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2025-06-26

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June 26, 2020 – Russia offered Taliban-linked militants bounties to kill American troops.

According to the New York Times, Trump and his administration had known about the bounties for months, and in response, had done nothing to punish or confront Russia.

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2025-06-26

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June 26, 2020 – Holding the first briefing of the coronavirus task force in almost two months, Vice President Mike Pence cited “remarkable progress” in its fight against the virus.

COVID-19, however, was spreading at a record rate across the country.

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2025-06-26

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June 26, 2020 – With an hour to spare before a midnight deadline, the Trump administration asked the Supreme Court to overturn the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare.

The brief was submitted at a time when millions of Americans had lost their jobs and health care during the pandemic.

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2025-06-24

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June 24, 2020 – The criminal case against Michael Flynn, Trump’s former national security adviser, was ordered dropped by a federal appeals court.

The ruling was handed down despite Flynn’s guilty plea for lying to the FBI during Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation.

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2025-06-24

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June 24, 2020 – At least six advance staffers, including two Secret Service employees, tested positive for COVID-19 after helping staff Trump’s rally in Tulsa.

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2025-06-23

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June 23, 2020 – Trump’s family filed a petition to block the publication of a tell-all book by Mary L. Trump, the president’s niece. Trump said Mary Trump was “not allowed” to write the book because of a nondisclosure agreement she signed in 2001.

The book’s subtitle calls her uncle “the world’s most dangerous man.”

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2025-06-23

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June 23, 2020 – Trump aides said he was joking when he had told his administration to slow down coronavirus testing. But Trump said he was not being sarcastic. “I don’t kid,” he said.

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2025-06-22

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June 22, 2020 – Trump renewed his opposition to mail-in voting, which could prove useful during a pandemic.

“RIGGED 2020 ELECTION,” he tweeted. “MILLIONS OF MAIL-IN BALLOTS WILL BE PRINTED BY FOREIGN COUNTRIES, AND OTHERS. IT WILL BE THE SCANDAL OF OUR TIMES!” There has been no evidence of significant fraud aided by mail-in ballots.

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2025-06-21

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June 21, 2020 – Trump’s rally in Tulsa attracted only 6,600 people. Much of the 19,000-capacity venue was empty. Teenage TikTok users and K-Pop fans took credit for helping foil Trump’s plan to fill his Tulsa rally — by registering hundreds of thousands of tickets to the event, then not attending.

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2025-06-20

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June 20, 2020 – Trump said he ordered his administration to “slow down” coronavirus testing so that fewer cases of COVID-19 would be reported.

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2025-06-20

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June 20, 2020 – In his latest dismissal of a government official, Trump fired federal prosecutor Geoffrey S. Berman the U.S. attorney in Manhattan.

Berman’s office prosecuted Michael D. Cohen, Trump’s former lawyer who was sentenced to prison for financial crimes. He was also investigating Rudolph Giuliani, Trump’s attorney.

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2025-06-19

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June 19, 2020 – Trump threatened those who planned to demonstrate at his rally in Tulsa. “Any protesters, anarchists, agitators, looters or lowlifes who are going to Oklahoma please understand, you will not be treated like you have been in New York, Seattle, or Minneapolis,” he tweeted. “It will be a much different scene!”

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2025-06-19

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June 19, 2020 – Twitter added a warning label to a doctored video that Trump tweeted saying it went against the company’s policies.

The heartwarming video, shared by many in 2019, showed a black and white child running to each other, then hugging.

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2025-06-18

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June 18, 2020 – Too much testing for the coronavirus “made the US look bad,” Trump said in an interview with the Wall Street Journal. “I personally think testing is overrated, even though I created the greatest testing machine in history,” he said.

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2025-06-18

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June 18, 2020 – In a tweet, Trump called two Supreme Court rulings — one protecting young immigrants from deportation, the other defending gay and transgender workers — “shotgun blasts into the face of people that are proud to call themselves Republicans or Conservatives.” In another tweet, he added, “Do you get the impression that the Supreme Court doesn’t like me?”

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2025-06-18

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June 18, 2020 – Trump campaign posts and advertisements that featured an inverted red triangle were removed by Facebook, which cited the company’s policies on hate-group symbols. The triangle was used by Nazis to single out political opponents. The Trump campaign dismissed the issue, saying, “This is an emoji.”

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2025-06-16

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June 16, 2020 – Officials in Tulsa urged the Trump campaign to cancel his rally there, warning that it could be a coronavirus “super spreader.”

Trump, though, blamed the media for fomenting opposition to his gatherings, “trying to Covid Shame us on our big Rallies.”

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2025-06-15

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June 15, 2020 – Trump blamed an increase in the number of COVID-19 cases on testing.

In a tweet, he wrote, “Our testing is so much bigger and more advanced than any other country (we have done a great job on this!) that it shows more cases. Without testing, or weak testing, we would be showing almost no cases. Testing is a double-edged sword — Makes us look bad, but good to have!!!”

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2025-06-14

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June 14, 2020 – Trump testily defended himself after videos shot at West Point showed him tentatively walking down a ramp and struggling to drink from a glass of water.

Though the day was sunny and hot, Trump tweeted that the ramp was “very slippery.”

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2025-06-13

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June 13, 2020 – Trump pushed back his Tulsa rally by a day after many assailed his decision to hold it on Juneteenth. He said he changed the day in response to “many of my African American friends and supporters.”

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