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1 | "Big timeline": events leading up to the Jan 6 Capitol attack; back-stories of VIPs; their actions on January 6; aftermath Sheet 4: 2020 through Jan 6 only | Twitter: @capitolhunters | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2 | - also the motion of VIPs / influencers / politicians onto Capitol grounds on January 6, who link to rallies or disinfo efforts. Limited info on militia / military ops | Email: capitol.hunters@gmail.com | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
3 | - Omits election-related efforts not directly tied to attack or to people on grounds. Note - still a working document; use with care only. Video sourcing largely not included yet. | Original: 1/13/2022 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
4 | For more detailed timelines of the Jan 6 attack see bit.ly/Jan6Analysis, and for more Nov-Jan 6 Tweets see https://ne0ndistraction.github.io/capitol/tweets/ | Latest: 1/29/2025 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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6 | All times Eastern. Color code: rallies / events / actions involving VIPs (bold = major rallies), founding of organizations, government or Trump campaign actions & meetings, postings & commentary (incl. private Trump Tweets), elections, election-related events & all lawsuits OR signals on Jan 6, militia actions / violence, non-govt. meetings or attack comms | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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10 | 2020 | New: many, incl. MAGA Drag the Interstate, Stop the Steal, 1AP Disinfo: Anti-vaxx / anti-mask, Antifa fears, QAnon, Critical Race Theory, white supremacy, Christian dominionism | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
11 | Candace Owens' Blexit Foundation receives $7.45 M this year, up from ca. $1 M the previous year. | Center for Media and Democracy | https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2023/01/12/candace-owens-blexit-operation-bankrolled-by-wealthy-white-conservatives/ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
12 | Leonard Leo becomes involved with the Peter Thiel-founded Teneo foundation and boosts its fundraising to $2.3 M this year, up from just a few $100 K. By 2023 Leo is Teneo's chairman. | ProPublica / Documented | https://www.propublica.org/article/leonard-leo-teneo-videos-documents | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
13 | January | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
14 | Chanel Rion becomes OAN's White House Correspondent after Emerald Robinson leaves for Newsmax | Rolling Stone | https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/oan-chanel-rion-trump-correspondent-1003975/ | month from Emerald Robinson LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/emeraldrobinson | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
15 | Jordan Peterson goes to Russia for at least a month. His family say it is to receive treatment for addiction to clonazepam (an anti-anxiety drug). | CBC | https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/jordan-peterson-treatment-russia-1.5456939 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
16 | 2 | The Post Millennial posts an article claiming that contributor Andy Ngo's talk at UBC (Canada) was canceled 'due to violent threats from antifa'. (Ngo reportedly joined Nov. 2019) | The Post Millenial | https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-ubc-cancels-andy-ngo-talk-on-antifa-violence-due-to-violent-threats-from-antifa/ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
17 | 9 | The Post Millennial co-founder Ali Taghva leaves, possibly because of disagreements over contributor Andy Ngo. After his departure, the paper's "anti-Antifa" coverage increases. | Twitter (Ali_Taghva) | twitter.com/Ali_Taghva/status/1215416004861480961 | also LinkedIn | https://buriedtruth.com/files/Ali_S_Taghva-Tagva_Consulting-LinkedIn_ca-captured_2020-09-24.html | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
18 | 13 | Peter Boykin registers gorightnews.com domain. (Boykin is/was president of Gays for Trump, worked with Scott Presler from 2017) | ICANN domain lookup | https://lookup.icann.org/lookup | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
19 | Robert Patrick Lewis is radicalized: til now posted mostly about family, but now posts a flier for a Jan 28 "Prayer Warrior Mobilization" for Flynn, and posts less & less about family | IG @robertpatricklewis | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
