Edition · November 29, 2021

Trump’s November 29, 2021 Trainwrecks

A backfill look at the day Trump-world kept paying for the 2020 election lie, with legal and political fallout still stacking up.

On November 29, 2021, the biggest Trump-world screwups were still orbiting the same disaster: the campaign’s effort to overturn the 2020 election was not fading into history, it was hardening into a record. The day’s most consequential reporting centered on the fake-electors operation and the way Trump allies had helped build it, a scheme that was already generating formal investigations and public blowback. In other words, the lie did not just refuse to die; it kept producing paperwork, subpoenas, and new reasons for Republicans to wish the last year had a mute button.

Closing take

By late November 2021, the Trump operation’s original sin was no longer just that it lost. It was that it kept trying to turn a loss into an alternate reality, and the evidence was starting to pile up in public. That’s not spin. That’s a records problem.

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5 stars means maximum fallout. 1 star means a smaller self-own.

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The Fake Electors Plot Keeps Boomeranging on Trump

★★★★★Fuckup rating 5/5 Five-alarm fuckup

Fresh reporting on November 29 showed the 2020 fake-electors operation was not some fringe after-the-fact fever dream. It was a coordinated effort that started in Wisconsin and spread across battleground states, creating a paper trail that would keep haunting Trump and his allies.

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