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-- 2015 --
August 19, 2015 – In August of 2015, just three months after Trump announced his candidacy for president, two of his supporters in Boston beat a homeless Latino man with a metal pipe, and then urinated on him. Asked by the arresting officer why they had done it, one of the attackers said, “Trump was right—all these illegals need to be deported.” During a press conference shortly thereafter, Trump said he hadn’t heard about the assault. “It would be a shame,” he told the crowd of reporters, before continuing, “I will say, the people that are following me are very passionate. They love this country and they want this country to be great again. They are passionate.”
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the-complete-listing-so-far-atrocities-1-546
-- 2016 --
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February 7: A Year On, Did NFL Anti-Domestic Violence Efforts Work?
https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2016/02/07/465841229/a-year-on-did-nfl-anti-domestic-violence-efforts-work
March 14: Could Donald Trump be held legally responsible for inciting violence at his rallies?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/03/11/could-donald-trump-be-held-legally-responsible-for-inciting-violence-at-his-rallies/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.9805b128ca71
-- 2017 --
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January 21: Trump inauguration: Violent protests in Washington DC
Violent protests broke out and a limo was set on fire in Washington DC as President Donald Trump was sworn in as president.
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us-canada-38700648/trump-inauguration-violent-protests-in-washington-dc
February 7: Violence Will Only Hurt the Trump Resistance
The week of President Donald Trump’s inauguration, thousands of Americans used civil disobedience to disrupt events. An LGBTQ dance party raged outside of Mike Pence’s house. Iraq Veterans Against the War occupied John McCain’s office in opposition to Rex Tillerson’s nomination. On Inauguration Day, Black Lives Matter activists blockaded security checkpoints. Democracy Spring activists interrupted the swearing-in ceremony. Code Pink marched around the National Mall in a colorful pack. An elderly Asian American woman gave a middle-finger salute. The day after inauguration, millions of people participated in the Women’s March on Washington at its Sister Marches. Hundreds of thousands have remained active in pro-immigration protests and other rallies in the weeks since then.
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At the same time, there’s been a reemergence of “black bloc” tactics: Protesters who incite property destruction and street fighting.
https://newrepublic.com/article/140474/violence-will-hurt-trump-resistance
Undated: On June 14, 2017, in Alexandria, Virginia, Republican member of Congress and House Majority Whip Steve Scalise of Louisiana was shot while practicing for the annual Congressional Baseball Game for Charity, scheduled for the following day. Also shot were Crystal Griner, a U.S. Capitol Police officer assigned to protect Scalise; Zack Barth, a congressional aide; and Matt Mika, a Tyson Foods lobbyist.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Congressional_baseball_shooting
June 16: At a February 2016 rally, then-presidential candidate Trump told his supporters about protesters: "Knock the crap out of them, would you? Seriously. OK? Just knock the hell -- I promise you, I will pay for the legal fees. I promise, I promise."
Trump later denied that he ever offered to pay the fees ...
http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/16/politics/mark-sanford-donald-trump-problem/?iid=ob_lockedrail_bottomlist
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June 16: President Donald Trump's violent rhetoric is "a problem" that has led to great division in the country, a Republican congressman [South Carolina Rep. Mark Sanford] told CNN Thursday.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/16/politics/mark-sanford-donald-trump-problem/?iid=ob_lockedrail_bottomlist
June 16: Democrats defeated Republicans in the 2017 Congressional Baseball Game the day after a gunman opened fire at a GOP congressional baseball practice, shooting House Majority Whip Steve Scalise and three others. ... "And I want to be clear, I didn't blame him for the shooting that took place," [Sanford] said ...
http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/16/politics/mark-sanford-donald-trump-problem/?iid=ob_lockedrail_bottomlist
June 16: "The blame [for violence] can go on the Republican side, it can go on the Democrat side, but when the President says to somebody in the audience, 'I wish I could hit you in the face. If not, why don't you do it and I'll pay your legal fees,' we ought to call it for what it is. That's a problem," [said Sanford] ...
http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/16/politics/mark-sanford-donald-trump-problem/?iid=ob_lockedrail_bottomlist
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June 16: "I do want to put some of this at the feet of Barack Obama," ... Iowa congressman [Republican Rep. Steve King said] ... "He contributed mightily to dividing us. He focused on our differences rather than our things that unify us. And this is some of the fruits of that labor."
