2020s
The 2020s contain 2567 verified events in the Capture Cascade Timeline.
| Date | Event | Lanes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-10-25 | Binance Paid $450K to Trump Jr. Ally for Zhao Pardon Lobbying Binance · Changpeng Zhao · Ches McDowell · Donald Trump Jr. · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-25 | Federal Grand Jury Convened to Investigate 'Conspiracy Against Trump' Chris Wray · Federal grand jury · Jack Smith · Lisa Monaco · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-25 | ICE Deports Man to Laos Despite Federal Court Order Blocking Removal, Ignoring Torture and Persecution Risk Chanthila "Shawn" Souvannarath · Chief Judge Shelly D. Dick · ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) · ACLU of Louisiana · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-25 | Kash Patel Uses $60M FBI Jet for Date Night with Girlfriend After Calling Wray "Government Gangster" for Same Kash Patel | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-25 | MAGA-Aligned Lobbying Firms Quadruple Revenue Selling Trump Access Brian Ballard · Corporate clients · Pam Bondi · Susie Wiles · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-25 | Tech Billionaires Block Trump Military Deployment to San Francisco Jensen Huang · Marc Benioff · Mayor Daniel Lurie · Sam Altman · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-24 | Comey and James File Consolidated Challenge to Halligan's Authority Under 120-Day Rule James Comey · Letitia James · Lindsey Halligan · Judge Cameron McGowan Currie · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-24 | Pentagon Awards Drone Contract to Company Where Trump Jr. Holds $4 Million Stake Donald Trump Jr. · Unusual Machines · Pentagon · U.S. Army · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-23 | Billionaire Timothy Mellon's $130M Military Donation During Shutdown Raises Oligarchy Concerns Timothy Mellon · Trump · U.S. Department of Defense · Pentagon | reported | |
| 2025-10-23 | Border Patrol Commander Bovino Throws Tear Gas at Chicago Protesters, Violating Court Order Gregory Bovino · Judge Sara Ellis · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · U.S. Customs and Border Protection · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-23 | Trump Pardons Convicted Binance Founder After $2 Billion Deal With Trump Family Crypto Venture and $450,000 Lobbying Campaign Donald Trump · Changpeng Zhao · Binance · World Liberty Financial · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-23 | White House Releases List of 37 Corporate Donors for Trump's $300M Ballroom Project Trump · Google · Amazon · Meta · +6 | reported | |
| 2025-10-22 | DHS Uses Multi-Year Reconciliation Funding to Pay 70,000 Immigration Enforcement Officers During Shutdown While 700,000 Federal Workers Go Unpaid Kristi Noem · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · U.S. Customs and Border Protection · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-22 | Pentagon Replaces Mainstream Media with MAGA Propaganda Outlets in Press Corps Pete Hegseth · Pentagon · mainstream media outlets · far-right media | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-22 | Trump Administration Prioritizes White South Africans in Refugee Admissions Trump Administration · State Department · pro-Afrikaner advocacy groups | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-22 | Trump Administration Seeks Government Equity Stakes in Quantum Computing Firms Paul Dabbar · Howard Lutnick · Trump Administration · quantum computing companies | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-22 | Trump Installs Election Deniers in DHS Election Security Positions Donald Trump · Heather Honey · Marci McCarthy · DHS (Department of Homeland Security) | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-22 | Trump Obsession with $300M Ballroom: Demolishes Historic East Wing While Miller and Vought Run Government Donald Trump · Stephen Miller · Russ Vought | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-22 | Trump Orders Demolition of Historic White House East Wing for Personal Ballroom Donald Trump · U.S. Treasury Department · White House Staff | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-21 | Ethics Probe Launched into Border Czar's Contract Ties with Detention Firms Tom Homan · Mark Hall · Campaign Legal Center · DHS (Department of Homeland Security) · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-21 | Russ Vought Emerges as "Shadow President" Running Government During Trump Disengagement Russ Vought · Donald Trump · Stephen Miller | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-21 | Trump Demands $230 Million from DOJ as 'Compensation' for Investigations Donald Trump · U.S. Department of Justice · former Trump defense lawyers | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-21 | Trump Fires Export-Import Bank Inspector General as Oversight Purge Continues Donald Trump · Parisa Salehi · Inspectors General | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-21 | UN Human Rights Experts Condemn US Boat Strikes as 'Extrajudicial Executions' United Nations · Volker Türk · UN Human Rights Council | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-20 | FTC Deletes Consumer Protection Guidance on AI Fraud and Surveillance Federal Trade Commission · Lina Khan · Trump Appointees · Tech companies | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-20 | ICE Weapons Budget Surges 700% Including Guided Missiles and Explosives Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-20 | Musk's DOGE Uploads Hundreds of Millions of Americans' SSA Data to Unsecured Cloud Elon Musk · Department of Government Efficiency · Charles Borges · Social Security Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-20 | Ninth Circuit Panel Allows Trump National Guard Deployment to Portland U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · Donald Trump · Oregon National Guard · Karin Immergut · +3 | reported | |
| 2025-10-20 | North Carolina GOP Advances Mid-Decade Redistricting to Eliminate Black Representative North Carolina Republican Party · Sen. Ralph Hise · Rep. Don Davis | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-20 | Secret Interagency Working Group Coordinates Trump Retaliation Against Political Opponents Pam Bondi · Tulsi Gabbard · Trump Administration · U.S. Department of Justice · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-20 | Trump Hosts $250 Million White House Ballroom Fundraiser with Defense and Tech Executives Donald Trump · Google · Amazon · Meta · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-19 | DOJ Whistleblower Reveals Officials Ordered Fabrication of Terrorist Claims in Deportation Case Erez Reuveni · Kilmar Abrego Garcia · Department of Justice · Trump · +1 | reported | |
| 2025-10-19 | Federal Prosecutor Elizabeth Yusi Fired After Refusing to Charge NY AG Letitia James Elizabeth Yusi · Kristin Bird · Letitia James · Trump · +1 | reported | |
| 2025-10-18 | DHS Purchases $172 Million in Luxury Jets for Kristi Noem During Shutdown Kristi Noem · DHS (Department of Homeland Security) · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-18 | Federal Prosecutor Fired for Refusing Trump Demand to Indict Letitia James Elizabeth Yusi · Donald Trump · Letitia James · Lindsey Halligan · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-18 | Senate Confirms Industry Lobbyist to Lead EPA Chemical Safety Division Douglas Troutman · American Cleaning Institute · United States Senate · Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-18 | Trump Posts AI Video Dumping Feces on 7 Million "No Kings" Protesters, Defended by Johnson and Vance as "Satire" Donald Trump · Mike Johnson · JD Vance · Kenny Loggins · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-17 | OMB Director Russell Vought Consolidates Authoritarian Control Over Federal Government Russell Vought · Donald Trump · Elon Musk · Office of Management and Budget | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-17 | Trump Commutes George Santos Prison Sentence After 3 Months Donald Trump · White House · George Santos | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-17 | Trump Freezes $11 Billion in Infrastructure Projects in Democratic Cities Donald Trump · U.S. Army Corps of Engineers · Democratic city governments | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-17 | Two Federal Prosecutors Fired After Refusing to Bring Charges Against Letitia James Elizabeth Yusi · Kristin Bird · Erik Siebert · Letitia James · +5 | reported | |
| 2025-10-16 | DOJ Unseals First Federal Terrorism Charges Against Alleged Antifa Members in Prairieland Case Pam Bondi · Kash Patel · Department of Justice · Federal Bureau of Investigation | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-16 | Former NSA John Bolton Indicted on 18 Federal Counts John Bolton · Pam Bondi · Kash Patel · Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-16 | Pentagon Strips Press Credentials After Hegseth Imposes Rules Labeling Journalists as Security Risks Pete Hegseth · Department of Defense · New York Times · Associated Press · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-16 | Planet Labs Wins $12.8M NGA Contract for AI Maritime Surveillance in Asia-Pacific Planet Labs · Founders Fund · National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency · National Reconnaissance Office · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-16 | Ring partners with Flock Safety and Axon, reversing privacy commitments and expanding police surveillance Ring · Amazon · Flock Safety · Axon · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-15 | OCC Conditionally Approves Erebor Bank Charter in Record Four Months Palmer Luckey · Joe Lonsdale · Peter Thiel · Founders Fund · +6 | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-15 | Pentagon Chief Hegseth Blocks Military Officials From Contacting Congress Without Approval Pete Hegseth · Steve Feinberg · Pentagon | reported | |
