
| May 2026 | Trade court ruled his replacement tariffs unlawful too; an appeals court kept them in place
Breaking the Constitution | n/a | Documented | Politico (May 7, 2026) |
| May 2026 | His signature on dollar bills, a $250 gold coin with his portrait, and plans for a $250 note
His name on everything | n/a | Documented | BBC: Trump’s signature to appear on US bank notes (March 26, 2026) |
| Apr 2026 | World Liberty’s biggest outside backer sued it for “extortion” over frozen tokens; the firm sued him back
Crypto ventures | $45M initial token purchase by the plaintiff (BBC); at least $75M in all (The Block) | Alleged | BBC News (April 22, 2026) |
| Apr 2026 | Democrats in both chambers opened inquiries into Kushner’s dual role; no answers have been made public
Kushner, Israel & Gaza | n/a | Documented | Rep. Raskin letter to Kushner (Apr. 16, 2026) |
| Apr 2026 | Trump Media has lost over $1.1 billion since going public; its chief was replaced after a 67% share slide
His businesses & merchandise | $1.1B+ in losses since listing (AP) | Documented | Associated Press (April 22, 2026) |
| Apr 2026 | Trump Store launched at least 622 new products in the first 14 months of his second term, a watchdog counted
His businesses & merchandise | $8.4M in Trump Store sales, 2025 (his filing) | Reported | CREW (April 14, 2026) |
| Apr 2026 | Foreign steelmaker gave ballroom steel; days after Trump mentioned the gift, a tariff change opened a way to halve the duty on its steel
Paying for access | $37M of donated steel, by Trump’s account | Alleged | The New York Times (April 8, 2026) |
| Apr 2026 | Ballroom funding contract lets donors stay anonymous; 14 of 27 known donors got new federal contracts
Paying for access | 14 of 27 known donors got new contracts (Public Citizen count) | Alleged | Public Citizen news release (April 22, 2026) |
| Apr 2026 | Pentagon’s AI chief sold his stake in Musk’s xAI for up to $25 million after Pentagon deals with the firm
War & the Pentagon | $5M to $25M from selling his xAI stake (ethics filings, via the Guardian) | Reported | The Guardian (Apr. 9, 2026) |
| Apr 2026 | Navy secretary, a Trump fundraiser with no military service, was fired amid a reported ethics inquiry
War & the Pentagon | $12M reportedly raised at his 2024 dinner for Trump (Guardian) | Reported | The Guardian (Apr. 23, 2026) |
| Apr 2026 | A special forces soldier who took part in the Maduro raid was charged with betting on it for $409,000
Stock trades & market timing | $409,000 profit alleged in the indictment | Documented | CNN (April 23, 2026) |
| Apr 2026 | Envoy Witkoff sold a $120 million stake in his firm to an unnamed buyer; his fortune rose 15% in office
Friends, donors & officials | $120M stake sold to an undisclosed buyer (his filing) | Reported | Forbes (Apr. 4, 2026) |
| Apr 2026 | Bondi is subpoenaed over the files, then fired; Trump’s former lawyer takes over the department
The Epstein files | n/a | Reported | AP via PBS News (subpoena vote) |
| Apr 2026 | Justice Department agreed to pay Carter Page $1.25 million after he lost in two courts
His own Justice Department | $1.25M (Politico; not stated in the court filing) | Reported | Brief for the United States, Page v. Comey, No. 25-705, U.S. Supreme Court (Apr. 22, 2026) |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-abortion activist Mark Houck got a reported $1 million-plus after a judge threw out his suit
His own Justice Department | $1M+ per his backers; exact sum undisclosed | Reported | Memorandum opinion, Houck v. United States, E.D. Pa. No. 24-2151 (Mar. 6, 2025) |
| Apr 2026 | Trump fired Bondi in a social media post that gave no reason; sources cited failed cases against his foes
His own Justice Department | n/a | Reported | CNN (April 2, 2026) |
| Apr 2026 | About a dozen U.S. citizens deported, most of them children; one adult was let back after five months
Citizens detained by ICE | About 12 citizens deported, mostly children (ProPublica count) | Reported | ProPublica, “Federal Agents Have Detained More Than 500 American Citizens” (Oct. 6, 2026) |
| Apr 2026 | FBI director sues The Atlantic for $250 million; his bureau looked into a reporter who wrote about him
War on the press | $250M sought (private suit, pending) | Alleged | U.S. Press Freedom Tracker (Patel suit and FBI inquiry) |
| Apr 2026 | U.S. falls to 64th in a press-freedom ranking; trackers log record incidents
War on the press | n/a | Reported | Reporters Without Borders (2025 index) |
| Apr 2026 | TrumpIRA.gov puts his name on a 2022 savings match; a poll found the TrumpRx name cut approval
His name on everything | n/a | Documented | White House: executive order establishing TrumpIRA.gov (April 30, 2026) |
| Apr 2026 | The purge continued into wartime: Army chief removed, at least a dozen senior officers out by fall 2026
Loyalty over law | n/a | Reported | The Independent (Sept. 1, 2026) |
| Apr 2026 | Justice Department declared the Presidential Records Act unconstitutional; a judge ordered compliance
Hiding the record | n/a | Documented | Memorandum opinion, American Historical Association v. Trump, No. 26-1169, D.D.C. (May 20, 2026) |
| Apr 2026 | SEC enforcement actions fell to 456 in fiscal 2025 from 583 the year before, by the agency’s own count
Guardrails removed | 456 enforcement actions, down from 583 (SEC) | Documented | SEC press release 2026-34 (Apr. 7, 2026) |
| Mar 2026 | Jared Kushner: raising Gulf money while negotiating with the Gulf
Kushner, Israel & Gaza | $6.2B under management, ~99% foreign | Reported | Bloomberg |
| Mar 2026 | $220 million in no-bid ad contracts at Homeland Security
Friends, donors & officials | $220M in no-bid contracts | Reported | ProPublica |
| Mar 2026 | World Liberty offered “guaranteed direct access” to its team for investors who lock up $5 million of tokens
Crypto ventures | $5M in tokens locked per investor; 75% of new sales go to the family (Reuters) | Reported | Reuters (March 13, 2026) |
| Mar 2026 | SEC and CFTC guidance put memecoins and most tokens outside securities law, covering the family’s products
Crypto ventures | No dollar figure; industry-wide guidance | Reported | The Guardian (March 22, 2026) |
| Mar 2026 | Pakistan courted Trump’s circle with lobbyists, a Nobel nod and mineral deals; envoy brokered a hotel pact
Foreign money & deals | $450,000 a month in lobbying contracts (Global Witness) | Reported | New York Times (March 26, 2026) |
| Mar 2026 | $63 million in settlements pledged to his library went to a fund later dissolved; Democrats ask where it is
Paying for access | $63M in settlement money pledged to the library | Reported | The Washington Post (March 11, 2026) |
| Mar 2026 | Second-term golf trips have cost taxpayers more than $100 million, by one press estimate
Taxpayer money on himself | $101M+ in travel and security (HuffPost estimate) | Reported | HuffPost: golf tab crosses $100 million (March 28, 2026) |
| Mar 2026 | Army gave Anduril a contract worth up to $20 billion; its founder is a top Republican fundraiser
War & the Pentagon | Up to $20B over ten years (a ceiling, not money spent) | Reported | DefenseScoop (Mar. 14, 2026) |
| Mar 2026 | State Department declared an emergency to push $16.5 billion-plus in Gulf arms sales past Congress
War & the Pentagon | $16.5B+ in sales waived past Congress (press tally) | Documented | State Department notice, transmittal 26-41 (Mar. 19, 2026) |
| Mar 2026 | On the day he announced talks with Iran, his account bought oil and defense stocks
Stock trades & market timing | Purchases of $1,001 to $100,000 each that day (his filing) | Documented | OGE Form 278-T, Donald J. Trump, certified May 13, 2026 |
| Mar 2026 | Oil bets worth hundreds of millions were placed minutes before his Iran announcements; traders unidentified
Stock trades & market timing | $950M oil bet on April 7 (Reuters); $580M on March 23 (FT) | Alleged | Reuters (April 15, 2026) |
| Mar 2026 | SEC enforcement chief quit after clashing with bosses over cases touching Trump’s circle, Reuters reported
Stock trades & market timing | n/a | Reported | Reuters (March 23, 2026) |
| Mar 2026 | Drone maker backed by Trump’s sons pitched Gulf states under Iranian attack and eyed Pentagon money
The family business | Stakes “worth millions” (AP); no contract reported yet | Reported | The Guardian (March 9, 2026) |
| Mar 2026 | Trump’s sons met officials of eight foreign governments while seeking business abroad, watchdog finds
The family business | 8 foreign governments (CREW count) | Reported | CREW (March 2, 2026) |
| Mar 2026 | Contractors told White House aides they were asked to pay Noem adviser Corey Lewandowski
Friends, donors & officials | No payment documented; accounts from unnamed sources | Alleged | NBC News (Mar. 19, 2026) |
| Mar 2026 | Two prison firms that each gave $500,000 to the inauguration drew $2.75 billion from ICE in 2025
Friends, donors & officials | $2.75B from ICE to the two firms in 2025 (OpenSecrets figures, summed) | Reported | OpenSecrets (Mar. 25, 2026) |
| Mar 2026 | Justice Department settled its Ticketmaster breakup case mid-trial; states fought on and won a jury verdict
Pardons & dropped cases | $280M settlement fund for states, paid by Live Nation | Alleged | NBC News (Mar. 9, 2026) |
| Mar 2026 | Pages about Trump were missing from the public files until reporters noticed
The Epstein files | n/a | Alleged | NPR (files published) |
| Mar 2026 | Justice Department agreed to pay Michael Flynn $1.25 million to settle his suit over his own prosecution
His own Justice Department | $1.25M settlement | Documented | Lawfare: U.S. agrees to $1.25 million settlement in Flynn suit |
| Mar 2026 | Deputy attorney general said “over 200” people who worked on the Trump prosecutions are gone
Investigators removed | n/a | Documented | CNN Inside Politics transcript (Mar. 27, 2026) |
| Mar 2026 | Watchdog posts filled with partisans: a former GOP congressman, a secretary’s adviser, a director’s aide
Investigators removed | n/a | Reported | Government Executive (Mar. 18, 2026) |
| Mar 2026 | ICE’s own data: about 3,800 Minnesota arrests, fewer than a quarter with a criminal conviction
The Minnesota surge | 3,789 arrests; under 25% with convictions (ICE data, MPR News) | Documented | MPR News / APM Reports (March 31, 2026) |
| Mar 2026 | Judge rules Trump’s order cutting off NPR and PBS was unconstitutional retaliation
War on the press | n/a | Documented | White House (executive order text, May 1, 2025) |
| Mar 2026 | FCC chair and Trump threaten broadcast licenses, treason charges and jail over Iran war coverage
War on the press | n/a | Documented | The Guardian (Carr post, Mar. 14, 2026) |
