#Institutional-Capture
Events indexed under #Institutional-Capture — 528 entries in the record.
| Date | Event | Lanes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-09-22 | Trump Installs Personal Lawyer Lindsey Halligan as U.S. Attorney After Prosecutor Refuses Political Indictments
2 src Lindsey Halligan · Donald Trump · Erik Siebert · Department of Justice | reported | |
| 2025-09-20 | Eastern District of Virginia US Attorney Erik Siebert Resigns Under Trump Pressure to Charge Letitia James
2 src Erik Siebert · Donald Trump · Department of Justice · Letitia James · +2 | reported | |
| 2025-09-19 | SEC Drops Fraud Cases Against Trump Clemency Recipients, Abandoning Victims
2 src Paul Atkins · Devon Archer · Trevor Milton · Carlos Watson · +2 | reported | |
| 2025-09-19 | Trump Appointee George Cook Named Acting Census Director in Unprecedented Triple Role
2 src George Cook · U.S. Census Bureau · U.S. Department of Commerce · Donald Trump | reported | |
| 2025-09-19 | Trump's $200M White House Ballroom Funded by Government Contractors Seeking Access
2 src Donald Trump · Lockheed Martin · Google · Palantir · +4 | reported | |
| 2025-09-18 | Education Department Inspector General Probes DOGE's Illegal Access to Student Loan Data
2 src Elon Musk · Department of Government Efficiency · Education Department · Inspector General | reported | |
| 2025-09-16 | Former Special Counsel Jack Smith Warns Rule of Law 'Under Attack Like Never Before'
2 src Jack Smith · Department of Justice · George Mason University · Trump Administration | reported | |
| 2025-09-15 | NYT Reveals UAE $2B Crypto Investment Tied to AI Chip Deal Approval
2 src Donald Trump · Steve Witkoff · David Sacks · Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan · +3 | reported | |
| 2025-09-15 | Trump Installs Economic Adviser on Federal Reserve Board in Unprecedented Dual Role
2 src Stephen Miran · Donald Trump · Federal Reserve · Council of Economic Advisers | reported | |
| 2025-09-11 | Kennedy Center Fires Jazz Director in Continued Cultural Institution Purge
2 src Richard Grenell · Kevin Struthers · Jason Moran · Kennedy Center | reported | |
| 2025-09-11 | Senate Republicans Change Rules to Confirm Trump Nominees in Batches Without Individual Scrutiny
3 src John Thune · Senate Republicans · Donald Trump | reported | |
| 2025-09-11 | State Department Adds 'Fidelity' Criterion, Retaliates Against Diplomats for Honest Analysis
3 src State Department · American Foreign Service Association · Donald Trump · Career Diplomats | reported | |
| 2025-09-10 | Commerce Secretary Lutnick Forces Corporations to Provide Government Equity Stakes
2 src Howard Lutnick · U.S. Department of Commerce · Intel · Lockheed Martin · +1 | reported | |
| 2025-09-10 | Federal Judge Allows Trump to Eliminate 1,600 NSF Grants Worth $1 Billion
2 src Donald Trump · Department of Government Efficiency · National Science Foundation · Federal Judiciary | reported | |
| 2025-09-10 | Labor Department Inspector General Opens Investigation Into Jobs Data Manipulation
3 src Labor Department Inspector General · Erika McEntarfer · Donald Trump · Bureau of Labor Statistics | reported | |
| 2025-09-09 | Director of National Intelligence Gabbard Orders NSA Report Retraction to Shield Trump Officials
2 src Tulsi Gabbard · Richard Grenell · National Security Agency · Marco Rubio | reported | |
| 2025-09-09 | DOJ Demands Detailed Voter Roll Data From 30+ States to Build Centralized National Database
3 src Department of Justice · Donald Trump · State election officials | confirmed | |
| 2025-09-09 | Heritage Foundation Publishes 800-Page Constitutional Guide as Trump's Judicial Roadmap
3 src Heritage Foundation · Justice Samuel Alito · Donald Trump · U.S. Supreme Court | reported | |
| 2025-09-08 | Missouri GOP Passes Mid-Decade Gerrymander to Eliminate Democratic Congressional Seat
