Evidentiary Tier 3
Documented Through Primary Evidence
157 entries
Targeting Nonprofit Organizations: Executive Actions to Revoke Tax-Exempt Status of Universities and Advocacy Groups Critical of Administration Policies
Charitable and Philanthropic Abuse | 2025 - 2026
Beginning in early 2025, the Trump administration took a series of actions targeting the tax-exempt status of nonprofit organizations that had been critical of or had come into conflict with administr...
Second-Term Democratic Norm Violations: Gutting of Federal Agencies, Mass Firings of Civil Servants, DOGE and Unauthorized Access to Government Systems, and Defiance of Court Orders
Democratic Norm Violations | 2025 - 2026
Beginning on the first day of his second term on January 20, 2025, Donald Trump pursued an aggressive campaign to restructure the federal government by gutting agencies, mass-firing career civil serva...
2025 Mass Deportation Operations: Rescission of Protected Areas Policy, Courthouse and Church Arrests, and Detention of U.S. Citizens
Abuse of Official Power | 2025 - 2026
On January 20, 2025, Acting Department of Homeland Security Secretary Benjamin Huffman rescinded the Biden administration's 2021 Guidelines for Enforcement Actions in or Near Protected Areas. The resc...
2025 Tariff War: Unilateral Trade Escalation Triggering Retaliation, Agricultural Collapse, and Consumer Price Increases
Abuse of Official Power | 2025 - 2026
Beginning in January 2025, the Trump administration enacted a series of tariff actions that raised the overall average effective U.S. tariff rate from 2.5 percent to approximately 47 percent by April ...
The $TRUMP Meme Coin Dinner: Selling Presidential Access to Top Cryptocurrency Holders
Emoluments and Constitutional Financial Violations | 2025 - 2025
In January 2025, days before his second inauguration, Donald Trump launched the $TRUMP meme coin, a cryptocurrency token from which Trump and his business partners stood to profit directly. In May 202...
Conditioning Disaster Relief on Political Compliance: Trump Threatened to Withhold Federal Wildfire Aid from California Over Water Policy and Voter ID Demands
Charitable and Philanthropic Abuse | 2025 - 2025
In January 2025, devastating wildfires swept through the Los Angeles area, destroying thousands of structures and displacing tens of thousands of residents. As the fires raged, President Donald Trump ...
The CBS News Lawsuit: Trump Sued for $10 Billion Over a 60 Minutes Interview, Then Collected $16 Million in Settlement
Civil Fraud and Business Deception | 2024 - 2025
On October 31, 2024, five days before the presidential election, Donald Trump filed a lawsuit against CBS News and its parent company Paramount Global, demanding $10 billion in damages. The lawsuit al...
Cryptocurrency, Meme Coins, and the Presidency: Trump's World Liberty Financial Venture, the $TRUMP and $MELANIA Tokens, and Second-Term Emoluments Concerns
Emoluments and Constitutional Financial Violations | 2024 - 2026
Beginning in September 2024, during his presidential campaign, Donald Trump launched a series of cryptocurrency ventures that continued to generate revenue for his family after he took office for a se...
Rolling Back Crypto Regulation While Holding Crypto Assets: The Trump Family's World Liberty Financial and the SEC's Retreat from Enforcement
Emoluments and Constitutional Financial Violations | 2024 - 2026
In September 2024, during his presidential campaign, Donald Trump and his family launched World Liberty Financial, a cryptocurrency venture in which the Trump family holds a 75 percent share of net pr...
Targeting Judges' Families: Trump's Public Attacks on Judge Merchan's Daughter, Judge Engoron's Clerk, and a Pattern of Judicial Intimidation
Treatment of Individuals | 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...
Rigging the Gig Economy: Trump's DOL Rules Made It Easier to Classify Workers as Independent Contractors, Stripping Employee Protections
Labor, Contractor, and Employment Abuses | 2021 - 2026
In January 2021, the Trump administration's Department of Labor finalized a rule that narrowed the test for determining whether a worker is an employee or an independent contractor under the Fair Labo...
January 6 Capitol Attack: House Select Committee Findings and Criminal Referrals
Incitement, Endorsement, and Encouragement of Violence | 2021 - 2022
On December 22, 2022, the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol released its final report, exceeding 800 pages. The committee's central conclusion s...
Trial by Combat: Rudy Giuliani's Incitement at the January 6 Rally as Trump's Personal Attorney Acting at His Direction
Incitement, Endorsement, and Encouragement of Violence | 2021 - 2023
On January 6, 2021, Rudy Giuliani, serving as Donald Trump's personal attorney, spoke at the "Save America" rally at the Ellipse near the White House before a crowd of thousands of Trump supporters. D...
The Seven-Hour Gap: Missing White House Phone Records from January 6, 2021
Obstruction of Legal and Investigative Processes | 2021 - 2022
White House records turned over to the House Select Committee investigating the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol revealed a gap of seven hours and 37 minutes in the official log of calls pl...
Destroyed Phone Records: Secret Service Texts from January 5-6, 2021, Deleted During 'Device Migration' After Watchdog Requested Them
Obstruction of Legal and Investigative Processes | 2021 - 2022
Text messages sent and received by U.S. Secret Service agents on January 5 and 6, 2021, the two days surrounding the attack on the U.S. Capitol, were deleted as part of what the agency described as a ...
The Raffensperger Call: Trump's Hour-Long Pressure Campaign to Overturn the Georgia Election Results
Abuse of Official Power | 2021 - 2021
On January 2, 2021, President Donald Trump placed an hour-long phone call to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, a fellow Republican, in which Trump pressured Raffensperger to alter the cer...
Abuse of the Pardon Power for Personal and Political Loyalty: Clemency for Allies Convicted in Connection with Trump's Own Conduct
Democratic Norm Violations | 2020 - 2025
Across his first and second terms, Donald Trump used the presidential pardon power to grant clemency to individuals whose offenses were directly connected to his own political interests, personal rela...
DOJ Weaponization: Attempted Installation of Jeffrey Clark to Overturn 2020 Election
Abuse of Official Power | 2020 - 2021
Following Attorney General William Barr's resignation on December 14, 2020, Donald Trump escalated his pressure campaign against the Department of Justice by attempting to use the department's leaders...
