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21 Feb 22 |
The US Supreme Court paved the way for a New York City prosecutor to obtain former Pres. Donald Trump's tax returns and other records as part of an accelerating criminal investigation. Links: USA, NYC, Taxes, Supreme Court, TrumpD ![]() |
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1977 |
Donald Trump first appeared on the Russians’ radar when he married his first wife, Ivana Zelnickova, a Czech model. Trump became the target of a spying operation overseen by Czechoslovakia’s intelligence service in cooperation with the KGB. Links: Russia, USA, Czechoslovakia, TrumpD ![]() |
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1986 Aug 2 |
US attorney Roy M. Cohn died at Bethesda Naval Hospital of cardiac arrest and complications from AIDS. He was an American lawyer best known for being Senator Joseph McCarthy's chief counsel during the Army–McCarthy hearings in 1954, for assisting with McCarthy's investigations of suspected communists, as a top political fixer, and for being Donald Trump's personal lawyer. Links: USA, Maryland, AIDS, TrumpD ![]() |
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1996 |
Donald Trump purchased the Miss Universe pageant, partnering with NBC. Links: USA, Pageant, TrumpD ![]() |
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2005 |
Felix Sater started pushing a Trump tower project in Moscow. Sater was later accused by BTA Bank of Kazakhstan and the city of Almaty that he had conspired with the son of a former mayor to use some of $440 million stolen from the bank to develop a Trump tower in Moscow. Sater tried to kick start the project during Trump's 2016 presidential campaign, but it was never built. Links: Kazakhstan, Russia, USA, USSR, TrumpD ![]() |
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2014 |
The New York Observer, a newspaper owned by Jared Kushner, a son-in-law, of Donald Trump, ran a lengthy hatchet job on Eric Schneiderman, the Democratic attorney general of New York. In 2013 Schneiderman had sued Donald Trump over the fleecing of students at Trump University. Links: USA, NYC, Journalism, TrumpD ![]() |
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2015 Sep 3 |
In NYC protests took place outside of Trump Tower over negative comments made by Donald Trump about Mexico and Mexican immigrants. Six protesters later filed a lawsuit saying they had been assaulted during the protests. Links: USA, NYC, Mad Crowd, TrumpD ![]() |
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2016 Mar 21 |
Donald Trump met with the Washington Post editorial board and called George Papadopoulos an "excellent guy." He had recently named Papadopoulos to his foreign policy advisory council, among a short list of experts amid growing public pressure on Trump to demonstrate he had a bench of foreign policy expertise. In 2017 Papadopoulos admitted that he told Trump and other top campaign national security officials during an advisory council meeting, that he had made contact with intermediaries for Russia who said they could set up a meeting between Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin. Links: Russia, USA, TrumpD ![]() |
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2016 Mar 31 |
Donald Trump and Jeff Sessions both supported a proposal during the presidential campaign that Trump meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin. This was made public in 2018 by former presidential advisor George Papadopoulos. In November 2017 Sessions testified before Congress that he had "pushed back" against the proposal by Papadopoulos at the campaign meeting. Links: USA, TrumpD ![]() |
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2016 Apr |
At a London meeting Maltese academic Joseph Mifsud told an adviser to Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump that the Kremlin had "thousands of emails" about his Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton. Links: Russia, Britain, USA, Malta, TrumpD ![]() |
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2016 Jun 9 |
Donald Trump's son, Donald Trump Jr., met with Kremlin-linked lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya after being promised damaging information about Hillary Clinton. Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner and campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, also attended the meeting at Trump Tower, two weeks after Trump won the Republican nomination. Rinat Akhmetshin, a Russian-American lobbyist, was also present. He had served in the Soviet military in a unit that was part of counterintelligence. Links: Russia, USA, TrumpD ![]() |
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2016 Oct |
Porn star Stormy Daniels, aka Stephanie Clifford, received $130,000 in return for her promise to keep quiet an extramarital affair she had with Donald Trump in 2006-2007. The money was reportedly paid by Michael Cohen, Trump's personal lawyer. Links: USA, Sex, TrumpD ![]() |
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2016 Nov 8 |