3 src Missouri GOP legislature · Representative Emmanuel Cleaver · Trump Administration | reported | |
| 2025-09-06 | Trump Administration Explores Federal Takeover of 9/11 Memorial and Museum
3 src Trump · Michael Bloomberg · Kathy Hochul · Port Authority of New York and New Jersey | reported | |
| 2025-09-05 | Trump Signs Executive Order Renaming Pentagon as 'Department of War'
3 src Trump · Pete Hegseth · U.S. Department of Defense | confirmed | |
| 2025-09-04 | DOJ Opens Criminal Investigation Into Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook for Alleged Mortgage Fraud
3 src Department of Justice · Lisa Cook · Pam Bondi · Bill Pulte · +3 | reported | |
| 2025-09-04 | Federal Reserve Nominee Plans Unprecedented Dual Role With White House
3 src Stephen Miran · Donald Trump · Federal Reserve Board · White House | reported | |
| 2025-09-04 | Trump Fires Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner After Unfavorable Jobs Report
2 src Donald Trump · Erika McEntarfer · EJ Antoni · Bureau of Labor Statistics · +1 | reported | |
| 2025-09-03 | Treasury Department Refuses to Release $1.5 Billion in Epstein Financial Records
2 src Ron Wyden · Scott Bessent · U.S. Treasury Department · U.S. Senate Finance Committee · +1 | reported | |
| 2025-09-02 | Supreme Court Allows Trump to Remove FTC Commissioner, Gutting Agency Independence
2 src Chief Justice John Roberts · Donald Trump · Rebecca Slaughter · U.S. Supreme Court · +1 | reported | |
| 2025-08-29 | DHS Secretary Noem Fires 23 FEMA Employees, Demands Public Trump Praise, Announces IT Breach
2 src Kristi Noem · Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) · DHS (Department of Homeland Security) · Trump | reported | |
| 2025-08-29 | DOJ Loosens Requirements to Deploy ~600 Military JAG Officers as Immigration Judges
3 src Department of Justice · Trump · U.S. Military | reported | |
| 2025-08-29 | EPA Fires At Least 8 Employees Who Signed Letter Criticizing Trump's Environmental Rollbacks
3 src Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) · Lee Zeldin · Trump | reported | |
| 2025-08-29 | SSA whistleblower Charles Borges forced to resign after exposing data breach
3 src Charles Borges · Social Security Administration · Department of Government Efficiency · Aram Moghaddassi | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-28 | RFK Jr. Fires CDC Director Susan Monarez After She Refuses to Approve Unscientific Vaccine Directives
3 src RFK Jr. · Susan Monarez · Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · Trump | reported | |
| 2025-08-28 | Trump Executive Order Mandates Classical Architecture for Federal Buildings
2 src Donald Trump · White House · General Services Administration | reported | |
| 2025-08-28 | White House Fires Surface Transportation Board Member Via Email Without Cause
3 src Trump · White House · Surface Transportation Board · Robert E. Primus | reported | |
| 2025-08-26 | DOJ Launches Probe Into FBI/CIA Officials Over Russia Investigation Records Under Kash Patel and Dan Bongino
2 src Kash Patel · Dan Bongino · Department of Justice · James Comey · +1 | reported | |
| 2025-08-26 | Trump Demands '$500 Million' From Harvard to Restore Frozen Federal Research Funding
3 src Trump · Harvard University · U.S. Department of Education · Alan Garber | reported | |
| 2025-08-26 | Whistleblower Reveals Unprecedented Social Security Database Security Breach
6 src Charles Borges · John Solly · Michael Russo · Aram Moghaddassi · +3 | reported | |
| 2025-08-22 | U.S. Government Takes 10% Equity Stake in Intel Through CHIPS Act Conversion
3 src Howard Lutnick · Trump · U.S. Department of Commerce · Intel | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-21 | Federal Judge Rules Alina Habba Unlawfully Serving as U.S. Attorney for New Jersey
