A progressive daily ledger of Trump-world self-owns, legal pain, policy blowback, and bad-faith chaos.
3 verified reports published on February 14, 2021.
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The immediate verdict was acquittal. The longer verdict was harsher: Trump exited the trial still controlling a furious faction, but more isolated, more toxic, and more dependent than ever on pretending the attack on the Capitol was somebody else’s problem.
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Trump escaped conviction in the Senate, but the February 13 trial still ended with a record of bipartisan blame, a renewed focus on Jan. 6, and a political hit that no grievance-laced statement could erase.
Seven Republican senators voted to convict Trump, and even though he survived, the trial showed a party that was no longer willing to paper over Jan. 6 with total loyalty.
Donald Trump’s first statement after his Senate acquittal on February 13, 2021, called the impeachment trial another “greatest witch hunt” and said his political movement was just beginning.