Domain 09
Treatment of Individuals: Cruelty, Defamation, and Degradation
Personal attacks, defamation, and degrading treatment of individuals.
30 entries
Targeting Judges' Families: Trump's Public Attacks on Judge Merchan's Daughter, Judge Engoron's Clerk, and a Pattern of Judicial Intimidation
2023 - 2024
During the criminal and civil proceedings against him in 2023 and 2024, Donald Trump repeatedly targeted the family members and staff of presiding judges through social media posts and public statemen...
Attacks on Election Workers: Ruby Freeman, Shaye Moss, and the $148 Million Defamation Verdict
2020 - 2025
Ruby Freeman and her daughter, Wandrea "Shaye" Moss, were Fulton County, Georgia election workers who processed absentee ballots during the 2020 presidential election. Beginning in December 2020, Dona...
Real-Time Witness Intimidation: Trump Tweeted Attacks Against Marie Yovanovitch While She Testified in the Impeachment Hearing
2019 - 2019
On November 15, 2019, former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch testified publicly before the House Intelligence Committee as part of the first impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trum...
Retaliation Against Whistleblowers: Ukraine Whistleblower Threats and Vindman Firings
2019 - 2022
In September 2019, a federal intelligence community whistleblower filed a formal complaint alleging that President Trump had abused the power of his office by soliciting interference from Ukraine in t...
Attacks on the Biden Family: Mocking a Stutter, Disparaging Hunter Biden's Addiction, and Using Government Power to Investigate a Political Rival's Relatives
2019 - 2024
Throughout the 2020 and 2024 presidential campaigns, Donald Trump conducted a sustained public campaign targeting members of Joe Biden's family, employing personal ridicule directed at Biden's lifelon...
Racist Attacks on Congresswomen of Color: Trump Told the 'Squad' to 'Go Back' to Their Countries, and the House Voted to Condemn His Remarks
2019 - 2019
On July 14, 2019, President Donald Trump posted a series of tweets directed at four first-term Democratic congresswomen of color, telling them to "go back and help fix the totally broken and crime inf...
Calling Meghan Markle 'Nasty' and Then Denying It: A Case Study in Gaslighting Captured on Audio
2019 - 2019
In June 2019, days before a state visit to the United Kingdom, Donald Trump was informed during an interview with the Sun newspaper that Meghan Markle, the Duchess of Sussex, had said during his 2016 ...
Systematic Harm to Immigrants and Asylum Seekers: Remain in Mexico, Title 42 Expulsions, and Migrant Protection Protocols
2019 - 2025
Beyond the family separation policy documented in INDIV-001, the Trump administration implemented several additional immigration policies that subjected asylum seekers and immigrants to documented har...
Mockery of Christine Blasey Ford: Trump's Rally Reenactment of Sexual Assault Testimony During the Kavanaugh Confirmation
2018 - 2018
On October 2, 2018, at a campaign rally in Southaven, Mississippi, President Donald Trump publicly mocked Christine Blasey Ford, the psychology professor who had testified before the Senate Judiciary ...
Treatment of John Kelly: Trump's Attacks on His Former Chief of Staff After Kelly Confirmed 'Losers and Suckers' Comments
2017 - 2024
John Kelly, a retired four-star Marine general, served as Donald Trump's Secretary of Homeland Security from January to July 2017 and as White House Chief of Staff from July 2017 to January 2019. Kell...
Public Humiliation of Jeff Sessions: Trump's Sustained Campaign of Insults Against His Own Attorney General for Recusing from the Russia Investigation
2017 - 2018
Jeff Sessions, a Republican senator from Alabama, was one of the first members of the U.S. Senate to endorse Donald Trump's presidential candidacy, doing so in February 2016 when most of the Republica...
Family Separation Policy: Thousands of Children Separated from Parents at the Border Under Zero Tolerance
2017 - 2024
In April 2018, Attorney General Jeff Sessions issued a memorandum directing all U.S. Attorney's offices along the Southwest border to adopt a "zero tolerance" policy for illegal entry offenses. When a...
Disability Rights Rollbacks: Special Olympics Funding Cuts, Program Reductions, and Erosion of Disability Protections
2017 - 2026
Across both terms, the Trump administration proposed and implemented policies that reduced federal protections and funding for people with disabilities, drawing sustained criticism from disability rig...
Pattern of Retaliatory Attacks on Former Allies: Public Humiliation, Forced Departures, and Personal Vilification of Loyalists Who Dissented
2017 - 2026
Donald Trump has engaged in a documented pattern of publicly attacking, demeaning, and seeking to destroy the reputations of former allies, appointees, and associates who fell out of favor, criticized...