3 src Trump · Alina Habba · Department of Justice · Federal Judiciary | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-20 | Gabbard Revokes Security Clearances of 37 Intelligence Officials Without Evidence
3 src Tulsi Gabbard · Donald Trump · Intelligence Community · Maher Bitar | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-19 | Fired DOJ Antitrust Official Accuses Bondi Leadership of Corruption in $14B Merger
3 src Roger Alford · Pam Bondi · Chad Mizelle · Hewlett Packard Enterprise · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-19 | OMB Director Vought Blocks Billions in Congressional Appropriations, Claims Unilateral Spending Power
3 src Russell Vought · Office of Management and Budget · Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-19 | State Department Revokes 6,000+ Student Visas, Targeting Palestinian Activists
3 src State Department · Marco Rubio · U.S. Department of Homeland Security | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-19 | Trump Converts CHIPS Act Grants to Government Equity Stake in Intel
3 src Howard Lutnick · Intel Corporation · SoftBank · U.S. Department of Commerce | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-19 | Trump Installs Unconfirmed Loyalists as US Attorneys, Bypassing Senate
3 src Donald Trump · Alina Habba · Pam Bondi · Department of Justice | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-19 | Trump-Appointed US Attorney Investigates DC Police for 'Fake' Crime Data
3 src Jeanine Pirro · Donald Trump · DC Metropolitan Police · Department of Justice | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-18 | Trump Appoints Missouri AG to Unprecedented FBI Co-Deputy Director Role
3 src Andrew Bailey · Donald Trump · Dan Bongino · Kash Patel · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-18 | Trump Pledges Executive Order to Ban Mail-In Voting After Putin Meeting
3 src Donald Trump · Vladimir Putin · White House | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-13 | Treasury Secretary Bessent Violates Ethics Agreement, Retains Millions in Conflicted Assets
2 src Scott Bessent · Office of Government Ethics · Department of the Treasury | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-11 | Trump Demands Intel CEO Resignation, Then Reverses After Meeting
3 src Donald Trump · Lip-Bu Tan · Intel Corporation | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-11 | Trump Federalizes DC Police and Deploys 800 National Guard Troops Despite Declining Crime
3 src Donald Trump · Pam Bondi · Terry Cole · DC Metropolitan Police · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-11 | Trump Nominates Partisan Heritage Foundation Economist to Lead Bureau of Labor Statistics
3 src E.J. Antoni · Donald Trump · Bureau of Labor Statistics · Heritage Foundation · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-07 | Trump Executive Order Places Federal Grants Under Political Appointee Control
3 src Donald Trump · White House · Office of Management and Budget | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-07 | Trump Signs Executive Order Prohibiting 'Debanking' Based on Political Views
2 src Donald Trump · White House · Federal Reserve · FDIC · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-05 | DOJ Launches Mortgage Fraud Investigation Targeting Senator Adam Schiff
3 src Department of Justice · Adam Schiff · U.S. Attorney's Office (Maryland) · Federal Housing Finance Agency · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-04 | DOJ Inspector General 'Lost' Whistleblower Complaint Against Trump Judicial Nominee for Three Months
3 src DOJ Office of Inspector General · Whistleblower Aid · Emil Bove · Department of Justice · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-02 | Senate Confirms Jeanine Pirro as U.S. Attorney for Washington D.C.
