AAA. MISCELLANEOUS

2017

2017-05-01 Trump fired FBI Director James Comey, who oversaw the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dismissal_of_James_Comey

2025

2025-02-05 Pam Bondi disbanded the FBI Foreign Influence Task Force and FBI Task Force Kleptocapture. Both departments were designed to combat foreign influence in U.S. politics.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/bondi-ends-fbi-effort-combat-foreign-influence-us-politics-rcna191012

2025 April

2025-04-03 The Trump administration sent a three-person team out to Myanmar for foreign aid in response to an earthquake, then fired them once there. China sent 600 aid workers.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/us-aid-team-fired-myanmar-earthquake-zone-ex-official-says-rcna199886

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/with-us-absent-china-steps-earthquake-hit-myanmar-2025-04-02/

PAY WALL https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/05/us/politics/aid-workers-myanmar-fired.html

2025-06-11 A Pew Research study found that globally other countries have less confidence in the United States.

https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2025/06/11/us-image-declines-in-many-nations-amid-low-confidence-in-trump/

2026

2026-05-05 Leaked audio recordings revealed that the U.S., Israel and Honduras were all involved in a scheme together to target leftist governments in Latin America. Context, Trump pardoned Juan Orlando Hernandez in December after he was convicted of drug trafficking.

https://www.democracynow.org/2026/5/8/headlines/us_and_israel_worked_with_disgraced_ex_president_of_honduras_to_destabilize_leftist_governments

https://peoplesdispatch.org/2026/05/05/hondurasgate-leaked-audio-links-asfura-hernandez-trump-milei-netanyahu-in-anti-left-plot/

TIMESTAMP 7:53 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2p6lUw7Bx0&list=WL&index=1&t=9s

2026-06-08 Headline “Trump is making the US an increasingly irrelevant power”.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2026/06/trump-iran-israel-ukraine-war-foreign-policy.html

2026-08-20 Trump threatened “economic warfare and isolation” via social media towards any countries trading with Iran.

https://www.nbcnews.com/world/iran/trump-warns-economic-consequences-country-supports-iran-rcna593490

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/8/20/tremendous-costs-can-trump-stop-other-countries-from-trading-with-iran

2026-08-21 A major Dominican sugar producer with ties to Trump was accused of forced labor.

https://www.democracynow.org/2026/8/21/headlines/nyt_us_importing_dominican_sugar_from_trump_ally_despite_evidence_of_forced_labor

ARTICLE FROM 2025 https://www.freedomunited.org/news/us-lifts-forced-labor-ban-sugar/

ALSO HAPPENED IN 2022 https://www.npr.org/2022/11/29/1139765236/u-s-bans-dominican-sugar-company-over-forced-labor