| Mar 2026 | Trump endorses Nexstar’s takeover of Tegna, his FCC waives the ownership cap, and a judge halts it
War on the press | $6.2B private deal | Documented | CNBC (Trump endorsement, Feb. 7, 2026) |
| Feb 2026 | A college friend of Donald Trump Jr. signed a gas deal with Russia’s Novatek after the Alaska summit
Russia: peace talks & business | n/a | Reported | The Moscow Times, summarizing the New York Times (Feb. 20, 2026) |
| Feb 2026 | Kushner negotiates on Gaza, Iran and Ukraine as an unpaid volunteer and files no financial disclosure
Kushner, Israel & Gaza | n/a | Reported | CNN investigation (Oct. 1, 2026) |
| Feb 2026 | Trump’s Iran strike decision rested partly on Kushner and Witkoff’s reading of talks that then collapsed
Kushner, Israel & Gaza | n/a | Alleged | The Guardian (Feb. 23, 2026) |
| Feb 2026 | Eric Trump invested in an Israeli military drone maker that then advanced in a Pentagon drone program
Kushner, Israel & Gaza | $152M raised from investors including Eric Trump; his share undisclosed | Reported | Times of Israel (Feb. 17, 2026) |
| Feb 2026 | More than 50 interest groups paid for events at his properties; political committees spent $1.3 million
His businesses & merchandise | $1.3M spent by political committees at his properties (Guardian) | Reported | The Guardian (Feb. 24, 2026) |
| Feb 2026 | Labor board, left without a quorum by Trump, dropped its case over SpaceX firing eight engineers
Elon Musk & DOGE | n/a | Reported | The Guardian (Feb. 11, 2026) |
| Feb 2026 | His account bought up to $5 million of Taser maker Axon two weeks before ICE sought $220 million in Tasers
Stock trades & market timing | $1M to $5M purchase; $220M ICE notice | Documented | OGE Form 278-T, Donald J. Trump, certified May 13, 2026 |
| Feb 2026 | New accounts won millions betting on the timing of Iran strikes hours before they happened
Stock trades & market timing | $2.4M won by nine linked accounts (Bubblemaps) | Alleged | The Guardian (April 18, 2026) |
| Feb 2026 | Homeland Security sought a $70 million luxury 737 and bought two Gulfstreams during Noem’s tenure
Friends, donors & officials | $300M+ on three jets (Axios, via Newsweek) | Reported | NBC News (Feb. 19, 2026) |
| Feb 2026 | Jack Smith’s report on the classified documents case remains sealed
Courts & accusations | n/a | Documented | CNN (Feb 23, 2026) |
| Feb 2026 | Released FBI record: police chief said Trump called in 2006 about Epstein
The Epstein files | n/a | Alleged | The Guardian |
| Feb 2026 | FBI fired about 10 employees who worked the Mar-a-Lago documents case; Patel had been a witness in it
Investigators removed | n/a | Reported | AP via PBS News (Feb. 26, 2026) |
| Feb 2026 | Whistleblower complaint about Gabbard reached Congress eight months late; her former aide is now the watchdog
Investigators removed | n/a | Alleged | Government Executive / Nextgov (Feb. 9, 2026) |
| Feb 2026 | Other Minnesota rulings: protest protections (later stayed) and a bar on arresting lawful refugees
The Minnesota surge | n/a | Documented | AP (Jan. 16, 2026) |
| Feb 2026 | How it ended: Bovino pulled out after the second killing, Homan declared success, Noem was replaced
The Minnesota surge | n/a | Reported | AP (Jan. 26, 2026) |
| Feb 2026 | Supreme Court struck down his emergency-powers tariffs, 6-3; billions are being refunded
Breaking the Constitution | $166B collected under tariffs ruled unlawful (Customs filing) | Documented | Supreme Court opinion, Learning Resources v. Trump (Feb. 20, 2026) |
| Feb 2026 | Judge ruled no-notice deportations to third countries unlawful and said his orders were violated
Breaking the Constitution | n/a | Documented | Final ruling, D.V.D. v. DHS, D. Mass. (Feb. 25, 2026) |
| Feb 2026 | He floated naming Penn Station and Dulles airport after himself while holding up $16 billion tunnel
His name on everything | $16B tunnel project whose funds were frozen | Alleged | The Independent: Schumer denies Trump’s claim on Penn Station (Feb. 7, 2026) |
| Jan 2026 | A banker pardoned after his daughter gave $3.5 million
Pardons & dropped cases | $3.5M to MAGA Inc. | Reported | Campaign Legal Center (watchdog) |
| Jan 2026 | 176 corporate enforcement actions canceled or halted
Pardons & dropped cases | $3.1B in penalties avoided (watchdog estimate) | Reported | Public Citizen report (advocacy group) |
| Jan 2026 | Trump towers and golf across Saudi Arabia
Foreign money & deals | $10B of projects marketed (project value) | Documented | PBS / AP |
| Jan 2026 | Foreign officials at Trump properties
Foreign money & deals | 55 officials, 21 countries (first term: $7.8M+ documented) | Reported | CREW (watchdog) |
| Jan 2026 | Amazon's $40 million Melania documentary
His businesses & merchandise | $40M license fee (reported) | Reported | Yahoo Entertainment |
| Jan 2026 | SoftBank's $50 million library gift, then a federal-land lease
Paying for access | $50M to the library | Alleged | Sen. Warren release (partisan) |
| Jan 2026 | After its founder’s pardon, Binance paid users to hold the family stablecoin; supply rose to $5 billion
Crypto ventures | $136M projected added family income over three years (New Yorker) | Alleged | The New Yorker (Jan. 31, 2026) |
| Jan 2026 | The public company built to hold the family’s tokens lost its chief, finance head and two auditors
Crypto ventures | $500M to $562M to the family from the $750M cash sale (CNBC; New Yorker) | Reported | The New Yorker (Jan. 31, 2026) |
| Jan 2026 | Trump’s “Board of Peace”: $1 billion buys a permanent seat on a body he chairs with no term limit
Foreign money & deals | $1B for a permanent seat (draft charter, per ABC News) | Reported | ABC News (Jan. 20, 2026) |
| Jan 2026 | Trump said Venezuela’s oil money “will be controlled by me”; the first $500 million was held mainly in a Qatar account
Foreign money & deals | $500M from the first oil sale (administration figure) | Reported | Semafor (Jan. 14, 2026) |
| Jan 2026 | Putin offered to pay the $1 billion fee for Trump’s “Board of Peace” out of frozen Russian assets
Russia: peace talks & business | $1B seat fee (not paid) | Documented | The Moscow Times (Jan. 22, 2026) |
| Jan 2026 | Kushner unveiled a “New Gaza” of coastal towers at Davos and promised “amazing investment opportunities”
Kushner, Israel & Gaza | n/a | Reported | Al Jazeera (Jan. 22, 2026) |
| Jan 2026 | Gaza’s governing boards: Trump as chair, his son-in-law, his envoy, a buyout chief and a property billionaire
Kushner, Israel & Gaza | n/a | Documented | White House statement (Jan. 16, 2026) |
| Jan 2026 | TikTok’s U.S. business goes to a group led by Oracle, Silver Lake and Abu Dhabi’s MGX, with a reported $10 billion fee to the Treasury
Policy for sale | ~$10B fee to the Treasury (reported, unconfirmed) | Reported | Business Insider (final ownership, Jan. 23, 2026) |
| Jan 2026 | Trump-connected lobbying firm’s income rose from $19 million to $88 million; tariff clients from 7 to 31
Policy for sale | $88.1M in 2025 lobbying income (tally of Senate filings) | Documented | Senate lobbying disclosure database, Ballard Partners filings for 2025 |
| Jan 2026 | First U.S. sale of Venezuelan oil went to Vitol, whose senior trader was a major Trump donor, FT reported
Oil, gas & coal | $500,000 FEC gift listing Vitol; about $6M in all, per the FT | Alleged | FEC itemized receipts, contributor Addison, Houston, $100,000 and over (API query) |
| Jan 2026 | Kennedy adviser’s law firm got a no-bid contract to rework the vaccine court he had steered clients out of
Health officials & drug deals | $410,000 no-bid contract (KFF Health News) | Reported | KFF Health News (Jan. 29, 2026) |
| Jan 2026 | Government admitted DOGE staff shared Social Security data, one with a group seeking to overturn elections
Elon Musk & DOGE | n/a | Documented | The Guardian (Jan. 21, 2026) |
| Jan 2026 | His account bought Nvidia stock a week before the Commerce Department cleared its chip sales to China
Stock trades & market timing | Up to $6M of Nvidia trades in the quarter (AP count) | Documented | OGE Form 278-T, Donald J. Trump, certified May 13, 2026 |
| Jan 2026 | He bought Netflix and Warner Bros. bonds after saying he would be involved in reviewing their merger
Stock trades & market timing | $1M+ in the two companies’ bonds (Washington Post) | Reported | Washington Post (January 16, 2026) |
| Jan 2026 | Single-purpose accounts cashed in on the Fed chair pick and the shutdown’s end, a Guardian analysis found
Stock trades & market timing | $2.17M profit across a dozen-plus accounts (Guardian analysis) | Alleged | The Guardian (January 30, 2026) |
| Jan 2026 | Commerce backed USA Rare Earth with up to $1.6 billion; Lutnick’s sons’ firm was paid to raise its money
Friends, donors & officials | Up to $1.6B Commerce package (debt and equity) | Reported | Sen. Warren press release on letters to Cantor and USA Rare Earth (July 7, 2026) |
| Jan 2026 | FBI seized Fulton County’s 2020 ballots
Overturning the 2020 election | n/a | Documented | NPR, Jan. 28, 2026 |
| Jan 2026 | Three million more pages released, with victims’ identities exposed
The Epstein files | n/a | Reported | AP via PBS News (release) |
| Jan 2026 | Minnesota’s immigrant share is well below the U.S. average, yet it got ICE’s “largest” operation
The Minnesota surge | 9.0% foreign-born vs 14.8% nationally (Census Bureau, 2024) | Documented | Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2024 1-year, table DP02, Minnesota (data.census.gov) |
| Jan 2026 | About 3,000 federal officers were sent where 80 normally work, nearly five times Minneapolis’s police force
The Minnesota surge | About 3,000 federal officers vs 80 normally (court order) | Documented | U.S. District Court, D. Minn., order denying injunction, Minnesota v. Noem (Jan. 31, 2026) |
| Jan 2026 | The stated reason was fraud, but most Somali American defendants were citizens, and the fraud prosecutors quit
The Minnesota surge | 82 of 92 fraud defendants Somali American (U.S. Attorney’s Office) | Reported | AP (Dec. 19, 2025) |
| Jan 2026 | Trump on Minnesota: “the day of reckoning & retribution is coming”; “I won Minnesota three times”
The Minnesota surge | n/a | Alleged | CNN (Jan. 14, 2026) |
| Jan 2026 | On the day of the second killing, Bondi asked Minnesota for its voter rolls and welfare records
The Minnesota surge | n/a | Documented | CBS News (Jan. 25, 2026) |
| Jan 2026 | Alongside the surge, agencies froze or threatened Minnesota’s federal funds; courts blocked most of it
The Minnesota surge | $243M in Medicaid payments deferred (per Minnesota’s attorney general) | Documented | White House (Jan. 2, 2026) |
