Executive Power Expansion
The Executive Power Expansion capture lane traces 775 verified events documenting this mechanism of institutional capture.
| Date | Event | Lanes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-01-20 | Executive Order 14171: Restoring Accountability to Policy-Influencing Positions (Schedule F) Donald Trump · Office of Personnel Management · Heritage Foundation | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-20 | J.D. Vance Inaugurated as 50th Vice President J.D. Vance · Donald Trump · Peter Thiel · Republican Party | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-20 | JD Vance Sworn In as 50th Vice President, Positioned for Potential Constitutional Crisis Management JD Vance · Brett Kavanaugh · Donald Trump · Usha Vance · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-20 | Trump designates Mexican cartels as terrorist organizations Donald Trump · Secretary of State · Department of the Treasury · Department of Justice · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-20 | Trump eliminates ethics requirements and lobbying restrictions Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Office of Government Ethics · Public Citizen · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-20 | Trump Implements Unprecedented Wave of Project 2025 Executive Orders Donald Trump · Russell Vought · Project 2025 authors · Tom Homan · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-20 | Trump signs 37 executive orders on first day, implementing Project 2025 priorities Donald Trump · Elon Musk · White House · United Nations · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-20 | Trump Signs Comprehensive Immigration Executive Orders Package: Ends Asylum, Reinstates Remain in Mexico, Kills Parole Programs, Declares Border 'Invasion' Donald Trump · Department of Homeland Security · Customs and Border Protection · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-20 | Trump Signs EO 14168: 'Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism,' Mandating Federal Recognition of Only Two Sexes Donald Trump · Office of Personnel Management · Department of Education · Department of Health and Human Services · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-20 | Trump signs Executive Order 14148 rescinding 78 Biden directives Donald Trump · JD Vance · Domestic Policy Council · National Economic Council | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-20 | Trump Signs Unconstitutional Executive Order Challenging Birthright Citizenship Donald Trump · Department of Justice · U.S. Supreme Court · Asian Law Caucus · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-17 | Crypto firms pour $18 million into Trump inauguration Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Coinbase · Kraken · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-17 | Trump launches crypto memecoin days before inauguration Donald Trump · Melania Trump | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-01 | Systematic assault on judicial independence begins Trump Administration · Federal Judiciary · Law firms | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-01 | Trump's Second Term Tariff Exemptions Made in Secret Without Public Process Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Industry lobbyists · Reyes Holdings · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2024-12-06 | McKinsey Pays $73 Million Final Settlement to South Africa in State Capture Resolution McKinsey & Company · South Africa National Prosecuting Authority · U.S. Department of Justice · McKinsey South Africa · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2024-12-05 | PayPal Mafia Member David Sacks Named White House AI & Crypto Czar David Sacks · Donald Trump · Peter Thiel · Elon Musk · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2024-12-03 | South Korea President Yoon Suk Yeol Declares Martial Law, Triggering Democratic Crisis Yoon Suk Yeol · South Korean National Assembly · South Korean protesters · Democratic Party | confirmed | |
| 2024-12-03 | South Korean Democratic Resistance Against Presidential Martial Law Yoon Suk Yeol · Lee Jae-myung · South Korean Parliament · Civil Society Organizations · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2024-12-01 | President Biden Issues Full Pardon for Son Hunter Despite Repeated Promises Not To Joe Biden · Hunter Biden · David Weiss · Department of Justice | confirmed | |
| 2024-11-27 | Donald Trump Jr. Joins Unusual Machines Advisory Board, Receives 200,000 Shares, Stock Triples Donald Trump Jr. · Unusual Machines · Allan Evans · Donald Trump · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2024-11-22 | Judge Merchan Grants Indefinite Postponement of Trump Sentencing After Election Victory Juan Merchan · Donald Trump · Alvin Bragg | confirmed | |
| 2024-11-19 | Texas offers Trump 1,402 acres for deportation facilities in "Jocelyn Initiative" Dawn Buckingham (TX Land Commissioner) · Donald Trump · Tom Homan · Greg Abbott · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2024-09-30 | Biden Uses Emergency Drawdown Authority 55 Times to Send $31.7B in Weapons to Ukraine Joe Biden · Pentagon · U.S. Congress · Ukraine · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2024-09-06 | Dick Cheney Endorses Democrat Kamala Harris, Calls Trump 'Greatest Threat to Republic' Dick Cheney · Kamala Harris · Donald Trump · Liz Cheney | confirmed | |
