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2015.06.17Donald Trump campaign offered actors $50 to cheer for him at Presidential announcement. hollywoodreporter.com
2017.01.14Trump starts MLK weekend by attacking civil rights activist John Lewis, who challenged the legitimacy of Trump's election win. theguardian.com (See also Black Americans, Feuds)
2017.01.21Donald Trump lies about the number of people at his inauguration buzzfeed.com (See also False Statements)
2017.01.21National Park Service ordered to shut down Twitter account over anti-Trump retweets. avclub.com
2017.01.21Trump reportedly orders the National Park Service director to produce photos proving Trump's claims about the size of his inauguration crowd. washingtonpost.com (See also Presidential Activity, Assaults on Facts)
2017.01.21Trump team tells a bakery to completely re-create Obama's inauguration cake. buzzfeed.com
2017.01.23CBS News confirmed reports that President Donald Trump brought a studio audience to his visit with the CIA on Saturday. cbsnews.com
2017.01.23Without evidence, Trump tells lawmakers 3-5 million illegal ballots cost him the popular vote. washingtonpost.com (See also 2016 Election, False Statements, Assaults on Facts)
There is no evidence of widespread illegal voting in the 2016 election.
2017.01.26Trump repeated his false claim that there was rampant voter fraud in the election washingtonpost.com (See also False Statements)
There wasn't.
2017.02.02European Union sees U.S. under Trump as world's gravest crisis. nytimes.com (See also Foreign Policy, Europe)
2017.02.06TIME magazine outlines case for impeachment of Trump for violating emoluments clause of Constitution. time.com (See also Conflicts of Interest, Corruption)
2017.02.09Nadler on House Judiciary Committee files a resolution of inquiry into Trump. countable.us (See also Conflicts of Interest)
2017.02.13Person responsible for the nuclear "football" briefcase featured in casual photos posted on Facebook by Mar-a-Lago visitor. thehill.com (See also First 100 Days)
2017.02.13Trump and his aides coordinated their response to North Korea’s missile test at his Florida club without retiring to a secure location. nytimes.com (See also Foreign Policy)
President Trump and his aides coordinated their response to North Korea’s missile test at his Florida club without retiring to a secure location.
2017.02.18Leaked tape shows Trump inviting golf club guests to join him as he interviewed potential Cabinet nominees. politico.com (See also First 100 Days)
2017.02.21Trump keeps talking about the election, more than three months later. time.com (See also 2016 Election, First 100 Days)
President Trump can't stop talking about the election
2017.03.04Citing no evidence, Trump writes series of tweets accusing Obama of wiretapping him before the election. washingtonpost.com (See also Assaults on Facts, First 100 Days)
President Trump used Twitter to accuse his predecessor of orchestrating a plot to tap the phones at his Trump Tower headquarters last fall in the run-up to the election.
2017.03.04Trump tweets: "Terrible! Just found out that Obama had my 'wires tapped' in Trump Tower just before the victory. Nothing found. This is McCarthyism!" twitter.com
2017.03.05Trump demands congressional inquiry into his unsubstantiated claim that Obama had his phones tapped to investigate Russia’s meddling in the election. nytimes.com (See also Assaults on Facts, Russian Meddling in Election)
2017.03.07Trump incorrectly blames Obama for releasing Guantanamo prisoners who U.S. intelligence agencies say returned to the battlefield. miamiherald.com (See also Assaults on Facts, First 100 Days)
President Donald Trump broke his White House silence on the topic of Guantánamo Tuesday, incorrectly blaming Barack Obama not George W. Bush for the release of more than 100 captives who U.S. intellig…
2017.03.20Trump brags he's made NFL coaches afraid to hire Black Lives Matter protestor Colin Kaepernick, a veteran quarterback. chicagotribune.com (See also Racism, Black Americans)
2017.06.04While world leaders call for unity after London attack, Trump attacks and ridicules to attempt to score political points. washingtonpost.com (See also United Kingdom, Foreign Policy, Muslim Immigration Ban)
2017.06.06Of all sources, Fox News host Neil Cavuto on Tuesday hit Trump for his criticism of media outlets' coverage of his Twitter habits, saying “Mr. President, it’s not the fake news media that’s your problem. It’s you." thehill.com (See also Attempts to Discredit Media)
2017.06.06Trump shifted charitable donations for children with cancer into his businesses. forbes.com (See also Corruption, Eric Trump)
The president directed hundreds of thousands of dollars from his son's kids-with-cancer foundation into his company coffers.
