Defiance of Law
2019
2019-09-16 Trump faced numerous allegations of violating the Constitution’s Foreign and Domestic Emoluments Clauses by keeping ownership of businesses while in office, accepting gifts, and business entanglements with foreign officials.
2022
2022-12-03 Trump posted, “So, with the revelation of MASSIVE & WIDESPREAD FRAUD & DECEPTION in working closely with Big Tech Companies, the DNC, & the Democrat Parter, do you throw the Presidential Election Results of 2020 OUT and declare the RIGHTFUL WINNER, or do you have a NEW ELECTION? A Massive Fraud of this type and magnitude allows for the termination of all rules, regulations, and articles, even those found in the Constitution. Our great “Founders” did not want, and would not condone, False & Fraudulent Elections!”.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-63851751
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/donald-trump-claims-grounds-termination-us-constitution-twitter/
https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/03/politics/trump-constitution-truth-social
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/109449803240069864
2023 Sound Familiar?
2023-01-01 Netanyahu has repeatedly tried to overhaul the judiciary, give the ruling coalition power to pick their own judges, and prohibit courts form striking down “unreasonable” decisions.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-65086871
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Israeli_judicial_reform
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/01/01/israel-supreme-court-netanyahu-judicial-overhaul-00133385
https://en.idi.org.il/tags-en/47383
2024 April
2024-04-16 A judge admonished Trump for juror intimidation in the hush money trial.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/16/trump-new-york-hush-money-criminal-trial
2024-04-30 Trump violated a gag order.
2024 May
2024-05-06 Trump violated a gag order again. Trump violated ten separate gag orders.
https://www.opb.org/article/2024/05/06/trump-second-gag-order-fine/
2024 July
2024-07-01 Trump argued that presidents have absolute immunity from criminal prosecution. In 2026, he invoked the Supreme Court’s immunity ruling in arguing for protection regarding “official acts.”
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/23-939_e2pg.pdf
https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/LSB11194
https://www.cato.org/blog/trump-v-us-great-power-comes-great-immunity
2024 September
2024-09-10 Trump called the Harris debate “rigged” and attacked ABC for factchecking him.
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/09/11/trump-harris-debate-rigged-abc-should-lose-license.html
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/09/09/trump-debate-plans-00177885
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/09/11/trump-debate-winner-fox-00178611
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn9l9500vg7o
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6361528433112
2025 January
2025-01-15 Pam Bondi claimed about the DOJ during her confirmation hearing, “I will not politicize that office. I will not target people simply because of their political affiliation. Justice will be administered even-handedly throughout this country. Yet she addressed the DOJ staff two weeks later, stating, “We are so proud to work at the directive of Donald Trump”.
https://www.npr.org/2025/05/06/g-s1-64305/weaponization-doj-trump-bondi-justice-department
TRUMP PLEDGES TO EXPOSE HIS ENEMIES AT THE DOJ: https://apnews.com/article/trump-visits-justice-department-e9091e3721adda4d3ed39bd15119a0d4
https://apnews.com/article/trump-retribution-bondi-investigations-97207519e02dea460d6c68cc8b585c33
2025-01-20 After Bondi was confirmed, the DOJ dropped 23,000 criminal investigations so they could shift to immigration enforcement. Cases dropped included those on terrorism, white-collar crime, drugs, nursing home patient abuse (Virginia), and cryptocurrency investor fraud.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-doj-immigration-bondi-declinations-criminal-investigations
https://www.propublica.org/topics/trump-administration
2025-01-22 The U.S. Constitution temporarily disappeared from the White House website shortly after Trump’s inauguration, the first of two such incidents reported in 2025.
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/government-websites-vanish-trump-constitution-dei-rcna188522
2025-01-28 The Trump administration froze funds that were already pre-approved by Congress; Eric Schmitt said on video he supported this.