Monetizing the Presidency: The Save America PAC Slush Fund, Legal Bill Payments, and the Merchandising of Political Office
Charitable and Philanthropic Abuse | 2020 - 2024
Following his 2020 election loss, Donald Trump created a political fundraising apparatus that raised hundreds of millions of dollars from supporters under the banner of fighting election fraud, then s...
The 'Big Lie': Sustained False Claims That the 2020 Election Was Stolen
Documented Falsehoods on Matters of Public Consequence | 2020 - 2024
After losing the 2020 presidential election to Joe Biden by 306 to 232 electoral votes and approximately 7 million popular votes, Donald Trump launched a sustained campaign of false claims asserting t...
Election Technology Defamation: Trump's Amplification of False Claims About Dominion Voting Systems and the Resulting Legal Fallout
Civil Fraud and Business Deception | 2020 - 2026
Following the November 2020 presidential election, Donald Trump and his allies launched a sustained campaign of false claims alleging that Dominion Voting Systems and other election technology compani...
The Surge in Threats Against Election Workers: How Trump's Targeting of Specific Officials and Processes Generated Thousands of Documented Threats Nationwide
Incitement, Endorsement, and Encouragement of Violence | 2020 - 2026
Following the 2020 presidential election, election workers across the United States experienced an unprecedented surge in threats, harassment, and intimidation. The Department of Justice's Election Th...
Refusal to Accept 2020 Election Results and Disruption of the Presidential Transition
Democratic Norm Violations and Institutional Erosion | 2020 - 2021
Following his defeat in the November 3, 2020 presidential election, Donald Trump became the first president in American history to refuse to concede and to actively obstruct the transfer of power to h...
Assault on Election Infrastructure: Pressuring State Officials, Calling for Termination of Constitutional Rules, and Encouraging Legislatures to Override the Popular Vote
Democratic Norm Violations | 2020 - 2022
Following his loss in the 2020 presidential election, Donald Trump undertook a sustained campaign to overturn the results by pressuring state election officials, encouraging state legislatures to over...
Mark Meadows's Text Messages: Communications Revealing Coordination on January 6 and His Refusal to Cooperate with the Congressional Investigation
Obstruction of Legal and Investigative Processes | 2020 - 2022
Mark Meadows served as White House Chief of Staff during the final year of the Trump presidency. The House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol obtained ...
Schedule F: The Executive Order Designed to Strip Civil Service Protections from Tens of Thousands of Federal Workers and Enable a Political Purge of the Bureaucracy
Abuse of Official Power | 2020 - 2026
On October 21, 2020, less than two weeks before the 2020 presidential election, President Trump signed Executive Order 13957, creating a new employment classification called "Schedule F." The order di...
Attacks on the Constitutional Order: Calling for 'Termination' of the Constitution, Embracing Dictatorial Language, and Refusing to Commit to Peaceful Transfers of Power
Democratic Norm Violations | 2020 - 2023
On multiple occasions between 2020 and 2023, Donald Trump publicly attacked the foundational principles of constitutional governance, including the peaceful transfer of power, the authority of the Con...
Using the White House as a Campaign Venue: The 2020 RNC, the Barrett Super-Spreader Event, and the Abraham Accords Ceremony
Democratic Norm Violations | 2020 - 2020
During the final months of the 2020 presidential campaign, the Trump administration used the White House and official government powers as backdrops for political campaign events on multiple occasions...
Removal of SDNY U.S. Attorney Geoffrey Berman: Premature Resignation Announcement and Firing During Active Investigation of Trump Allies
Obstruction of Legal and Investigative Processes | 2020 - 2020
On the evening of June 19, 2020, Attorney General William Barr issued a press release announcing that Geoffrey Berman, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, was "stepping down" from...
Lafayette Square: Use of Federal Force Against Peaceful Protesters for Presidential Photo Opportunity
Abuse of Official Power | 2020 - 2021
On the evening of June 1, 2020, federal law enforcement officers used chemical irritants, rubber bullets, and physical force to disperse a crowd of protesters gathered in Lafayette Square, directly ac...
Threats to Deploy the Military Against Domestic Protesters: Trump Asked About Shooting George Floyd Demonstrators
Incitement, Endorsement, and Encouragement of Violence | 2020 - 2022
In the days following the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police on May 25, 2020, protests erupted across the United States. As demonstrations reached Washington, D.C., President Donald Trump di...
Interference with the United States Postal Service: DeJoy Appointment, Mail Sorting Machine Removal, and Suppression of Mail-In Voting Infrastructure Before the 2020 Election
Abuse of Official Power | 2020 - 2020
In the months before the November 2020 presidential election, the Trump administration took a series of actions that degraded the operational capacity of the United States Postal Service during a peri...
LIBERATE MICHIGAN: Trump's Call to Defy COVID-19 Lockdown Orders and the Armed Occupation of the Michigan State Capitol
Incitement, Endorsement, and Encouragement of Violence | 2020 - 2020
On April 17, 2020, President Donald Trump posted a series of tweets targeting three states led by Democratic governors that had implemented stay-at-home orders in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Th...
False Claims About Voting by Mail: Trump Alleged Massive Fraud Despite His Own Administration's Findings and His Own Use of Mail-In Ballots
Documented Falsehoods | 2020 - 2026
Beginning in the spring of 2020 and continuing through his second presidential term, Donald Trump made repeated false claims that voting by mail leads to massive fraud. These claims were contradicted ...
Opposition to Paid Sick Leave and Family Leave: Trump Administration Regulations That Narrowed Worker Protections During COVID-19
Labor, Contractor, and Employment Abuses | 2020 - 2020
During the COVID-19 pandemic, the Trump administration issued Department of Labor regulations that significantly narrowed the scope of paid sick leave and emergency family leave protections establishe...
Politicization of the COVID-19 Response: Trump Threatened to Withhold Vaccines from States with Critical Governors and Made the Pandemic a Partisan Weapon
Abuse of Official Power | 2020 - 2021
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, President Donald Trump used the federal government's control over medical supplies and vaccine distribution as leverage against state governors who criticized his adm...
