A progressive daily ledger of Trump-world self-owns, legal pain, policy blowback, and bad-faith chaos.
1 verified report published on May 6, 2021.
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Backfill days like this are why the archive matters. May 6, 2021 was less about one flashy disaster than about the paper trail that made the eventual Trump records scandal unavoidable. The official warnings were there, the missing material was identified, and the excuses were already getting threadbare. Sometimes the screwup is not the explosion. Sometimes it is the receipt.
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On May 6, 2021, the National Archives told Trump lawyers that roughly two dozen boxes of presidential records had not been returned, including correspondence with Kim Jong Un and a letter from Barack Obama.