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Donald Trump. This page is updated weekly with endorsements made by President Donald Trump (R). During Trump's presidency from 2017 to 2021, Ballotpedia tracked 305 endorsements. After Trump left office, Ballotpedia tracked 167 additional endorsements for a total of 472 endorsements. This page was last updated May 6, 2022.
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Matthew Whitaker | |
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Preceded by | Jeff Sessions |
Succeeded by | William Barr |
Chief of Staff to the United States Attorney General | |
In office September 22, 2017 – November 7, 2018 |
Attorney General | Years of service |
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Merrick Garland | 2021-Present |
Loretta Lynch | 2015-2017 |
Eric Holder | 2009-2015 |
Michael B. Mukasey | 2007-2009 |
Officeholder | Term start | President |
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Don McGahn | January 20, 2017 | Donald Trump |
Emmet Flood Acting | October 18, 2018 | |
Pat Cipollone | December 10, 2018 | |
Dana Remus | January 20, 2021 | Joe Biden |
Net Worth: | $94 Million |
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Date of Birth: | May 23, 1950 |
Height: | 5 ft 8 in (1.76 m) |
Profession: | Attorney General |
Nationality: | American |
Seven of the 10 state executive candidates Trump endorsed won their general elections.
Twenty-nine of the 49 U.S. House candidates that Trump endorsed won their general elections.
After Trump left office, Ballotpedia tracked 24 additional endorsements for a total of 329 endorsements. This page was last updated July 9, 2021. According to a January 2021 survey by researchers from Northeastern, Harvard, Northwestern, and Rutgers, 45% of Republicans said they would be more likely to support a candidate endorsed by Trump.
Eighteen of the 23 Senate candidates Trump endorsed won their general election.
General endorsements include all of President Trump's endorsements in regularly scheduled elections, made before and after primary elections. This list does not include Trump's endorsements in special elections. Click here to see Trump's endorsements in Battleground primary elections.
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In May, a judge in Antrim County dismissed the lawsuit filed by DePerno on behalf of Bailey. The county's Republican clerk admitted publicly she made the error by updating just some of the election tabulators after there were last-minute changes to two of the down-ballot races.
Trump asserted that DePerno has his "Complete and Total Endorsement. He will never let you down!"
He pressured his acting attorney general, Jeffrey Rosen, to open an investigation of purported fraud in the vote count in Georgia , even though there was no evidence of such wrongdoing. In one call, Trump apparently directed Rosen to "just say the election was corrupt, [and] leave the rest to me."
Investigations of presidential wrongdoing, by Congress and others, are wise and even necessary. But actual prosecutions are not, and Donald Trump should be the beneficiary of this tradition, even if he himself would surely not offer such grace to others.
But what about a conspiracy "to defraud the United States," which does not require proof of an underlying offense? According to Justice Department policy, the government will only bring such a charge if the defendant "made statements that he/she knew to be false, fraudulent or deceitful to a government agency, which disrupted the functions of the agency or of the government."
Federal criminal prosecutions can take place only pursuant to specific statutes, so it's worth analyzing some of the laws that critics say Trump may have violated.
Notwithstanding the Hatch Act, presidents and their staffs have engaged in partisan political activities since the birth of the Republic. And Trump could argue that he was not ordering Rosen to engage in political activity, but rather to enforce the law. Again, this criminal provision has rarely been invoked, and it seems unfair to raise it in connection with Trump's dealings with his acting attorney general.