COVID Workplace Safety Failures: OSHA Refused Emergency Standards While Trump Ordered Meatpacking Plants to Remain Open
Labor, Contractor, and Employment Abuses | 2020 - 2021
During the COVID-19 pandemic, the Trump administration's Occupational Safety and Health Administration declined to issue any emergency temporary standards to protect workers from the virus, despite re...
Attacking Mail-In Voting While Using It Himself: Trump Voted by Mail in Florida While Calling the Same Method Fraudulent and 'Cheating'
Democratic Norm Violations | 2020 - 2026
Throughout the 2020 presidential election cycle and into his second term, Donald Trump mounted a sustained campaign against mail-in voting, claiming without evidence that it was inherently fraudulent....
COVID-19 Misinformation: Private Admission of Danger While Publicly Downplaying the Virus
Documented Falsehoods on Matters of Public Consequence | 2020 - 2020
During the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, Donald Trump made a series of documented public statements minimizing the severity of the virus that directly contradicted statements he made privatel...
Political Interference with CDC and FDA During COVID-19: Edited Scientific Reports and Hydroxychloroquine Pressure
Abuse of Official Power | 2020 - 2020
Throughout 2020, the Trump administration exerted political pressure on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration in ways that undermined the scientific indep...
Real-Time Witness Intimidation: Trump Tweeted Attacks Against Marie Yovanovitch While She Testified in the Impeachment Hearing
Treatment of Individuals | 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
Treatment of Individuals: Cruelty, Defamation, and Degradation | 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...
Blanket Defiance of Congressional Oversight: Refusal to Comply with Impeachment Subpoenas, Blocked Witnesses, Withheld Documents, and the Rejected 'Absolute Immunity' Claim
Obstruction of Legal and Investigative Processes | 2019 - 2021
During the House of Representatives' first impeachment inquiry in 2019 and throughout his presidency, Donald Trump pursued an unprecedented strategy of blanket defiance of congressional oversight, ref...
Hurricane Dorian and Sharpiegate: Altered NOAA Forecast Map and Political Pressure on Weather Scientists
Documented Falsehoods | 2019 - 2020
On September 1, 2019, as Hurricane Dorian approached the southeastern United States, President Donald Trump posted on Twitter that "South Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia, and Alabama, will most like...
Attacks on the Biden Family: Mocking a Stutter, Disparaging Hunter Biden's Addiction, and Using Government Power to Investigate a Political Rival's Relatives
Treatment of Individuals | 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...
Political Interference with Weather Forecasting: NOAA Pressure, Commerce Department Directives, and Scientific Integrity Violations
Abuse of Official Power | 2019 - 2020
In September 2019, a dispute over President Donald Trump's false claim that Hurricane Dorian threatened Alabama escalated into a documented case of political interference with federal scientific agenc...
The White House Counsel's Role in the Ukraine Cover-Up: Moving the Call Transcript to a Classified Server and Resisting Congressional Oversight
Obstruction of Legal and Investigative Processes | 2019 - 2022
On July 25, 2019, President Donald Trump spoke by phone with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in a call that would become the basis for his first impeachment. During the call, Trump asked Zelens...
Ukraine Pressure Campaign: The July 25, 2019 Phone Call with President Zelensky
Abuse of Official Power | 2019 - 2019
On July 25, 2019, President Donald Trump placed a phone call to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. The White House released a memorandum of the call on September 25, 2019, after a whistleblower c...
Racist Attacks on Congresswomen of Color: Trump Told the 'Squad' to 'Go Back' to Their Countries, and the House Voted to Condemn His Remarks
Treatment of Individuals | 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...
Retaliatory Firings: Removal of Lt. Col. Vindman, Ambassador Yovanovitch, and Other Impeachment Witnesses
Abuse of Official Power | 2019 - 2020
In the months surrounding the first impeachment of Donald Trump, the administration removed multiple government officials who had testified or cooperated with the congressional inquiry into the Ukrain...
Trump's Claim That Wind Turbine Noise Causes Cancer and a Pattern of Anti-Science Public Statements
Documented Falsehoods | 2019 - 2019
On April 2, 2019, during a speech at the National Republican Congressional Committee dinner in Washington, D.C., President Donald Trump stated that noise from wind turbines causes cancer. His exact wo...
Unpaid Campaign Rally Bills: Trump's Refusal to Pay the City of El Paso and a Pattern of Unpaid Municipal Security Costs
Civil Fraud and Business Deception | 2019 - 2026
On February 11, 2019, Donald Trump held a campaign rally at the El Paso County Coliseum in El Paso, Texas. The event required significant municipal resources, including police overtime, traffic manage...
Systematic Harm to Immigrants and Asylum Seekers: Remain in Mexico, Title 42 Expulsions, and Migrant Protection Protocols
Treatment of Individuals | 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...
False Claims About Presidential Accomplishments: The Border Wall, the Economy, and the Defeat of ISIS
Documented Falsehoods | 2019 - 2021
Throughout his presidency and subsequent campaigns, Donald Trump made repeated claims about three signature accomplishments that are contradicted by the documented record. Each claim was stated in abs...
Politicization of the U.S. Military: Border Deployments, July 4th Display, National Guard Against Protesters, and Partisan Pressure on Military Leaders
Democratic Norm Violations | 2018 - 2021
Throughout his first term, President Donald Trump used the U.S. military as a political instrument in ways that blurred the longstanding norm of separation between the armed forces and partisan politi...
Using the Military as a Political Prop: The Pre-Midterm Border Deployment That Cost Hundreds of Millions and Ended After Election Day
Abuse of Official Power | 2018 - 2019
On October 26, 2018, nine days before the November 6 midterm elections, President Donald Trump ordered the deployment of active-duty U.S. military troops to the U.S.-Mexico border in response to a car...
Mockery of Christine Blasey Ford: Trump's Rally Reenactment of Sexual Assault Testimony During the Kavanaugh Confirmation
Treatment of Individuals | 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 ...
When the Inner Circle Turns: The Unprecedented Number of Former Senior Officials Who Publicly Warned Against Trump After Serving in His Administration
Democratic Norm Violations | 2018 - 2024
An unprecedented number of senior officials who served in the Trump administration subsequently issued public warnings that Trump was unfit for office, dangerous to democratic governance, or both. The...
