Threats of RETALIATION
2020
2020-05-27 Trump wrote, “Republicans feel that Social Media Platforms totally silence conservatives voices. We will strongly regulate, or close them down, before we can ever allow this to happen. We saw what they attempted to do, and failed, in 2016. We can’t let a more sophisticated version of that…happen again. Just like we can’t let large scale Mail-in Ballots take root in our country. It would be a free for all on cheating, forgery, and theft of Ballots. Whoever cheated the most would win. Likewise, Social Media. Clean up your act, NOW!!!”.
2020-11-07 Trump made threats to prosecute over the Biden victory.
2024 January
2024-01-24 Trump withheld aid for California wildfires unless they agreed to two conditions: 1) enact voter ID laws and 2) release waters from a wildlife preserve.
https://abc7.com/post/president-donald-trump-wants-voter-id-laws-condition-aid-california/15833908/
2024 April
2024-04-05 Governor Greg Abbott threatened Texas college students with expulsion for protesting the genocide in Gaza.
2024 September
2024-09-11 Trump accused ABC of rigging the Harris debate and threatened that ABC should lose their license.
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/09/11/trump-harris-debate-rigged-abc-should-lose-license.html
2024 November
2024-11-05 Trump attacked Fox News for airing Oprah.
https://variety.com/2024/politics/news/donald-trump-fox-news-oprah-winfrey-ashamed-1236201464/
2024 December
2024-12-22 Trump threatened to seize the Panama Canal by force in social media posts and at a Phoenix rally, repeating the threat in February 2025.
2025 January
2025-01-07 Trump said he was willing to use military force to acquire Greenland and vowed to obtain it “one way or the other.” He later enlisted Charlie Kirk and Donald Trump Jr. to promote the effort and reiterated the threat in May.
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/04/trump-says-the-us-will-take-greenland-one-way-or-the-other.html
2025-01-07 Trump threatened to use “economic force” to annex Canada, prompting Canadian officials to take the comments more seriously
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/113789874318969723
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114756567645919781
2025-01-20 Trump signed executive order 14172 directing federal agencies to refer to the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America.
2025 February
2025-02-03 Courts delayed White House efforts to freeze roughly $3 trillion in federal spending and identify FBI personnel involved in the January 6 investigations
https://www.npr.org/2025/02/03/nx-s1-5285687/trump-federal-spending-freeze
2025 March
2025-03-04 Trump claimed protests were illegal and threatened funding from any college which allowed them.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/04/trump-university-funding-protests
https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/trump-columbia-university-federal-funding/
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114104167452161158
https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/13/us/protests-legal-illegal-constitution-trump
https://www.axios.com/2025/03/04/trump-college-protests-israel-gaza-funding
2025-03-07 Trump signed an executive order to change student loan forgiveness, adding the language, “…end taxpayer-funded student loan forgiveness for anti-American activists”, leaving it open to the Trump administration’s interpretations and agendas.
2025-03-21 Columbia University agreed to administration demands in exchange for restoring funding, but funding was later frozen again. Three months later Andrew Nixon stated, “There is no federal funding for unvetted woke research at Columbia. Any minimal disbursements that presently exist are for specific measures, including to wind down the grant entirely”.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/21/columbia-university-funding-trump-demands
2025-03-25 The administration revoked Tufts doctoral student Rumeysa Ozturk’s visa after she co-authored a pro-Palestinian article. She was detained by ICE for six weeks before a court ordered her release.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T98wJrupDMA
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/07/detained-tufts-student-rumeysa-ozturk-ruling
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/26/ice-agents-detain-tufts-university-graduate-student
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/rumeysa-ozturk-tufts-student-denied-bond/
2025-03-27 Marco Rubio revoked over 300 student visas in retaliation for protests, saying, “Every time I find one of these lunatics I take away their visa”.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/27/marco-rubio-student-visas-palestine-00005141
2025 May
2025-05-13 Trump ordered FEMA to withhold relief funds until states complied with ICE immigration.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/02/politics/fema-halts-preparedness-grant-money-migrants
JUDGE BLOCKS ORDER https://www.courthousenews.com/states-accuse-trump-administration-of-holding-emergency-relief-hostage-over-immigration-policy/
NOEM MEMO https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.rid.59597/gov.uscourts.rid.59597.59.6.pdf
2025 June
2025-06-08 Trump decried that protestors in Los Angeles should be arrested for wearing masks.
