A progressive daily ledger of Trump-world self-owns, legal pain, policy blowback, and bad-faith chaos.
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In Trump land, every bad day is also a fundraising opportunity, but the calendar keeps insisting on reality. On April 13, 2022, the reality was that the legal vise kept tightening and the spin was not yet catching up. The bigger the outrage, the more obvious the underlying problem: this was not just political theater, it was a paper trail.
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On April 13, 2022, Donald Trump was still fighting New York Attorney General Letitia James’s civil investigation into his business records, with a contempt motion already filed and a fraud lawsuit still months away.
On April 13, 2022, the House Jan. 6 committee was still collecting documents and testimony on the effort to block certification of the 2020 election. The panel had already subpoenaed Peter Navarro and, six days earlier, the House had voted to hold Navarro and Daniel Scavino in contempt for refusing to comply.