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Trump's Government Reopened Abrego Garcia's Closed Case Seven Days After His Supreme Court Win
The government admitted to the Supreme Court that it deported Kilmar Abrego Garcia illegally.
37 sourcesExplore →Trump's Appointees Fired Agents Who Investigated Him, Then Boasted None Remained
In March 2026, Trump's deputy attorney general boasted that no agent who had anything to do with prosecuting Trump was left at the FBI.
38 sourcesExplore →Trump Demanded Charges Against Comey. Five Days Later, His Former Lawyer Obtained Them.
Trump said he had fired the prosecutor who said there was no case against James Comey.
29 sourcesExplore →Trump Signed Orders Naming Two Critics, and One Left His Job a Week Later
On April 9, 2025, Trump signed orders naming Christopher Krebs and Miles Taylor, former officials who had challenged him, and ordered security clearances suspended, pending review, for people at organizations associated with them.
30 sourcesExplore →Trump Tried to Fire a Fed Governor; His Prosecutors Used Criminal Subpoenas to Pressure Powell
In August 2025 Trump declared Governor Lisa Cook removed from the Federal Reserve, the first such attempt in its 111-year history, the Supreme Court said.
58 sourcesExplore →Trump Made Political Beliefs Terrorism Indicators, Then Agents Obtained Union Financial Records
Citing a directive Trump signed, Homeland Security sent an undercover agent to record a training session in a church gym and obtained a union's wire-transfer records.
54 sourcesExplore →To Investigate His Investigators, Trump Recruited a Man Who Had Called for Their Imprisonment
Trump publicly demanded that his Justice Department prosecute named adversaries.
39 sourcesExplore →Trump Ordered 15 Opponents Stripped of Classified Access, Then Called for Firings and Possible Charges
Trump ordered fifteen named people stripped of classified access, two of them prosecutors who had brought cases against him.
44 sourcesExplore →Trump's Intelligence Office Circulated Unchecked Pipe-Bomb Claim Against CIA Campus Security Officer; FBI Later Cleared Her
A unit that Trump's intelligence chief created to end the weaponization of government wrote a journalist's uncorroborated pipe-bomb accusation into a memo that reached senior officials.
15 sourcesExplore →Trump Demanded Letitia James's Prosecution After She Beat Him in Court
Letitia James won a fraud judgment against Donald Trump.
29 sourcesExplore →Trump Called for Six Lawmakers' Arrest. Then His Pentagon Targeted a Senator's Pension
Six lawmakers told troops they could refuse illegal orders, and Trump called for their arrest.
46 sourcesExplore →Trump's DOJ Demanded Six Years of Children's Medical Records; Two Hospitals Settled to Protect Them
Trump ordered priority investigations into pediatric gender-transition care, subject to applicable law.
19 sourcesExplore →Trump Demanded Six Lawmakers' Arrest and Pressured Prosecutors to Revive a Case They Found Meritless
Trump demanded that six Democratic lawmakers be arrested and tried over a video; Slotkin's office says a grand jury refused to indict all six.
27 sourcesExplore →After Prosecutors Found No Crime, Trump Demanded the Case Back, Citing the Man's Politics
Prosecutors concluded that David Hearn committed no crime: a contractor's faulty installation damaged the Reflecting Pool's lining, and his actions caused no economic loss.
10 sourcesExplore →Trump's Justice Department Used Six Subpoenas to Coerce Minnesota Officials, a Judge Found
Seven days after President Trump posted about Minnesota that a day of retribution was coming, the FBI served six grand jury subpoenas on the offices of the governor, the attorney general, two mayors and two county boards.
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