The White House Deputy Chief of Staff is officially the top aide to the White House chief of staff,who is the senior aide to the president of the United States. The deputy chief of staff usually has an office in the West Wing and is responsible for ensuring the smooth running of the White House bureaucracy,as well as such other duties as the chief of staff assigns to them. In all recent administrations,there have been multiple deputy chiefs with different duties.
John Michael "Mick" Mulvaney is an American politician who served as director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) from February 2017 until March 2020,and as acting White House Chief of Staff from January 2019 until March 2020. Prior to his appointments to the Trump administration,he served in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Mark Randall Meadows is an American politician who served as the 29th White House chief of staff from 2020 to 2021 under the first Trump administration. A member of the Republican Party,he also served as the U.S. representative for North Carolina's 11th congressional district from 2013 to 2020. During his legislative tenure,Meadows chaired the Freedom Caucus from 2017 to 2019. He was considered one of Donald Trump's closest allies in the House of Representatives before his appointment as chief of staff.
Marc T. Short is an American political advisor who served as chief of staff to Vice President Mike Pence. Prior to holding this role,Short was the director of legislative affairs at the White House from 2017 to 2018. He became chief of staff for Pence in March 2019. He was a senior fellow at the Miller Center of Public Affairs,a CNN contributor,chief of staff to Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison,and the House Republican Conference. He was president of Freedom Partners Chamber of Commerce from 2011 to 2016. He was a frequent guest on Meet The Press of NBC News.
Russell Thurlow Vought,or Russ Vought is an American former government official who was the director of the Office of Management and Budget from July 2020 to January 2021. He was previously deputy director of the OMB for part of 2018,and acting director from 2019 to 2020.
Kirstjen Michele Nielsen is an American attorney who served as United States Secretary of Homeland Security from 2017 to 2019. She is a former principal White House deputy chief of staff to President Donald Trump,and was chief of staff to John F. Kelly during his tenure as Secretary of Homeland Security.
Zachary D. Fuentes is an American political advisor and businessman who served as Assistant to the President and Deputy Chief of Staff in the first Trump Administration. He formerly served as a senior advisor and assistant to John F. Kelly,while he served as White House Chief of Staff and Secretary of Homeland Security. He left the Trump administration in January 2019.
Thomas Ulrich Brechbuhl is a Swiss-American businessman and former government official,having held the position of Counselor of the United States Department of State from May 1,2018,to January 20,2021. He was appointed by and reported to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo,and replaced Maliz E. Beams. Along with the role of Counselor,he served as the Acting Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs at the Department of State from March to September 2020.
The Trump–Ukraine scandal was a political scandal that arose primarily from the discovery of U.S. President Donald Trump's attempts to coerce Ukraine into investigating his political rival Joe Biden and thus potentially damage Biden's campaign for the 2020 Democratic Party presidential nomination. Trump enlisted surrogates in and outside his administration,including personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani and Attorney General William Barr,to pressure Ukraine and other governments to cooperate in supporting and legitimizing the bogus Biden–Ukraine conspiracy theory and other conspiracy theories concerning US politics. Trump blocked payment of a congressionally-mandated $400 million military aid package,in an attempt to obtain quid pro quo cooperation from Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Contacts were established between the White House and government of Ukraine,culminating in a call between Trump and Zelenskyy on July 25,2019.
The inquiry process which preceded the first impeachment of Donald Trump,45th president of the United States,was initiated by then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on September 24,2019,after a whistleblower alleged that Donald Trump may have abused the power of the presidency. Trump was accused of withholding military aid as a means of pressuring newly elected president of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky to pursue investigations of Joe Biden and his son Hunter and to investigate a conspiracy theory that Ukraine,not Russia,was behind interference in the 2016 presidential election. More than a week after Trump had put a hold on the previously approved aid,he made these requests in a July 25 phone call with the Ukrainian president,which the whistleblower said was intended to help Trump's reelection bid.
Kashyap Pramod "Kash" Patel is an American attorney and former government official. He served as a U.S. National Security Council official,senior advisor to the acting Director of National Intelligence,and chief of staff to the acting United States secretary of defense during the Trump presidency. A member of the Republican Party,Patel previously worked as a senior aide to congressman Devin Nunes when he chaired the House Intelligence Committee. He was previously a federal public defender,a federal prosecutor working on national security cases,and a legal liaison to the United States Armed Forces.
Jennifer Leigh Williams is an American United States Department of State official who has served as a special advisor to U.S. vice president Mike Pence on European and Russian affairs. Williams testified under subpoena,in the impeachment hearings of Donald Trump,in closed-door hearings before the House intelligence,Oversight,and Foreign Affairs committees on November 9,2019. She gave public testimony to the House of Representatives ten days later.
The first impeachment of President Donald Trump occurred on December 18,2019. On that date,the House of Representatives adopted two articles of impeachment against Trump:abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. On February 5,2020,the Senate voted to acquit Trump on both articles of impeachment.
The first impeachment trial of Donald Trump,the 45th president of the United States,began in the U.S. Senate on January 16,2020,and concluded with his acquittal on February 5. After an inquiry between September and November 2019,President Trump was impeached by the U.S. House of Representatives on December 18,2019;the articles of impeachment charged him with abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. It was the third impeachment trial of a U.S. president,preceded by those of Andrew Johnson and of Bill Clinton.
The White House Coronavirus Task Force was the United States Department of State task force during the Trump administration. The goal of the Task Force was to coordinate and oversee the administration's efforts to monitor,prevent,contain,and mitigate the spread of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Also referred to as the President's Coronavirus Task Force,it was established on January 29,2020,with Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar as chair. On February 26,2020,U.S. vice president Mike Pence was named to chair the task force,and Deborah Birx was named the response coordinator.
Joseph Grogan is the former director of the United States Domestic Policy Council and assistant to President Donald Trump. Appointed by Acting Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney,Grogan converted the traditionally small office into an influential policy council.
Olivia Troye is an American national security official who worked on national security and homeland security issues at the National Counterterrorism Center,the United States Department of Energy Office of Intelligence and Counterintelligence,and the DHS Office of Intelligence and Analysis. She went on to work in the Office of the Vice President of the United States as the Homeland Security and Counterterrorism advisor to Vice President Mike Pence and also served on the White House Coronavirus Task Force as Pence's lead staffer on the Task Force. She resigned from the White House in August 2020.
During his term as president of the United States (2017–2021),Donald Trump and his administration repeatedly politicized science by pressuring or overriding health and science agencies to change their reporting and recommendations so as to conform to his policies and public comments. This was particularly true with regard to the COVID-19 pandemic,but also included suppressing research on climate change and weakening or eliminating environmental regulations.
The Clean Network was a U.S. government-led,bi-partisan effort announced by then U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in August 2020 to address what it describes as "the long-term threat to data privacy,security,human rights and principled collaboration posed to the free world from authoritarian malign actors." Its promoters state that it has resulted in an "alliance of democracies and companies," "based on democratic values." According to the Trump administration,the Clean Network is intended to implement internationally accepted digital trust standards across a coalition of trusted partners.
This is a timeline of major events in second half of 2019 related to the investigations into the myriad links between Trump associates and Russian officials and spies that are suspected of being inappropriate,relating to the Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections. It follows the timeline of Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections before and after July 2016 up until election day November 8,and the transition,the first and second halves of 2017,the first and second halves of 2018,and the first half of 2019,but precedes that of 2020 and 2021.
