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2 verified reports published on January 26, 2022.
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The big picture for January 26, 2022: Trump was not winning the boring war. The day’s paperwork showed an operation still trying to escape scrutiny by treating scrutiny itself as the problem, and that strategy was already running into judges and prosecutors who were under no obligation to play along.
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On Jan. 26, 2022, New York Attorney General Letitia James asked a federal judge to dismiss Donald Trump’s lawsuit seeking to block her office’s civil fraud investigation. The filing did not resolve the merits of the probe. It put the fight back on the question of whether Trump could use federal court to halt an existing state investigation that had already been underway.
January 26, 2022 was not a new fraud ruling against the Trump Organization. It was the day New York Attorney General Letitia James moved to dismiss Donald Trump’s federal lawsuit challenging the probe, while the related state-court subpoena dispute remained active. The day was procedural, but the pressure on Trump was the same: keep producing records, or keep fighting to stop the investigation.