A progressive daily ledger of Trump-world self-owns, legal pain, policy blowback, and bad-faith chaos.
2 verified reports published on February 19, 2021.
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The Senate may have let Trump skate in the impeachment trial, but the evidence trail was not going away. If anything, February 19 showed that the political damage was still metastasizing, with lawyers, donors, lawmakers, and the broader GOP all stuck cleaning up a mess Trump insisted was somebody else’s problem.
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In the week after the Senate acquitted Donald Trump on February 13, 2021, Trump and allies continued denying or minimizing the attack on the Capitol, while Republicans split over how much of the former president’s record to keep carrying.
By Feb. 19, 2021, the post-election lawsuits tied to Trump had become less a route to reversal than a record of dismissals, narrowed claims and failed theories. The legal fight kept moving, but the claim that the election was stolen kept losing ground in court.