| 2025-10-15 | Supreme Court Reargues Louisiana v. Callais, Threatens Voting Rights Act U.S. Supreme Court · Louisiana · American Civil Liberties Union · NAACP Legal Defense Fund · +1 | reported | |
| 2025-10-15 | Trump Administration Plans IRS Overhaul to Target Liberal Donors and Nonprofits Donald Trump · Scott Bessent · Gary Shapley · Internal Revenue Service · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-15 | Trump Executive Order Extends Hiring Freeze with Political Approval Requirements Donald Trump · White House · Office of Personnel Management | reported | |
| 2025-10-15 | Trump Pledges $40 Billion Argentina Bailout Tied to Milei Reelection Donald Trump · Javier Milei · Scott Bessent · U.S. Treasury Department | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-15 | Trump Publicly Identifies Political Opponents for DOJ Prosecution Donald Trump · Pam Bondi · Kash Patel · Jack Smith · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-15 | Trump Requires Political Loyalty Tests for All Federal Hiring Donald Trump · Political Appointees · Federal Agencies | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-15 | Valinor Enterprises Launches as Palantir/Anduril Alumni Defense-Tech Incubator Julie Bush · Trae Stephens · Paul Kwan · Grant Verstandig · +7 | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-14 | Florida Officials Concealed $608 Million Federal Funding for Immigration Detention Facility DeSantis administration · Florida officials · Federal Courts · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-13 | Budget Chief Russell Vought Seizes Congressional Spending Authority Russell Vought · Office of Management and Budget · U.S. Congress | reported | |
| 2025-10-13 | Indonesian President Caught Asking Trump to Arrange Eric Trump Business Meeting Donald Trump · Eric Trump · Prabowo Subianto · Trump Organization | reported | |
| 2025-10-13 | Pro-Trump Fund Fraudulently Markets Fake Treasury Event, Sells Sponsorships 1789 Capital · Scott Bessent · U.S. Treasury Department · Corporate Sponsors | reported | |
| 2025-10-13 | Trump Accelerates Authoritarian Agenda With Mass Purges and Political Prosecutions Donald Trump · New York Attorney General · Federal Workforce · Business Leaders | reported | |
| 2025-10-13 | Trump Administration Unveils Gaza GREAT Trust Reconstruction Plan at Egypt Summit with Kushner and Witkoff Trump · Jared Kushner · Steve Witkoff · Elon Musk | reported | |
| 2025-10-13 | U.S. Executes Extraordinary $20 Billion Argentina Bailout for Political Ally Scott Bessent · U.S. Treasury Department · Javier Milei · Hedge Funds | reported | |
| 2025-10-11 | Crypto Super PAC Fairshake Amasses $141M War Chest to Shape 2026 Elections After Defeating Sherrod Brown Fairshake · Coinbase · Sherrod Brown · Crypto industry | reported | |
| 2025-10-10 | Analysis Finds 40+ Trump Administration Appointees With Fossil Fuel Industry Ties Chris Wright · Doug Burgum · Trump Administration · Public Citizen · +1 | reported | |
| 2025-10-10 | DHS Awards Secretive $915 Million 'Self-Deportation' Contract to Connected Firm DHS (Department of Homeland Security) · Salus Worldwide Solutions · Project on Government Oversight | reported | |
| 2025-10-10 | DOJ-Cited Report on Soros Shows No Evidence of Terrorism Funding George Soros · U.S. Department of Justice · Conservative Report Authors | reported | |
| 2025-10-10 | Dominion Voting Systems Sold to Former Republican Election Director Scott Leiendecker · Dominion Voting Systems · Liberty Vote · Trump Administration | reported | |
| 2025-10-10 | John Bolton Faces Imminent Federal Indictment on Classified Materials Charges John Bolton · Federal Bureau of Investigation · U.S. Department of Justice · Trump Administration | reported | |
| 2025-10-10 | Musk's Boring Company Accused of 800 Environmental Violations in Las Vegas Elon Musk · Boring Company · Nevada Regulators | reported | |
| 2025-10-10 | Trump Administration Systematically Uses Mortgage Fraud Charges Against Political Adversaries Letitia James · Lisa Cook · Adam Schiff · William Pulte · +2 | reported | |
| 2025-10-10 | Trump's Pharmaceutical Sales Overhaul Benefits Son's Company and Cabinet Member Donald Trump Jr. · Howard Lutnick · BlinkRx · Cantor Fitzgerald · +1 | reported | |
| 2025-10-09 | Crypto Investor 'Bitcoin Jesus' Reaches $48 Million Deal After Hiring Trump Associates Roger Ver · Roger Stone · David Schoen · Trump Administration · +1 | reported | |
| 2025-10-09 | DHS Secretary Announces Additional Chicago Property Purchase for ICE Operations Kristi Noem · DHS (Department of Homeland Security) · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · JB Pritzker · +1 | reported | |
| 2025-10-09 | DOJ Indicts New York AG Letitia James on Bank Fraud Charges After Trump Pressure Campaign Letitia James · Department of Justice · Donald Trump · Pam Bondi · +2 | reported | |
| 2025-10-09 | FBI Terminates Two Special Agents Who Worked on January 6 Investigation Kash Patel · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Jack Smith · FBI Special Agents | reported | |
