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By Dec. 6, January 6 Cases Were Still Moving Through the System
As of Dec. 6, 2021, Jan. 6 prosecutions were still producing arrests and pleas, while the House select committee was already advancing its own inquiry.
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Trump World’s First-Week-Of-December Hangover
On December 6, 2021, the Trump universe was still trying to wriggle out of the consequences of January 6, the Georgia mess, and the broader legal wreckage surrounding the former president’s political operation.
This backfill edition focuses on the strongest Trump-world screwups materially reported on December 6, 2021. The day’s biggest theme was the steady hardening of the January 6 case against Trump and his orbit, with federal prosecutors and courts continuing to generate records that made denial harder and liability more plausible. The rest of the damage came from the same place Trump always seems to find trouble: the intersection of grievance politics, legal exposure, and public statements that make everything worse.
Closing take
By this point, the Trump operation was no longer being knocked around by isolated bad headlines. It was living inside a rolling accountability machine, and every new filing or official statement only made the pile bigger.
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The Election-Lies Case Against Trump Keeps Hardening
New and continuing official records around Trump’s effort to overturn the 2020 election kept undercutting his denials and left his political operation looking more reckless than ever.