| Jan 2026 | Trump threatened the Insurrection Act; the Army readied 1,500 soldiers and Walz and Frey were subpoenaed
The Minnesota surge | n/a | Reported | AP (Jan. 15, 2026) |
| Jan 2026 | Renee Good: officials said she “ran over” an officer; Justice refused a civil-rights inquiry
The Minnesota surge | n/a | Reported | CNN (July 22, 2026) |
| Jan 2026 | Alex Pretti was called a “domestic terrorist” and “would-be assassin”; videos show a phone in his hand
The Minnesota surge | n/a | Reported | AP (Jan. 25, 2026) |
| Jan 2026 | Minnesota’s chief federal judge: ICE violated at least 96 court orders in one month
The Minnesota surge | n/a | Documented | FOX 9 Minneapolis (Jan. 28, 2026) |
| Jan 2026 | The counter-case: a judge refused to halt the surge and found evidence on both sides about its motive
The Minnesota surge | n/a | Documented | U.S. District Court, D. Minn., order denying injunction (Jan. 31, 2026) |
| Jan 2026 | Tribal citizens detained in immigration sweeps in Arizona and Minnesota
Citizens detained by ICE | n/a | Reported | Navajo Nation Office of the President, “President Nygren Responds to Detention of Dine Citizen by ICE” (Jan. 16, 2026) |
| Jan 2026 | Minnesota police chief: federal agents stopped his off-duty officers, all of them people of color
Citizens detained by ICE | n/a | Alleged | CBS Minnesota, “Off-duty Twin Cities officers among those ‘targeted’ by ICE agents looking for proof of U.S. citizenship, chief says” (Jan. 20, 2026) |
| Jan 2026 | Secret ICE memo told agents they could force their way into homes without a judge’s warrant
Citizens detained by ICE | n/a | Documented | Associated Press, “Memo tells ICE officers they can enter homes without a warrant” (Jan. 21, 2026) |
| Jan 2026 | FBI searches a Washington Post reporter’s home and seizes her phone and laptops in a leak case
War on the press | n/a | Documented | NPR / AP (search, Jan. 15, 2026) |
| Jan 2026 | Journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort are indicted for covering a protest inside a church
War on the press | n/a | Documented | PBS / AP (charges and arrest, Jan. 30, 2026) |
| Jan 2026 | FCC ends talk shows’ equal-time exemption; two networks pull a Democrat’s interviews from TV
War on the press | n/a | Documented | NBC News (FCC guidance, Jan. 21, 2026) |
| Jan 2026 | Smithsonian dropped text on his impeachments twice; a state capitol swapped his portrait at his demand
His name on everything | n/a | Reported | PBS News / AP: Smithsonian removes Trump from impeachment display (Aug. 1, 2025) |
| Jan 2026 | Denied the Nobel Peace Prize, he told Norway he no longer felt bound to think “purely of Peace”
His name on everything | n/a | Documented | PBS News / AP: Trump message ties Greenland to not receiving Nobel Peace Prize (Jan. 19, 2026) |
| Jan 2026 | Prosecutors opened a criminal probe of Fed chair Powell; a judge found it was meant to pressure him
Retribution | n/a | Documented | Federal Reserve, statement from Chair Jerome H. Powell (Jan. 11, 2026) |
| Jan 2026 | Pentagon moves to punish Sen. Mark Kelly over a video; a judge blocks it and a grand jury refuses to indict lawmakers
Retribution | n/a | Documented | NPR (injunction, Feb. 12, 2026) |
| Dec 2025 | His SEC eased up on most of the crypto cases it inherited
Crypto ventures | 60%+ of inherited crypto cases eased | Reported | CNBC |
| Dec 2025 | Juan Orlando Hernández: a former president convicted of cocaine trafficking
Pardons & dropped cases | 45-year sentence erased | Documented | NPR |
| Dec 2025 | Lukoil hired a Trump campaign adviser; a rival’s signed deal then lapsed after six months without approval
Russia: peace talks & business | n/a | Reported | Treasury OFAC, FAQs 1224 and 1225 (updated Sept. 18, 2026) |
| Dec 2025 | Trump Media agreed to merge with a fusion-power firm, making the president its largest shareholder
His businesses & merchandise | $6B all-stock merger (the companies’ valuation) | Documented | CNBC (Dec. 18, 2025) |
| Dec 2025 | Ex-pipeline industry staff now run the pipeline safety agency, rewriting rules as enforcement falls
Oil, gas & coal | n/a | Reported | ProPublica (Dec. 15, 2025) |
| Dec 2025 | Kennedy aide co-founded a firm that profits from health savings accounts the White House expanded
Health officials & drug deals | n/a | Reported | KFF Health News (Dec. 5, 2025) |
| Dec 2025 | FDA fast-track vouchers went out the same days the White House announced those drugmakers’ pricing deals
Health officials & drug deals | n/a | Reported | FDA announcement, second voucher batch (Nov. 6, 2025) |
| Dec 2025 | Gas-export founders who backed Trump each bought $12 million of shares days before a key federal license
Stock trades & market timing | About $12M each by two founders (SEC filings, via the Guardian) | Alleged | The Guardian (December 4, 2025) |
| Dec 2025 | Sons’ blank-check firm said it would target companies seeking federal money, then cut the line
The family business | $345M raised from investors (not public money) | Reported | Associated Press via Los Angeles Times (April 13, 2026) |
| Dec 2025 | Forbes: Eric Trump’s fortune rose tenfold and Don Jr.’s sixfold in the year after the election
The family business | Family worth about $10B (Forbes estimate, Sept. 2025) | Reported | Forbes (Dec. 4, 2025) |
| Dec 2025 | Kushner’s firm joined a $108 billion media bid needing federal approval, then pulled out
The family business | $108.4B bid; Affinity’s share not disclosed | Reported | The Guardian (Dec. 16, 2025) |
| Dec 2025 | Kushner and Trump Organization tower in Belgrade was abandoned after a Serbian minister was indicted
The family business | $500M planned project (abandoned) | Reported | The Guardian (Dec. 16, 2025) |
| Dec 2025 | Treasury secretary held up to $25 million in soybean farmland for months past his ethics deadline
Friends, donors & officials | Up to $25M in farmland on his disclosure | Documented | AP (Dec. 8, 2025) |
| Dec 2025 | Trump granted clemency to officeholders convicted of or charged with corruption or fraud
Pardons & dropped cases | n/a | Documented | Justice Department, Office of the Pardon Attorney, clemency grants 2025 to present |
| Dec 2025 | Trump pardoned an arena executive his own Justice Department had indicted five months earlier
Pardons & dropped cases | $15M in penalties his company had agreed to pay | Documented | CNN (Dec. 3, 2025) |
| Dec 2025 | Justice Department misses the legal deadline and posts heavily redacted files
The Epstein files | n/a | Reported | AP via PBS News (first release) |
| Dec 2025 | Trump called Somalis “garbage” as the operation began; nearly all Minnesota Somalis are U.S. citizens
The Minnesota surge | 106 Somali nationals among 3,789 arrests (ICE data, MPR News) | Reported | AP via PBS News (Dec. 2, 2025) |
| Dec 2025 | Two U.S.-born citizens jailed despite birth certificates: 25 days in one case, a day in the other
Citizens detained by ICE | n/a | Reported | NBC4 Washington, “Maryland mother who says she’s a U.S. citizen is released from 25 days in ICE custody” (Jan. 9, 2026) |
| Dec 2025 | Supreme Court refused to let him deploy the National Guard in Illinois
Breaking the Constitution | n/a | Documented | Supreme Court order, Trump v. Illinois (Dec. 23, 2025) |
| Dec 2025 | Courts ruled five of his acting U.S. attorneys were serving unlawfully
Breaking the Constitution | n/a | Documented | ABC News (Dec. 1, 2025) |
| Dec 2025 | Board he chairs put his name on the Kennedy Center; a judge ordered it removed
His name on everything | n/a | Documented | CNN: Kennedy Center board votes to add Trump’s name (Dec. 18, 2025) |
| Dec 2025 | White House “Presidential Walk of Fame”: an autopen in place of Biden and plaques attacking predecessors
His name on everything | n/a | Documented | CBS News / AP: Trump installs partisan plaques on “Presidential Walk of Fame” (Dec. 17, 2025) |
| Dec 2025 | A planned class of Navy battleships was named after him; CBO prices 15 ships at $275 billion
His name on everything | n/a | Documented | Warsight: CBO report on Trump-class battleships (Aug. 7, 2026) |
| Dec 2025 | State Department renamed the U.S. Institute of Peace after him
His name on everything | n/a | Documented | The Independent: Trump renames the US Institute of Peace after himself |
| Dec 2025 | National parks made his birthday a free-entry day and dropped Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Juneteenth
His name on everything | n/a | Documented | Interior Department press release (Nov. 25, 2025) |
| Dec 2025 | FIFA created a “Peace Prize” and gave it to him; South Korea gave him a gold crown during trade talks
His name on everything | n/a | Reported | PBS News / AP: Trump awarded new FIFA peace prize (Dec. 5, 2025) |
| Nov 2025 | David Gentile: freed 12 days into a seven-year sentence
Pardons & dropped cases | $15.5M forfeiture | Documented | NBC News |
| Nov 2025 | His own lawyers and the 2020 “fake electors”
Pardons & dropped cases | 77 people | Documented | CNN |
| Nov 2025 | A gold bar and a Rolex clock, ten days before a tariff cut
Foreign money & deals | $130,000+ gold bar, plus the clock | Alleged | Sen. Wyden letter to the U.S. Trade Representative |
| Nov 2025 | Advanced AI chips for the UAE, after the UAE-backed crypto stake
Foreign money & deals | Up to 35,000 chips (~$1B, press estimate) | Alleged | Commerce Department |
| Nov 2025 | New Trump projects in India, the Maldives, Georgia, Indonesia, Dubai, and Oman
Foreign money & deals | 13 foreign projects first announced since his 2022 candidacy (CREW) | Documented | Bloomberg |
| Nov 2025 | A $620 million Pentagon loan for a company Don Jr.'s fund had just backed
The family business | $620M Pentagon loan | Reported | ProPublica |
| Nov 2025 | Trump agreed to sell Saudi Arabia F-35s and lift an AI chip ban as his company expanded there
Foreign money & deals | n/a | Alleged | The Guardian (Nov. 18, 2025) |
| Nov 2025 | Putin’s fund chief pitched Trump’s envoys on business deals alongside the Ukraine peace plan
Russia: peace talks & business | n/a | Alleged | Wall Street Journal (Nov. 2025) |
| Nov 2025 | U.S. peace plan gave America half the profits from $100 billion of frozen Russian assets
Russia: peace talks & business | $100B in frozen Russian assets; half the profits to the U.S. | Reported | Al Jazeera, text of the 28 points (Nov. 21, 2025) |
| Nov 2025 | Trump asked Israel’s president, in a speech and then in writing, to pardon Netanyahu in his graft trial
Kushner, Israel & Gaza | n/a | Documented | Al Jazeera (Nov. 12, 2025) |
| Nov 2025 | FDA’s top drug regulator quit as a lawsuit accused him of using the post against an ex-associate
Health officials & drug deals | n/a | Alleged | The Hill (Nov. 3, 2025) |