2025 February
2025-02-09 JD Vance claimed on social media that judges cannot direct the executive branch’s legitimate exercise of power, “If a judge tried to tell a general how to conduct a military operation, that would be illegal. If a judge tried to command the attorney general in how to use her discretion as a prosecutor, that’s also illegal. Judges aren’t allowed to control the executive’s legitimate power”.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/10/jd-vance-judges-trump
2025-02-27 The Trump administration targeted legal oversight of military lawyers, stating their enforcement of law were potential “roadblocks” to Trump’s orders.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/15/politics/pentagon-lawyers-sidelined-jags
https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/are-military-lawyers-being-sidelined
https://thehill.com/policy/defense/5162069-pentagon-officers-fired/
https://www.execfunctions.org/p/the-decaying-legal-culture-in-the
https://apnews.com/article/pentagon-hegseth-firing-chairman-lawyers-6bead3346b1210e45e77648e6cbc3599
https://www.newsweek.com/how-pete-hegseths-cull-of-military-lawyers-could-hurt-us-soldiers-10819597
2025 March
2025-03-16 After a court ordered a deportation flight turned around, Tom Homan said, “I don’t care what the judges think.” Trump called for the judge’s impeachment, while El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele mocked the ruling on social media, “oopsie, too late” and a laugh-cry emoji.
https://x.com/nayibbukele/status/1901238762614517965?lang=en
2025-03-23 News reports described an “unprecedented degree of resistance” to court rulings and a forceful attack on the American judiciary.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/23/judges-trump-court-rulings
2025 April
2025-04-01 During a press conference, a journalist asked Karoline Leavitt about the Trump administration ignoring judge orders, “So are you saying that it is okay to ignore a judge’s ruling if you don’t like it?”. Leavitt responded, “Uh, who does that judge work for? It was an immigration judge who works for the Department of Justice at the direction of the Attorney General of the United States, whose name is Pam Bondi, who has committed to eradicating MS-13 from our nation’s interior…”
2025-04-29 A leaked memo confirmed Stephen Miller’s intentions to suspend Habeas Corpus.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NO7yLHxFdMQ&list=WL&index=6&t=200s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_DjyHY45nI&list=WL&index=5&t=216s
https://abcnews.com/Politics/wh-trump-suspending-habeas-corpus/story?id=121653587
https://www.instagram.com/reels/DJcp_1DR97c/
2025 May
2025-05-04 When asked whether he was required to uphold the Constitution, Trump replied, “I don’t know”.
2025-05-12 Steve Bannon called out a “Constitutional Crisis”, saying, “If they can hold it together they can control the government for 50-75 years”
2025-05-12 Steve Bannon declared the Era of Trump “like it or not”, referenced the “steal of 2020”, and said there were multiple workarounds to serving a third term.
2025-05-20 Kristi Noem struggled to explain Habeas Corpus during a hearing.
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1948380052635180
2025 July
2025-07-12 Trump made sure the DOJ purged anyone in the department that investigated him or his allies.
2025 August
2025-08-07 Portions of the U.S. Constitution temporarily disappeared from the Library of Congress website for a second time; the White House attributed it to a coding error.
2025-08-27 After a grand jury declined to indict the man arrested for throwing a sandwich, the DOJ tried again by removing some jurors who voted against them. In October the DOJ interviewed one juror who said, “I heard this case like last week and I thought it was a crock of shit then and I still think it is”.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/dc-sandwich-guy-verdict-rcna242142
https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/09/politics/grand-jury-transcripts-broadview-six-indictment
2025 September
2025-09-09 News outlets reported on a possible Heritage Foundation agenda to change the Constitution.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/us/politics/heritage-foundation-constitution-book.html
https://www.aclu.org/project-2025-explained
https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/11/politics/trump-allies-project-2025/index.html
2025-09-21 California Governor Newsom signed a law banning law enforcement from wearing masks, but the acting US Attorney refused to comply.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/21/us/california-mask-ban-law-enforcement-newsom
https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/news/essayli-newsom-federal-agent-mask-ban/
2025-09-27 Teachers in Oklahoma pointed out that Trump bibles include the Constitution but leaves out Amendments 11 through 27. Those Amendments include protections for states from being sued in federal court, MULTIPLE voting rights, two term limits, presidential succession, citizenship laws, equal right laws, abolition of slavery, women’s rights, and more.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZHGkBxvVnk
2025 October
2025-10-01 The White House posted partisan anti-Democrat shutdown messaging across federal websites (research the Hatch Act and violating it). Messages included “Democrats Have Shut Down the Government” and “The Radical Left are going to shut down the government and inflict massive pain on the American people unless they get their $1.5 trillion wish list of demands. The Trump administration wants to keep the government open for the American people”.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/government-shutdown-clock/
2025 November
2025-11-03 Despite court orders, Trump continued delaying SNAP funding, at times proposing partial or no release of funds
https://www.npr.org/2025/11/03/nx-s1-5596121/snap-food-benefits-trump-government-shutdown
https://abcnews.go.com/US/trump-administration-partially-fund-snap-months/story?id=127138175
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/04/trump-snap-funding-shutdown-food-aid-00635141
https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/07/politics/trump-administration-supreme-court-snap-benefits
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-defies-court-snap-ruling
https://www.npr.org/2025/11/03/g-s1-96296/trump-deadline-contingency-funds-snap
2025-11-09 Former U.S. Federal Judge Mark Wolf resigned after his 50-year tenure under the Regan administration, stating he could no longer stay silent about the “White House assault on rule of law” and calling it “deeply disturbing”.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/11/federal-judge-resignation-trump/684845/
https://www.axios.com/2025/11/10/federal-judge-wolf-resigns-trump-letter-atlantic
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/federal-judge-resigns-letter-trump_n_69121c3ae4b0b840aac12569
https://www.notus.org/courts/ronald-reagan-appointed-federal-judge-resign-quit-trump
2025-11-12 Adelita Grijalva was sworn into Congress seven weeks after winning a special election in Arizona and was expected to vote on releasing the Epstein files.