20 | 16 | House submits articles of impeachment for Trump (for his 2019 call with Zelensky of Ukraine) to the Senate, initiating his trial | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
21 | 20 | Trump announces that 8 House GOP members will serve on his impeachment team: Mark Meadows, Jim Jordan, Mike Johnson, Elise Stefanik, Debbie Lesko, Zee Zeldin, Doug Rollins, John Ratcliffe | Politico | https://www.politico.com/news/2020/01/20/trumps-house-allies-to-help-his-defense-in-senate-101281 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
22 | 20 | Alex Jones is at a 2nd Amendment rally in Richmond VA: "All these dictators are tyrants.. they think they're getting our guns...1776 is going to kick off again!" | Sandi Bachom (via Twitter) | https://twitter.com/sandibachom/status/1555798435638427648 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
23 | 21 | First U.S. coronavirus case is confirmed by the CDC | AJMC | https://www.ajmc.com/view/a-timeline-of-covid19-developments-in-2020 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
24 | 24 | Trump speaks at the anti-abortion March for Life rally in DC: "it’s your generation that is making America the pro-family, pro-life nation" "Religious liberty has been under attack all over the world" | National Archives | https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-47th-annual-march-life/ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
25 | 27 | The Washingtonian writes about Greg Aselbekian and his crowd who spend all their time hanging out at the Trump International Hotel | The Washingtonian | https://www.washingtonian.com/2020/01/27/where-will-the-presidents-supporters-hang-out-if-the-trump-hotels-lease-is-sold/ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
26 | 28 | Christopher Kise (later Trump's lawyer) is by now registered under FARA as working for the Venezuelan attorney general, hired to argue for reducing US sanctions on Pres. Nicolas Maduro's regime; he is paid > $1M. Another $2M is paid to the Sonoran Policy Group, run by former Trump adviser Robert Stryk. | Florida Politics | https://floridapolitics.com/archives/317253-kise-maduro-us-sanctions/ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
27 | 29 | Prosecutors Brandon Van Grack and Jocelyn Ballentine submit a new memo saying probation would be reasonable for Michael Flynn, no longer demanding 6 months in prison | Politico | https://www.politico.com/news/2020/01/29/flynn-legal-team-withdraw-guilty-plea-109126 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
28 | 30 | Trump names former prosecutor Timothy Shea as Acting US Attorney in DC, to replace Jessie Liu who had proscecuted Stone and Flynn. | WaPo | https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/attorney-general-william-p-barr-names-timothy-shea-one-of-his-counselors-as-the-districts-interim-us-attorney/2020/01/30/446fe6a6-4303-11ea-b503-2b077c436617_story.html | WaPo | https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/legal-issues/trump-withdraws-treasury-nomination-of-former-us-attorney-for-dc-jessie-k-liu-after-criticism-of-her-oversight-of-mueller-prosecutions/2020/02/11/d700dc3c-4d3a-11ea-9b5c-eac5b16dafaa_story.html | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
29 | 31 | Prominent conservatives send a letter urging the Senate to shut down Trump's impeachment trial. Familiar names, many CNP: Leo Brent Bozell III, Jenny Beth Martin, Cleta Mitchell, John Eastman, Gary Bauer, Alfred Regnery, Morton Blackwell, Tom Fitton, Bob McEwen, Myron Ebell, J. Kenneth Blackwell, William Boykin (FRC), David Bossie, Matt Schlapp, Matthew Tyrmand, Ed Martin | Right Wing Watch | https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/right-wing-leaders-urge-senate-to-shut-down-impeachment-without-witnesses/ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
30 | February | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
31 | Charles Bausman purchases a 5-acre farm in Lancaster County, PA. By February a former Identity Evropa leader is using the farm as his address. | Lancaster Online | https://lancasteronline.com/news/politics/a-group-of-notorious-white-nationalists-met-secretly-in-historic-lancaster-county-barn-last-year/article_a2c7e89e-38e2-11ec-acc4-9f81d84dc505.html | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
