A progressive daily ledger of Trump-world self-owns, legal pain, policy blowback, and bad-faith chaos.
2 verified reports published on December 23, 2021.
This edition is the complete daily record. Reports remain separate so readers can see each claim, source set, correction, and update without one article being mislabeled as the entire edition.
The through-line for this date is simple: the attack on reality kept generating consequences. On December 23, 2021, the damage was less a single headline than a slow, punishing drumbeat—court fights, investigative pressure, and the continuing collapse of the stolen-election narrative under its own weight.
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On Dec. 23, 2021, Trump asked the Supreme Court to block the release of White House records sought by the House Jan. 6 committee, keeping the records dispute at the center of the investigation.
The post-election misinformation operation kept producing consequences on December 23, as investigators and public records continued to expose how Trump’s false claims were used to keep the pressure campaign alive.