A progressive daily ledger of Trump-world self-owns, legal pain, policy blowback, and bad-faith chaos.
1 verified report published on February 16, 2021.
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The day’s big Trump-world story was not vindication; it was fragmentation. The acquittal did not stop the internal blame game, and it did not erase the legal and records problems that were already being litigated into the open. This is what political decline looks like when the knives are out and the paper trail is still catching up.
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On February 16, three days after the Senate acquitted Donald Trump, he fired back at Mitch McConnell. McConnell had voted to acquit in the second impeachment trial, then said Trump was “practically and morally responsible” for the January 6 attack while arguing the Senate lacked jurisdiction to convict a former president.