Democrat Hillary Clinton held a narrow lead in opinion polls over Republican Donald Trump as millions of Americans turned out to vote for the next president after one of the most negative campaigns in US history. Republican Donald Trump (70) stunned the world by defeating heavily favored rival Hillary Clinton. Republicans also kept control of Congress. Links: USA, Major Event, ClintonH, TrumpD ![]() |
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2016 Nov 8 |
In the US presidential election Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin all swung for Donald Trump with margins of one percent or less. Wisconsin’s voter ID law impacted an unknown number of eligible voters as Trump defeated Clinton by roughly 22,000 votes. Links: USA, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, TrumpD ![]() |
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2016 Nov 9 |
The US dollar, Mexican peso and world stocks fell as Donald Trump swept to victory in the US presidential election, but fears of a Brexit-style shock that wiped trillions off global markets has failed to materialize so far. Trump's election triggered fears that his view that global warming is a hoax might lead other nations to scale back ambitions under a landmark climate change deal. Links: USA, TrumpD ![]() |
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2016 Nov 9 |
From New York to Los Angeles thousands of people in around 10 cities rallied late today against president-elect Donald Trump. Protesters burned a giant orange-haired head of Trump in effigy, lit fires in the streets and blocked traffic as rage over the billionaire's election victory spilled onto the streets of Oakland, Ca., Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia, Portland and Washington DC. Links: USA, NYC, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Chicago, SF Bay Area, DC, Oregon, TrumpD ![]() |
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2016 Nov 9 |
Australia's prime minister beat other world leaders to an early call with President-elect Donald Trump by getting his cellphone number from Greg Norman, the golfing great. PM Malcolm Turnbull said he had a warm and "very frank" 15-minute discussion with Trump within hours of the Republican nominee claiming victory in the presidential election. Links: Australia, USA, TrumpD ![]() |
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2016 Nov 10 |
US Pres.-elect Donald Trump met with Pres. Barack Obama to discuss the presidency. Obama warned Pres.-elect Donald Trump against hiring Michael Flynn as his national security adviser. Links: USA, ObamaB, TrumpD ![]() |
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2016 Nov 10 |
Pres. Obama warned Pres.-elect Donald Trump against hiring Michael Flynn as his national security adviser. Links: USA, ObamaB, TrumpD ![]() |
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2016 Nov 11 |
Pres.-elect Donald Trump replaced Chris Christie, the governor of New Jersey, with vice-president-elect Mike Pence. Links: USA, TrumpD ![]() |
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2016 Nov 13 |
President-elect Donald Trump chose Reince Priebus, the chairman of the Republican National Committee, as his chief of staff and Stephen Bannon, a right-wing media mogul, as chief strategist and councilor. Links: USA, TrumpD ![]() |
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2016 Nov 17 |
President-elect Donald Trump met with Japan’s PM Shinzo Abe in Trump's first meeting with a world leader since his election last week. Links: USA, Japan, TrumpD ![]() |
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2016 Nov 18 |
President-elect Donald Trump tapped arch-conservative Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions (69) to be attorney general and hawkish congressman Mike Pompeo (52), a strident opponent of the Iran nuclear deal, as his CIA director. Trump turned to Lieutenant General Michael Flynn (57) as national security adviser. Links: USA, TrumpD ![]() |
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2016 Nov 18 |
Donald Trump agreed to a $25 million settlement in a lawsuit in which former customers of his now-defunct Trump University accused him of fraud. The agreement came 10 days before jury selection was scheduled to begin in San Diego. Links: USA, Lawsuit, Education, TrumpD ![]() |
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2016 Nov 18 |
Vice President-elect Mike Pence was booed at a performance of the award-winning Broadway musical "Hamilton," whose "alarmed and anxious" cast made an unusual call for Donald Trump's incoming administration to work on behalf of all Americans. Links: USA, NYC, Theater, TrumpD ![]() |
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2016 Nov 23 |
President-elect Donald Trump chose South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley as US ambassador to the United Nations, the first woman tapped for a top-level administration post during his White House transition so far. Trump charter school advocate Betsy DeVos as his secretary of education. Links: USA, UN, TrumpD ![]() |
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2016 Nov 29 |
US President-elect Donald Trump nominated Tom Price as health secretary, indicating he plans to fulfill a campaign promise to tear up the divisive healthcare reform law. The congressman from Georgia and former orthopedic surgeon has been a fierce Obamacare critic. Links: USA, Medical, TrumpD ![]() |