Attacks on Federal Reserve Independence: Threatening to Fire Jerome Powell and Using Political Pressure to Influence Monetary Policy
Abuse of Official Power | 2018 - 2026
Beginning in 2018 and escalating through his second term, Donald Trump conducted an unprecedented public campaign to undermine the independence of the Federal Reserve and to pressure its chair, Jerome...
Claiming Credit for the Veterans Choice Act: Trump Repeatedly Said He Signed a Law That Obama Signed in 2014
Documented Falsehoods | 2018 - 2020
The Veterans' Access to Care through Choice, Accountability, and Transparency Act of 2014, commonly known as the Veterans Choice Act, was signed into law by President Barack Obama on August 7, 2014. T...
Use of the State Department for Personal and Political Purposes: Pompeo's RNC Speech from Jerusalem, Giuliani's Shadow Diplomacy, and the Recall of Ambassador Yovanovitch
Abuse of Official Power | 2018 - 2020
During the Trump administration, the U.S. State Department was used in ways that blurred the line between official diplomacy and personal political activity. Three interconnected episodes illustrate t...
Abuse of Security Clearances: Overruling Intelligence Officials to Grant Clearances to Kushner and Ivanka Trump, and Revoking Brennan's Clearance in Apparent Retaliation
Abuse of Official Power | 2018 - 2019
During his first term, President Donald Trump intervened in the security clearance process to grant access to family members over the objections of career intelligence and security officials, and sepa...
Disbanding the Pandemic Preparedness Team: Trump Eliminated the NSC Directorate for Global Health Security Before COVID-19
Abuse of Official Power | 2018 - 2020
In the spring of 2018, the Trump administration disbanded the National Security Council's Directorate for Global Health Security and Biodefense, the White House unit responsible for coordinating the f...
Tampering with the 2020 Census: Shortened Counting Timelines, Political Pressure, and the Documented Undercounting of Black, Hispanic, and Native American Communities
Abuse of Official Power | 2018 - 2022
The Trump administration took a series of actions regarding the 2020 census that career officials warned would compromise its accuracy, that federal courts partially blocked, and that ultimately resul...
False Claims Regarding Natural Disaster Response: Puerto Rico Death Toll Denial, Inadequate Hurricane Maria Relief, and Diversion of FEMA Funds
Documented Falsehoods | 2017 - 2019
Hurricane Maria struck Puerto Rico on September 20, 2017, causing catastrophic damage to the island's infrastructure. The Trump administration's response to the disaster generated multiple documented ...
Controversial Pardons: Pattern of Clemency for Political Allies and January 6 Defendants
Abuse of Official Power | 2017 - 2025
Over the course of his two terms, Donald Trump's use of the presidential clemency power followed a documented pattern of benefiting political allies, individuals convicted in investigations connected ...
Charlottesville 'Very Fine People on Both Sides' Statements
Incitement, Endorsement, and Encouragement of Violence | 2017 - 2017
On the evening of August 11, 2017, white nationalist and neo-Nazi groups marched with torches through the University of Virginia campus in Charlottesville, Virginia, chanting slogans including "Jews w...
Refusal to Implement Russia Sanctions Passed by Congress with Veto-Proof Majorities (CAATSA)
Abuse of Official Power | 2017 - 2019
On August 2, 2017, President Trump reluctantly signed the Countering America's Adversaries Through Sanctions Act (CAATSA) into law. The legislation, which imposed mandatory sanctions on Russia, Iran, ...
Treatment of John Kelly: Trump's Attacks on His Former Chief of Staff After Kelly Confirmed 'Losers and Suckers' Comments
Treatment of Individuals | 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
Treatment of Individuals | 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...
Hope Hicks and the Misleading Trump Tower Meeting Statement: Crafting a False Narrative Aboard Air Force One
Obstruction of Legal and Investigative Processes | 2017 - 2019
On July 8, 2017, the New York Times reported that Donald Trump Jr. had met with a Russian lawyer, Natalia Veselnitskaya, at Trump Tower on June 9, 2016, after being promised damaging information about...
Blocking the FBI Headquarters Relocation to Protect the Trump Hotel from Competition: A Federal Building Decision Shaped by Personal Financial Interest
Abuse of Official Power | 2017 - 2023
In July 2017, the General Services Administration canceled a long-planned relocation of FBI headquarters from its aging J. Edgar Hoover Building on Pennsylvania Avenue in downtown Washington, D.C., to...
Rollback of Overtime and Tip Protections: Trump DOL Narrowed Worker Safeguards Benefiting Millions
Labor, Contractor, and Employment Abuses | 2017 - 2019
The Trump administration's Department of Labor rolled back two significant Obama-era worker protections: a rule that would have extended overtime pay eligibility to more than four million additional w...
Family Separation Policy: Thousands of Children Separated from Parents at the Border Under Zero Tolerance
Treatment of Individuals: Cruelty, Defamation, and Degradation | 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...
Threats to Withdraw from NATO and Encouragement of Russian Aggression Against Allied Nations
Abuse of Official Power | 2017 - 2024
Throughout his presidency and his 2024 campaign, Donald Trump repeatedly questioned the United States' commitment to NATO's mutual defense obligations under Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty, whi...
Attempts to Fire Special Counsel Mueller and Obstruct the Russia Investigation (2017-2019)
Obstruction of Legal and Investigative Processes | 2017 - 2019
Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller III was appointed on May 17, 2017, to investigate Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election and any related matters, including potential obstruction of j...
Firing of FBI Director James Comey During Active Russia Investigation (May 2017)
Obstruction of Legal and Investigative Processes | 2017 - 2017
On May 9, 2017, President Donald J. Trump terminated FBI Director James B. Comey by delivering a dismissal letter to FBI headquarters while Comey was in Los Angeles. Comey learned he had been fired fr...
Politicization of the Census and Redistricting: The Citizenship Question and the Hofeller Files
Abuse of Official Power | 2017 - 2019
In 2018, the Trump administration announced its intention to add a citizenship question to the 2020 decennial census. The administration's stated rationale was that citizenship data was needed to bett...
The 'Nobody Knew' Pattern: Trump Repeatedly Claimed Ignorance on Behalf of the Entire Country to Excuse His Own Lack of Preparation
Documented Falsehoods | 2017 - 2020
Throughout his presidency, Donald Trump employed a recurring rhetorical formula in which he projected his own lack of knowledge onto the entire nation, using the phrase "nobody knew" or its variants t...
