Actor profile

Donald Trump

Donald Trump is named in 1373 events across the Capture Cascade Timeline, from 1973 to 2026.

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Quick facts

  • Born: June 14, 1946, Queens, New York
  • Education: Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania (transferred in; grades sealed)
  • Known for: Real-estate developer, host of NBC’s The Apprentice (2004–2015), 45th and 47th President of the United States
  • Inheritance: Roughly $413 million (inflation-adjusted) received from his father Fred Trump’s business empire over his lifetime, per a 2018 New York Times investigation
  • Business bankruptcies: 6 corporate Chapter 11 filings (Trump Taj Mahal, 1991; Trump Plaza Hotel, 1992; Trump Castle, 1992; Trump Plaza Associates, 1992; Trump Hotels & Casino Resorts, 2004; Trump Entertainment Resorts, 2009)
  • Impeachments: 2 — Ukraine aid (2019) and the January 6 insurrection (2021); acquitted by the Senate both times
  • Criminal indictments: 4 (Manhattan, federal classified-documents, Georgia RICO, federal January 6)
  • Convictions: 34 felony counts in the Manhattan hush-money case (May 2024) — the first U.S. president convicted of a crime
  • Family: Son of Queens developer Fred Trump; three marriages; five children (Donald Jr., Ivanka, Eric, Tiffany, Barron)

Key positions

RoleTenure
President, Trump Organization / Trump real-estate and casino businesses1971–present
Host & executive producer, NBC’s The Apprentice2004–2015
45th President of the United States2017–2021
47th President of the United States2025–present

Biography

Donald John Trump was born June 14, 1946, in Queens, New York, and entered the family real-estate business run by his father, Fred Trump. A 2018 New York Times investigation found that the elder Trump funneled roughly $413 million (inflation-adjusted) to his son over his lifetime through some 295 income streams — a finding that complicates Trump’s long-standing “self-made” framing. Trump studied at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania after transferring from Fordham.

In 1973, when Trump was 27, the U.S. Justice Department sued Trump Management for racial discrimination, citing evidence that rental agents marked the applications of Black prospective tenants. The case introduced Trump to attorney Roy Cohn — former counsel to Senator Joseph McCarthy — who countersued the government for $100 million and coached Trump in a never-admit-fault, always-attack posture that journalists and Trump’s own associates have repeatedly identified as formative. The suit was settled in 1975 via a consent decree with no admission of wrongdoing; in 1978 the DOJ returned, alleging Trump had violated its terms. Trump’s later record includes his 1989 full-page newspaper ads calling for the death penalty in the Central Park Five case — defendants who were later exonerated — and a 1991 New Jersey Casino Control Commission fine over discriminatory practices at Trump Plaza.

Trump’s Atlantic City casino era ended in serial bankruptcies; after the 1990 Taj Mahal opening, the company’s collapse left hundreds of contractors owed millions. Largely frozen out of mainstream U.S. lending by the 2000s, Trump rebuilt his public profile as the infallible executive of NBC’s The Apprentice (2004–2015) — a persona producers including Bill Pruitt (speaking after his NDA expired in 2024) later described as a television construction. Reporting by The Washington Post and PBS NewsHour documents a yearslong social relationship between Trump and financier Jeffrey Epstein that, by multiple accounts, ruptured around 2004 amid a dispute over a Palm Beach mansion.

Trump won the presidency in 2016 and served as the 45th president (2017–2021). He was impeached twice — over the withholding of military aid to Ukraine (2019) and over the January 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol — and acquitted by the Senate each time. After leaving office he faced four criminal indictments across two federal and two state jurisdictions; in May 2024 a Manhattan jury convicted him on 34 felony counts in the hush-money case, making him the first U.S. president convicted of a crime. He returned to office as the 47th president in 2025.