http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/15/politics/kfile-steve-king-obama-blame/?iid=ob_lockedrail_bottomlist
-- 2018 --
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May 12: Researchers Tackle Gun Violence Despite Lack of Federal Funding
In charting a course forward, it is necessary to move beyond "people's anecdotal opinions," says David Hemenway, director of the Harvard Injury Control Research Center. He and other researchers are analyzing data and conducting studies with the ultimate goal of informing public policy. It's a tough task, in part because of a by now well-known piece of legislation called the Dickey Amendment, passed by Congress in 1996 with the support of the National Rifle Association. This amendment prevented the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from using funds "to advocate or promote gun control." It didn't ban federally-funded gun research, but the legislation had a chilling effect: from 1996 to 2013, CDC funding in this area dropped by 96 percent.
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/05/12/609701029/researchers-tackle-gun-violence-despite-lack-of-federal-funding
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June 11: The Language of the Trump Administration Is the Language of Domestic Violence
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/the-language-of-the-trump-administration-is-the-language-of-domestic-violence
July 26:
Users of the recently-established Augur protocol are using its underlying blockchain technology to bet on the deaths of high-profile public figures, including US President Donald Trump, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and billionaire investor Warren Buffett.
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Set up by the Forecast Foundation, Augur allows people to choose an event to predict, create a market for it, and then trade shares on the outcome of the event. “Anything is fair game,” the website states, “from the next presidential election to the success of a company’s product.”
The cryptocurrency associated with Augur is currently the 40th most valuable, according to CoinMarketCap, with a market cap of over $340 million, but trading on the Augur protocol is done with ethereum – the world’s second most valuable cryptocurrency behind bitcoin.
https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/donald-trump-assassination-market-blockchain-augur-a8464516.html
September 7: In the battle for control of Congress, President Donald Trump's weapon of choice is fear.
At a rally for Republican Senate nominee Matt Rosendale in Billings, Montana, on Thursday night, the president warned his faithful that Democrats would raise their taxes, take their guns, block his wall, abolish the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, open U.S. borders, end Social Security and cut Medicare.
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He's also warned supporters this summer that the outcome in November could spell trouble for freedom of speech and religion and the First Amendment — and that if the GOP loses, violence could follow.
The overwhelming majority of the claims are patently false, but with two months to go — and analysts in both parties convinced that there’s a nonremote chance Republicans could lose at least the House — Trump is in desperation mode.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/fear-loathing-trump-campaign-trail-n907521
Undated: A member of the Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (DFL), Ellison was the U.S. Representative for Minnesota's 5th congressional district from 2007 to 2019. He also served as the Deputy Chair of the Democratic National Committee from 2017 to 2018. In Congress Ellison was a vice-chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus and a Chief Deputy Whip. He also sat on the House Committee on Financial Services. Ellison was the first Muslim to be elected to Congress[1] and the first African American representative from Minnesota.[2]
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It was alleged that in 2006 Ellison "pushed, shoved and verbally abused" former girlfriend Amy Alexander.[81] Ellison denied the accusation and alleged that Alexander had harassed him and threatened to "destroy" him. A judge granted Ellison's request for a restraining order against Alexander and refused a similar request by Alexander against Ellison.[82] In August 2018 Ellison was accused by ex-girlfriend Karen Monahan and her son of attempting to drag her off a bed while shouting obscenities. Ellison denied her allegations.[83] An investigation commissioned by the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party concluded that Monahan's accusation was unsubstantiated.[84][85]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Ellison#Misconduct_allegations
September 25: In the days before Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN) won a five-way Democratic primary for attorney general in Minnesota in August, he was accused of abuse by a former girlfriend — an accusation he continues to vehemently deny.
On August 11, the son of Ellison’s ex-girlfriend Karen Monahan wrote a lengthy Facebook post saying that he saw a video of Ellison grabbing his mother and swearing at her in a bedroom. Last week, Monahan released patient progress notes taken by a doctor that mentioned she had reported she was in a physically and emotionally abusive relationship — and identified her abusive partner as Ellison.
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The document does indeed show that Monahan said she was in an abusive relationship, but the doctor notes that “she did not have any physical injuries that required a physical examination in the past.”