https://grijalva.house.gov/media/press-releases/taking-the-oath-of-office
https://time.com/7333146/adelita-grijalva-johnson-house-swearing-in-epstein-government-shutdown/
2025 December
2025-12-08 The Supreme Court heard arguments in a case that could significantly expand presidential firing authority and reshape federal checks and balances.
https://www.npr.org/2025/12/08/nx-s1-5626876/supreme-court-trump-ftc-unitary-executive
https://www.fox5dc.com/video/1753194
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.
2025-12-20 The DOJ released only a heavily redacted portion of the Epstein files. Reports alleged some files mentioning Trump appeared then quickly disappeared from the DOJ website. Critics accused the DOJ of repeatedly withholding or redacting relevant documents, including a sexual-assault allegation against Trump involving a 13-year-old girl.
https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/4405
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/epstein-files-redaction-over-500-pages-entirely-blacked-out/
2026 January
2026-01-26 Despite a judicial warrant, federal agents blocked the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension from accessing the scene to the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti.
2026 February
2026-02-03 Trump urged Republicans to pursue nationalized elections.
https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/02/politics/trump-calls-on-republicans-to-nationalize-future-elections
2026-02-17 DHS repeated partisan shutdown messaging on official websites, “Another Democrat Government Shutdown Dramatically Hurts America’s National Security”.
2026-02-20 After the Supreme Court struck down his tariffs in a 6–3 ruling, Trump criticized the Court as disloyal to the Constitution and unpatriotic. The following day, he raised global tariffs to 15% in retaliation.
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25pdf/24-1287_4gcj.pdf
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-raises-global-tariff-15-percent
2026-02-20 Mark Zuckerberg wore Ray-Ban smart glasses during court proceedings.
https://www.theverge.com/tech/882030/smart-glasses-in-court-meta-mark-zuckerberg
https://epic.org/the-verge-smart-glasses-in-court-are-a-privacy-nightmare/
2026-02-27 Trump tried to push an executive order granting him total emergency federal oversight of upcoming elections, again alleging fraud in the 2020 election and interference by China.
2026 March
2026-03-02 Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said there would be no “stupid” rules of engagement governing military operations against Iran.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/hegseth-insists-the-iran-conflict-is-not-iraq-and-is-not-endless
2026-03-16 After Trump took office nearly 4000 attorneys at the DOJ quit, only 1400 new hires were set to replace them, and standards for hiring were reduced to only needing a law degree and active state bar membership; no experience required.
2026-03-22 Trump said, “They don’t like the word ‘war’, because you’re supposed to get approval, so I’ll use the word ‘military operation’, which is really what it is”.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cpac-republicans-trump-iran-war-bannon/
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/29/cpac-maga-anxiety-iran-war
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/cpac
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/xMqVQbctsmo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYZC0-FKEJM&t=16s
2026-03-27 At CPAC, Franklin Graham said Trump should be reelected for a third term before later stating he misspoke and meant Trump’s policies should continue.
https://www.newsweek.com/cpac-crowd-urged-to-do-everything-we-can-to-get-trump-reelected-11743902
https://churchleaders.com/news/2215561-franklin-graham-trump-reelection-cpac.html
https://www.christianpost.com/news/franklin-graham-says-he-misspoke-in-cpac-speech.html
2026-03-31 Trump signed an executive order instructing DHS to gather a voters list and the USPS to transmit ballots, thereby nationalizing elections, burdening the postal service, complicating mail voting, and suppressing turnout.