3 src Jeanine Pirro · Trump · U.S. Senate · Department of Justice | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-01 | Columbia University Agrees to Monitor Foreign Students for Trump Administration in $221 Million Settlement
3 src Columbia University · U.S. Department of Education · White House · Bart Schwartz · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-01 | DOJ Uses Legal Loopholes to Install Trump Loyalists as Acting U.S. Attorneys Without Senate Confirmation
3 src Department of Justice · Pam Bondi · U.S. Senate · Federal Judiciary · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-01 | Far-Right Activist Laura Loomer Orchestrates Mass Loyalty Purges Across Trump Administration
3 src Laura Loomer · Donald Trump · National Security Agency · Department of Justice · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-01 | Federal Reserve Governor Adriana Kugler Resigns Early, Opening Seat for Trump Appointee
3 src Adriana Kugler · Federal Reserve · Donald Trump · Jerome Powell | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-01 | Smithsonian Removes Trump Impeachment References from National Museum of American History
3 src Smithsonian Institution · National Museum of American History · White House · Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-01 | Trump Fires Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner Hours After Unfavorable Jobs Report
3 src Donald Trump · Erika McEntarfer · Bureau of Labor Statistics · U.S. Department of Labor | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-01 | Trump Orders States to Hand Over Medicaid, Food Assistance, and Voter Roll Data for Federal Surveillance
3 src U.S. Department of Homeland Security · USDA · U.S. Department of Health and Human Services · Department of Government Efficiency · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-01 | U.S. Army Awards Palantir $10 Billion AI-Driven Software Contract
3 src U.S. Army · Palantir Technologies · U.S. Department of Defense · Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-31 | Elon Musk Continues $277 Million Donation Spree Supporting Trump and Republican Candidates
3 src Elon Musk · Donald Trump · Trump Administration · MAGA Inc. · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-14 | Pam Bondi ousts DOJ ethics director Joseph Tirrell amid mass prosecutor dismissal
3 src Pam Bondi · Joseph Tirrell · Donald Trump · Jack Smith · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-12 | Bondi Fires 20 Justice Department Employees Tied to Trump Prosecutions
3 src Pam Bondi · Department of Justice · Trump Prosecutors · January 6 Prosecutors · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-10 | DOGE 2.0: Institutional Capture Continues After Musk's Direct Involvement
4 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Elon Musk · DOGE Operatives | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-08 | Navy Activates WEXMAC 2.2 TITUS as Domestic Detention Procurement Vehicle With $10B Ceiling, Repurposing Afghanistan Logistics Contract for ICE
4 src US Navy · Naval Supply Systems Command · Department of Homeland Security · ICE · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-07 | Ghana Launches Democracy Capture Index Revealing Widespread Institutional Capture in Africa
3 src Ghana Centre for Democratic Development · CDD-Ghana researchers · African presidents · Government agencies across 10 African countries | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-02 | CDC Deactivates H5N1 Emergency Response Despite Ongoing Outbreak
3 src Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · U.S. Department of Health and Human Services · Robert F. Kennedy Jr. | confirmed | |
| 2025-06-10 | CFPB Enforcement Chief Resigns, Condemns Trump Administration's Agency Deconstruction
3 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Cara Petersen · Russell Vought · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-06-09 | RFK Jr. Fires All 17 ACIP Members, Wholesale Replacement of Vaccine Advisory Committee
5 src Robert F. Kennedy Jr. · CDC · HHS · Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-06-09 | RFK Jr. Fires All 17 Members of CDC Vaccine Advisory Committee
3 src Robert F. Kennedy Jr. · U.S. Department of Health and Human Services · Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices | confirmed | |
| 2025-06-03 | Mass DOJ Firings Reshape Federal Law Enforcement Landscape
3 src Donald Trump · Kash Patel · Pam Bondi · FBI Agents Association | confirmed | |
| 2025-06-01 | Over 275,000 federal layoffs announced with 128,709 workers targeted