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114650947329138948
2025 July
2025-07-01 Trump released $175M in funding back to University of Pennsylvania only after they agreed to remove transgender Lia Thomas’ records and issue an apology.
2025-07-12 Trump threatened via social media to take away Rosie O’Donnel’s citizenship.
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114840552173805537
2025-07-18 Trump celebrated Stephen Colbert’s dismissal and suggested Jimmy Kimmel could be next.
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114874422468516376
2025-07-22 Trump tweeted out again that he heard Jimmy Kimmel would be fired and that he wanted Jimmy Fallon fired next.
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114897600777919524
https://www.avclub.com/donald-trump-jimmy-fallon-jimmy-kimmel-fired-next-prediction
2025-07-25 Trump called for Oprah Winfrey to be prosecuted over claims related to celebrity endorsements.
https://www.imdb.com/news/ni65401281/
2025-07-27 Trump called for Beyoncé to be prosecuted over her endorsement of Kamala Harris.
2025-07-30 Trump imposed an additional 40% tariff on Brazilian imports after the arrest of Jair Bolsonaro.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/07/addressing-threats-to-the-us/
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/trump-tariffs-put-bolsonaro-brazilian-right-bind-2025-07-15/
2025 August
2025-08-05 Trump claimed Washington, D.C. was “out of control” and suggested federal intervention after an assault involving DOGE staffer Edward “Big Balls” Coristine.
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114977985620971126
2025-08-24 After a dispute with Maryland Governor Wes Moore, Trump suggested reconsidering federal funding for the Francis Scott Key Bridge and later accused Moore of manipulating crime statistics.
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5467900-trump-criticizes-maryland-governor/
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/wes-moore-trump-crime-rhetoric-face-the-nation-08-24-2025/
2025-08-25 Trump threatened to pull funding from any state that did not enforce ending cash bail.
2025-08-25 DHS detained Kilmar Abrego Garcia and reportedly offered the ultimatum deportation to Costa Rica if he pleaded guilty or Uganda if he refused.
2025 September
2025-09-13 American Airlines pilots were fired for talking negatively about the Charlie Kirk shooting.
https://x.com/SecDuffy/status/1966943501444415920
2025-09-15 Trump threatened to withhold federal funding from New York if Zohran Mamdani were elected after receiving Governor Kathy Hochul’s endorsement.
https://newrepublic.com/post/200449/donald-trump-kathy-hochul-endorsement-zohran-mamdani
2025-09-15 Multiple people were fired for insufficiently mourning Charlie Kirk’s death, while Republicans openly celebrated the Pelosi assault, mocked the death of Minnesota senators, celebrated the killing of George Floyd, suggested euthanizing homeless people, and made sexual assault jokes about Kamala Harris. And then kept their jobs.
https://apnews.com/article/dowd-msnbc-kirk-comments-e08f349022c9d69171cd575664141075
https://abovethelaw.com/2025/09/perkins-coie-fires-lawyer-over-this-charlie-kirk-post/
https://x.com/Microsoft/status/1966626714148368766
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/teachers-punishment-social-media-posts-173737509.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/business/media/washington-post-charlie-kirk-karen-attiah.html
2025-09-15 Trump threatened to federalize Washington D.C. after Mayor Muriel Bowser stated they would not cooperate with ICE.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/15/politics/trump-washington-dc-emergency-ice
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115206570863756188
2025-09-17 Trump demanded NBC fire Jimmy Fallon and Seth Meyers, “Do it, NBC.”
