Decade of record

2020s

The 2020s contain 2812 verified events in the Capture Cascade Timeline.

2812 events From Jan 1, 2020 To Jun 9, 2026 Open in filter view →
DateEventLanesStatus
2020-10-21DOJ Purdue Settlement Allows Sacklers to Keep Billions in Extracted Wealth 3 src
U.S. Department of Justice · Purdue Pharma · Sackler Family · Richard Sackler · +5
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2020-10-21Trump Issues Original Schedule F Executive Order: Civil Service Protection Elimination 3 src
Donald Trump · Office of Personnel Management · Heritage Foundation · Project 2025 · +1
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2020-10-20DOJ Sues Google for Search Monopoly Through Exclusionary Contracts 4 src
Department of Justice · Google · Sundar Pichai · Apple · +4
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2020-10-15Wells Fargo Fires 125 Employees for COVID Relief Fraud, Culture Unchanged 3 src
Wells Fargo
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2020-10-15YouTube Bans QAnon Content Only After Years of Algorithmic Amplification 4 src
YouTube · Google · QAnon movement · Federal Bureau of Investigation · +2
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2020-10-14FBI Enables Social Media Suppression of Hunter Biden Laptop Story Despite Knowing Authenticity 4 src
Federal Bureau of Investigation · Twitter · Facebook · Yoel Roth · +2
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2020-10-05COVID-Positive Trump Leaves Hospital for SUV Joyride, Endangering Secret Service in Sealed Vehicle 3 src
Donald Trump · James Phillips · Sean Conley
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2020-10-02Trump Tests Positive for COVID-19, Hospitalized at Walter Reed with Experimental Treatments 3 src
Donald Trump · Melania Trump · Sean Conley · Mike Pence · +1
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2020-10-01Amazon Discloses 19,816 Workers Infected with COVID-19 After Months of Concealment 3 src
Jeff Bezos · Amazon
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2020-09-27New York Times Obtains Trump Tax Returns, Reveals $750 in Federal Taxes Paid 4 src
Donald Trump · New York Times · Ivanka Trump · Trump Organization
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2020-09-26Rose Garden Amy Coney Barrett Ceremony Becomes White House COVID Superspreader Event 3 src
Donald Trump · Amy Coney Barrett · Melania Trump · Mike Lee · +6
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2020-09-26Trump Nominates Amy Coney Barrett to Supreme Court, Religious Conservative to Replace Liberal Icon Ginsburg 4 src
Donald Trump · Amy Coney Barrett · Mitch McConnell · Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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2020-09-24Ring announces Always Home Cam, autonomous drone for indoor home surveillance 3 src
Ring · Amazon · Leila Rouhi
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2020-09-20FinCEN Files Reveal $2 Trillion in Suspicious Banking Transactions 3 src
FinCEN · BuzzFeed News · International Consortium of Investigative Journalists · Jason Leopold · +8
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2020-09-18Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Dies 46 Days Before Election, McConnell Immediately Vows to Confirm Replacement Despite 2016 Standard 4 src
Ruth Bader Ginsburg · Mitch McConnell · Donald Trump · Clara Spera · +1
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2020-09-16House Committee Report Documents Boeing-FAA Regulatory Capture That Killed 346 People 4 src
House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee · Representative Peter DeFazio · Representative Rick Larsen · Federal Aviation Administration · +2
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2020-09-14HHS Spends $300 Million in Taxpayer Funds on "Defeating Despair" COVID Ad Campaign Timed to Promote Trump Before Election 4 src
Michael Caputo · Donald Trump · Dennis Quaid · CeCe Winans · +1
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2020-09-14Oracle Becomes TikTok's "Trusted Technology Provider" Under Trump Administration Pressure 3 src
Oracle · TikTok · ByteDance · Donald Trump · +1
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2020-09-08Northrop Grumman Wins $13.3 Billion Contract for Ground Based Strategic Deterrent Nuclear ICBMs 3 src
Northrop Grumman · U.S. Air Force · U.S. Department of Defense · Boeing · +1