The Minnesota Democratic Farm Labor party is currently waiting for an investigation into the abuse allegations to conclude in the coming days. But the allegations are surfacing in the news again with Monahan’s recent release of her medical notes, as well an issue that has nothing to do with either Monahan or Ellison: the sexual assault allegations swirling around Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.
https://www.vox.com/2018/9/25/17901120/keith-ellison-abuse-allegations-minnesota-ag-karen-monahan
October 19: A look back at Trump comments perceived by some as encouraging violence
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/back-trump-comments-perceived-encouraging-violence/story?id=48415766
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October 24: Trump decries 'political violence' after years of stoking it
The president cast himself as a uniter after bombs were sent to several top Democrats, infuriating critics and touching off an argument about America’s political discourse.
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/10/24/trump-political-violence-packages-936274
October 24: Trump: Acts Or Threats Of Political Violence 'An Attack On Democracy Itself'
https://www.npr.org/2018/10/24/660377094/trump-acts-or-threats-of-political-violence-an-attack-on-democracy-itself
October 25: Trump inciting ‘violence’: More than 200 retired journalists condemn president’s ‘un-American’ attacks on press
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2018/10/25/trump-inciting-violence-nearly-retired-journalists-condemn-presidents-un-american-attacks-press/?utm_term=.4940564d2d41
October 25: ... Trump Brushes Off Terrorist Plot to Murder His Political Adversaries
The president is now blaming the media for the attempted bombings of Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and other prominent Democrats
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-pipe-bombs-746945/
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October 26: Trump's Condemnations of Violence Aren’t Convincing His Supporters
The president has given the nation no reason to think his recent disavowals are sincere.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/10/are-trumps-condemnations-of-political-violence-genuine/574150/
October 29: Trump's tirade in a week of American violence
While the nation mourns the mass shooting of eleven people at a synagogue in Pittsburgh, President Trump continues his attacks on the media.
https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2018/10/29/trump-response-synagogue-shooting-zeleny-lead-dnt-vpx.cnn
October 29: Trump Approval Rating Plunges Amid Violence as Midterms Approach
http://fortune.com/2018/10/29/trump-approval-rating-plunges/
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October 30: Why Trump Encourages Violence Against People He Dislikes
https://www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/politics/a24431408/how-trump-encourages-violence/
November 2: Trump: 'The fake news is creating violence'
“You know what, you’re creating violence by your question," Trump said Friday at the White House as he left for a campaign rally, pointing to a reporter.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/trump-fake-news-creating-violence-n930576
November 3: The Nigerian military has deleted a tweet which appeared to use President Donald Trump’s words to justify its use of lethal force against a group of protesters last week.
The army, which has come under fire for alleged human rights abuses, tweeted a video of Trump suggesting immigrants could be shot if they throw rocks at the U.S. military with the caption “Please Watch and Make your Deductions.”
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2018/11/03/nigerian-army-deletes-tweet-trump-speech-justify-violence/1873056002/
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November 5: Trump Isn’t Inciting Violence by Mistake, But on Purpose. He Just Told Us.
At a weekend rally, President Trump launched a riff that, even by the feverish standards of his closing campaign argument, stands out for its brutal authoritarian overtones. The president mocked Antifa demonstrators: “You see these little arms, these little arms,” he shouted, forming his fingers into tiny circles to illustrate their puny biceps. And then he invited his supporters to imagine these weaklings having to fight against Trump’s own militant cadres. “Where are the Bikers for Trump? Where are the police? Where are the military? Where are — ICE? Where are the border patrol? No,” he continued, lamenting the restraint his sentries have displayed, “we’ve taken a lot, we’ve taken a lot.”
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This is a revealing setpiece of authoritarian theater. There is, first of all, the evocation of strength as a moral signifier. Trump’s people are strong and good, and his opponents weak and bad, a classically fascist ethos. Second, he conflates his private political militia, “Bikers for Trump,” with government agencies that are not supposed to operate as a political arm of the president (police, military, ICE.) Trump, of course, has always believed the government’s law enforcement apparatus should be at his personal command, and has in fact deployed the military to the border for the benefit of his party’s campaign messaging.
