2020s
The 2020s contain 2812 verified events in the Capture Cascade Timeline.
| Date | Event | Lanes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-02-10 | Stephen Miller Emerges as "Prime Minister" with Unprecedented Power Across All Policy
3 src Stephen Miller · Donald Trump · Susie Wiles | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-10 | Trump Executive Order Pauses Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Enforcement
4 src Donald Trump · Pamela Bondi · Department of Justice · Securities and Exchange Commission · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-10 | Trump pardons multiple financial criminals and white-collar offenders
3 src Donald Trump · Rod Blagojevich · Todd Chrisley · Julie Chrisley · +6 | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-10 | Trump signs order pausing enforcement of foreign bribery ban
3 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration · William Barr · Department of Justice | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-10 | Trump Systematically Removes Key Government Ethics and Whistleblower Protection Officials
3 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration · David Huitema · Hampton Dellinger · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-09 | CFPB Headquarters Shuttered as Staff Ordered to Stop All Work
5 src Russell Vought · Mark Paoletta · Gavin Kliger · Department of Government Efficiency · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-08 | Federal Judge Issues First Major Ruling Blocking DOGE Access to Treasury Systems 2 src | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-07 | Kash Patel Received Payments from Russian Filmmaker with Kremlin Ties
3 src Kash Patel · Igor Lopatonok · Global Tree Pictures · Federal Bureau of Investigation · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-07 | President fires Special Counsel Hampton Dellinger; litigation ensues
3 src Donald Trump · Hampton Dellinger · Office of Special Counsel · Judge Amy Berman Jackson · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-07 | Trump Air Force nominee arranged satellite contract in manner that favored Musk's SpaceX
4 src Troy Meink · Elon Musk · SpaceX · National Reconnaissance Office · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-07 | Trump Media Offers $800,000 Stock Award to Kash Patel Before FBI Director Confirmation
3 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Kash Patel · Donald Trump Jr. · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-07 | Trump Purges Inspectors General Investigating Musk's Businesses
4 src Donald Trump · Elon Musk · Robert Storch · Phyllis Fong · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-06 | Attorney General Bondi Dramatically Narrows FARA Prosecutorial Scope
3 src Pam Bondi · Donald Trump · Trump Administration · DOJ National Security Division | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-06 | Russell Vought implements Project 2025 chapter as OMB Director
4 src Russell Vought · Office of Management and Budget · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-06 | Trump Administration Disbands Task Force Targeting Russian Oligarchs
4 src Pam Bondi · Department of Justice · Task Force KleptoCapture · Russian Oligarchs | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-06 | Trump Nominee Kash Patel Discloses Millions in Shares from Chinese Company Accused of Forced Labor
4 src Kash Patel · Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Adam Schiff · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-05 | Attorney General Bondi Narrows FCPA Focus to Cartels While Pausing Corporate Bribery Cases
3 src Pamela Bondi · Donald Trump · Department of Justice · U.S. corporations | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-05 | McMahon OGE Form 278e (Nominee) Certified, Disclosing TMTG Independent-Director Employment Agreements — 25,946 DJT RSUs, $55,200 Cash Retainer, $18,400/Quarter Forward
6 src Linda McMahon · Office of Government Ethics · Trump Media & Technology Group · Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-05 | Musk Proposes Rapid FAA Air Traffic Control System Safety Upgrades
4 src Elon Musk · Donald Trump · Sean Duffy · Ed Markey | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-05 | Pam Bondi Sworn In as Attorney General, Immediately Begins DOJ Purge
3 src Pam Bondi · Donald Trump · Devin DeBacker · Matt Gaetz | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-05 | Trump Administration Shuts Down KleptoCapture Task Force
4 src Pam Bondi · Donald Trump · Merrick Garland · Gary Kalman · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-05 | US sovereign wealth fund could stockpile Bitcoin, Trump's crypto czar says
5 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-04 | 25-Year-Old Musk Aide Given Write Access to $6 Trillion Treasury Payment System
3 src Marko Elez · Elon Musk · Scott Bessent · David Lebryk · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-04 | Trump implements massive tariffs as concerns mount over market manipulation
4 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Senate Democrats · Chuck Schumer · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-04 | Trump Signs Executive Order Restoring 'Maximum Pressure' Campaign Against Iran