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115222372625104790
2025-09-20 Trump threatened Afghanistan in a social media post, saying “bad things” would happen if the U.S. doesn’t retake Bagram Air Force Base.
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115238745589536576
2025-09-20 Trump pressured Pam Bondi to prosecute three of his rivals: James Comey, Letitia James, and Adam Schiff.
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115239044548033727
2025-09-20 Trump posted, “We want Venezuela to immediately accept all of the prisoners, and people from mental institutions, which includes the Worst in the World Insane Asylums, that Venezuelan “Leadership” has forced into the United States of America. Thousands of people have been badly hurt, and even killed, by these “Monsters.” GET THEM THE HELL OUT OF OUR COUNTRY, RIGHT NOW, OR THE PRICE YOU PAY WILL BE INCALCULABLE!”
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115237675581682288
2025-09-23 Trump threatened ABC for re-airing Jimmy Kimmel, “I can’t believe ABC Fake News gave Jimmy Kimmel his job back…I think we’re going to test ABC out on this. Last time I went after them, they gave me $16 Million Dollars. This one sounds even more lucrative”.
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115256938634035559
2025-09-26 Former FBI Director James Comey was indicted after Trump publicly called for prosecutions of political rivals
2025-09-29 Trump again threatened to withhold funding from New York if Zohran Mamdani were elected
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115287641147640374
2025 October
2025-10-02 In response to the shutdown Trump pulled $8 billion in clean-energy funding from Democratic-led states.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-clean-energy-hydrogen-hub-newsom-0223cb4469508bcea4f689c18c9ab65d
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115304455138824245
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115302268694968810
2025-10-08 Florida Representative Kevin Steele introduced legislation threatening state funding for colleges and universities that did not name roads after Charlie Kirk.
2025-10-09 The FAA canceled $6.7 million in infrastructure grants for Indianapolis International Airport, citing it did not align with Trump’s priorities.
2025-10-09 Trump suggested some federal employees affected by the shutdown might not get their back pay, “I would say it depends on who we’re talking about. We’re gonna take care of our people, there are some people that really don’t deserve to be taken care of, and we’ll take care of them in a different way”.
2025-10-10 In a retaliatory move to the government shutdown, the Trump administration fired 4000 federal workers, withheld backpay, and cut funds. Meanwhile they’re asking for ballroom funds, suing the IRS, building a J6 slush fund and paying Argentina?
2025-10-14 RFK Jr. fired more than 1,000 CDC doctors and scientists during the shutdown
https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/cdc-rfk-jr-shutdown-layoffs-goal-rcna237035
2025-10-18 Reports from both parties alleged politically motivated FEMA funding decisions under multiple administrations
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DWJU2ScjArU/
https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/26/politics/disaster-aid-fema-states-trump-shutdown
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABJwDIUwE3U
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r15YTc7imvY
2025-10-19 After Colombia’s president criticized U.S. military actions, Trump threatened to cut aid to Colombia.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn8xg1jve73o
2025-10-27 Trump appointed Michael Selig as chair of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. Selig threatened states that challenged prediction markets, saying, “To those who seek to challenge our authority in this space let me be clear – we will see you in court”.
https://www.cftc.gov/PressRoom/PressReleases/9164-25
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/12/michael-selig-prediction-markets-00865239
https://x.com/ChairmanSelig/status/2023744656647786604
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/see-court-cftc-chair-defends-150757162.html
https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/cftc-selig-prediction-markets-nevada-rcna259352
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2026-02-17/cftc-chair-sides-with-prediction-markets-video
2025-10-29 Kat Abughazaleh was indicted for protesting. She called the charges “yet another attempt by the Trump administration to criminalize protest and punish those who dare to speak up”.
https://theintercept.com/2025/11/01/briefing-podcast-kat-abughazaleh-indictment-protest/
2025-10-30 Trump threatened to use a “nuclear option” to reopen the government.