https://www.npr.org/2026/03/31/nx-s1-5508948/trump-voter-list-mail-ballots-executive-order
https://coloradosun.com/2026/04/01/trump-signs-executive-order-in-hope-of-tightening-mail-in-voting/
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/31/trump-order-election-voting-explainer
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/31/us/politics/trump-mail-in-ballots-voting-executive-order.html
2026 April
2026-04-01 Hegseth nullified the Army’s investigation into the pilot who did a low fly-by of Kid Rock’s mansion. Hegseth wrote, “Pilots suspension LIFTED. No punishment. No investigation. Carry on patriots”.
https://www.stripes.com/branches/army/2026-04-01/kid-rock-apache-helicopter-hegseth-21246722.html
https://x.com/PeteHegseth/status/2039109100282196436
https://www.npr.org/2026/04/01/nx-s1-5769800/suspension-lifted-helicopter-pilots-kid-rock
https://abc7.com/post/army-says-reviewing-helicopters-flying-low-hovering-kid-rocks-home/18816103
https://www.thedailybeast.com/hegseth-makes-shock-announcement-after-cringe-kid-rock-stunt/
2026-04-09 Pam Bondi refused to comply with a subpoena requiring testimony about the Epstein investigation because she was no longer serving as Attorney General.
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5821724-pam-bondi-oversight-deposition-epstein-files/
https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/08/politics/pam-bondi-epstein-deposition-justice-department
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/bondi-deposition-subpoena-house-oversight-committee-epstein/
https://www.ms.now/news/bondi-epstein-deposition-house-oversight-contempt
2026-04-10 The Commodity Futures Trading Commission under Trump stops states from regulating prediction markets and permits certain loopholes tied to elections.
https://stateline.org/2026/06/10/trump-administration-proposes-new-rules-for-prediction-markets/
2026-04-23 Republicans used budget reconciliation measures to bypass votes and approve an additional $70B in ICE funding.
https://www.npr.org/2026/04/23/g-s1-118330/congress-dhs-spending-reconciliation
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5844515-senate-republicans-budget-resolution/
2026-04-28 King Charles addressed Congress, pushing back on several issues between the US and UK, and warning that executive power is subject to checks and balances. He also directly addressed Trump’s attacks on NATO by reminding everyone that Trump told NATO if it wasn’t for the U.S. they’d all be speaking German. King Charles said if it wasn’t for the U.K., the U.S. would be speaking French.
https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/c5y7d4088v4o
https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/28/us/live-news/king-charles-queen-camilla-us-visit
2026 May
2026-05-01 After Trump falsely claimed he didn’t need Congressional approval to continue the war in Iran the Pentagon renamed Operation Epic Fury to Operation Sledgehammer to circumvent the 60-day limit under the War Powers Act.
https://www.instagram.com/reels/DXzkCYERom0/
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/trumps-project-freedom-has-become-project-confusion.html
2026-05-12 The Pentagon considered renaming Operation Epic Fury, Operation Sledgehammer to circumvent the 60-day limit on war without Congressional approval.
https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/iran-news/article-896121
https://unn.ua/en/news/us-considering-renaming-war-with-iran-to-operation-sledgehammer-media
2026-05-13 The Senate rejected another war-powers resolution (the 7th time).
https://time.com/article/2026/05/13/iran-war-vote-senate-murkowski-closest-vote-yet/
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/senate-defeats-7th-trump-war-powers-iran/
2026-05-14 The House failed to advance an Iran war-powers resolution after a 212–212 tie vote.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/house-iran-war-powers-resolution/
2026-05-22 Combat veteran and Democratic Representative Pat Ryan said, “These chickenhawk motherf*ckers are going to send us home for Memorial Day weekend – where I’m going to honor my fellow veterans that I served 27 months in combat with – and they are going to not even give an up or down vote on continuing this war almost 3 months in while Americans are paying almost $5 a gallon at the pumps. It is fucking pathetic. They use this procedural bullsh!t argument, and every American should be absolutely outraged about this. It’s a disgrace.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvb6YVTe_0s&list=WL&index=7&t=50s
2026-05-29 House GOP members rejected Trump’s National Defense Authorization Act demands.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTLLvoDE0iQ&list=WL&index=6
https://thehill.com/policy/defense/5896228-ndaa-house-trump-troops-battleship/
2020 https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/house-votes-to-override-trumps-veto-of-defense-bill
2020 https://www.politico.com/news/2020/12/24/republicans-armed-services-ndaa-veto-450387
2026 June
2026-06-05 The White House took over federal grant-making draws, allowing the President to have more partisan power over grants and research.