| Nov 2025 | FBI director flew a bureau jet to see his girlfriend perform; the official over the fleet was then fired
Friends, donors & officials | Flight costs not disclosed | Reported | The Guardian (Nov. 2, 2025) |
| Nov 2025 | Georgia racketeering case: 19 charged, four guilty pleas, then dismissed
Overturning the 2020 election | n/a | Documented | NBC News, Nov. 26, 2025 |
| Nov 2025 | Whistleblower claims of special treatment for Maxwell at the Texas camp
The Epstein files | n/a | Alleged | CNN |
| Nov 2025 | Congress forces release of the Epstein files, 427 to 1
The Epstein files | n/a | Documented | Clerk of the U.S. House, Roll Call 289 |
| Nov 2025 | House leaders stall a vote: early recess, then a seven-week wait to seat a new member
The Epstein files | n/a | Reported | AP via PBS News (early recess) |
| Nov 2025 | Trump pressed Republicans who backed the release, then reversed
The Epstein files | n/a | Reported | AP via PBS News |
| Nov 2025 | Epstein emails released by Congress mention Trump
The Epstein files | n/a | Reported | NBC News |
| Nov 2025 | Judge said Border Patrol commander lied about protesters; an appeals court later erased her findings
Citizens detained by ICE | n/a | Documented | Associated Press, “Chicago judge says Border Patrol official lied about threats” (Nov. 6, 2025) |
| Nov 2025 | Agencies blamed Democrats for the shutdown on websites and staff email; a judge ruled the emails unlawful
Breaking the Constitution | n/a | Documented | NBC News: administration uses government websites and email to pin shutdown on Democrats (Oct. 2, 2025) |
| Nov 2025 | “Quiet, piggy”: Trump insults reporters by name and the White House posts a “Hall of Shame”
War on the press | n/a | Documented | The Guardian (“piggy”, Nov. 18, 2025) |
| Nov 2025 | He wants the Washington Commanders’ new $3.7 billion stadium named after him, ESPN reported
His name on everything | n/a | Reported | The Guardian: Trump reportedly wants new NFL stadium named after him (Nov. 8, 2025) |
| Nov 2025 | 317,000 federal workers left in 2025; a judge found 25,000 probationers were fired on a false pretense
Loyalty over law | 317,000 departures in 2025 (personnel office count) | Documented | Federal News Network (Nov. 26, 2025) |
| Oct 2025 | Changpeng Zhao: the Binance founder, pardoned
Pardons & dropped cases | Binance paid $4.3B in 2023 penalties | Alleged | CNBC |
| Oct 2025 | George Santos: released after three months
Pardons & dropped cases | $374K restitution | Documented | NPR |
| Oct 2025 | The White House ballroom, paid for by companies with federal business
Paying for access | $400M (White House figure); $600M (contractor estimate) | Documented | Fortune (donor list) |
| Oct 2025 | A $300 million loss avoided on the way into government
Stock trades & market timing | ~$300M loss avoided (Bloomberg estimate) | Reported | Bloomberg |
| Oct 2025 | After Qatar’s jet: an order pledging to defend Qatar, then a Qatari air force facility in Idaho
Foreign money & deals | n/a | Alleged | White House, executive order (Sept. 29, 2025) |
| Oct 2025 | The record that cuts the other way: Kushner helped close the Gaza ceasefire and has pushed to keep it
Kushner, Israel & Gaza | n/a | Reported | CNN (Oct. 10, 2025) |
| Oct 2025 | Secret Service paid nearly $100,000 to Trump properties in the first months of his second term
Taxpayer money on himself | ~$100,000 (partial records) | Documented | CREW: Secret Service has spent nearly $100k at Trump properties (Oct. 14, 2025) |
| Oct 2025 | Drone parts maker that gave Don Jr. stock for an advisory role became an Army supplier
The family business | $12.8M defense order (company release, cited by senators) | Alleged | CREW (Jan. 15, 2026) |
| Oct 2025 | On a hot mic at the Gaza summit, Indonesia’s president asked Trump for a meeting with Eric
The family business | n/a | Reported | The Guardian (Oct. 14, 2025) |
| Oct 2025 | DHS gave a $915 million self-deportation flight deal to a two-year-old firm after two days of bidding
Friends, donors & officials | Up to $915M over three years (Mother Jones) | Reported | Mother Jones (Oct. 10, 2025) |
| Oct 2025 | Firms seeking detention contracts hired a consultant who had paid border czar Tom Homan
Friends, donors & officials | Fees of up to $20,000 a month (ProPublica) | Reported | ProPublica (Oct. 1, 2025) |
| Oct 2025 | Tax case against “Bitcoin Jesus” was dropped after he paid Roger Stone and a Trump fundraiser’s firm to lobby
Pardons & dropped cases | $2.7M in reported lobbying fees; $49.9M paid to the Treasury | Alleged | Senate lobbying disclosures, client Roger Ver (LDA database query) |
| Oct 2025 | Supreme Court rejects Maxwell’s appeal; Trump leaves a pardon open
The Epstein files | n/a | Documented | AP via PBS News |
| Oct 2025 | He asked his own Justice Department for $230 million
His own Justice Department | $230M sought; $0 paid | Documented | CBS News |
| Oct 2025 | White House cut off the inspectors general council; at least 15 watchdog websites went dark
Investigators removed | n/a | Reported | Government Executive (Oct. 1, 2025) |
| Oct 2025 | Nearly a quarter of FBI agents were moved to immigration enforcement, Senate data showed
Investigators removed | n/a | Reported | The Guardian (Oct. 9, 2025) |
| Oct 2025 | The government keeps no count of citizens held by immigration agents; auditors flagged it in 2021
Citizens detained by ICE | 674 arrested, 121 detained, 70 removed, FY2015 to March 2020 (GAO) | Documented | GAO-21-487, “Immigration Enforcement: Actions Needed to Better Track Cases Involving U.S. Citizenship Investigations” (July 20, 2021) |
| Oct 2025 | At least 70 citizen children and teens detained; about 20 handcuffed or zip-tied, ProPublica found
Citizens detained by ICE | At least 70 citizen minors detained (ProPublica count) | Reported | ProPublica, “Federal Agents Have Detained More Than 500 American Citizens” (Oct. 6, 2026) |
| Oct 2025 | Judge found ICE made warrantless arrests in Chicago in breach of a consent decree; appeals court agreed
Citizens detained by ICE | 175 people released under the decree (plaintiffs’ lawyers’ count) | Documented | ACLU of Illinois, case page: Castanon Nava v. Department of Homeland Security |
| Oct 2025 | Pentagon press-credential rules drive out major news outlets; a judge finds key parts unlawful
War on the press | n/a | Documented | PBS / AP (ruling, Mar. 20, 2026) |
| Oct 2025 | Reporter Mario Guevara, arrested while livestreaming a protest, is deported to El Salvador
War on the press | n/a | Alleged | NPR (arrest and ICE custody, June 24, 2025) |
| Oct 2025 | After the merger Trump’s FCC approved, CBS News gets a bias monitor, a new chief and a purge at 60 Minutes
War on the press | n/a | Alleged | NPR (Weiss appointed, Oct. 6, 2025) |
| Oct 2025 | East Wing torn down before any review; he fired the arts panel, and two courts said Congress must approve
His name on everything | n/a | Documented | The Guardian: Trump fires federal arts board (Oct. 29, 2025) |
| Oct 2025 | Gilded Oval Office, paved Rose Garden, marble bathroom: costs mostly undisclosed
His name on everything | n/a | Reported | New York magazine (Sept. 4, 2026) |
| Oct 2025 | New York attorney general Letitia James is indicted, the case is dismissed, and two grand juries refuse to re-indict
Retribution | n/a | Documented | NPR (dismissal ruling) |
| Oct 2025 | John Bolton is indicted and pleads guilty to one count of keeping classified information
Retribution | $2.25M Bolton agreed to pay | Documented | NBC News (guilty plea, June 26, 2026) |
| Oct 2025 | Nominee to run the whistleblower office withdrew after reported texts about a “Nazi streak”
Loyalty over law | n/a | Reported | CNN (Oct. 21, 2025) |
| Oct 2025 | Pentagon required central approval before any staff contact with Congress, after ordering polygraphs
Hiding the record | n/a | Reported | Breaking Defense (Oct. 21, 2025) |
| Sep 2025 | His sons' bitcoin miner went public; small investors lost about $500 million
Crypto ventures | ~$500M in retail losses (Forbes estimate) | Reported | Fortune |
| Sep 2025 | Tom Homan and the $50,000 in cash
Pardons & dropped cases | $50,000 in cash (reported) | Reported | MSNBC |
| Sep 2025 | $86.5 million in settlements from media and tech companies
Paying for access | $86.5M, as listed on his own disclosure | Documented | Trump's 2026 financial disclosure (OGE Form 278e) |
| Sep 2025 | The envoy's sons: crypto partners and Gulf fundraising
Friends, donors & officials | $31M+ from the UAE-backed deal; $4B fund pitched | Reported | Times of Israel (on the NYT report) |
| Sep 2025 | The Justice Department's anti-corruption unit: from 36 lawyers to 2
Guardrails removed | 36 lawyers to 2 | Reported | NOTUS |
| Sep 2025 | Kushner on his Gulf investors and Israel: “maybe there’s a benefit to having these wars done”
Kushner, Israel & Gaza | n/a | Reported | CNN investigation (Oct. 1, 2026) |
| Sep 2025 | The “Trump Gold Card”: U.S. residency route for a $1 million gift to the government
Policy for sale | $1M gift to the government per applicant | Documented | White House (executive order, The Gold Card) |
| Sep 2025 | Japan’s $550 billion fund, pledged for a lower tariff, is invested “at President Trump’s direction”
Policy for sale | $550B pledged by Japan; U.S. keeps 90% of profits (White House) | Documented | White House fact sheet, U.S.-Japan agreement (July 23, 2025) |
| Sep 2025 | Florida gave his library foundation downtown Miami land appraised at over $66 million for $10
Taxpayer money on himself | $66M+ of public land, for $10 | Documented | NBC 6 Miami: foundation gets site for $10 (Feb. 23, 2026) |
| Sep 2025 | He picked his own Doral golf resort to host the 2026 G20 summit
Taxpayer money on himself | n/a | Documented | CBS News: Trump announces G20 at his Doral resort (Sept. 5, 2025) |
| Sep 2025 | Drugmakers that signed Trump’s pricing deals got tariff relief; the terms are still secret a year on
Health officials & drug deals | n/a | Reported | The Hill (Sept. 30, 2025) |
| Sep 2025 | Don Jr.’s former fiancee Kimberly Guilfoyle was confirmed as ambassador to Greece; she resigned in October 2026
The family business | n/a | Documented | US Senate roll call vote 526, 119th Congress (Sept. 18, 2025) |
| Sep 2025 | Justice Department sued 30 states and D.C. for full voter rolls
Overturning the 2020 election | n/a | Reported | Brennan Center for Justice tracker (updated Oct. 2, 2026) |
| Sep 2025 | Virginia prosecutors who found too little evidence against Comey and Letitia James were forced out or fired
Investigators removed | n/a | Reported | ABC News (Sept. 19, 2025) |