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115466449868630054
2025 November
2025-11-04 Trump continued to weaponize SNAP benefits posting on his social media account he would continue to leverage food for millions of Americans until the “Radical Left Democrats open up government”.
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115492285081397189
2025 December
2025-12-10 Reuters reported that the Trump administration urged the International Criminal Court to amend the Rome Statute to shield Trump and senior officials from potential war-crimes investigations, while threatening sanctions if the ICC refused.
2025-12-11 After Indiana legislature rejected the new map the Heritage Foundation made threats to withhold funding via X.
https://x.com/Heritage_Action/status/1999141506473509071
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/12/indiana-voting-map-republicans-trump
2025-12-25 Trump made more than 100 Christmas Day posts, including calls to revoke broadcast licenses from critical news outlets.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-broadcast-licenses-terminated-100-negative/
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115772922954148853
2025-12-30 In a retaliatory move for Tina Peters’ incarceration, Trump vetoed a bill to fund a pipeline project that would bring clean drinking water to the Eastern Plains of Colorado.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tina_Peters_(politician)
https://electionfraud.heritage.org/case/201683
2026 January
2026-01-12 Leaked audio captured Karoline Leavitt threatening CBS with lawsuits over interview edits. After a 13-minute interview with CBS anchor Tony Dokoupil, leaked audio of Karoline Leavitt recorded her saying to CBS news after an interview, “He said, ‘Make sure you guys don’t cut the tape, make sure the interview is out in full.’ He said if it’s not out in full we’ll sue your ass off”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdYqrbZt6FM&list=WL&index=1
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/18/white-house-press-secretary-cbs-trump-interview
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/17/business/media/cbs-news-trump-interview.html
2026-01-13 Trump linked immigration enforcement in Minnesota to election outcomes and accused the state of election manipulation
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115889954671261109
2026-01-16 Trump threatened tariffs against countries unwilling to support U.S. control of Greenland
2026-01-16 The Justice Department accused Governor Tim Walz and Mayor Jacob Frey of fraud and conspiracy related to immigration enforcement
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/doj-opens-criminal-probe-targeting-minnesota/
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2026/01/06/timeline-of-fraud-investigations-that-shaped-walz-tenure
2026-01-19 Trump demanded the Nobel Prize in a message to the Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store while insisting on “complete and total control of Greenland.” He added, “I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace”.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy7mev35x2lo
2026-01-20 Trump pardoned Honduras president Juan Orlando Hernandez who was convicted in 2024 of a violent narco-trafficking scheme. He helped flood the U.S. with over 400 tons of cocaine. He ran Honduras as a narco state and accepted millions of dollars in bribes. He said, allegedly, “We are going to stuff the drugs up the gringos’ noses, and they’re never even going to know it”. Trump also threatened to cut off aid to Honduras if voters elected one of Hernandez’s rivals and threatened there would be “Hell to Pay” if the Honduras presidential election results were changed. In May 2026 leaked audio revealed that the US, Israel and Honduras were involved in a joint scheme together to target leftist governments in Latin America.
https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2025/12/01/trump-honduras-venezuela
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1kpm0rvxepo
https://apnews.com/article/trump-hernandez-honduras-pardon-96ac8d1d44d438f64beb8b24ca54b651
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2dgp8mvmno
TIMESTAMP 7:53 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2p6lUw7Bx0&list=WL&index=1&t=9s
2026-01-21 The FCC again threatened ABC’s broadcast license over programming involving Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/jimmy-kimmel-fcc-threat-response_n_6971dbbbe4b0e15d54cbe2e9
https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DA-26-68A1.pdf
2026-01-22 Trump criticized Special Counsel Jack Smith on Truth Social. Smith had prosecuted Trump in cases involving election interference and classified documents at Mar-a-Lago.