32 | Congressmen Jim Jordan and Mike Johnson travel to Israel this month on a trip sponsored by Avi Abelow's far-right film foundation; they meet with far-right extremists and film a video with Abelow | Mother Jones | https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/11/mike-johnson-israel-extremists/ | YouTube | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXIWGT88Zpk | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
33 | Rep. Mike Johnson begins to travel with Trump more extensively this month, including going on Air Force One to campaign with him in New Hampshire | The News Star | https://www.thenewsstar.com/story/news/2020/02/12/how-louisiana-congressman-mike-johnson-went-from-donald-trumps-dog-house-to-trusted-ally/4735915002/ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
34 | 3 | Timothy Shea starts as US Attorney in DC and says on his first day he wants a more lenient recommendation for Roger Stone. This month Michael Sherwin is also moved unofficially from main DOJ to be Shea's assistant. (AG Bill Barr had installed Sherwin, a Miami prosecutor, as Associate Deputy AG in DC in 2019.) | NYT WaPo | https://web.archive.org/web/20200525151322/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/23/us/politics/justice-department-dc-prosecutors.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/legal-issues/barr-installs-top-doj-aide-prosecutor-of-trumps-mar-a-lago-trespasser-over-us-prosecutors-in-washington/2020/05/18/3d2085e4-9471-11ea-82b4-c8db161ff6e5_story.html | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
35 | 5 | Trump is acquitted by the Senate on both counts of the articles of impeachment | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
36 | 7 | Trump fires two witnesses in his impeachment trial, EU Ambassador Gordon Sondland (involved in efforts to pressure Ukraine) and Col. Alexander Vindman (NSC Ukraine expert) | NYT | https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/07/us/politics/alexander-vindman-gordon-sondland-fired.html | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
37 | 9 | InfoWars host Alex Jones installs Signal on his phone, at the direction of Mike Adams who operates the disinfo site "Natural News" | SPLC | https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2023/02/01/about-alex-jones-texts | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
38 | 10 | Federal prosecutors recommend a sentence of 7-9 years for Roger Stone; US Atty for DC Timothy Shea then waters down the request. | WaPo | https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/justice-dept-to-reduce-sentencing-recommendation-for-trump-associate-roger-stone-official-says-after-president-calls-it-unfair/2020/02/11/ad81fd36-4cf0-11ea-bf44-f5043eb3918a_story.html | Arkansas Democrat-Gazette | https://archive.is/8btFT | OIG Report, 2024 | https://oig.justice.gov/sites/default/files/reports/24-081.pdf | ||||||||||||||||||||||
39 | 11 | Four AUSAs withdraw from the Roger Stone case in protest of Shea's interference in the sentencing request; one quits | NYT | https://web.archive.org/web/20200512054657/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/11/us/politics/roger-stone-federal-prosecutors.html | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
40 | 12 | Trump praises Barr for reducing the sentencing recommendation for Roger Stone: "Congratulations to Attorney General Bill Barr for taking charge of a case that was totally out of control..." | NYT | https://web.archive.org/web/20200602043955/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/12/us/politics/trump-stone.html | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
41 | 13 | Lawmakers are warned that Russia is seeking to help Trump's re-election, by undermining confidence in elections and getting Americans to spread disinformation. Trump, furious, berates Acting DNI Joseph Maguire for allowing the briefing (and within days, fires him). The Daily Beast reports that Russian pundits openly favor Trump and call him "our agent' | NYT Daily Beast | https://web.archive.org/web/20200221224324/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/20/us/politics/russian-interference-trump-democrats.html https://web.archive.org/web/20200221223120/https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trumps-fury-at-intel-briefing-shows-vladimir-putins-bet-keeps-paying-off | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
42 | 16 | Trump adviser Stephen Miller marries Katie Waldman, VP Mike Pence's press secretary. Trump sits at the head table next to Rep. Mark Meadows (NC), who has lately been at the WH daily. | WaPo | https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-picks-mark-meadows-as-new-white-house-chief-of-staff/2020/03/06/c669d3fe-6010-11ea-8baf-519cedb6ccd9_story.html | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