| Sep 2025 | Supreme Court let Los Angeles roving patrols resume; Kavanaugh wrote citizens are let go “promptly”
Citizens detained by ICE | n/a | Documented | Supreme Court, Noem v. Vasquez Perdomo, No. 25A169, order and opinions (Sept. 8, 2025) |
| Sep 2025 | Congress’s watchdog found illegal withholding of funds in 7 of 11 rulings in 2025
Breaking the Constitution | n/a | Documented | GAO, Impoundment Control Act decisions list |
| Sep 2025 | Military strikes on boats killed more than 225 people with no vote of Congress and no court review
Breaking the Constitution | n/a | Reported | UN human rights office statement (Oct. 31, 2025) |
| Sep 2025 | Judge ruled troops sent to Los Angeles broke the Posse Comitatus Act
Breaking the Constitution | n/a | Documented | CalMatters (Sept. 2, 2025) |
| Sep 2025 | Judge: targeting pro-Palestinian students for deportation violated the First Amendment
Breaking the Constitution | n/a | Documented | Opinion, AAUP v. Rubio, D. Mass. (Sept. 30, 2025) |
| Sep 2025 | FCC chairman threatens ABC over Jimmy Kimmel; the show is pulled, and the fight over ABC’s licenses continues
War on the press | n/a | Reported | NPR (show pulled, Sept. 18, 2025) |
| Sep 2025 | Giant banners of his face on federal buildings cost taxpayers thousands each
His name on everything | $22,400 for five banners | Reported | Office of Sen. Adam Schiff: oversight report on Trump banners (Sept. 2025) |
| Sep 2025 | Trump publicly demands prosecutions; Comey is indicted days later, the case is thrown out, then he is indicted again
Retribution | n/a | Documented | NBC News (text of the Sept. 20 post) |
| Sep 2025 | Trump adviser joined the Fed’s board while keeping his White House job on unpaid leave
Loyalty over law | n/a | Documented | Federal Reserve Board press release (Sept. 16, 2025) |
| Sep 2025 | FBI fired about 20 agents photographed kneeling at a 2020 protest; twelve sued
Loyalty over law | n/a | Reported | The Guardian, carrying AP (Sept. 27, 2025) |
| Sep 2025 | Agriculture Department ended the annual survey that measures hunger in America
Hiding the record | n/a | Reported | NPR (Sept. 22, 2025) |
| Aug 2025 | A public company took on $1.5 billion of the family's tokens, half of it for cash
Crypto ventures | $500M to $562M to the family (CNBC; New Yorker) | Reported | CNBC |
| Aug 2025 | Don Jr. and the prediction markets
The family business | $300M investment (reported) | Reported | CNBC |
| Aug 2025 | Leaked “Gaza Riviera” prospectus proposed a U.S. trusteeship and relocating all 2 million Gazans
Kushner, Israel & Gaza | n/a | Reported | The Guardian (Sept. 1, 2025) |
| Aug 2025 | Nvidia and AMD get China export licences in exchange for giving the government 15% of the revenue
Policy for sale | 15% to 25% of China chip revenue, to the Treasury | Documented | PBS / AP (Aug. 11, 2025) |
| Aug 2025 | Government takes a 10% stake in Intel two weeks after Trump demanded its chief executive resign
Policy for sale | 10% of Intel for $8.9B in federal funds | Documented | CNBC (Aug. 22, 2025) |
| Aug 2025 | Apple’s chief gives Trump a gold-based plaque and a $100 billion pledge; Trump says Apple will be spared the chip tariff
Policy for sale | $100B investment pledge (not a payment) | Reported | NBC News (pledge and tariff remarks, Aug. 6, 2025) |
| Aug 2025 | Republican committees spent $931,000 at his properties in seven months
Taxpayer money on himself | $931,000 in seven months | Documented | CREW: Political spending tops $900K at Trump properties since inauguration (Aug. 27, 2025) |
| Aug 2025 | Pipeline billionaire and his firm gave Trump’s super PAC $25 million; his LNG project then got more time
Oil, gas & coal | $25M to MAGA Inc. from Warren and Energy Transfer (FEC) | Alleged | FEC, MAGA Inc. filing page showing Warren contribution (filed July 31, 2025) |
| Aug 2025 | Social Security’s chief data officer resigned, citing retaliation, days after a whistleblower complaint
Elon Musk & DOGE | n/a | Alleged | NPR (Aug. 26, 2025) |
| Aug 2025 | His account bought Intel stock four days before he announced a government stake in the company
Stock trades & market timing | $250,001 to $500,000 purchase (his filing) | Documented | OGE Form 278e annual report for 2025, Donald J. Trump (received June 29, 2026) |
| Aug 2025 | He bought more than $100 million in bonds in seven months, including debt of companies his policies affect
Stock trades & market timing | $100M+ in bond purchases, Jan. to Aug. 2025 (CNBC tally) | Documented | CNBC (August 20, 2025) |
| Aug 2025 | Consumer bureau dropped its probe of a lender whose parent company has Don Jr. on its board
The family business | n/a | Alleged | Associated Press (Aug. 22, 2025) |
| Aug 2025 | Maxwell moved to a minimum-security prison camp a week after the interview
The Epstein files | n/a | Reported | CNN |
| Aug 2025 | Justice Department backed refunding restitution and court fees to pardoned Jan. 6 rioters
His own Justice Department | $3,410 in refunds ordered in two cases | Documented | Memorandum opinion, United States v. St Cyr, D.D.C. No. 22-cr-185 (Aug. 27, 2025) |
| Aug 2025 | Fired FBI leaders say Patel told them he had to remove agents who worked on Trump cases to keep his own job
Investigators removed | n/a | Alleged | NBC News (Sept. 10, 2025) |
| Aug 2025 | He cancelled $4.9 billion Congress had approved; watchdog called it illegal, Supreme Court let it stand
Breaking the Constitution | $4.9B in approved aid withheld (White House figure) | Documented | Supreme Court order, Department of State v. AIDS Vaccine Advocacy Coalition (Sept. 26, 2025) |
| Aug 2025 | Trump tries to fire Fed governor Lisa Cook; the Supreme Court blocks it and he starts again
Retribution | n/a | Documented | SCOTUSblog (ruling, June 29, 2026) |
| Aug 2025 | Officials who investigated Trump are themselves investigated: John Brennan, Jack Smith, Fani Willis
Retribution | n/a | Reported | CBS News (Brennan probes, May 20, 2026) |
| Aug 2025 | Sen. Adam Schiff investigated for mortgage fraud; prosecutors reportedly found too little evidence
Retribution | n/a | Reported | CNBC (prosecutor’s assessment, Oct. 23, 2025) |
| Aug 2025 | Trump fires the Bureau of Labor Statistics chief hours after a weak jobs report
Retribution | n/a | Documented | NPR (Aug. 1, 2025) |
| Aug 2025 | CDC director fired a month after confirmation; she testified she refused to pre-approve vaccine changes
Loyalty over law | n/a | Alleged | The Guardian (Aug. 28, 2025) |
| Aug 2025 | FEMA and EPA employees who signed public dissent letters were put on leave, suspended or fired
Loyalty over law | n/a | Reported | AP via PBS News (Aug. 27, 2025) |
| Aug 2025 | State Department’s human rights reports cut to a third of their length after months of deletions
Hiding the record | n/a | Reported | NPR (Aug. 12, 2025) |
| Jul 2025 | He signed the law that regulates his family's stablecoin
Crypto ventures | $4B+ of USD1 in circulation (August 2026; peak above $5B) | Documented | Axios |
| Jul 2025 | Five-day Scotland trip to open his new golf course cost taxpayers about $10 million, by one estimate
Taxpayer money on himself | ~$9.7M (HuffPost estimate) | Reported | HuffPost: Trump spending $10 million of taxpayer money to promote his Scotland golf course |
| Jul 2025 | Trump’s 2025 tax law gave oil and gas new tax breaks, lower federal royalties and a methane fee delay
Oil, gas & coal | $18B in new oil and gas tax incentives (NYT estimate, via Brennan Center) | Alleged | Brennan Center for Justice (Sept. 15, 2025) |
| Jul 2025 | Kennedy and four advisers earned at least $3.2 million from wellness and anti-pharma work, KFF found
Health officials & drug deals | $3.2M earned by Kennedy and four advisers, 2022 to 2023 (KFF tally) | Reported | KFF Health News (July 14, 2025) |
| Jul 2025 | Pentagon gave Musk’s xAI a contract worth up to $200 million; an ex-official says it was a late addition
Elon Musk & DOGE | $200M contract ceiling; same ceiling for three rivals | Reported | NBC News (July 22, 2025) |
| Jul 2025 | Trump attacked the one Republican senator who backed a stock-trading ban that reached the presidency
Stock trades & market timing | n/a | Documented | CNN (July 30, 2025) |
| Jul 2025 | $1.3 billion detention camp contract went to a tiny firm with no detention experience; GAO found waste
Friends, donors & officials | $1.3B contract (GAO) | Documented | GAO-26-108886 (June 9, 2026) |
| Jul 2025 | Justice leaders settled a $14 billion merger case over antitrust staff’s objections; two objectors were fired
Pardons & dropped cases | $14B merger (private deal, not public money) | Documented | U.S. District Court (N.D. Cal.), order granting entry of final judgment, U.S. v. HPE (Aug. 12, 2026) |
| Jul 2025 | White House fired the prosecutor on a Trump donor’s $47 million fraud case; the case was then dropped
Pardons & dropped cases | $47M in payments prosecutors said were concealed | Alleged | NBC News (July 30, 2025) |
| Jul 2025 | Justice Department and FBI say there is no “client list” and no more files will be released
The Epstein files | n/a | Documented | DOJ and FBI memo (PDF) |
| Jul 2025 | Trump’s former defense lawyer interviews Ghislaine Maxwell for two days
The Epstein files | n/a | Documented | DOJ, Maxwell interview transcripts and audio |
| Jul 2025 | Trump calls the issue a “hoax” and disowns supporters who press it
The Epstein files | n/a | Reported | AP via PBS News |
| Jul 2025 | The 2003 birthday letter, Trump’s denial and his $10 billion lawsuit
The Epstein files | $10B sought from the Wall Street Journal | Documented | AP via PBS News (letter released) |
| Jul 2025 | Emil Bove, Trump’s defense lawyer, confirmed 50-49 as appeals judge despite a whistleblower’s account
His own Justice Department | n/a | Alleged | U.S. Senate roll call vote 448, 119th Congress, 1st session (July 29, 2025) |
| Jul 2025 | Maurene Comey, prosecutor in the Epstein and Maxwell cases, fired with no reason given; her suit is pending
Investigators removed | n/a | Documented | Order denying stay of discovery, Comey v. DOJ, S.D.N.Y. (Aug. 25, 2026) |
| Jul 2025 | Acting inspectors general replaced after reporting stonewalling; another watchdog fired without notice
Investigators removed | n/a | Reported | Government Executive (July 29, 2025) |
| Jul 2025 | Bondi fired the Justice Department’s ethics chief; its misconduct office lost nearly half its staff
Investigators removed | n/a | Reported | CNN (July 14, 2025) |
| Jul 2025 | Army veteran George Retes, a citizen, was held three days without a phone call or a charge
Citizens detained by ICE | n/a | Reported | Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, minority staff report “Unchecked Authority” (Dec. 9, 2025) |
