#Institutional-Capture
Events indexed under #Institutional-Capture — 528 entries in the record.
| Date | Event | Lanes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-01-30 | DOJ Epstein Files Release Exposes 43+ Survivor Names in Historic Privacy Violation
3 src Department of Justice · Pam Bondi · Todd Blanche | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-30 | Senate Passes Spending Package with Two-Week DHS Continuing Resolution
3 src United States Senate · Chuck Schumer · John Thune · Mike Johnson | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-29 | Dhillon Refocuses Civil Rights Division on Voter Fraud as 70% of Staff Exit
3 src Harmeet Dhillon · Department of Justice · Civil Rights Division | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-29 | Senate Intelligence Committee Holds Confirmation Hearing for NSA Nominee Rudd
3 src Senate Select Committee on Intelligence · Joshua Rudd · Ron Wyden · Roger Wicker | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-28 | Federal Reserve Refuses to Comply with DOJ Grand Jury Subpoenas Against Powell
3 src Jerome Powell · Federal Reserve · Department of Justice · Jeanine Pirro · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-27 | DOJ Delegates Ethics Authority to Political Aides Sidelining Career Officials
2 src Emil Bove · Pam Bondi · Department of Justice | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-27 | Federal Employment Hits Lowest Level Since 1966 as DOGE Reductions Take Hold
3 src Department of Government Efficiency · Office of Personnel Management · Elon Musk · Scott Kupor | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-26 | Bondi Requests Minnesota Voter Rolls Including Public Assistance Data for ICE Enforcement
2 src Pam Bondi · Department of Justice · Minnesota · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-22 | House Passes Final FY2026 Appropriations Bills in Split Vote
3 src U.S. House of Representatives · Mike Johnson · House Committee on Appropriations | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-21 | Lindsey Halligan Forced Out of DOJ After Unlawful Appointment Ruling
3 src Lindsey Halligan · Pam Bondi · Department of Justice · Eastern District of Virginia | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-20 | DOJ Court Filing Confirms DOGE Shared Social Security Data to Unauthorized Server
3 src Department of Government Efficiency · Department of Justice · Social Security Administration · Elon Musk | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-15 | Senate Armed Services Committee Holds NSA Nominee Confirmation Hearing
3 src Senate Committee on Armed Services · Joshua Rudd · Roger Wicker · Angus King | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-14 | FBI Raids Washington Post Reporter's Home, Seizes Devices in Unprecedented Press Freedom Violation
3 src Federal Bureau of Investigation · Washington Post · Hannah Natanson · Pam Bondi · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-10 | Choctaw Nation Tribal Council Unanimously Rejects ICE Detention Facility in Durant; City Passes Emergency Ordinance Restricting Sales
3 src Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma · Choctaw Nation Tribal Council · Regina Mabray · Gary Batton · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-08 | Vance Announces DOJ Anti-Fraud Position to Be 'Run Out of the White House'
3 src JD Vance · Donald Trump · Department of Justice · Tim Walz | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-07 | House Oversight Committee Holds Minnesota Social Services Fraud Hearing
3 src House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform · James Comer · Kristin Robbins · Walter Hudson · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-03 | ICE Announces 120% Workforce Increase to 22,000 After Recruiting 12,000 Agents in Under a Year | ||
| 2025-12-20 | DOJ Removes 15+ Epstein Files After Release, Including Trump-Maxwell Photo
4 src Department of Justice · Donald Trump · Ghislaine Maxwell · Jeffrey Epstein · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-12-19 | Bipartisan Lawmakers Accuse DOJ of Violating Epstein Files Transparency Act
5 src Ro Khanna · Thomas Massie · Chuck Schumer · Marjorie Taylor Greene · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2025-12-19 | DOJ Releases Heavily Redacted Epstein Files, 550+ Pages Completely Blacked Out
5 src Department of Justice · Todd Blanche · Pam Bondi · Jeffrey Epstein · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-12-10 | DOJ Leaders Attack Federal Judges for Disqualifying Lindsey Halligan as Unlawfully Appointed U.S. Attorney
4 src Pam Bondi · Todd Blanche · Lindsey Halligan · Judge Cameron McGowan Currie · +4 | reported | |
| 2025-12-06 | National Park Service Removes MLK Day and Juneteenth from Fee-Free Days, Adds Trump's Birthday
5 src Interior Department · National Park Service · Donald Trump · Doug Burgum · +6 | confirmed | |
