2020s
The 2020s contain 2812 verified events in the Capture Cascade Timeline.
| Date | Event | Lanes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-04-14 | Greene bought market dip before Trump paused tariffs, profiting from the rally
3 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Marjorie Taylor Greene | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-14 | Pulte Appoints 1789 Capital's Omeed Malik to Fannie Mae Board; Nominating/Governance Committee Seat Paired with FHFA Director as Chair
15 src Omeed Malik · Bill Pulte · Donald Trump Jr. · 1789 Capital · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-14 | Trump Administration Restructures White-Collar Crime Enforcement Strategy
3 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Matthew Galeotti · James McHenry III | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-14 | Wolff Reports Trump Team's Media Leverage Attempt with Warner Bros. Discovery
3 src Donald Trump · Donald Trump Jr. · Michael Wolff · David Zaslav · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-13 | ICE terminates $73 million no-bid contract after improper influence allegations
3 src Universal Strategic Advisors · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Brian DeMore · David Marin · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-12 | Trump Family Launches Comprehensive $5B Cryptocurrency Empire
4 src Donald Trump · Eric Trump · Donald Trump Jr. · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-12 | US and Iran Begin Indirect Nuclear Negotiations in Oman
2 src Steve Witkoff · Abbas Araghchi · Oman | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-11 | Binance seeks to curb U.S. oversight while in deal talks with Trump’s crypto company
5 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-11 | CFPB Dismisses Lawsuit Against Comerica Bank Over Federal Benefits Card Program
3 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Rohit Chopra · Comerica Bank · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-11 | DOJ fires immigration attorney for refusing to lie to federal courts about deportations
3 src Erez Reuveni · Emil Bove · Department of Justice · Pam Bondi | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-11 | Meta adds former Trump advisor Dina Powell McCormick to its board
3 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Dina Powell McCormick · Mark Zuckerberg | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-11 | Musk's DOGE Team Gains Control of Federal Payment System
3 src Elon Musk · Department of Government Efficiency · David Lebryk · Chuck Schumer · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-11 | The US is turning a blind eye to crypto crimes
3 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-11 | Trump announces deals with more law firms for a combined $600 million
5 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-11 | Trump Directs Agencies to Quietly Repeal Regulations Without Public Notice
3 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Lee Zeldin · Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-11 | Trump megadonor drags of easy access to White House
5 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-11 | Trump Signs NSPM-4 Transferring Roosevelt Reservation to DoD as First 'National Defense Area' at Southern Border; 170-Mile NM Strip Becomes Military Installation Without Congressional Approval
6 src Donald Trump · U.S. Department of Defense · U.S. Army · Department of Homeland Security · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-10 | Federal Judges Establish Precedent for Presidential Accountability
4 src Federal Judiciary · U.S. Supreme Court · Department of Justice · Rebecca Slaughter · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-10 | Fired US Federal Trade Commissioners Sound Alarm on Potential Data Access Misuse
3 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Elon Musk · Rebecca Slaughter · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-10 | ICE cancels $3.8B Fort Bliss contract amid corruption concerns, awards to inexperienced firm
3 src Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Deployed Resources · Acquisition Logistics LLC · U.S. Department of Defense | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-10 | Judicial System Struggles with Presidential Accountability Mechanisms
3 src Federal Circuit Courts · Department of Justice · Presidential Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-10 | Labor leaders fear Elon Musk and DOGE could gain access to whistleblower files
3 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Elon Musk · AFL-CIO · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-10 | Mass Judicial Removal Attempt Triggers Constitutional Emergency
3 src Trump Administration · Federal Judiciary · Department of Justice · White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-10 | Supreme Court Unanimously Rules Government Must 'Facilitate' Abrego Garcia's Return
5 src Supreme Court · Chief Justice John Roberts · Kilmar Abrego Garcia · Trump Administration · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-10 | Trump Signs Bill Nullifying Expanded IRS Crypto Broker Rule