Sources

Donald Trump on the timeline 1373 events · 1973–2026 · click any marker
Donald Trump on the timeline19751980198519901995200020052010201520202025Donald Trump
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2025-05-19Sean Duffy Sold Stocks Before Trump's Tariff Announcement, Revealing Potential Insider Trading 4 src
Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Sean Duffy · Transportation Department
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2025-05-16Senate Permanent Subcommittee opens inquiry into Trump crypto corruption 4 src
Richard Blumenthal · Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations · Donald Trump · Fight Fight Fight LLC · +1
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2025-05-16Vietnam approves $1.5 billion investment plan by Trump Organization and partner 5 src
Donald Trump · Trump Administration
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2025-05-15Critical Briefing - Bondi Informs Trump His Name Appears in Epstein Files 3 src
Pam Bondi · Donald Trump
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2025-05-15Donald Trump Jr.'s transformation into Washington power broker 4 src
Donald Trump · Donald Trump Jr. · Eric Trump · Zach Witkoff
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2025-05-15FBI Disbands Washington Public Corruption Squad Amid Broader Investigative Reorganization 3 src
Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Kash Patel · Chuck Grassley · +2
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2025-05-15Political committees have spent $675K at Trump properties since Trump's reelection 3 src
Donald Trump · Republican National Committee · Republican House Representatives
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2025-05-14EPA Rolls Back PFAS Drinking Water Protections, Delays Enforcement, Terminates Research Grants 5 src
EPA · Lee Zeldin · Donald Trump
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2025-05-14Former Qatar Lobbyist Bondi Approves $400M Qatari Plane Gift to Trump 3 src
Pam Bondi · Donald Trump
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2025-05-14Gabbard Fires Two Career Intelligence Officials Whose Venezuela Assessment Contradicted White House 4 src
Tulsi Gabbard · Michael Collins · Maria Langan-Riekhof · Donald Trump
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2025-05-14Musk adviser may make as much as $1 million a year while helping to dismantle agency that regulates Tesla and X 4 src
Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Chris Young · Elon Musk · +1
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2025-05-14Trump Commerce Secretary's Crypto Firm Ties to El Salvador Reveal Complex Business Networks 4 src
Donald Trump · Howard Lutnick · Brandon Lutnick · Bo Hines
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2025-05-14Trump’s Middle East visit comes as his family deepens its business, crypto ties in the region 5 src
Donald Trump · Trump Administration
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2025-05-14U.S. AG Pam Bondi Sells Over $1 Million in Trump Media Shares Amid Tariff Announcement 3 src
Donald Trump · Pam Bondi · Trump Administration
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2025-05-13GD Culture Group Announces $300M Cryptocurrency Investment in Bitcoin and Trump Coin 3 src
Donald Trump · GD Culture Group · Trump Administration
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2025-05-13The mystery of $MELANIA: First Lady's memecoin fuels $100M insider trading windfall 3 src
Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Hayden Davis · Melania Trump
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2025-05-12Elon Musk's Boring Company Enters Negotiations for $8.5B Amtrak Tunnel Project 3 src
Elon Musk · Donald Trump · Federal Railroad Administration · Amtrak
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2025-05-12Eric Trump's American Bitcoin going public in latest crypto move by president's family 4 src
Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Eric Trump
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2025-05-12Trump’s UK ambassador has investments in industries set to benefit from trade deal 5 src
Donald Trump · Trump Administration
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2025-05-12US-China Geneva Deal: Both Sides Slash Tariffs by 115 Percentage Points for 90 Days After Weekend Negotiations 7 src
Scott Bessent · Jamieson Greer · He Lifeng · Donald Trump · +2
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2025-05-11Qatar gifts Trump $400 million airplane as replacement for Air Force One 5 src
Donald Trump · Qatar · Pam Bondi
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2025-05-11Trump administration in talks with Qatar over plane gift 5 src
Donald Trump · Trump Administration
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2025-05-11Trump Administration Systematically Drops Regulatory Cases Against Elon Musk 3 src
Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Elon Musk · Securities and Exchange Commission
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2025-05-10Trump, raking in cash, expands his power in the G.O.P. money world 5 src
Donald Trump · Trump Administration
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2025-05-09Large investors increased stake in Trump Media by hundreds of millions 5 src
Donald Trump · Trump Administration
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2025-05-09SEC Reaches Controversial Settlement with Ripple Labs 4 src
Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Bradley Garlinghouse · Christian Larsen · +1