Attacks on Press Freedom: 'Enemy of the People' Rhetoric and Revocation of Press Credentials
Democratic Norm Violations and Institutional Erosion | 2017 - 2025
On February 17, 2017, less than a month into his first term, Donald Trump posted on Twitter: "The FAKE NEWS media (failing @nytimes, @NBCNews, @ABC, @CBS, @CNN) is not my enemy, it is the enemy of the...
Promoting Trump-Branded Products from the White House: Goya Beans, Ivanka's Fashion Line, and the Use of Official Office for Commercial Endorsement
Emoluments and Constitutional Financial Violations | 2017 - 2020
During Trump's first term, the president, his family members serving as senior advisers, and senior White House officials used official positions and government platforms to promote commercial product...
Firing of Acting Attorney General Sally Yates: Dismissed After Refusing to Defend the Travel Ban and Warning About Michael Flynn
Obstruction of Legal and Investigative Processes | 2017 - 2017
On January 30, 2017, President Donald Trump fired Acting Attorney General Sally Yates, ten days into his presidency. The firing occurred less than two hours after Yates issued a letter instructing Dep...
Politicization of the Department of Homeland Security: Using CBP and ICE as Political Tools and Installing an Illegally Serving Secretary
Democratic Norm Violations | 2017 - 2021
During Donald Trump's first term, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) was transformed from an agency focused on counterterrorism, disaster response, and border management into a vehicle for the ...
Inaugural Crowd Size and the Pattern of Inflating Metrics: False Claims About Audience Numbers and Ratings
Documented Falsehoods | 2017 - 2021
On January 21, 2017, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer held his first official briefing and declared that Donald Trump's inauguration had drawn "the largest audience to ever witness an inaugurat...
Trump International Hotel DC: $3.7 Million in Foreign Government Payments and GSA Lease Violations
Emoluments and Constitutional Financial Violations | 2017 - 2022
Trump International Hotel Washington, D.C., located in the federally owned Old Post Office building on Pennsylvania Avenue, operated throughout Donald Trump's first presidential term as a high-profile...
Doral G7 and Government Spending at Trump Properties: Self-Dealing Through Federal Business
Emoluments and Constitutional Financial Violations | 2017 - 2021
Throughout his first term, Trump directed or permitted federal government spending at properties he owned, a pattern that transferred taxpayer and government funds to his private business. The most dr...
Taxpayer Costs of Presidential Golf Trips: Over $150 Million Spent at Trump-Owned Properties During First Term
Emoluments and Constitutional Financial Violations | 2017 - 2021
During his first term in office, Donald Trump played golf approximately 293 days at his own properties, generating an estimated $151.5 million in taxpayer-funded costs for travel, security, and suppor...
3,400 Conflicts of Interest: Trump's Refusal to Divest From His Businesses During the Presidency
Emoluments and Constitutional Financial Violations | 2017 - 2021
Donald Trump was the first president in modern American history to maintain ownership of a sprawling private business empire while serving in office. Every president since Jimmy Carter had either dive...
30,573 False or Misleading Claims: Washington Post Fact Checker Database (2017 to 2021)
Documented Falsehoods on Matters of Public Consequence | 2017 - 2021
The Washington Post Fact Checker team, led by Glenn Kessler, tracked and catalogued every public false or misleading claim made by Donald Trump during his first presidential term from January 20, 2017...
False Claims About the Inherited Economy: Trump Took Credit for Trends That Began Under Obama
Documented Falsehoods | 2017 - 2020
Donald Trump repeatedly and falsely claimed that he inherited a failing economy from President Barack Obama and that his policies produced an economic turnaround of historic proportions. Federal data ...
Promoting Political Violence Through Social Media: 'When the Looting Starts, the Shooting Starts' and the Pattern of Violent Rhetoric on Digital Platforms
Incitement, Endorsement, and Encouragement of Violence | 2017 - 2024
Throughout his presidency and political career, Donald Trump used social media platforms to promote, endorse, or appear to celebrate political violence. The most significant single incident occurred o...
Disability Rights Rollbacks: Special Olympics Funding Cuts, Program Reductions, and Erosion of Disability Protections
Treatment of Individuals | 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
Treatment of Individuals | 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...
Anti-Labor Record: NLRB Stacking, Minimum Wage Rollbacks, Erosion of Worker Protections, and Opposition to Organized Labor
Labor, Contractor, and Employment Abuses | 2017 - 2026
Across both his first and second terms, Donald Trump compiled a documented record of actions that weakened organized labor, rolled back worker protections, and restructured the federal labor relations...
Environmental Deregulation Harming Workers and Communities: EPA Rollbacks, Paris Climate Withdrawal, Weakened Emissions Standards, and Reduced Workplace Safety Enforcement
Labor, Contractor, and Employment Abuses | 2017 - 2026
Across both terms of his presidency, Donald Trump pursued an aggressive program of environmental deregulation and weakened workplace safety enforcement that has had measurable impacts on workers, publ...
Nepotism: Appointment of Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump as Senior White House Advisers
Democratic Norm Violations | 2017 - 2021
In January 2017, President Donald Trump appointed his son-in-law Jared Kushner as Senior Adviser to the President and his daughter Ivanka Trump as Adviser to the President, giving both unpaid position...
Destruction of Presidential Records: Torn Documents, Flushed Papers, and Missing White House Files
Democratic Norm Violations | 2017 - 2022
The Presidential Records Act (44 U.S.C. Sections 2201-2209) requires the preservation of all presidential records, including documents, correspondence, and memoranda created or received by the preside...
Violations of Presidential Records Preservation Requirements: Private Communications, Unsecured Messaging, and Systematic Failure to Archive Official Records
Democratic Norm Violations | 2017 - 2021
Throughout the Trump administration, senior White House officials, including members of the president's family serving in official capacities, conducted government business using private communication...
Hollowing Out the Diplomatic Corps: Firing Career Ambassadors, Purging Expertise, and Leaving Senior State Department Positions Unfilled
Democratic Norm Violations | 2017 - 2026
Across both his first and second terms, Donald Trump conducted systematic purges of career diplomatic personnel at the U.S. State Department, replacing institutional expertise with political loyalty, ...
