A progressive daily ledger of Trump-world self-owns, legal pain, policy blowback, and bad-faith chaos.
3 verified reports published on November 25, 2020.
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By Thanksgiving week, the real story was no longer whether Trump could prove fraud. It was whether anyone around him could still pretend the grift was evidence-based. The answer, on November 25, was basically no.
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Trump’s post-election legal push suffered another credibility hit on November 25 as courts continued to reject the campaign’s sweeping claims. The pattern was getting hard to ignore: accusations in public, vagueness in court, and no evidence strong enough to move the result.
A Republican-led Pennsylvania hearing on election “irregularities” became another airing of claims that had already been shredded in court. Trump even phoned in to the event, but the show still could not produce the thing it was promising: actual evidence of a stolen election.
Even as Trump kept insisting the election had to be “turned around,” the federal transition process moved ahead. That made the White House look divided between reality and the president’s refusal to accept it.