2 src Donald Trump · Marco Rubio · U.S. Treasury Department | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-04 | Trump's World Liberty Financial Makes Massive Ethereum Purchases Amid Market Volatility
3 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration · World Liberty Financial | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-03 | DOGE Gains Access to Treasury's Central Payment System Controlling Trillions in Annual Spending 2 src | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-02 | Trump administration purges 8,000+ climate web pages from federal agencies
4 src Trump Administration · Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) · NOAA · Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-01 | ALEC Publishes 'Essential Policy Solutions 2025' Playbook - State-Level Corporate and Income Tax Elimination Agenda, Coordination with Federal Project 2025
54 src American Legislative Exchange Council · Lisa Nelson · Arthur Laffer · State Policy Network · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-01 | Campaign Legal Center identifies 467 conflicts requiring recusal
3 src Campaign Legal Center · Trump Appointees · Ethics Watchdogs | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-01 | Commerce Secretary Lutnick faces 106 conflicts of interest requiring recusal
3 src Howard Lutnick · U.S. Department of Commerce · Cantor Fitzgerald | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-01 | Core Scientific / CoreWeave HPC conversion reaches 590 MW across six sites, $10.2B over 12 years — landmark Bitcoin-miner-to-AI-infrastructure pivot
5 src Core Scientific (CORZ) · CoreWeave · Bitcoin mining industry · AI inference market | ||
| 2025-02-01 | DOJ and FBI gut public corruption enforcement teams
5 src Pam Bondi · Kash Patel · Department of Justice · Federal Bureau of Investigation | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-01 | Education Department Civil Rights Division Slashed from 550 to 243 Employees
3 src U.S. Department of Education · Russell Vought · Office for Civil Rights | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-01 | Energy Secretary Wright owns $54 million in fracking company stock
3 src Chris Wright · Liberty Energy · Department of Energy | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-01 | Federal job applicants required to write essays on advancing Trump's orders
4 src Office of Personnel Management · White House Personnel Office | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-01 | MAGA commissars deployed throughout federal agencies to monitor compliance
4 src White House Personnel Office · Federal Agencies · Office of Personnel Management | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-01 | Musk companies received $38 billion in government support over 20 years
3 src Elon Musk · SpaceX · Tesla · Starlink · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-01 | NOAA faces 27% budget cut with research office eliminated
4 src Trump Administration · NOAA · Office of Management and Budget | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-01 | Over 70 Trump appointees hold $193+ million in cryptocurrency
3 src Trump Appointees · Scott Bessent | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-01 | Schedule F Implementation Targets 50,000 Federal Workers
4 src Donald Trump · Russell Vought · Russell Pekala · Heritage Foundation | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-01 | Trump Announces 25% Tariffs on Canada and Mexico, Opening Salvo of Trade War; Canada Retaliates; 30-Day Pause After 3 Days
6 src Donald Trump · Justin Trudeau · Claudia Sheinbaum · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-01 | Trump fires the director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
3 src Donald Trump · Rohit Chopra · Scott Bessent | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-01 | VA Secretary Doug Collins Announces 72,000 Job Cuts While Claiming "No Cuts to Benefits"
5 src Doug Collins · Department of Veterans Affairs · va-employees · veterans | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-31 | DOE Reverts Title IX to Trump-Era 2020 Rules, Narrowing Sexual Harassment and Gender Identity Protections
4 src Department of Education · Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-31 | Federal Prosecutors Withdraw from Andy Ogles Criminal Investigation
4 src Andy Ogles · U.S. Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Tennessee · Department of Justice · John P. Taddei · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-31 | Russian Oligarch Held SpaceX Stake While Under U.S. Sanctions
4 src Suleiman Kerimov · SpaceX · Elon Musk · Heritage Trust · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-31 | Swiss National Bank purchased 111,300 shares of Trump Media worth $1.78M, stake grows to $5.37M by February
3 src Swiss National Bank · Donald Trump · Donald Trump Jr. · Trump Media & Technology Group · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-31 | U.S. Global Change Research Program dismantled with staff removed
4 src U.S. Global Change Research Program · White House · Russ Vought · David Legates · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-30 | Amazon Raises Ad Spending on Elon Musk's X Platform
3 src Jeff Bezos · Elon Musk · Andy Jassy · Donald Trump · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-30 | CBP Journalist Watchlist and Border Surveillance Program Documented