| 2025-12-05 | Trump Official Signals Rollback of Census Racial Categories to Erase Marginalized Communities from Federal Data
5 src Mark Calabria · Office of Management and Budget · U.S. Census Bureau · Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights · +2 | reported | |
| 2025-12-04 | Bondi Directive Weaponizes Tax Enforcement Against Groups Labeled "Antifa"
5 src Pam Bondi · U.S. Department of Justice · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Internal Revenue Service · +6 | reported | |
| 2025-12-04 | Trump's 1,600+ Clemency Grants Bypass DOJ Review as 13 Recipients Re-Arrested for New Crimes
7 src Donald Trump · Ed Martin · Liz Oyer · Eliyahu Weinstein · +7 | confirmed | |
| 2025-12-03 | Treasury Secretary Proposes White House Veto Power Over Federal Reserve Regional Bank Presidents
7 src Scott Bessent · Department of the Treasury · Federal Reserve · Jerome Powell · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-12-03 | U.S. Institute of Peace Rebranded as 'Donald J. Trump Institute of Peace' After Armed Takeover
4 src Donald Trump · State Department · U.S. Institute of Peace · Federal Judiciary | reported | |
| 2025-11-17 | Kash Patel Assigns Elite FBI SWAT Team to Protect Girlfriend, Orders Agents to Drive Her Drunk Friend Home
5 src Kash Patel · Alexis Wilkins · Christopher O'Leary | confirmed | |
| 2025-11-10 | Trump Pardons 77 Allies Who Attempted to Overturn 2020 Election Including Giuliani, Meadows, and Fake Electors
6 src Donald Trump · Rudy Giuliani · Mark Meadows · Sidney Powell · +13 | confirmed | |
| 2025-11-07 | Cornell University Agrees to Pay $60 Million and Accept Federal Oversight to Restore Research Funding
3 src Cornell University · Michael Kotlikoff · Trump Administration | reported | |
| 2025-10-27 | NPR Sues After Corporation for Public Broadcasting Cancels $36M Contract Under Trump Pressure
2 src Corporation for Public Broadcasting · CPB executives · Donald Trump · NPR | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-27 | Trump Suggests Running as VP to Circumvent Constitutional Term Limits
2 src Donald Trump · Steve Bannon | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-25 | Binance Paid $450K to Trump Jr. Ally for Zhao Pardon Lobbying
2 src Binance · Changpeng Zhao · Ches McDowell · Donald Trump Jr. · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-25 | Federal Grand Jury Convened to Investigate 'Conspiracy Against Trump'
2 src Chris Wray · Federal grand jury · Jack Smith · Lisa Monaco · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-25 | MAGA-Aligned Lobbying Firms Quadruple Revenue Selling Trump Access
2 src Brian Ballard · Corporate clients · Pam Bondi · Susie Wiles · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-25 | Tech Billionaires Block Trump Military Deployment to San Francisco
2 src 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
4 src James Comey · Letitia James · Lindsey Halligan · Judge Cameron McGowan Currie · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-23 | Billionaire Timothy Mellon's $130M Military Donation During Shutdown Raises Oligarchy Concerns
3 src Timothy Mellon · Trump · U.S. Department of Defense · Pentagon | reported | |
| 2025-10-23 | Trump Pardons Convicted Binance Founder After $2 Billion Deal With Trump Family Crypto Venture and $450,000 Lobbying Campaign
5 src Donald Trump · Changpeng Zhao · Binance · World Liberty Financial · +5 | confirmed | |
| 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
3 src 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
2 src Pete Hegseth · Pentagon · mainstream media outlets · far-right media | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-22 | Trump Administration Prioritizes White South Africans in Refugee Admissions
2 src Trump Administration · State Department · pro-Afrikaner advocacy groups | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-22 | Trump Administration Seeks Government Equity Stakes in Quantum Computing Firms
2 src Paul Dabbar · Howard Lutnick · Trump Administration · quantum computing companies | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-22 | Trump Installs Election Deniers in DHS Election Security Positions
2 src Donald Trump · Heather Honey · Marci McCarthy · DHS (Department of Homeland Security) | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-22 | Trump Orders Demolition of Historic White House East Wing for Personal Ballroom
2 src 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
2 src Tom Homan · Mark Hall · Campaign Legal Center · DHS (Department of Homeland Security) · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-21 | Trump Demands $230 Million from DOJ as 'Compensation' for Investigations
2 src 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
2 src Donald Trump · Parisa Salehi · Inspectors General | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-20 | FTC Deletes Consumer Protection Guidance on AI Fraud and Surveillance
