{ "license": "CC BY 4.0 for DumpTrump.win text; cited sources keep their own rights", "count": 39, "stories": [ { "title": "He signed the Russia sanctions law in September and waived it in October, after a phone call with Putin about diesel", "summary": "On October 9, 2026 Trump agreed with Putin by phone to let Russian diesel back into world markets; a week later he waived the core of the Lindsey Graham sanctions act he had signed 28 days earlier, as Russia offered nothing in return.", "url": "https://dumptrump.win/stories/graham-act-waiver-and-russian-diesel-deal/", "label": "reporting", "date": "October 9, 2026 – October 17, 2026", "sources": [ { "title": "Trump waives broad new Russia sanctions, Zelenskyy condemns it as 'wrong'", "publisher": "CNBC", "url": "https://www.cnbc.com/2026/10/17/trump-waives-russia-related-sanctions-tariffs-before-they-take-effect-.html", "date": "2026-10-17" }, { "title": "Trump waives new Russia sanctions in the 'national interests'", "publisher": "Axios", "url": "https://www.axios.com/2026/10/17/trump-russia-sanctions", "date": "2026-10-17" }, { "title": "Trump doubles down after waiving new Russia sanctions, calling it a 'very good decision'", "publisher": "NBC News", "url": "https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/trump-suspends-new-russia-sanctions-deal-purchase-diesel-citing-nation-rcna603991", "date": "2026-10-17" }, { "title": "Trump waives new Russia sanctions as Ukraine ties slump", "publisher": "AFP", "url": "https://www.afp.com/en/trump-waives-new-russia-sanctions-ukraine-ties-slump", "date": "2026-10-17" }, { "title": "Trump's decision to ease Russian diesel sanctions could prolong war in Ukraine, ISW", "publisher": "The New Voice of Ukraine", "url": "https://english.nv.ua/nation/trump-s-russia-diesel-sanctions-relief-is-a-concession-isw-50648864.html", "date": "2026-10-10" }, { "title": "Trump tries different approach with Russia to bring Americans relief amid ongoing war with Ukraine", "publisher": "Fox News", "url": "https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-tries-different-approach-russia-bring-americans-relief-amid-ongoing-war-ukraine", "date": "2026-10-18" }, { "title": "Inside the legal design of America's Russia sanctions U-turn", "publisher": "The Kyiv Independent via Yahoo News", "url": "https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/inside-legal-design-americas-russia-161812214.html", "date": "2026-10-23" }, { "title": "America Is Now an Ally of Russia", "publisher": "The Atlantic (Tom Nichols, opinion)", "url": "https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/10/america-now-ally-russia/689066/", "date": "2026-10-18" }, { "title": "Trump, Putin talk of war and peace as US weighs easing Russian oil sanctions", "publisher": "Reuters via The Daily Star", "url": "https://www.thedailystar.net/news/world/news/trump-putin-talk-war-and-peace-us-weighs-easing-russian-oil-sanctions-4125216", "date": "2026-03-10" } ] }, { "title": "Ukraine knocked out Russia's biggest data centers. Trump's answer was to attack Zelensky, buy Putin's diesel and float joint US-Russia data centers", "summary": "Oct. 8-18, 2026: Ukrainian drones hit five Russian data centers, crippling Yandex, Sberbank and VK. Trump called the strikes a disgrace, said Ukraine needs a new president, and Putin's envoy pitched joint US-Russia data centers.", "url": "https://dumptrump.win/stories/ukraine-data-center-strikes-trump-putin-joint-data-centers/", "label": "reporting", "date": "October 8, 2026 – October 22, 2026", "sources": [ { "title": "Ukraine's strikes on Russian data centers disrupt key services and derail AI research", "publisher": "The Associated Press via ABC News", "url": "https://abcnews.com/International/wireStory/ukraines-strikes-russian-data-centers-disrupt-key-services-137466595", "date": "2026-10-22" }, { "title": "Ukraine steps up strikes on Russia's tech infrastructure, damaging a third data center in 4 days", "publisher": "The Associated Press via The Boston Globe", "url": "https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/10/11/world/ukraine-steps-up-strikes-on-russias-tech-infrastructure/", "date": "2026-10-11" }, { "title": "Trump lashes out at Zelensky over Russian refinery attacks: 'Disgrace'", "publisher": "Newsweek", "url": "https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-lashes-out-zelensky-russian-refinery-attacks-disgrace-putin-russia-war-12576995", "date": "2026-10-24" }, { "title": "Dmitriev says Russian wealth fund will work with US on payment for diesel deal; Russia and US discussing joint data centers", "publisher": "Reuters via MarketScreener", "url": "https://sa.marketscreener.com/news/dmitriev-says-russian-wealth-fund-will-work-with-us-on-payment-for-diesel-deal-ce785cdadd80fe2c", "date": "2026-10-16" }, { "title": "Did the United States and Russia Just Agree to Collaborate on Data Centers?", "publisher": "Center for Strategic and International Studies", "url": "https://www.csis.org/analysis/did-united-states-and-russia-just-agree-collaborate-data-centers", "date": "2026-10-21" }, { "title": "The Russian Bots Went Silent. Or Did They?", "publisher": "Lawfare (Renée DiResta)", "url": "https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-russian-bots-went-silent.-or-did-they", "date": "2026-10-14" }, { "title": "'Zelenskyy is helping Democrats': Trump's MAGA base accuses Ukraine of trying to swing US midterms, says journalist in US", "publisher": "Euromaidan Press", "url": "https://euromaidanpress.com/2026/10/12/zelenskyy-is-helping-democrats-trumps-maga-base-accuses-ukraine-of-trying-to-swing-us-midterms-says-journalist-in-us/", "date": "2026-10-12" }, { "title": "He signed the Russia sanctions law in September and waived it in October, after a phone call with Putin about diesel", "publisher": "DumpTrump.win", "url": "https://dumptrump.win/stories/graham-act-waiver-and-russian-diesel-deal/", "date": "2026-10-26" } ] }, { "title": "Give up the Donbas or face 'a very bad thing': the 2026 pressure campaign on Kyiv while Moscow gives up nothing", "summary": "Through 2026 the administration pressed Ukraine to quit the Donbas it still holds while easing pressure on Moscow; Putin kept bombing Kyiv, and 61 percent of Ukrainians and 76 percent of Americans reject the trade.", "url": "https://dumptrump.win/stories/donbas-pressure-campaign-2026/", "label": "reporting", "date": "September 5, 2026 – October 24, 2026", "sources": [ { "title": "Ukraine's refusal to give up territory to Russia stalls peace deal, Trump envoy says", "publisher": "The Kyiv Independent", "url": "https://kyivindependent.com/ukraines-refusal-to-give-up-territory-to-russia-stalls-peace-deal-trump-envoy-says/", "date": "2026-09-13" }, { "title": "At the negotiating table and on the battlefield, Russia and Ukraine are at an impasse", "publisher": "CNN", "url": "https://www.cnn.com/2026/10/20/europe/kyiv-under-pressure-as-trump-and-putin-cozy-up-analysis", "date": "2026-10-20" }, { "title": "Americans Oppose Ceding the Donbas to Russia Amid Push for Peace Deal", "publisher": "Chicago Council on Global Affairs", "url": "https://globalaffairs.org/research/public-opinion-survey/americans-oppose-ceding-donbas-russia-amid-push-peace-deal", "date": "2026-02-12" }, { "title": "Putin hosts Trump envoy for new Ukraine peace talks, frees US citizen held in Russia", "publisher": "Reuters", "url": "https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/putin-hosts-trump-envoy-new-ukraine-peace-talks-frees-us-citizen-held-russia-2026-10-21/", "date": "2026-10-21" }, { "title": "Ukraine and Russia eye new peace talks, and Melania Trump's mission, but steep obstacles remain", "publisher": "Associated Press", "url": "https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-war-putin-zelenskyy-trump-witkoff-94e0aee5d56bcd164f8cbae0918ed1f8", "date": "2026-10-24" }, { "title": "Putin Nears a Prize: Restoring Ties With the U.S. While Giving Up Nothing", "publisher": "The New York Times", "url": "https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/22/world/europe/putin-trump-ukraine-war.html", "date": "2026-10-22" }, { "title": "Kyiv Poll: 61% of Ukrainians Say Ceding Donbas Unacceptable", "publisher": "Newsmax via Yahoo News", "url": "https://www.yahoo.com/news/world/articles/kyiv-poll-61-ukrainians-ceding-190117877.html", "date": "2026-10-19" }, { "title": "Russian missiles pound Kyiv, dampening hopes for peace talks", "publisher": "Anchorage Daily News / Associated Press", "url": "https://www.adn.com/nation-world/2026/10/22/russian-missiles-pound-kyiv-dampening-hopes-for-peace-talks/", "date": "2026-10-22" }, { "title": "What to know about the Melania Trump-brokered ceasefire in Russian-occupied Oleshky", "publisher": "Associated Press", "url": "https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-ceasefire-oleshky-melania-trump-7d8aadbf684780223434e705913ecbf3", "date": "2026-10-24" } ] }, { "title": "Trump's oil stocks, the Iran war and $7 billion of well-timed bets: what is known and what is not", "summary": "JEC Democratic staff estimate Trump's oil stocks gained $4.6 million to $15.5 million in 2026; Reuters traced about $7 billion in oil bets placed before his Iran announcements; the CFTC confirmed an open probe on October 22, 2026.", "url": "https://dumptrump.win/stories/trump-oil-holdings-iran-trades/", "label": "estimate", "date": "March 23, 2026 – October 25, 2026", "sources": [ { "title": "Trump oil and gas holdings analysis", "publisher": "Joint Economic Committee Democratic staff", "url": "https://www.jec.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/democrats/2026/8/trump-gains-15-5-million-from-oil-gas-stocks-after-his-iran-war-gives-big-oil-sky-high-profits", "date": "2026-08-24" }, { "title": "Trump oil and gas trades", "publisher": "CBS News", "url": "https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trumps-oil-gas-stock-trades-iran-war/", "date": "2026-08-29" }, { "title": "Oil bets before Iran announcements", "publisher": "Reuters", "url": "https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/oil-price-bets-ahead-iran-war-news-totalled-7-billion-reporting-shows-2026-05-07/", "date": "2026-05-07" }, { "title": "CFTC confirms suspicious oil trading investigation", "publisher": "Reuters", "url": "https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/us-regulator-is-probing-suspicious-iran-oil-trading-official-says-2026-10-22/", "date": "2026-10-22" }, { "title": "Oil company windfalls", "publisher": "Reuters", "url": "https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/oil-majors-face-spending-test-iran-war-windfall-cash-2026-10-20/", "date": "2026-10-20" }, { "title": "Trump remarks on high oil prices", "publisher": "Business Insider", "url": "https://www.businessinsider.com/high-gas-prices-donald-trump-oil-companies-midterm-election-2026-10", "date": "2026-10-25" }, { "title": "CFTC Staff Were Told to Retract Analysis of Suspicious Oil Trades", "publisher": "Bloomberg", "url": "https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-10-13/cftc-staff-told-to-retract-analysis-of-suspicious-oil-trades-on-iran", "date": "2026-10-13" } ] }, { "title": "Operation Epic Fury: a war of choice launched days before a deal, still unfinished eight months and $43.6 billion later", "summary": "The US and Israel attacked Iran on February 28, 2026, two days after Oman said a deal was near; eight months on Hormuz is contested, 21 US troops are dead, the bill is $43.6 billion, Iran's uranium is unaccounted for and no deal exists.", "url": "https://dumptrump.win/stories/iran-war-2026-epic-fury/", "label": "reporting", "date": "February 28, 2026 – October 23, 2026", "sources": [ { "title": "U.S. Conflict with Iran (R48887)", "publisher": "Congressional Research Service", "url": "https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/R48887", "date": "2026-09-18" }, { "title": "2026 Iran war", "publisher": "Encyclopaedia Britannica", "url": "https://www.britannica.com/event/2026-Iran-war", "date": "2026-10-23" }, { "title": "Iran war's cost grows to $43.6 billion in new US military estimate", "publisher": "Associated Press", "url": "https://apnews.com/article/iran-war-costs-us-military-congress-interceptors-7541f88490d17747537ee3fdbc119af8", "date": "2026-09-18" }, { "title": "Pentagon revises US military death toll in Iran war up to 21", "publisher": "Washington Examiner", "url": "https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/defense/4762473/pentagon-us-military-death-toll-iran-war-21/", "date": "2026-10-11" }, { "title": "The 14-point US-Iran pact White House sent to Congress", "publisher": "Reuters", "url": "https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/14-point-draft-us-iran-deal-2026-06-17/", "date": "2026-06-17" }, { "title": "White House sends text of interim US-Iran agreement to US Congress", "publisher": "Reuters", "url": "https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/white-house-sends-text-interim-us-iran-agreement-us-congress-2026-06-18/", "date": "2026-06-18" }, { "title": "Fighting While Talking: The Iran War Enters Its Bargaining Phase", "publisher": "Lawfare", "url": "https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/fighting-while-talking--the-iran-war-enters-its-bargaining-phase", "date": "2026-08-18" }, { "title": "US-Iran