President Pelosi

May 10, 2005
George Bush was the subject of an assassination attempt where a grenade was used. This attempt did not affect Bush yet caused many casualties.
January 1, 2007
With impeachment hearings scheduled to be underway for both President Bush and Vice President Cheney, both decide to resign to avoid being convicted by the senate.
January 2, 2007
Bush announces his resignation in the morning. 
January 3, 2007
Cheney confirms his resignation at George Bush's Ranch in Crawford, TX.
2:00 P.M.
Nancy Pelosi is sworn in as our nation's 44th president, and as the first woman president. She is very liberal, so she immediately names the more-moderate Senator Evan Bayh as her Vice Presidential choice. 
January 7, 2007
Vice President Evan Bayh is confirmed easily.
January 9, 2007
President Pelosi: "At this time, there will be no presidential pardon for either Bush or Cheney. We need to begin to heal the deep divide this country faces and I will leave the possibility of a pardon up to a later administration to decide." 
January 11, 2007
President Pelosi begins making plans for an organized, phased withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq. Acting on the advice of Vice President Bayh, she will not withdraw completely but will leave several thousand to keep peace and order and to train Iraqis.
January 25, 2007
Vice President Bayh and Secretary of State Biden make a diplomatic trip to Iran and meet with President Ahmadinajehad. The meeting goes well, and the U.S. group reports "guarded optimism".
February 16, 2007
Iran agrees to suspend their program of enriching uranium. However, they insist that it was only for energy use and expect the United States to provide them with $10 Billion in aid to help create a better energy policy. The American public is divided on whether to accept this. Conservatives such as O'Reilly and Hannity call it "bribery" while liberals say it is a logical thing to do as long as Iran keeps their word. 
February 20, 2007
Rush Limbaugh is voted Keith Olbermann's "Worst Person in the World" because of Limbaugh's statement that we are "bribing ourselves out of nuclear war". "So what are you saying?" Keith Olbermann says, "Are you saying, Rush, that a nuclear war is preferable? Rush I'm-a-nuclear-war-hawk Libaugh, today's worst person in the world." Meanwhile, Pelosi's first apporval rating is out, which shows her at exactly 50 percent. (NOTE: the show "Countdown with Keith Olbermann" on MSNBC is still very much the same ATL as in OTL.)
March 1, 2007
The measure is passed in both houses by a very slim margin, but only after the provision is added that Iran agrees to monthly inspections. 
April 2, 2007
The first inspections show that Iran is keeping its word.
November 4, 2008
As Pelosi/Bayh dropped out, Obama/Biden are elected over McCain/Romney.
2009
Beginning this year, underage chess players in Russia and neighboring countries receive harassing mails containing condoms with semens. In this timeline this would go on for more than twenty years.
2011
Some sanctions are removed against Iran.
2012
Obama/Biden wins re-election of the seat. Boston marathon bombings.
2013
A meteor exploded over the Russian city of Chelyabinsk
Early 2014
The Ukrainian revolution and civil war occurs.
July 17, 2014
A failure in a Buk warhead prevents it from accidentally hitting the Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 that day. The latter safely arrived at its destination airport however because of the incident, the airspaces above eastern Ukraine are closed for good.
2016
Trump/Pence wins election despite losing the popular vote.
2017
Trump/Pence begins their term.
2018
Nuclear talks between Trump and Kim. The mother of a female Kazakh chess champion expose the existence of a "chess maniac" who is constantly sending letters with condoms and pornographic materials. 
2019
Start of COVID-19 pandemic. 
2020
Biden/Harris wins the presidential election. 
2021
Multiple participants in the Grand Swiss chess tournament in Riga received letters with used condoms, but the news would be suppressed. 
2022
Because there is no shootdown of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, there is no subsequent hacker-activism attack against the email service which in OTL was found out to be used by the "chess maniac" which lead to the exposure of his identity by Latvian news outlet Meduza. Instead, the "chess maniac" escalated his attacks against more female chess players, including those from Germany and China. The name "Afromeev's cat" serves as the dead end of the case.
Fearing discovery, the chess maniac purged some of his emails and accounts, and switched to other mail services.
2024
Biden/Harris is reelected. The condom letters reached American chess players for the first time; only three years latter the story of this come out through New York Times.
2025
Unbeknownst to everyone, the chess maniac starts to become a serial killer when he lure young girls before raping and murdering them.
2027 
Many female chess players across the world, from Canada to Australia, begin to reveal themselves as the recipient of the condom letters. After investigation. Riga, Latvia finally wakes up to the fact that a serial killer and rapist is on the loose.
2030
After a 20 year rampage, the condom letters finally stopped. In reality, the "chess maniac" has succumbed to a deadly variant of COVID-19. The case, now turned cold, but became a sought after by many Sherlock Holmes across the world.
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