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Trump cancels Jan. 6 press conference at Mar-a-Lago
Donald Trump canceled a Jan. 6, 2022 press conference at Mar-a-Lago on Jan. 4, saying he would instead raise the same issues at a Jan. 15 rally in Arizona.
Edition · January 2, 2022
The Daily Fuckup — January 2, 2022
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Closing take
The broader lesson from January 2 was brutal and simple: if you have to cancel your own victory-lap event because it’s too poisonous to hold, the poison is probably yours. Trump could try to reframe Jan. 6 as media bias or partisan theater, but the calendar was not cooperating. The anniversary was coming, and with it, the evidence that the political damage was real, durable, and still compounding.
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