Governance by Social Media: Using Twitter to Announce Policy, Fire Officials, and Attack Individuals
Democratic Norm Violations | 2017 - 2021
During his first term as president, Donald Trump used his personal Twitter account as a primary instrument of governance, bypassing traditional channels of policy development, interagency review, lega...
Destroying Evidence Under Investigation: Allegations of Document Shredding, Phone Wiping, and Server Deletion by Trump and His Employees
Obstruction of Legal and Investigative Processes | 2017 - 2023
Across multiple investigations and legal proceedings, Trump and employees of his organizations were accused of destroying, concealing, or attempting to destroy evidence relevant to pending investigati...
Weaponization of the Department of Justice: Demands to Investigate Political Opponents, Obamagate, and Pressure on Attorneys General
Abuse of Official Power | 2017 - 2026
Throughout his first and second terms, Donald Trump publicly and repeatedly demanded that the Department of Justice investigate, prosecute, and punish his political opponents. These demands were made ...
Undermining U.S. Intelligence Agencies: Nazi Germany Comparison, Helsinki Deference, and Classified Disclosure to Russian Officials
Democratic Norm Violations | 2017 - 2018
Between January 2017 and July 2018, President Donald Trump engaged in a pattern of publicly undermining, contradicting, and circumventing U.S. intelligence agencies across multiple documented incident...
Politicization of the Intelligence Community: Sharing Classified Intelligence with Russia, Compromising a CIA Source, and Attacking Intelligence Leaders
Democratic Norm Violations | 2017 - 2020
Throughout his presidency, Donald Trump undermined the U.S. intelligence community through a pattern of actions that included sharing highly classified intelligence with Russian officials, compromisin...
Gutting the Office of Government Ethics: Walter Shaub's Resignation in Protest and the Transition from Compliance to Defiance on Executive Branch Ethics
Democratic Norm Violations | 2017 - 2017
Walter Shaub Jr. served as the Director of the United States Office of Government Ethics from January 2013 through July 19, 2017. OGE is an independent executive branch agency responsible for overseei...
Treatment of Mitt Romney: The Dinner Photo, the Endorsement-to-Exile Arc, and the Pattern of Punishing Intraparty Dissent
Treatment of Individuals | 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 ...
Attacks on Voting Rights: Opposition to Mail-In Voting, False Voter Fraud Claims, Voter ID Restrictions, and Efforts to Suppress Turnout
Democratic Norm Violations | 2016 - 2026
Throughout both terms in office and during campaigns, Donald Trump has systematically attacked the legitimacy of voting processes in the United States, making repeated false claims about voter fraud, ...
The Nonexistent Michigan 'Man of the Year' Award: A Fabricated Honor Trump Repeated More Than Twenty Times Despite No Evidence It Existed
Documented Falsehoods | 2016 - 2024
Donald Trump claimed on more than twenty occasions that he was named "Man of the Year" in Michigan. He made the claim at rallies, in interviews, and in public remarks spanning from at least 2016 throu...
The 'Second Amendment People' Comment: Suggesting Gun Owners Could Act Against Hillary Clinton (August 2016)
Incitement, Endorsement, and Encouragement of Violence | 2016 - 2016
On August 9, 2016, at a campaign rally in Wilmington, North Carolina, Donald Trump made remarks about Hillary Clinton's potential Supreme Court nominations that were widely interpreted as suggesting t...
Soliciting Foreign Campaign Assistance: 'Russia, If You're Listening,' the Ukraine Pressure Campaign, and the Public Request to China
Abuse of Official Power | 2016 - 2020
On three documented occasions between 2016 and 2019, Donald Trump publicly solicited foreign governments to investigate or obtain information damaging to his domestic political opponents. These incide...
Dehumanizing and Threatening Rhetoric Toward Political Opponents: From 'Lock Her Up' to 'Vermin'
Incitement, Endorsement, and Encouragement of Violence | 2016 - 2026
Throughout his political career, Donald Trump has directed threatening, dehumanizing, and eliminationist rhetoric at political opponents, government officials, and perceived adversaries. This rhetoric...
The Trump Tower Meeting: Campaign Officials Met with a Russian Lawyer Promising Dirt on Clinton, Then Trump Dictated a Misleading Cover Story
Financial Fraud and Manipulation | 2016 - 2019
On June 9, 2016, three senior members of Donald Trump's presidential campaign met at Trump Tower in New York City with a Russian lawyer and several associates after being promised damaging information...
Politicization of the Federal Judiciary: Rushed Barrett Confirmation, Personal Attacks on Judges, and Efforts to Undermine Judicial Independence
Abuse of Official Power | 2016 - 2026
Donald Trump has engaged in a pattern of actions and public statements that undermine the independence of the federal judiciary, including personal attacks on judges who ruled against him, the reversa...
Attacks on the Judiciary: Racial Targeting of Judges and Erosion of Judicial Independence
Democratic Norm Violations | 2016 - 2024
Throughout his presidential campaigns and presidency, Donald Trump engaged in a sustained pattern of public attacks on federal judges, questioning their legitimacy, impartiality, and competence. The a...
Jacobus v. Trump: Defamation Lawsuit by Republican Consultant over Twitter Attacks
Civil Fraud and Business Deception | 2016 - 2017
In 2016, Republican political consultant and television commentator Cheryl Jacobus filed a $4 million defamation lawsuit against Donald Trump in New York State court after Trump attacked her on Twitte...
Veterans Fundraiser: $6 Million Raised at Iowa Rally with Months-Long Delay in Distribution
Charitable and Philanthropic Abuse | 2016 - 2016
On January 28, 2016, Donald Trump skipped a Fox News Republican primary debate in Des Moines, Iowa, and instead held a competing televised fundraiser billed as a benefit for veterans' organizations. T...
Embrace and Praise of Authoritarian Leaders: Admiration for Kim Jong Un, Putin, Xi Jinping, Erdogan, Duterte, and Orban, and Authoritarian Self-Identification
Incitement, Endorsement, and Encouragement of Violence | 2016 - 2026
Throughout his political career, Donald Trump has publicly and repeatedly praised authoritarian leaders who have been documented by international human rights organizations as responsible for politica...