4 src Donald Trump · Mike Carey · Ways and Means Committee · U.S. Congress | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-10 | Trump White House Brokers Pro Bono Deals with Elite Law Firms
3 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Latham & Watkins · Simpson Thacher · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-09 | Trump offers ‘buy’ tip on social media hours before tariff pause that made stocks soar
5 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-09 | Trump Reverses Course with 90-Day Tariff Pause After Bond Market Crisis; China Excluded, Tariffs Escalate to 145%
8 src Donald Trump · Scott Bessent · Howard Lutnick · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-09 | US DOGE Service Agreement with Department of Labor Reveals $1.3 Million Fee
3 src Elon Musk · Donald Trump · U.S. Department of Labor · US Digital Service (USDS) | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-09 | US-China Tariff Escalation Reaches 145% as Tit-for-Tat Retaliation Nears Total Decoupling
7 src Donald Trump · Xi Jinping · Scott Bessent · Howard Lutnick | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-09 | USCIS to screen immigrants' social media for antisemitic activity
4 src U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · Trump Administration · Civil liberties groups | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-08 | Judge orders restoration of AP access to White House events
3 src U.S. District Court · Associated Press · The White House · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-08 | Justice Department Disbands National Cryptocurrency Enforcement Team
3 src Donald Trump · Todd Blanche · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-08 | SCOTUS shadow-docket stay in OPM v. AFGE lifts district-court order reinstating 16,000 probationary federal employees 3 src | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-07 | Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft Pressured into $100M Pro Bono Deal by Trump White House
4 src Donald Trump · Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft · Senator Sheldon Whitehouse · Todd Blanche | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-07 | Dhillon Guts DOJ Voting Section: Reassigns Managers, Suspends Cases, Rewrites Mission to 'Voter Fraud'
6 src Harmeet Dhillon · DOJ Civil Rights Division · DOJ Voting Section · Pam Bondi · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-07 | SCOTUS 5-4 shadow-docket stay in Trump v. J.G.G. vacates TROs blocking Alien Enemies Act removals of Venezuelan nationals 3 src | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-05 | Launch of Integrated Legal Technology Platform for Collaborative Resistance
3 src Legal Tech Innovations · Constitutional Litigation Consortium · Digital Defense Foundation | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-05 | Legal Resistance Tech Collaboration Platform Launch
4 src Electronic Frontier Foundation · Legal Tech Innovations · Digital Defense Fund | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-05 | Nationwide Legal Defense Network Expands Operational Capacity
3 src National Legal Defense Consortium · State-Level Legal Aid Organizations · Civil Rights Attorneys · AFL-CIO · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-05 | Trump family’s cash registers ring as financial meltdown plays out
5 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-04 | ‘Oligarchy’: Trump exempts big oil donors from tariffs package
5 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-04 | SCOTUS 5-4 shadow-docket stay in Department of Education v. California clears termination of DEI-flagged teacher-training grants 3 src | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-04 | SpaceX wins $5.9 billion Space Force contract amid congressional conflict-of-interest investigation
4 src SpaceX · U.S. Space Force · Elon Musk · Rep. Stephen Lynch · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-04 | Vice Adm. Shoshana Chatfield Fired as U.S. Military Representative to NATO — 'Loss of Confidence'
2 src Shoshana Chatfield · Pete Hegseth | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-04 | World Liberty Financial Sells $25 Million in Tokens Days Before DOJ Crypto Unit Disbanded
5 src Trump Family · World Liberty Financial · DWF Labs · Department of Justice · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-03 | Challenger data shows DOGE drove 280,253 federal layoffs across 27 agencies
4 src Department of Government Efficiency · Challenger Gray & Christmas · Elon Musk · Federal Agencies | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-03 | Department of Education Issues "Dear Colleague Letter" Requiring Universities to Certify No DEI Programs or Lose Federal Funding
5 src Department of Education · Office for Civil Rights · General Services Administration · Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-03 | FCC Chair Carr Proposes Section 230 Reinterpretation at DOJ "Big-Tech Censorship" Forum