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2025-05-09Trump to sign order discouraging criminal enforcement of regulatory offenses 5 src
Donald Trump · Trump Administration
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2025-05-08Former Fox News Host Jeanine Pirro Appointed D.C. U.S. Attorney 1 src
Jeanine Pirro · Pam Bondi · Donald Trump
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2025-05-07Trump Administration Moves to Eliminate Space and Rocket Launch Environmental Research 3 src
Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Elon Musk · SpaceX
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2025-05-07U.S. Pushes Nations Facing Tariffs to Approve Musk's Starlink 3 src
Donald Trump · Elon Musk · Marco Rubio · State Department Officials
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2025-05-06SpaceX gets FAA permission for fivefold increase in Starship launches from Texas 3 src
Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Elon Musk · SpaceX · +1
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2025-05-06Trump's Cryptocurrency Dinner Reveals Majority Foreign Buyers 3 src
Donald Trump · Justin Sun · Jamie Raskin
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2025-05-06US SEC's new chief says 15% of staff have left, contract cuts to come 4 src
Donald Trump · Trump Administration · SEC Chairman
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2025-05-05Trump Generates $350M Through Memecoin, Offering White House Access to Top Investors 4 src
Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Justin Sun · Sean Casten · +1
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2025-05-05Trump sons’ deals on three continents directly benefit the president 5 src
Donald Trump · Trump Administration
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2025-05-04Trump says he'll call CEOs when he disagrees with their business decisions 5 src
Donald Trump · Trump Administration
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2025-05-02Abu Dhabi sovereign fund commits $2 billion to Trump-linked crypto venture 4 src
MGX sovereign fund · Tahnoun bin Zayed Al Nahyan · World Liberty Financial · Donald Trump · +3
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2025-05-02Freight Technologies Purchases $20M in Trump Crypto to Lobby Against Tariffs 4 src
Donald Trump · Javier Selgas · Freight Technologies Inc.
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2025-05-02NASA Proposal Shifts $6 Billion, Prioritizing Mars Missions and Commercial Space Interests 3 src
Donald Trump · Trump Administration · NASA Leadership · SpaceX · +1
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2025-05-02Trump Budget Proposes 40% Cut to Section 8 Housing Vouchers, Block-Granting Rental Aid to States and Imposing Two-Year Time Limits 4 src
Donald Trump · Department of Housing and Urban Development · Congress
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2025-05-02Trump family's net worth has increased by $2.9 billion thanks to crypto investments, new report says 5 src
Donald Trump · Trump Administration
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2025-05-02Trump Justice Dept. to settle Babbitt family lawsuit in fatal Jan. 6 shooting 4 src
Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Michael Byrd · Tom Manger · +2
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2025-05-02Trump Pardons Eliminate $1.3 Billion in Restitution, Costing Victims and Taxpayers 3 src
Donald Trump · Trump Administration · House Judiciary Committee Democrats · Liz Oyer
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2025-05-01AG Bondi briefs Trump on his appearances in Epstein files 4 src
Pam Bondi · Donald Trump · Department of Justice
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2025-05-01At a Dubai conference, Trump’s conflicts take center stage 9 src
Donald Trump · Trump Administration
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2025-05-01House Democrats Request Suspicious Activity Reports on Trump Crypto Ventures 4 src
House Democrats · Donald Trump · World Liberty Financial · Campaign Legal Center · +1
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2025-05-01Operation At Large launches with 5,000 federal agents and 21,000 National Guard proposed deployment 3 src
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · National Guard · DHS (Department of Homeland Security) · Kristi Noem · +2
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2025-05-01Trump Administration Monetizes Political Access Through Exclusive Business Networks 3 src
Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Business Leaders · Donald Trump Jr. · +4
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2025-05-01Trump Threatens Secondary Sanctions Against Any Country Buying Iranian Oil 2 src
Donald Trump · China
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2025-04-30FEC Loses Policymaking Quorum After Commissioner Resignation 3 src
Federal Election Commission · Commissioner Allen Dickerson (resigned) · Commissioner Ellen Weintraub (fired by Trump) · Commissioner Sean Cooksey (resigned) · +4
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2025-04-30ICE arrests 65,000 in first 100 days including 2,288 gang members 3 src
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Donald Trump · DHS (Department of Homeland Security) · Kristi Noem
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2025-04-30Trump Company Strikes $5.5 Billion Qatar Golf Resort Deal During Active Presidency 3 src
Donald Trump · Eric Trump · Trump Organization · Qatari Diar · +2
