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A court gives the Jan. 6 probe another look behind John Eastman’s curtain, while Trump’s election denial machine keeps bleeding into the legal record.
On June 7, 2022, the Trump world mess was less about one dramatic collapse than about the steady drip of judicial and investigative pressure. The biggest blow came from a federal judge ordering John Eastman to turn over more material to the House Jan. 6 committee, reinforcing the idea that the legal machinery built around Trump’s post-2020 strategy could not survive serious scrutiny. Elsewhere, the broader Trump orbit continued to look like a political operation trapped inside its own conspiracy theories, with the fallout showing up in court dockets and official records rather than talking points.
The throughline on June 7 was simple: the past was getting less convenient by the hour. The Trump operation kept insisting its post-election conduct was righteous, but judges, investigators, and public records kept treating it like what it increasingly looked like — a bad plan, with worse paper trails.
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A federal judge ordered John Eastman to turn over another tranche of sensitive material to the House Jan. 6 committee, adding to the legal trouble surrounding the lawyer who helped build Trump’s post-election pressure campaign.