https://time.com/article/2026/06/03/federal-grants-omb-proposal-trump-review-anti-american/
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/03/trump-public-funding-proposal
2026-06-15 The DOJ intervened in a lawsuit in NAACP v. Elon Musk for violating a clean air act and polluting Black neighborhoods.
https://www.democracynow.org/2026/6/18/abre_conner_naacp
https://naacp.org/articles/trump-administration-attempts-massive-power-grab-defense-musks-xai
THE LAWSUIT, April 14 2026 https://naacp.org/articles/naacp-sues-xai-illegal-pollution-data-center-power-plant
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
2026-06-29 Mike Johnson stated the housing bill would be signed into law without Trump’s signature.
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/06/24/donald-trump-housing-bill-canceled-00973509
2026 July
2026-07-08 A group of retired judges marched in protest over fears that the rule of law is under threat in the United States.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9z3eKsygyrc&list=WL&index=3&t=51s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9z3eKsygyrc
2026-07-13 A judge found that Trump misused court for his IRS case to earmark $10B in taxpayer money.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us-judge-voids-trumps-settlement-with-irs-2026-07-13/
https://apnews.com/article/trump-irs-justice-department-61adebe5de8982eb214b30889ad4f251
2026-07-24 The Trump administration imposed more emergency tariffs despite a SCOTUS ruling striking down earlier emergency power tariffs.
https://www.scotusblog.com/2026/03/the-remaining-questions-after-the-supreme-courts-tariffs-ruling/
2026-07-28 The Senate voted to confirm Jay Clatyon as director of National Intelligence. Clayton repeatedly refused to say or concede that Joe Biden won the 2020 election or that Trump had lost.
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/28/jay-clayton-bill-pulte-senate-vote-trump-spy-chief.html
2026-07-30 Todd Blanche’s nomination has been postponed as members demanded scaling back on the part of the settlement that exempted Trump and his family from IRS audits. Epstein victims also lobbied against Blanche saying he was very condescending to them during their meeting.
https://www.npr.org/2026/07/30/g-s1-136265/senate-blanche-nomination
2026-07-30 The Senate again voted down a war powers resolution.
https://time.com/article/2026/07/31/republicans-break-ranks-attempt-to-limit-trump-iran-war-powers/
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5999704-senate-gop-iran-war-resolution/
2026 August
2026-08-07 Federal courts ruled Trump cannot build his ballroom. Trump whined on social media “This unjust decision must be overturned by the Supreme Court in its entirety”.
SUB WALL https://www.politico.com/news/2026/08/07/appeals-court-ruling-white-house-ballroom-01028755
2026-08-11 A US oil company linked to Trump called Greenland energy announced they plan to drill in Greenland without local approval
https://globalnews.ca/news/12015693/us-oil-firm-drilling-equipment-greenland/
https://truthout.org/articles/trump-appears-to-be-renewing-his-push-for-control-of-greenland/
2026-08-13 The Trump administration began re-inscribing Trumps name back onto the Kennedy Center.
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/6028439-kennedy-center-approves-added-trump-name/
2026-08-13 Mike Lindell refused to accept election results in the Minnesota gubernatorial primary.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WE2FxOcT55Y&list=WL&index=2&t=11s
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/12/mike-lindell-refuses-concede-minnesota-primary
2026-08-17 Todd Blanche declined to pledge that the DOJ will operate independently of the White House.
https://www.axios.com/2026/08/16/todd-blanche-doj-independence-trump
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/6032206-blanche-rejects-independence-pledge/
2026-08-18 A federal judge blocked Trump’s attempt to relocate the FBI headquarters and undermine
2026-08-18 Minnesota has sued Texas Governor Abbott to force him to extradite an ICE agent to stand trial in Minnesota for felony assault charges and falsely reporting a crime. Prosecutors allege the ICE agent shot a man in the leg through his home then lied by claiming the assault was self-defense. Governor Abbot has refused to sign extradition.
https://www.ag.state.mn.us/Office/Communications/2026/08/18_Castro.asp
https://www.texastribune.org/2026/08/18/minnesota-sues-abbott-texas-ice-agent-extradition-lawsuit/
2026-08-20 Trump’s aid Natalie Harp refused to fill out forms for a security clearance.
https://www.tmz.com/2026/08/19/donald-trump-aide-natalie-harp-worked-without-security-clearance/