3 src U.S. Customs and Border Protection · Targeted Journalists · Immigration Advocates · DHS (Department of Homeland Security) · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-30 | Coalition of 22 State Attorneys General Secures Court Order Blocking Trump Federal Funding Freeze
3 src Letitia James · Judge John McConnell · 22 State Attorneys General · District of Columbia | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-30 | Not just Big Tech: under-the-radar corporations rushed to donate to Trump's inauguration
3 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration · CoreCivic · GEO Group · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-30 | Paramount in settlement talks with Trump over ‘60 Minutes’ lawsuit
5 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-30 | Trump Crypto Dinner Offers Presidential Access for Top $TRUMP Coin Buyers
4 src Donald Trump · Justin Sun · Fight Fight Fight LLC · Richard Blumenthal | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-29 | DOJ moves to drop charges against former GOP lawmaker in case criticized by Trump
3 src Donald Trump · Jeff Fortenberry · Trump Administration · U.S. Justice Department | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-29 | Hegseth Orders Pentagon DEI Purge, Establishes 'Restoring America's Fighting Force' Task Force 2 src | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-29 | Meta agrees to pay $25 million to settle Trump lawsuit over suspended accounts
3 src Donald Trump · Mark Zuckerberg · Meta Corporation | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-29 | Pentagon Ends Travel Reimbursement for Military Members Seeking Abortion Care
3 src Pete Hegseth · U.S. Department of Defense · Lloyd Austin · Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-29 | Trump Media Launches Truth.Fi FinTech Brand with $250M Investment Strategy
3 src Donald Trump · Devin Nunes · Trump Media & Technology Group | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-29 | USAID Inspector General Fired After Warning About $8.2 Billion Aid Oversight Risks
3 src Paul Martin · United States Agency for International Development · Donald Trump · White House Personnel Office · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-28 | Defense Secretary Revokes General Milley Security Detail in Political Retaliation
4 src Pete Hegseth · General Mark Milley · Pentagon Inspector General · Iranian Regime · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-28 | Interior IG Mark Greenblatt reacts to firing: 'stunned'
4 src Mark Greenblatt (Interior Department IG) · CBS News · Donald Trump · Department of Interior | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-28 | OpenAI Launches ChatGPT Gov, Defining Federal AI Product Surface Eight Days into Trump-2
3 src OpenAI · Sam Altman · U.S. Federal Government · Microsoft Azure Government | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-28 | OPM Sends "Fork in the Road" Email Offering 2 Million Federal Employees Deferred Resignation
4 src Office of Personnel Management · Donald Trump · Elon Musk · DOGE · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-27 | OMB Issues Memo M-25-13 Freezing All Federal Financial Assistance, Triggering Constitutional Crisis Over Congressional Spending Power
4 src Office of Management and Budget · Donald Trump · Judge John McConnell · Letitia James · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-27 | Palantir Veteran Gregory Barbaccia Named Federal CIO, Controls $100B+ IT Budget
5 src Gregory Barbaccia · Palantir Technologies · Peter Thiel · Office of Management and Budget · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-27 | Trump DOJ Fires Jack Smith Special Counsel Team in Systematic Purge
3 src James McHenry · Jack Smith · Molly Gaston · J.P. Cooney · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-27 | Trump Signs Executive Order Banning Transgender Military Service, Reversing Biden Policy 2 src | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-26 | DHS Secretary Kristi Noem Secretly Received $80,000 Dark Money Cut While Governor
4 src Kristi Noem · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · Dark money groups | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-25 | At least 20 families have multiple members in federal posts
4 src Charles Kushner · Kimberly Guilfoyle · Massad Boulos · Trump Family | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-25 | Brendan Carr chairs FCC after writing Project 2025 FCC chapter
4 src Brendan Carr · Federal Communications Commission · Trump Administration · Heritage Foundation | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-25 | DNI Tulsi Gabbard's Secret Assad Meeting and Russian Ties Alarm Intelligence Allies
5 src Tulsi Gabbard · Bashar al-Assad · Russian Intelligence · DNI · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-25 | Trump Fires 17 Independent Watchdogs Across Multiple Federal Agencies
5 src Donald Trump · Sergio Gor · Sen. Chuck Grassley | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-25 | Trump inauguration raises record $251.4 million from corporations
3 src Trump Inaugural Committee · Pilgrim's Pride Corp. ($5 million) · Ripple Labs ($4.9 million) · Warren Stephens · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-25 | Trump pardons financial criminals including wire fraud convict and money launderers
