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April 10, 2019 – Trump signed executive orders that would make it easier for gas and oil companies to lay pipelines without being blocked by states citing the Clean Water Act.

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April 9, 2019 – Trump repeated a false claim he made in 2018 that the Obama administration was responsible for child-separating policies at the border. Trump said his own administration put an end to them.

It was Trump, however, who created the zero-tolerance policy.

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April 5, 2019 – During a visit to Calexico, California, Trump lashed out at those attempting to cross the southern border. “We can’t take you,” he said. “Our country is full … Can’t happen. So turn around.”

The United States has space for about 45 million more people.

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March 29, 2019 – Trump said that if migrant families continue to enter the United States, he would close the southern border. “Mexico’s tough. They can stop them, but they chose not to,” he said. “And if they don’t stop them, we’re closing the border. … And we’ll keep it closed for a long time. I’m not playing games.”

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March 22, 2019 – Special Counsel Robert Mueller delivered his 448-page report into Russian interference in the 2016 election to Attorney General William Barr. Barr gave the first formal remarks on the report and issued a 4-page summary before its release, downplaying and mischaracterizing Trump’s culpability.

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March 21, 2019 – In addition to Ivanka Trump using a personal account for government-related emails, a lawyer for her husband, Jared Kushner, said the senior adviser to the president used private communications to discuss official matters.

When running for president, Trump said the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server was “bigger than Watergate.”

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March 15, 2019 – Trump vetoed a joint congressional resolution that would have overturned the national emergency he declared at the southern border.

In a rare rebuke, Republicans in both the House and Senate voted in favor of ending the national emergency.

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March 8, 2019 – Trump officially nominated David Bernhardt to be Secretary of the Interior, a role responsible for the management and conservation of federal land and natural resources. A former oil lobbyist, Bernhardt played a key role in rolling back the protection of endangered species.

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March 2, 2019 – In a rambling speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference that lasted more than two hours, Trump hugged an American flag, called Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation “bullshit" and mocked renewable energy.

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February 28, 2019 – When asked if he confronted Kim Jong Un about the 2017 death of Otto Warmbier — an American college student who was detained in North Korea — Trump chose to believe and to flatter one of the world’s foremost tyrants.

Trump said of Kim, “He tells me that he didn’t know about it, and I will take him at his word.”

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February 27, 2019 – In his testimony before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, Trump’s former attorney, Michael Cohen, called the president a “conman,” a “cheat,” and a “racist.”

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February 15, 2019 – Trump declared a national emergency along the United States’ southern border in order to acquire his requested $5.7 billion for border wall funding.

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February 8, 2019 – In a tweet, Trump praised Kim Jong Un, saying that under Kim’s rule, North Korea would become an “economic powerhouse.” Trump’s tweet continued: “I have gotten to know him & fully understand how capable he is. North Korea will become a different kind of Rocket – an Economic one!” Kim is one of several authoritarian leaders Trump has praised over the years.

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January 28, 2019 – Mocking climate change, Trump sarcastically tweeted, “What the hell is going on with Global Waming?” referencing cold temperatures in the Midwest with a misspelling. “Please come back fast, we need you!”

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January 25, 2019 – The Trump administration began enforcing a plan that forces migrants seeking asylum in the United States to stay in Mexico for the duration of their immigration proceedings.

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January 25, 2019 – Roger Stone was indicted on one count of obstruction of an official proceeding, five counts of false statements, and one count of witness tampering in connection with Russia’s involvement in the 2016 presidential election. Stone was an aide for Richard Nixon’s 1972 scandalous re-election campaign. He had advised Trump since the 1980s.

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January 22, 2019 – The conservative-dominated Supreme Court ruled 5-4 to reinstate Trump’s ban on transgender people from serving in the military.

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January 19, 2019 – A government watchdog report revealed that thousands more children were separated from their parents at the southern border than had been reported.
The report also said that the Trump administration’s policy of separating children actually began months before it was announced.

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January 18, 2019 – A class-action lawsuit was brought against the Office of Refugee Resettlement. It accused them of working with the Trump administration’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement to use children as “bait to arrest immigrants who come forward to sponsor them.”