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2025-04-29DOGE Aide Dismantling CFPB Owns Substantial Stock in Regulated Companies During Mass Layoffs 4 src
Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Gavin Kliger · Department of Government Efficiency
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2025-04-29Elizabeth Warren reads 100 acts of Trump corruption into Congressional Record on 100th day 3 src
Elizabeth Warren · U.S. Senate · Donald Trump · Trump Administration
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2025-04-29Federal Watchdog Reveals Dozens of Inquiries Into Trump's Withholding of Funds 3 src
Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Russ Vought · U.S. Government Accountability Office · +2
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2025-04-29It was supposed to be a tax and border bill. It could also hand Trump vast new executive powers 3 src
Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Elon Musk · House Judiciary Committee
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2025-04-29Paramount board clears possible path for settling Trump’s ‘60 Minutes’ lawsuit 5 src
Donald Trump · Trump Administration
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2025-04-29Tether Gains Political Influence Amid Trump Administration's Crypto Expansion 3 src
Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Bo Hines · Howard Lutnick · +1
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2025-04-29Trump Campaign Staff Hired by Sanctioned Albanian Opposition Leader for Election Campaign 3 src
Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Sali Berisha · Chris LaCivita · +1
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2025-04-29Trump Orders DOJ Investigation into ActBlue Fundraising Platform 3 src
Donald Trump · Elon Musk · Pam Bondi · ActBlue
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2025-04-29Trump's World Liberty Financial Reveals Major Foreign Crypto Investments 3 src
Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Justin Sun · Tahnoun bin Zayed Al Nahyan
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2025-04-28Tesla May Dodge Over $1 Billion in Regulatory Fines Due to Trump Administration Influence 4 src
Donald Trump · Elon Musk · Richard Blumenthal · Edward Markey
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2025-04-25Pentagon Prepared and Then Canceled Classified Briefing for Musk on China War Plans 3 src
Donald Trump · Elon Musk · Pete Hegseth · Admiral Samuel Paparo
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2025-04-25Trump Administration Dramatically Weakens Independent Hatch Act Enforcement 4 src
Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Hampton Dellinger · Paul Ingrassia · +3
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2025-04-25Trump pardons executive whose family sought to publicize Ashley Biden's diary 3 src
Donald Trump · Paul Walczak · Elizabeth Fago · Ashley Biden
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2025-04-25Trump's Meme Coin Dinner Contest Generates $900,000 in Insider Profits 3 src
Donald Trump · Trump Administration · CIC Digital · Austin Ryan
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2025-04-24Indicted 'Bitcoin Jesus' Pays Roger Stone $600,000 to Lobby Against Tax Charges 3 src
Roger Ver · Roger Stone · Donald Trump · Department of Justice
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2025-04-24Trump Administration Initiates DOJ Probe into Democratic Fundraising Platform ActBlue 4 src
Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Attorney General Pam Bondi · ActBlue
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2025-04-23Trump offers private dinner to top 220 investors in his memecoin 4 src
Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Cryptocurrency Investors · Sean Casten · +5
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2025-04-22Crypto ally Paul Atkins sworn in to replace Gary Gensler atop U.S. SEC 3 src
Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Paul Atkins · Gary Gensler · +1
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2025-04-22Federal Appeals Court Establishes Precedent on National Guard Federalization 4 src
Federal Appeals Court · Gavin Newsom · U.S. Department of Defense · Charles Breyer · +2
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2025-04-22Politically Connected Firms Exploit Trump Tariff Exemptions Through Opaque Process 3 src
Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Reyes Holdings · Ballard Partners
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2025-04-22Trump Media Finalizes Crypto ETF Deal with Crypto.com and Yorkville Digital 4 src
Donald Trump · Devin Nunes · Kris Marszalek · Trump Media & Technology Group · +1
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2025-04-22Trump-linked Lobbying Firms Dramatically Increase Q1 2025 Revenues 4 src
Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Brian Ballard · Susie Wiles · +1
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2025-04-21Circle, BitGo, Coinbase Pursue US Bank Charters Under Trump's Pro-Crypto Agenda 3 src
Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Circle Internet Financial · BitGo Inc. · +2
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2025-04-21Kremlin Explored Moscow Skyscraper Offer to Trump as Diplomatic Leverage 4 src
Donald Trump · Vladimir Putin · Trump Administration
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2025-04-21Pilgrim's Pride, Fined $100M, Donates $5M to Trump Inauguration Under Scrutiny 3 src
Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Pilgrim's Pride · Senator Elizabeth Warren
