Executive Power Expansion
The Executive Power Expansion capture lane traces 803 verified events documenting this mechanism of institutional capture.
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10 actors · 1864–2026
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| Date | Event | Lanes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-05-14 | U.S. AG Pam Bondi Sells Over $1 Million in Trump Media Shares Amid Tariff Announcement
3 src Donald Trump · Pam Bondi · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-12 | Eric Trump's American Bitcoin going public in latest crypto move by president's family
4 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Eric Trump | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-11 | Qatar gifts Trump $400 million airplane as replacement for Air Force One
5 src Donald Trump · Qatar · Pam Bondi | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-11 | Trump administration in talks with Qatar over plane gift
5 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-10 | Legal Scholars Warn of Erosion in Judicial Review Mechanisms
3 src Constitutional Law Scholars · Federal Judiciary · Executive Branch · Amanda Frost · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-09 | Large investors increased stake in Trump Media by hundreds of millions
5 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-09 | SEC Reaches Controversial Settlement with Ripple Labs
4 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Bradley Garlinghouse · Christian Larsen · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-09 | Trump to sign order discouraging criminal enforcement of regulatory offenses
5 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-07 | Supreme Court Confronts Systemic Emoluments Violations
3 src U.S. Supreme Court · Department of Justice · Executive Branch | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-06 | SCOTUS 6-3 shadow-docket stay in United States v. Shilling lifts injunction on Trump transgender military ban 3 src | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-05 | Hegseth Orders 20% Cut to Four-Star General and Admiral Positions
4 src Pete Hegseth · Jack Reed | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-05 | Trump Generates $350M Through Memecoin, Offering White House Access to Top Investors
4 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Justin Sun · Sean Casten · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-05 | Trump sons’ deals on three continents directly benefit the president
5 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-02 | Freight Technologies Purchases $20M in Trump Crypto to Lobby Against Tariffs
4 src Donald Trump · Javier Selgas · Freight Technologies Inc. | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-02 | Trump family's net worth has increased by $2.9 billion thanks to crypto investments, new report says
5 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-02 | Trump Justice Dept. to settle Babbitt family lawsuit in fatal Jan. 6 shooting
4 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Michael Byrd · Tom Manger · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-30 | ICE 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 | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-29 | It 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 | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-29 | Trump's World Liberty Financial Reveals Major Foreign Crypto Investments
3 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Justin Sun · Tahnoun bin Zayed Al Nahyan | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-28 | Donald Trump Jr. Visits Romania Ahead of Contentious Presidential Election
3 src Donald Trump Jr. · Trump Administration · J.D. Vance · Elon Musk | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-25 | Trump pardons executive whose family sought to publicize Ashley Biden's diary
3 src Donald Trump · Paul Walczak · Elizabeth Fago · Ashley Biden | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-22 | Coordinated Constitutional Challenge Filed
3 src American Civil Liberties Union · Protect Democracy · State Attorney Generals · League of Women Voters | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-22 | Federal Appeals Court Establishes Precedent on National Guard Federalization
4 src Federal Appeals Court · Gavin Newsom · U.S. Department of Defense · Charles Breyer · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-22 | Federal Courts Reach Impasse on Presidential Emoluments Enforcement
3 src D.C. Circuit Court · 4th Circuit Court · Department of Justice · U.S. Congress | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-22 | Trump Media Finalizes Crypto ETF Deal with Crypto.com and Yorkville Digital
4 src Donald Trump · Devin Nunes · Kris Marszalek · Trump Media & Technology Group · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-19 | Amazon and Meta are among the corporate sponsors of the White House Easter Egg Roll
4 src Donald Trump · Melania Trump · Amazon · Meta · +2 | 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 | 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 | |
| 2025-04-11 | 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 | 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 | Judicial System Struggles with Presidential Accountability Mechanisms
3 src Federal Circuit Courts · Department of Justice · Presidential Administration | 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 | Trump White House Brokers Pro Bono Deals with Elite Law Firms