Treatment of Mitt Romney: The Dinner Photo, the Endorsement-to-Exile Arc, and the Pattern of Punishing Intraparty Dissent
2016 - 2023
Donald Trump's treatment of Mitt Romney over a period of seven years illustrates a documented pattern of courting, humiliating, endorsing, and then attacking members of his own party who subsequently ...
Pattern of Threatened Lawsuits Never Filed: Litigation Threats as a Tool of Intimidation Against Accusers, Media Organizations, and Investigators
2016 - 2026
Donald Trump has a long-documented pattern of publicly threatening lawsuits that are never filed, using the prospect of litigation as a tool of intimidation against individuals who accuse him of wrong...
Attacks on Gold Star Families and Military Service Members
2015 - 2024
Across a period spanning from the 2016 presidential campaign through Trump's second term, a documented pattern of attacks on Gold Star families, wounded veterans, prisoners of war, and senior military...
Attacks on Journalists: Mocking a Disability, Gendered Insults, and Targeting of Individual Reporters
2015 - 2025
Throughout his political career, Donald Trump has directed personal attacks against individual journalists by name, targeting their physical characteristics, professional competence, and identity. The...
Pattern of Racist and Racially Charged Statements: From Birtherism to 'Shithole Countries' to 'Go Back Where You Came From'
2011 - 2026
Over the course of his public career and political campaigns, Donald Trump has made a series of statements that have been widely characterized as racist or racially charged. Each statement documented ...
Natasha Stoynoff Accusation: Alleged Forcible Kissing at Mar-a-Lago in 2005, Corroborated by Six Witnesses
2005 - 2023
Natasha Stoynoff, a staff writer for People magazine, alleged that Donald Trump physically assaulted her in December 2005 during a visit to Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida. Stoynoff was at the resor...
Sexual Misconduct Allegations: The Access Hollywood Tape, 26-Plus Accusers, and Threats to Sue
2005 - 2024
At least 26 women have publicly accused Donald Trump of sexual misconduct, with allegations spanning from the 1970s through the 2010s. The accusations include rape, sexual assault, groping, unwanted k...
Access Hollywood Tape and Pattern of Sexual Misconduct Allegations (20+ Accusers)
2005 - 2021
On October 7, 2016, The Washington Post published a video recording made in September 2005 in which Donald Trump, then a private citizen and television personality, spoke with Access Hollywood host Bi...
Sexist Treatment of Women on The Apprentice: Accounts from Contestants, Crew, and Former Staff
2004 - 2018
Between 2004 and 2015, Donald Trump served as the host and executive producer of The Apprentice and its spinoff, The Celebrity Apprentice, on NBC. During that period, multiple former contestants, crew...
E. Jean Carroll Verdict: Civil Liability for Sexual Abuse and Defamation ($88.3 Million in Total Damages)
1996 - 2025
In May 2023, a federal jury in the Southern District of New York found Donald Trump liable for sexually abusing writer and advice columnist E. Jean Carroll in the mid-1990s and for defaming her in 202...
Pageant Dressing Room Intrusions: Trump's Self-Described Practice of Walking In on Contestants at Miss Universe, Miss USA, and Miss Teen USA
1996 - 2016
Donald Trump owned the Miss Universe Organization, which included the Miss Universe, Miss USA, and Miss Teen USA pageants, from 1996 to 2015. During that period, multiple contestants reported that Tru...
Treatment of Native Americans: Opposing Tribal Sovereignty as a Business Competitor, Questioning Racial Identity, and Using Slurs at a Ceremony Honoring Veterans
1993 - 2017
Donald Trump's documented interactions with Native Americans span more than two decades and reflect a pattern of treating tribal nations as business competitors, questioning the racial identity of tri...
Jill Harth Lawsuit: Federal Complaint Alleging Groping and Attempted Rape from 1992 to 1997
1992 - 2016
On April 25, 1997, Jill Harth filed a federal lawsuit against Donald Trump alleging a pattern of sexual harassment and assault spanning from 1992 to 1997. The complaint alleged hostile and offensive s...
Central Park Five: Full-Page Death Penalty Ads and Refusal to Acknowledge Exoneration
1989 - 2024
In May 1989, Donald Trump paid for full-page advertisements in four New York City newspapers, including the New York Times, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, and Newsday, calling for the rei...
100 Central Park South: Tenant Harassment Campaign and Federal RICO Dismissal
1981 - 1998
In 1981, Donald Trump purchased 100 Central Park South, a 14-story residential building, alongside the adjacent 38-story Barbizon Plaza Hotel for approximately $65 million. His stated goal was to demo...
Jessica Leeds Accusation: Alleged Groping on a First-Class Flight in the Late 1970s
1979 - 2023
Jessica Leeds alleged that Donald Trump sexually assaulted her during a first-class flight from either Dallas or Atlanta to New York in the late 1970s. Leeds was in her late 30s at the time and workin...