| Jul 2025 | Washington Post count: administration accused of defying courts in a third of cases it lost
Breaking the Constitution | n/a | Reported | Washington Post (July 21, 2025) |
| Jul 2025 | Dismantling USAID and the Education Department: district judges blocked it; higher courts let it proceed
Breaking the Constitution | n/a | Documented | Fourth Circuit order, Does 1-26 v. Musk (March 28, 2025) |
| Jul 2025 | Congress, at Trump’s request, cancels $1.1 billion for public media; the funding body shuts down
War on the press | $1.1B rescinded (stays in the Treasury) | Documented | NPR (final House vote, July 18, 2025) |
| Jul 2025 | CBS cancels Stephen Colbert’s show three days after he called its Trump settlement a “big fat bribe”
War on the press | n/a | Alleged | CNN (inside the decision, July 18, 2025) |
| Jul 2025 | Trump personally sues news organizations for a combined $35 billion
War on the press | $35B demanded in three suits; $0 awarded | Documented | NPR / AP (Journal suit dismissed, Apr. 13, 2026) |
| Jul 2025 | Universities agreed to pay $406 million to get frozen federal funding back
Retribution | $406M agreed by Columbia, Northwestern, Cornell and Brown | Documented | NPR (settlement amounts, Jan. 29, 2026) |
| Jun 2025 | The year before: $600 million in income, and royalties on everything
His businesses & merchandise | $600M+ total income reported for 2024 | Documented | NBC News |
| Jun 2025 | Trump Mobile and the gold T1 phone
His businesses & merchandise | No income reported yet | Documented | CBS News |
| Jun 2025 | State Dept. gave $30 million to a Gaza aid group led by a Trump adviser; UN counted 994 killed nearby
Kushner, Israel & Gaza | $30M from the State Department | Documented | CBS News (June 27, 2025) |
| Jun 2025 | Army parade on his 79th birthday was budgeted at up to $45 million
Taxpayer money on himself | $25M to $45M (Army estimate) | Documented | ABC News: Army expects to spend up to $45M |
| Jun 2025 | Army made Palantir, Meta and OpenAI executives officers while their firms won Pentagon deals
War & the Pentagon | Palantir’s Army deal: up to $10B over ten years (a ceiling) | Reported | U.S. Army release (June 13, 2025) |
| Jun 2025 | Trump threatened to cancel Musk’s contracts and subsidies; a year later Musk was funding Republicans again
Elon Musk & DOGE | $15M from Musk to three Republican super PACs, June 27, 2025 (FEC) | Documented | The Guardian (June 5, 2025) |
| Jun 2025 | Proud Boys leaders convicted over Jan. 6 demand $100 million; the Justice Department is fighting them
His own Justice Department | $100M sought; $0 paid | Documented | United States’ motion to dismiss, Tarrio v. United States, M.D. Fla. No. 6:25-cv-998 (Aug. 20, 2026) |
| Jun 2025 | Judges find federal agents retaliated against journalists covering immigration protests
War on the press | n/a | Reported | U.S. Press Freedom Tracker (2025 arrests review) |
| May 2025 | Dinner with the president for the top 220 memecoin buyers
Crypto ventures | $148M spent on the token by attendees | Reported | CNBC |
| May 2025 | An Abu Dhabi fund used the family's stablecoin for a $2 billion deal
Crypto ventures | $2B settled in the family's stablecoin | Documented | Bloomberg |
| May 2025 | Trump Media raised $2.5 billion to buy bitcoin
Crypto ventures | $2.5B raised | Documented | SEC filing |
| May 2025 | Todd and Julie Chrisley: reality stars, $22 million fraud
Pardons & dropped cases | ~$22M restitution erased | Documented | Axios |
| May 2025 | Qatar's $400 million jet
Foreign money & deals | ~$400M aircraft, plus the refit | Documented | CNN |
| May 2025 | A $1.5 billion Trump golf resort in Vietnam, during tariff talks
Foreign money & deals | $1.5B project (partners' investment) | Documented | Forbes |
| May 2025 | Syria dangled a Trump Tower Damascus, then a Trump golf course, while seeking sanctions relief
Foreign money & deals | n/a | Reported | The Guardian (May 22, 2025) |
| May 2025 | Witkoff met Putin without U.S. interpreters or diplomats; a leaked call showed him coaching Putin’s aide
Russia: peace talks & business | n/a | Reported | Kyiv Independent, summarizing NBC News (May 11, 2025) |
| May 2025 | Most early ambassador picks were Trump donors or fundraisers
Policy for sale | $46M given or raised by 38 of his first 50 picks | Reported | ABC News (May 13, 2025) |
| May 2025 | Army’s No. 2 civilian came from Anduril and kept up to $500,000 of its stock
War & the Pentagon | Up to $500,000 of Anduril stock kept (his filing, via the Intercept) | Reported | The Intercept (May 1, 2025) |
| May 2025 | Hegseth cut the weapons-testing office to 30 staff after it put Golden Dome on its oversight list
War & the Pentagon | $1.2T: CBO’s 20-year cost estimate for Golden Dome | Alleged | CNN (May 30, 2025) |
| May 2025 | State Department cables show U.S. diplomats pushed countries facing tariffs to license Starlink
Elon Musk & DOGE | n/a | Reported | The Washington Post (May 7, 2025) |
| May 2025 | Trump made his daughter’s father-in-law, whom he had pardoned, ambassador to France
The family business | n/a | Documented | US Senate roll call vote 261, 119th Congress (May 19, 2025) |
| May 2025 | Bondi told Trump in May 2025 that his name was in the files
The Epstein files | n/a | Reported | CNN |
| May 2025 | Government agreed to pay nearly $5 million to the family of Jan. 6 rioter Ashli Babbitt
His own Justice Department | $4.975M settlement (reported) | Reported | ABC News: DOJ reaches agreement in principle with Babbitt family |
| May 2025 | Justice Department filed a brief backing Trump’s bid to move his hush-money conviction to federal court
His own Justice Department | n/a | Documented | Brief for the United States as amicus curiae, No. 24-2299 (May 27, 2025) |
| May 2025 | “Weaponization” chief Ed Martin vowed to name and shame the uncharged; sidelined in 2026, then left
His own Justice Department | n/a | Reported | NBC News (May 13, 2025) |
| May 2025 | FBI folded its Washington public-corruption squad, then fired agents who had worked the Trump election case
Investigators removed | n/a | Reported | NBC News (May 15, 2025) |
| May 2025 | U.S.-born Alabama construction worker detained at work sites three times; his REAL ID was called fake
Citizens detained by ICE | n/a | Reported | ProPublica, “Immigration Agents Have Held More Than 170 Americans Against Their Will” (Oct. 16, 2025) |
| May 2025 | Elected Democrats arrested at immigration sites: one charge tossed, one acquittal, one trial pending
Citizens detained by ICE | n/a | Documented | New Jersey Globe, “Judge dismisses Baraka charges, reprimands prosecutors” (May 21, 2025) |
| May 2025 | Election watchdog has lacked a quorum since the end of April 2025 and is down to two of six commissioners
Loyalty over law | 2 of 6 seats filled (FEC website, Oct. 5, 2026) | Documented | Federal Election Commission, All Commissioners (checked Oct. 5, 2026) |
| May 2025 | Federal job applications now ask how the applicant would advance the president’s executive orders
Loyalty over law | n/a | Documented | OPM and White House Domestic Policy Council, Merit Hiring Plan memorandum (May 29, 2025) |
| May 2025 | Intelligence officials were fired after their assessments contradicted the president
Hiding the record | n/a | Alleged | CNN (May 14, 2025) |
| May 2025 | White-collar prosecutions projected to hit a new low in 2025, continuing a long decline, records show
Guardrails removed | 3,862 projected prosecutions, down from 4,332 (TRAC) | Documented | TRAC Reports (May 23, 2025) |
| Apr 2025 | Paul Walczak: pardoned weeks after his mother's $1 million dinner
Pardons & dropped cases | $4.4M restitution erased | Reported | Rolling Stone (on the NYT report) |
| Apr 2025 | The Eric Adams case, dropped
Pardons & dropped cases | 7 prosecutors resigned | Alleged | ABC News |
| Apr 2025 | A Trump golf resort on Qatari state land
Foreign money & deals | $5.25M licensing income | Documented | Yahoo News / AP |
| Apr 2025 | Saudi-funded LIV Golf at his courses
Foreign money & deals | Fees undisclosed | Documented | Bloomberg |
| Apr 2025 | A record $239 million inaugural fund
Paying for access | $239M raised | Documented | CNN (via Yahoo) |
| Apr 2025 | Law firms pledged $940 million to stay out of his crosshairs
Paying for access | $940M in pledged legal work (not paid to Trump) | Documented | Axios |
| Apr 2025 | 327 stock purchases the day before he paused the tariffs
Stock trades & market timing | Up to $12.8M in purchases on April 8, 2025 | Documented | CNBC |
| Apr 2025 | Officials sold stock just before tariff announcements
Stock trades & market timing | 12+ officials and aides | Documented | ProPublica |
| Apr 2025 | The attorney general sold Trump Media shares on “Liberation Day”
Stock trades & market timing | $1M–$5M in shares | Documented | ProPublica |
| Apr 2025 | The $500,000 club
The family business | $500,000 to join | Reported | NBC News |
| Apr 2025 | The crypto-crime unit, disbanded
Guardrails removed | n/a | Documented | Justice Department memo |
| Apr 2025 | Rules against politicking by officials, loosened
Guardrails removed | n/a | Documented | Office of Special Counsel |
| Apr 2025 | U.S. eased sanctions on Putin’s fund chief so he could visit; he became a regular guest of the envoys
Russia: peace talks & business | n/a | Reported | AFP, via The Moscow Times (April 4, 2025) |
| Apr 2025 | Top inaugural donor, a JBS unit, saw its parent win a U.S. listing; its owner later lobbied Trump on beef
Policy for sale | $5M to the inaugural committee (FEC filing) | Alleged | FEC Form 13, Trump Vance Inaugural Committee (April 20, 2025) |
| Apr 2025 | A plastic-bottle resin was spared from tariffs after a Coke bottler hired Trump’s best-connected lobbyist
Policy for sale | $760,000 in fees to Ballard (lobbying filings) | Alleged | ProPublica (April 22, 2025) |
| Apr 2025 | Coal executive who gave $1 million to the inauguration looked on as Trump signed orders to prop up coal
Oil, gas & coal | $1M to the inaugural committee (FEC) | Alleged | FEC Form 13, Trump Vance Inaugural Committee (April 20, 2025) |
| Apr 2025 | Senate Democratic staff counted 65 federal actions against Musk’s companies; what became of them
Elon Musk & DOGE | $2.37B maximum exposure (Senate Democratic staff estimate) | Documented | Senate PSI minority staff memo (Apr. 27, 2025) |
| Apr 2025 | Options bought minutes before the tariff pause rose tenfold; the buyers were never identified
Stock trades & market timing | Calls bought for $2.1M, worth $21.4M on paper (Reuters data) | Alleged | Reuters (April 10, 2025) |
| Apr 2025 | Tiffany Trump’s father-in-law was made the State Department’s senior adviser for Africa