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115939889414201547
2026-01-23 Just one hour after agents executed Alex Pretti, Pam Bondi sent a letter to Tim Walz stating the Trump administration would remove ICE from the State if Minnesota met demands to hand over voter files, SNAP data, and repealed its sanctuary policy.
https://www.npr.org/2026/01/26/nx-s1-5688964/minnesota-data-bondi-letter
https://people.com/pam-bondi-full-letter-tim-walz-after-alex-pretti-shooting-11892085
2026 February
2026-02-22 Trump threatened Netflix with consequences unless it removed board member Susan Rice.
https://www.axios.com/2026/02/23/trump-netflix-susan-rice
https://theweek.com/business/trump-netflix-susan-rice-state-run-capitalism
2026-02-27 Anthropic said it refused Pentagon demands involving domestic surveillance and autonomous weapons after being threatened with “supply chain risk” designation. The CEO of Anthropic stated they could not – in good conscience – agree to the terms the Pentagon was asking for.
https://www.axios.com/2026/02/26/anthropic-pentagon-ultamatim-congress-deadline
2026 March
2026-03-06 Anthropic sued the Pentagon after being labeled a supply chain risk for refusing military AI demands.
https://www.npr.org/2026/03/06/g-s1-112713/pentagon-labels-ai-company-anthropic-a-supply-chain-risk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ISY16GtwLI&list=WL&index=8
2026-03-06 Trump demanded Iran’s “UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER” in a social media post
https://www.cnn.com/world/live-news/iran-war-us-israel-trump-03-06-26
https://www.axios.com/2026/03/06/trump-iran-war-unconditional-surrender
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/116182551337254643
2026-03-08 Trump threatened to block legislation until Congress passed the SAVE Act.
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/116193527873859174
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5776058-trump-republicans-save-america-act-midterms/
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/09/trump-threat-congress-save-america-act
2026-03-14 Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth criticized media coverage of the Iran conflict and accused reporters of misrepresenting events. One article quoted Hegseth as saying, “The sooner David Ellison takes over that network, the better” in reference to CNN.
https://newrepublic.com/article/207760/pete-hegseth-iran-war-patriotic-media-coverage
https://x.com/atrupar/status/2032430133353591082
https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/12/politics/hormuz-trump-administration-underestimated-iran
https://newrepublic.com/article/207760/pete-hegseth-iran-war-patriotic-media-coverage
2026-03-14 FCC’s Brendan Carr threatened the media and wrote on X, “Broadcasters are running hoaxes and news distortions – also known as the fake news – have a chance now to correct course before their license renewals come up. The law is clear. Broadcasters must operate in the public interest, and they will lose their licenses if they do not. And frankly, changing course is in their own business interests since trust in legacy media has now fallen to an all time low of just 9% and are ratings disasters. The American people have subsidized broadcasters to the tune of billions of dollars by providing free access to the nation’s airwaves. It is very important to bring trust back into media, which has earned itself the label of fake news. When a political candidate is able to win a landslide election victory after in the face of hoaxes and distortions, there is something very wrong. It means the public has lost faith and confidence in the media. And we can’t allow that to happen. Time for change!”
https://x.com/BrendanCarrFCC/status/2032855414233047172
https://www.cato.org/blog/fcc-threats-fog-war-government-cannot-be-arbiter-truth
https://firstamendment.mtsu.edu/post/five-questions-why-fcc-chair-carrs-license-threats-are-empty/
https://thehill.com/homenews/media/5786490-fcc-chair-threatens-broadcasters/
2026-03-16 Trump said he intended to “take” Cuba and threatened continued energy restrictions unless Cuban leadership changed. He said, “I do believe I’ll have the honor of taking Cuba”. He also stated, “I can do anything I want”.