3 src Donald Trump · Rod Blagojevich · Financial criminals · Republican donors | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-25 | Trump's Foreign Business Partners and Corporate Leaders Converge at 2025 Inauguration
3 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Corporate Leaders · Foreign Business Partners | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-24 | DOJ Orders Limits on FACE Act Enforcement, Weakening Abortion Clinic Protection
2 src Department of Justice · Chad Mizelle · Pam Bondi · Donald Trump · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-24 | NSA Waltz Made $92 Million from Defense Contracting While Advocating Forever Wars
4 src michael-waltz · metis-solutions · pacific-architects-and-engineers · Defense Department · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-24 | Pete Hegseth confirmed as Defense Secretary in historic VP tiebreaker vote
3 src Pete Hegseth · JD Vance · U.S. Senate · Mitch McConnell · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-24 | Time finds nearly 65% of early executive actions mirror Project 2025 proposals
4 src Donald Trump · Russ Vought · Heritage Foundation · Paul Dans | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-24 | Trump fires 18 Inspectors General in unprecedented purge of government watchdogs
7 src Donald Trump · Robert Storch · Michael Missal · Hannibal Ware · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-24 | Vance Casts Tiebreaker Confirming Hegseth as Defense Secretary: Enabling Event for Project 2025 DoD-Purge Chapter
5 src JD Vance · Pete Hegseth · U.S. Senate · Mitch McConnell · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-24 | Vance Delivers First VP Speech at March for Life; Articulates Severino HHS 'Family Office' Pronatalist Framework
6 src JD Vance · March for Life · Mike Johnson | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-23 | DOJ Expands Surveillance of Journalists Covering Administration
3 src U.S. Department of Justice · Federal Bureau of Investigation · National Security Division · Journalists · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-23 | Interior Secretary Doug Burgum Signs Ethics Agreement to Divest Oil and Gas Interests
5 src Doug Burgum · Department of Interior · continental-resources · Microsoft · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-23 | Supreme Court stays Fifth Circuit's nationwide injunction of Corporate Transparency Act in McHenry v. Texas Top Cop Shop (shadow-docket order) 6 src | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-22 | DOJ Orders Complete Freeze on All Civil Rights Division Cases and Enforcement
3 src Department of Justice · Chad Mizelle · Kathleen Wolfe (Acting Civil Rights Division Head) · Donald Trump · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-22 | Sacks Sells $74K Bitwise ETF Position One Day After Inauguration — 44 Days Before EO Designating Same Five Assets
7 src David Sacks · Craft Ventures · Bitwise Asset Management · Elizabeth Warren | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-22 | SBA Administrator Kelly Loeffler With $1 Billion Fortune and Insider Trading History Takes Office
5 src Kelly Loeffler · intercontinental-exchange · sba · Jeffrey Sprecher | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-21 | AG Pam Bondi Eliminates DOJ KleptoCapture Unit and Foreign Influence Task Force
3 src Pam Bondi · Department of Justice · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-21 | MAGA commissars deployed throughout federal agencies
3 src Trump Administration · Trump loyalists · Federal Agencies | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-21 | National emergency declared at U.S. southern border
9 src Donald Trump · U.S. Department of Defense · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · Pentagon · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-21 | Russell Vought Becomes OMB Director - Project 2025 Chief Architect
5 src Russell Vought · Donald Trump · Office of Management and Budget · U.S. Senate · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-21 | Stargate LLC announced at White House: $500B AI-infrastructure JV with UAE sovereign-adjacent $7B tranche from MGX
7 src trump-donald · altman-sam · ellison-larry · son-masayoshi · +1 | ||
| 2025-01-21 | Surveillance State Expansion: Constitutional Concerns and Section 702 Reauthorization
3 src Intelligence Community · National Security Agency · Federal Bureau of Investigation · White House · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-21 | Trump Fires Coast Guard Commandant Adm. Linda Fagan on Day Two — First Military Leader Removed
3 src Linda Fagan · Donald Trump · Pete Hegseth · Kristi Noem | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-21 | Trump Pardons Ross Ulbricht, Silk Road Dark Web Drug Marketplace Founder
3 src Donald Trump · Ross Ulbricht · Tim Kaine · Libertarian Party | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-21 | Trump Signs EO 14173 'Ending Illegal Discrimination' — Foundational Anti-DEI Order Requiring Federal Contractor Certification
6 src Donald Trump · Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-20 | Chief of Staff Susie Wiles Brings 42 Corporate Lobbying Clients into White House
3 src Susie Wiles · republic-services · swisher-international · northern-dynasty-minerals · +2 | confirmed |