43 | 18 | Nick Fuentes' YouTube channel is banned. (Already was banned from Twitch, Reddit; in April TikTok; at some point also Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Discord, DLive) | Haaretz | https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/white-nationalist-nick-fuentes-youtube-channel-is-banned-for-hate-speech-1.8554687 | Daily Dot | https://www.dailydot.com/debug/nick-fuentes-tiktok-groyper/ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
44 | 18 | Trump pardons 7 people, including former NY police commissioner Bernard Kerik, a close friend of Trump's attorney Rudy Giuliani | DOJ | https://www.justice.gov/pardon/pardons-granted-president-donald-j-trump-2017-2021 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
45 | 19 | Trump appoints Richard Grenell as Acting Director of National Intelligence (DNI), replacing Acting DNI Joseph Maguire. Grenell was Ambassador to Germany, a Senate-confirmed position, as needed, but has no experience related to DNI. Kash Patel joins DNI as Grenell's advisor, stays on. On Feb 28, Trump nominates John Ratcliffe for DNI (previous nomination was withdrawn) | NYT WaPo (archived) | https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/19/us/politics/dni-national-intelligence-director-grenell.html https://web.archive.org/web/20210416205430/https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/04/16/kash-patel-trump-intelligence-community/ | WaPo | https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/04/16/kash-patel-trump-intelligence-community/ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
46 | 22 | Joey Gilbert of NV appears in film Unprescribed, promoting marijuana and describing veterans' suicides. (Gilbert has ties to marijuana industry) | IMDb | https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7664948/?ref_=nmbio_mbio | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
47 | 23 | Erik Prince meets with an advisor to Ukraine's President Zelenskyy and pitches a proposal to give him control of much of Ukraine's military suppliers. His partners are Russia-linked Andriy Artemenko and Andriy Derkach; both will later be under investigation for US election interference. Prince also suggests setting Zelenskyy up with lobbyist (former Blackwater exec) Joseph Schmitz | Time | https://time.com/6076035/erik-prince-ukraine-private-army/ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
48 | (unknown) | CNP meeting. Sessions involve election strategizing, including Ralph Reed discussing 'ballot harvesting' by churches | WaPo | https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/council-national-policy-video/2020/10/14/367f24c2-f793-11ea-a510-f57d8ce76e11_story.html | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
49 | 26-29 | CPAC conference in MD. CPAC Direct Action sessions include Katrina Pierson; later 1776 Comm. members Matthew Spalding (Hillsdale) & Julie Strauss Levin; Eduardo Bolsonaro, Mark Meadows and wife; propagandists Brandon Straka, Scott Presler, Charlie Kirk, Candace Owens, James O'Keefe, and Andy Ngo; Carter Page, Betsy DeVos,Tom Fitton; Sens. Mike Lee, Ted Cruz, Josh Hawley, and Marsha Blackburn; Reps. Louie Gohmert, Jim Jordan, Matt Gaetz, Paul Gosar, Scott Perry, Andy Biggs, Jody Hice, Devin Nunes, and Liz Cheney; VP Mike Pence; Nigel Farage; TX AG Ken Paxton. The Leadership Institute offers career advice. Trump lawyers Justin Clark and Jenna Ellis look to the election: "Crucial Campaign Skills...Defeating The Left's Voter Fraud Machine" | Session schedule via Politico | https://www.politico.com/f/?id=00000170-76a9-dbff-abf7-77b9ec910000 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
50 | 27 | Charlie Kirk of TPUSA speaks at CPAC: "Finally we have a president that understands the seven mountains of cultural influence.” Previously: “way too many people going to college in America” | Right Wing Watch | https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/charlie-kirk-teams-up-with-dominionists-and-christian-nationalists-to-wage-spiritual-war/ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
51 | 27 | National Catholic Prayer Breakfast (founded by Leonard Leo) announces that AG Bill Barr will be honored at their annual event and given an award. (March event was delayed by covid to Sep.) | Natl. Catholic Reporter | https://www.ncronline.org/news/opinion/priestly-diary/honoring-barr-year-national-catholic-prayer-breakfast-so-clearly | Press release | https://catholicprayerbreakfast.com/wp-content/uploads/NCPB-2020-Speaker-Announcement-PR.pdf | FB (NCPB) 2/27 | https://www.facebook.com/nationalcatholicprayerbreakfast | ||||||||||||||||||||||