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2016 Nov 30 |
Air-conditioning maker Carrier Corp. said it has reached a deal with Pres.-elect Donald Trump to keep nearly 1,000 jobs in Indiana. Links: USA, Labor, Indiana, TrumpD ![]() |
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2016 Nov |
Trump Inc. was estimated to be worth $4 billion, with $490 million in annual revenue. This would make it the 833rd largest firm in America by market value and 1,925th by sales. Links: USA, TrumpD ![]() |
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2016 Nov |
Pres.-elect Donald Trump outlined his priorities in a YouTube video and announced a new rule: for every new regulation, two old ones must be eliminated. Links: USA, TrumpD ![]() |
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2016 Dec 2 |
US President-elect Donald Trump accepted a congratulatory call from Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen, a breach of long-standing tradition that risked enmity from China. Links: USA, China, Taiwan, TrumpD ![]() |
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2016 Dec 2 |
Lithuania's president urged Donald Trump to uphold the United States' security commitment to Europe amid questions about the US president-elect's intentions toward his NATO allies. Links: USA, Lithuania, TrumpD ![]() |
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2016 Dec 2 |
Jared Kushner, the son-in-law of Pres. Donald Trump, spoke with Russian ambassador Sergei Kislyak on this day or a day earlier at Trump Tower and proposed the possibility of setting up a secret and secure communications channel between Trump’s transition team and the Kremlin. This was only made public on May 26, 2017. Links: Russia, USA, NYC, Telecom, TrumpD ![]() |
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2016 Dec 3 |
China's Taiwan Affairs Office said US President-elect Donald Trump's call with Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen was a "petty" move by Taiwan that does not change its status as part of China. Links: USA, China, Taiwan, TrumpD ![]() |
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2016 Dec 5 |
Retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson, a rival-turned-supporter of Donald Trump, overcame his stated qualms about a lack of government experience to accept the president-elect's nomination to lead the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Links: USA, TrumpD ![]() |
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2016 Dec 6 |
US President-elect Donald Trump said costs for a new Air Force One - one of the most prominent symbols of the US presidency - were out of control, and urged the government to cancel a contract with Boeing Co for the jet. Links: USA, Aviation, TrumpD ![]() |
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2016 Dec 7 |
A transition official said president-elect Donald Trump will nominate Iowa Governor Terry Branstad as the next US ambassador to China, choosing a longstanding friend of Beijing after rattling the world's second-largest economy by speaking to Taiwan's president. Links: USA, China, Iowa, TrumpD ![]() |
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2016 Dec 7 |
Time Magazine named Donald Trump as Person of the Year. Links: USA, Magazine, TrumpD ![]() |
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2016 Dec 9 |
A senior US official said the CIA has concluded that Russia intervened in the 2016 election to help President-elect Donald Trump win the White House, and not just to undermine confidence in the US electoral system. The next day Trump challenged the veracity of the CIA assessment. Links: Russia, USA, CIA, TrumpD ![]() |
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2016 Dec 10 |
President-elect Donald Trump moved closer to selecting ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson as Sec. of State. Links: USA, TrumpD ![]() |
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2016 Dec 11 |
US President-elect Donald Trump said the United States did not necessarily have to stick to its long-standing position that Taiwan is part of "one China," questioning nearly four decades of policy in a move likely to antagonize Beijing. Links: USA, China, Taiwan, TrumpD ![]() |
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2016 Dec 12 |
China expressed "serious concern" after US President-elect Donald Trump said the United States did not necessarily have to stick to its long-held stance that Taiwan is part of "one China", calling it the basis for relations. Links: USA, China, TrumpD ![]() |
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2016 Dec 13 |
President-elect Donald Trump announced he has picked Exxon Mobil CEO Rex Tillerson to be secretary of state, calling the oil executive with close to ties to Russia one of the most accomplished "international dealmakers in the world." Trump chose former Texas Governor Rick Perry to head the US Department of Energy. Links: USA, TrumpD ![]() |
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2016 Dec 14 |
