Jan. 20 (Day 1) | On his first day, Trump pardons 1,500 people convicted of participating in the riot at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. That included the most violent activists sentenced to many years in prison. | More ›
Jan. 27 (Day 8) | The Justice Department fires several officials who worked on the federal criminal investigations into President Trump. | More ›
Jan. 29 (Day 10) | Ret. Gen. Mark Milley, the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, is stripped of his security clearance by executive order. Trump also orders an investigation into his “conduct.” Milley has called Trump “fascist to the core.” | More ›
Feb. 25 (Day 37) | Trump signs an executive order revoking security clearances for those working at Covington and Burling, where some helped with legal advice for Jack Smith. Smith was the lead prosecutor on cases against Trump, stemming from the siege at the Capitol on Jan. 6 and Trump’s removal of classified documents. | More ›
March 18 (Day 58) | Chief Justice John Roberts rebukes Trump’s call for impeachment of judge who ordered a temporary halt to the deportation of alleged Venezuelan gang members. | More ›
March 22 (Day 62) | Trump does away with security clearances for former President Biden and several people with ties to him, including former Vice President Kamala Harris, former Secretary of State Antony Blinken, current Rep. Alexander Vindman and others. Trump issues memo targeting more law firms. | More ›
March 27 (Day 67) | Trump issues an executive order suspending clearances for those at another prominent law firm, WilmerHale. | More ›
April 1 (Day 72) | Another targeted law firm reaches a deal with Trump White House, Willkie and Farr. The next day, another the law firm, Milbank, also reaches an agreement. | More ›
April 8 (Day 79) | A federal judge orders the Trump White House to let Associated Press journalists return to the Oval Office and other spaces immediately to cover news events, ruling it was unlawful to block the news service in a dispute over its choice of words. The AP had angered the White House because it refused to call the Gulf of Mexico by President Trump’s preferred name for it: the Gulf of America. | More ›
April 9 (Day 80) | Trump signs an executive order stripping security clearance from Chris Krebs, his former head of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, or CISA. The order calls for an investigation into his time as head of CISA and labels him a “risk” and “significant bad-faith actor, who weaponized and abused his government authority.” Krebs repeatedly said, as head of CISA, that the 2020 election was not stolen. This order says Krebs “falsely and baselessly denied that the 2020 election was rigged and stolen.” (It was not.) | More ›