52 | 27 | The DOJ Office of Legal Counsel issues a memo on transmitting electoral votes and asserts that Congress can decide whether to accept electoral votes not sent by registered mail, as required by statute | DOJ | https://www.justice.gov/olc/media/1385356/dl?inline | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
53 | 28 | Nick Fuentes holds first AFPAC (America First Political Action Conference) in Washington DC. Speakers include Neo-Nazi / Identity Evropa founder Patrick Casey and Michelle Malkin, who attends both CPAC and AFPAC. Fuentes has founded America First Students by this time. (Jaden McNeil from KSU is president) | Jewish News Syndicate IREHR | https://www.jns.org/michelle-malkin-receives-media-credential-for-cpac-despite-being-listed-for-alt-right-conference/ https://www.irehr.org/2020/02/12/groypers-planning-college-campus-tour/ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
54 | March | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
55 | "March" | Caroline Wren's firm, Bluebonnet Fundraising, goes "in-house with the Trump campaign", no other clients through Nov 2020. Her salary ($250K/year) is paid by the campaign: "Donald J Trump for President, Inc". She reports to Kimberley Guilfoyle, finance chair, & solicits donations for the "Trump Victory" PAC. (Wren will later work on Jan 6 with Maggie Mulvaney, dir. of finance operations) | J6C Caroline Wren deposition p 8, 10, 41 | https://january6th.house.gov/sites/democrats.january6th.house.gov/files/20211217_Caroline%20Wren.pdf | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
56 | 2 | The Family Research Council think-tank, founded 1983, files an application to be considered an "association of churches". It is granted later in 2020, so the FRC no longer need file tax returns. | ProPublica | https://www.propublica.org/article/family-research-council-irs-church-status#1368646 | Documents | https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/22078967-family-research-council-1023 | Word & Way | https://wordandway.org/2022/07/12/all-in-the-family/ | ||||||||||||||||||||||
57 | 3 | Charlie Kirk publishes "The MAGA Doctrine: The Only Ideas That Will Win the Future", which explains "why it took a reality TV superstar to see past the sclerotic and power-hungry institutions.. working to crush real America," urges "restoration of self-rule by a populace long taken for granted" Blurbs by Donald Trump Jr, Jeannie Pirro, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Matt Gaetz. | Amazon | https://www.amazon.com/MAGA-Doctrine-Only-Ideas-Future/dp/0062974688/ref=pd_bxgy_img_sccl_1/138-6481825-7100365?pd_rd_w=YFMcj&content-id=amzn1.sym.7757a8b5-874e-4a67-9d85-54ed32f01737&pf_rd_p=7757a8b5-874e-4a67-9d85-54ed32f01737&pf_rd_r=FPVKN39HZ7J1Y7QJP4R2&pd_rd_wg=YYSpz&pd_rd_r=b21791ab-eb71-438f-bfa1-90fa11de0556&pd_rd_i=0062974688&psc=1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
58 | 7 | Trump announces on Twitter he is firing his Acting Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney and replacing him with Rep. Mark Meadows. Mulvaney had helped Trump put a hold on aid to Ukraine | Rolling Stone | https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-fires-mick-mulvaney-964153/ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
59 | 13 | Trump declares COVID-19 a national emergency, allowing federal funding to fight it | AJMC | https://www.ajmc.com/view/a-timeline-of-covid19-developments-in-2020 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
60 | 13 | FL Democratic politician Andrew Gillum is found passed out in a hotel room with another man. The next week Proud Boys Jacob Engels (also gay) and Enrique Tarrio distribute photos of the scene. | The Advocate | https://www.advocate.com/news/2020/3/20/alleged-nude-photo-andrew-gillum-peddled-far-right-gay-blogger | Miami Herald | https://web.archive.org/web/20200314055126/https://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/article241165641.html | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
61 | 18 | Kevin Lynn registers anti-immigration US Tech Workers and Doctors without Jobs as alternative names for his Progressives for Immigration Reform nonprofit | OpenCorporates | https://opencorporates.com/companies/us_dc/EXTUID_2695963 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
