A progressive daily ledger of Trump-world self-owns, legal pain, policy blowback, and bad-faith chaos.
1 verified report published on October 18, 2021.
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The pattern here is hard to miss: when the Jan. 6 investigation gets tighter, Trump reaches for the courts, privilege claims, and delay. On October 18, 2021, that strategy itself became the story—and a liability.
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Former President Donald Trump filed suit on October 18, 2021, seeking to stop the release of presidential records to the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack. The case followed an earlier records dispute at the National Archives, including Trump’s October 8 executive-privilege claim and the Archivist’s October 13 notice that the records would be released absent a court order.