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Edition · March 27, 2021
The Daily Fuckup: March 26, 2021
Backfill edition for the day Trump-world kept paying for January 6 and the broader wreckage still unfolding around it.
On March 26, 2021, the Trump universe was still getting hit from multiple directions over the aftershocks of the Capitol attack and the lies that fed it. The day’s clearest screwups were legal and reputational: fresh filings and court materials kept the Jan. 6 conspiracy story alive, while Trump’s own effort to rewrite the record ran into more concrete pushback. It was also a day when the former president’s political operation showed how little restraint it had learned, with the same maximalist posture that got him into trouble still driving the damage.
Closing take
The pattern here was simple: Trump’s world had lost the election, lost the White House, and still could not stop acting like consequences were for other people. March 26 did not deliver one giant implosion so much as a steady drip of proof that the fallout from his falsehoods was becoming institutional, legal, and increasingly hard to spin away.
Ranked by how bad the fuckup was
5 stars means maximum fallout. 1 star means a smaller self-own.
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Jan. 6 conspiracy case keeps tightening around Trump
Court filings and related legal materials kept the post-Jan. 6 case against Trump and his circle moving forward, reinforcing that the riot was no longer just a political debate but a continuing legal liability.