war, then and now: How the landscape has changed since February", "publisher": "Al Jazeera", "url": "https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/10/23/us-iran-war-then-and-now-how-the-landscape-has-changed-since-february", "date": "2026-10-23" }, { "title": "Trump gives in to the temptation of regime change in Iran with Operation Epic Fury", "publisher": "Le Monde", "url": "https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2026/02/28/trump-gives-in-to-the-temptation-of-regime-change-in-iran-with-operation-epic-fury_6750966_4.html", "date": "2026-02-28" }, { "title": "Trump makes his case for war with Iran, saying the conflict is 'nearing completion'", "publisher": "NPR via MPR News", "url": "https://www.mprnews.org/story/2026/04/02/npr-trump-address-iran-war", "date": "2026-04-02" }, { "title": "What is the status of Iran's uranium enrichment programme?", "publisher": "Reuters", "url": "https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/status-irans-uranium-enrichment-programme-2026-10-07/", "date": "2026-10-07" }, { "title": "Trump says Iran ceasefire 'is over'", "publisher": "Reuters via The Daily Star", "url": "https://www.thedailystar.net/news/world/us-israel-war-iran/news/trump-says-iran-ceasefire-over-4218991", "date": "2026-07-08" } ] }, { "title": "What the Iran war has cost so far, and what the Pentagon is asking for next: $45 billion, $87 billion, $1.5 trillion", "summary": "The Pentagon reported $45.1 billion in Iran war costs through early September 2026 (CBO: $38 billion through August 1); an $87.6 billion supplemental is pending and the 2027 request seeks $1.5 trillion for defense.", "url": "https://dumptrump.win/stories/iran-war-costs-and-defense-budget/", "label": "primary_record", "date": "February 28, 2026 – October 26, 2026", "sources": [ { "title": "US war with Iran has cost $45.1 billion, Pentagon tells Congress", "publisher": "CNN", "url": "https://www.cnn.com/2026/09/18/politics/us-iran-war-cost", "date": "2026-09-18" }, { "title": "Estimating the Cost of Combat Operations Against Iran", "publisher": "Congressional Budget Office", "url": "https://www.cbo.gov/publication/62756", "date": "2026-09-15" }, { "title": "Iran war has cost the US more than $38B, budget office says", "publisher": "Associated Press", "url": "https://apnews.com/article/iran-war-cbo-estimate-b99089b11749f04bbc8ddb1b3c64a373", "date": "2026-09-15" }, { "title": "Huge Trump Iran war funding request faces stiff opposition in Congress", "publisher": "Reuters", "url": "https://www.reuters.com/world/us/huge-trump-iran-war-funding-request-faces-stiff-opposition-congress-2026-03-19/", "date": "2026-03-19" }, { "title": "Munitions Expended in Military Operations Against Iran: Issues for Congress (IN12668)", "publisher": "Congressional Research Service", "url": "https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/IN12668", "date": "2026-09-25" }, { "title": "Iran war's rising costs: The hidden price tag of Operation Epic Fury", "publisher": "The Hill", "url": "https://thehill.com/policy/defense/5963663-iran-war-cost-rising/", "date": "2026-09-26" }, { "title": "Fiscal Year 2027 Discretionary Budget Request: Topline Fact Sheet", "publisher": "Office of Management and Budget, The White House", "url": "https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/fiscal-year-2027-topline-fact-sheet.pdf", "date": "2026-04-01" }, { "title": "Budget of the U.S. Government, Fiscal Year 2027", "publisher": "Office of Management and Budget, The White House", "url": "https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/budget_fy2027.pdf", "date": "2026-04-01" }, { "title": "House passes funding stopgap, averting government shutdown in October", "publisher": "Breaking Defense", "url": "https://breakingdefense.com/2026/09/house-passes-funding-stopgap-averting-government-shutdown-in-october/", "date": "2026-09-01" }, { "title": "Monthly Budget Review: September 2026", "publisher": "Congressional Budget Office", "url": "https://www.cbo.gov/system/files/2026-10/61985-MBR.pdf", "date": "2026-10-08" } ] }, { "title": "A war Congress never authorized: three House votes, one Senate vote reversed overnight after Trump called a senator a 'lunatic'", "summary": "Congress holds the war power. The Iran war began with no vote, a notice that ignored the War Powers Resolution and no briefing for six weeks; the House voted three times to end it and the Senate once, until Republicans flipped.", "url": "https://dumptrump.win/stories/iran-war-powers-congress/", "label": "primary_record", "date": "February 28, 2026 – September 16, 2026", "sources": [ { "title": "S.J.Res. 116, To direct the removal of United States Armed Forces from hostilities within or against the Islamic Republic of Iran that have not been authorized by Congress", "publisher": "US Government Publishing Office", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-119sjres116is/html/BILLS-119sjres116is.htm", "date": "2026-03-05" }, { "title": "Trump sidelined Congress' authority over war on Iran, and lawmakers allowed it, extending a 75-year trend", "publisher": "The Conversation via Carleton University", "url": "https://carleton.ca/news/story/trump-iran-war-powers-congress/", "date": "2026-04-20" }, { "title": "Senate Moves to Curtail Iran War Powers", "publisher": "Office of Senator Tim Kaine", "url": "https://www.kaine.senate.gov/press-releases/senate-moves-to-curtail-iran-war-powers", "date": "2026-05-19" }, { "title": "Rep. Balint Statement on House Passage of War Powers Resolution to End War in Iran", "publisher": "Office of Representative Becca Balint", "url": "https://balint.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=737", "date": "2026-06-03" }, { "title": "Senate Republicans reject war powers resolution after Trump berates them at Capitol meeting", "publisher": "Associated Press via KRGV", "url": "https://www.krgv.com/news/senate-republicans-reject-war-powers-resolution-after-trump-berates-them-at-capitol-meeting/", "date": "2026-06-25" }, { "title": "For a 2nd time, House approves resolution to end the war in Iran in a rebuke to Trump", "publisher": "NPR", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2026/07/23/nx-s1-5904515/congress-iran-war-powers-vote", "date": "2026-07-23" }, { "title": "Congressional Record, Senate, July 23, 2026: Directing the Removal of United States Armed Forces from Hostilities Within or Against the Islamic Republic of Iran, Motion to Discharge", "publisher": "Congress.gov", "url": "https://www.congress.gov/congressional-record/volume-172/issue-121/senate-section/article/S4246-1", "date": "2026-07-23" }, { "title": "House votes for a third time to end the Iran war as conflict drags on", "publisher": "Associated Press via ABC7 New York", "url": "https://abc7ny.com/story/house-votes-third-time-end-iran-war-conflict-drags/19838811/", "date": "2026-09-16" }, { "title": "U.S. Conflict with Iran (R48887)", "publisher": "Congressional Research Service", "url": "https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/R48887", "date": "2026-09-18" } ] }, { "title": "The largest oil supply disruption in history: what the Iran war did to the price of gas, diesel and everything shipped", "summary": "Gasoline went from under $3 to $4.48 within ten weeks of the Iran war, diesel to $6.50, Brent peaked near $138, tanker hire rose from $65,000 to $1.6 million a day, and average gas prices under Trump now exceed Biden's.", "url": "https://dumptrump.win/stories/oil-shock-gas-prices-iran-war/", "label": "estimate", "date": "February 28, 2026 – October 26, 2026", "sources": [ { "title": "Gas prices under Trump are now higher than under Biden", "publisher": "CNN", "url": "https://www.cnn.com/2026/10/26/economy/gas-oil-trump-iran-election", "date": "2026-10-26" }, { "title": "Gasoline costs 50% more in the US than it did before the Iran war", "publisher": "Associated Press via KRGV", "url": "https://www.krgv.com/news/gasoline-costs-50-more-in-the-us-than-it-did-before-the-iran-war", "date": "2026-05-05" }, { "title": "What the closure of the Strait of Hormuz means for the global economy", "publisher": "Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas", "url": "https://www.dallasfed.org/research/economics/2026/0320", "date": "2026-03-20" }, { "title": "EIA increases global oil production forecast after the opening of the Strait of Hormuz", "publisher": "US Energy Information Administration", "url": "https://www.eia.gov/pressroom/releases/press590.php", "date": "2026-07-07" }, { "title": "High Jet Fuel Premium Changing U.S. Refiners' Priority", "publisher": "American Action Forum", "url": "https://www.americanactionforum.org/insight/high-jet-fuel-premium-changing-u-s-refiners-priority/", "date": "2026-06-15" }, { "title": "The new oil crisis runs through diesel", "publisher": "J.P. Morgan Private Bank", "url": "https://privatebank.jpmorgan.com/nam/en/insights/markets-and-investing/ideas-and-insights/the-new-oil-crisis-runs-through-diesel", "date": "2026-10-20" }, { "title": "Oil prices climb as US strikes Iranian tankers and Houthis hit Saudi facilities", "publisher": "Associated Press via The Boston Globe", "url": "https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/09/09/business/oil-prices", "date": "2026-09-09" }, { "title": "Beyond Hormuz: Building Resilience for the Next Crisis", "publisher": "Tony Blair Institute for Global Change", "url": "https://institute.global/insights/geopolitics-and-security/beyond-hormuz-building-resilience-for-the-next-crisis", "date": "2026-07-31" }, { "title": "How traffic through the Strait of Hormuz is adapting to war", "publisher": "CNN", "url": "https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2026/08/world/strait-of-hormuz-shipping-data-traffic-routes-vis-intl", "date": "2026-08-14" } ] }, { "title": "The Supreme Court said the President could not impose his tariffs, about $100 billion has gone back out in refunds, and a household still pays about $1,100 a year: what the record shows on tariffs", "summary": "Learning Resources v. Trump, Feb. 20, 2026: IEEPA does not authorize tariffs. CBO: about $100 billion refunded by July 2026. Yale: about $1,100 per household a year under replacement tariffs. Soybeans to China down from 985M bushels.", "url": "https://dumptrump.win/stories/tariffs-supreme-court-refunds-household-cost/", "label": "primary_record", "date": "February 20, 2026 – October 23, 2026", "sources": [ { "title": "Learning Resources, Inc. v. Trump, No. 24-1287 (opinion of the Court)", "publisher": "Supreme Court of the United States", "url": "https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25pdf/24-1287_4gcj.pdf", "date": "2026-02-20" }, { "title": "Supreme Court Rules Against Tariffs Imposed Under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA), LSB11398", "publisher": "Congressional Research Service", "url": "https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/LSB11398", "date": "2026-02-23" }, { "title": "Monthly Budget Review: July 2026", "publisher": "Congressional Budget Office", "url": "https://www.cbo.gov/system/files/2026-08/61983-2026-07-MBR.pdf", "date": "2026-08-10" }, { "title": "The State of U.S. Tariffs", "publisher": "The Budget Lab at Yale", "url": "https://budgetlab.yale.edu/research/state-us-tariffs", "date": "2026-08-24" }, { "title": "IEEPA Tariff Refund Update: Government Appeals CIT Refund Orders", "publisher": "Holland & Knight", "url": "https://www.hklaw.com/en/insights/publications/2026/06/ieepa-tariff-refund-update-government-appeals", "date": "2026-06-15" }, { "title": "CIT Universal Injunction Power Challenged in IEEPA Refund Appeal", "publisher": "International Trade and Supply Chain Insights (Husch Blackwell)", "url": "https://www.internationaltradeinsights.com/2026/10/cit-universal-injunction-power-challenged-in-ieepa-refund-appeal/", "date": "2026-10-09" }, { "title": "Agricultural Trade: China Steps Back from U.S. Soybeans", "publisher": "American Farm Bureau Federation, Market Intel", "url": "https://www.fb.org/market-intel/agricultural-trade-china-steps-back-from-u-s-soybeans", "date": "2025-10-02" }, { "title": "'We've definitely taken our hits': US spirits exports to Canada falls 70% March through December 2025", "publisher": "LEX 18 News (WLEX, Lexington)", "url": "https://www.lex18.com/news/covering-kentucky/weve-definitely-taken-our-hits-us-spirits-exports-to-canada-falls-70-march-through-december-2025", "date": "2026-03-06" }, { "title": "Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Updates Tariffs on Steel, Aluminum and Copper Imports", "publisher": "The White House", "url": "https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2026/06/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-updates-tariffs-on-steel-aluminum-and-copper-imports/", "date": "2026-06-01" }, { "title": "Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Further Modifies Canadian Products Subject to Tariffs Under Section 338", "publisher": "The White House", "url": "https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2026/10/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-further-modifies-canadian-products-subject-to-tariffs-under-section-338/", "date": "2026-10-23" } ] }, { "title": "Five marine monuments opened to commercial fleets, nearly a