The List

Let’s just say it plainly: the President of the United States is a convicted felon. On May 30, 2024, a jury found Donald Trump guilty on all 34 felony counts of falsifying business records. The crime: covering up hush money payments to a porn star to hide an affair and influence the 2016 election. The jury deliberated, considered the evidence, and came back guilty. Thirty-four times. He was sentenced on January 10, 2025 — ten days before taking office. The sentence: unconditional discharge. No jail. No probation. Nothing. He walked out, flew to Mar-a-Lago, and two weeks later was sworn in as President. ...

At a conservative forum on July 18, 2015 in Ames, Iowa, Donald Trump looked at a man who spent five and a half years being tortured in a North Vietnamese prison and said he wasn’t really a war hero. Why? Because he got captured. “He’s a war hero because he was captured,” Trump said. “I like people that weren’t captured.” John McCain, a Navy pilot shot down over Hanoi, refused early release as a POW because it would have meant leaving his fellow prisoners behind. He came home with both arms permanently damaged. Trump, who received five draft deferments during the same war, decided that didn’t count. ...

They’re erasing the record. Not metaphorically — literally deleting it. The Trump Justice Department removed official news releases from its website documenting the charges, convictions, and sentences of January 6 defendants. Real criminal cases. Cases that went through the federal court system. Gone. The DOJ called them “partisan propaganda.” Let me be clear about what just happened: the government prosecuted these people, won those cases, and now is pretending the prosecutions were political bias. They’re not just pardoning the attackers — they’re rewriting the history of the attack itself. ...

You’ve lived here for years. You work here. Your kids go to school here. You’ve been doing everything right, following the legal path to permanent residency. Now they’re telling you to leave and apply from abroad. And if you leave? You might not get back in. The Trump administration announced that large numbers of green card applicants can no longer complete the process from inside the United States. Pack up your life, go back to where you came from, and wait. How long? Nobody knows. What are the chances you get denied reentry on some technicality while you’re waiting? Nobody’s saying. ...

He pardoned the January 6 attackers. He erased the prosecution records. He called the whole thing a hoax. And now he’s created a $1.776 billion fund that could pay them. The Justice Department — his Justice Department — announced an “Anti-Weaponization Fund” as part of his IRS settlement. It will hear claims from people who say they were victims of government “weaponization and lawfare.” It can award monetary relief. And when asked directly whether January 6 defendants could collect from it, senior DOJ officials would not rule it out. ...