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2020-09-01CNP September 2020 Membership Directory Leaked - Current Network Exposed 2 src
Council for National Policy · Documented
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2020-08-27Trump Delivers RNC Acceptance Speech from White House South Lawn in Unprecedented Mass Hatch Act Violation Event 4 src
Donald Trump · Melania Trump · Mark Meadows · Mike Pompeo · +2
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2020-08-25Acting DHS Secretary Chad Wolf Violates Hatch Act by Staging White House Naturalization Ceremony as RNC Campaign Content 4 src
Chad Wolf · Donald Trump · Henry Kerner · Bennie Thompson
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2020-08-25Secretary of State Pompeo Delivers Historic RNC Speech from Jerusalem Rooftop, Violating Hatch Act After Changing State Department Policy 4 src
Mike Pompeo · Donald Trump · Office of Special Counsel
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2020-08-24Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue Violates Hatch Act by Campaigning for Trump at Official USDA Event 3 src
Sonny Perdue · Donald Trump
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2020-08-24DeJoy House Testimony Refuses to Restore Mail Sorting Machines Despite Court Concerns 4 src
Louis DeJoy · Carolyn Maloney · Ro Khanna · Harley Rouda · +1
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2020-08-21DeJoy Senate Testimony Denies Sabotage as Gary Peters Details Severe Mail Delays 4 src
Louis DeJoy · Gary Peters · Ron Johnson · USPS
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2020-08-21Tennessee Enacts Felony Camping Law to Suppress Black Lives Matter Protests and Strip Voting Rights 14 src
Bill Lee · Tennessee General Assembly · Randy McNally · Cameron Sexton
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2020-08-21Trump Speaks at CNP Meeting - President Addresses Conservative Coordination Hub 2 src
Donald Trump · Council for National Policy · Bob McEwen · Kelly Shackelford · +3
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2020-08-21USPS OIG flags service declines after mid-July changes; independent datasets show sharp on-time drops 4 src
U.S. Postal Service · USPS Office of Inspector General · U.S. Senate HSGAC (minority staff) · U.S. House Oversight Committee
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2020-08-15Trump Says He Will "Take a Look" at Pardoning Snowden, Ultimately Does Not Grant Pardon 3 src
Donald Trump · Edward Snowden · Mike Pompeo · Glenn Greenwald
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2020-08-13Epic Games Sues Apple Over App Store Monopoly and 30% Commission Tax on Developers 2 src
Epic Games · Tim Sweeney · Apple · Tim Cook
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2020-08-13Trump Explicitly Admits Blocking USPS Funding to Restrict Mail Voting 4 src
Donald Trump · Louis DeJoy · USPS
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2020-08-13USPS Removes Mailboxes in Democratic Areas, Reverses After Public Outcry 4 src
Louis DeJoy · USPS · Donald Trump
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2020-08-06NY AG sues NRA seeking dissolution over $64M fraud by Wayne LaPierre, executives 3 src
Wayne LaPierre · Letitia James · National Rifle Association · Wilson "Woody" Phillips · +2
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2020-08-05State Department Report Reveals Trump Administration Ignored Civilian Casualty Risks in Raytheon Saudi Arms Sales 3 src
Donald Trump · Mike Pompeo · Raytheon · Saudi Arabia · +2
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2020-08-01DeJoy Removes 711 Mail Sorting Machines During Mail-In Voting Surge 3 src
Louis DeJoy · USPS · Donald Trump · Federal Courts
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2020-07-27Noem intervenes in daughter's denied appraiser license application 4 src
Kristi Noem · Kassidy Peters · Sherry Bren · Marcia Hultman
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2020-07-24Sberbank Asset Management Acquires PNK Park Veshki Near Moscow, Extending PNK-Sberbank Industrial Fund Partnership That Began in 2016 2 src
Sberbank Asset Management · PNK Group (Russia) · Andrey Sharkov
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2020-07-10Trump Commutes Roger Stone Sentence Days Before Prison 3 src
Donald Trump · Roger Stone · William Barr · Randy Credico · +1