fifth of NOAA Fisheries gone, 58.5 million roadless acres proposed for rescission, bear baiting restored: what the record shows for people who fish and hunt", "summary": "Five marine monuments reopened to commercial fishing; NOAA Fisheries lost nearly 550 of 3,000 staff; USDA proposed rescinding the 58.5-million-acre Roadless Rule; bear baiting returns to Alaska preserves. The objectors: hunters and anglers.", "url": "https://dumptrump.win/stories/fishing-hunting-monuments-roadless-noaa/", "label": "primary_record", "date": "February 6, 2026 – October 19, 2026", "sources": [ { "title": "Administration Commercial Fishing Industry Wins", "publisher": "NOAA Fisheries", "url": "https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/national/sustainable-fisheries/administration-commercial-fishing-industry-wins", "date": "2026-06-23" }, { "title": "NOAA Is Still Standing. For Now.", "publisher": "Civil Eats", "url": "https://civileats.com/2026/05/05/noaa-is-still-standing-but-its-shaky/", "date": "2026-05-05" }, { "title": "Special Areas; Roadless Area Conservation (proposed rule, 91 FR 53827)", "publisher": "Federal Register, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service", "url": "https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/08/20/2026-16965/special-areas-roadless-area-conservation", "date": "2026-08-20" }, { "title": "USDA acts to remove roadless rule restrictions that exacerbate rising wildfire risk", "publisher": "U.S. Department of Agriculture", "url": "https://www.usda.gov/about-usda/news/press-releases/2026/08/18/usda-acts-remove-roadless-rule-restrictions-exacerbate-rising-wildfire-risk", "date": "2026-08-18" }, { "title": "Roadless areas: defending America's sporting lands", "publisher": "Trout Unlimited", "url": "https://www.tu.org/roadless-areas-defending-americas-sporting-lands/", "date": "2026-09-01" }, { "title": "Roadless Rule Rollback: Roads to Ruin", "publisher": "Backcountry Hunters & Anglers", "url": "https://www.backcountryhunters.org/news/details/roadless-rule-rollback-roads-to-ruin", "date": "2025-10-21" }, { "title": "Alaska; Wildlife, Harvest, and Access (final rule, 91 FR 65985)", "publisher": "Federal Register, National Park Service", "url": "https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/10/19/2026-21299/alaska-wildlife-harvest-and-access", "date": "2026-10-19" }, { "title": "Alaska; Hunting and Trapping in National Preserves (proposed rule)", "publisher": "Federal Register, National Park Service", "url": "https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/03/10/2026-04606/alaska-hunting-and-trapping-in-national-preserves", "date": "2026-03-10" } ] }, { "title": "Trump's $10 billion IRS lawsuit, the audit-immunity deal, and the judge who called it a sham", "summary": "Trump sued the IRS in January 2026 and settled in May for an apology, a since-rescinded $1.776 billion fund and audit protection; a judge found the suit collusive in July, and the 11th Circuit refused to pause her order on September 29.", "url": "https://dumptrump.win/stories/trump-irs-lawsuit-settlement/", "label": "primary_record", "date": "January 29, 2026 – September 29, 2026", "sources": [ { "title": "Trump's tax returns released by House Ways and Means Committee", "publisher": "CNBC", "url": "https://www.cnbc.com/2022/12/30/trumps-tax-returns-released-by-house-ways-and-means-committee.html", "date": "2022-12-30" }, { "title": "Trump v. Internal Revenue Service, 1:26-cv-20609 (S.D. Fla.) case record", "publisher": "Civil Rights Litigation Clearinghouse (University of Michigan Law School)", "url": "https://clearinghouse.net/case/47782/", "date": "2026-10-06" }, { "title": "IRS settlement announcement", "publisher": "Reuters", "url": "https://www.reuters.com/world/trump-dismisses-lawsuit-against-irs-court-filing-shows-2026-05-18/", "date": "2026-05-18" }, { "title": "Judge rebukes Trump IRS settlement", "publisher": "Reuters", "url": "https://www.reuters.com/world/us-judge-voids-trumps-settlement-with-irs-2026-07-13/", "date": "2026-07-13" }, { "title": "Administration continues asserting audit protection", "publisher": "Associated Press", "url": "https://apnews.com/article/trump-irs-todd-blanche-tax-settlement-5d70c9d590a0a3f181466660e99b4377", "date": "2026-08-03" }, { "title": "Appeal of audit immunity ruling", "publisher": "Bloomberg via The Edge", "url": "https://theedgemalaysia.com/node/812959", "date": "2026-08-01" }, { "title": "Trump lawyers lose bid to pause sanctions in IRS lawsuit case", "publisher": "CNBC", "url": "https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/29/trump-irs-lawsuit-attorney-sanctions-appeal.html", "date": "2026-09-29" }, { "title": "Appeals court rejects Trump's bid to block sanctions over IRS settlement", "publisher": "Politico", "url": "https://www.politico.com/news/2026/09/29/trump-irs-settlement-appeals-court-ruling", "date": "2026-09-29" }, { "title": "Judge's sanctions order over Trump's IRS lawsuit could unleash 'onslaught' in courts: DOJ", "publisher": "Law&Crime (via Yahoo News)", "url": "https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/judges-sanctions-order-over-trumps-143833917.html", "date": "2026-09-24" } ] }, { "title": "Seizing a head of state without telling Congress: Operation Absolute Resolve, 75 dead, and a $4.7 billion bill", "summary": "On January 3, 2026, 200 US special operators and 150 aircraft seized Nicolás Maduro in Caracas; about 75 people died, Congress was told afterward, a secret memo said no law bound the president, and Trump said the US would 'run' Venezuela.", "url": "https://dumptrump.win/stories/maduro-capture-operation-absolute-resolve/", "label": "reporting", "date": "January 3, 2026 – April 23, 2026", "sources": [ { "title": "U.S. Capture of Venezuela's Nicolás Maduro: Considerations for Congress", "publisher": "Congressional Research Service", "url": "https://www.congress.gov/crs_external_products/IN/HTML/IN12618.html", "date": "2026-01-12" }, { "title": "Was the US capture of Venezuela's president legal?", "publisher": "Reuters", "url": "https://www.reuters.com/world/us/was-us-capture-venezuelas-president-legal-2026-01-03/", "date": "2026-01-05" }, { "title": "What we know about a US strike that captured Venezuela's Maduro and what comes next", "publisher": "Associated Press", "url": "https://apnews.com/article/venezuela-us-maduro-what-to-know-a57528ff315a7f70ed51a1721f5e0bc2", "date": "2026-01-03" }, { "title": "At least 24 Venezuelan security officers killed in US operation to capture Maduro, officials say", "publisher": "Associated Press via KRGV", "url": "https://www.krgv.com/news/at-least-24-venezuelan-security-officers-killed-in-us-operation-to-capture-maduro-officials-say/", "date": "2026-01-06" }, { "title": "Imagery from Venezuela Shows a Surgical Strike, Not Shock and Awe", "publisher": "Center for Strategic and International Studies", "url": "https://www.csis.org/analysis/imagery-venezuela-shows-surgical-strike-not-shock-and-awe", "date": "2026-01-09" }, { "title": "Budgetary Costs of U.S. Military Operations in Venezuela, the Caribbean, and the Eastern Pacific, August 1, 2025 - March 31, 2026", "publisher": "Costs of War Project, Brown University", "url": "https://costsofwar.watson.brown.edu/sites/default/files/Homestead%20and%20Kavanagh_Costs%20of%20War_Operations%20in%20Venezuela%20and%20Caribbean.pdf", "date": "2026-04-23" }, { "title": "Classified legal memo argues Trump wasn't constrained by US or international law for Maduro capture operation", "publisher": "CNN", "url": "https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/13/politics/memo-maduro-capture-olc", "date": "2026-01-13" }, { "title": "Did the president need authorization from Congress to use U.S. military force against Venezuela?", "publisher": "Just Security", "url": "https://www.justsecurity.org/128211/congress-president-military-force-venezuela/", "date": "2026-01-07" }, { "title": "Trump Announces U.S. Military's Capture of Maduro", "publisher": "US Department of War", "url": "https://www.war.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/Article/4370431/trump-announces-us-militarys-capture-of-maduro/", "date": "2026-01-03" }, { "title": "The US has captured Venezuelan leader Maduro. Here's what to know", "publisher": "CNN", "url": "https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/03/americas/venezuela-explosions-intl-hnk", "date": "2026-01-03" } ] }, { "title": "Russian oil sanctions, one year on: repeated waivers, a Hungary carve-out and a $22 billion sale that has not closed", "summary": "Since sanctioning Rosneft and Lukoil in October 2025, the administration waived them three times during the Iran war, gave Hungary a one-year exemption now up for renewal, and Lukoil's $22 billion foreign portfolio is still unsold.", "url": "https://dumptrump.win/stories/russian-oil-sanctions-waivers-hungary-lukoil/", "label": "reporting", "date": "October 22, 2025 – October 22, 2026", "sources": [ { "title": "Hungary's waiver from US sanctions on Russia energy is indefinite, minister says", "publisher": "Reuters", "url": "https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/hungarys-waiver-us-sanctions-russia-energy-is-indefinite-minister-says-2025-11-08/", "date": "2025-11-08" }, { "title": "US extends waiver on Russian oil sanctions to ease Iran war shortages despite Bessent denial", "publisher": "Associated Press", "url": "https://apnews.com/article/russian-oil-sanctions-iran-war-95ae06ece63f4f8c1f72ac3c2dc4251f", "date": "2026-04-18" }, { "title": "US extends sanctions waiver on Russian oil to aid vulnerable countries", "publisher": "Reuters", "url": "https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/us-treasury-extend-sanction-waiver-russian-seaborne-oil-source-says-2026-05-18/", "date": "2026-05-18" }, { "title": "US quietly allows waiver on Russian oil to expire", "publisher": "Reuters", "url": "https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/us-quietly-allows-waiver-russian-oil-expire-2026-06-17/", "date": "2026-06-17" }, { "title": "Hungary looking to extend US sanctions waiver on Russian energy", "publisher": "Reuters", "url": "https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/hungary-looking-extend-us-sanctions-waiver-russian-energy-2026-09-24", "date": "2026-09-24" }, { "title": "Carlyle drops out of race for Lukoil international assets", "publisher": "Reuters", "url": "https://www.reuters.com/legal/transactional/carlyle-drops-out-race-lukoil-international-assets-2026-10-09/", "date": "2026-10-09" }, { "title": "US extends deadline for buyers of Lukoil foreign assets until November 21", "publisher": "Reuters", "url": "https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/us-extends-deadline-buyers-lukoil-foreign-assets-until-november-21-2026-10-22/", "date": "2026-10-22" } ] }, { "title": "The 2026 deficit: $1.99 trillion in Treasury's year-end books, and what CBO says the 2025 tax law adds", "summary": "Treasury's final fiscal 2026 statement shows a $1,992 billion deficit, about $160 billion above fiscal 2024 as first reported; CBO estimates the 2025 tax law adds $4.1 trillion to deficits over ten years with interest.", "url": "https://dumptrump.win/stories/fiscal-year-2026-deficit/", "label": "primary_record", "date": "October 1, 2025 – October 16, 2026", "sources": [ { "title": "Monthly Treasury Statement, Table 1: Summary of Receipts, Outlays, and the Deficit/Surplus (Fiscal Data API)", "publisher": "U.S. Department of the Treasury, Bureau of the Fiscal Service", "url": "https://api.fiscaldata.treasury.gov/services/api/fiscal_service/v1/accounting/mts/mts_table_1?filter=record_date:in:(2026-09-30,2025-09-30,2024-09-30),classification_desc:eq:Year-to-Date&fields=record_date,parent_id,classification_desc,current_month_gross_rcpt_amt,current_month_gross_outly_amt,current_month_dfct_sur_amt,sequence_number_cd&page[size]=100", "date": "2026-10-16" }, { "title": "US fiscal 2026 budget deficit rises to $1.99 trillion, largest in 5 years", "publisher": "Reuters", "url": "https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-fiscal-2026-budget-deficit-rises-199-trillion-largest-5-years-2026-10-16/", "date": "2026-10-16" }, { "title": "Monthly Budget Review: September 2026", "publisher": "Congressional Budget Office", "url": "https://www.cbo.gov/system/files/2026-10/61985-MBR.pdf", "date": "2026-10-08" }, { "title": "Estimated Budgetary Effects of Public Law 119-21, Relative to CBO's January 2025 Baseline", "publisher": "Congressional Budget Office", "url": "https://www.cbo.gov/publication/61570", "date": "2025-07-21" }, { "title": "Effects on Deficits and the Debt of Public Law 119-21 and of Making Certain Tax Policies in the Act Permanent", "publisher": "Congressional Budget Office", "url": "https://www.cbo.gov/publication/61466", "date": "2025-08-04" }, { "title": "Estimated Effects of Public Law 119-21 on Participation in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (supplemental information)", "publisher": "Congressional Budget Office", "url": "https://www.cbo.gov/system/files/2025-08/61367-SNAP.pdf", "date": "2025-08-13" }, { "title": "Public Law 119-21, Title VII, Finance, Subtitle B, Health, Chapter 1, Medicaid (supplemental cost estimate as enacted)", "publisher": "Congressional Budget