2 src Federal Trade Commission · Lina Khan · Trump Appointees · Tech companies | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-20 | ICE Weapons Budget Surges 700% Including Guided Missiles and Explosives
2 src 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
2 src Elon Musk · Department of Government Efficiency · Charles Borges · Social Security Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-20 | North Carolina GOP Advances Mid-Decade Redistricting to Eliminate Black Representative
2 src North Carolina Republican Party · Sen. Ralph Hise · Rep. Don Davis | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-20 | Secret Interagency Working Group Coordinates Trump Retaliation Against Political Opponents
2 src 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
2 src Donald Trump · Google · Amazon · Meta · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-19 | Federal Prosecutor Elizabeth Yusi Fired After Refusing to Charge NY AG Letitia James
3 src Elizabeth Yusi · Kristin Bird · Letitia James · Trump · +1 | reported | |
| 2025-10-18 | Federal Prosecutor Fired for Refusing Trump Demand to Indict Letitia James
2 src Elizabeth Yusi · Donald Trump · Letitia James · Lindsey Halligan · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-18 | Senate Confirms Industry Lobbyist to Lead EPA Chemical Safety Division
2 src Douglas Troutman · American Cleaning Institute · United States Senate · Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-17 | OMB Director Russell Vought Consolidates Authoritarian Control Over Federal Government
2 src Russell Vought · Donald Trump · Elon Musk · Office of Management and Budget | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-17 | Two Federal Prosecutors Fired After Refusing to Bring Charges Against Letitia James
4 src Elizabeth Yusi · Kristin Bird · Erik Siebert · Letitia James · +5 | reported | |
| 2025-10-15 | DHS Secretary Noem Names Greg Bovino Border Patrol Commander-at-Large Outside Normal Chain of Command | ||
| 2025-10-15 | Trump Administration Plans IRS Overhaul to Target Liberal Donors and Nonprofits
3 src Donald Trump · Scott Bessent · Gary Shapley · Internal Revenue Service · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-15 | Trump Executive Order Extends Hiring Freeze with Political Approval Requirements
2 src Donald Trump · White House · Office of Personnel Management | reported | |
| 2025-10-15 | Trump Publicly Identifies Political Opponents for DOJ Prosecution
3 src Donald Trump · Pam Bondi · Kash Patel · Jack Smith · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-15 | Trump Requires Political Loyalty Tests for All Federal Hiring
3 src Donald Trump · Political Appointees · Federal Agencies | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-14 | Florida Officials Concealed $608 Million Federal Funding for Immigration Detention Facility
2 src DeSantis administration · Florida officials · Federal Courts · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-13 | Budget Chief Russell Vought Seizes Congressional Spending Authority
2 src Russell Vought · Office of Management and Budget · U.S. Congress | reported | |
| 2025-10-13 | Trump Accelerates Authoritarian Agenda With Mass Purges and Political Prosecutions
2 src Donald Trump · New York Attorney General · Federal Workforce · Business Leaders | reported | |
| 2025-10-10 | Dominion Voting Systems Sold to Former Republican Election Director
2 src Scott Leiendecker · Dominion Voting Systems · Liberty Vote · Trump Administration | reported | |
| 2025-10-09 | DOJ Indicts New York AG Letitia James on Bank Fraud Charges After Trump Pressure Campaign
3 src 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
2 src Kash Patel · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Jack Smith · FBI Special Agents | reported | |
| 2025-10-09 | NY Attorney General Letitia James Indicted on Questionable Mortgage Fraud Charges
2 src Letitia James · Lindsey Halligan · Trump Administration · U.S. Department of Justice | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-09 | Trump Nominee to Lead Whistleblower Office Faces Sexual Harassment Allegations
2 src Paul Ingrassia · Office of Special Counsel · Trump Administration | reported | |
| 2025-10-08 | Erdogan Says Trump Promised to End Halkbank Sanctions Prosecution
2 src 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
3 src Donald Trump · Pam Bondi · U.S. Department of Justice | reported | |
| 2025-10-07 | Attorney General Bondi Testifies Before Senate Amid Accusations of DOJ Weaponization
3 src 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
2 src Lindsey Halligan · James Comey · U.S. Department of Justice · North Carolina Prosecutors | reported | |
| 2025-10-07 | White House Withdraws CFTC Nominee Brian Quintenz After Winklevoss Conflict