https://nypost.com/2026/03/16/us-news/trump-believes-hell-be-taking-cuba-in-the-future/
https://www.ndtv.com/video/i-do-believe-i-ll-have-the-honor-of-taking-cuba-donald-trump-1072855
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/16/world/americas/trump-cuba-president-diaz-canel.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNoioT7VP98&list=WL&index=11
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gk6P-bKiGyo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIkrpjKnspw
2026-03-21 Trump threatened to deploy ICE agents to airports unless Democrats approved additional DHS funding
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/116267892671497457
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObltrGAQQS8&list=WL&index=8
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/airport-delays-dhs-funding/
2026-03-23 Steve Bannon described ICE deployments at airports as a potential “test run” for future election-related operations. He allegedly stated, “We can use this as a test run, as a test case, to really perfect ICE’s involvement in the 2026 midterms”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-8SGdG5AVY
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/aeeULQ384v4
2026-03-26 After slamming down Democrat attempts to pass a bill asking to fund TSA, Trump said he would issue an emergency order to ensure TSA employees were paid during the government shutdown
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETT5qkzk9Lo&list=WL&index=10
https://abcnews.com/Politics/trump-hell-sign-order-directing-dhs-pay-tsa/story?id=131441186
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-order-tsa-pay-as-dhs-shutdown-drags-on/
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/26/trump-tsa-shutdown-dhs.html
2026-03-26 Judge Rita Lin rejected the Pentagon’s retribution against Anthropic, writing, “Nothing in the governing statute supports the Orwellian notion that an American company may be branded a potential adversary and saboteur of the U.S. for expressing disagreement with the government”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGFkuH7GRX8&list=WL&index=1&t=388s
2026-03-27 Idaho lawmakers Glenneda Zuiderveld and Stephanie Mickelson reported pressure and retaliation over their immigration-policy positions.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbP5n27UWYE&list=WL&index=3
https://www.idahostatesman.com/news/politics-government/state-politics/article315355006.html
2026-03-30 Trump publicly threatened to bomb desalination plants, electric plants and oil wells in Iran, which would be a war crime. When asked, Karoline Leavitt defended Trump, “Um, look – the president has made it quite clear to the Iranian regime at this moment in time as evidenced by the statement that you just read, that their best move is to make a deal – or else the United States armed forces has capabilities beyond their wildest imagination and the president is not afraid to use them…” When journalists pointed out war-crime concerns, Karoline Leavitt responded, “That’s not what I said, Garrett, and you’re saying the word potential for a reason, ‘cuz I’m sure some experts are telling you that in your ear to try to ask me that question. Of course, this administration and the United States armed forces will always act within the confines of the law, but with respect to achieving the full objectives of Operation Epic Fury, President Trump is going to move forward unabated, and he expected – expects – the Iranian regime to make a deal with the administration”.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/leavitt-melts-down-after-being-quizzed-on-trump-war-crimes/
https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/30/world/live-news/iran-war-us-israel-trump
https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.7147083
https://www.dw.com/en/iran-war-trump-threatens-to-blow-up-desalination-plants/live-76586932
2026 April
2026-04-08 Former Fort Bragg employee Courtney Williams was charged under the Espionage Act after allegedly providing information to a journalist about sexual and race-based harassment at Fort Bragg.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/08/fbi-arrests-ex-military-employee
2026-04-20 Kash Patel told Fox that arrests connected to the 2020 election would be forthcoming.
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/19/trump-doj-redoubling-election-scrutiny-efforts-00880159
2026-04-24 Internal Pentagon documents reportedly outlined plans to pressure NATO allies that did not support the Iran war effort.
https://www.dw.com/en/spain-responds-to-reported-us-plans-to-punish-nato-allies/a-76923103
https://www.jpost.com/international/article-894058
PAY WALL https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz78x703lrvo
2026-04-27 Trump and Melania Trump made separate social media posts demanding Jimmy Kimmel’s dismissal, after which the FCC opened an investigation.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/us/politics/trump-jimmy-kimmel-abc-widow-joke.html
https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/27/media/kimmel-trump-disney-damaro
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/116477838570626860
2026-04-28 Former FBI Director James Comey was indicted again over a 2025 social-media post after an earlier case had been dismissed.