Office", "url": "https://www.cbo.gov/publication/61837", "date": "2025-10-28" } ] }, { "title": "What the Trumps are worth, according to Forbes: estimates with dates attached", "summary": "Forbes puts Donald Trump at $7 billion (September 2026 list) and $6.6 billion in its live tracker on October 26, 2026; Eric at $400 million and Don Jr. at $300 million (December 2025); Barron at $150 million (September 2025).", "url": "https://dumptrump.win/stories/trump-family-wealth-estimates/", "label": "reporting", "date": "September 9, 2025 – October 26, 2026", "sources": [ { "title": "Trump net worth assessment", "publisher": "Forbes", "url": "https://www.forbes.com/sites/danalexander/article/the-definitive-networth-of-donaldtrump/", "date": "2026-09-15" }, { "title": "Donald Trump real time profile", "publisher": "Forbes", "url": "https://www.forbes.com/profile/donald-trump/", "date": "2026-10-25" }, { "title": "Trump wealth decline in 2026", "publisher": "Forbes", "url": "https://www.forbes.com/sites/danalexander/2026/09/15/president-trumps-fortune-falls-as-everyday-supporters-lose-faith/", "date": "2026-09-15" }, { "title": "Eric Trump wealth estimate", "publisher": "Forbes", "url": "https://www.forbes.com/sites/kylemullins/2025/12/04/eric-trump-has-gotten-10-times-richer-since-dads-election/", "date": "2025-12-04" }, { "title": "Donald Trump Jr wealth estimate", "publisher": "Forbes", "url": "https://www.forbes.com/sites/kylemullins/2025/12/08/how-donald-trump-jrs-fortune-jumped-six-fold-in-a-year/", "date": "2025-12-08" }, { "title": "Trump family wealth estimates", "publisher": "Forbes", "url": "https://www.forbes.com/sites/danalexander/2025/09/22/heres-how-much-the-trump-kids-have-made-because-of-the-presidency/", "date": "2025-09-22" }, { "title": "Trump response to financial disclosures", "publisher": "Reuters via Investing", "url": "https://www.investing.com/news/economy-news/trump-on-financial-disclosures-everyones-profiting-because-stock-market-is-up-4770557", "date": "2026-07-01" }, { "title": "Presidency Boosts Trump's Net Worth By $3 Billion In A Year", "publisher": "Forbes", "url": "https://www.forbes.com/sites/danalexander/2025/09/09/presidency-boosts-trumps-net-worth-by-3-billion-in-a-year/", "date": "2025-09-09" }, { "title": "Forbes Releases Its 45th Annual Forbes 400 Ranking Of Richest Americans", "publisher": "Forbes", "url": "https://www.forbes.com/sites/pr/2026/09/15/forbes-releases-its-45th-annual-forbes-400-ranking-of-richest-americans/", "date": "2026-09-15" } ] }, { "title": "More than 200 killed at sea without a trial: the boat strikes, the 'armed conflict' memo and the second strike on survivors", "summary": "Since September 2025 the US military has destroyed more than 60 small boats in the Caribbean and Pacific, killing over 210 people labeled 'unlawful combatants' without public evidence; survivors of the first strike were killed by a second.", "url": "https://dumptrump.win/stories/caribbean-boat-strikes/", "label": "reporting", "date": "September 2, 2025 – September 2, 2026", "sources": [ { "title": "How the White House account of September boat strike has evolved", "publisher": "BBC News", "url": "https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gk7eg83eno", "date": "2025-12-06" }, { "title": "Trump determines US is at war with drug cartels, document to Congress says", "publisher": "Reuters", "url": "https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-determines-us-is-war-with-drug-cartels-document-congress-says-2025-10-02/", "date": "2025-10-02" }, { "title": "Trump has 'determined' the U.S. is in 'armed conflict' with cartels, administration tells Congress", "publisher": "NBC News", "url": "https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/trump-determined-us-armed-conflict-cartels-congress-notice-rcna235294", "date": "2025-10-02" }, { "title": "US military carried out second strike killing survivors on a suspected drug boat that had already been attacked, sources say", "publisher": "CNN", "url": "https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/28/politics/us-military-second-strike-caribbean", "date": "2025-11-28" }, { "title": "White House says admiral ordered follow-up strike on alleged drug boat, insists attack was lawful", "publisher": "Associated Press via KRGV", "url": "https://www.krgv.com/news/white-house-says-admiral-ordered-follow-up-strike-on-alleged-drug-boat-insists-attack-was-lawful/", "date": "2025-12-01" }, { "title": "The U.S. Has Killed 227 Civilians in Boat Strikes During 'A Year of Murders'", "publisher": "The Intercept", "url": "https://theintercept.com/2026/09/02/military-boat-strikes-killings-year/", "date": "2026-09-02" }, { "title": "2025 U.S. Strikes on Venezuelan Vessels", "publisher": "Encyclopaedia Britannica", "url": "https://www.britannica.com/event/2025-US-Strikes-on-Venezuelan-Vessels", "date": "2026-09-09" }, { "title": "U.S. strikes a vessel in the eastern Pacific, killing 2 people in first attack in months", "publisher": "Associated Press via Butler Eagle", "url": "https://www.butlereagle.com/20260824/u-s-strikes-a-vessel-in-the-eastern-pacific-killing-2-people-in-first-attack-in-months/", "date": "2026-08-24" } ] }, { "title": "Red carpet in Anchorage, Kremlin talking points in the peace plan: how Russia's terms became the US position", "summary": "Trump hosted Putin on US soil in August 2025 with no deal and no ceasefire; by November a 28-point US plan asked Ukraine to give up Donetsk, cap its army and forgo NATO, and leaked calls showed the US envoy coaching the Kremlin.", "url": "https://dumptrump.win/stories/alaska-summit-and-28-point-plan/", "label": "reporting", "date": "August 15, 2025 – November 26, 2025", "sources": [ { "title": "Trump, Putin fail to reach Ukraine deal at Alaska summit", "publisher": "Reuters", "url": "https://www.reuters.com/world/updates-trump-putin-meet-alaska-summit-war-ukraine-2025-08-15/", "date": "2025-08-15" }, { "title": "Beyond the Alaska summit", "publisher": "Brookings Institution", "url": "https://www.brookings.edu/articles/beyond-the-alaska-summit/", "date": "2025-08-19" }, { "title": "Trump's plan to end the war in Ukraine would require Kyiv to give up land and arms", "publisher": "NBC News", "url": "https://www.nbcnews.com/world/ukraine/trump-peace-plan-proposal-end-russia-ukraine-war-rcna245096", "date": "2025-11-21" }, { "title": "Trump 'quite pleased' with Ukraine peace talks as Europe reportedly issues counterproposal", "publisher": "The Kyiv Independent", "url": "https://kyivindependent.com/trump-quite-pleased-with-ukraine-peace-talks-as-europe-reportedly-issues-counterproposal/", "date": "2025-11-23" }, { "title": "Steve Witkoff coached a Putin aide on how Russian leader should pitch Trump on Ukraine peace plan, report reveals", "publisher": "PBS NewsHour / Associated Press", "url": "https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/steve-witkoff-coached-a-putin-aide-on-how-russian-leader-should-pitch-trump-on-ukraine-peace-plan-report-reveals", "date": "2025-11-26" }, { "title": "Leaked recordings show Witkoff coached Kremlin advisers on how to approach Trump over Ukraine", "publisher": "Meduza", "url": "https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/11/26/leaked-recordings-show-witkoff-coached-kremlin-advisers-on-how-to-approach-trump-over-ukraine-bloomberg", "date": "2025-11-26" }, { "title": "European leaders issue statement backing Trump's Ukraine ceasefire position", "publisher": "Reuters", "url": "https://www.reuters.com/world/european-leaders-issue-statement-backing-trumps-ukraine-ceasefire-position-2025-10-21/", "date": "2025-10-21" } ] }, { "title": "Tariffs on allies for defending Denmark: how the Greenland crisis and the trade war broke Europe's trust in America", "summary": "In January 2026 Trump put a 10 percent tariff on eight allies for backing Denmark over Greenland until markets fell; by spring 76 percent of Germans called the US untrustworthy and a Pew median of 85 percent of Europeans disapproved.", "url": "https://dumptrump.win/stories/greenland-tariffs-and-europe-trust/", "label": "reporting", "date": "July 27, 2025 – September 29, 2026", "sources": [ { "title": "Trump's Greenland threats spark outrage and defiance from EU, testing longtime NATO alliances", "publisher": "Associated Press via KRGV", "url": "https://www.krgv.com/news/trump-s-greenland-threats-spark-outrage-and-defiance-from-eu-testing-longtime-nato-alliances", "date": "2026-01-20" }, { "title": "'We need Greenland': Trump repeats threat to annex Danish territory", "publisher": "BBC News", "url": "https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g0zg974v1o", "date": "2026-01-05" }, { "title": "Stock market cuts through to Trump on Greenland in a way allies' messages failed to resonate", "publisher": "Associated Press", "url": "https://apnews.com/article/trump-greenland-denmark-stock-markets-davos-3ec896e5f68f21f8c8b067bc7c31d5fc", "date": "2026-01-22" }, { "title": "Trump strikes Greenland deal with Denmark after threatening annexation", "publisher": "CNN", "url": "https://www.cnn.com/2026/09/18/politics/trump-us-greenland-security", "date": "2026-09-18" }, { "title": "Greenland Deal: Trump Drops Threat to Annex Denmark Territory in Favor of Greater U.S. Military Role", "publisher": "Democracy Now!", "url": "https://www.democracynow.org/2026/9/29/greenland_denmark", "date": "2026-09-29" }, { "title": "European views of Trump and the U.S. are especially negative", "publisher": "Pew Research Center", "url": "https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2026/06/23/european-views-of-trump-and-the-u-s-are-especially-negative/", "date": "2026-06-23" }, { "title": "Drei von vier Deutschen halten USA für keinen vertrauenswürdigen Partner (ARD-DeutschlandTrend)", "publisher": "WDR / infratest dimap", "url": "https://presse.wdr.de/plounge/tv/das_erste/2026/01/20260108_deutschlandtrend_usa_partner.html", "date": "2026-01-08" }, { "title": "U.S. and EU spell out tariffs for autos, pharmaceuticals and more", "publisher": "CNBC", "url": "https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/21/us-eu-trade-agreement-details.html", "date": "2025-08-21" }, { "title": "EU-US tariffs: tensions, trade deal and what could change", "publisher": "European Parliament", "url": "https://www.europarl.europa.eu/topics/en/article/20250210STO26801/eu-us-tariffs-tensions-trade-deal-and-what-could-change", "date": "2025-02-13" } ] }, { "title": "Coverage losses and premium increases: what CBO projected, what KFF has observed, and where the '12 million' comes from", "summary": "CBO projects 10 million more uninsured by 2034 from the 2025 law, over 14 million with expired enhanced credits; observed 2026 data show marketplace enrollment down 2.6 million and insurer premiums up 26 percent.", "url": "https://dumptrump.win/stories/health-coverage-and-premiums/", "label": "primary_record", "date": "July 4, 2025 – October 6, 2026", "sources": [ { "title": "CBO's Estimate of Annual Changes in the Number of People Without Health Insurance Under Title VII, Public Law 119-21 (supplemental data)", "publisher": "Congressional Budget Office", "url": "https://www.cbo.gov/system/files/2025-08/61367-Uninsured-Data.xlsx", "date": "2025-08-11" }, { "title": "Letter to Ranking Members Wyden, Pallone and Neal: Estimated Effects on the Number of Uninsured People in 2034 Resulting From Policies Incorporated Within CBO's Baseline Projections and H.R. 1", "publisher": "Congressional Budget Office", "url": "https://www.cbo.gov/system/files/2025-06/Wyden-Pallone-Neal_Letter_6-4-25.pdf", "date": "2025-06-04" }, { "title": "Public Law 119-21, Title VII, Finance, Subtitle B, Health, Chapter 1, Medicaid (supplemental cost estimate as enacted)", "publisher": "Congressional Budget Office", "url": "https://www.cbo.gov/publication/61837", "date": "2025-10-28" }, { "title": "Midterm Election Update: The Affordable Care Act Marketplaces", "publisher": "KFF", "url": "https://www.kff.org/elections/midterm-election-update-the-affordable-care-act-marketplaces/", "date": "2026-10-06" }, { "title": "ACA Insurers Are Raising Premiums by an Estimated 26%, but Most Enrollees Could See Sharper Increases in What They Pay", "publisher": "KFF", "url": "https://www.kff.org/quick-insights/aca-insurers-are-raising-premiums-by-an-estimated-26-but-most-enrollees-could-see-sharper-increases-in-what-they-pay/", "date": "2025-10-28" }, { "title": "H.R.1834 - 119th Congress (2025-2026): To advance policy priorities that will break the gridlock (three-year extension of enhanced premium tax credits)", "publisher": "Congress.gov, Library of Congress", "url": "https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/1834", "date": "2026-02-10" } ] }, { "title": "SNAP rolls fell by 5.5 million people in a year, USDA data show, and the cost shift to states has only begun", "summary": "USDA data show SNAP participation fell from 41.6 million in July 2025 to 36.1 million in July 2026, a 13 percent drop that CBPP estimates includes about 2 million children; state cost-sharing phases in from October 2026.", "url": "https://dumptrump.win/stories/snap-enrollment-decline/", "label": "primary_record", "date": "July 2025 – October 2026", "sources": [ { "title": "SNAP Data Tables: National Level Monthly Data, latest available month July 