A progressive daily ledger of Trump-world self-owns, legal pain, policy blowback, and bad-faith chaos.
1 verified report published on June 20, 2021.
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June 20, 2021 was not the kind of day that produced a single splashy collapse. It was worse in a quieter way: another evidence-backed reminder that Trump’s biggest asset remained his ability to keep old messes alive, and his biggest liability was that nearly every new controversy pointed back to the same rotten center.
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By June 20, 2021, House investigators were still gathering documents and holding hearings tied to Jan. 6, including a June 15 House Administration hearing and a June 15 Oversight release on Trump’s effort to pressure the Justice Department. The broader select committee had not yet been created, but the congressional record was already growing.