A progressive daily ledger of Trump-world self-owns, legal pain, policy blowback, and bad-faith chaos.
2 verified reports published on February 22, 2022.
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The common thread here is simple: Trump-world spent February 22, 2022 trying to stop the bleeding, and failed to stop the headlines. One side got shut down by the Supreme Court; the other side tried to relabel a criminal case as persecution and still had to keep litigating the facts. That is not strength. It is paperwork with a migraine.
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The Supreme Court rejected Donald Trump’s last-minute effort to block the release of presidential records to the House Jan. 6 committee, denying him another chance to keep the evidence bottled up. The practical effect was another public loss for a former president who had spent months trying to slow-walk scrutiny of his role in the aftermath of the attack.
Trump’s company and Allen Weisselberg kept leaning into the claim that Manhattan prosecutors were targeting them because of politics, a familiar defensive script that did not erase the underlying tax-fraud case. The filing showed Trump-world still trying to recast a criminal matter as partisan persecution, even as the case kept moving forward.