2026", "publisher": "U.S. Department of Agriculture, Food and Nutrition Administration", "url": "https://www.fna.usda.gov/sites/default/files/resource-files/snap-4fymonthly-10.pdf", "date": "2026-10-09" }, { "title": "SNAP Tracker: People Are Losing Food Assistance as the Republican Megabill's Cuts Take Effect", "publisher": "Center on Budget and Policy Priorities", "url": "https://www.cbpp.org/research/food-assistance/snap-tracker-people-are-losing-food-assistance-as-the-republican-megabill", "date": "2026-10-22" }, { "title": "Enrollment in SNAP grocery aid is dropping faster than expected", "publisher": "Associated Press (via WBRZ)", "url": "https://www.wbrz.com/news/enrollment-in-snap-grocery-aid-is-dropping-faster-than-expected/", "date": "2026-08-21" }, { "title": "SNAP Quality Control", "publisher": "U.S. Department of Agriculture, Food and Nutrition Administration", "url": "https://www.fna.usda.gov/snap/qc", "date": "2026-10-02" }, { "title": "Estimated Effects of Public Law 119-21 on Participation in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (supplemental information)", "publisher": "Congressional Budget Office", "url": "https://www.cbo.gov/system/files/2025-08/61367-SNAP.pdf", "date": "2025-08-13" }, { "title": "Trump administration has pushed off 13% of SNAP recipients in a year, analysis finds", "publisher": "The Guardian (republished by Yahoo News)", "url": "https://ca.news.yahoo.com/trump-administration-pushed-off-13-110002891.html", "date": "2026-10-22" }, { "title": "Monthly Budget Review: September 2026", "publisher": "Congressional Budget Office", "url": "https://www.cbo.gov/system/files/2026-10/61985-MBR.pdf", "date": "2026-10-08" }, { "title": "Proposed Rule: SNAP Changes in Federal-State Administrative Cost Sharing", "publisher": "U.S. Department of Agriculture, Food and Nutrition Administration", "url": "https://www.fna.usda.gov/snap/fr-062426", "date": "2026-06-24" } ] }, { "title": "Troops on American streets: the Guard deployments the courts found illegal, from Los Angeles to Chicago", "summary": "Trump federalized thousands of Guard troops and sent Marines into Los Angeles, then Portland, Chicago, Memphis and Washington; a judge found Posse Comitatus violations, the Supreme Court said he likely lacked authority, and he retreated.", "url": "https://dumptrump.win/stories/national-guard-deployments-courts/", "label": "primary_record", "date": "June 7, 2025 – October 23, 2026", "sources": [ { "title": "Newsom v. Trump, Opinion Granting Injunctive Relief", "publisher": "US District Court for the Northern District of California", "url": "https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/9-2-25-ruling-Breyer.pdf", "date": "2025-09-02" }, { "title": "Trump's use of National Guard in Los Angeles was illegal, judge rules", "publisher": "BBC News", "url": "https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5ylyd9lkkqo", "date": "2025-09-02" }, { "title": "9th Circuit blocks path for Trump to again deploy National Guard without state approval", "publisher": "Los Angeles Times", "url": "https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-10-23/9th-circuit-trump-california-national-guard-deployment-ruling", "date": "2026-10-23" }, { "title": "Trump v. Illinois: What the Supreme Court Decided and What Comes Next", "publisher": "Just Security", "url": "https://www.justsecurity.org/128371/trump-v-illinois-supreme-court/", "date": "2025-12-24" }, { "title": "Presidential Discretion and the Insurrection Act", "publisher": "Lawfare", "url": "https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/presidential-discretion-and-the-insurrection-act", "date": "2026-06-16" }, { "title": "Backgrounder: National Guard Deployment Litigation", "publisher": "States United Democracy Center", "url": "https://statesunited.org/resources/national-guard-litigation/", "date": "2026-01-14" }, { "title": "Trump forced to retreat on National Guard deployment", "publisher": "Associated Press via RTHK", "url": "https://news.rthk.hk/rthk/en/component/k2/1838239-20260101.htm", "date": "2026-01-01" }, { "title": "Attorney General Bonta Celebrates Ninth Circuit Ruling Upholding Order Against President Trump's Unlawful and Unconstitutional Federalization of the California National Guard", "publisher": "California Department of Justice", "url": "https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-bonta-celebrates-ninth-circuit-ruling-upholding-order-against", "date": "2026-10-23" } ] }, { "title": "The Qatari 747: a gift to the government, a cost to the public", "summary": "The Pentagon accepted a Qatari Boeing 747 in May 2025; Trump began flying on it July 1, 2026. The Air Force says conversion costs under $400 million (estimate); the library plan is now uncertain.", "url": "https://dumptrump.win/stories/qatari-747-air-force-one/", "label": "reporting", "date": "May 21, 2025 – October 14, 2026", "sources": [ { "title": "US accepts Qatari aircraft", "publisher": "Reuters", "url": "https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/us-formally-accepts-luxury-jet-qatar-trump-new-york-times-2025-05-21/", "date": "2025-05-21" }, { "title": "Qatari aircraft readiness and library plan", "publisher": "Associated Press", "url": "https://apnews.com/article/32966a04767cbe9c22a53979467c7f92", "date": "2026-05-02" }, { "title": "Qatari aircraft donation agreement", "publisher": "ABC News", "url": "https://abcnews.com/Politics/us-accepts-unconditional-donation-qatari-jet-cost-retrofitting/story?id=124150583", "date": "2025" }, { "title": "Cost to retrofit Qatari aircraft", "publisher": "Reuters", "url": "https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/retrofitting-qatari-jet-air-force-one-trump-cost-hundreds-millions-dollars-air-2025-06-05/", "date": "2025-06-05" }, { "title": "Further upgrades for Qatari aircraft", "publisher": "Reuters", "url": "https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/trump-says-new-air-force-one-qatar-will-get-maxed-out-upgrades-2026-07-20/", "date": "2026-07-20" }, { "title": "Courtney Presses Pentagon Official on Disparity Between Retrofitted Qatari Jet & the Official Air Force One Replacement", "publisher": "Office of Rep. Joe Courtney (House of Representatives)", "url": "https://courtney.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/courtney-presses-pentagon-official-disparity-between-retrofitted-qatari", "date": "2026-05-13" }, { "title": "Trump Said Qatari Jet Was Destined for His Library. That May Change.", "publisher": "The New York Times", "url": "https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/05/us/trump-air-force-one-qatar-library.html", "date": "2026-08-05" }, { "title": "Qatar-Gifted Air Force One's Future Grows Unclear As Trump Library Plans Fall Into Doubt", "publisher": "Forbes", "url": "https://www.forbes.com/sites/antoniopequenoiv/2026/08/05/qatar-gifted-air-force-ones-future-grows-unclear-as-trump-library-plans-fall-into-doubt/", "date": "2026-08-05" }, { "title": "Trump parades new Air Force One, defends accepting the Qatari royal family's 747 gift", "publisher": "Associated Press (via Orange County Register)", "url": "https://www.ocregister.com/2026/10/14/trump-parades-new-air-force-one-defends-accepting-the-qatari-royal-familys-747-gift/", "date": "2026-10-14" }, { "title": "Qatari-gifted Air Force One undergoing 'cosmetic upgrades,' administration source says", "publisher": "ABC News", "url": "https://abcnews.com/Politics/qatari-gifted-air-force-undergoing-cosmetic-upgrades-administration/story?id=136958885", "date": "2026-10-02" } ] }, { "title": "About 600 forecasters gone, weather balloons grounded, the billion-dollar disaster database stopped, and a Texas office with six vacancies the night of the flood: what the record shows about the Weather Service", "summary": "The Weather Service lost about 600 of 4,200 staff in 2025; nearly a dozen balloon sites cut launches; NOAA stopped its disaster database in May 2025; the Austin office had six vacancies on July 4, 2025. Congress refused the NOAA cut.", "url": "https://dumptrump.win/stories/weather-service-staffing-balloons-disaster-database/", "label": "reporting", "date": "April 2025 – July 2026", "sources": [ { "title": "Staffing Cuts at NWS and the Tragic Flooding in Texas", "publisher": "FactCheck.org", "url": "https://www.factcheck.org/2025/07/staffing-cuts-at-nws-and-the-tragic-flooding-in-texas/", "date": "2025-07-10" }, { "title": "Letter from Rep. Lloyd Doggett to NOAA on National Weather Service Austin/San Antonio staffing", "publisher": "Office of Rep. Lloyd Doggett, U.S. House of Representatives", "url": "https://doggett.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/doggett.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/7.8.25-doggett-ltr_nws-austin-san-antonio.pdf", "date": "2025-07-08" }, { "title": "In Texas region prone to catastrophic floods, questions grow about lack of warning", "publisher": "The Texas Tribune", "url": "https://www.texastribune.org/2025/07/05/texas-hill-country-floods-warning-forecast-nws/", "date": "2025-07-05" }, { "title": "National Weather Service faces hurricane season with less experienced staff, missing data", "publisher": "CBS News", "url": "https://www.cbsnews.com/news/national-weather-service-hurricane-season-less-experienced-staff-missing-data/", "date": "2026-07-20" }, { "title": "Researchers Are Resurrecting Billion-Dollar Disaster Tool Trump Shut Down", "publisher": "Insurance Journal (Bloomberg)", "url": "https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/national/2025/08/06/834819.htm", "date": "2025-08-06" }, { "title": "Van Hollen Statement on House and Senate Negotiated Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies FY 2026 Appropriations Bill", "publisher": "Office of Sen. Chris Van Hollen, U.S. Senate", "url": "https://www.vanhollen.senate.gov/news/press-releases/van-hollen-statement-on-house-and-senate-negotiated-commerce-justice-science_related-agencies-fy-2026-appropriations-bill", "date": "2026-01-05" } ] }, { "title": "The Oval Office blow-up, then the switch-off: how the US cut weapons and intelligence to Ukraine for a week", "summary": "After the February 28, 2025 Oval Office clash, the Trump administration paused weapons deliveries and intelligence sharing with Ukraine; both resumed on March 11 only after Kyiv accepted a US ceasefire proposal and a minerals deal.", "url": "https://dumptrump.win/stories/ukraine-aid-pause-oval-office-2025/", "label": "reporting", "date": "February 28, 2025 – April 30, 2025", "sources": [ { "title": "President Trump pauses Ukraine military aid after disastrous meeting with Zelenskyy", "publisher": "NPR", "url": "https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-03-04/president-trump-pauses-ukraine-military-aid-after-disastrous-meeting-with-zelenskyy", "date": "2025-03-04" }, { "title": "US cuts intelligence sharing for Ukraine, adding pressure for Russia peace deal", "publisher": "Reuters", "url": "https://www.reuters.com/world/us-cuts-off-intelligence-sharing-with-ukraine-ft-reports-2025-03-05/", "date": "2025-03-05" }, { "title": "Trump administration pauses flow of intelligence to Ukraine that helps on battlefield", "publisher": "Associated Press", "url": "https://apnews.com/article/ukraine-russia-putin-trump-cia-zelenskyy-5eb2c8025f6bb4b616c86e1fe89bba0f", "date": "2025-03-06" }, { "title": "US resumes military aid and intelligence sharing as Ukraine says it is open to a 30-day ceasefire", "publisher": "Associated Press", "url": "https://www.ap.org/news-highlights/spotlights/2025/us-resumes-military-aid-and-intelligence-sharing-as-ukraine-says-it-is-open-to-a-30-day-ceasefire/", "date": "2025-03-11" }, { "title": "US to resume security support to Ukraine as Kyiv says it is ready to accept ceasefire proposal", "publisher": "Reuters", "url": "https://www.reuters.com/world/us-ukraine-meet-saudi-arabia-after-disastrous-white-house-talks-2025-03-11/", "date": "2025-03-12" }, { "title": "Joint Statement on the United States-Ukraine Meeting in Jeddah", "publisher": "US Department of State", "url": "https://www.state.gov/joint-statement-on-the-united-states-ukraine-meeting-in-jeddah", "date": "2025-03-11" }, { "title": "U.S.–Ukraine minerals deal: key points of the newly signed agreement", "publisher": "The Kyiv Independent", "url": "https://kyivindependent.com/u-s-ukraine-minerals-agreement-the-main-points-of-the-newly-signed-deal/", "date": "2025-05-01" }, { "title": "The Ukraine–US agreement on minerals", "publisher": "OSW Centre for Eastern Studies", "url": "https://www.osw.waw.pl/en/publikacje/analyses/2025-05-06/ukraine-us-agreement-minerals", "date": "2025-05-06" } ] }, { "title": "Musk's government business: Project Meridian, the $5.9 billion launch award, AI ceilings, and the favors that cost nothing", "summary": "In 2025-2026 Musk's companies won a $5.92 billion anticipated-value launch contract and a $200 million AI ceiling alongside competitors, DOJ dropped a SpaceX hiring case, and Musk joined a Pentagon warfare study.", "url": "https://dumptrump.win/stories/musk-pentagon-meridian-and-contracts/", "label": "primary_record", "date": "February 24, 2025 – October 6, 2026", "sources": [ { "title": "National Security Space Launch Phase 3 awards", "publisher": "US Space Force", "url": "https://www.spaceforce.