62 | 20 | Trump and Mike Pence have a call with Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council (Mark Meadows' mentor) and pastors from the FRC's "Watchmen on the Wall" group, asking for election help. | Daily Beast | https://www.thedailybeast.com/what-is-trump-chief-of-staff-mark-meadows-shadow-job-keep-the-evangelicals-on-board-the-trump-train | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
63 | 25 | College Republicans (spurred on by Fuentes' movement) use covid as an excuse to call for an "indefinite moratorium on all immigration to the United States of America" | Archive | https://archive.is/sm8QU | LCRW | https://leftcoastrightwatch.org/2020/04/fascist-youth-movement-gains-foothold-on-campuses-across-country-as-college-republican-groups-call-to-ban-all-immigration/ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
64 | 25 | The government of Kosovo falls in what the PM later calls a "coup" to benefit Serbia, orchestrated by Ric Grenell, Trump's Special Envoy to the Balkans (named Oct. 2019; he is also Amb. to Germany) | The Guardian | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/26/kosovo-government-falls-in-vote-of-no-confidence | Al Jazeera | https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2021/2/12/kosovo-is-slowly-recovering-from-trumps-coup | NPR | https://www.npr.org/2020/06/05/870227931/how-a-trump-diplomat-helped-bring-down-kosovos-government | ||||||||||||||||||||||
65 | 27 | The CARES Act is signed into law, allotting $2.2 T to pandemic economic relief. To provide oversight, it designates the Inspectors General (IGs) from 9 departments or agencies as members of a Pandemic Response Accountability Committee, PRAC, charged with overseeing the money distributed | AJMC | https://www.ajmc.com/view/a-timeline-of-covid19-developments-in-2020 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
66 | 30 | Acting DoD IG Glenn Fine is appointed by the House to serve as chair of PRAC. (Trump will remove him the next week, by demoting him back to deputy IG.) | U.S. House | https://oversight.house.gov/news/press-releases/new-pandemic-response-accountability-committee-chair-appointed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
67 | 30 | Mark Meadows resigns from Congress to become Trump's 4th Chief of Staff, then starts the next day. He replaces Mick Mulvaney. (Mulvaney is then made Special Envoy to N. Ireland, but lives in SC.) | J6C Mulvaney depos. p 72 | https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GPO-J6-TRANSCRIPT-CTRL0000916070/pdf/GPO-J6-TRANSCRIPT-CTRL0000916070.pdf#page=58 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
68 | April | - Note: the Jan 6 Committee has subpoenae'd communications back to April 2020 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
69 | 1 | PRAC chair Glenn Fine adds 12 more IGs as PRAC members | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
70 | 3 | Trump fires Intelligence community IG Michael Atkinson. (Atkinson had notified Congress about the call to Ukraine that helped lead to Trump's first impeachment) | CBS | https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-inspectors-general-internal-watchdogs-fired-list/ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
71 | 7 | Trump removes Acting DoD IG Glenn Fine (PRAC chair), demoting him back to deputy IG. Fine is therefore automatically removed from PRAC. Trump then asks EPA IG Sean O'Donnell to serve as Acting DoD IG, but also to stay at EPA, i.e. to do two jobs. (He will stay for 2.5 years, til the DoD finally gets another confirmed IG.) | Citizens for Ethics Vox | https://www.citizensforethics.org/reports-investigations/crew-investigations/epa-ig-glenn-fine-dual-roles/ https://www.vox.com/2020/5/28/21265799/inspectors-general-trump-linick-atkinson | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
72 | 7 | Trump says on C-SPAN that mail-in voting allows fraud: "they grab thousands of mail-in ballots and they dump it - there's a lot of dishonesty going on with mail-in voting." | CSPAN repost Aaron Rupar | https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1247655314763235331 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
73 | 8 | Charles Bausman founds a new website, Truth To Power, and announces it in Russia Insider. The site will publish white supremacist content, including Jared Taylor. | Russia Insider (archived) | https://archive.li/kq8O4 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