| 2024-08-31 | OpenAI Signs AI Safety Institute Testing Agreement Sam Altman · OpenAI · U.S. AI Safety Institute · NIST · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2024-08-13 | JD Vance Writes Foreword for Project 2025 Architect's Book JD Vance · Kevin Roberts · Heritage Foundation · Paul Dans · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2024-07-30 | Paul Dans departs as Project 2025 director amid campaign controversy Paul Dans · Kevin Roberts · Heritage Foundation · Donald Trump · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2024-07-15 | Trump Selects Vance as VP Running Mate Donald Trump · J.D. Vance · Peter Thiel | confirmed | |
| 2024-07-11 | Judge Merchan Postpones Trump Sentencing to September After Supreme Court Immunity Ruling Juan Merchan · Donald Trump · Alvin Bragg | confirmed | |
| 2024-07-01 | Paul Dans Departs Project 2025, Kevin Roberts Takes Leadership Paul Dans · Kevin Roberts · Donald Trump · Chris LaCivita · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2024-07-01 | Supreme Court Grants Broad Presidential Immunity in Trump v. United States, Creating King-Like Powers U.S. Supreme Court · Chief Justice John Roberts · Justice Clarence Thomas · Justice Samuel Alito · +10 | confirmed | |
| 2024-07-01 | Supreme Court Trump Immunity Ruling Institutionalizes WHIG Constitutional Crisis Precedent into Permanent Oligarchic Governance Framework Supreme Court of the United States · Chief Justice John Roberts · Donald Trump · Justice Clarence Thomas · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2024-05-30 | Trump Convicted on All 34 Felony Counts - First Former President Convicted of Crimes in U.S. History Donald Trump · Juan Merchan · Alvin Bragg | confirmed | |
| 2024-05-13 | French officials dispute Noem's claim about canceling Macron meeting Kristi Noem · Emmanuel Macron · Élysée Palace | confirmed | |
| 2024-04-15 | First Criminal Trial of Former U.S. President Begins - Trump Faces 34 Felony Counts in Manhattan Donald Trump · Juan Merchan · Alvin Bragg · Todd Blanche · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2024-03-26 | DJT Stock Begins Trading as Trump Owns Majority of $8.4 Billion Media Company Donald Trump · Trump Media & Technology Group · NYSE · Digital World Acquisition Corp · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2024-03-01 | Tunisia Dissolves Democratic Municipal Councils Under Authoritarian Consolidation Kais Saied · Tunisian municipal councils · Tunisian opposition · Ennahda party | confirmed | |
| 2024-01-05 | Boeing 737 MAX Scandal Summary - 346 Deaths, $2.5B Fine, Zero Executive Prosecutions Boeing · Federal Aviation Administration · 346 crash victims · Dennis Muilenburg · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2023-09-08 | Fifth Circuit Finds Biden Administration Violated First Amendment Through Social Media Coercion Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals · White House · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2023-08-14 | Fulton County DA Fani Willis Indicts Trump and 18 Co-Defendants on Georgia RICO Charges Donald Trump · Fani Willis · Rudy Giuliani · Mark Meadows · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2023-08-01 | Jack Smith Indicts Trump on 4 Federal Counts for January 6 Conspiracy to Overturn Election Donald Trump · Jack Smith · Mike Pence · Rudy Giuliani · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2023-06-08 | Trump indicted on 37 federal charges for classified documents Donald Trump · Jack Smith · Walt Nauta · Department of Justice | confirmed | |
| 2023-06-01 | House Select Committee Exposes McKinsey Work for Chinese Military While Advising Pentagon McKinsey & Company · House Select Committee on the CCP · John Moolenaar · Marco Rubio · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2023-04-04 | Trump Arraigned in Manhattan Criminal Court, Pleads Not Guilty to 34 Felony Counts Donald Trump · Juan Merchan · Alvin Bragg | confirmed | |
| 2023-04-01 | Heritage Foundation launches Project 2025 initiative Heritage Foundation · Kevin Roberts · Paul Dans · Mark Meadows · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2023-03-30 | Trump Indicted by Manhattan DA on 34 Felony Counts - First Criminal Indictment of President in U.S. History Donald Trump · Alvin Bragg · Michael Cohen · Stormy Daniels | confirmed | |
| 2022-11-18 | Jack Smith appointed Special Counsel to investigate Trump Jack Smith · Merrick Garland · Donald Trump · Department of Justice | confirmed | |
| 2022-09-22 | Federal Court Dismisses Abdulaziz Lawsuit, Rules McKinsey Had No Duty to Protect Dissident Omar Abdulaziz · McKinsey & Company · U.S. District Court Southern District of New York · Second Circuit Court of Appeals | confirmed | |