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2025-04-21Trump drops or pauses cases against 17 corporations that funded his inauguration 5 src
Donald Trump · Trump Administration
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2025-04-21Trump Raised $239 Million for Inauguration, More Than Doubling Previous Record 3 src
Donald Trump · Trump Inaugural Committee
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2025-04-19Amazon and Meta are among the corporate sponsors of the White House Easter Egg Roll 4 src
Donald Trump · Melania Trump · Amazon · Meta · +2
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2025-04-17Mass Layoffs Hit Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Judicial Intervention Emerges 3 src
Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Amy Berman Jackson · Gavin Kliger · +1
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2025-04-17Musk's SpaceX is frontrunner to build Trump's Golden Dome missile shield 5 src
Donald Trump · Trump Administration
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2025-04-17Trump Appointee Sought IRS Audit Review for MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell 3 src
Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Mike Lindell · David Eisner
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2025-04-17Trump Team Targets Politically Connected Startup Ramp for $700B Government Payments Overhaul 3 src
Donald Trump · Peter Thiel · Elon Musk · J.D. Vance · +3
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2025-04-16Elon Musk installed his top lieutenants at a federal agency you probably haven’t heard of 5 src
Donald Trump · Trump Administration
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2025-04-16Trump Fires Democratic Board Members of the NCUA 4 src
Donald Trump · Todd Harper · Tanya Otsuka · Kyle Hauptman · +2
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2025-04-16Under Trump, consumer watchdog to slash industry supervision 5 src
Donald Trump · Elon Musk · Russell Vought · National Treasury Employees Union · +3
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2025-04-15Trump Donors Seek Greenland Investment Opportunities 3 src
Donald Trump · Mark Zuckerberg · Sam Altman · Jeff Bezos · +2
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2025-04-15Trump Launches Crypto Real Estate Video Game Venture 4 src
Donald Trump · Bill Zanker · Kevin Mercuri · Trump Administration
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2025-04-15US Removes Sanctions from Antal Rogán, Top Orbán Aide 4 src
Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Antal Rogán · Viktor Orbán · +1
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2025-04-14Greene bought market dip before Trump paused tariffs, profiting from the rally 3 src
Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Marjorie Taylor Greene
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2025-04-14Trump Administration Restructures White-Collar Crime Enforcement Strategy 3 src
Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Matthew Galeotti · James McHenry III
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2025-04-14Wolff Reports Trump Team's Media Leverage Attempt with Warner Bros. Discovery 3 src
Donald Trump · Donald Trump Jr. · Michael Wolff · David Zaslav · +1
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2025-04-12Trump Family Launches Comprehensive $5B Cryptocurrency Empire 4 src
Donald Trump · Eric Trump · Donald Trump Jr. · Trump Administration
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2025-04-11Binance seeks to curb U.S. oversight while in deal talks with Trump’s crypto company 5 src
Donald Trump · Trump Administration
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2025-04-11CFPB Dismisses Lawsuit Against Comerica Bank Over Federal Benefits Card Program 3 src
Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Rohit Chopra · Comerica Bank · +1
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2025-04-11Meta adds former Trump advisor Dina Powell McCormick to its board 3 src
Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Dina Powell McCormick · Mark Zuckerberg
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2025-04-11The US is turning a blind eye to crypto crimes 3 src
Donald Trump · Trump Administration
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2025-04-11Trump announces deals with more law firms for a combined $600 million 5 src
Donald Trump · Trump Administration
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2025-04-11Trump Directs Agencies to Quietly Repeal Regulations Without Public Notice 3 src
Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Lee Zeldin · Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs
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Appears in curated timelines
2017–2026
The crypto cascade
How a sitting president pumped his own token
1998–2026
The detention industrial complex
Private prisons, ICE contracts, and the architecture of mass deportation
1992–2026
The Epstein network's institutional reach
Decades of access, granted by elites, protected by prosecutors
2018–2026
The Project 2025 architects
How a Heritage Foundation document became an operating system
2014–2026
Russian interference, 2014–2026
The Kremlin's twelve-year project to corrode the American electorate
2010–2026
The surveillance state, Snowden to today
Twelve years after the disclosures, the architecture has only grown
2017–2026
Trump 1.0 vs Trump 2.0
The same person, restaffed for velocity

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