The Trump Tracker
Comprehensive documentation of 1221 controversies, backed by evidence and sources
Trump's Justice Department Takes Jan. 6 Witness Cassidy Hutchinson to a Grand Jury
The Justice Department is seeking to charge Cassidy Hutchinson, the former Trump White House aide whose testimony to the House January 6 committee was among the most damaging to Trump, with lying to C...
Hegseth Says the First Military Firing Squad Since World War II Will Be Public, and the Pentagon Plans to Livestream It
Trump approved the execution by Army firing squad of Nidal Hasan, who killed 13 people at Fort Hood in 2009, the Pentagon announced on October 5, 2026; federal law requires presidential approval befor...
Huckabee's Top Aide Blocked Embassy Reports Critical of Israel, Including One on Killings of Americans, NYT Reports
David Milstein, a senior aide to Trump's ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, repeatedly suppressed or reshaped U.S. Embassy reporting that was critical of the Israeli government, the New York Times r...
ICE Has Held Children in Hotels Where Lawyers Could Not Find Them, Despite a Court Order to Stop
ICE has detained more than 8,750 children since Trump returned to office, according to data obtained by the Deportation Data Project, and court filings in the long-running Flores case document 86 chil...
An ICE Officer Fired Seven Rounds Into a Car on a New York Street With a 5-Year-Old in the Back Seat
During an immigration enforcement operation in the Marble Hill neighborhood of New York City on October 8, 2026, at least one ICE officer fired seven rounds, striking 28-year-old Oscar Belgal below hi...
Trump Gives National Science and Technology Medals to Six Tech Leaders Whose Companies His Portfolio Traded in August
At a White House "Science: A New Golden Age" summit on October 8, 2026, Trump awarded the National Medal of Science to Elon Musk, Google co-founder Sergey Brin, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and AMD CEO Lis...
Vance Bars Microsoft and Seven Other Firms From Sponsoring Green Cards, Calling H-1B Workers 'Indentured Servants'
At a White House news conference on October 8, 2026, Vice President JD Vance and Labor Secretary Keith Sonderling announced that Microsoft, Adobe and the consulting firms Cognizant, Infosys, Tata, Wip...
ICE Records Show Investigators Pulled Tens of Millions of Voter Records and Weighed Undercover Agents in a Hunt for Noncitizen Voters
Internal records released on October 7, 2026 by Democracy Forward, 166 pages obtained through a public-records lawsuit, show how Homeland Security Investigations, ICE's investigative arm, has run its ...
ICE Quietly Starts a 45-Day California Sweep Weeks Before the Midterms, and Officers Are Told to 'Go After Anybody'
ICE has begun an unannounced operation across California, known internally as Operation Safe California, that started several days earlier in and around San Diego and is expected to last at least 45 d...
Trump Says He Expected the Democrat He Pardoned to Switch Parties, and Calls Defeating Henry Cuellar 'Payback'
Trump pardoned Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-Texas) and his wife, who had been accused of accepting almost $600,000 in bribes and laundering funds, after reading a plea from their daughters, The Hill reported...
An FBI Video Named Senate Nominee Abdul El-Sayed as a Failed 'Progressive Democrat,' Drawing a Hatch Act Complaint
An FBI rapid-response account posted a video on October 6, 2026 attacking "The DEFUND THE POLICE crowd" that labeled Michigan's Democratic Senate nominee, Abdul El-Sayed, "Progressive Democrat, Senate...
Pentagon Bars Sen. Chris Murphy From Al Udeid and Refuses Him a War Briefing, Citing a Hegseth Travel Order
Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said on October 6, 2026 that the Pentagon denied him access to Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar, the largest U.S. base in the...
Trump Bars Gov. Wes Moore From Speaking at a Maryland Submarine Plant Announcement Moore Helped Land
Maryland Gov. Wes Moore said on October 6, 2026 that President Trump blocked him from speaking at an event near Baltimore unveiling a defense investment Moore had helped negotiate: Anduril's plan to m...
Trump Says Chicago Crime Is 'Getting Worse by the Day' as the City Heads for Fewer Homicides Than Last Year's 60-Year Low
In a Truth Social post on October 6, 2026, Trump said Chicago is "suffering an unprecedented and particularly violent crime wave that is getting worse by the day" and that "The Federal Government can ...
FBI Whistleblower Says Trump Saw a TikTok of Immigration Protesters and Had Patel Order an Investigation
A former FBI intelligence supervisor in Los Angeles, Jill Fields, says the president personally pushed the bureau to investigate people seen on a TikTok video warning their neighbors about immigration...
St. Louis Archdiocese Sues Trump's DHS After an ICE Contract Jail Bars Priests From Giving Detainees Communion
The Archdiocese of St. Louis, Archbishop Mitchell T. Rozanski and Father Chris Schroeder sued in federal court in the Eastern District of Missouri on October 5, 2026, over a no-contact policy at the S...
Trump Uses an Anti-Transgender Slur Three Times Against South Carolina Senate Nominee Annie Andrews
In a Truth Social post on October 5, 2026, Trump used an anti-transgender slur three times to describe Annie Andrews, the Democratic nominee for the Senate in South Carolina, NBC News reported, as he ...
Trump Tells a Nebraska Rally That Iran 'Can Take Out a City,' Then Says 'Let Them Take Out Los Angeles. Let Them Take Out San Diego'
At a campaign rally in Grand Island, Nebraska, on October 5, 2026, Trump defended the cost of the war with Iran, calling high fuel prices "artificial" and "a small price to pay for keeping the world s...