6 src Brendan Carr · Federal Communications Commission · Department of Justice Antitrust Division · Federal Trade Commission | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-03 | In-Q-Tel Reaches 800th Investment Milestone, Expanding Into AI and Quantum Computing
3 src In-Q-Tel · Central Intelligence Agency · Christopher Darby | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-03 | Law firm Kirkland & Ellis in talks with White House to avoid executive order
4 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-03 | Liberation Day Market Crash: S&P 500 Drops 10.5% in Two Days, $6.6 Trillion Wiped Out in Largest Two-Day Loss in History
7 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Federal Reserve · Wall Street | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-03 | Resistance is futile, make a deal: Trump's tariff message to the world
4 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-03 | Trump Fires NSA Director Gen. Timothy Haugh and Deputy After Laura Loomer Oval Office Visit
5 src Timothy Haugh · Wendy Noble · Donald Trump · Laura Loomer · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-02 | DOT announces enforcement grace period for new emissions standards
4 src Department of Transportation · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-02 | Judge Dale Ho Dismisses Eric Adams Corruption Case With Prejudice, Citing Apparent Quid Pro Quo With Trump DOJ
4 src Dale Ho · Eric Adams · Donald Trump · Danielle Sassoon · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-02 | Liberation Day Tariffs Cost Average Household $1,000 in 2025, Imported Goods Prices Rise 4% as Americans Bear 94% of Tariff Cost
4 src Donald Trump · Office of the U.S. Trade Representative · Tax Foundation · Yale Budget Lab · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-02 | Report: 34,000 Ohio ballots rejected in 2024 election after ID/process changes
4 src All Voting Is Local (voting rights organization) · Ohio Secretary of State · Ohio Legislature · Affected voters | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-02 | SEC Restructures Enforcement Division Under Trump Administration
3 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Paul Atkins · Samuel Waldon · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-02 | Shares in Trump social media company sink following concerns about insider selloff
5 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-02 | Top Anti-Corruption Officials Depart SEC Following Enforcement Pause
4 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Charles Cain · Tracy Price | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-02 | Trump Administration Pressures Law Firms into Pro Bono Settlements
3 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Law Firms Targeted | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-02 | Trump Invokes Emergency Powers Act (IEEPA) to Impose Unprecedented Reciprocal Tariffs
3 src Donald Trump · U.S. Supreme Court | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-02 | Trump just pardoned...a corporation?
5 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-02 | Two more law firms reach deals with Trump to avoid executive orders: 'they're all bending'
3 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Scott Edelman · Milbank LLP | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-02 | U.S. lifts sanctions on wife of Putin’s childhood friend Boris Rotenberg
5 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-02 | Zuckerberg lobbies Trump to avoid Meta antitrust trial
5 src Mark Zuckerberg · Meta · Donald Trump · Trump Administration · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-01 | EPA reverses bans on TCE, asbestos, and ethylene oxide under industry executives
3 src Nancy Beck · Lynn Dekleva · Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) · American Chemistry Council | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-01 | HHS Lays Off 10,000 Federal Health Workers at NIH, FDA, and CDC in RFK Jr. Restructuring
5 src U.S. Department of Health and Human Services · Robert F. Kennedy Jr. · National Institutes of Health (NIH) · Food and Drug Administration · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-01 | Multiple Pulitzer Prizes Awarded for Exposing Systematic Kleptocratic Corruption
3 src Reuters · Wall Street Journal · Boston Globe · Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-01 | Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro's Mansion Set on Fire, Family Forced to Flee
3 src Josh Shapiro (Governor, victim) · Unknown arsonist | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-01 | Rural internet program on hold as Musk's satellites get new consideration
3 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Elon Musk · U.S. Department of Commerce · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-01 | State Department plans $400 million payment to Tesla after regulatory firings
5 src State Department · Tesla · Elon Musk · Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-01 | Trump announces deal with law firm that employs Doug Emhoff
4 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-31 | DOJ Drops Voting Rights Cases in Georgia, Virginia, and Alabama, Abandoning Federal Enforcement