2 src Brian Quintenz · Tyler Winklevoss · Cameron Winklevoss · White House · +2 | reported | |
| 2025-10-05 | Blackstone CEO Stephen Schwarzman Negotiates Harvard Research Funding Restoration
3 src Stephen Schwarzman · Blackstone · Harvard University · White House · +1 | reported | |
| 2025-10-04 | Pirro's DC Office Dismisses 21% of Cases in 8 Weeks vs 0.5% Over Previous Decade
8 src Jeanine Pirro · Zia Faruqui · Department of Justice · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-04 | Trump Targets Corporate Deals Across 30+ Industries Before Midterm Elections
2 src Trump Administration · Pfizer · Eli Lilly · AstraZeneca · +1 | reported | |
| 2025-10-04 | Two Senior Virginia Prosecutors Purged After Resisting Political Prosecutions
3 src Lindsey Halligan · James Comey · Letitia James · Eastern District of Virginia · +1 | reported | |
| 2025-10-03 | OMB Director Russ Vought Uses Shutdown to Execute Mass Federal Purges
3 src Russ Vought · Office of Management and Budget · Trump Administration · U.S. Congress | reported | |
| 2025-10-03 | Supreme Court Uses Emergency Docket to Expand Presidential Power
3 src U.S. Supreme Court · Trump Administration · Conservative Supreme Court Majority | reported | |
| 2025-10-01 | DHS and CMS Share Personal Data of 79 Million Medicaid Patients With ICE
2 src U.S. Department of Homeland Security · Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · State Attorneys General Coalition | reported | |
| 2025-10-01 | DOJ Fires Top National Security Prosecutor Michael Ben'Ary Based on False Social Media Post
3 src Michael Ben'Ary · Department of Justice · Julie Kelly · U.S. Attorney's Office Eastern District of Virginia · +1 | reported | |
| 2025-10-01 | ProPublica: Trump Ambassador Ronald Johnson Shielded El Salvador's Bukele From Law Enforcement
2 src Ronald Johnson · Nayib Bukele · State Department · Trump Administration | reported | |
| 2025-10-01 | White House Defunds Council of Inspectors General, Disabling Federal Oversight
2 src Office of Management and Budget · Council of Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency · White House · Susan Collins · +1 | reported | |
| 2025-09-29 | HUD Fires Two Civil Rights Lawyers Who Exposed Fair Housing Enforcement Gutting
2 src Palmer Heenan · Paul Osadebe · U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development · Fair Housing Office | reported | |
| 2025-09-29 | ProPublica Reveals Russell Vought as 'Shadow President' Orchestrating Government Dismantling
2 src Russell Vought · Donald Trump · Office of Management and Budget · Project 2025 | reported | |
| 2025-09-26 | Gabbard Terminates Global Trends Intelligence Report and Unit Over Climate Change Analysis
2 src Tulsi Gabbard · DNI · Jake Sullivan | reported | |
| 2025-09-26 | Grover Norquist and 35 Conservative Groups Urge Trump to Let ACA Tax Credits Expire While Opposing Corporate Tax Credit Expirations
4 src Grover Norquist · Americans for Tax Reform · Club for Growth · Americans for Prosperity · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2025-09-25 | DOJ Orders Federal Prosecutors to Investigate George Soros' Open Society Foundations for Alleged Terrorism Ties
3 src Department of Justice · George Soros · Open Society Foundations · Aakash Singh · +3 | reported | |
| 2025-09-25 | Trump's Hand-Picked Prosecutor Indicts James Comey Days After Trump Demands DOJ Act 'Now'
2 src James Comey · Lindsey Halligan · Donald Trump · Pam Bondi · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-09-23 | Hegseth Terminates 74-Year-Old Women's Military Advisory Committee, Citing 'Divisive Feminist Agenda'
2 src Pete Hegseth · DACOWITS · U.S. Department of Defense | reported | |
| 2025-09-23 | Senator Markey Alleges Energy Secretary Wright Using Position to Benefit Former Nuclear Firm Oklo
2 src Chris Wright · Oklo Inc. · Ed Markey · Department of Energy | reported | |
| 2025-09-22 | CREW Exposes OMB Hiding Spending Controls Through Secret 'Footnote' Agreements
2 src Russell Vought · Office of Management and Budget · Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington | reported | |
| 2025-09-22 | DOJ Closes Bribery Investigation of Border Czar Tom Homan Despite FBI Evidence
2 src Tom Homan · Emil Bove · Kash Patel · Federal Bureau of Investigation · +1 | reported | |
| 2025-09-22 | DOJ Eliminates Consumer Protection Branch, Guts Civil Rights Division Enforcement
4 src Pam Bondi · Donald Trump · DOJ Civil Division | confirmed | |
| 2025-09-22 | Lindsey Halligan, Trump's Personal Attorney With No Prosecutorial Experience, Appointed Acting U.S. Attorney EDVA to Pursue Political Prosecutions
5 src Lindsey Halligan · Pam Bondi · Donald Trump · James Comey · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-09-22 | Supreme Court Allows Trump to Fire FTC Commissioner Slaughter, Threatens Independent Agencies
2 src U.S. Supreme Court · Donald Trump · Rebecca Slaughter · Alvaro Bedoya · +1 | reported |