| 2022-09-01 | Pulitzer-Winning Journalists Publish 'When McKinsey Comes to Town' Exposing Authoritarian Consulting Walt Bogdanich · Michael Forsythe · McKinsey & Company · The New York Times · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2022-08-08 | FBI executes search warrant at Mar-a-Lago Donald Trump · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Merrick Garland · Bruce Reinhart · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2022-07-13 | Ring admits providing police with warrantless access to user footage 11 times in 2022 Ring · Amazon · Brian Huseman · Ed Markey | confirmed | |
| 2022-04-01 | Heritage Foundation Launches 2 Million Project 2025 Initiative Heritage Foundation · Kevin Roberts · Paul Dans · Steven Groves | confirmed | |
| 2022-03-15 | Biden Administration 2022: Comprehensive Review of Political Appointees' Financial Disclosures and Ethics Compliance Biden Administration · Office of Government Ethics · Regulatory Agencies · Political Appointees · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2022-03-15 | FDA Commissioner Confirmed Amid Pharmaceutical Industry Ties Controversy Robert Califf · United States Senate · FDA Leadership · Pharmaceutical Industry Executives | confirmed | |
| 2022-01-17 | National Archives retrieves 15 boxes with 184 classified documents from Mar-a-Lago Donald Trump · National Archives · Department of Justice | confirmed | |
| 2022-01-13 | Supreme Court Blocks Biden OSHA Vaccine Mandate as Executive Overreach U.S. Supreme Court · Joe Biden · Occupational Safety and Health Administration · U.S. Department of Labor | confirmed | |
| 2021-10-03 | Pandora Papers Expose Global Elite's Offshore Financial Networks International Consortium of Investigative Journalists · King Abdullah II of Jordan · Andrej Babiš · Volodymyr Zelenskyy · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2021-10-01 | Former FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn Joins Moderna Backer Flagship Pioneering Stephen Hahn · Flagship Pioneering · Moderna · Food and Drug Administration · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2021-09-27 | Dallas and Boston Fed Presidents Resign Over Trading Scandal Robert Kaplan · Eric Rosengren · Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas · Federal Reserve Bank of Boston · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2021-09-08 | Boston Fed President Rosengren Resigns Over REIT Trading Scandal Eric Rosengren · Federal Reserve Bank of Boston · Robert Kaplan · Jerome Powell | confirmed | |
| 2021-09-07 | Dallas Fed President Kaplan Resigns Over Trading Controversy Robert Kaplan · Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas · Jerome Powell · Eric Rosengren | confirmed | |
| 2021-08-26 | Supreme Court Strikes Down CDC Eviction Moratorium as Unauthorized Executive Action U.S. Supreme Court · Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · Joe Biden · Alabama Association of Realtors | confirmed | |
| 2021-07-21 | Trump shows classified Iran attack plan at Bedminster, admits can't declassify Donald Trump · Mark Meadows · Trump staffers | confirmed | |
| 2021-04-15 | Giuliani Associate Sought $2 Million Payment for Trump Pardons Rudy Giuliani · Lev Parnas · Igor Fruman · Harry Sargeant III · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2021-02-09 | Second Impeachment Trial Begins with Constitutional Debate on Trying Former President Donald Trump · Patrick Leahy · Bruce Castor · David Schoen · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2021-02-02 | Saudi Dissident Omar Abdulaziz's Lawsuit Against McKinsey Filed in Federal Court Omar Abdulaziz · McKinsey & Company · Mohammed bin Salman · Saudi Arabia · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2021-01-25 | Supreme Court Dismisses All Trump Emoluments Cases as Moot US Supreme Court · Donald Trump · CREW (Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington) · District of Columbia · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2021-01-19 | Trump's Final Day Pardon Spree - 73 Pardons Including Bannon and Broidy Donald Trump · Steve Bannon · Elliott Broidy · Ken Kurson · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2021-01-07 | Boeing Pays $2.5 Billion in Deferred Prosecution Deal, Zero Executives Charged for 346 Deaths Department of Justice · Boeing · 346 crash victims · Victims' families · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2021-01-06 | FBI forensics show Trump watched TV and tweeted instead of stopping Capitol riot Donald Trump · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Jack Smith | confirmed | |
| 2021-01-06 | January 6 Capitol Insurrection Represents Culmination of WHIG Constitutional Crisis Template Implementation for Oligarchic Governance Establishment Donald Trump · Proud Boys · Oath Keepers · Roger Stone · +6 | confirmed | |
| 2021-01-06 | Trump says "So what?" when told Pence evacuated for safety during Capitol riot Donald Trump · Mike Pence · Nick Luna · Dan Scavino | confirmed | |
| 2021-01-04 | Jeffrey Clark admits in Signal messages that classified briefing yielded "nothing helpful" for Trump Jeffrey Clark · Scott Perry · Donald Trump · Department of Justice | confirmed | |