Wages Are Too High, Too Low, and Irrelevant: Trump's Contradictory Positions on the Federal Minimum Wage While It Remained Frozen at $7.25
Labor, Contractor, and Employment Abuses | 2015 - 2025
Over a period spanning a decade, Donald Trump took contradictory positions on whether the federal minimum wage should be raised, whether it was too high, whether it was too low, and whether it should ...
Trump Tower Moscow: Pursuing a Russian Business Deal During the 2016 Campaign While Publicly Denying Russian Connections
Emoluments and Constitutional Financial Violations | 2015 - 2019
While running for president in 2015 and 2016, Donald Trump and the Trump Organization actively pursued a licensing deal to build a Trump Tower in Moscow, a project that could have generated over $300 ...
Attacks on Gold Star Families and Military Service Members
Treatment of Individuals: Cruelty, Defamation, and Degradation | 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...
False Claims About Crime and Immigration: Overstated Crime Rates, Fabricated Statistics, and Contradicted Assertions About Immigrant Criminality
Documented Falsehoods | 2015 - 2026
From the launch of his first presidential campaign in June 2015 through his second term, Donald Trump has made repeated false claims about crime rates in the United States and about the relationship b...
False Claims About Trade Deals: NAFTA as 'the Worst Deal Ever,' USMCA Similarities, Tariff Misrepresentations, and the Growing Trade Deficit with China
Documented Falsehoods | 2015 - 2026
Throughout his political career, Donald Trump has made a series of demonstrably false or misleading claims about trade policy, including characterizations of NAFTA, the nature of his replacement trade...
The Perpetual Healthcare Plan: Years of Promising a Replacement for the Affordable Care Act That Never Existed
Documented Falsehoods | 2015 - 2025
From the launch of his 2016 presidential campaign through his second term in office, Donald Trump repeatedly claimed to have, or to be on the verge of producing, a comprehensive plan to replace the Af...
Dehumanizing Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric: From 'Rapists' to 'Poisoning the Blood' Across Three Campaigns
Incitement, Endorsement, and Encouragement of Violence | 2015 - 2024
Donald Trump has used dehumanizing language about immigrants throughout his political career, beginning with his 2015 presidential campaign announcement and escalating through his 2024 campaign. The r...
Amplification of Conspiracy Theories: Ted Cruz's Father and the JFK Assassination, Anti-Vaccine Misinformation, Promotion of Alex Jones, and False Claims About Antifa
Incitement, Endorsement, and Encouragement of Violence | 2015 - 2026
Throughout his political career, Donald Trump has repeatedly amplified conspiracy theories from fringe sources, lending the authority of a presidential candidate and later the presidency to baseless c...
Dehumanizing Language About Immigrants: 'Animals,' 'Vermin,' 'Poisoning the Blood,' and the Use of Eliminationist Rhetoric
Incitement, Endorsement, and Encouragement of Violence | 2015 - 2024
From the launch of his first presidential campaign in June 2015 through his 2024 campaign and second term, Donald Trump has used dehumanizing language about immigrants that historians, linguists, and ...
Attacks on Journalists: Mocking a Disability, Gendered Insults, and Targeting of Individual Reporters
Treatment of Individuals | 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...
Refusal to Divest or Disclose: Breaking the Norms of Presidential Financial Transparency
Democratic Norm Violations | 2015 - 2021
Donald Trump broke two long-standing norms of presidential financial transparency during his 2016 campaign and presidency. He refused to release his federal tax returns, ending a practice followed by ...
Rally Violence Promotion: Documented Encouragement of Violence Against Protesters and Political Opponents
Incitement, Endorsement, and Encouragement of Violence | 2015 - 2024
Beginning during the 2016 presidential primary campaign and continuing through his third presidential campaign in 2024, Donald Trump made a series of documented public statements encouraging physical ...
Florida Regulatory Record: Hundreds of Health Code Violations at Trump Doral and Mar-a-Lago
Civil Fraud and Business Deception | 2013 - 2019
Florida state regulatory records document a sustained pattern of health code violations at two of Donald Trump's most prominent properties: Trump National Doral Miami and the Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm B...
Mar-a-Lago and Trump Properties: H-2B Visa Violations and Rejection of American Workers
Labor, Contractor, and Employment Abuses | 2013 - 2019
Between 2013 and 2019, Trump-owned properties, primarily the Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Florida, repeatedly used the H-2B temporary visa program to hire foreign workers for seasonal positions as c...
Pattern of Racist and Racially Charged Statements: From Birtherism to 'Shithole Countries' to 'Go Back Where You Came From'
Treatment of Individuals | 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 ...
Birther Conspiracy: Five Years of False Claims That Obama Was Not Born in the United States
Documented Falsehoods on Matters of Public Consequence | 2011 - 2016
From at least 2011 through September 2016, Donald Trump was the most prominent and persistent promoter of the "birther" conspiracy theory, which falsely claimed that President Barack Obama was not bor...
Fake Charitable Pledges: Pattern of Unfulfilled Donations and the 2016 Veterans Fundraiser
Charitable and Philanthropic Abuse | 2009 - 2017
Washington Post reporter David Fahrenthold conducted a systematic investigation into Donald Trump's charitable pledges between 2015 and 2016, contacting more than 400 major charities to verify whether...
Phantom Charitable Donations: The Washington Post Investigation into Trump's Unfulfilled Pledges to Give to Charity
Charitable and Philanthropic Abuse | 2008 - 2019
In 2016, Washington Post reporter David Fahrenthold conducted a systematic investigation into Donald Trump's history of charitable giving. The investigation, which won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Nati...
Silencing Accusers: The Catch-and-Kill System, NDAs, and Legal Threats Used to Suppress Sexual Misconduct Allegations
Civil Fraud and Business Deception | 2007 - 2022
Over a period of more than a decade, Donald Trump and his associates employed a system of nondisclosure agreements (NDAs), legal threats, defamation of accusers, and a "catch-and-kill" arrangement wit...
Sexual Misconduct Allegations: The Access Hollywood Tape, 26-Plus Accusers, and Threats to Sue
Treatment of Individuals | 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)
Treatment of Individuals: Cruelty, Defamation, and Degradation | 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...