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2020-07-08Facebook shuts down 54 Roger Stone accounts spending $300K 4 src
Roger Stone · Facebook
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2020-07-07Deutsche Bank fined $150 million for processing Epstein transactions including payments to co-conspirators 3 src
Deutsche Bank · Jeffrey Epstein · New York Department of Financial Services · Federal Reserve · +2
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2020-07-04BORTAC Border Patrol Tactical Units Deployed Against Portland BLM Protesters
2020-07-04Trump Holds Mt. Rushmore Rally with 7,500 Packed, Maskless Attendees During Pandemic Surge 3 src
Donald Trump · Kristi Noem · Kimberly Guilfoyle
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2020-07-01CBP Awards Anduril $25 Million for Autonomous Surveillance Towers at Border 2 src
Anduril Industries · U.S. Customs and Border Protection · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · Palmer Luckey
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2020-07-01During Title 42, unaccompanied children were held in hotels by contractors (e.g., Hampton Inn) before expulsion attempts 6 src
Texas Civil Rights Project · MVM Inc. · ICE contractors · Detained families
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2020-06-30Espinoza v. Montana - Supreme Court Strikes Down State Bans on Religious School Funding 3 src
Chief Justice John Roberts · Justice Clarence Thomas · Justice Samuel Alito · Institute for Justice · +1
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2020-06-25Wirecard Files for Insolvency After €1.9 Billion Goes Missing, Exposing Decade of EY Audit Failure and German Regulatory Capture 3 src
Wirecard · Markus Braun · Jan Marsalek · EY · +4
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2020-06-19Oracle BlueKai Exposes Billions of Web Tracking Records in Unsecured Database 3 src
Oracle · BlueKai
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2020-06-15Louis DeJoy Begins Serving as Postmaster General Despite Conflicts of Interest 4 src
Louis DeJoy · Donald Trump · USPS Board of Governors
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2020-06-10Amazon announces one-year moratorium on police use of Rekognition after George Floyd protests 4 src
Amazon · AWS · Jeff Bezos
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2020-06-09FBI Expands Dataminr Contract During George Floyd Protests for Social Media Surveillance of Demonstrations 3 src
Federal Bureau of Investigation · Dataminr · NYPD · LAPD · +2
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2020-06-09Federal Government Awards Billions in No-Bid COVID PPE Contracts, Often to Politically Connected Companies 3 src
Trump Administration · Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) · U.S. Department of Justice · Congressional Oversight
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2020-06-06Boogaloo Movement Kills Two Law Enforcement Officers: Chan Meme Culture Produces Armed Paramilitary Network 3 src
Steven Carrillo
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2020-06-02General Milley Appears with Trump at Lafayette Square After Protest Clearing 3 src
General Mark Milley · Donald Trump · Joint Chiefs of Staff · Federal Law Enforcement · +3
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2020-06-01Facebook Employees Stage Virtual Walkout After Zuckerberg Refuses to Remove Trump Incitement to Violence 4 src
Mark Zuckerberg · Donald Trump · Facebook · Facebook Employees · +1
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2020-05-19Joe Rogan Signs $100-200 Million Exclusive Deal with Spotify 5 src
Joe Rogan · Spotify · The Joe Rogan Experience
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2020-05-15Puerto Rico Selects LUMA Energy for $1.5 Billion Grid Privatization Following McKinsey's Recommendations, Quanta Services Connection Raises Questions 11 src
LUMA Energy · Quanta Services · Canadian Utilities Limited · Puerto Rico Public-Private Partnership Authority · +2
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2020-05-15Trump Dismisses State Department Inspector General Steve Linick 3 src
Donald Trump · Mike Pompeo · Steve Linick · Eliot Engel · +1
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2020-05-15Trump Fires 5 Inspectors General in 6 Weeks to Block Investigations 3 src
Donald Trump · Steve Linick · Michael Atkinson · Glenn Fine · +2