The family business | n/a | Reported | Semafor (April 1, 2025) |
| Apr 2025 | Justice Department asked courts to put the United States in Trump’s place in E. Jean Carroll’s suit
His own Justice Department | $83.3M verdict the move would erase | Documented | Second Circuit opinion, Carroll v. Trump (Aug. 8, 2025) |
| Apr 2025 | Judge found probable cause of criminal contempt over deportation flights to a Salvadoran prison
Breaking the Constitution | n/a | Documented | Supreme Court order, Trump v. J.G.G. (April 7, 2025) |
| Apr 2025 | Kilmar Abrego Garcia: deported in error, ordered returned, then prosecuted; judge found the case vindictive
Breaking the Constitution | n/a | Documented | Supreme Court order, Noem v. Abrego Garcia (April 10, 2025) |
| Apr 2025 | Attorney general scraps rule that shielded reporters’ records in leak investigations
War on the press | n/a | Documented | NPR (memo, Apr. 25, 2025) |
| Apr 2025 | Presidential memoranda order investigations of two former officials who contradicted Trump
Retribution | n/a | Documented | White House (Krebs memorandum) |
| Apr 2025 | Trump orders an investigation touching ActBlue; prosecutors are told to look at George Soros’s foundation
Retribution | n/a | Reported | White House (memorandum, Apr. 24, 2025) |
| Apr 2025 | National Security Agency director fired a day after activist Laura Loomer met Trump
Hiding the record | n/a | Alleged | CNN (April 3, 2025) |
| Apr 2025 | The roughly 400 authors of the congressionally required climate report were dismissed; site went dark
Hiding the record | About 400 authors dismissed (NPR) | Reported | NPR (April 29, 2025) |
| Mar 2025 | Trevor Milton: pardoned after giving $1.8 million
Pardons & dropped cases | $1.8M in donations; $660M+ restitution sought | Reported | CNBC |
| Mar 2025 | Witnesses against the Bidens
Pardons & dropped cases | ~$128M restitution | Documented | Justice Department clemency list |
| Mar 2025 | The pardon office itself was purged
Pardons & dropped cases | n/a | Reported | Just Security litigation tracker (Oyer v. Blanche) |
| Mar 2025 | $1 million a plate at Mar-a-Lago
Paying for access | $1M per seat; $5M per meeting (reported) | Reported | CBS News |
| Mar 2025 | An AI and crypto czar with hundreds of tech investments
Friends, donors & officials | Hundreds of tech investments (NYT) | Reported | NPR |
| Mar 2025 | Rubio used emergency powers to send Israel bombs without congressional review; $12 billion-plus approved
Kushner, Israel & Gaza | $12B in arms sales to Israel approved by March 2025 (State Department) | Documented | State Department, Rubio statement (Mar. 1, 2025) |
| Mar 2025 | Trump paused auto tariffs after calls from Detroit’s chief executives, then added a two-year offset
Policy for sale | $2.2M in inaugural gifts from three automakers (FEC) | Alleged | PBS News Hour transcript (March 5, 2025) |
| Mar 2025 | Trump staged a Tesla showcase at the White House; his commerce secretary told viewers to buy the stock
Elon Musk & DOGE | n/a | Documented | The Guardian (Mar. 11, 2025) |
| Mar 2025 | Courts blocked key parts of Trump’s order to rewrite election rules
Overturning the 2020 election | n/a | Documented | White House, Executive Order 14248 |
| Mar 2025 | Trump: “I’m actually the chief law enforcement officer” and “I could be the one starting it”
His own Justice Department | n/a | Documented | Roll Call Factba.se transcript, speech at the Justice Department (March 14, 2025) |
| Mar 2025 | DHS shut its civil rights office; ICE says about five profiling complaints led to no findings
Citizens detained by ICE | About 600 civil rights investigations frozen (ProPublica) | Documented | ProPublica, “Trump’s Shuttering of DHS Civil Rights Office Freezes 600 Cases” (Apr. 8, 2025) |
| Mar 2025 | He said he was “not joking” about a third term the Constitution forbids; his firm sold “Trump 2028” hats
Breaking the Constitution | n/a | Documented | NBC News (March 30, 2025) |
| Mar 2025 | Trump orders Voice of America’s parent agency gutted; a judge voids the layoffs a year later
War on the press | n/a | Documented | NPR (Lamberth ruling on Lake, Mar. 8, 2026) |
| Mar 2025 | Graduate student is held six weeks over a campus op-ed
War on the press | n/a | Reported | NPR (Ozturk released, May 9, 2025) |
| Mar 2025 | The Air Force’s next fighter jet was designated F-47, in part for the 47th president
His name on everything | n/a | Documented | The War Zone: possible change to F-47 designation raised by Trump (Jan. 21, 2026) |
| Mar 2025 | Executive orders punish five law firms; every judge who ruled found them unconstitutional
Retribution | n/a | Documented | Federal Register (Executive Order 14230, Perkins Coie) |
| Mar 2025 | Signalgate: strike plans in an auto-deleting chat; watchdog found Hegseth broke Pentagon rules
Hiding the record | n/a | Documented | CNN (Dec. 4, 2025) |
| Mar 2025 | Budget office took down the legally required spending-plan website; a court ordered it restored
Hiding the record | n/a | Documented | Congressional Research Service, IN12538 (updated Aug. 21, 2025) |
| Feb 2025 | A $75 million token buyer's fraud case was paused, then dropped
Crypto ventures | At least $75M in token purchases, $45M of it initially (reported) | Alleged | The Block |
| Feb 2025 | Elon Musk: $290 million in campaign spending, then the keys to the agencies
Elon Musk & DOGE | $290M+ campaign spending; $38B in government funding to his companies | Reported | CNN (FEC filings) |
| Feb 2025 | The government's ethics chief, fired
Guardrails removed | n/a | Documented | CNN |
| Feb 2025 | The whistleblower-protection chief, fired
Guardrails removed | n/a | Documented | Roll Call |
| Feb 2025 | Foreign-bribery enforcement paused
Guardrails removed | n/a | Documented | Holland & Knight summary |
| Feb 2025 | Bondi narrowed foreign-agent prosecutions; firms close to Trump then signed up foreign governments
Foreign money & deals | $17M in contracts with 11 poor countries (Global Witness count) | Documented | NBC News (Feb. 6, 2025) |
| Feb 2025 | White House said Musk would decide for himself when his DOGE work conflicted with his companies
Elon Musk & DOGE | n/a | Documented | Fortune (Feb. 6, 2025) |
| Feb 2025 | Musk’s team moved to dismantle the consumer bureau weeks after X announced a payments service
Elon Musk & DOGE | Up to $715,000 in barred stock held by a DOGE aide (ProPublica) | Reported | NPR (Feb. 12, 2025) |
| Feb 2025 | FDA staff reviewing Musk’s Neuralink were fired in DOGE cuts; watchdog probing its animal tests was removed
Elon Musk & DOGE | n/a | Reported | The Guardian / Reuters (Feb. 18, 2025) |
| Feb 2025 | FAA tested Starlink amid reports it would replace a Verizon contract; one agency installed it for DOGE
Elon Musk & DOGE | n/a | Reported | NBC News / CNBC (Feb. 28, 2025) |
| Feb 2025 | Bondi says the Epstein list is “sitting on my desk”, then hands influencers binders of old material
The Epstein files | n/a | Reported | NPR timeline |
| Feb 2025 | USAID inspector general fired a day after reporting that the aid freeze left $8.2 billion hard to track
Investigators removed | $8.2B in unspent aid the report said was harder to safeguard | Reported | CNN (Feb. 11, 2025) |
| Feb 2025 | On her first day, Bondi disbanded the FBI’s foreign-influence task force and two kleptocracy units
Investigators removed | n/a | Documented | NBC News (Feb. 6, 2025) |
| Feb 2025 | Washington’s top criminal prosecutor quit rather than open a grand jury probe she said lacked evidence
Investigators removed | n/a | Reported | The Guardian (Feb. 18, 2025) |
| Feb 2025 | Judge found the White House kept freezing federal money after he ordered it released
Breaking the Constitution | n/a | Documented | Order enforcing TRO, New York v. Trump, D.R.I. (Feb. 10, 2025) |
| Feb 2025 | White House bars the Associated Press, then CNN, MS NOW and Politico; judges order access restored
War on the press | n/a | Documented | Associated Press (April 8, 2025 ruling) |
| Feb 2025 | White House takes over the press pool, drops the wire services’ seat and closes press offices to reporters
War on the press | n/a | Documented | NPR (pool takeover, Feb. 26, 2025) |
| Feb 2025 | Pentagon gives legacy outlets’ workspace to friendly media, then closes the press corridor and press office
War on the press | n/a | Documented | The Guardian (workspace rotation, Feb. 1, 2025) |
| Feb 2025 | Bills to carve him on Mount Rushmore, make his birthday a holiday and put him on the $100 bill have stalled
His name on everything | n/a | Documented | GovTrack: H.R. 792, carving of Trump on Mount Rushmore |
| Feb 2025 | Joint Chiefs chairman, Navy chief and the services’ top lawyers fired; Hegseth cited “roadblocks”
Loyalty over law | n/a | Reported | Associated Press via Yahoo News (Feb. 25, 2025) |
| Feb 2025 | Executive order put independent agencies under White House review and made Trump’s legal views binding
Loyalty over law | n/a | Documented | White House, Ensuring Accountability for All Agencies (Feb. 18, 2025) |
| Feb 2025 | Trump fired the Archivist of the United States; Rubio held the job and its end date is disputed
Hiding the record | n/a | Reported | CNN (Feb. 7, 2025) |
| Jan 2025 | A UAE royal's fund bought 49% of the family crypto firm days before the inauguration
Crypto ventures | $500M purchase price | Reported | CNBC |
| Jan 2025 | The $TRUMP memecoin, launched three days before he took office
Crypto ventures | $350M in sales and fees in three weeks (FT analysis) | Reported | Financial Times (via Techmeme) |
| Jan 2025 | The $MELANIA coin
Crypto ventures | Case dismissed Sept. 2026 | Alleged | Forbes |
| Jan 2025 | About 1,500 January 6 defendants pardoned on day one
Pardons & dropped cases | ~1,500 people | Documented | NPR |
| Jan 2025 | The commerce secretary's firm, handed to his sons
Friends, donors & officials | n/a | Reported | Semafor |
| Jan 2025 | No blind trust, and no ban on foreign deals
Guardrails removed | n/a | Documented | AP (via U.S. News) |
| Jan 2025 | 17 inspectors general fired in one night
Guardrails removed | 17 watchdogs | Documented | Federal News Network |
| Jan 2025 | Nine days in, Justice Department ended cases against Trump’s co-defendants and an ex-congressman
Pardons & dropped cases | n/a | Documented | U.S. motion to dismiss indictment with prejudice, U.S. v. Fortenberry (Jan. 29, 2025) |
| Jan 2025 | Special counsel’s final report said the evidence was enough to convict
Overturning the 2020 election | n/a | Documented | Special Counsel Smith final report, Vol. 1 (justice.gov) |
| Jan 2025 | Prosecutors and FBI agents who worked the Trump cases were fired