President-elect Donald Trump announced that he would choose former Texas governor Rick Perry to head the Department of Energy, calling him "one of the most successful governors in modern history". Links: USA, Texas, TrumpD ![]() |
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2016 Dec 14 |
The defense ministers of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia renewed their call for a strong US engagement in the Baltic region amid concerns over the attitude of the incoming Trump administration. Links: USA, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, TrumpD ![]() |
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2016 Dec 16 |
President-elect Donald Trump announced that he will nominate attorney David Friedman as US ambassador to Israel, selecting an envoy who supports Israeli settlements and other changes to US policies in the region. Friedman already headed a settlement fundraising organization. Links: USA, Israel, TrumpD ![]() |
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2016 Dec 22 |
US Pres.-elect Donald Trump named Kellyanne Conway as his White House counselor. Links: USA, TrumpD ![]() |
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2016 Dec 27 |
US President-elect Donald Trump announced that Thomas Bossert, former deputy homeland security adviser to President George W. Bush, would be his White House adviser on security and counterterrorism issues. Links: USA, TrumpD ![]() |
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2016 Dec 29 |
Michael Flynn, the national security advisor to US Pres.-elect Donald Trump, spoke on the phone in Washington to Russian ambassador Sergei Kislyak. Flynn later denied having discussed the new US sanctions against Russia, but it turned out that he did. On Feb 13, 2017, Pres. Donald Trump removed Flynn as national security advisor. Links: Russia, USA, TrumpD ![]() |
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2017 Jan 3 |
US House Republicans scrapped their plan eviscerate the Office of Congressional Ethics, after the move drew a public backlash and a Twitter scolding from Pres.-elect Donald Trump. Links: USA, TrumpD ![]() |
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2017 Jan 3 |
President-elect Donald Trump announced he has nominated Reagan-era lawyer Robert Lighthizer, described as an advocate of greater protectionism, as US trade representative. Links: USA, TrumpD ![]() |
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2017 Jan 4 |
Pres.-elect Donald Trump chose Jay Clayton, a Wall Street attorney, as his nominee to head the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Links: USA, TrumpD ![]() |
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2017 Jan 5 |
US Pres.-elect Donald Trump selected former Indiana Sen. Dan Coats to lead the office of the Director of National Intelligence. Links: USA, TrumpD ![]() |
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2017 Jan 7 |
US Pres.-elect Donald Trump called for a closer relationship between the US and Russia. Links: Russia, USA, TrumpD ![]() |
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2017 Jan 10 |
Palestinian leaders called for prayers at mosques across the Middle East this week to protest plans by President-elect Donald Trump to move the US embassy in Israel to Jerusalem. Links: USA, Israel, Palestine, TrumpD ![]() |
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2017 Jan 11 |
President-elect Donald Trump angrily denounced the publishing of claims he had been caught in a compromising position in Russia and attacked US intelligence agencies over the leak of the information. President Vladimir Putin's spokesman said the Kremlin has not collected compromising information about Trump. Links: Russia, USA, TrumpD ![]() |
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2017 Jan 14 |
Pres. Donald Trump asked FBI Director James Comey to shut down the federal investigation into former national security advisor Michael T. Flynn, the day after Flynn resigned. Links: USA, FBI, TrumpD ![]() |
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2017 Jan 19 |
It was revealed that Steven Mnuchin, Pres.-elect Donald Trump’s pick to be Treasury secretary, failed to disclose nearly $100 million of his assets on Senate Finance Committee disclosure documents and failed to mention his role as a director of an investment fund located in a tax haven. Links: USA, TrumpD ![]() |
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2017 Jan 19 |
The documentary film “An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power” premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. It was directed by Bonni Cohen and Jon Shenk and starred Al Gore, Barack Obama and Donald Trump. Links: USA, Utah, Film, ObamaB, TrumpD ![]() |
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2017 Jan 19 |
The Obama administration passed the Organic Livestock and Poultry Practices rule that required an increase in the amount of space required for livestock and poultry, provide more access to the outdoors and outlaw the use of subtherapeutic antibiotics. On Dec. 15 the Trump administration scrapped the rule. Links: USA, Animal, ObamaB, TrumpD ![]() |
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