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Trump Administration
How Trump Survived Decades of Legal Trouble
By Brian Bennett
The Defenders of America's Elections
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The Major Ongoing Investigations Into Donald Trump
Here’s what to know about investigations into Trump, from his alleged Jan. 6 conduct to handling of classified documents.
By Madeleine Carlisle
September 12, 2022
What’s Next for the Jan. 6 Committee
While the House committee investigating Jan. 6 had originally signaled it would hold final hearings in September, they may now bleed into October and could include significant revelations.
By Eric Cortellessa
September 9, 2022
Justice Department Appeals Special Master Ruling in Trump Documents Probe
The Justice Department is appealing a judge's decision to name an independent arbiter to review records seized by the FBI from former President Donald Trump's Florida home.
By ERIC TUCKER / AP
September 8, 2022
Steve Bannon Surrenders to New York Court
Bannon surrendered Thursday to face state money laundering and conspiracy charges related to allegations that he duped donors.
By Michael R. Sisak/Associated Press
September 8, 2022
Judge Removes Public Official Over Jan. 6
A New Mexico judge disqualified county commissioner Couy Griffin from holding public office for his role at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
By Morgan Lee/Associated Press
September 6, 2022
Trump's Legal Liability Grows Clearer
The latest filing is the most damning so far, with prosecutors alleging government records at Mar-a-Lago were “likely concealed and removed."
By Brian Bennett
August 31, 2022
Trump's FBI Saga May Crowd Out Jan. 6 News
The Jan. 6 committee returns in September with public hearings and an initial report. Trump may prefer public attention to be elsewhere.
By Philip Elliott
August 29, 2022
Trump Revives Impeachment Playbook
The legal system has ways to punish misrepresentations and lies, actions that have often brought Trump rewards in the political arena.
By Brian Bennett
August 25, 2022
How Trump Judges Limit Biden Executive Orders
Inside the White House, there’s a growing reluctance to take executive orders much further, partly out of concern that it could backfire.
By Brian Bennett and Abigail Abrams
August 15, 2022
'Hunter Biden's Laptop' Isn't a Trump Defense
The Trump orbit didn’t invent this sort of misdirection but it did hone it in significant ways.
By Philip Elliott
August 10, 2022
Former Trump Officials Respond to FBI Search
The unprecedented move by federal law enforcement to execute a search warrant on a former President's home could serve to mobilize Trump's base.
By Brian Bennett
August 9, 2022
Why Trump Can’t Mask His True Self Behind a Mainstream Think Tank
Trump's speech at the America First Agenda Summit revealed just how out of place he remains in his own party.
By Philip Elliott
July 27, 2022
Trump Refused Multiple Requests to Call Off Mob, Jan. 6 Panel Details
Trump's refused multiple requests from his allies to call off the mob at the Capitol.
By Eric Cortellessa
July 21, 2022
How Bennie Thompson and Liz Cheney Turned the Jan. 6 Hearings Into Must-See TV
Thompson and Cheney plan to tie a bow around the narrative they have been piecing together over the last six weeks.
By Eric Cortellessa
July 20, 2022
What to Know About Stephen Bannon's Contempt of Congress Conviction
Bannon is one of the most prominent Trump allies who refused to cooperate with the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.
By Brian Bennett
July 18, 2022
Trump's White House Treated Him Like a Child. Congress Won’t.
Ahead of Jan. 6, Trump wasn't manipulated by Svengali advisers. He was working with those saying what he wanted to hear.
By Philip Elliott
July 14, 2022
Lawmaker Helping Lead Jan. 6 Hearing First Fled Vietnam, Then Capitol Rioters
Murphy is set to lead the next Jan. 6 hearing. She tells TIME how her career, and in some ways her whole life, has led her here.
By Eric Cortellessa
July 11, 2022
What Trump Knew
"I think he has gone into a whole different category of potential criminal liability,” says one legal expert, citing Cassidy Hutchinson's hearing.
By Eric Cortellessa and Vera Bergengruen
June 29, 2022
Trump Would Love the Reality-Show Flair of the Jan. 6 Hearings if He Weren't the Target
Tuesday's hearing demonstrated how the committee is using Trump's Apprentice-honed tactics to keep viewers hooked.
By Philip Elliott
June 29, 2022
Trump Attacked His Own Security Detail on Jan. 6, Top White House Aide Testifies
Cassidy Hutchinson, an aide to former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, gave explosive testimony to the Jan. 6 committee.
By Eric Cortellessa
June 28, 2022
Trump and His Allies Sought to Corrupt Justice Dept., Former Officials Tell Jan. 6 Committee
The committee also named several Republicans in Congress who allegedly sought pardons from Trump.
By Eric Cortellessa
June 23, 2022
These Are the Factors Garland Is Likely Weighing as He Mulls Charging Trump
With each consecutive Jan. 6 hearing, the spotlight on the Justice Department and the Attorney General has grown brighter.
By Brian Bennett
June 22, 2022
'There is Nowhere I Feel Safe': Jan. 6 Panel Hears From Election Officials Trump Targeted
Officials explained in harrowing detail how Trump's scheme to overturn the election disrupted their lives, sometimes in ways they were still recovering from.
By Eric Cortellessa and Brian Bennett
June 21, 2022
Jan. 6 Committee Plans at Least One Additional Hearing
After originally saying it would hold six hearings, the committee is now planning a seventh, as more evidence comes in.
By Eric Cortellessa
June 20, 2022
Multiple Trump Allies Allegedly Sought Pardons After Jan. 6. Could Trump Have Issued Them?