2017.06.07Fired FBI Director James B. Comey said Trump told him at the White House “I need loyalty, I expect loyalty” during their private dinner conversation in January, according to written remarks from Comey offering a vivid preview of his testimony Thursday before the Senate Intelligence Committee. washingtonpost.com (See also Corruption, Feuds, Legal Activity, Russian Meddling in Election, Michael Flynn)
2017.06.07In his 9 one-on-one conversations with Trump, former FBI chief, James B. Comey said Trump pressured him for loyalty, sought forbearance for Michael Flynn and asked him to lift the “cloud” of a Russia investigation hanging over the administration. bloomberg.com (See also Legal Activity, Michael Flynn, Russian Meddling in Election, Feuds, Corruption)
2017.06.07Trump will nominate Christopher Wray as the next director of the FBI, which came as a surprise to powerful senators, including the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), and the committee’s ranking Democrat, California Sen. Dianne Feinstein, who had not been given advance notification from the White House, even though their committee will handle his confirmation hearing. politico.com (See also Administration Errors)
2017.06.08In the first hour of former FBI Director James Comey's testimony on Capitol Hill about the nature and details of his relationship with Trump, he called the president a liar twice, flashing anger at Trump's characterization that the bureau was disorganized and chaotic. cnn.com (See also Legal Activity, Michael Flynn, Corruption)
2017.06.08James B. Comey, said under oath in an extraordinary Senate hearing that he believed President Trump had tried to derail an investigation into his national security adviser, and accused the president of lying and defaming him and the F.B.I. nytimes.com (See also Legal Activity, Michael Flynn, Russian Meddling in Election, Trump Relationship with Russia)
2017.06.08Paul Ryan shrugged off the bombshell testimony of former FBI director James Comey with a mix of claimed ignorance and overwhelming sympathy toward President Donald Trump’s neophyte political status because the commander in chief is “new at this.” huffingtonpost.com (See also Corruption, Legal Activity)
2017.06.08Philip Allen Lacovara, a former U.S. deputy solicitor general in the Justice Department, says James B. Comey placed President Trump in the sights of a federal criminal investigation, laying out evidence sufficient for a case of obstruction of justice. washingtonpost.com (See also Legal Activity, Corruption, Jeff Sessions, Jared Kushner, Russian Meddling in Election)
2017.06.08White House deputy press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Thursday that she has “no idea” whether there is a recording system in the Oval Office, suggesting they may have recordings of his conversations with then-FBI Director James Comey. huffingtonpost.com (See also Corruption, Legal Activity)
2017.06.12Attorneys general for the District of Columbia and the state of Maryland sued Trump, alleging that he has violated anti-corruption clauses in the Constitution by accepting millions in payments and benefits from foreign governments since moving into the White House. washingtonpost.com (See also Corruption, Legal Activity)
2017.06.13Since Trump won the Republican nomination, the majority of his companies' real estate sales are to secretive shell companies that obscure the buyers' identities. usatoday.com (See also Corruption, Donald Trump Jr, Eric Trump, Conflicts of Interest, Legal Activity)
Profits from sales of those properties flow through a trust run by Trump's sons. Trump is the sole beneficiary of the trust and can withdraw cash at any time.
2017.06.17Six members of the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS have resigned, furious at the new administration's regressive health policies. buzzfeed.com (See also Health Care)
"The Trump Administration has no strategy to address the on-going HIV/AIDS epidemic, seeks zero input from experts to formulate HIV policy, and —most concerning— pushes legislation that will harm people living with HIV and halt or reverse important gains made in the fight against this disease."
2017.06.21The Trump International Hotel will be the location of a June 28 major-donor event, raising ethics questions as Turmp uses his presidency and candidacy to enrich himself. apnews.com (See also Conflicts of Interest)
2017.06.22More than a month after suggesting he may have secretly recorded his meetings with FBI Director James Comey, Trump admitted that he has no such tapes. buzzfeed.com (See also Corruption, Legal Activity, Trump Relationship with Russia, Russian Meddling in Election, Michael Flynn)
2017.06.22The Trump administration, ignoring the need for a free press, has announced that Thursday's press briefing may not be recorded by anyone, and then went further to say that the press also couldn't report that this meeting could not be recorded. slate.com (See also Attempts to Discredit Media, Censorship)
2017.06.22Trump claimed Mexico is the second deadliest country in the world. It's not. buzzfeed.com (See also Mexico, Mexico Wall, False Statements)
2017.06.23Trump appeared to acknowledge that his tweet hinting of taped conversations with James B. Comey was intended to influence the fired F.B.I. director’s testimony. nytimes.com (See also Legal Activity, Trump Relationship with Russia, Russian Meddling in Election, Corruption)