Trump’s March 2 self-own: the attack case got uglier

Edition · March 2, 2022

Trump’s March 2 self-own: the attack case got uglier

A committee filing, a fleeing ex-aide, and the same old lie machine kept working overtime.

March 2, 2022 was a bad day for the Trump ecosystem on the January 6 front. The House select committee said its evidence supported a criminal-conspiracy theory about Trump and his attempt to stop the transfer of power, while former aide Peter Navarro skipped a scheduled deposition and signaled he wanted to slow-walk accountability. It was not a court loss for Trump himself, but it was another day when the legal and political walls around the post-election scheme got a little tighter.

Closing take

The big picture is simple: Trump’s post-election operation kept producing new records, new subpoenas, and new headaches. That is not what clean hands look like.

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5 stars means maximum fallout. 1 star means a smaller self-own.

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Jan. 6 panel tells court its evidence could support a criminal conspiracy theory

Election conspiracy Confidence 5/5

★★★★☆Fuckup rating 4/5 Serious fuckup

The House Jan. 6 committee said in a court filing that it had a good-faith basis to believe the evidence it gathered could support a criminal conspiracy theory involving Donald Trump and associates tied to his effort to overturn the 2020 election. The filing was not a charge, a conviction or a finding of guilt; it was a litigation filing making an evidentiary claim. But it marked a sharper legal posture for a congressional investigation already documenting pressure campaigns, false fraud claims and efforts to keep Trump in office after he lost.

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Peter Navarro blows off a January 6 committee deposition and keeps Trump’s obstruction mess alive

Deposition dodge Confidence 4/5

★★★☆☆Fuckup rating 3/5 Major mess

Former Trump trade adviser Peter Navarro did not show up for a scheduled deposition before the January 6 committee on March 2, 2022. Navarro had been subpoenaed over his role in the post-election pressure campaign, and skipping the appearance only deepened the sense that Trump’s orbit was choosing defiance over cooperation. It was a smaller headline than the committee’s filing, but it fit the same ugly pattern: the closer you got to the Trump team’s election scheme, the more the lawyers started sweating.

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