A progressive daily ledger of Trump-world self-owns, legal pain, policy blowback, and bad-faith chaos.
2 verified reports published on January 5, 2022.
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A year after the Capitol riot, Trump still had no interest in cleanup, correction, or closure. He had a storyline, and everyone else had the receipts. That is not a strategy so much as a slow-motion self-incrimination machine.
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On Jan. 5, 2022, the House Jan. 6 committee was still gathering evidence and documenting efforts by Donald Trump and allies to pressure the election certification process.
Ahead of the first anniversary of the Capitol attack, Donald Trump again called jailed Jan. 6 defendants “hostages” and repeated his false claims about the 2020 election.