The Daily Fuckup — January 16, 2020

Edition · January 16, 2020

The Daily Fuckup — January 16, 2020

1 verified report published on January 16, 2020.

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Closing take

The central Trump-world screwup here was strategic, not stylistic: the White House kept acting as if refusing evidence would make the case go away, even as the trial machinery locked that refusal into the official record. That is how a cover-up becomes its own exhibit.

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Story

Impeachment Trial Kicks Off, and Trump’s Obstruction Gets Frozen Into the Record

Trial begins Confidence 5/5

★★★★★Fuckup rating 5/5 Five-alarm fuckup

The Senate’s impeachment trial machinery formally turned on January 16, 2020, locking President Trump’s Ukraine scandal into a process built around the question he most wanted to avoid: witnesses and documents. The White House’s refusal to cooperate with the House inquiry was no longer an abstract accusation; it was part of the official trial posture. That matters because a strategy of blanket noncooperation can sometimes buy time, but here it also supplied the prosecution with a simple, repeatable story about concealment.

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