Overturning the 2020 election | n/a | Reported | AP, Jan. 27, 2025 |
| Jan 2025 | Agriculture watchdog escorted from her office; it had an open investigation of Musk’s Neuralink
Investigators removed | n/a | Alleged | The Guardian, carrying Reuters (Jan. 29, 2025) |
| Jan 2025 | FCC opens probes of NPR, PBS, ABC, CBS and NBC but not Fox, as Trump calls for licenses to be pulled
War on the press | n/a | Documented | NPR (NPR and PBS investigation, Jan. 30, 2025) |
| Jan 2025 | Security clearances and protective details pulled from critics and rivals
Retribution | n/a | Documented | Federal Register (Jan. 20, 2025 order) |
| Jan 2025 | Health pages, the Jan. 6 case database and Justice Department studies were taken offline
Hiding the record | n/a | Reported | The Guardian (Feb. 11, 2025) |
| Dec 2024 | Donors, not Trump, paid about $91 million of his legal bills
Taxpayer money on himself | $90.8M in donor money | Reported | HuffPost: Trump sends another $4.3 million of donors’ money to his lawyers (Dec. 6, 2024) |
| Oct 2024 | About two dozen women have publicly accused Trump of sexual misconduct; he denies all of it
Courts & accusations | n/a | Alleged | ABC News (list of accusers, Sep 18, 2020) |
| Jul 2024 | The backdrop: immunity for official acts
Guardrails removed | n/a | Documented | Supreme Court opinion |
| Jul 2024 | Supreme Court gave presidents broad immunity, narrowing the case
Overturning the 2020 election | n/a | Documented | Supreme Court opinion, Trump v. United States, No. 23-939 |
| Jul 2024 | Giuliani and Eastman disbarred; Ellis suspended
Overturning the 2020 election | n/a | Documented | AP, Giuliani disbarred in New York |
| May 2024 | Trump convicted of 34 felony counts in New York hush-money case
Courts & accusations | $130,000 hush-money payment | Documented | Manhattan District Attorney press release |
| Apr 2024 | Judge held Trump in criminal contempt 10 times for violating a gag order
Courts & accusations | $10,000 in contempt fines | Documented | Decision and Order on contempt, People v. Trump (Apr 30, 2024, archived copy) |
| Feb 2024 | New York court found Trump liable for business fraud; appeals court kept the finding but threw out the penalty
Courts & accusations | $363.8M penalty ordered, later thrown out on appeal | Documented | New York Attorney General press release (Feb 16, 2024) |
| Jan 2024 | Second jury ordered Trump to pay E. Jean Carroll $83.3 million for defamation
Courts & accusations | $83.3M verdict (on appeal) | Documented | NPR (verdict, Jan 26, 2024) |
| Jan 2024 | The tax leak behind the suit: the leaker got five years, and another victim settled for an apology
His own Justice Department | n/a | Documented | Justice Department case page, United States v. Charles E. Littlejohn |
| Jan 2024 | Trump businesses took at least $7.8 million from foreign governments while he was president, House Democrats found
The first term | $7.8M+ from foreign governments (House Democrats’ staff count) | Reported | House Oversight Democrats, “White House for Sale” report (Jan. 4, 2024) |
| Aug 2023 | Federal grand jury indicted Trump on four counts; the case never reached trial
Overturning the 2020 election | n/a | Alleged | Indictment, United States v. Trump, No. 23-cr-257 (justice.gov) |
| Jun 2023 | Trump was charged with 40 federal counts over classified documents; the case was dismissed before trial
Courts & accusations | n/a | Alleged | CNBC (superseding indictment, Jul 27, 2023) |
| May 2023 | Jury found Trump liable for sexually abusing and defaming E. Jean Carroll
Courts & accusations | $5M verdict; $5.6M paid with interest | Documented | NPR (verdict, May 9, 2023) |
| Apr 2023 | Election-fraud claims cost broadcasters and Giuliani hundreds of millions
Overturning the 2020 election | $787.5M paid by Fox News to Dominion | Documented | NBC News, Fox-Dominion settlement |
| Dec 2022 | Trump Organization companies convicted of criminal tax fraud
Courts & accusations | $1.6M criminal fine | Documented | CNN (verdict, Dec 6, 2022) |
| Dec 2022 | House Jan. 6 committee referred Trump to the Justice Department on four crimes
Overturning the 2020 election | n/a | Documented | House Jan. 6 Select Committee final report, H. Rept. 117-663 (govinfo) |
| Oct 2022 | His company billed the Secret Service at least $1.4 million, at up to $1,185 a night
The first term | $1.4M+ billed to the Secret Service | Documented | CNN: Trump Organization charged Secret Service “exorbitant rates” (Oct. 17, 2022) |
| Aug 2022 | Trump Organization finance chief Allen Weisselberg pleaded guilty to tax crimes and later to perjury
Courts & accusations | $1.7M in untaxed perks | Documented | CNN (guilty plea, Aug 18, 2022) |
| May 2022 | Trump kept a hotel lease with the federal government as president, then sold it for a reported $375 million
The first term | $375M reported sale price of the lease | Documented | GSA Office of Inspector General evaluation (Jan. 16, 2019) |
| May 2022 | Trump’s company and inaugural committee paid $750,000 to settle a suit over payments to his hotel
The first term | $750,000 settlement | Documented | DC Attorney General press release (May 3, 2022) |
| Nov 2021 | Federal watchdog found at least 13 senior Trump officials broke the Hatch Act
The first term | n/a | Documented | Office of Special Counsel report (Nov. 9, 2021), archived copy |
| Jul 2021 | Saudi fund put $2 billion into Jared Kushner’s new firm over its own advisers’ objections
The first term | $2B from the Saudi sovereign wealth fund | Reported | The New York Times |
| Feb 2021 | Impeached a second time; Senate majority voted to convict but fell short
Overturning the 2020 election | n/a | Documented | Clerk of the U.S. House, Roll Call 17 (H.Res. 24) |
| Feb 2021 | Campaign and party committees spent millions of donor dollars at Trump’s own businesses
The first term | $11.8M by political groups (CREW tally); donor money | Reported | Forbes |
| Jan 2021 | Trump asked Georgia’s top election official to “find 11,780 votes”
Overturning the 2020 election | n/a | Documented | CNN, full transcript of the Jan. 2, 2021 call |
| Jan 2021 | Trump pressed Pence to reject electoral votes, then attacked him as the Capitol was breached
Overturning the 2020 election | n/a | Documented | House Jan. 6 Select Committee final report (govinfo) |
| Jan 2021 | A mob of Trump supporters stormed the Capitol to stop the count
Overturning the 2020 election | $2.88M in losses from the breach (Justice Department) | Documented | House Jan. 6 Select Committee final report (govinfo) |
| Jan 2021 | Supreme Court ended the emoluments lawsuits without ruling on them
The first term | n/a | Documented | Supreme Court order list (Jan. 25, 2021) |
| Jan 2021 | GAO put four Mar-a-Lago trips at $13.6 million; press estimate for all golf was $151.5 million
The first term | $151.5M for first-term golf (HuffPost estimate); $13.6M for four trips (GAO) | Reported | GAO-19-178: Presidential Travel |
| Jan 2021 | Watchdog group counted more than 3,700 conflicts of interest in Trump’s term
The first term | Up to $160M from business abroad (CREW estimate; not government payments) | Alleged | CREW, “3,700 conflicts of interest” report (Jan. 15, 2021) |
| Dec 2020 | Fake electors in seven states signed electoral certificates for Trump
Overturning the 2020 election | n/a | Documented | House Jan. 6 Select Committee final report, Ch. 3 (govinfo) |
| Dec 2020 | Trump told Justice Department leaders to “just say the election was corrupt”
Overturning the 2020 election | n/a | Documented | House Jan. 6 Select Committee final report, Ch. 4 (govinfo) |
| Dec 2020 | Only one of 62 post-election lawsuits succeeded
Overturning the 2020 election | n/a | Documented | House Jan. 6 Select Committee final report, Ch. 1 (govinfo) |
| Dec 2020 | Trump pardoned convicted allies and his son-in-law’s father before leaving office
The first term | n/a | Documented | Justice Department, pardons granted by President Trump 2017-2021 |
| Sep 2020 | Trump paid $750 in federal income tax in 2016 and 2017, and the IRS presidential audit program sat nearly idle
The first term | n/a | Reported | The New York Times, key findings |
| May 2020 | Trump removed or replaced five inspectors general in six weeks
The first term | n/a | Reported | CBS News |
| Nov 2019 | Court ordered Trump to pay $2 million for misusing his charity, which was dissolved
Courts & accusations | $2M in court-ordered damages | Documented | New York Attorney General press release (Nov 7, 2019) |
| Oct 2019 | White House picked Trump’s own Doral resort for the G7 summit, then backed down
The first term | n/a | Reported | NBC News |
| Sep 2019 | Military spent about $184,000 at Trump’s Turnberry resort in Scotland
The first term | $184,000 at Turnberry (Pentagon figures) | Documented | Politico (Sept. 18, 2019) |
| Sep 2019 | Pence stayed at Trump’s Irish resort, 181 miles from his Dublin meetings
The first term | $599,454 in limousine costs (CREW, from State Department contracts) | Reported | CNN |
| Jul 2019 | Trump pressed Ukraine to investigate Biden while military aid was on hold
The first term | $391M in aid on hold (House articles); GAO ruled on $214M of it | Documented | GAO decision B-331564 (Jan. 16, 2020) |
| Apr 2019 | Mueller report laid out possible obstruction of justice and declined to clear Trump
The first term | n/a | Documented | Mueller report, Volume II (justice.gov) |
| Dec 2018 | Saudi-funded lobbyists and merger-seeking T-Mobile executives booked Trump’s Washington hotel
The first term | $270,044 by one Saudi-funded firm; $195,000 by T-Mobile | Reported | The Washington Post |
| Oct 2018 | New York Times investigation alleged Trump took part in tax schemes to receive his father’s wealth
Courts & accusations | $413M received from his father (New York Times) | Alleged | CNBC (Oct 2, 2018) |
| May 2018 | China approved Ivanka Trump trademarks while she worked in the White House
The first term | n/a | Reported | CNBC (May 29, 2018) |
| Jan 2017 | Trump kept ownership of his businesses on taking office
The first term | n/a | Documented | Walter Shaub remarks as prepared, Brookings Institution (Jan. 11, 2017) |
| Jan 2017 | Mar-a-Lago doubled its initiation fee to $200,000 as Trump took office
The first term | $200,000 initiation fee | Reported | CNBC |
| Nov 2016 | Trump paid $25 million to settle Trump University fraud suits without admitting wrongdoing
Courts & accusations | $25M settlement | Documented | The Guardian (settlement, Nov 18, 2016) |
| Oct 2002 | What the records show about Trump and Epstein: a 2002 quote, flight logs and a falling-out
The Epstein files | n/a | Documented | New York magazine (2002 profile) |