The lawyer who advised former President Donald Trump on how to overturn the 2020 election requested a pardon from him in the days after Jan. 6, the committee investigating the Capitol attack revealed on Thursday....
By Eric Cortellessa
June 17, 2022
How Trump Pressured Pence With Taunts, Lies and an Angry Mob
"Make no mistake about the fact the vice president's life was in danger," a member of the Jan. 6 committee said.
By Brian Bennett
June 16, 2022
Eastman Told Trump That Pence Plan for Jan. 6 Was Illegal
John Eastman also requested a pardon from Trump in the days after the Capitol riot, the Jan. 6 Committee revealed.
By Eric Cortellessa
June 16, 2022
Jan. 6 Panel: Trump's Mail Voting Attacks Fed 'Big Lie'
Despite the pandemic, Trump encouraged his supporters to vote in person, which led to big swings in the reporting of some election results.
By Eric Cortellessa
June 13, 2022
'The Mayor Was Definitely Intoxicated': Jan. 6 Panel Highlights Giuliani Role in Trump's Election Lie
The Jan. 6 Committee worked to show on Monday that Trump ignored any advisers telling him what he didn't want to hear.
By Brian Bennett
June 13, 2022
The Jan. 6 Hearing Laid Bare How D.C. Is Still Recovering From That Awful Day
The Jan. 6 committee’s presentation on Thursday amounted to examining an open wound, writes Philip Elliott.
By Philip Elliott
June 10, 2022
Jan. 6 Hearings: What We Learned on Day One
Video footage by former Trump officials stirred many of those who attended the hearing.
By Eric Cortellessa
June 9, 2022
The Jan. 6 Committee Is About to Hold Public Hearings. Here's What to Expect.
Committee members are signaling that they've saved the most eye-opening and jaw-dropping information for the hearings, which start Thursday.
By Eric Cortellessa
June 7, 2022
Sussman Trial: What to Know About Durham Probe and Trump
A trial underway in Washington has brought new attention to allegations against Trump that were pushed by Democrats and proved to be false.
By Brian Bennett
May 26, 2022
Rick Perry Pushed Deals That Helped Friends as Energy Secretary
A six-month investigation reveals Perry’s hunt for energy profits in Ukraine
By Simon Shuster and Ilya Marritz/WNYC-ProPublica
September 10, 2020
CBP Defends Controversial Urban Deployment
TIME spoke to Mark Morgan of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection about whether federal agents will be deployed in more cities
By Brian Bennett
July 21, 2020
12 Ways the Trump Administration Has Deepened Inequality
The long fight toward equality in the U.S. is often recounted by listing banner acts of Congress and the Supreme Court. Every child learns about the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision and the...
By Abby Vesoulis
June 25, 2020
Names of PPP Borrowers Won’t Be Released
Trump's administration argued that names of borrowers and the amounts they receive are “proprietary” and “confidential”
By Mark Niquette and Zachary R. Mider / Bloomberg
June 12, 2020
U.S., China Trade Chiefs to Speak as Trump Threatens Deal
Trump threatened to “terminate” the agreement if Beijing wasn’t adhering to the terms
By Bloomberg
May 7, 2020
21 States File Lawsuit Against Trump Administration Over 'Dangerous' Changes to Federal Firearm Regulations
Other states involved in this lawsuit include Connecticut, New York, Maryland, Delaware, Hawaii and Illinois
By Josiah Bates
January 24, 2020
Iran Tensions Turn Focus of Democratic Primary to Foreign Policy
In a race that has rarely zeroed in on foreign policy, the question has the potential to reveal fissures between Democratic rivals and upend the wide-open 2020 nominating contest.
By Alana Abramson
January 3, 2020
Pompeo Looking for Exit to Run for Senate: Sources
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has told three prominent Republicans in recent weeks that he plans to resign from the Trump Administration to run for the U.S. Senate from Kansas in next year's elections. The...
By John Walcott and W.J. Hennigan
November 19, 2019
Breaking Point: How Trump and Bolton Finally Hit Their Limit
As President Donald Trump prepared in recent weeks to meet in person with Taliban negotiators at Camp David and with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani in New York later this month, National Security Advisor John Bolton...
By Brian Bennett
September 10, 2019
Why President Trump Cut a Methane Regulation That Even Big Oil Companies Wanted to Keep
The Trump Administration announced Thursday the rollback of an important environmental regulation on methane emissions that even some of the world's biggest oil-and-gas companies support. The fact that Big Oil backed a regulation designed to...
By Justin Worland
August 29, 2019
Trump's Muddled Message on Hong Kong Captures the Real Problem With His Foreign Policy
The confusion captures an enduring challenge of the Trump presidency: it’s almost impossible to discern America’s approach to key foreign issues because the process for setting and enforcing policy is ignored or irrelevant.
By John Walcott
August 20, 2019
Trump Drops Ratcliffe as Pick for Top Intelligence Job
Trump's announcement, which came less than a week after he announced his intention to nominate Ratcliffe for the position, came amid a series of news reports indicating the Texas Republican had embellished his biography, concerns in Congress over Trump's attempt to install a partisan in a role that oversees a constellation of 17 intelligence agencies and the prospect of an exodus of intelligence officials over his plan to block the ascension of a veteran deputy.
By Alana Abramson , Vera Bergengruen and John Walcott
August 2, 2019
Trump Says Iran Mistakenly Downed Drone. Iran Disagrees
The President hasn’t been shy about saying he doesn’t want to get involved in additional military entanglements overseas, but Thursday’s shoot-down represented the most serious clash yet.
By W.J. Hennigan and John Walcott
June 20, 2019
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