6 src Pamela Bondi · Department of Justice · Civil Rights Division · Brad Raffensperger · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-31 | Musk-funded political group spends big and goes door to door in the Wisconsin Supreme Court race
5 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-31 | Trump Administration Continues Systematic DOJ Prosecutor Purge
3 src Trump Administration · Department of Justice · James McHenry · Career Prosecutors | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-31 | Trump Administration Freezes Title X Funding to Planned Parenthood Affiliates
3 src Donald Trump · U.S. Department of Health and Human Services · Planned Parenthood · National Family Planning and Reproductive Health Association | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-31 | Trump commutes sentence of convicted fraudster who aided GOP impeachment effort
3 src Donald Trump · Jason Galanis · Devon Archer | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-31 | Trump Family Launches American Bitcoin Corp. with Hut 8
3 src Eric Trump · Donald Trump Jr. · Hut 8 Corp. · Mike Ho · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-31 | Trump Family Takes Control of World Liberty Financial Crypto Venture
3 src Donald Trump · Eric Trump · Zach Witkoff · Justin Sun | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-31 | Zuckerberg tries to enlist trump in fight against Meta EU ruling
5 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-30 | Musk Distributes $1 Million Payments in Controversial Wisconsin Supreme Court Race Intervention
4 src Elon Musk · Brad Schimel · Susan Crawford · Nicholas Jacobs · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-28 | FDIC says banks can engage in crypto activities without prior approval
4 src Donald Trump · Travis Hill · Trump Administration · FDIC | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-28 | Peter Marks Forced Out as FDA Vaccine Chief, Accuses RFK Jr. of 'Misinformation and Lies'
4 src Peter Marks · Robert F. Kennedy Jr. · FDA · HHS | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-28 | SEC Launches Crypto Task Force with Significant Staffing Changes
3 src Paul Atkins · Mark T. Uyeda · Hester Peirce · SEC Crypto Task Force | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-28 | Trump gets $100M deal with Skadden law firm amid pressure campaign
3 src Donald Trump · Jeremy London · Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-28 | Trump pardons four founders of BitMEX cryptocurrency exchange convicted of money laundering
5 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-28 | Trump pardons Nikola founder Trevor Milton in securities fraud case
3 src Donald Trump · Trevor Milton · Nikola Corporation | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-28 | Vice President Vance Visits Greenland, Accuses Denmark of Neglecting Territory
2 src JD Vance · Usha Vance · Mike Waltz · Chris Wright · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-27 | Executive Order on Federal Collective Bargaining Exclusions
4 src Donald Trump · White House · Office of Personnel Management | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-27 | Musk announces $1 million for Wisconsin voter in Supreme Court race
4 src Elon Musk · Scott Ainsworth · Brad Schimel · Susan Crawford · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-27 | Trump EPA Creates Email Portal for Clean Air Act Exemption Requests
4 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration · U.S. Environmental Protection Agency | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-27 | US Virgin Islands Loses $3.3 Million in Federal Health Funding Amid National Public Health Cuts
2 src U.S. Department of Health and Human Services · US Virgin Islands Department of Health · Justa Encarnacion | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-27 | White House Establishes "The Arrests Will Continue. The Memes Will Continue" as Official Communications Doctrine
3 src Kaelan Dorr · Abigail Jackson · White House · Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-26 | How Elon Musk's SpaceX Secretly Allows Investment From China
3 src Elon Musk · SpaceX Executives · Iqbaljit Kahlon | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-26 | Trump Nominates Anduril Senior Director Michael Obadal as Army Under Secretary; Plans to Retain $250K-$500K Anduril Stock
3 src Donald Trump · Michael Obadal · Anduril Industries · Elizabeth Warren · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-25 | DOGE cuts allow Musk to cash in with SpaceX and Starlink government contracts
3 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Elon Musk · Mikie Sherrill · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-25 | Foreign Policy Analysis Warns of American Kleptocracy Under Trump Administration
3 src Donald Trump · Pam Bondi · Joe Biden · Bernie Sanders · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-25 | Musk and Trump ratchet up involvement in Wisconsin Supreme Court race
3 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Elon Musk · Brad Schimel | confirmed |