4 src Trump Administration · Elon Musk · Department of Government Efficiency · Federal Workforce · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-29 | CMS Rescinds EMTALA Guidance Requiring Emergency Abortion Care
3 src Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services · HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. · Department of Justice · U.S. Department of Health and Human Services · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-28 | HHS Cancels $766 Million Moderna Contract for H5N1 Pandemic Flu Vaccines
3 src Robert F. Kennedy Jr. · U.S. Department of Health and Human Services · Moderna · BARDA | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-19 | DOJ Civil Rights Division Mass Exodus: ~400 Employees Depart as Dhillon Rewrites Mission to Target Trans Rights, Promote 'Anti-Christian Bias' Agenda
6 src Harmeet Dhillon · DOJ Civil Rights Division · Pam Bondi · Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-15 | FBI Disbands Washington Public Corruption Squad Amid Broader Investigative Reorganization
3 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Kash Patel · Chuck Grassley · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-25 | Trump Administration Dramatically Weakens Independent Hatch Act Enforcement
4 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Hampton Dellinger · Paul Ingrassia · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-20 | Schedule F Implementation Deadline: Systematic Federal Workforce Reclassification
3 src Office of Personnel Management · Federal Agencies · Trump Administration · Federal Workforce | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-07 | Dhillon Guts DOJ Voting Section: Reassigns Managers, Suspends Cases, Rewrites Mission to 'Voter Fraud'
6 src Harmeet Dhillon · DOJ Civil Rights Division · DOJ Voting Section · Pam Bondi · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-02 | Trump Invokes Emergency Powers Act (IEEPA) to Impose Unprecedented Reciprocal Tariffs
3 src Donald Trump · U.S. Supreme Court | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-01 | Multiple Pulitzer Prizes Awarded for Exposing Systematic Kleptocratic Corruption
3 src Reuters · Wall Street Journal · Boston Globe · Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-28 | Peter Marks Forced Out as FDA Vaccine Chief, Accuses RFK Jr. of 'Misinformation and Lies'
4 src Peter Marks · Robert F. Kennedy Jr. · FDA · HHS | 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 | Senate Confirms Marty Makary as FDA Commissioner in 56-44 Vote, Architect of Deregulation Agenda
4 src Marty Makary · Donald Trump · Robert F. Kennedy Jr. · Jay Bhattacharya · +3 | 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 | |
| 2025-03-20 | Trump Rescinds Executive Order After Paul Weiss Agrees to $40M Pro Bono Services
3 src Donald Trump · Paul Weiss Law Firm · Mark Pomerantz | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-12 | Johnson says Congress will investigate attacks against Tesla owners, vehicles
3 src Mike Johnson · Elon Musk · Marjorie Taylor Greene · Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-12 | Justice Department Significantly Downsizes Public Corruption Investigation Unit
3 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Pam Bondi · Eric Adams · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-01 | Federal Agencies Fire 62,530 Workers in Two Months - 41,311% Increase Over 2024
3 src Trump Administration · Office of Personnel Management · Department of Interior · forest-service · +2 | 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 | |
| 2025-02-15 | Attorney General Bondi Establishes 'Weaponization Working Group' to Target Prosecutors
3 src Pam Bondi · Weaponization Working Group · Department of Justice · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-15 | DOJ Kleptocracy Initiative Shuttered: Major Setback for Anti-Corruption Enforcement
3 src Pam Bondi · Department of Justice · Kleptocracy Asset Recovery Initiative · KleptoCapture Task Force · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-14 | DOJ Public Corruption Division Systematic Dismantling Coordinated Across Agencies
5 src Emil Bove · Danielle Sassoon · Hagan Scotten (Assistant US Attorney) · Eric Adams · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-14 | DOJ Public Integrity Section Gutted After Mass Resignations Over Adams Case
3 src Department of Justice · Emil Bove · Eric Adams · Danielle Sassoon · +2 | 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 | |
| 2025-02-07 | Trump Purges Inspectors General Investigating Musk's Businesses
4 src Donald Trump · Elon Musk · Robert Storch · Phyllis Fong · +5 | confirmed |