| 2025-10-09 | Former NY AG Letitia James Indicted on Bank Fraud Charges by Halligan Letitia James · Lindsey Halligan · Pam Bondi · Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-09 | NY Attorney General Letitia James Indicted on Questionable Mortgage Fraud Charges Letitia James · Lindsey Halligan · Trump Administration · U.S. Department of Justice | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-09 | Senate Confirms Jennifer Mascott to Third Circuit Court of Appeals Jennifer Mascott · U.S. Senate · U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit · Donald Trump · +1 | reported | |
| 2025-10-09 | Treasury's $20 Billion Argentina Bailout Benefits Bessent's Hedge Fund Colleagues Scott Bessent · Stanley Druckenmiller · Robert Citrone · Elizabeth Warren · +1 | reported | |
| 2025-10-09 | Trump Authorizes Foreign Construction of Arctic Security Cutters via Presidential Memorandum Donald Trump · White House · U.S. Coast Guard · U.S. Department of Homeland Security | reported | |
| 2025-10-09 | Trump Nominee to Lead Whistleblower Office Faces Sexual Harassment Allegations Paul Ingrassia · Office of Special Counsel · Trump Administration | reported | |
| 2025-10-08 | Border Czar Tom Homan Allegedly Took $50,000 in FBI Corruption Sting Tom Homan · Pam Bondi · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Emil Bove · +1 | reported | |
| 2025-10-08 | Erdogan Says Trump Promised to End Halkbank Sanctions Prosecution Donald Trump · Recep Tayyip Erdoğan · Halkbank · U.S. Department of Justice | reported | |
| 2025-10-08 | Trump's Accidental Truth Social Post Exposes Direct DOJ Control Donald Trump · Pam Bondi · U.S. Department of Justice | reported | |
| 2025-10-07 | Attorney General Bondi Testifies Before Senate Amid Accusations of DOJ Weaponization Pam Bondi · Senate Judiciary Committee · Department of Justice · Dick Durbin · +2 | reported | |
| 2025-10-07 | DOJ Reassigns North Carolina Prosecutors to Lead Comey Political Prosecution Lindsey Halligan · James Comey · U.S. Department of Justice · North Carolina Prosecutors | reported | |
| 2025-10-07 | ICE Furloughs Entire Detention Oversight Office Despite Record Capacity Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Office of Detention Oversight · DHS (Department of Homeland Security) | reported | |
| 2025-10-07 | Miami Dade College Board Gifts $67 Million Downtown Land to Trump Library Miami Dade College Board · Donald J. Trump Presidential Library Foundation · Ron DeSantis · Dr. Marvin Dunn | reported | |
| 2025-10-07 | NIST Suspends All Facial Recognition Testing During Government Shutdown National Institute of Standards and Technology · U.S. Department of Commerce | reported | |
| 2025-10-07 | OMB Removes Legal References to Federal Worker Back Pay Guarantees Office of Management and Budget · Donald Trump · Federal Workers · Chris Van Hollen · +1 | reported | |
| 2025-10-07 | Palantir Senior Advisor Jacob Helberg Confirmed as Under Secretary of State (51-47) Jacob Helberg · Alex Karp · Palantir Technologies · Peter Thiel · +6 | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-07 | Senate Confirms Michael Stuart as HHS General Counsel — First Former U.S. Attorney in the Role; Single Most Comprehensive Palantir Disclosure Exposure in the HHS Cluster Michael B. Stuart · Shelley Moore Capito · Donald Trump · U.S. Senate · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-07 | White House Provides 'Concierge Service' to Fossil Fuel Industry Brittany Kelm · National Energy Dominance Council · Fossil Fuel Industry · White House | reported | |
| 2025-10-07 | White House Withdraws CFTC Nominee Brian Quintenz After Winklevoss Conflict Brian Quintenz · Tyler Winklevoss · Cameron Winklevoss · White House · +2 | reported | |
| 2025-10-06 | Supreme Court Begins 2025-2026 Term with Focus on Executive Power and Voting Rights U.S. Supreme Court · John Roberts · Conservative Majority | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-06 | Tether Loan to Lutnick Children Revealed via UCC Filing Tether · Brandon Lutnick · Kyle Lutnick · Howard Lutnick · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-05 | Blackstone CEO Stephen Schwarzman Negotiates Harvard Research Funding Restoration Stephen Schwarzman · Blackstone · Harvard University · White House · +1 | reported | |
| 2025-10-05 | Border Patrol Agent Shoots US Citizen Marimar Martinez Five Times in Chicago During 'Operation Midway Blitz' Marimar Martinez · Charles Exum · U.S. Border Patrol · DHS (Department of Homeland Security) | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-05 | Private Prison Company CoreCivic Secures $300 Million in New ICE Contracts CoreCivic · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Trump Administration · U.S. Congress | reported | |
| 2025-10-05 | RFK Jr.'s Legal Associate Aaron Siri Advances Anti-Vaccine Lawsuits While Influencing HHS Robert F. Kennedy Jr. · Aaron Siri · U.S. Department of Health and Human Services | reported |