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/4146459/space-systems-command-awards-national-security-space-launch-phase-3-lane-2-cont/", "date": "2025-04-04" }, { "title": "Pentagon AI contract awards", "publisher": "Reuters", "url": "https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/us-department-defense-awards-contracts-google-xai-2025-07-14/", "date": "2025-07-14" }, { "title": "DOJ withdraws SpaceX hiring case", "publisher": "Bloomberg Law", "url": "https://news.bloomberglaw.com/privacy-and-data-security/doj-seeks-to-drop-spacex-anti-immigrant-hiring-accusations", "date": "2025-02-21" }, { "title": "Commercial space executive order", "publisher": "White House", "url": "https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/08/enabling-competition-in-the-commercial-space-industry/", "date": "2025-08-13" }, { "title": "Elon Musk and Palmer Luckey's new Pentagon roles raise ethics worries", "publisher": "NPR", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2026/10/06/nx-s1-5991899/elon-musk-palmer-luckey-pentagon-drones-ai", "date": "2026-10-06" }, { "title": "Project Meridian", "publisher": "The MITRE Corporation", "url": "https://www.mitre.org/project-meridian", "date": "2026-10-01" }, { "title": "United States v. Space Exploration Technologies Corp., d/b/a SpaceX, Order confirming dismissal with prejudice (OCAHO)", "publisher": "U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the Chief Administrative Hearing Officer", "url": "https://www.justice.gov/d9/2025-03/1499b_0.pdf", "date": "2025-02-24" }, { "title": "US says it will drop immigration case against SpaceX", "publisher": "Reuters", "url": "https://www.reuters.com/legal/us-says-it-will-drop-immigration-case-against-spacex-2025-02-21/", "date": "2025-02-21" }, { "title": "Remarks at a Tesla Viewing and an Exchange With Reporters (Daily Compilation of Presidential Documents, DCPD-202500346)", "publisher": "U.S. Government Publishing Office", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/DCPD-202500346/pdf/DCPD-202500346.pdf", "date": "2025-03-11" }, { "title": "SpaceX acquires xAI in record-setting deal as Musk looks to unify AI and space ambitions", "publisher": "Reuters", "url": "https://www.reuters.com/business/musks-spacex-merge-with-xai-combined-valuation-125-trillion-bloomberg-news-2026-02-02/", "date": "2026-02-02" } ] }, { "title": "DOGE's receipts and DOGE's data: what the audits and court filings actually show", "summary": "DOGE's savings claims carried documented errors ($8 billion listed for an $8 million contract), a 2026 GAO audit found most savings unverifiable, and a January 2026 court filing described unauthorized SSA data handling.", "url": "https://dumptrump.win/stories/doge-savings-errors-and-data/", "label": "primary_record", "date": "February 17, 2025 – August 6, 2026", "sources": [ { "title": "DOGE savings receipt corrections", "publisher": "NPR", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2025/03/01/nx-s1-5313853/doge-savings-receipts-musk-trump", "date": "2025-03-01" }, { "title": "Errors in DOGE savings claims", "publisher": "Reuters via Investing", "url": "https://www.investing.com/news/economy-news/doge-website-offers-errorfilled-window-into-musks-government-overhaul-3907526", "date": "2025" }, { "title": "SSA notice correcting the record", "publisher": "US government court filing", "url": "https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mdd.577321/gov.uscourts.mdd.577321.197.0.pdf", "date": "2026-01-16" }, { "title": "DOGE Wall of Receipts: More Transparency Needed on How Savings Are Derived from Contract, Grant, and Lease Terminations (GAO-26-108615)", "publisher": "U.S. Government Accountability Office", "url": "https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-26-108615", "date": "2026-08-06" }, { "title": "American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees v. Social Security Administration, No. 25-1411 (4th Cir., en banc)", "publisher": "U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit", "url": "https://www.ca4.uscourts.gov/opinions/251411.P.pdf", "date": "2026-04-10" }, { "title": "Court orders probe of DOGE's secret voter data deal after 'alarming' revelations", "publisher": "Democracy Docket", "url": "https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/court-orders-probe-of-doges-secret-voter-data-deal/", "date": "2026-04-14" }, { "title": "DOGE 'doesn't exist' with eight months left on its charter", "publisher": "Reuters", "url": "https://www.reuters.com/world/us/doge-doesnt-exist-with-eight-months-left-its-charter-2025-11-23/", "date": "2025-11-23" } ] }, { "title": "'We don't have to be there for NATO': the Munich speech, the 'PATHETIC' chat, and 5,000 troops pulled from Germany", "summary": "Vance told Europe its main threat was itself, Hegseth called allies 'PATHETIC' free-loaders, Trump said the US 'doesn't have to be there for NATO,' and the Pentagon ordered 5,000 troops out of Germany over a dispute about the Iran war.", "url": "https://dumptrump.win/stories/nato-commitment-and-troop-drawdown/", "label": "reporting", "date": "February 14, 2025 – July 29, 2026", "sources": [ { "title": "In Munich, Vance accuses European politicians of censoring free speech", "publisher": "Reuters", "url": "https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/vance-uses-munich-speech-criticize-europe-censoring-free-speech-2025-02-14/", "date": "2025-02-14" }, { "title": "'Free-loading' Europe and emojis: the leaked White House Signal messages in full", "publisher": "The Standard", "url": "https://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/white-house-signal-messages-in-full-atlantic-pete-hegseth-trump-b1218612.html", "date": "2025-03-25" }, { "title": "Trump says 'we don't have to be there for NATO'", "publisher": "Reuters", "url": "https://www.reuters.com/world/trump-says-we-dont-have-be-there-nato-2026-03-27/", "date": "2026-03-27" }, { "title": "US withdrawing 5,000 troops from Germany, US officials say", "publisher": "Reuters", "url": "https://www.reuters.com/world/us-withdrawing-5000-troops-germany-us-officials-say-2026-05-01/", "date": "2026-05-01" }, { "title": "Hegseth orders 5,000 US troops to withdraw from Germany", "publisher": "Breaking Defense", "url": "https://breakingdefense.com/2026/05/hegseth-orders-5000-us-troops-to-withdraw-from-germany/", "date": "2026-05-01" }, { "title": "Pentagon has 'kicked off' review of US force posture in Europe", "publisher": "Defense News", "url": "https://www.defensenews.com/global/europe/2026/07/29/pentagon-has-kicked-off-review-of-us-force-posture-in-europe/", "date": "2026-07-29" }, { "title": "The Ankara Summit Declaration", "publisher": "NATO", "url": "https://www.nato.int/en/about-us/official-texts-and-resources/official-texts/2026/07/08/the-ankara-summit-declaration?selectedLocale=en", "date": "2026-07-08" }, { "title": "NATO summit: leaders pledge 'ironclad' Article 5 commitment as Trump berates allies", "publisher": "DW News", "url": "https://www.dw.com/en/nato-summit-leaders-pledge-ironclad-article-5-commitment-as-trump-berates-allies/live-77858549", "date": "2026-07-08" }, { "title": "Trump's NATO-bashing casts shadow over US pledge to defend allies", "publisher": "Associated Press via The Detroit News", "url": "https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/world/2026/07/07/trumps-nato-bashing-casts-shadow-over-us-pledge-defend-allies/90833210007/", "date": "2026-07-07" } ] }, { "title": "The $489 million warning: what the USAID watchdog said was at risk, what was actually lost, and who was in charge", "summary": "USAID's inspector general warned in February 2025 that $489 million in food aid was at risk and was fired the next day; most warehoused food later shipped, $2.9 million spoiled in Djibouti, 500 tons destroyed in Dubai.", "url": "https://dumptrump.win/stories/usaid-oversight-food-aid-at-risk/", "label": "primary_record", "date": "January 24, 2025 – June 16, 2026", "sources": [ { "title": "Humanitarian assistance oversight alert", "publisher": "USAID Office of Inspector General", "url": "https://oig.usaid.gov/sites/default/files/2025-02/USAID%20OIG%20-%20Oversight%20of%20USAID-Funded%20Humanitarian%20Assistance%20Programming%20021025.pdf", "date": "2025-02-10" }, { "title": "White House fires USAID inspector general after warning about funding oversight, officials say", "publisher": "Associated Press", "url": "https://apnews.com/article/usaid-american-companies-layoffs-lawsuit-8c116d877c179169fbce2d3348fcd997", "date": "2025-02-11" }, { "title": "Exclusive: US aid cuts leave food for millions mouldering in storage", "publisher": "Reuters", "url": "https://www.reuters.com/world/us-aid-cuts-leave-food-millions-mouldering-storage-2025-05-16/", "date": "2025-05-16" }, { "title": "US says it destroyed 500 metric tons of expired food aid but it won't affect future distribution", "publisher": "Associated Press", "url": "https://apnews.com/article/emergency-food-aid-usaid-hunger-aefb584b52cc43e43e5552986363c387", "date": "2025-07-17" }, { "title": "Emergency Food Assistance: Over $17 Million of Food Aid Stored in USAID's Djibouti Warehouses Was Not Allocated for Distribution, and Weaknesses in Oversight Contributed to Spoilage and Infestation (E-000-26-004-M)", "publisher": "USAID Office of Inspector General", "url": "https://oig.usaid.gov/node/8161", "date": "2026-06-16" }, { "title": "Emergency Food Assistance: USAID Stored Over $18 Million of Food in Houston Warehouses, but Deficiencies in Storage and Inventory Conditions May Increase Risk of Waste (E-000-26-002-M)", "publisher": "USAID Office of Inspector General", "url": "https://oig.usaid.gov/node/8163", "date": "2026-06-16" }, { "title": "Emergency Food Assistance: USAID Durban Warehouses Were Generally in Good Condition, but Limited Storage Gaps May Increase the Risk of Contamination or Spoilage (E-000-26-003-M)", "publisher": "USAID Office of Inspector General", "url": "https://oig.usaid.gov/node/8162", "date": "2026-06-16" } ] }, { "title": "What the auditors found after DOGE: 108-minute callbacks at Social Security, a 27 percent cut to IRS enforcement staff, and savings claims that followed DOGE's own method 27.5 percent of the time", "summary": "Auditors wrote the record on DOGE: Social Security callbacks averaged 108.6 minutes and 21.3 million calls were abandoned; IRS enforcement staff fell 27 percent; GAO found DOGE followed its own method for 27.5 percent of claimed savings.", "url": "https://dumptrump.win/stories/doge-receipts-and-services/", "label": "primary_record", "date": "January 20, 2025 – August 6, 2026", "sources": [ { "title": "The Social Security Administration's Telephone Metrics (Audit Report 032517)", "publisher": "Social Security Administration, Office of the Inspector General", "url": "https://oig.ssa.gov/~assets/uploads/032517.pdf", "date": "2025-12-22" }, { "title": "Inspector General Report Confirms Significant Customer Service Improvements at Social Security", "publisher": "Social Security Administration, Press Office", "url": "https://www.ssa.gov/news/en/press/releases/2025-12-22.html", "date": "2025-12-22" }, { "title": "Social Security chief touts customer service metrics after getting 'right amount of staff in the right places'", "publisher": "Federal News Network", "url": "https://federalnewsnetwork.com/workforce/2026/06/social-security-chief-touts-customer-service-metrics-after-getting-right-amount-of-staff-in-the-right-places/", "date": "2026-06-10" }, { "title": "Trends in Compliance Activities Through Fiscal Year 2025 (Report 2026-3S0-045)", "publisher": "Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration", "url": "https://www.tigta.gov/sites/default/files/reports/2026-08/20263S0045fr.pdf", "date": "2026-08-01" }, { "title": "IRS watchdog warns of tax filing challenges next year, after agency cuts 25% of workforce", "publisher": "Federal News Network", "url": "https://federalnewsnetwork.com/workforce/2025/06/irs-watchdog-warns-of-tax-filing-challenges-next-year-after-agency-cuts-25-of-workforce/", "date": "2025-06-25" }, { "title": "DOGE Wall of Receipts: More Transparency Needed on How Savings Are Derived from Contract, Grant, and Lease Terminations (GAO-26-108615)", "publisher": "U.S. Government Accountability Office", "url": "https://www.gao.gov/assets/gao-26-108615.pdf", "date": "2026-08-06" }, { "title": "Department of Government Efficiency: Treasury Needs to Fully Implement Data Protection Controls (GAO-26-108131)", "publisher": "U.S. Government Accountability Office", "url": "https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-26-108131", "date": "2026-04-28" }, { "title": "DOGE no longer has 'centralized leadership' under White House tech team, personnel head says", "publisher": "Nextgov/FCW", "url": "https://www.nextgov.com/digital-government/2025/11/doge-no-longer-has-centralized-leadership-under-white-house-tech-team-personnel-head-says/409765/", "date": "2025-11-24" }, { "title": "Federal workforce shrank 10% in Trump's first year back in office", "publisher": "Pew Research Center", "url": "https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2026/03/13/federal-workforce-shrank-10-in-trumps-first-year-back-in-office/", "date": "2026-03-13" }, { "title": "New Data Shows Trump Administration's Progress in