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/11/trump-isnt-inciting-violence-by-mistake-he-just-told-us.html
November 5: 'No Blame'? ABC News finds 17 cases invoking 'Trump' in connection with violence, threats or alleged assaults
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/blame-abc-news-finds-17-cases-invoking-trump/story?id=58912889
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November 5: Trump’s Violent Subtext Has Become Text
Trump has always been selective about who deserves the protections of the Constitution. But his recent rhetorical shift should scare us all.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/11/donald-trump-constitution-rights-violence-enemies.html
November 26: The busiest U.S. border crossing is open again this morning, after a confrontation forced it to close temporarily Sunday, as frustration among thousands of migrants upset by the slow pace of the U.S. asylum process boiled over. Yesterday, U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agents fired tear gas at hundreds of people, including women and children, after some of them tried to force their way across the border between San Diego and Tijuana, Mexico.
... the official port of entry was closed for about five hours yesterday. Violence erupted as Mexican police attempted to break up the protesters, and some made a run for the border between Tijuana and San Diego, California.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/migrant-caravan-mexico-border-busiest-u-s-mexico-border-crossing-reopens-after-violent-clashes/
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November 28: A Trauma Surgeon Who Survived Gun Violence Is Taking On The NRA
For trauma surgeon Joseph Sakran, gun violence is a very personal issue. He has treated hundreds of gun wound victims, comforted anxious loved ones and told mothers and fathers that their children would not be coming home.
But Sakran's empathy for his patients and their families extends beyond the hospital. Sakran knows the pain of gun violence because he is a survivor of it; when he was 17, he took a bullet to the throat after a high school football game.
Maybe that's why he felt the need to do something when the NRA tweeted on Nov. 7, "Someone should tell self-important anti-gun doctors to stay in their lane," in response to the American College of Physicians' position paper on reducing firearm injuries and deaths.
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/11/28/671519701/this-trauma-surgeon-survived-gun-violence-now-hes-taking-on-the-nra
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December 2: NFL's Chiefs Cut Player Seen Attacking Woman — After Video Becomes Public
The Kansas City Chiefs cut Kareem Hunt, one of the NFL's top running backs, on Friday, hours after the release of a video showing him attacking a woman.
Now, fans are asking a familiar set of questions: What did the NFL know about the domestic violence incident, and did it try to conceal what happened?
The security camera video obtained and published by TMZ shows Hunt and a few other people in the hallway of a Cleveland apartment building. Hunt appears to argue with a woman. He shoves her several times — at one point knocking her to the ground and then kicking her — as other people try to break up the fight.
The victim told police after the February incident that they should watch the video and that she wanted Hunt arrested, USA Today reported. Police said they did not see the video until it was made public. The NFL investigated but didn't interview Hunt or the victim and also didn't see the video, ESPN said.
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No charges were filed against Hunt at the time, and the NFL didn't discipline him. Hunt, 23, played in each of Kansas City's first 11 games and entered Sunday's contests with the fifth-most rushing yards in the league.
https://www.npr.org/2018/12/02/672701539/nfls-chiefs-cut-player-seen-attacking-woman-after-video-becomes-public
December 14: 'It's Preventable': Sandy Hook Parents Promote App For Reporting School Threats
https://www.npr.org/2018/12/14/676375851/it-s-preventable-sandy-hook-parents-promote-app-for-reporting-school-threats
December 19: President Trump's comments on Green Beret charged with murder rile legal experts
One expert believes the president's tweet pressures lower-level Army commanders to make decisions on the still-pending case that would be to his liking
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President Donald Trump's announcement on Twitter over the weekend that he will be "reviewing" the case of a former Army Green Beret charged with murder has caused worry in national security and military circles — since it is the kind of thing a president is not supposed to do.
On Thursday, Maj. Mathew Golsteyn, was charged with premeditated murder in the 2010 killing of an alleged Afghan bomb maker.
According to all sides involved, Golsteyn first admitted to the killing during a CIA job interview in 2011, which triggered an investigation by the Army Criminal Investigation Command, or CID.
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Golsteyn was not initially charged with a crime because of a lack of physical evidence, but he was issued a formal reprimand and stripped of his Silver Star, the military's third-highest award for valor, and his Special Forces patch.
