A progressive daily ledger of Trump-world self-owns, legal pain, policy blowback, and bad-faith chaos.
3 verified reports published on June 9, 2021.
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For a Wednesday in June, this was a pretty efficient demonstration of the Trump method: deny, delay, litigate, and hope the next scandal drowns out the last one. It didn’t work well enough on June 9, 2021 — and the documents kept piling up.
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House Democrats released documents showing Trump repeatedly pushed Justice Department officials to help overturn the 2020 election, intensifying the political and legal scrutiny around the post-election pressure campaign.
As of June 9, 2021, New York’s Trump Organization inquiry was still centered on subpoenas and litigation. The public criminal indictment did not arrive until July 1, 2021.
House Judiciary Democrats released Don McGahn’s June 4 transcript on June 9, 2021, and Republicans answered with a memo disputing their read of it.