Andrew Tesoro: Architect Stiffed on $140,000 in Fees for Trump National Golf Club Westchester Clubhouse
Labor, Contractor, and Employment Abuses | 2002 - 2006
In 2002, architect Andrew Tesoro was commissioned to design a new clubhouse at the Trump National Golf Club in Briarcliff Manor, Westchester County, New York. The project spanned four years and was co...
9/11 False Claims: Fabricating a Role at Ground Zero, Promoting a Debunked Conspiracy Theory, and Collecting a Recovery Grant Meant for Small Businesses
Charitable and Philanthropic Abuse | 2001 - 2019
Over nearly two decades, Donald Trump made a series of false or unsubstantiated claims about his actions and experiences related to the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, including claims that he ...
False Claims About Self-Made Wealth: The 'Small Loan of a Million Dollars' Myth and the Documented $413 Million Inheritance
Documented Falsehoods | 1999 - 2018
For decades, Donald Trump publicly claimed that he built his real estate empire from a modest start, telling audiences that he received only "a small loan of a million dollars" from his father, Fred C...
Pageant Dressing Room Intrusions: Trump's Self-Described Practice of Walking In on Contestants at Miss Universe, Miss USA, and Miss Teen USA
Treatment of Individuals | 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
Treatment of Individuals | 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...
Trump Village Rent Overcharge Scheme: Tenants Sued Over Decades of Fraudulently Inflated Rents at Fred Trump's Brooklyn Properties
Civil Fraud and Business Deception | 1992 - 2020
In December 2020, tenants of rent-regulated apartments in more than 30 buildings previously owned by the Trump family filed a class-action lawsuit in New York State Supreme Court in Brooklyn. The laws...
Anti-Union Practices Across Trump Properties: Union Busting in Las Vegas, the Taj Mahal Strike, and a Pattern of Preferring Non-Union Labor
Labor, Contractor, and Employment Abuses | 1990 - 2024
Across multiple properties and decades, Donald Trump and the Trump Organization engaged in a documented pattern of opposing unionization, fighting existing union contracts, and preferring non-union la...
Central Park Five: Full-Page Death Penalty Ads and Refusal to Acknowledge Exoneration
Treatment of Individuals: Cruelty, Defamation, and Degradation | 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...
Freehold Music Center: Piano Dealer Forced to Accept 70 Cents on the Dollar for Trump Taj Mahal Supply Contract
Labor, Contractor, and Employment Abuses | 1989 - 1990
In 1989, J. Michael Diehl, owner of the Freehold Music Center in Freehold, New Jersey, was contracted to supply approximately $100,000 worth of grand and upright pianos to the Trump Taj Mahal casino i...
Trump Casino Junk Bonds: Billions Lost by Investors While Trump Collected Millions in Personal Compensation
Financial Fraud and Manipulation | 1988 - 2014
Between 1988 and 1991, Donald Trump financed his Atlantic City casino empire through the sale of high-yield junk bonds that promised investors extraordinary returns while exposing them to catastrophic...
False Wealth Claims: Exposed by Tax Records Showing Billion-Dollar Losses and $413 Million in Paternal Transfers
Documented Falsehoods | 1985 - 2019
For decades, Donald Trump publicly claimed to be a self-made billionaire who built his fortune from "a small loan of a million dollars" from his father, Fred Trump. This claim was a central element of...
Bankrupting Small Businesses Through Non-Payment: The Edward Friel Jr. Cabinet Company and Trump's Pattern of Stiffing Contractors
Civil Fraud and Business Deception | 1984 - 1989
Edward Friel Jr. operated the Edward J. Friel Co., a family-owned cabinet-making business in Philadelphia that had been founded by his father in the 1940s. During the Atlantic City casino construction...
Suing Journalists Who Question His Wealth: Trump's Decades-Long Pattern of Using Litigation to Suppress Unfavorable Press Coverage
Civil Fraud and Business Deception | 1984 - 2025
Donald Trump has used litigation against journalists and news organizations as a tool to suppress reporting about his finances and business conduct. This pattern spans more than four decades, predates...
New Jersey Casino Regulatory History: Anti-Money Laundering Violations, FinCEN Penalties, and Organized Crime Associations
Civil Fraud and Business Deception | 1982 - 2015
Donald Trump's casino operations in Atlantic City were subject to regulatory oversight by the New Jersey Casino Control Commission and the Division of Gaming Enforcement from the time Trump received h...
Lies About His Net Worth: Trump's Decades-Long Pattern of Inflating His Wealth, the 'John Barron' Forbes Deception, and the Financial Statements That Became the Basis of Civil Fraud Charges
Documented Falsehoods | 1982 - 2025
Over a period spanning more than four decades, Donald Trump systematically misrepresented his net worth to journalists, lenders, insurers, and the public. The pattern has been documented through audio...
The Bonwit Teller Art Destruction: Trump Promised Art Deco Treasures to the Metropolitan Museum, Then Had Them Jackhammered
Civil Fraud and Business Deception | 1980 - 1980
In 1980, Donald Trump promised to donate historically significant Art Deco architectural elements from the Bonwit Teller building in Manhattan to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, then ordered the artwo...
Over 500 Shell Companies and LLCs: How the Trump Organization Used Corporate Structures to Obscure Ownership, Shield Liability, and Complicate Investigations
Civil Fraud and Business Deception | 1980 - 2026
The Trump Organization is not a single company but a conglomerate of more than 500 separate entities, most of them limited liability companies. When Trump filed his Federal Election Commission financi...
The John Barron and John Miller Aliases: Trump Posed as His Own Publicist to Plant Stories, Inflate His Wealth, and Fabricate His Personal Life
Documented Falsehoods | 1980 - 2016
For more than a decade, Donald Trump routinely contacted journalists while posing as a publicist or spokesman using the aliases "John Barron" and "John Miller." Under these false identities, Trump pla...
Asbestos Denial: False Safety Claims Contradicting Federal Documentation at Trump Properties
Labor, Contractor, and Employment Abuses | 1979 - 1997
Donald Trump made repeated public claims that asbestos was safe and that opposition to asbestos was driven by mob interests rather than health science. These claims contradicted federal environmental ...