Now that the probe has been rekindled in a military court, Golsteyn faces a maximum penalty of death.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/president-trump-s-comments-green-beret-charged-murder-rile-legal-n949546
December 19: Federal judge strikes down Trump asylum rules for domestic and gang violence victims
In a ruling Wednesday, Judge Emmet Sullivan struck down large portions of Justice Department policies that made it harder for immigrants to claim asylum.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/federal-judge-strikes-down-trump-asylum-rules-domestic-gang-violence-n949936
-- 2019 --
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January 9: As he made his case for a border wall in a prime-time national address, President Donald Trump pointed to the gruesome beheading of a 76-year-old Clayton County grandfather.
But it was unclear Wednesday if the southern barrier that Trump is pushing for would have kept the man accused in the killing, Christian Ponce-Martinez, out of the country.
Clayton County police told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution that Ponce-Martinez, 25, entered the U.S. at a checkpoint along the San Diego-Tijuana border in 2015, seeking asylum — not through an illegal crossing that would have been prevented by a wall.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement records show the government may have been trying to deport him at the time of the November killing, police said. ICE had designated him “inadmissible,” citing a federal law prohibiting immigrants who lack proper documents, a police official told the AJC.
https://www.ajc.com/news/breaking-news/would-brutal-georgia-murder-have-been-prevented-trump-wall/1OlCSQ6ZzpLl6za0lmR1gK/
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January 29: Belarusian 'sex coach' says she was warned to keep quiet about oligarch Oleg Deripaska
A Belarusian model who claimed to have information on Moscow's attempts to interfere in US elections told CNN she had been ordered by Russian security agents to keep silent about her dealings with a Russian billionaire linked to the former chairman of Donald Trump's campaign.
Anastasia Vashukevich, a self-styled "sex coach," made international headlines after she was arrested in Thailand last year and claimed to have obtained secret recordings during an affair with oligarch Olig Deripaska which allegedly shed light on US President Donald Trump's links to Russia.
Deripaska denies any affair with Vashukevich, but he remains a subject of major political interest in US political circles. Trump has denied claims that his campaign colluded with Russians.
https://edition.cnn.com/2019/01/29/europe/russia-anastasia-vashukevich-us-election-intl/index.html
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February 13: ‘Alcatraz Of The Rockies’ awaits El Chapo's possible arrival; inmates include Boston bomber and Ted Kaczynski
Guzman was convicted Tuesday in Brooklyn, N.Y., of running a massive drug smuggling operation as head of Mexico’s notorious and murderous Sinaloa Cartel. As a result, he is more than likely destined for ADX Florence — dubbed the "Alcatraz of the Rockies" — when he is sentenced in June, given his background of prison break-outs.
Even a prison escape artist like drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman has no chance of breaking out of the special hellhole where he's expected to be caged once he's transferred to the custody of the U.S. Bureau of Prisons.
Supermax opened in 1994 and as of Tuesday was holding 402 inmates, all men.
Inmates are confined to tiny single-person cells for all but one hour a day. They have virtually no contact with the outside world.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/alcatraz-of-the-rockies-is-where-el-chapo-could-wind-up-serving-sentencealcatraz-of-the-rockies-awaits-el-chapos-possible-arrival-inmates-include-boston-bomber-and-ted-kaczynski
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February 28: Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., was observed discussing his threatening tweet about Michael Cohen with President Trump Wednesday evening.
According to Edward-Isaac Dovere, a staff writer at the Atlantic, Gaetz spoke to the president, who was in Hanoi, Vietnam for talks with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, over the phone.
"I was happy to do it for you. You just keep killing it," Gaetz was overhead saying.
The night before Cohen's testimony before the House Oversight Committee on Wednesday, Gaetz asked Cohen on Twitter, "Do your wife & father-in-law know about your girlfriends? Maybe tonight would be a good time for that chat. I wonder if she’ll remain faithful when you’re in prison. She’s about to learn a lot..."
Gaetz later deleted the tweet and apologized for comments many regarded as threatening to Cohen. Gaetz's apology came in response to a statement from Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., that admonished Gaetz for his comments and suggested they be examined by the House Ethics Committee.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/matt-gaetz-overheard-telling-trump-about-threatening-michael-cohen-tweet-i-was-happy-to-do-it-for-you
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February 28: Trump absolves Kim Jong Un of responsibility for Otto Warmbier’s death
“He tells me that he didn’t know about it and I will take him at his word.”
https://www.vox.com/2019/2/28/18244659/trump-kim-jong-otto-warmbier-death
-- 2020 --
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