The sourced, cited record of Donald Trump's corruption, fraud, and authoritarian rule — from the 1970s to today.
For over a decade, Donald Trump maintained a close personal friendship with convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. They partied together, flew together, and praised each other publicly — until it became politically inconvenient.
"I've known Jeff for fifteen years. Terrific guy," Trump told New York Magazine in 2002. "He's a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side."
The relationship spanned from at least 1992 to the mid-2000s. Epstein had 14 phone numbers for Trump and his staff in his personal contacts. Flight logs, party footage, and a trail of photographs document a friendship Trump has desperately tried to rewrite.
After Epstein's 2019 arrest on federal sex trafficking charges, Trump claimed he was "not a fan" and had cut ties years earlier. Epstein died in federal custody under circumstances that remain disputed — while Trump's Attorney General, William Barr, oversaw the Bureau of Prisons.
After Iran fired missiles at U.S. forces on July 28, Trump told Fox News that Iran was 'going to get a beating' and ordered a 'heavy wave' of strikes on dozens of Iranian military targets — reigniting a war he started in early 2026 and again waged with no new authorization from Congress.
A D.C. Circuit panel declined on July 28, 2026 to block Trump's executive order asserting federal control over mail-in ballots, ruling only that a challenge was premature — leaving the fate of a sweeping, likely unconstitutional attempt to police voting rolls before the midterms in the hands of the Supreme Court.
Trump and his Justice Department — now run by his former criminal defense lawyer — asked the Supreme Court to throw out the $83 million defamation verdict Carroll won, arguing that because Trump smeared her while president, he is immune and taxpayers should stand in for him as the defendant.
A DHS interim final rule announced July 27, 2026 lets immigration officers send asylum applicants straight to court — where judges can dismiss their cases on paperwork alone — by removing the longstanding right to a non-adversarial interview with an asylum officer.
Temporary Protected Status ended on July 27, 2026 for more than 350,000 Haitians and 6,000 Syrians, exposing people who fled earthquakes and civil war to deportation back to countries the State Department still warns Americans not to visit.
In Trump v. Barbara, a cross-ideological 6-3 Supreme Court majority struck down Executive Order 14160 and upheld birthright citizenship under the 14th Amendment. Chief Justice Roberts, joined by all three liberal justices and Justice Barrett, ruled that children born in the United States are citizens regardless of their parents' immigration status — reaffirming a 128-year-old precedent Trump's team had tried to erase.