3 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Latham & Watkins · Simpson Thacher · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-08 | 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 | 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 | |
| 2025-04-04 | 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 | Vice Adm. Shoshana Chatfield Fired as U.S. Military Representative to NATO — 'Loss of Confidence'
2 src Shoshana Chatfield · Pete Hegseth | 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 | Law firm Kirkland & Ellis in talks with White House to avoid executive order
4 src Donald Trump · 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 | Trump Administration Pressures Law Firms into Pro Bono Settlements
3 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Law Firms Targeted | 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 | Zuckerberg lobbies Trump to avoid Meta antitrust trial
5 src Mark Zuckerberg · Meta · Donald Trump · Trump Administration · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-01 | Trump announces deal with law firm that employs Doug Emhoff
4 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration | 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 | |
| 2025-03-27 | Executive Order on Federal Collective Bargaining Exclusions
4 src Donald Trump · White House · Office of Personnel Management | 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 | |
| 2025-03-25 | 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 | Thiel Capital Chief of Staff Michael Kratsios Confirmed as OSTP Director (74-25)
5 src Michael Kratsios · Peter Thiel · Thiel Capital · Scale AI · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-25 | Trump Signs EO 'Preserving and Protecting the Integrity of American Elections' — Proof of Citizenship, Mail Ballot Restrictions
6 src Donald Trump · Department of Homeland Security · Department of Justice · U.S. Postal Service · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-23 | Trump White House Sells Corporate Sponsorships for Easter Egg Roll, Marking New Level of Institutional Capture
3 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Meta · YouTube · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-22 | First Major Court Battle Over National Guard Deployment Authority
6 src Federal District Court · U.S. Department of Defense · State Governors · Donald Trump · +6 | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-22 | Trump's National Guard Federalization Triggers Constitutional Crisis in California
3 src Donald Trump · Gavin Newsom · Pete Hegseth · Charles Breyer · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-20 | Trump Rescinds Executive Order After Paul Weiss Agrees to $40M Pro Bono Services
3 src Donald Trump · Paul Weiss Law Firm · Mark Pomerantz | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-19 | White House Forces Out Amtrak CEO Amid Privatization Threats
3 src Donald Trump · Stephen Gardner · Elon Musk · Sean Duffy | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-18 | Starlink Installed at White House, Raising Major Security Concerns
3 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Elon Musk · SpaceX DOGE Team · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-17 | Pulte Purges 14 Directors from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Boards, Installs Himself as Chairman of Both GSEs
8 src Bill Pulte · FHFA · Fannie Mae · Freddie Mac · +19 | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-15 | Federal Judiciary Responds to Mounting Constitutional Threats in Emergency Closed-Door Conference
3 src Federal Judiciary Leadership · Judge Richard Sullivan · U.S. Marshals Service · Judicial Conference Leadership · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-15 | Supreme Court Conducts Unprecedented Hearing on Presidential Emoluments
3 src U.S. Supreme Court · Trump Administration · Constitutional Scholars | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-15 | Trump administration coerces law firms into $940 million of free legal work
5 src Trump Administration · Major law firms · Paul Weiss · Kirkland & Ellis · +7 | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-14 | Trump Signs Proclamation 10903 Invoking 1798 Alien Enemies Act Against Tren de Aragua, First Use Outside Declared War Since World War II Donald Trump · Stephen Miller · Marco Rubio · James Boasberg · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-13 | Judge Alsup Orders Reinstatement of Fired Probationary Employees, Rules OPM Mass Terminations Unlawful
4 src Judge William Alsup · AFGE · AFSCME · Office of Personnel Management · +7 | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-12 | Trump Turns White House Lawn into Tesla Showroom, Purchases Model S to Support Musk
3 src Donald Trump · Elon Musk · White House Staff | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-11 | DHS Awards $200 Million Ad Contract to Republican Firms Without Full Competitive Bidding
3 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Kristi Noem · Jay Connaughton · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-11 | Education Department announces 50% workforce reduction
4 src Linda McMahon · U.S. Department of Education · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-11 | Trump turns the White House lawn into a Tesla showroom
3 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Elon Musk · Tesla | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-06 | Cabinet Meeting Explodes as Rubio and Duffy Clash with Musk Over DOGE Cuts