74 | Parler gets new users in a sudden, tremendous burst starting in April, rising x10 to 1M by end of July | Dave Troy | https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1327253991936454663.html | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
75 | "April" | Courtland Sykes (Chanel Rion's husband) is hired at the Congressional Affairs office of the US Customs and Border Patrol (DHS). No known employment since 2017 other than Talosorion | LinkedIn (repost Twitter) | https://twitter.com/mrspanstreppon/status/1450923127576436742 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
76 | "April" | Michael Sherwin is finally officially installed in the DC office as assistant to Tim Shea. WaPo called this a "unique and unprecedented" politicization of the US attorney's office. | WaPo | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
77 | "April" | The White House stops capturing and archiving Trump's Tweets, so that deleted Tweets are unavailable. | Court docs via Marcy Wheeler | https://twitter.com/emptywheel/status/1782534490323145196 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
78 | 13 | The Intercept reports that Erik Prince has held meetings with Russia's Wagner paramilitary group "in recent months" to offer his services. Prince denies it and sues. | The Intercept | https://theintercept.com/2020/04/13/erik-prince-russia-mercenary-wagner-libya-mozambique/ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
79 | 14 | Simone Gold, then working as an ER doctor, calls in to Dennis Prager's radio show. The next week she begins posting covid denial, anti-lockdown videos | Mother Jones | https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2021/05/doctor-lawyer-insurrectionist-the-radicalization-of-simone-gold/ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
80 | 17 | Trump Tweets: "LIBERATE MICHIGAN!" (but also LIBERATE MINNESOTA and LIBERATE VIRGINIA) | Trump Twitter Archive | https://www.thetrumparchive.com | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
81 | 21 | Benny Johnson of TPUSA incorporates Arsenal Media Group, which offers alt-right candidates "influencer campaigns, viral video, and meme-making as a form of political outreach" (Puck) | OpenCorporates | https://opencorporates.com/companies/us_de/7943713 | Puck | https://archive.is/O93Tb | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
82 | 29 | FBI notes on Flynn's interview are released in the evening 4/29. Trump then sends a flurry of 28 Tweets + re-Tweets in a span of 2 hours praising Flynn and blasting Comey and media, including ".@CNN doesn’t want to speak about their persecution of General Michael Flynn & why they got the story so wrong." | Washington Post | https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/fbi-notes-on-michael-flynn-unlikely-to-convince-judge-he-was-entrapped-legal-experts-say/2020/04/30/b340c55a-8b01-11ea-ac8a-fe9b8088e101_story.html | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
83 | 30 | Militia members storm the Michigan State Capitol | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
84 | "Spring" | Acting DHS Sec Chad Wolf orders Brian Murphy, head of DHS Intelligence, to stop producing reports on Russian interference. Request supposedly comes from NSA Robert O’Brien. Ken Cuccinelli (2nd at DHS) also orders that reports on white supremacists be toned down, + that info on "left-wing" or "antifa" groups be added. | New York Times | https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/09/us/politics/homeland-security-russia-trump.html?smid=tw-share | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
85 | May | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
86 | 1 | Trump announces he will replace Christi Grimm, Acting IG for HHS (a member of PRAC) but does not immediately remove her | CBS | https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-inspectors-general-internal-watchdogs-fired-list/ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
87 | 2 | Trump re-Tweets Jack Posobiec, adds "That's right Jack, keep up the good work!" | SPLC | https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2020/07/08/jack-posobiecs-rise-tied-white-supremacist-movement | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
88 | 5 | The Daily Beast reports that a longtime employee of Robert Mercer is bankrolling the Epoch Media Group, which publishes the propaganda outlets Epoch Times and New Tang Dynasty TV | Daily Beast (archived) | https://web.archive.org/web/20201101054643/https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-hedge-fund-man-behind-pro-trump-medias-new-war-on-china | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
