Thread by @TrumpFile

Sometime in April
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Many known events in Trump's life don't have a specific date, so I file them randomly in the correct month or year.

Here are posts that happened "sometime in" or around April throughout the years.

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Sometime in the spring of 1986, Donald Trump grilled a Nobel Peace Prize winner about Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. Why?

"I intend to call my good friend Ronnie" and become ambassador to the Soviet Union. trumpfile.org/trump-im-askin…

In April 1991, Trump gave a WSJ reporter a gift worth $3,000. The reporter was assigned to the Trump beat.

Months later, he wrote something Trump didn't like, so Trump reported the gift to the WSJ as a "conflict of interest," hoping they'd fire him.

trumpfile.org/donald-trump-a…

In April 2011, after demanding that President Obama release his academic records, Trump had Michael Cohen and a group of New York Military School alumni call the school. They threatened the superintendent into hiding Trump's records. trumpfile.org/trump-co-threa…

In April 2014, Russia's Internet Research Agency launched a new project: interference in the 2016 election. trumpfile.org/russias-intern…

In April 2016, Rep. Dana Rohrabacher met with Kremlin officials later identified by Senate Intelligence as "significantly involved" in Russia's international influence activities. The meetings were intended to push Russian disinformation to Congress.

trumpfile.org/rep-dana-rohra…

In April 2016, Russia's IRA started purchasing pro-Trump ads on social media. The ads promoted messages like "Trump will defeat terrorism, Hillary will sponsor it," and "Hillary Clinton doesn't deserve the black vote."

trumpfile.org/russias-intern…

In April 2020, members of the anti-democracy Christian extremist group The Council for National Policy began pushing the Trump administration to ignore the science on COVID-19. They'd already lobbied members of Congress.

trumpfile.org/media-the-cnp-…

In April 2020, Jared Kushner and Donald Trump abandoned a federal plan to combat #COVID19 because the virus was hurting blue states more than red states. trumpfile.org/trump-kushner-…

In April 2020, the United States Postal Service #USPS was preparing to send free masks to every household in the country. The Trump administration blocked the program because it "might create concern or panic." trumpfile.org/trump-admin-ca…

In April 2020, anti-lockdown protests broke out in some states, especially in the Midwest. These "grassroots" events were actually organized by Trump and Pence's friends at the Council for National Policy.

trumpfile.org/cnp-protests-c…

In April 2020, the Pentagon received $1 billion from Congress to help combat COVID-19. But the DoD spent most of it on surveillance technology, military uniforms, body armor, and other materials unrelated to the coronavirus pandemic. trumpfile.org/pentagon-diver…

Bonus: In April 1953, Red Scare architect, future Trump mentor and mafia attorney Roy Cohn took his crush to Europe for a taxpayer-funded getaway.

To be fair, that's a better use of taxpayer dollars than Trump's 280+ trips to golf clubs. trumpfile.org/roy-cohn-takes…

I won't be home the rest of the day, so there won't be any updates to the site. I'll be on Twitter off and on, though.

Here's everything added & updated yesterday ⬇️

https://twitter.com/TrumpFile/status/1377350334390038530?s=20