Edition · June 21, 2022

The Daily Fuckup — June 21, 2022

1 verified report published on June 21, 2022.

This edition is the complete daily record. Reports remain separate so readers can see each claim, source set, correction, and update without one article being mislabeled as the entire edition.

Closing take

June 21 was less a single clean crash than another slab of evidence dropped onto an already collapsing excuse. The broad pattern was ugly: Trump’s people kept trying to reverse reality after they lost, and the public record kept getting more specific, more documented, and harder to spin away.

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Jan. 6 panel puts Trump’s state-pressure scheme back in the spotlight

★★★★☆Fuckup rating 4/5 Serious fuckup

The House Jan. 6 committee spent June 21 laying out how Trump and his allies pressed Georgia and other states to undo the 2020 election. The hearing sharpened the record around the phone calls, threats, and false fraud claims that sat at the center of the post-election effort.

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