3 src Elon Musk · Marco Rubio · Sean Duffy · Donald Trump · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-04 | People are paying millions to dine with Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago
4 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-01 | Federal job applicants required to write MAGA loyalty essays
4 src Trump Administration · Office of Personnel Management · Federal Agencies | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-01 | Project 2025 Authors Fill Key Administration Positions
3 src Brendan Carr · Tom Homan · Linda McMahon · Karoline Leavitt · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-28 | Multiple international democracy research groups declare U.S. in democratic crisis
4 src Freedom House · V-Dem Institute · International IDEA · Varieties of Democracy Project · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-28 | Trump Misses Transition Donor Disclosure Deadline, Declines Federal Funding
4 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Susie Wiles · General Services Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-26 | ICE arrests increase 627% in first month under Trump vs Biden era
5 src Donald Trump · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · DHS (Department of Homeland Security) · Kristi Noem | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-26 | Trump order calls for creation of DOGE-linked agency payment-tracking systems
3 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-26 | White House Seizes Control of Press Pool, Removes Reuters and Bloomberg Alongside AP
5 src White House · Associated Press · Reuters · Bloomberg News · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-22 | Trump Fires Joint Chiefs Chairman and Navy Chief in Unprecedented Military Purge
4 src Donald Trump · Pete Hegseth · General Charles Q. Brown Jr. · Admiral Lisa Franchetti · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-21 | Acting ICE Director Vitello removed for failing to meet impossible deportation quotas
3 src Caleb Vitello · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Donald Trump · U.S. Department of Homeland Security | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-20 | Consensys SEC case dropped after $100,000 inauguration donation
5 src Consensys · Donald Trump · Securities and Exchange Commission | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-18 | Trump Asserts Unitary Executive Control Over DOJ, Echoing Nixon's Saturday Night Massacre
3 src Donald Trump · Michael C. Dorf · Department of Justice · Heritage Foundation | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-18 | Trump Signs Order to Claim Power Over Independent Agencies
4 src Donald Trump · Federal Trade Commission · Securities and Exchange Commission · Federal Communications Commission · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-17 | Coins, watches and more: A look at Trump's crypto-related ventures, by the numbers
3 src Donald Trump · Eric Trump · Donald Trump Jr. · Barron Trump · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-17 | Trump Leverages Presidential Position in PGA-LIV Golf Merger Negotiations
3 src Donald Trump · Jay Monahan · Yasir al-Rumayyan · PGA Tour · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-15 | Capital One CFPB case dropped after $1 million inauguration donation
6 src Capital One · Donald Trump · Consumer Financial Protection Bureau | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-15 | CFPB ordered to close offices and cease all work
3 src Russell Vought · Consumer Financial Protection Bureau · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-15 | Federal Courts Grapple with Unprecedented Emoluments Enforcement Challenge
3 src U.S. Supreme Court · Federal District Courts · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-15 | Federal Judges Address Escalating Threats to Judicial Independence
3 src Chief Justice John Roberts · Chief Judge James Boasberg · Federal Judiciary · U.S. Supreme Court · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-15 | Multi-Organizational Civil Rights Litigation Coordination Summit
4 src Lawyers for Civil Rights · Brennan Center · EarthJustice · American Civil Liberties Union · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-15 | Supreme Court Confronts Unprecedented National Guard Federalization Crisis
3 src U.S. Supreme Court · Trump Administration · State Governors · Brian Schwalb · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-15 | Trump systematically fires federal officials investigating Elon Musk's companies
3 src Donald Trump · Elon Musk · FDA officials · EEOC officials · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-13 | India's Modi talks space and 'good governance' with Musk in Washington
5 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-13 | OPM Orders Mass Firing of Nearly 25,000 Probationary Federal Employees Across All Agencies
4 src Office of Personnel Management · Charles Ezell · Donald Trump · DOGE · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-11 | Trump Signs Executive Order for Large-Scale Federal Workforce Cuts Under DOGE
3 src Donald Trump · Elon Musk · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-11 | White House will not release visitor logs during Trump's second term
4 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Tom Blanton · National Security Archive | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-10 | CFPB offices ordered closed, staff told cannot perform work tasks
4 src Russell Vought · Consumer Financial Protection Bureau · Rohit Chopra | 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 |