Trump Says The New York Times and Other Outlets 'Should Be Arrested' for Reporting Empty Seats at His Ohio Rally
After New York Times correspondent Katie Rogers reported that "several areas of an upper deck were empty" by the time Trump finished speaking at his October 3, 2026 rally at Butler High School in Vand...
Trump Posts What He Says Is Sen. Tom Cotton's Cellphone Number and Tells Arkansans to Call Him Over Daylight Saving Time
On the morning of October 3, 2026, Trump posted on Truth Social a phone number he described as Sen. Tom Cotton's cellphone and urged Arkansans to call it, blaming Cotton for holding up the Sunshine Pr...
Putin Raised a Lukoil Asset Sale With Witkoff and Kushner, and the Leading Bid Includes a Trump Donor and Groups That Did Business With Them
U.S.-Russia talks on ending the war in Ukraine now involve a multibillion-dollar deal for the international assets of Lukoil, one of Russia's largest energy companies, The New York Times reported on O...
At an Ohio Rally a Day After Approving a Disaster Declaration, Trump Says He Is 'Not Going to Help' Democrat Amy Acton if She Wins, Then Adds 'Probably'
At a rally in Vandalia, Ohio, on October 3, 2026, for Sen. Jon Husted and gubernatorial nominee Vivek Ramaswamy, Trump said he had signed a disaster declaration for the state the day before at the req...
Trump Taps a Never-Used Medicare Fund to Send $90 to 20 Million Seniors, With a Letter From Him Due Weeks Before the Midterms
Late on October 2, 2026, Trump announced on Truth Social that his administration would "immediately, begin sending 'Checks' of nearly $100 to over 20 MILLION wonderful Seniors to help pay for their Me...
ICE Agents in Maine Flagged Observers as 'Professional Protestors' in an Investigative Database, a Court Filing Shows
A motion made public on October 2, 2026 in Hilton v. Noem, a federal lawsuit in Maine brought by people who observed and filmed immigration enforcement, says discovery shows a Homeland Security Invest...
Trump's Fuel Blockade of Cuba, in Place Since January, Now Has the Coast Guard Boarding Tankers Bound for the Island
The Coast Guard announced on October 2, 2026 that it had intercepted a fuel shipment bound for Cuba. In early September a Coast Guard tactical team boarded the Motor Vessel Grace in the Caribbean Sea ...
An Inspector General Finds Trump's Gutting of Voice of America Skipped Key Steps, and Taxpayers Are Paying About $1.6 Million a Week for Staff on Leave
On March 14, 2025, Trump signed Executive Order 14238, which required the U.S. Agency for Global Media, the parent of Voice of America, to cut itself to the minimum the law requires. The administratio...
Trump Now Says His 'Four to Six Weeks' Iran Forecast Was Only About the Nuclear Threat, but He and His Press Secretary Applied It to the Whole War
Seven months into the Iran war, Trump said on Truth Social on October 1, 2026, "I stated, numerous times, that it would take 4-6 weeks to get rid of THE IRAN NUCLEAR THREAT, and I did it in one night!...
Trump's Justice Department Invited a Former Nixon Aide to Argue That the Watergate Prosecutors Were the Real Wrongdoers
The Justice Department's Office of Professional Responsibility, the internal watchdog created after Watergate, invited Geoff Shepard, a former Nixon aide who has written books on the scandal, to give ...
The Pentagon Quietly Removed the Checkbox for Americans Born Abroad From the Overseas Voter Form, Weeks Before the Midterms
Weeks before the September 19 deadline for states to send midterm ballots to military and overseas voters, the Pentagon used an "emergency" request to change the federal forms those voters use, NPR re...
Trump Tells an Oklahoma Rally the Iranian Nuclear Sites He Bombed Were Also 'Drug Factories'
At a campaign rally in Durant, Oklahoma, on October 1, 2026, Trump retold the June 2025 Operation Midnight Hammer strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities and added a new target. The B-2s, he said, "unloa...
Vance Tells Florida Senate Nominee Angie Nixon to 'Get the Hell Out' and Says She Doesn't Belong in America if She Is a Socialist
At a Republican midterm rally in the Sun 'n Fun hangar at Lakeland Linder International Airport in Florida on Thursday, October 1, 2026, Vice President JD Vance told the crowd that Angie Nixon, the De...
Blanche's Justice Department Files a Misconduct Complaint Against Nearly Every Federal Judge in Minnesota for Talking to The New York Times
On September 30, 2026, the Justice Department filed a judicial misconduct complaint with the Eighth Circuit, "at the direction of the Attorney General," against Judges Patrick J. Schiltz and John R. T...
Hegseth Creates a Religious Affairs Office That Reports Only to Him and Can Fund Faith-Based Homeschooling for Military Families
On September 30, 2026, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth signed a memo establishing an Office of Religious Affairs. Its director, "reporting directly to the Secretary and Deputy Secretary without interve...
Hegseth Orders a 20 Percent Cut in General and Admiral Positions in the Middle of the Iran War, Calling It 'Accountability'
In September 2026, with U.S. forces at war with Iran, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth approved plans to cut 20 percent of the positions reserved for generals and admirals across the Army, Navy and Air ...
Hegseth Puts Musk and Anduril's Palmer Luckey, Whose Companies Hold Billions in Pentagon Contracts, in Charge of a Study of Future Weapons Needs
In his State of the Force address at Quantico on September 30, 2026, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced Project Meridian, a study of future warfare that the Pentagon's release says "will be co-d...
Hegseth Tells 600 Troops That Some War Reporting Is 'Treason, Actually' and Repeats His 'No Fatties, No Trannies' Line
Pete Hegseth's State of the Force address at Marine Corps Base Quantico on September 30, 2026, delivered to about 600 troops, turned on the press covering the Iran war. According to the Pentagon's as-...
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