https://www.foxnews.com/live-news/james-comey-indicted-again-as-doj-probe-deepens-into-ex-fbi-chief
https://www.npr.org/2026/04/28/nx-s1-5803167/james-comey-indictment
PAY WALL https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgz4rvlem5o
2026-04-28 Shortly after Trump and First Lady Melania Trump demanded Jimmy Kimmel be fired, the FCC opened an investigation into ABC and Disney for DEI practices.
https://abcnews.com/US/fcc-orders-early-review-abcs-broadcast-licenses/story?id=132466823
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fcc-disney-abc-early-license-renewal-jimmy-kimmel-dei/
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/fcc-threatens-abcs-licenses-as-trumps-call-for-kimmels-firing
2026 May
2026-05-14 JD Vance announced the administration would withhold $1.3 billion in Medicaid reimbursements from California and other Democratic-led states like New York and Hawaii. Senator Alex Padilla cited “political retribution”.
https://www.instagram.com/p/DYSu-7HlUE-/
https://www.commondreams.org/news/california-home-health
2026-05-16 Trump dropped his $10 billion IRS lawsuit in exchange for a taxpayer-funded $1.7 billion slush fund to pay off J6 insurrectionists. As part of the IRS settlement, the DOJ agreed to drop pending tax claims involving Trump and his family, and never investigate them for tax fraud again.
https://time.com/article/2026/05/16/trump-irs-lawsuit-weaponization-fund/
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/16/trump-irs-lawsuit-compensation-fund
https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/17/politics/irs-doj-trump-fund-billion
https://www.npr.org/2026/05/19/g-s1-122938/irs-trump-settlement-tax-returns-audit
https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/19/politics/irs-barred-investigating-trump-new-settlement-term
2026-05-20 Two officers filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration for rewarding J6 insurrectionists with a slush fund.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rm_2tYr8HE&list=WL&index=3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EPDnUEagYo&list=WL&index=1
https://www.npr.org/2026/05/21/g-s1-123293/officers-who-defended-capitol-sue
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/20/trump-weaponization-fund-lawsuit-jan-6-00929342
2026 June
2026-06-10 Trump posted Iran was taking too long in negotiations and will have to “pay the price”. This was after U.S. strikes reportedly hit 2 reservoirs in Iran, leaving 20,000 people without access to drinking water.
TIMESTAMP 00:01 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eE7c1I6glks&list=WL&index=2
https://edition.cnn.com/2026/06/09/world/live-news/iran-war-trump-israel
2026-06-12 The State Department opened an investigation into Trita Parsi for reporting on the war in Iran, and now he faces deportation.
2026-06-22 A federal judge quashed subpoenas to Minnesota officials, writing, “Initiating a criminal investigation in order to harass political opponents or to coerce them into taking official action – particularly official action that the federal government cannot directly require those political opponents to take – is a blatantly unlawful and unethical use of the grand jury process…”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFZ2Gjo0UuY&list=WL&index=1
2026-06-24 Trump cancelled signage of the affordable housing bill until the SAVE act passes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2t-fBSGBvkY&list=WL&index=4&t=176s
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/24/trump-cancels-housing-bill-signing-save-america-act.html
2026 July
2026-07-07 FEMA announced it would be withholding Homeland Security funding to any states that didn’t comply with Trump’s upcoming election requirements.
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/fema-threatens-to-withhold-terrorism-prevention-funds/
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/dhs-plans-costly-crackdown-states-dont-cooperate-election-security
2026-07-17 Markwayne Mullin threatened to prosecute and withhold aid from states that didn’t comply with DHS election directives.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOcdBf6czeg
2026-07-24 The Trump administration conceded that it cancelled 284 research grants on states that voted against Trump in 2024.
https://www.cnn.com/2026/07/25/politics/trump-administration-grants-democratic-states