A progressive daily ledger of Trump-world self-owns, legal pain, policy blowback, and bad-faith chaos.
A backfill look at the Trump-world screwups that landed on March 13, 2022, when the former president was still trying to act like the past was not closing in.
March 13, 2022 was not a clean day for Trump World. The dominant story lines were not about governing or a disciplined comeback; they were about old lies, new legal exposure, and a political ecosystem still feeding on the same busted narratives. The day’s strongest evidence shows Trump continuing to dodge responsibility on COVID testing while his broader post-presidency posture kept drifting toward legal and political trouble.
This was one of those days when the Trump machine did what it does best: turn every fresh problem into proof it learned nothing from the last one. The result was a mix of denial, deflection, and fresh evidence that the former president’s biggest liabilities were already baked in.
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Trump’s false comparison between COVID testing and the Obama-era H1N1 response dates to March 2020, when he blamed prior administrations for problems rooted in his own administration’s early testing rollout. The record shows the H1N1 response moved quickly in 2009, while COVID testing in the U.S. was delayed and chaotic in March 2020.