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2 verified reports published on February 26, 2022.
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The through line here is almost cartoonish, except it keeps landing in filings, subpoenas, and technical failures: Trumpworld’s favorite workaround is to declare victory before the work is done. On February 26, that meant a still-brittle social platform and a records scandal that was moving from inconvenient rumor to formal trouble. The insult to the brand is that both problems were born from the same instinct—to smash the guardrails, then act surprised when the wreckage shows up in public.
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By Feb. 26, 2022, the Mar-a-Lago records dispute had moved beyond a basic custody question. National Archives said the records should have been transferred when Donald Trump left office, said it arranged for 15 boxes to be moved in mid-January, and said it had referred the matter to the Justice Department on Feb. 9 for review.
Truth Social debuted in Apple’s App Store on February 21, 2022, but early users ran into waitlists and access problems almost immediately. The rollout gave Trump a new platform, just not the polished one his project was trying to sell.