Right-Sizing the Federal Bureaucracy", "publisher": "U.S. Office of Personnel Management", "url": "https://www.opm.gov/news/new-data-shows-trump-administration%CA%BCs-progress-in-right-sizing-the-federal-bureaucracy/", "date": "2025-07-01" }, { "title": "SSA phone wait times longer than publicly reported metrics, per OIG report", "publisher": "Nextgov/FCW", "url": "https://www.nextgov.com/digital-government/2025/12/ssa-phone-wait-times-longer-publicly-reported-metrics-oig-report/410360/", "date": "2025-12-22" } ] }, { "title": "Trump's sons bet on defense tech while their father's Pentagon spends: what the records show", "summary": "A Washington Post analysis found companies backed by Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump won at least $3.2 billion in direct federal business and $3.1 billion in options after they invested; officials and firms deny favoritism.", "url": "https://dumptrump.win/stories/trump-sons-defense-investments/", "label": "reporting", "date": "January 20, 2025 – October 1, 2026", "sources": [ { "title": "Trump sons defense investments", "publisher": "Washington Post", "url": "https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2026/07/13/trumps-sons-invest-heavily-defense-fathers-administration-pours-money/", "date": "2026-07-13" }, { "title": "Request for investigation of Trump family contracts", "publisher": "House Oversight Democratic staff", "url": "https://oversightdemocrats.house.gov/imo/media/doc/2026-05-08garciatododigretrumpfamilycontracts.pdf", "date": "2026-05-08" }, { "title": "Powerus and Ukrainian drone technology", "publisher": "Reuters", "url": "https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/drone-startup-tied-trump-sons-aims-bring-ukrainian-tech-us-2026-09-30/", "date": "2026-09-30" }, { "title": "Powerus ownership and Pentagon market", "publisher": "Associated Press", "url": "https://apnews.com/article/089bff3892f921a10ef4ec785308e716", "date": "2026" }, { "title": "Vulcan Elements White House intervention", "publisher": "ProPublica", "url": "https://www.propublica.org/article/donald-trump-jr-vulcan-deal-white-house", "date": "2026-05-28" }, { "title": "Removal of premature ABC defense investment story", "publisher": "Forbes", "url": "https://www.forbes.com/sites/saradorn/2026/10/09/abc-article-on-trumps-sons-pentagon-linked-investments-removed-after-it-was-published-prematurely/", "date": "2026-10-09" }, { "title": "Form 8-K, Exhibit 99.1: Powerus Completes Merger with Aureus Greenway Holdings (Powerus Corporation, CIK 2009312)", "publisher": "US Securities and Exchange Commission (EDGAR)", "url": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/2009312/000149315226045385/ex99-1.htm", "date": "2026-10-01" } ] }, { "title": "Trump's crypto money: $1.4 billion reported income, a UAE stake, and a lawsuit that is only a filing", "summary": "Trump's 2025 disclosure reported over $1.4 billion in crypto income; Reuters estimates about $2.3 billion in family gains; a $500 million UAE-linked stake drew a CFIUS request and, in October 2026, an unproven lawsuit.", "url": "https://dumptrump.win/stories/trump-family-crypto-income/", "label": "reporting", "date": "January 16, 2025 – October 22, 2026", "sources": [ { "title": "Trump reports more than $1.4 billion in crypto income", "publisher": "Reuters via Investing", "url": "https://au.investing.com/news/politics-news/trump-reports-more-than-14-billion-in-income-from-crypto-ventures-4512348", "date": "2026-06-30" }, { "title": "Trump crypto proceeds invested in conventional assets", "publisher": "Reuters via MarketScreener", "url": "https://www.marketscreener.com/news/trump-invested-crypto-gains-in-stocks-and-bonds-filings-show-ce7f5edfd180ff21", "date": "2026-07-13" }, { "title": "Trump response to financial disclosures", "publisher": "Reuters via Investing", "url": "https://www.investing.com/news/economy-news/trump-on-financial-disclosures-everyones-profiting-because-stock-market-is-up-4770557", "date": "2026-07-01" }, { "title": "Parsing the Trumps crypto profits and investors losses", "publisher": "Reuters", "url": "https://www.reuters.com/investigations/parsing-trumps-crypto-profits-investors-losses-2026-06-09/", "date": "2026-06-09" }, { "title": "UAE World Liberty investment oversight request", "publisher": "Reuters", "url": "https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/senate-democrats-seek-cfius-probe-reported-uae-stake-trump-familys-crypto-2026-02-13/", "date": "2026-02-13" }, { "title": "UAE linked stake in World Liberty", "publisher": "Wall Street Journal", "url": "https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/spy-sheikh-secret-stake-trump-crypto-tahnoon-ea4d97e8", "date": "2026-01-31" }, { "title": "UAE crypto investment analysis", "publisher": "Forbes", "url": "https://www.forbes.com/sites/kylemullins/2026/02/02/why-the-trump-uae-crypto-deal-made-no-financial-sense-for-the-emiratis/", "date": "2026-02-02" }, { "title": "Trump and Witkoff family crypto economics", "publisher": "Wall Street Journal", "url": "https://www.wsj.com/finance/currencies/trump-sons-crypto-billions-1e7f1414", "date": "2026" }, { "title": "UAE-linked crypto lawsuit allegations", "publisher": "Financial Express", "url": "https://www.financialexpress.com/world-news/us-news/trump-sued-over-2-bn-crypto-deals-what-the-lawsuit-alleges-about-uae-linked-transactions/4368302/", "date": "2026-10-23" }, { "title": "Lawsuit accuses Trump of illegally profiting off foreign crypto deals", "publisher": "CNBC", "url": "https://www.cnbc.com/2026/10/22/trump-world-liberty-crypto-lawsuit-uae.html", "date": "2026-10-22" }, { "title": "Crypto shareholder sues Trump, family-backed crypto venture", "publisher": "Politico", "url": "https://www.politico.com/news/2026/10/22/donald-trump-lawsuit-crypto-world-liberty-financial-01131555", "date": "2026-10-22" } ] }, { "title": "Musk's political money: at least $288 million in 2024, and a new wave for the 2026 midterms", "summary": "FEC-based tallies put Musk's 2024 election spending at $259 million (Reuters, Dec 2024) and at least $288 million (Washington Post, Jan 2025); separate 2026 midterm tallies range from $366 million to more than $445 million.", "url": "https://dumptrump.win/stories/musk-political-spending/", "label": "reporting", "date": "December 6, 2024 – October 23, 2026", "sources": [ { "title": "Musk earlier political spending tally", "publisher": "Reuters", "url": "https://www.reuters.com/world/us/musk-spent-over-quarter-billion-dollars-help-elect-trump-2024-12-06/", "date": "2024-12-06" }, { "title": "Musk 2024 political spending", "publisher": "Washington Post", "url": "https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/01/31/elon-musk-trump-donor-2024-election/", "date": "2025-01-31" }, { "title": "Musk 2026 Republican spending", "publisher": "Reuters", "url": "https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/musk-has-spent-366-million-help-republicans-retain-control-congress-2026-10-12/", "date": "2026-10-12" }, { "title": "AMERICA PAC - committee overview (C00879510), 2025-2026 cycle", "publisher": "Federal Election Commission", "url": "https://www.fec.gov/data/committee/C00879510/?cycle=2026", "date": "2026-10-23" }, { "title": "Elon Musk Just Dumped Another $76 Million Into the Midterms", "publisher": "WIRED", "url": "https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-just-dumped-another-dollar76-million-into-the-midterms/", "date": "2026-10-23" }, { "title": "Elon Musk is now a mega-donor unlike anyone this country has ever seen", "publisher": "CNN", "url": "https://www.cnn.com/2026/10/26/politics/elon-musk-campaign-spending", "date": "2026-10-26" }, { "title": "SpaceX and Tesla have high election stakes as Elon Musk pours $366 million into campaigns", "publisher": "CNBC", "url": "https://www.cnbc.com/2026/10/22/elon-musk-midterm-election-spacex-tesla.html", "date": "2026-10-22" } ] }, { "title": "Musk and the 2024 vote: the $1 million giveaway settlement, Grok's false ballot deadlines, and what the St. Clair texts do and do not show", "summary": "Musk and America PAC agreed on October 15, 2026 to settle two class actions over the 2024 $1 million voter giveaways on undisclosed terms; in 2024 Grok spread false ballot-deadline information for about ten days.", "url": "https://dumptrump.win/stories/musk-election-giveaway-and-grok/", "label": "reporting", "date": "July 21, 2024 – October 15, 2026", "sources": [ { "title": "Ashley St Clair texts and Musk documentary", "publisher": "NPR via CapRadio", "url": "https://www.capradio.org/news/npr/story?storyid=nx-s1-5962167", "date": "2026-09-11" }, { "title": "Elon Musk agrees to settle lawsuits over 2024 election lottery", "publisher": "Reuters", "url": "https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/elon-musk-agrees-settle-lawsuits-over-2024-election-lottery-2026-10-15/", "date": "2026-10-15" }, { "title": "Elon Musk settles fraud lawsuits over his $1 million giveaways to 2024 election voters", "publisher": "CNN", "url": "https://us.cnn.com/2026/10/15/politics/elon-musk-settles-lawsuits-one-million-dollars-giveaways", "date": "2026-10-15" }, { "title": "Musk Settles Lawsuit Over Predetermining Winners For $1 Million Election Giveaways", "publisher": "Forbes", "url": "https://www.forbes.com/sites/antoniopequenoiv/2026/10/15/musk-settles-lawsuit-over-predetermining-winners-for-1-million-election-giveaways/", "date": "2026-10-15" }, { "title": "Letter from five Secretaries of State to Elon Musk, X Corp., regarding Grok", "publisher": "Office of the Minnesota Secretary of State", "url": "https://www.sos.mn.gov/media/6077/080524-secretaries-letter-to-x.pdf", "date": "2024-08-05" }, { "title": "Secretaries of State Welcome Changes to X's AI search assistant", "publisher": "Office of the Minnesota Secretary of State", "url": "https://sos.mn.gov/about-the-office/news-room/secretaries-of-state-welcome-changes-to-x-s-ai-search-assistant/", "date": "2024-08-26" }, { "title": "Social platform X edits AI chatbot after election officials warn that it spreads misinformation", "publisher": "Associated Press", "url": "https://apnews.com/article/election-2024-misinformation-x-twitter-elon-musk-4821523a795ba0dd04695c385c4b14d3", "date": "2024-08-26" }, { "title": "How 'Musk' director Alex Gibney became a critic", "publisher": "NPR", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2026/10/08/nx-s1-5960380/musk-film-alex-gibney", "date": "2026-10-08" }, { "title": "Election Rumor Rundown for October 20: California arrests, absentee ballot claims spur rumors", "publisher": "University of Washington Center for an Informed Public", "url": "https://www.cip.uw.edu/2026/10/20/election-rumor-california-non-citizen-voting/", "date": "2026-10-20" } ] }, { "title": "X Corp. v. Center for Countering Digital Hate: dismissed in 2024 as a case 'about punishing the defendants for their speech,' argued on appeal September 30, 2026, decision pending", "summary": "A judge dismissed X's suit against a hate-speech research group in March 2024 as a case about punishing speech; the Ninth Circuit heard X's appeal on September 30, 2026 and has not ruled.", "url": "https://dumptrump.win/stories/x-corp-v-ccdh/", "label": "primary_record", "date": "July 31, 2023 – September 30, 2026", "sources": [ { "title": "X Corp v CCDH dismissal", "publisher": "US District Court", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCOURTS-cand-3_23-cv-03836/pdf/USCOURTS-cand-3_23-cv-03836-0.pdf", "date": "2024-03-25" }, { "title": "X v CCDH case page", "publisher": "Knight First Amendment Institute", "url": "https://knightcolumbia.org/cases/x-corp-v-center-for-countering-digital-hate", "date": "2026" }, { "title": "X Corp. v. Center for Countering Digital Hate, Inc., et al., No. 24-2643 (9th Cir.) docket", "publisher": "CourtListener (Free Law Project), from PACER", "url": "https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/68985727/x-corp-v-center-for-countering-digital-hate-inc-et-al/", "date": "2026-09-25" }, { "title": "X asks Ninth Circuit to revive data-scraping suit against hate speech monitor", "publisher": "Courthouse News Service", "url": "https://www.courthousenews.com/x-asks-ninth-circuit-to-revive-data-scraping-suit-against-hate-speech-monitor", "date": "2026-09-30" } ] }, { "title": "Starlink and Ukraine: the 2022 shutdown report, the October 2026 slowdown, and who had the switch", "summary": "Reuters reported Musk ordered Starlink cut over parts of Ukraine in 2022 (SpaceX disputes it); in October 2026 Ukraine's Starlink and Starshield links were throttled for over a week until service returned October 24.", "url": "https://dumptrump.win/stories/starlink-ukraine-shutdown-and-restrictions/", "label": "reporting", "date": "September 30, 2022 – October 25, 2026", "sources": [ { "title": "Starlink shutdown during 2022 Ukrainian counteroffensive", "publisher": "Reuters", "url": "https://www.reuters.com/investigations/musk-ordered-shutdown-starlink-satellite-service-ukraine-retook-territory-russia-2025-07-25/", "date": "2025-07-25" }, { "title": "Ukraine disputes Starlink justification", "publisher": "Associated Press", "url": "https://apnews.com/article/ukraine-russia-war-starlink-musk-satellite-connectivity-0c6e685ee4637529ec64c1d6a902cc94", "date": "2026-10-25" }, { "title": "Government