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2020-05-08AbbVie Completes $63 Billion Allergan Acquisition: Pharmaceutical Industry Consolidates Into Oligopoly 3 src
AbbVie · Allergan · Federal Trade Commission
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2020-04-28Meatpacking Industry Drafts Its Own DPA Executive Order Forcing Plants Open Despite Worker Deaths 3 src
Donald Trump · Tyson Foods · JBS USA · Smithfield Foods · +2
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2020-04-23Trump Suggests Injecting Disinfectant and UV Light Inside Body as COVID Treatments 3 src
Donald Trump · William Bryan
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2020-04-20Whole Foods Heat Map Tracks Stores at Risk of Unionization Using Diversity and Demographics 3 src
Jeff Bezos · Amazon · Whole Foods
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2020-04-18CatalanGate Reveals Systematic Pegasus Targeting of 65 Catalan Independence Leaders 3 src
Citizen Lab · NSO Group · Pere Aragonès · Quim Torra · +3
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2020-04-07Trump Removes Glenn Fine from Pentagon IG, Blocking $2 Trillion CARES Act Oversight 4 src
Donald Trump · Glenn Fine · Carolyn Maloney · Mitt Romney · +1
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2020-04-06HHS Inspector General Christi Grimm Reports Severe Hospital Shortages, Trump Attacks Her Credibility 4 src
Christi Grimm · Donald Trump · Jason Weida · U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
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2020-04-03Raytheon-United Technologies Merge Creates $135 Billion Defense Giant, Consolidating Industry Power 4 src
Raytheon · United Technologies Corporation · Greg Hayes · Department of Justice · +1
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2020-04-03Trump Inspector General Friday Night Massacre Systematically Accelerates WHIG Oversight Destruction Precedent for Constitutional Crisis Operations 3 src
Donald Trump · Michael Atkinson · Glenn Fine · Mitch Behm · +5
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2020-04-03Trump Uses DPA for PPE Export Ban While Allowing Domestic Profiteering and FEMA Supply Seizures 3 src
Donald Trump · Peter Navarro · Jared Kushner · 3M · +1
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2020-04-02Navy Captain Crozier Fired for Requesting COVID Help for USS Roosevelt Crew 4 src
Captain Brett Crozier · Thomas Modly · Donald Trump · USS Theodore Roosevelt crew · +2
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2020-04-01CNP Coordinates National COVID-19 Anti-Lockdown Protest Movement 2 src
Council for National Policy · CNP Action · Stephen Moore · Heritage Foundation · +4
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2020-04-01MVM Inc operates shadow detention network using hotels and unmarked buildings for children 4 src
MVM Inc. · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Hampton Inn & Suites · Sonesta Hotels · +1
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2020-04-01Trump Awards $812M No-Bid COVID Contract to Newly Formed Phlow Corporation 3 src
Phlow Corporation · Peter Navarro · Kodak · Donald Trump · +1
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2020-03-30Amazon Fires Christian Smalls for Organizing COVID Safety Protest 3 src
Jeff Bezos · Amazon · Christian Smalls · David Zapolsky
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2020-03-27PPP launches $800B COVID relief with minimal oversight; $200B+ fraud estimates 3 src
Small Business Administration · U.S. Treasury Department · U.S. Congress
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2020-03-27Trump Orders General Motors to Produce Ventilators Under DPA After Nine-Day Delay Costs Lives 3 src
Donald Trump · Peter Navarro · General Motors
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2020-03-19Senators Burr and Loeffler Accused of Insider Trading After COVID-19 Briefings 3 src
Richard Burr · Kelly Loeffler · Tucker Carlson
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2020-03-18Trump Invokes Defense Production Act but Refuses to Compel PPE Production as Corporate Lobbying Blocks Emergency Powers 3 src
Donald Trump · Peter Navarro · Jared Kushner · U.S. Chamber of Commerce
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2020-03-13COVID-19 Emergency Triggers Student Loan Payment Pause - 44 Million Borrowers Get Relief 3 src
Donald Trump · Joe Biden · U.S. Department of Education
