Edition · July 5, 2022

The Daily Fuckup — July 5, 2022

1 verified report published on July 5, 2022.

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Closing take

The pattern here was brutal for Trump and the people who built the post-election scam around him: the more they tried to reframe defeat as fraud, the more paper trail they created for prosecutors. On July 5, that paper trail started looking a lot like a roadmap to indictment.

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Georgia Probe Seeks Court-Backed Testimony From Trump Allies Including Giuliani and Graham

★★★★☆Fuckup rating 4/5 Serious fuckup

On July 5, 2022, Fulton County prosecutors filed court-backed petitions to compel testimony from Rudy Giuliani, Sen. Lindsey Graham, and other Trump allies in the Georgia election-interference investigation. The filings did not prove wrongdoing; they showed investigators were pressing witnesses with firsthand knowledge of the post-election effort.

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