| 2021-01-03 | Jeffrey Clark Attempts DOJ Coup to Overturn Election Jeffrey Clark · Donald Trump · Jeffrey Rosen · Richard Donoghue · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2021-01-02 | Trump Calls Georgia Secretary of State to Find 11,780 Votes Donald Trump · Brad Raffensperger · Mark Meadows · Cleta Mitchell · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2020-12-23 | Trump Pardons Manafort, Stone, Flynn, Kushner in Corruption Spree Donald Trump · Paul Manafort · Roger Stone · Michael Flynn · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2020-12-14 | Trump Campaign Organizes Fake Electors in Seven States Donald Trump · Trump Campaign · Republican National Committee · Kenneth Chesebro · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2020-12-14 | Trump privately admits defeat saying "Can you believe I lost to this f'ing guy?" Donald Trump · Joe Biden · Mike Pence | confirmed | |
| 2020-12-01 | DOJ Reveals Investigation into $2 Million Bribery-for-Pardon Scheme Donald Trump · Elliott Broidy · Lev Parnas · Rudy Giuliani | confirmed | |
| 2020-10-21 | Trump Issues Original Schedule F Executive Order: Civil Service Protection Elimination Donald Trump · Office of Personnel Management · Heritage Foundation · Project 2025 · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2020-10-14 | FBI Enables Social Media Suppression of Hunter Biden Laptop Story Despite Knowing Authenticity Federal Bureau of Investigation · Twitter · Facebook · Yoel Roth · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2020-10-02 | Trump Tests Positive for COVID-19, Hospitalized at Walter Reed with Experimental Treatments Donald Trump · Melania Trump · Sean Conley · Mike Pence · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2020-09-26 | Rose Garden Amy Coney Barrett Ceremony Becomes White House COVID Superspreader Event Donald Trump · Amy Coney Barrett · Melania Trump · Mike Lee · +6 | confirmed | |
| 2020-08-27 | Trump Delivers RNC Acceptance Speech from White House South Lawn in Unprecedented Mass Hatch Act Violation Event Donald Trump · Melania Trump · Mark Meadows · Mike Pompeo · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2020-08-25 | Acting DHS Secretary Chad Wolf Violates Hatch Act by Staging White House Naturalization Ceremony as RNC Campaign Content Chad Wolf · Donald Trump · Henry Kerner · Bennie Thompson | confirmed | |
| 2020-08-24 | Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue Violates Hatch Act by Campaigning for Trump at Official USDA Event Sonny Perdue · Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 2020-07-10 | Trump Commutes Roger Stone Sentence Days Before Prison Donald Trump · Roger Stone · William Barr · Randy Credico · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2020-06-09 | Federal Government Awards Billions in No-Bid COVID PPE Contracts, Often to Politically Connected Companies Trump Administration · Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) · U.S. Department of Justice · Congressional Oversight | confirmed | |
| 2020-05-15 | Trump Fires 5 Inspectors General in 6 Weeks to Block Investigations Donald Trump · Steve Linick · Michael Atkinson · Glenn Fine · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2020-04-23 | Trump Suggests Injecting Disinfectant and UV Light Inside Body as COVID Treatments Donald Trump · William Bryan | confirmed | |
| 2020-04-03 | Trump Inspector General Friday Night Massacre Systematically Accelerates WHIG Oversight Destruction Precedent for Constitutional Crisis Operations Donald Trump · Michael Atkinson · Glenn Fine · Mitch Behm · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2020-04-01 | Trump Awards $812M No-Bid COVID Contract to Newly Formed Phlow Corporation Phlow Corporation · Peter Navarro · Kodak · Donald Trump · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2020-03-13 | Trump Declares National Emergency for COVID-19 After Weeks of Denialism and Delay Donald Trump · Alex Azar · Mike Pence | confirmed | |
| 2020-02-11 | Bill Barr Intervenes to Reduce Sentences for Trump Allies Stone and Flynn Bill Barr · Roger Stone · Michael Flynn · Donald Trump · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2020-02-07 | Trump Fires Impeachment Witnesses Vindman and Sondland in Coordinated Retaliation Purge Donald Trump · Alexander Vindman · Yevgeny Vindman · Gordon Sondland · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2020-02-07 | Trump Fires Lt. Col. Vindman from NSC in Retaliation for Impeachment Testimony Donald Trump · Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman · Lt. Col. Yevgeny Vindman · National Security Council · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2020-02-05 | Senate Acquits Trump Despite Proven Abuse of Power; Romney Only Republican to Convict Mitch McConnell · Mitt Romney · Donald Trump · Senate Republicans | confirmed | |
| 2020-01-31 | Bolton Book Manuscript Reveals Trump Directly Tied Ukraine Aid to Biden Investigation John Bolton · Donald Trump · Mitch McConnell · Senate Republicans | confirmed | |
| 2020-01-31 | Senate Votes 51-49 to Block Witnesses in Impeachment Trial, Ensuring Trump Acquittal Mitch McConnell · Mitt Romney · Susan Collins · Senate Republicans · +1 | confirmed |