A progressive daily ledger of Trump-world self-owns, legal pain, policy blowback, and bad-faith chaos.
1 verified report published on January 29, 2021.
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By this point, the Trump operation had moved from denial to damage control, and even that looked half-hearted. The immediate question was no longer whether January 6 had blown up Trump’s presidency; it was how much worse the fallout could get as institutions started writing the bill.
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The Senate took another procedural step toward Trump’s second impeachment trial, hardening the reality that the attack on the Capitol was no longer just a historical event but an active political and legal reckoning. Republicans kept debating process, but the larger problem for Trump was that the chamber was now moving toward a public accounting that would keep his January 6 conduct front and center.