requests to alter Starlink service", "publisher": "Reuters", "url": "https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/us-has-years-asked-musk-alter-starlink-service-ukraine-middle-east-sources-say-2026-10-24/", "date": "2026-10-24" }, { "title": "Rubio, Hegseth point finger at Musk in Starlink slowdown", "publisher": "The Hill", "url": "https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/6164055-starlink-slowdown-ukraine/", "date": "2026-10-22" }, { "title": "GOP rep: 'We got to investigate' Starlink slowdown report", "publisher": "The Hill", "url": "https://thehill.com/homenews/house/6162739-fitzpatrick-calls-starlink-investigation-elon-musk/", "date": "2026-10-21" }, { "title": "Musk says SpaceX restricted Ukraine's Starlink connection as service restored", "publisher": "BBC News", "url": "https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvx28ljp8n4xo", "date": "2026-10-25" }, { "title": "Musk's clash with Ukraine accelerates demand for Starlink alternatives. Few exist", "publisher": "CNBC", "url": "https://www.cnbc.com/2026/10/22/elon-musk-ukraine-starlink-alternatives.html", "date": "2026-10-22" }, { "title": "Carney says 'direct casualties' are result of Ukraine's restricted access to Musk's Starshield", "publisher": "CBC News", "url": "https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/carney-zelenskyy-trump-starlink-9.7393553", "date": "2026-10-23" }, { "title": "Musk warns Democrats over possible congressional probes", "publisher": "The Hill", "url": "https://thehill.com/policy/technology/6165520-doge-starlink-ukraine-controversy/", "date": "2026-10-22" } ] }, { "title": "Musk and the SEC: the 2018 'funding secured' penalties, the 2026 Twitter-disclosure settlement, and a $2.37 billion partisan estimate", "summary": "Musk and Tesla each paid $20 million to settle the 2018 'funding secured' case; in 2026 a Musk trust paid $1.5 million to settle the SEC's Twitter-disclosure suit, approved despite the judge's 'significant misgivings'.", "url": "https://dumptrump.win/stories/musk-sec-cases/", "label": "primary_record", "date": "September 29, 2018 – July 8, 2026", "sources": [ { "title": "Musk SEC settlement approved with judicial concerns", "publisher": "Reuters via Investing", "url": "https://www.investing.com/news/economy-news/judge-approves-elon-musk-settlement-with-us-sec-over-twitter-disclosures-4782332", "date": "2026-07-08" }, { "title": "Musk and Tesla settlement distributions", "publisher": "SEC", "url": "https://www.sec.gov/enforcement-litigation/distributions-for-harmed-investors/sec-v-elon-musk-case-no-18-cv-8865-sdny-sec-v-tesla-inc-case-no-18-cv-8947-sdny", "date": "" }, { "title": "Amended Musk disclosure complaint", "publisher": "SEC", "url": "https://www.sec.gov/files/litigation/complaints/2026/comp26548.pdf", "date": "2026" }, { "title": "Elon Musk settles SEC lawsuit over Twitter disclosures, $1.5 million fine imposed", "publisher": "Reuters", "url": "https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/elon-musk-settles-sec-lawsuit-over-twitter-disclosures-15-million-fine-imposed-2026-05-04/", "date": "2026-05-04" }, { "title": "US judge approves Elon Musk settlement with SEC despite misgivings, 'red flags'", "publisher": "Reuters", "url": "https://www.reuters.com/world/judge-approves-elon-musk-settlement-with-us-sec-over-twitter-disclosures-2026-07-08/", "date": "2026-07-08" }, { "title": "Calculating Risk: Estimating the Legal Liability Elon Musk May Avoid Through His Government Takeover (Minority Staff Memorandum)", "publisher": "U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, Minority Staff", "url": "https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025-04-27-Minority-Staff-Memorandum-Elon-Musk-Conflicts.pdf", "date": "2025-04-27" }, { "title": "Blumenthal Exposes Billions in Legal Penalties and Fines Elon Musk Stands to Avoid Due to Government Power Grab", "publisher": "Office of Senator Richard Blumenthal", "url": "https://www.blumenthal.senate.gov/newsroom/press/release/blumenthal-exposes-billions-in-legal-penalties-and-fines-elon-musk-stands-to-avoid-due-to-government-power-grab", "date": "2025-04-28" }, { "title": "Elon Musk misled Twitter investors ahead of $44 billion acquisition, jury says", "publisher": "CNBC", "url": "https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/20/elon-musk-determined-to-be-liable-for-misleading-twitter-investors.html", "date": "2026-03-20" } ] }, { "title": "'Where's my favorite dictator?': a sourced catalog of Trump's affection for strongmen", "summary": "From 'we fell in love' with Kim Jong Un to 'genius' for Putin, 'my favorite dictator' for el-Sisi, campaigning for Orbán, a state dinner for Xi and shutting down a Khashoggi question for MBS, the record spans both terms.", "url": "https://dumptrump.win/stories/trump-praise-for-strongmen/", "label": "reporting", "date": "September 29, 2018 – September 25, 2026", "sources": [ { "title": "'We fell in love': Trump swoons over letters from North Korea's Kim", "publisher": "Reuters", "url": "https://www.reuters.com/article/world/we-fell-in-love-trump-swoons-over-letters-from-north-koreas-kim-idUSKCN1MA03L/", "date": "2018-09-30" }, { "title": "Trump reportedly asked 'Where's my favorite dictator?' at G7", "publisher": "Axios", "url": "https://www.axios.com/2019/09/13/trump-egypt-el-sisi-favorite-dictator", "date": "2019-09-13" }, { "title": "Trump likes to back winners in foreign elections. The upcoming vote in Hungary will test his clout", "publisher": "Associated Press", "url": "https://apnews.com/article/trump-orban-hungary-foreign-election-influence-4f4b8cd1ad982c714dc78280c0343162", "date": "2026-04-11" }, { "title": "Trump wishes 'best of luck' to Hungary's Orban in election campaign", "publisher": "Reuters", "url": "https://www.reuters.com/world/trump-wishes-best-luck-hungarys-orban-election-campaign-2026-01-09/", "date": "2026-01-09" }, { "title": "Xi Jinping tells state dinner US and China share goals but must act responsibly", "publisher": "ABC News (Australia)", "url": "https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09-25/xi-trump-summit-white-house-dinner-friendship/107191576", "date": "2026-09-25" }, { "title": "Fact-checking Nayib Bukele and Trump officials on Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia's deportation", "publisher": "PolitiFact", "url": "https://api.politifact.com/article/2025/apr/14/fact-checking-nayib-bukele-and-trump-officials-on/", "date": "2025-04-14" }, { "title": "Saudi crown prince MBS unaware of Khashoggi killing, Trump says in White House visit", "publisher": "CBC News", "url": "https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/washington-saudi-prince-mbs-salman-trump-white-house-9.6982672", "date": "2025-11-18" }, { "title": "Trump heaps praise on Saudi Crown Prince MBS as he touts economic development", "publisher": "ABC News", "url": "https://abcnews.com/Politics/trump-heaps-praise-saudi-crown-prince-touts-economic/story?id=121758613", "date": "2025-05-13" }, { "title": "Trump calls Putin 'genius' and 'savvy' for Ukraine invasion", "publisher": "Politico", "url": "https://www.politico.com/news/2022/02/23/trump-putin-ukraine-invasion-00010923", "date": "2022-02-23" } ] }, { "title": "Helsinki to St Petersburg: the documented record of Trump siding with Putin", "summary": "From taking Putin's word over US intelligence in Helsinki in 2018, to calling the 2022 invasion 'genius,' to nine envoy meetings and a diesel deal in 2026, the record of Trump's deference to Putin is long, public and bipartisan-documented.", "url": "https://dumptrump.win/stories/trump-putin-record-2016-2026/", "label": "reporting", "date": "July 16, 2018 – October 21, 2026", "sources": [ { "title": "Trump: 'I don't see any reason why' Russia would have interfered with election", "publisher": "Politico", "url": "https://www.politico.com/story/2018/07/16/trump-putin-meeting-election-meddling-722424", "date": "2018-07-16" }, { "title": "Trump Walks Back Controversial Comments On Russian Election Interference", "publisher": "NPR", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2018/07/17/629764949/ryan-vladimir-putin-does-not-share-our-interests", "date": "2018-07-17" }, { "title": "Senate report describes closer ties between 2016 Trump campaign, Russia", "publisher": "The Hill", "url": "https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/512487-senate-panel-releases-final-report-on-russian-interference-detailing/", "date": "2020-08-18" }, { "title": "Senate report finds Manafort passed campaign data to Russian intelligence officer", "publisher": "Axios", "url": "https://www.axios.com/2020/08/18/senate-intelligence-russia-interference", "date": "2020-08-18" }, { "title": "Trump calls Putin 'genius' and 'savvy' for Ukraine invasion", "publisher": "Politico", "url": "https://www.politico.com/news/2022/02/23/trump-putin-ukraine-invasion-00010923", "date": "2022-02-23" }, { "title": "Trump praises Putin as 'savvy' amid new escalations on Russia-Ukraine border", "publisher": "NPR", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2022/02/22/1082478790/trump-praises-putin-as-savvy-amid-new-escalations-on-russia-ukraine-border", "date": "2022-02-22" }, { "title": "Rosenberg: Trump abandons carrot and wields stick over Putin in Ukraine talks", "publisher": "BBC News", "url": "https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cnve5532v7yo", "date": "2025-10-23" }, { "title": "Putin hosts Trump envoy for new Ukraine peace talks, frees US citizen held in Russia", "publisher": "Reuters", "url": "https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/putin-hosts-trump-envoy-new-ukraine-peace-talks-frees-us-citizen-held-russia-2026-10-21/", "date": "2026-10-21" }, { "title": "Putin Nears a Prize: Restoring Ties With the U.S. While Giving Up Nothing", "publisher": "The New York Times", "url": "https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/22/world/europe/putin-trump-ukraine-war.html", "date": "2026-10-22" } ] }, { "title": "Everyone said this would happen: 50 years of warnings that Iran would close Hormuz and that bombs alone could not end its program", "summary": "The Shah said Iran could close Hormuz in 1972; Iran threatened it in 1983, 1984, 2011, 2018 and 2025; a 2012 bipartisan study said strikes buy four years at most and invite retaliation at the strait. By September 2026 the US was losing.", "url": "https://dumptrump.win/stories/iran-war-warnings-ignored/", "label": "reporting", "date": "September 11, 2012 – September 17, 2026", "sources": [ { "title": "Weighing Benefits and Costs of Military Action Against Iran (executive summary)", "publisher": "The Iran Project, hosted by the Wilson Center", "url": "https://www.wilsoncenter.org/sites/default/files/media/documents/event/IranReport_091112_ExecutiveSummary.pdf", "date": "2012-09-11" }, { "title": "Weighing Benefits and Costs of Military Action Against Iran", "publisher": "Rice University's Baker Institute", "url": "https://www.bakerinstitute.org/research/weighing-benefits-and-costs-of-military-action-against-iran", "date": "2012-09-20" }, { "title": "A history of Iranian threats to blockade Gulf oil exports", "publisher": "The New Arab", "url": "https://www.newarab.com/analysis/history-iranian-threats-close-hormuz-straits", "date": "2018-12-13" }, { "title": "The Strait of Hormuz: Assessing and Neutralizing the Threat", "publisher": "Institute for National Security Studies, Strategic Assessment", "url": "https://www.inss.org.il/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/systemfiles/(FILE)1329719640.pdf", "date": "2012-01-01" }, { "title": "Iran Conflict and the Strait of Hormuz: Oil and Gas Market Impacts (R45281)", "publisher": "Congressional Research Service via EveryCRSReport", "url": "https://www.everycrsreport.com/files/2025-08-04_R45281_fe60a9c59825e6012014ecf9161d6665767f2060.html", "date": "2025-08-04" }, { "title": "How high oil could go if Iran closes the Strait of Hormuz", "publisher": "CNBC", "url": "https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/23/how-high-oil-could-go-if-iran-closes-the-strait-of-hormuz-goldman.html", "date": "2025-06-23" }, { "title": "The Strait of Hormuz has been disrupted before. A look at past crises", "publisher": "Associated Press via San Francisco Chronicle", "url": "https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/the-strait-of-hormuz-has-been-disrupted-before-a-22084965.php", "date": "2026-03-10" }, { "title": "The Intelligence Implications of Iran and Operation Midnight Hammer", "publisher": "Just Security", "url": "https://www.justsecurity.org/115642/intelligence-implications-iran-midnight-hammer/", "date": "2025-06-27" }, { "title": "Assessing U.S. Progress in the Iran War", "publisher": "The Washington Institute for Near East Policy", "url": "https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/assessing-us-progress-iran-war", "date": "2026-03-06" }, { "title": "Is the Iran War Worth It?", "publisher": "Stimson Center", "url": "https://www.stimson.org/2026/is-the-iran-war-worth-it/", "date": "2026-05-20" }, { "title": "By Nearly Every Metric, the U.S. Is Losing the Iran War", "publisher": "Foreign Policy", "url": "https://foreignpolicy.com/2026/09/17/trump-united-states-losing-iran-war/", "date": "2026-09-17" } ] } ] }