89 | 7 | Acting DC US Att. Timothy Shea moves to drop Michael Flynn's case. Only Shea signs it - prosecutors Brandon Van Grack and Jocelyn Ballantine refuse to, and Van Grack formally leaves the case | WaPo | https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/legal-issues/justice-dept-moves-to-void-michael-flynns-conviction-in-muellers-russia-probe/2020/05/07/9bd7885e-679d-11ea-b313-df458622c2cc_story.html | DOJ (via NYT) | https://int.nyt.com/data/documenthelper/6936-michael-flynn-motion-to-dismiss/fa06f5e13a0ec71843b6/optimized/full.pdf | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
90 | 7 | Acting DNI Ric Grenell and Trump advisor Katrina Pierson are shown to be in a Michael Coudrey's "MAGA Verified" DM group along with Scott Presler, Charlie Kirk, Millie Weaver (frmr InfoWars) | Sparrow Media | https://twitter.com/sparrowmedia/status/1258451359919149060 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
91 | 8 | Ivan Raiklin and James O'Keefe of Project Veritas call in to the Alex Jones show. Raiklin talks about Flynn & covid, is not very polished yet and Alex cuts him off. O'Keefe makes up a covid scandal | Bitchute | https://www.bitchute.com/video/cdLhxZ7PJs0L/ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
92 | 8 | The Young Turks does a 10 minute segment on Tara Reade's allegations against Joe Biden. Ana Kasparian: "I wish Biden would withdraw. I see [him] as an incredibly weak candidate". | YouTube | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kIBPm689u0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
93 | 14 | Christina Pushaw writes an article on Ukraine's new president Zelensky, gushing about his appointment of Saakashvili (who she still works for). Her bio says "based in Tbilisi, Georgia". | The National Interest | https://nationalinterest.org/feature/ukraines-new-president-prioritizes-campaign-promise-change-country-154231 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
94 | 15 | Trump fires State Department IG Steve Linick. (Linick had alerted Congress to disinformation campaigns run by Giuliani) | CBS | https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-inspectors-general-internal-watchdogs-fired-list/ | JustSecurity | https://www.justsecurity.org/66271/timeline-trump-giuliani-bidens-and-ukrainegate/ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
95 | 15 | Trump removes Mitch Behm, Acting IG for Transportation, demoted back to Deputy IG (removing him from PRAC) | CBS | https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-inspectors-general-internal-watchdogs-fired-list/ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
96 | 17 | Elon Musk posts on Twitter the QAnon slogan "Take the red pill". Ivanka Trump RTs it with "Taken" | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
97 | "Jan-May" | A study of covid-related disinformation on Twitter shows that @MichaelCoudrey is the 2nd most important node in promoting hydroxychloroquine between Jan-May 2020 | Blevins et al, SM+S, 2021 | https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/20563051211024977 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
98 | 18 | Controversy over "Critical Race Theory" explodes in Spring 2020. By mid-May legislation outlawing CRT passes in ID, IA, OK, TN and more bills pending | Education Week | https://www.edweek.org/leadership/what-is-critical-race-theory-and-why-is-it-under-attack/2021/05 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
99 | 18 | Trump removes Timothy Shea; Michael Sherwin becomes Acting US Attorney for DC. Trump says he will nominate Justin Herdman but stalls. Sherwin can stay til mid-Dec. w/o Senate confirmation. | WaPo | https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/legal-issues/barr-installs-top-doj-aide-prosecutor-of-trumps-mar-a-lago-trespasser-over-us-prosecutors-in-washington/2020/05/18/3d2085e4-9471-11ea-82b4-c8db161ff6e5_story.html?utm_campaign=wp_main&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
100 | 21 | Trump nominates 5 federal judge candidates, incl. the inexperienced Aileen Cannon for S. Florida (Sen. Rubio first contacted her June 2019. Trump nominates 49 judges in 2020, 5 post-election.) | Ballotpedia | https://ballotpedia.org/Federal_judges_nominated_by_Donald_Trump | MiamiHerald | https://web.archive.org/web/20210913211221/https://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/article247152399.html | Questionnaire | https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Cannon%20SJQ%20-%20PUBLIC.pdf |