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2020-03-13Trump Declares National Emergency for COVID-19 After Weeks of Denialism and Delay 3 src
Donald Trump · Alex Azar · Mike Pence
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2020-03-07New York Times Exposes Erik Prince's Recruitment of Former Spies for Project Veritas Domestic Intelligence Operations 4 src
Erik Prince · Richard Seddon · James O'Keefe · Project Veritas · +3
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2020-03-06Trump Wears "Keep America Great" Campaign Hat During CDC Visit, Makes False Testing Claims 3 src
Donald Trump · Robert Redfield · Alex Azar · Mike Pence · +1
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2020-03-01Facebook Internal Research Confirms Instagram Toxic for Teen Girls, Conceals Findings While Targeting Youth 4 src
Facebook · Mark Zuckerberg · Instagram · Wall Street Journal · +1
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2020-02-28First AFPAC Conference Launches as White Nationalist Alternative to CPAC 3 src
Nick Fuentes · Michelle Malkin
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2020-02-28Trump Calls Coronavirus "Their New Hoax" at South Carolina Rally 3 src
Donald Trump
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2020-02-27Fed Vice Chair Clarida Trades Millions Before Rate Cuts 4 src
Richard Clarida · Federal Reserve Board · Jerome Powell · Elizabeth Warren
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2020-02-21DOJ Declines Criminal Prosecution of Wells Fargo Executives 3 src
Department of Justice · William Barr · Wells Fargo
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2020-02-21Wells Fargo Pays $3 Billion, Admits Fraud, No Executives Charged 3 src
Wells Fargo · Department of Justice · Securities and Exchange Commission
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2020-02-20Axon Launches Axon Air Drone Platform, Integrating Aerial Surveillance into Police Evidence Ecosystem 3 src
Axon · Escondido Police Department · DJI
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2020-02-20DOJ Overrules Prosecutors' Roger Stone Sentencing Recommendation After Trump Tweet 4 src
Roger Stone · Donald Trump · William Barr · Aaron Zelinsky · +4
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2020-02-20Trump Fires Acting DNI Joseph Maguire After Intelligence Briefing That Russia Prefers Trump in 2020 4 src
Joseph Maguire · Donald Trump · Shelby Pierson · Richard Grenell · +1
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2020-02-19Larry Ellison Hosts Trump Fundraiser at California Estate, Raises $7 Million 3 src
Larry Ellison · Donald Trump · Oracle · Republican Party
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2020-02-14YouTube Terminates Nick Fuentes Channel for Hate Speech Violations 2 src
Nick Fuentes
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2020-02-132020 Congressional COVID Insider Trading Scandal Exposes Systemic Corruption 3 src
Richard Burr · Kelly Loeffler · James Inhofe · Dianne Feinstein · +1
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2020-02-11Bill Barr Intervenes to Reduce Sentences for Trump Allies Stone and Flynn 3 src
Bill Barr · Roger Stone · Michael Flynn · Donald Trump · +1
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2020-02-07Trump Fires Impeachment Witnesses Vindman and Sondland in Coordinated Retaliation Purge 4 src
Donald Trump · Alexander Vindman · Yevgeny Vindman · Gordon Sondland · +2
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2020-02-07Trump Fires Lt. Col. Vindman from NSC in Retaliation for Impeachment Testimony 5 src
Donald Trump · Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman · Lt. Col. Yevgeny Vindman · National Security Council · +3
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2020-02-05Senate Acquits Trump Despite Proven Abuse of Power; Romney Only Republican to Convict 4 src
Mitch McConnell · Mitt Romney · Donald Trump · Senate Republicans
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2020-01-31Bolton Book Manuscript Reveals Trump Directly Tied Ukraine Aid to Biden Investigation 3 src
John Bolton · Donald Trump · Mitch McConnell · Senate Republicans
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2020-01-31Senate Votes 51-49 to Block Witnesses in Impeachment Trial, Ensuring Trump Acquittal 3 src
Mitch McConnell · Mitt Romney · Susan Collins · Senate Republicans · +1
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