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1985Trump rents an apartment to Osama Bin Laden's brother Shafiq. nydailynews.com (See also Trump Business)
2004.10.28George Soros loans Trump $160 million to build Trump Tower Chicago. articles.chicagotribune.com (See also Trump Business)
2006Trump is accused of committing felony Obstruction of Justice by destroying thousands of emails subpoenaed by a federal judge during legal hearings against him. usatoday.com (See also Criminality, Lawsuits)
2009Trump donates $100,000 to the Clinton Foundation politifact.com
2016.08.27Trump promises to restore honesty to the United States at rally. politicususa.com (See also 2016 Campaign)
2016.12.12Trump names Goldman Sachs CEO Gary Cohn as pick for Director of National Economic Council. wsj.com (See also Presidential Transition, Conflicts of Interest, National Economic Council, Gary Cohn)
Records show Trump is indebted to Goldman Sachs for millions.
2017.01.25Goldman Sachs pays Trump's lead economic adviser $100 million. thehill.com (See also First 100 Days, Conflicts of Interest, Gary Cohn, National Economic Council)
2017.03.22Exxon says they have lost a years worth of Rex Tillerson's emails. chicagotribune.com (See also First 100 Days, Rex Tillerson)
2017.06.02The Republican-controlled House Intelligence Committee asked U.S. spy agencies late last year to reveal the names of U.S. individuals or organizations contained in classified intelligence on Russia’s meddling in the 2016 election, engaging in the same practice that President Trump has accused the Obama administration of abusing. washingtonpost.com (See also Russian Meddling in Election, 2016 Election)
2017.06.09Speaker Paul Ryan insisted on Thursday that Republicans wouldn’t be calling for the impeachment of a Democratic president accused of the same actions as Trump. thehill.com (See also Corruption, Legal Activity)
2017.06.13Trump told Republican senators that the House GOP health-care bill which he had then celebrated, was now “mean” and he expects the Senate to “improve” the legislation considerably. washingtonpost.com (See also Health Care, Affordable Care Act)
2017.07.12On a day in which the president's schedule included no public events and the daily briefing was once again held off camera, principal deputy press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders declared that the White House aims to be "as transparent as humanly possible." politico.com (See also Attempts to Discredit Media, Assaults on Facts)
2017.08.21The Secret Service can no longer pay hundreds of agents it needs – in large part due to the sheer size of President Trump's family, his travel almost every weekend, and efforts necessary to secure their multiple residences up and down the East Coast - as they have already hit the federally mandated caps for salary and overtime allowances that were meant to last the entire year. usatoday.com (See also Unprecedented Actions)
2017.09.24Jared Kushner used a private email account to conduct and discuss official White House business dozens of times, according to his lawyer. washingtonpost.com (See also Jared Kushner, Ivanka Trump)
Kushner used the private account through his first nine months in government service, even as the president continued to criticize his opponent in the 2016 presidential election, Democrat Hillary Clinton, for her use of a private email account for government business.
2017.09.25At least six of Donald Trump’s closest advisers used private email addresses to discuss White House matters, including Jared Kushner, Stephen K. Bannon, Reince Priebus, Gary Cohn, Stephen Miller, and Ivanka Trump. nytimes.com (See also Jared Kushner, Ivanka Trump, Steve Bannon, Reince Priebus, Stephen Miller)
2017.09.28In his closed interview with the staff of the Senate intelligence committee, White House senior adviser and presidential son-in-law Jared Kushner did not share the existence of his personal email account, which he has used for official business. cnn.com (See also Jared Kushner)
2017.10.02Donald Trump spent Sunday afternoon attending a high-profile golf tournament, after he had scoffed at “politically motivated ingrates” who had questioned his administration’s commitment to rebuilding Puerto Rico, then dedicated a golf trophy to the hurricane victims. apnews.com (See also Unpresidential Behavior, Domestic Policy)
2017.10.03White House officials have begun examining emails associated with a third and previously unreported email account on Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump’s private domain, where hundreds of emails have been sent and received since January. politico.com (See also Jared Kushner, Ivanka Trump, Corruption)