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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
2026-08-21 A major Dominican sugar producer with ties to Trump was accused 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
ANOTHER ARTICLE FROM 2022 https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/u-s-to-detain-dominican-sugar-import-amid-accusations-of-forced-labor
2026-08-24 Bessent launched “Operation Economic Outcast” to isolate and target Iran and so-called enablers.
https://news.sky.com/video/us-launches-operation-economic-outcast-against-iran-13576734