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Jan. 6 pressure kept tightening around Trump’s orbit
The January 6 investigation was still widening on October 15, 2021, and that mattered because the inquiry was no longer just about one riot. It was becoming a formal map of how Trump’s post-election pressure campaign, campaign aides, and outside allies all fed the effort to overturn the 2020 result. The screwup here was strategic as much as moral: the people around Trump kept acting as if delay, silence, and stonewalling would make the problem go away, only to watch the record harden instead. By this point, the investigation had already pushed from the attack itself back into the planning, the pressure, and the propaganda ecosystem that made the attack possible.